Sarah J Goodwin Wise
GOODWIN, WISE
Posted By: Kate (email)
Date: 8/13/2009 at 13:04:27
Hi all,
I have this story from a self written biography.
Sarah Jane Goodwin, B 1849 in Indiana, daughter of Zadock Goodwin. Marries John Wise about 1878 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
According to her father, she falls ill and is committed to the asylum near Council Bluffs where she dies. She is not found in any census past 1880 and is not mentioned (nor is her daughter) in her fathers Obituary in 1919. I can find neither her nor her daughter. Nor can I find what happens to John. Any information would be appreciated.
Below is the excerpt from her fathers book.
From "Uncle Zed"
A Biography and Sketch of Many Doings in the Busy Life of Zadock Goodwin"
Alliance, Nebraska, 1907
"My next sickness was the most fearful and peculiar of my life. I was living in Iowa and was sowing wheat in the month of Febuary, when a fearful storm arose and struk me without warning. I was a half-mile from home and thinly clad, having on only shirt, pants and shoes. I ran at top speed to the house and was nearly dead when I go there. I had taken a sudden cold, so sudden that it cause partial rheumatisim of the heart and stomach. I was sick with this for seven months, and for the first thirty days lost a pound of flesh a day and my blood turned to water. The doctors said that it would end in dropsy, but after having fifty or more boils on my back I finally fully recovered, and it is now a matter of record that Dr. Tanner's record was set long before he was thought of as a faster and quick loser of flesh.
During the height of my sickness the report was sent out that I was dead. My oldest daughter, Mrs. Sarah Wise, who lived sixteen miles away at Council Bluffs, heard of it and came to the house, where she found me very ill, but not dead. She feared I would die and told all the children to be very good to me. She was obliged to return home, but every time she saw a wagon going by her home she would run out and cry, "Oh, Pap dead?" My sickness worried her so her mind became affected and on day she suddenly exclaimed, "I'm going to die for pap; he's not ready to die and I'll die for him," and turning she jumped through a window, tearing her clothes off and bruising herself considerably. She became so violent that it took several men to hold her and all the doctors in Council Bluffs went to see and try to help her, without success. They tried to put her to slee, believing that if this was done her reason would be restored, but failing in this she was taken to the asylum, where she fnally went to sleep and never awoke."
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