Claude A. Goodsell

WALSH - GOUGH - PRINGLE

Posted By: Deborah (email)
Date: 11/9/2004 at 10:13:45

Parkersburg Eclipse
Maybe 8??/21/51

C.A. Goodsell, 58, Buried at Dumont

Dumont - Funeral services were held last Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the home and at 2 in the Methodist church for Claude A. Goodsell, 58, who died last Tuesday in Allen Memorial Hospital at Waterloo after a long period of failing health. He had been in the hospital five weeks and underwent surgery Tuesday.

He was born April 13, 1893, at Bristow, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Goodsell. Graduated from Bristow high school and taught a few years near Aredale, after his marriage to Esther Gough, Feb. 5, 1910 at Bristow. Later the couple moved to Austinville, where he was a letter carrier, and later to Dumont, where Mr. Goodsell had operated a hatchery the last 22 years.

Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Charles Miller, Shell Rock, and Mrs. Dean Davis, Dumont; two grandchildren; three brothers, Ray, Bristow; Faye, Greene; and Frank, Canby, Minn.; one sister, Mrs. Louie Overturf, Dumont.

Those from a distance who attended the last rites were: The Rev. and Mrs. J.J. Gough and son Jerry, Harvey, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gough, Jr. Kankakee, Illinois; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodsell, Canby, Minn.; James Spain, St., Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Spain and Mrs. And Mrs. Clarence May, Parkersburg; Charles Miller family, Bruce Hickle, Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Miller and Mrs. Hugh Hickel of Shell Rock; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Goodsell, New Hartford; Faye Goodsell family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Downing and Joe Downing, Greene; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Davis, St. Croix Falls, Wis.; Mrs. Mabel Maxwell, Mason City, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Winchell, Waverly; Mrs. Marie Van Vlack and Mrs. Chester Havig, Clarksville; Mr. and Mrs. George Cobie, Ackley; Charles Davis family and Mr. and Mrs. Vernard Rogers, Hampton and many friends from surrounding places.
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Greene Recorder, The (Greene, Iowa) > 1973 > April > 25

Storm recalls "terrible blizzard of 1892

Wonder what became of the weather records for 1892?

On Apr. 13, 1892, a terrible blizzard reached from Bristow to Ackley. On that day a baby boy named Claude was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Goodsell, one mile east of the Dumont road on the Goodsell farm just 2 miles east of Mrs. Mae Overturf's home, who is Claude's sister. Two brothers, Ray and Frank are deceased and the other brother, Fay, Ray's twin brother, lives in Greene.

When Claude Goodsell was road commissioner in Pittsford Township in Butler County he would often feed his horses and take dinner in the Oscar White home when he was in that area. During late spring he would often relate the story of the hard blizzard on April 13, 1892 and say there could be more snow yet.

Mr. and Mrs. Whilte would smile and tell him that was a story familiar to them as Mrs. White had also been born n that date one half mile west of Ackley on the farm now owned and occupied Mr. and Mrs. Jack Raber, former Aredale barber.

The snow was so high that day that Dr. Veroom of Ackley couldn't get through the fence post-high snow, so he picked his way with his cane.

Mrs. White's father, William Getemy, had a field of pretty green wheat that looked so promising but the thought with the snow his crop was runined. But the sun came out, the snow disappeared and the wheat crop was the best ever.

When the account of Mrs. White's birth came out in the "Ackley World," it said that the Big Blizzard had left a baby girl in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Gettemy.