GOODBAR, Derickson
Source: H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana, (Chicago: HH Hill, 1881), p. 416
D G. Goodbar, retired farmer, Whitesville, a grandson of Joseph Goodbar, one of the two boys born in England and left orphans, early in the last century. Joseph was taken by a sea captain and followed a seafaring life. Returning to England and failing to find his brother, he came to America and settled in Virginia, and there he reared a family. His son John H., the father of our subject, after his marriage to Miss Rachel Hostetter, went to Kentucky, where he settled, farming for many years. In 1829 he, with his family, excepting one son, came to Montgomery County, Indiana, and settled in Scott township. He was among the first to teach in the pioneer schools of the township. He held the office of trustee of Scott township successively for eighteen years, and represented this County one term in the state legislature for a salary of two dollars per day. For many hears his nearest market of La Fayette, Cincinnati, and points on the Ohio river, through a vast wilderness without roads or bridges. He came to the County by the usual mode, that of horses and wagon, oxen and cart. Mr. Goodbar died in 1870 at the honorable old age of eighty-seven years, after a long life of usefulness, loved and respected by all who knew him. Dickison G. Goodbar was born in Virginia, May 6, 1813. He came from Kentucky with his parents, to this County, in 1829 and thus become one of the early settlers. October 4, 1848, he married Miss Mary F. Prieste, a native of Putnam County, Indiana, and January 6, 1850, his son, John C., was born, and January 22 his wife died. He has never since married, and is now living on his excellent farm of 400 acres in the northeast corner of Scott township, with his son, who married Miss Kezia Epperson. She was born in Putnam County, December 31, 1848. They have one son, Walter J., born February 2, 1872.- thanks to Harry B for this one