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8. Tamar Goddard, born in 1795; she married Isaac Gale, 2nd, in 1813; they had 10 children, 3 of whom achieved distinction and positions in Royalston's printed "hall of fame." (See Gale Family, page 228.)
9. Nathaniel Goddard, born in 1797; he became a boot and shoe maker, and in 1819 went to Millbury and began the manufacture of boots and shoes, and with his brother, Danford Goddard, Abner Rice, and his son, Ira N. Goddard, as successive partners, he developed an extensive business; he was prominent in the affairs of the town, served in various public offices, and as deacon of the Congregational Church for more than 50 years. He married Rhoda Baker Gale, in 1830; she died in 1883; he died in 1887; they had 4 children:
(1.) Julia A. Goddard, born in 1822; she married Henry W. Benchley, who be- came Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; she died in 1854; they had 2 children.
(2.) Maria Goddard, born about 1824; died about 1834.
(3.) Sophia Goddard, born about 1827; married Rufus Wesson.
(4.) Ira Nathaniel Goddard, born in 1830; he worked with his father in the shoe manufacturing business, became his partner, and succeeded to the business at
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his father's death; he conducted an extensive insurance business, was president of a savings bank, held many town offices, was Town Clerk for 60 years, Representa- tive to the Legislature in 1905, clerk of the Congregational Church for many years, and superintendent of its Sabbath school. He married Josephine C. Ryan, in 1856; they had 2 children; Harry M. Goddard, born in 1859; the other died in infancy.
10. Catherine Goddard, born in 1800.
11. Danford Goddard, born about 1802; died in infancy.
12. Danford Goddard, born in 1804; from 1826 to 1834 he was associated with his brother, Nathaniel Goddard, in the boot and shoe manufacturing business, at Millbury.
Josiah Goddard was born in Shrewsbury, in 1745; he settled in Athol, and mar- ried Ruth Raymond, in 1774; he died in 1801; he had 10 children; his 6th child was
Ashbel Goddard, born in Athol, about 1787. He was a farmer, and removed to Royalston, and occupied the farm first settled by Lenox Tites, and afterwards oc- cupied by William Pierce, at the junction of the roads in Square 41 on our map;
THE ASHBEL GODDARD HOUSE, 1873.
somewhere around 1850 he bought the William Raymond place at the north end of the Common, the house on which is pictured herewith, and there he and members of his family resided throughout their lives. He married Betsey Pierce, daughter of William and Sally (Work) Pierce, in 1811; he died in the vicinity of 1866, and she died about 1870; they had 8 children:
1. Sally Goddard, born in 1812; married Samuel Wheeler, of Dummerston, Vt., in 1846.
2. Royal Goddard, born in 1814; died in 1839.
3. Charles Goddard, born in 1815; he occupied a farm on the road from his father's to the Common, in Square 40 on our map; he removed to Athol about 1857; he married Lucinda Presson, of Gardner, in 1842; they had 2 children:
(1.) Nelson Royal Goddard, born in 1843; died in 1849.
(2.) Charles Virgil Goddard, born in 1845. He served in the Civil War, in the 53rd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry; he was engaged in teaming for a time, and then manufactured window blinds for 7 or 8 years, the last 3 years in a shop which he built on Laurel street, in Athol, and which was destroyed by fire and not rebuilt. He married Ella F. Norcross, in 1867; they had 9 children.
4. Mary Ann Goddard, born in 1818; married James M. Cheney, of Athol, in 1842; she died in 1902; he died in 1903; they had 5 children.
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5. George Nelson Goddard, born in 1821; died in 1840.
6. Elizabeth Pierce Goddard, born in 1825; she married Hiram Knapp, of Franklin, in 1848, and they resided in Athol many years; he died in 1885; she died in 1892; they had 6 children.
7. Franklin Horatio Goddard, born in 1828. Mr. Caswell stated that "he was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Royalston Academy." (Few Royalston people have seen or heard Royalston Academy mentioned.) As a young man he went to St. Louis, and was for a time engaged in manufacturing straw hats, and he taught school for a short time. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the "citizen militia," under Gen. John C. Fremont, and took an active part in the struggle which kept the state of Missouri from seceding with the other southern states; he was a prisoner of war in St. Louis for a short time. He returned to Royalston about 1865, and bought the Asa Bacheller farm, the first one of large size east of the Common, on the South Royalston and Winchendon road. He formed a partnership with Joseph L. Perkins, and they bought the Prouty saw- mill and shop, on the Lawrence, east of his place, where they continued in business until the mill was burned, about 1869. He married, 1st, Sarah Mellen; she lost her life by accidentally setting her clothes on fire; he married, 2nd, Ada K. Smith, of Winchendon, in 1898; he died in 1923; his widow removed to California in 1925, to make her home with a deceased brother's widow.
8. William Bailey Goddard was born in 1832; he resided with his parents at the north end of the Common. About 1860 he established the first regular daily mail and passenger coach between Royalston Center and the depot at South Roy- alston, giving a very accommodating and satisfactory service; somewhere around 1867 he removed to Petersham, where he rendered a similar service between that place and the depot at Athol, and Joseph T. Nichols conducted the Royalston route with equal satisfaction to the public until 1873, when Mr. Goddard returned to Roy- alston and resumed the operation of the line, which he continued for several years. He was a deacon of the First Congregational Church from 1888 until his death, in 1893. He married Fannie Earle. In 1896 she married Leonard Byam, of Fitzwil- liam; she died in 1915, and Mr. Byam died in 1916.
Henry Goddard, 2nd, was a son of Josiah and Ruth (Raymond) Goddard, and a brother of Ashbel Goddard. He married Anna Davis, in 1802, and they had 7 chil- dren, several of whom married and some had large families of children; but they mostly removed from Royalston, and made their homes in Orange, Montague, Bos- ton, and elsewhere.
Davis Goddard, a son of Henry Goddard, 2nd, and Anna (Davis) Goddard, was born in Royalston, in 1807; in early life he went to Boston, and for a few years was engaged with one of his brothers in trucking business; he went to North Orange, where he kept a general store and was postmaster, and after a few years removed to Orange, where he was postmaster for 24 years, Town Clerk 10 or 12 years, Se- lectman 7 years, Representative in 1857, Senator in 1858, County Commissioner 7 years, and one of the most prominent and influential men of the town.
Nathan Goddard, from Shrewsbury, probably a brother of Josiah Goddard, bought a large tract of land in the southwesterly part of what was then Royals- ton, and built a public house, a sawmill and a tannery, and carried on an extensive business; his place was set over to Orange, on the incorporation of that town.
THE SHEPARDSONS.
Jonathan Shepardson, the first of the name to settle in Royalston, was born in Attleboro; he married Miriam Follett. They removed to Templeton in 1768, and to Royalston in 1790, and settled on the place in the west part of the town long known as the Tandy farm, and afterwards owned by Willie D. Graves. They had 10 children, all of whom married before the family removed to Royalston; both died on the same day in 1804.
Daniel Shepardson, son of Jonathan and Miriam (Follett) Shepardson, was born in 1775; he settled on the place next south of his father's, which has now been in the possession of members of the Shepardson family for much longer than a century. He married Prudence Cook, daughter of David and Elizabeth Cook, in 1801; he died in 1856, and she died in 1858; they had 10 children, as follows:
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1. Jonathan Shepardson, 2nd, the 1st child of Daniel and Prudence (Cook) Shepardson, was born in 1802. He was well educated, and taught school for sev- eral years. He established a sawmill on the Tully, and had quite an extensive lumber business. He married Nancy Jaseph, in 1825; she died, and he died in 1875; they had 7 children:
(1.) Quincy Adams Shepardson, born in 1826.
(2.) Lucius Franklin Shepardson. born in 1828. He acquired a college educa- tion, and became pastor of the Baptist Church at Princeton, Me., in 1860, and was a Baptist minister for 44 years. He married, 1st, Maria L. Gage, in 1858; she died in 1877; he married, 2nd, Fannie Knight; he died at East Westmoreland, N. H., in 1908; he had a son by his 1st wife, Frank Lucius Shepardson, born in 1861; he graduated from Brown University in 1883; he became an educator, was on the fac- ulty of Worcester Academy, Colgate Academy and Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., etc .; he married Sarah Whidden, in 1888; they had 2 children.
(3.) Joseph Henry Shepardson, born in 1831; he graduated from Colby Uni- versity, took a course in theology, and was ordained as a Baptist pastor in 1865. At the solicitation of Rev. Amory Gale, who was state missionary of Minnesota (see page 228), he went to Minnesota, where he became one of the Baptist mission- aries; he located his home on a government homestead, and a town was organized, of which he was made clerk, which office he retained for 38 years; he was judge for 35 years; and pastor of the Baptist church 15 years. He married, 1st, Martha Henry, in 1865; she died in 1869; he married, 2nd, Ellen Rand, in 1870; she died in 1908; in 1915, in his 84th year, in a letter, he pronounced himself as "young as a chicken just hatched."
(4.) Jonathan Shepardson, born in 1835; died in 1837.
(5.) Mary Caroline Shepardson, born in 1837. She married Luke Emil Bemis, in 1857; he died in 1886, and she died in 1906; they had 4 children.
2. Pruda Shepardson, 2nd child of Daniel and Prudence (Cook) Shepardson, was born in 1804; she married William Moore, of Montague, in 1826; she died in 1877; they had several children, among whom were John S. and Henry C. Moore.
3. Lity Shepardson, born in 1806; died in 1820.
4. Eliza Shepardson, born in 1808; married Charles Moore, in 1829.
5. David Cook Shepardson, born in 1810; died in 1813.
6. Millie Shepardson, born in 1812; married George Moore; died in 1893.
7. Daniel Shepardson, 2nd, the 7th child of Daniel and Prudence (Cook) Shep- ardson, was born in 1813. He acquired a good college education, and was a Baptist minister in Cincinnati, Zanesville, Cheviot and Piqua, Ohio; he had a long career in educational work in that state, and was the founder of Shepardson College, the women's department of Denison University, at Granville, Ohio. He was married 3 times, and had 12 children. He died in Granville, Ohio, in 1899.
8. David Cook Shepardson, born in 1815. He married Emily Grout, of War- wick, in 1835; they had 6 children. He resided in Warwick the most of his life after he arrived at maturity, where he had a farm and a sawmill.
9. John Shepardson, born in 1820. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1842, snd held pastorates in New Salem, Prescott, Petersham, Wales, Greenfield, Norton and Taunton; he engaged in teaching at intervals, managed the Oread In- stitute at Worcester, and founded the Highland Institute at Petersham. He was twice married, and had 2 children and 6 grandchildren. He died in 1889.
10. Eri Shepardson, born in 1821. He was the one of the large family to re- main at the old homestead throughout his long life, where he was engaged in farm- ing and lumbering. He was a prominent member of the West Royalston Baptist Church, and was treasurer of Star Lodge of Masons, of Athol, for 25 consecutive years. He married Elvira S. Bemis, in 1843; she died in 1864; he died in 1895; they had 5 children:
(1.) John Shepardson, 2nd, born in 1843; he enlisted in the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, in 1862, and was killed in action, June 17, 1864.
(2.) Daniel Shepardson, 3rd, born in 1844; he acquired a good education, and became a clergyman, holding pastorates of 7 years at Hancock, Mass., and then for several years in towns in New York state. He married Emma Wylie, of Han- cock, in 1876; he died in Hancock, in 1908.
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(3.) Susan Steele Shepardson, born in 1849; married Luther E. Stewart, in 1878; they had 3 children; he died in 1914.
(4.) Luke Bemis Shepardson, born in 1851; he remained on the old home farm, and, in addition to his farming activities, engaged extensively in lumbering and teaming. He was chosen Selectman for the year 1895, and with the exception of 2 years, he has been continuously re-elected to that office, and at this printing is elected to serve until March, 1928,-31 years in all; he has also served as Assessor, Highway Commissioner, and on various important town committees. In early life he joined the West Royalston Baptist Church, and held the office of deacon for many years, and was also elected superintendent of its Sabbath school for many terms. He married Ellen L. Tandy, daughter of Rev. Lorenzo Tandy, in 1875; they had 5 children:
[1.] Florence E. Shepardson, born in 1876; graduated from Smith College, in 1908; taught in high schools for several years; she married Edward S. Taggard, of Portersville, Cal., in 1914, and they resided at that place.
[2.] John Shepardson, 3rd, born in 1877; he remained on the home farm, and gave his attention to the occupations thereof.
[3.] Bertha M. Shepardson, born in 1879; graduated from Athol High School; married George E. Fairbanks, in 1901; their home has been at Fitzwilliam, N. H .; they have had several children.
[4.] Carl W. Shepardson, born in 1885; graduate from Brown University; from 1909 to 1912 he taught in government schools in the Phillipines, and after- wards in various places in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He married Nellie May Britton, of Hollis, N. H., in 1914.
[5.] Lucy Shepardson, born in 1889; she attended Smith College, but did not graduate, as the condition of her mother's health while she was in her 3rd year called for her presence at the home.
(5.) Delia M. Shepardson, 5th child of Eri and Elvira S. (Bemis) Shepardson, was born in 1853; she married, 1st, A. B. Wood, in 1872, and they had 3 children; she married, 2nd, George W. Smith, in 1891, and they had 1 child.
THE TANDY FAMILY.
Rev. Lorenzo Tandy was born in 1818. He came to Royalston, as pastor of the West Royalston Baptist Church, in 1861; after a service of 5 years he retired, and bought the farm which had been the home of the Cook family for several genera- tions, and that was his home until his death, in 1898. He was a man of notable independence of opinion and action. He served the town on the School Committee in 1863, 1864 and 1865. He married Lucy Stowell; she died in 1907; they had 8 children:
1. Nathan S. Tandy, born in 1845. His life as a schoolboy was characterized by the spirit of independence which marked his father's career. The writer recalls an incident. One day at the fall term of the high school at Royalston Center, the principal, who was also the only teacher, acquired a feeling that something ought to be done to Nathan S. Tandy's younger brother, Charles F. Tandy, both of whom appeared to be studious and exemplary pupils; so the "Prof." requested or invited Charlie to "come out into the floor." Charlie had hardly risen from his seat to obey the order when "Nate" jumped up from his seat and started for "the floor." "Prof." ordered him to sit down, as he had not been called, to which "Nate" responded, in italics, as here printed, "He's my brother!" "Prof." told both boys to take their seats, resumed the regular routine of business, and what prom- ised to be an exciting episode ended in a retreat by the power with all the force of law and order behind it. If it had happened that "Prof." had accepted "Nate's" ostensible challenge, it is a question whether the rebellious forces would have been augmented by other pupils; Royalston had no militia to be called out in case of a riot; and while there probably was a commissioned constable in the village, very few people knew who he was, and probably he did not know what his rights and duties were, "for such case made and provided," and he might have declined to operate on the case. The "Prof." in the case was Charles Wilder, a brother of the wife of Obadiah Walker, a Christian gentleman in every sense, who was preparing for the ministry; what led him to "tackle" Charlie Tandy in that way has never
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been apparent to one of the observers of the event; perhaps it was an attack of indigestion; quite likely the "Prof." and the Tandy boys became fast friends and comrades. Nathan S. Tandy enlisted in the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry in the Civil War, probably before the end of that fall term of high school, and was discharged for disability after 7 months service. We may well wonder, with his disposition to allow nothing to be "put over" on him, how he got along with the military officers, who are generally supposed to be arbitrary and domineering. After his return from the war, he was employed at the Athol railroad station for about 2 years, and then was in charge of the Hoosac Tunnel station for about 20 years. He then removed to Newport, N. H., where he was engaged in the express business for many years. He married Mrs. Ada W. Reed, widow of Henry C. Reed. He died at Newport, in 1916.
2. Charles F. Tandy, born in 1846. He was employed for many years in a grocery store in Athol. He was a deacon of the Baptist church in Athol. He married, 1st, Maria Davis, of Royalston, in 1866; she died in 1870; he married, 2nd, Priscilla Fay, of Athol; they had 3 children.
3. Lucy Jane Tandy; born in 1847; died in 1893.
4. Ellen L. Tandy, born in 1850; narried Luke B. Shepardson, in 1877. (See Shepardson Fsmily, page 293.)
5. William W. Tandy, born in 1852. In 1871 he began work as station agent's helper with his brother, Nathan S. Tandy, at Hoosac Tunnel station; about a year later he was transferred to Montague station, from which he was soon transferred to the important station at Gardner, where, with a service of 8 years, his health became impaired, and he spent a year in the south; after his return he held office positions with 2 Gardner chair companies and the Central Oil and Gas Company, of Florence, Mass., and in 1896 he became treasurer of the Central Oil and Gas Stove Company, of Gardner. He married Esther Finette Chapin, daughter of Calvin C. and Esther (Clark) Chapin, of Royalston; they had 7 children.
6. Evelyn B. Tandy, born in 1854. She married William H. Bullard, in 1880; he was born in South Royalston, in 1856; his parents removed to Athol when he was 4 years of age, and he acquired his school education there and at New Salem Academy, taught school and became a store clerk; in 1881 he removed to Holyoke, and after several years as store clerk, went into retail trade on his own account, and afterwards the wholesale; in 1903 he organized and incorporated the Bullard Thread Company, of which he became agent and treasurer; he was president of the Holyoke Board of Trade and prominent in popular clubs and societies; and he achieved a full-page portrait in Caswell's History of Royalston, and a niche in Royalston's typographic "hall of fame;" he died in the vicinity of 1925.
7. Eddy C. Tandy, born in 1856; died in 1876.
8. May Tandy, born in 1861; she married William T. Parsons, of Holden, in 1892; she died in Worcester, in 1913.
THE WHITE FAMILY.
Elisha White became a resident of Royalston late in the 18th century. His wife was Mary Corbett; and they had 13 children.
Adriel White, youngest son of Elisha and Mary (Corbett) White, was born in Royalston, in 1799; he settled on a farm in the northwest part of the town; he was Selectman in 1846 and 1855, and Assessor in 1842, 1844, 1845 and 1846. he married Olive Davis, in 1826; he died in 1869; she died in 1879; they had 10 children:
1. Theresa L. White, born in 1826; died in 1847.
2. Erastus E. White, born in 1828; in 1856 he settled in Owosso, Mich., with his brothers, Philetus D. and Wellington White, where they were extensively en- gaged in a planing-mill business and in the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, and furniture. He married, 1st, Annah Mather, in 1853; she died in 1888, and he mar- ried, 2nd, Mrs. Ann Bennett Cutter, who died in Natick; he removed to Seattle, Wash., where he died at the home of his daughter, in 1910; he had 2 children.
3. Philetus Davis White, born in 1830; he went to Owosso, Mich., with his brothers, Erastus E. and Wellington White, and was engaged in business with them. He married, 1st, Mary E. Evans, in 1855; she died the same year; he mar- ried, 2nd, Eliza E. Wheeler; he died in 1914; he had 2 children.
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4. Wellington White, born in 1832; he went with his brothers, Erastus E. and Philetus D. White, to Owosso, Mich., in 1856, and was engaged in business with them there. In 1861 he enlisted in a Michigan company in the Civil War; he was transferred to a regimental band; in 1862 he was taken prisoner by the rebels, was paroled, and honorably discharged from the service in less than a month after his capture. He was a member of the Royalston Centennial Committee in 1865, and was present and one of the vice-presidents at the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration in 1915. He married Lucy Rebecca Pierce, in 1865.
5. Adriel C. White, born in 1835; he became a successful school-teacher, and taught in several New England and other towns. He enlisted in the Civil War, in the 53rd Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, in 1862, became a sergeant, and served longer than the term for which he enlisted. He removed to Warwick, in 1869, and resided there 20 years, and held the offices of Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor; he removed to North Orange in 1896, and carried the mail between that place and Athol for many years; he was prominent in the Grange. He married Elsie A. Davis, in 1861; he died in 1924; they had a son, Rollin C. White, born in 1868, who married Daisy L. Hastings, in 1892; and they had 2 children: Kathryn E. White, born in 1896, and Kenneth H. White, born in 1906.
6. Harlan P. White, born about 1838; died in infancy.
7. Asaph M. White, born in 1840; he taught school in several Nsw England towns; he enlisted in the Civil War, in the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, in 1861, and became a corporal, served in the commissary department 3 months, and was discharged at the end of his term, in 1865; he was Selectman from 1877 to 1888, inclusive, 12 years, and Assessor 10 of those years; deacon and Sunday-school teacher in the West Royalston and Athol Baptist churches; he was employed in a piano-case manufactory in Athol 8 years, and was in the grocery business in Keene 3 years. He married Mary C. Goddard, of Royalston, about 1865; he died in 1906; they had 2 children, born in Royalston: Walter White, born in 1869; Ernest White, born in 1870.
8. Rollin N. White, born in 1843; he enlisted in the Civil War, in the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, in 1863; he became a corporal; was wounded at Cold Harbor, in June, 1864, and died, as the result of his wounds, at a Washington hospital, 22 days later.
9. Melzar White, born about 1845; died in infancy.
10. Olive Theresa Lovina White, born in 1848; married Robert D. Crawford, of Owosso, Mich., in 1870, and resided there; they had 4 children.
Millard W. White, son of Michael V. White, was born in Winchendon, in 1859. He was probably only distantly if in any way related to the White family heretofore illuminated. In his early manhood he started in business on his own account, with a sawmill in Winchendon, and in lumbering operations. About 1881 he bought the old Prouty and Perkins & Goddard mill, near the Lawrence Brook Cemetery, in Royalston, which Mr. Caswell stated that "he continued to run for 27 years,"-an incorrect statement, as business was suspended there and the building removed to the Newton & Davis privilege, higher up on the Lawrence, in 1905, to replace the old one that was destroyed by fire. Mr. Caswell stated that he was chairman of the Royalston board of Selectmen 13 years, but Mr. Caswell's list of Selectmen shows that it was 9 years, and not 13, that Mr. White served as Selectman; he also served as Overseer of the Poor 1 year, and as Cemetery Commissioner. About 1911 he removed to Winchendon, where he became superintendent of an extensive woodenware plant, and afterwards engaged in the lumber business on his own account. He married Jane L. Goodnow, of Oakham.
Stephen P. White, son of Stephen and Harriet White, was born in Royalston, in 1828; his home in early life was in the easterly part of the town; before 1860 he removed to the Center, and made his home at the place designated 15W on our map; he was employed in the palmleaf shop, and when the Civil War broke out in 1861, was foreman in the shop; in 1862 he enlisted in the 36th Regiment Massachu- setts Infantry; he died of disease in the service, at Annapolis, Md., in 1864. He married Lucinda Woodbury, in 1856; she died in Royalston, in 1926, at the age of 95 years; they had 2 children: Emeline White, born in 1857; married Colin Mac- kenzie, and they had 2 children, (of whom more elsewhere,) and Irving White.
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