Sometime around 1998, I visited Walter Everett Goodman. Uncle Walt as we knew him was my Great uncle, and grandson of William Thomas Goodman and Margaret Augusta Adams. Walt goodman was very much a Historian in his own rite. Walt also had a great love for Family History. As a result of my questioning him concerning the location of the graves of William Thomas Goodman, Charlie goodman, and Margaret Augusta Adams Uncle Walt along with his first cousin Crystal Wanda O'Brian set about to find the final resting place of their Grandparents. After the death of her Husband in 1888, Margaret remarried Willie Ableman in 1893. A daughter was born (Ellen Della Ableman) in 1894 then Margaret died in 1896, and was buried in the Ableman Family plot. Family tradition is that some time later two of William,s sons William Frank and Mark Edwin Goodman exhumed their mother and reburied her next to their Father and brother.
Then sometime in 1998 Uncle Walt and Wanda O'brien went to the funeral home in Cheney. There they were allowed to see the cemetery records. Those records showed a Goodman cemetery plot with 4 graves In the Medical lake Cemetery. Walt made a hand drawn map showing exactly where the graves were. They visited the site and were able to determine the exact location of the Goodman plot, but no markers or grave stones were found. A few weeks later I went to the Medical lake cemetery, with the help of uncle Walt's map I also found the Goodman plot. I looked around the far edge of the cemetery hoping to find some large stones. Instead I found two large rectangle shaped Concrete markers that had been discarded Probably when new stones had replaced them. The two blocks have seashells cast into the surface and you can see where the old metal signs had rusted and broken off. This is my recollection of this part of our Family History. I still have the small hand drawn map written on stationary from the funeral home. Matty Ross
Then sometime in 1998 Uncle Walt and Wanda O'brien went to the funeral home in Cheney. There they were allowed to see the cemetery records. Those records showed a Goodman cemetery plot with 4 graves In the Medical lake Cemetery. Walt made a hand drawn map showing exactly where the graves were. They visited the site and were able to determine the exact location of the Goodman plot, but no markers or grave stones were found. A few weeks later I went to the Medical lake cemetery, with the help of uncle Walt's map I also found the Goodman plot. I looked around the far edge of the cemetery hoping to find some large stones. Instead I found two large rectangle shaped Concrete markers that had been discarded Probably when new stones had replaced them. The two blocks have seashells cast into the surface and you can see where the old metal signs had rusted and broken off. This is my recollection of this part of our Family History. I still have the small hand drawn map written on stationary from the funeral home. Matty Ross
Sometime around 1998, I visited Walter Everett Goodman. Uncle Walt as we knew him was my Great uncle, and grandson of William Thomas Goodman and Margaret Augusta Adams. Walt goodman was very much a Historian in his own rite. Walt also had a great love for Family History. As a result of my questioning him concerning the location of the graves of William Thomas Goodman, Charlie goodman, and Margaret Augusta Adams Uncle Walt along with his first cousin Crystal Wanda O'Brian set about to find the final resting place of their Grandparents. After the death of her Husband in 1888, Margaret remarried Willie Ableman in 1893. A daughter was born (Ellen Della Ableman) in 1894 then Margaret died in 1896, and was buried in the Ableman Family plot. Family tradition is that some time later two of William,s sons William Frank and Mark Edwin Goodman exhumed their mother and reburied her next to their Father and brother.
Then sometime in 1998 Uncle Walt and Wanda O'brien went to the funeral home in Cheney. There they were allowed to see the cemetery records. Those records showed a Goodman cemetery plot with 4 graves In the Medical lake Cemetery. Walt made a hand drawn map showing exactly where the graves were. They visited the site and were able to determine the exact location of the Goodman plot, but no markers or grave stones were found. A few weeks later I went to the Medical lake cemetery, with the help of uncle Walt's map I also found the Goodman plot. I looked around the far edge of the cemetery hoping to find some large stones. Instead I found two large rectangle shaped Concrete markers that had been discarded Probably when new stones had replaced them. The two blocks have seashells cast into the surface and you can see where the old metal signs had rusted and broken off. This is my recollection of this part of our Family History. I still have the small hand drawn map written on stationary from the funeral home. Matty Ross
Then sometime in 1998 Uncle Walt and Wanda O'brien went to the funeral home in Cheney. There they were allowed to see the cemetery records. Those records showed a Goodman cemetery plot with 4 graves In the Medical lake Cemetery. Walt made a hand drawn map showing exactly where the graves were. They visited the site and were able to determine the exact location of the Goodman plot, but no markers or grave stones were found. A few weeks later I went to the Medical lake cemetery, with the help of uncle Walt's map I also found the Goodman plot. I looked around the far edge of the cemetery hoping to find some large stones. Instead I found two large rectangle shaped Concrete markers that had been discarded Probably when new stones had replaced them. The two blocks have seashells cast into the surface and you can see where the old metal signs had rusted and broken off. This is my recollection of this part of our Family History. I still have the small hand drawn map written on stationary from the funeral home. Matty Ross
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
