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- "Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth Mass" shows birth date of 9/2/1842
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Gravestone in Wytheville, VA East End Cemetery shows
Died Aug 8, 1893
Aged 50 years
(gravestone implies birth between 9 Aug 1842 and 7 Aug 1843)
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"A Link Among the Days", pg 21, notes that John Francis Goodwin was a Lieutenant, CSA, or Richmond's Home Guard at war's end. He entered in 1863, was assigned to Company B of the 6th Battalion of the Virginia Infantry, Local Defense. In april 1864, he was elected junior second lieutenant. His 6th Batallion was combined with the 2nd and formed the 2nd Regiment.
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"A Link Among the Days", pg 21, notes Frank's birth in 1842
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"A Link Among the Days", pg 22, notes that
- by 1858, "Frank and his uncle William M. Archer had become partners in Richmond's Vulcan iron Works."
- in 1870, he quit the iron works and poor health drove the family from Richmond to the country, on doctors orders. Nothing in Frank's or Letitia's background was conducive to successful farming.
- the family moved to Norwood, VA (formerly New Market, VA) because Dr. William H. Ribble, married to Frank's sister Fanny Goodwin, had a practice there and might have the benefit of his medical expertise.
- in Norwood, they initially lived with the Ribbles and then to a home next door to the Ribbles, just above the church on the east side of the village
- received $5,060 from Letitia's father to "acquire a 563 acre farm on the river bottoms a mile east of the house. Frank took title as trustee for his wife. He seems never to actually have grasped the plow. Will said his father 'fared from a distance;' tenants worked the place on shares. 'We alwasy believed that the tenants made a very good living fromthe farm." "We were never quite certan that we did."
- Frank and Letitia moved to Wytheville, VA sometime before 1889. (p 33)
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1842 - 1893 (50 years)
