From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 
1894 - Page 110-113
 
MRS. SARAH F. GOODRICH.  This lady has been a resident of Dodge County, Wis., since 1854, 
and is well and very favorably known throughout this section.  She was born in Endfield, N.H., 
June 12, 1830, a daughter of John and Elizabeth K. (FARNHAM) PURMORT, who were also 
born in Endfield, N.H., and were there reared and married.  Mr. PURMORT tilled the soil in 
Endfield for about thirty years, and there reared his family, after which he moved to Lebanon, 
N.H., where he established a foundry, in which he labored until his death in December, 1868.  His 
wife survived him and passed away in October 1885.  Mrs. GOODRICH grew to mature years in 
Endfield, and received her education there and at Newport, in the common schools and 
academies.  April 2, 1851, she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Nathan F. GOODRICH, a native 
of the same town as herself and a man of good education.  After their marriage they located on a 
farm in Endfield for one year; then Mr. GOODRICH worked on a farm by the month for about two 
years; then, April 3, 1854, started westward, and for some time, while looking around for a 
location, made his headquarters with an uncle near Burnett Junction.  He then bought eighty 
acres of land, and in the fall of 1854 was joined here by his wife, and that fall and winter were 
spent at the home of a cousin near Burnett Junction.  April 3, 1855, they located on their farm, 
having moved thereon an old building which they repaired and used as a dwelling place until the 
fall, when they moved into another building which had originally been intended for a granary, and 
this continued to be their residence for seventeen years.  About 1857 they bought an adjoining 
eighty acres of land, erected buildings on a portion of it, and in 1874 built a large, neat and 
substantial residence of stone, in which he and his family took up their abode in December 1874.  
He had also previously built an excellent basement barn, good granaries and made other first-
class improvements.  This place is about six miles from Beaver Dam, and is exceptionally 
valuable, not only for the richness of the soil, but for the many fine improvements that have been 
made on it.  Mr. GOODRICH was actively engaged in tilling his farm until his career was closed 
by death, on August 22, 1888.  He was a man of keen discernment, good business ability, and 
was quick to see and grasp at all opportunities for bettering his financial condition, and at his 
death left his family well provided for.  He was integrity itself in his business dealings, and had the 
satisfaction of knowing that he willfully wronged no one.  After his death his eldest son took 
charge of the place one year, and since then the youngest son has cared for the farm and his 
mother.  Their family consisted of five children: Marian E., wife of W. A. LOCKWOOD, a merchant 
of Hebron, Neb.; John B. in California; Charles F. is married and resides on a farm in Dodge 
County; Florence Gertrude is at home, and Purmort F., who looks after the home place.  Five 
children are deceased: Sarah Elizabeth, who died at the age of eleven years and six months; 
Mary, who died at about the age of nine years; a daughter died at the age of twenty-six days; 
George died in September 1863, at the age of two years, and Emma died December 22, of the 
same year, all within six months of each other and of diphtheria.  Mrs. GOODRICH is most 
estimable woman, and is well known and highly esteemed in her neighborhood..
 
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