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Left to right: Ben and Jane Goad Coughnour, Frank and Mary Goad McNeal, Carrick and Cindy Goad, Lou and Violet Goad, Jeff and Dora Goad, Jim and Ollie Goad. Sod home of Jim Goad, Liberty Township, Osborne County, Kansas, three miles west, six miles north of Waldo, Kansas. Photo taken approximately 1899.
James Wesley Goad settled in Liberty Township, Osborne County, Kansas in 1879. He was born 13 September 1857 in Corydon, Iowa and died 31 August 1916 in Osborne County, Kansas. He is buried in the Cedar Bluff Cemetery in Osborne County. He was the son of James I. and Lydia E. Markham Goad and grandson of Robert P. and Julia A. Stephens Goad. He married Olive Arabella Wineland, 4 March 1883. She was the daughter of John W. and Jane Pearse Wineland and granddaughter of John and Mary Elder Wineland. She was born 24 December 1864 at Linn Grove, Iowa and died 23 August 1945 at Sidney, Nebraska.
Their children were Bert I., born 2 April 1882 in Osborne County, died 26 August 1959 at Wallace, Nebraska, married Leona Phillips 18 February 1901 in Osborne County; Lillian R., born 5 July 1885 in Osborne County, died 9 March 1915 in Osborne County, married (1) Arthur Slason, August 1911 in Osborne County, (2) August Beam, February 1914 in Osborne County; Nellie M., born 19 June 1887 in Osborne County, died 13 December 1966 at Gorham, Kansas, married (1) Thomas Withrow, 2 December 1908 in Osborne County, (2) John Hamilton in Montrose County, (3) Herman Wolfing in Montrose County; Clinton C., born 4 November 1890 in Osborne County, died 20 December 1940 at Los Angeles, California, married Nancy E. Winder on 15 November 1916 in Osborne County; John L., born 18 August 1892 in Osborne County, died 11 January 1965 at Needles, California, married Lorna G. Grantham 15 November 1916 in Osborne County; Hazel R., born 12 September 1895 in Osborne County, married Ralph L. Winder, 13 May 1910 in Osborne County; Della J., born 5 November 1897 in Osborne County, married Frederick E. Grantham on 15 November 1916 in Osborne County; Mary L., born 12 May 1900 and died 25 April 1976 at Albuquerque, New Mexico, married (1) Rollie Goad, 1918 in Osborne ++County, (2) James Cashen in Alaska.
James W. Goad received only a grade school education. He was a farmer and the couple belonged to the Victor Brethren Church. After his death “Ollie” Wineland Goad married George Hiram Fruit at Plainville, Kansas. He was born 17 February 1860 in Iowa and died 5 April 1931. He is buried in the Cedar Bluff Cemetery.
Clinton C. Goad’s wife, Nancy Ellen Winder, and Hazel R. Goad’s husband, Ralph LeRoy Winder, were children of William Clarence and Ida Rosamond Bradshaw Winder.
John L. Goad’s wife, Lorna G. Grantham, and Della J. Goad’s husband, Frederick E. Grantham, were children of Richard Hardwick and Nancy Wells Grantham.
Clint, John and Della Goad were married in a triple ceremony at Osborne, conducted by David G. Fink.
Jim and Ollie Goad built a sod house about 1890 on their land three miles west, six miles north of Waldo, in Liberty Township. After it was completed a steady stream of wagons were seen going to and from their home. On investigation, the sheriff found neighbors carting Goad water home by the barrel. Many wells in early days produced only surface water, unpalatable and unsanitary. Jim and Ollie were happy to share with others less fortunate.
Clint, John, and Hugh Goad, son of Thomas Jefferson and Dora Bradshaw Goad, provided music for many a dance during the years 1906-1925. When they set bow on string, hardly a soul could stop dancing until they stopped fiddling. Children danced until they could no longer stay awake and then were bedded down behind the organ or piano that either Lorna Goad, John’s wife, or Nancy Goad, Clint’s wife, would be playing.
Clint Goad ran the creamery at Natoma in 1920 and 1923. Of James and Ollie’s children, only Lillian and Hazel remained in Osborne County.
—Submitted by Wanda June Goad Worland, granddaughter
