Son of Thomas Goodin and Mary Ingram. Husband of Jane Fuson.

No dates.
Stone down and broken.
Civil War Military stone; Co. B., 10th KS Inf.
Name: Ebenezer Goodin
Sex: M
Birth: 8 AUG 1813 in Greasy Creek, Knox Co., (now Bell Co.), Ky.
Death: 11 SEP 1901 in Princeton, Mercer Co., Mo.
Burial: Old Tennessee Cem., Princeton, Mercer Co., Mo.

Note from Charyl Gentner:

Moved to Mercer County, Missouri in a covered wagon in the summer of 1850 arriving December 22, 1850.

Ebenezer and his son James Madison enlisted in 1861 in the Union Army. Ebenezer was 48, and James was 19. Ebenezer was in the 1st Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was released from service in 1863 with a disability discharge (eye problems).

Ebenezer and Jane lived from about 1875 to 1897 in Gainsville, Cooke County, Texas. In the 1880 census of Mercer County, Missouri, Ebenezer is listed as blind, and by June 1892 they were in Topeka, Kansas, for treatment of his eye problems. Jane died in 1894 and is buried in Rawlins County, Kansas. Ebenezer died in September 1901 in Mercer County, Missouri, and is buried in the Tennessee Cemetery. His Army headstone reads E. Goodwin because Ebenezer's Army records are listed as both Goodwin and Goodin. His pension applications, etc. are signed with a mark and witnessed.

(Children may have used the last name - Goodwin)
1820 census - Greasy Creek, Knox Co. KY p290
1830 census - Knox Co, KY p 248
1840 census - Knox Co, KY p308
1850 census - Knox Co, KY p346
1860 census - Marion Twp, Mercer Co, MO p241 (141)
1870
1880 census - Medicine, Mercer Co, MO p113c
Settled in Ludell, Rawlins Co, KS with son
1900 census - Marion, Mercer Co, MO 99/100

Marriage 1 Jane Fuson b: 1820 in Tenn.
Married: 22 JUL 1834 in Greasy Creek, Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky.

Children

Mary Elizabeth Goodin b: 25 JUL 1835 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Mary married William Henry Campbell and died January 26, 1890 in Bonham, Fanin County, Texas.

Rachel Goodin
b: 28 FEB 1839 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Rachel married Daniel Shafer.

Almira Jane Goodin
b: 26 JAN 1840 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Married Winfield Scott Browning.

Perilee "Pollie" Goodin
b: 10 APR 1841 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Married Thomas Jefferson Griffey, sometimes the surname of Griffen was used.

James Madison Goodin
b: 29 SEP 1842 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Married twice. His first wife Lourinda McIntosh and later in life he married Mahala D. "Mabel" King Heriford.

Nancy Goodin b: 1844 in Ky.

Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Goodin
b: 22 FEB 1846 in Knox Co. (now Bell Co.), Ky. Tom had two wives. He first married Mary Evaline Wiggins and the marriage ended. His second wife, Louella Mae Dimmick.

John B. Goodin b: 1848 in Ky.

Amanda Red Goodin
b: 25 DEC 1849 in Bell Co., Ky. Amanda married James F. Cox.

Margaret Goodin
b: 27 MAR 1852 in Mercer Co., Mo. Margaret was the wife of Abraham "Abe" Barritt.

Pleasant Goodin
b: ABT 1854 in Mercer Co., Mo. Married Mary E. Springer.

Josephine Goodin b: ABT 1855 in Mercer Co., Mo. Is said to have died in Nebraska.

Minerva Jane Goodin b: 1856 in Mo. Died about 1924 in Kansas and married a man named Derny.

China Anne Goodin
b: 3 MAY 1858 in Mercer Co., Mo. Married twice. Mr. Brown and William Fuller.