The "GOODRUM PAPERS"
Written by Mildred Ackerman Jent - 1968

CHAPTER SEVEN

On March 26, 1863, JOHN GOODRUM was married to XANTIPPA HARRISON,  known as "Tipp".  They lived on the Old Martinsville Road in the White Chapel neighborhood. (This is her own handwriting, she wrote),  "On the farm where Mack and Peggy Sears live.  That is the Old Martinsville Road - the oldest road in the state - a lawyer once told me".

8.  Andrew H. Goodrum, the first child born to John and Xantippa, was born January 6, 1864.  He never married.

9.  John Straighter Goodrum was born April 12, 1866.  He died about 1942.  On December 20, 1894, he was married to Dora Williams daughter of Thomas H. and Martha (Lightfoot) Williams in Allen county.  John and Dora are buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Their daughters are Mabel (Mrs. R. L. Sharpless), and Gladys (Mrs. J. H. Williams).

10.  Mary H. Goodrum (twin of Lena), born on August 26, 1868.  Probably died at birth.

11.  Died October 1, 1887 at the age of nineteen.  She is buried on the Sam Duncan farm the early homestead of her grandfather James G. Goodrum and later the home of James Read Goodrum who married James G.'s daughter.  (They were cousins)).  Lena died of "galloping consumption" caused by going into a cave spring when she was too warm after gathering berries, it was believed.

12.  Thomas S. Goodrum was born December 11, 1869.  He died in infancy.

13.  Adam Riggs Goodrum was born November 9, 1870.  He also died in infancy.

14.  Dora Florence Goodrum was born August 11, 1872.  Dora married Frank Bowles late in life.  She died of a cancerous tumor.  She is buried at White Chapel Cemetery.

15.  The last child born to John and Xantippa Goodrum was a son.  Francis Marion Goodrum was born April 25, 1874.  He married Ada Hendricks.  Their son was Roy Clifton Goodrum born November 22, 1899.  Ada Hendricks died in May, 1930.  Marion Goodrum died in October 1952. 

Roy Clifton Goodrum married Zula Ackerman, daughter of Bird M. and Nola (Dalton) Ackerman on July 5, 1918.  Zula (Ackerman) Goodrum was born at Trammel in Allen County, Kentucky May 30, 1902.  Their children are:
 

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