The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . ineage. For someyears thereafter they resided in Kentuckyand then removed to Indiana, settling inBartholomew county. There in the midstof the green forest the father of our subjectdeveloped a farm. The sound of the wood-mans ax was soon heard as he choppedaway the trees in order to transform hisfarm into productive fields for the raisingof crops best adapted to soil and he remo\ed to Warren countywhere he again opened up a farm uponwhich he reared his family and spent hisremaining days, passing away there about1848,
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . ineage. For someyears thereafter they resided in Kentuckyand then removed to Indiana, settling inBartholomew county. There in the midstof the green forest the father of our subjectdeveloped a farm. The sound of the wood-mans ax was soon heard as he choppedaway the trees in order to transform hisfarm into productive fields for the raisingof crops best adapted to soil and he remo\ed to Warren countywhere he again opened up a farm uponwhich he reared his family and spent hisremaining days, passing away there about1848, when seventy years of age. His wifehad died in 1824, when John W. was a lit-tle child of two years. The father after-ward married again. Lpon the old homestead in Warrencounty, Indiana, John W. Goodwine wasreared and early in life he became familiarwith the arduous task of clearing and de-veloping a new farm. He took his placein the forest where he assisted in cuttingdown the trees, clearing away the brush andpreparing the fields for cultivation. When. MRS JOHN W GOODWINE
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