Vicksburg National Military Park - Mississippi

I visited this site because I have an ancestor, Henry S Goodrich, who fought in the battle of Vicksburg. He had been in the Ohio infantry nearly from the beginning of the war. After the seige of Vicksburg, Henry and company head to Baton Rouge for the remainder of the war. After the war ends, one month actually, Henry dies of fever and disease. He is buried in Baton Rouge National cemetery

Natchez Trace

Windsor Ruins: This was/is a home on the Trace that was burned shortly after the Civil War. This above drawing was done by a Union soldier as they camped around the house during the War. It is the only known picture of the home.

Twelve Confederate soldiers who had died along the Trace. The Trace is seen on the left side of between the trees. The soldiers are on the right of the Trace. It is unknown how or why the soldiers died, perhaps exhaustion or disease

Various shots along the Trace

The original foot path of the Natchez Trace. Thousands of folks used this ancient Indian path to travel from Nashville down to Natchez, Mississippi. Even Abraham Lincoln is said to have walked it. The thousands of foot travelers, relocating settlers with their oxens and wagons caused deep depressions and erosions in the land that are still present today. There are many original parts of the Trace still present along the road Trace.

This is part of the Trace that leads to the Mount Locust Inn which is original and still standing. Family members lived in the building well in to the 1930's.

The family cemetery at Mount Locust which was an Inn and a working Plantation.

One of the bedrooms

The Kitchen

Mount Locust Plantation and Inn

Goodrich Genie Trip - June 2007

In June 2007 I traveled to Hancock Massachusetts to visit some of my Goodrich ancestral burial grounds, Goodrich Hollow Cemetery. It's a quaint small family cemetery tucked up a small mountain in the Berkshires. Elijah Goodrich, wife Margere and the family left Wethersfield for Hancock. I spent a week researching in Pittsfield, trying to determine exact parentage of Dinah Bishop, wife of Jesse Goodrich, son of Elijah and patriot of the Revolutionary War. This is Goodrich Hollow road that leads up the mountain and to the cemetery. Elijah and Margere Goodrich head and foot stones

Goodrich Hollow Cemetery


Windsor Connecticut
Windsor Connecticut (below) where some of my third generation of Goodrich's moved to, though I was unable to locate the burial of those ancestors, Jacob and his wife. The below grave is of Mr. Wolcott, from 1655

A monument in Windsor to the Pilgrims

Windsor Cemetery also dating to 1640's

Wethersfield Connecticut
Wethersfield Connecticut where William Goodrich came in about 1634 or so. He is a young man at the time and in 1636 the Pequot War begins in Wethersfield, which he joins the local Militia.

Lt Joseph Goodrich from Queen Anne's War (Ibelieve), but notice the headstone imagery

Wethersfield endured it's own Witch Trials for several decades befor Salem. I found several documents stating that Ensign William Goodrich is a Deputy on the General Court, which could elude to him serving during some of the Witch Trials. I have not been able to make that exact determination yet.

Home of Silas Dean

Old headstone, this is not the wife of Ensign William, but another William.

A Goodrich area of graves dating over several centuries, look closely and you can see multiple types of stones, imagery, carvings

Wethersfield burial ground

This house is from the 1630's and is on the cover of one of my childhood books Witch of Blackbird Pond, which was written and placed in Wethersfield during the mid 1600's