Jennie
(Miner) Goodger
(1876-1926)
Jennie (Miner) Goodger was born in 1876 near Tontogany, Wood County, OH, the daughter of Jacob and Louise (Finkenbeiner) Miner. She and her brother Jay were twins.
Jennie married Harry A. Goodger Sr. (1879-1953). (The name is pronounced "goodgear.") They had three children – Nellie Parcell, Harry Goodger Jr. and Lucy Goodger.
The
Goodgers resided in Tontogany. A rare postcard photograph of the town's Main
Street is seen here.
According to the 1975 booklet, Tontogany Times, Harry owned a grocery and meat market in town, and among other owners, he "was in this location for the most number of years, trading properties with Allen Ewing about 1918, and selling his stock to Ross English of Bowling Green in 1934." Jennie’s cousin Ross Robinson also owned the property at one time.
Sadly,
Jennie died on June 30, 1926. She was just 50 years of age. She was laid to rest
in Tontogany Cemetery. Her grave marker, headlined "Mother," is seen here.
Harry outlived her by nearly 30 years, and later remarried. He passed away on March 20, 1953. He also is buried at Tontogany Cemetery.
Daughter
Nellie (seen here) married Elmer Rhodes Parcell. She is mentioned in Tontogany
Times, saying that she was a member of the first graduating class of “all
girls” in 1917 from the Washington Township Rural School District. She married
Elmer R. Parcell, an engineer for the E.W. Bliss Company. The Parcells moved to
Toledo, Lucas County, OH in 1926, and Nellie is mentioned in the 1932 Washington
Township School Toganette yearbook as residing there. In about 1939, the
Parcells relocated to Hastings, Wood County, in about 1939.
Daughter Lucy served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I. Later, she was a "well known and beloved nurse in the office of Dr. H.G. Johnson at Tontogany," said the Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune. A military veteran, she "had worked in Dr. Johnson’s office for nearly 18 years and was widely known and loved throughout this territory by all who knew her." Sadly, despondent over failing health, Lucy took her own life in January 1938.
The fate of son Harry Goodger Jr. is unknown.
Copyright © 2002, 2007 Mark A. Miner