Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

J. WESLEY GOODMAN, superintendent of the poor farm, was born in Rochester 
District, Butler County, December 9, 1839, and reared on a farm.  At the 
age of twenty-one he commenced farming, with nothing but his brave heart 
and willing hands.  January 2, 1861, he married Martha N., the eldest 
daughter of William H. Simmonds.  Mr. and Mrs. Goodman are the parents 
of five children: Eliza Jane, wife of Alexander Hale; Lilly Belle, wife 
of Leroy Day; A. Lincoln; Mollie; Benjamin Butler.  Mr. Goodman took 
charge of the poor-house farm in December, 1884.  This farm is situated 
on the Morgantown and Russellville high road, near the former town.  Mr. 
Goodman has never missed to [sic] vote at the elections, and always with 
the Republican party.  He has several times held important offices in 
the county of Butler, among them constable two terms and deputy sheriff 
two terms.  This position he still holds.  Mr. Goodman is the eldest of 
six children living.  Elijah entered the Union army, Twenty-third 
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1865, in the Zollicoffer 
hospital, Nashville, Tenn.  Mrs. Goodman's father was the first and 
only man in his voting district that voted for A. Lincoln in the first 
campaign.

Goodman Simmonds Hale Day
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