Lineage of Felix Grundy Goodwin

Today's post is going to be a list of facts on our great-grandfather, Felix Grundy Goodwin.  Quite the unique name, don't you think?  I have always wondered over the past year of researching, just where did that name come from anyway?  I know that he had a brother named Christopher Columbus Goodwin (I think we can guess who he was named after, right?).  I did find a "Felix Grundy" who was a popular politician in Tennessee (so much so, that there is a Grundy County named in his honor).  He became a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1819 to 1825, and in 1820 he was commissioner to settle the boundary line between Tennessee and Kentucky. In July of 1838 he was appointed Attorney General of the United States by president Martin Van Buren and in his biography he is listed as a mentor to future president James K. Polk. Apparently, he was quite a popular man in his era, so who knows, maybe our great grandfather Felix Grundy Goodwin is named after him?  Anyway, that is only speculation, the following are the facts that I have discovered so far.  There are still some dates that need filled in, but I will eventually get there, right?

GOODWIN, Felix Grundy      {son of Thomas Henry Goodwin & Louisa Jane McElyea}

Born:  October 18, 1866              

Denver, Tennessee, Humphrey’s County

Died:  December 22, 1928           

Burial at Kinsey Cemetery, Poplar Bluff, MO 

1^st Marriage:      Amanda WARREN , June 21, 1884

                             Humphrey’s County, TN 

    {daughter of John Warren & Mary Elizabeth Benson}

                             B:  1866  Humphrey’s County, TN

                             D:  1899

Children:

Bertha (Bertie)                December 1885               d:

Harry W.                        July 1888                         d:

Lura (Laura) Belle           March 1893                     d:

John Thomas                   November 5, 1895          d: August 2, 1966

                                               

2^nd Marriage:    Nora Evangeline SHAVER , May 28, 1899

                            Humphrey’s County, TN

   {Daughter of John M. Shaver & Hester D. Miller}

                            B:  March 06, 1878        D:   January 11, 1908   

Children:

Felix Clinton       b: September 07, 1900     d: 1965   

Hester Louise     b: June 16, 1903               d:

Lottie Mae         b: July 22, 1906                d:  1988

3^rd Marriage:  Elizabeth Louise WILLIAMS, October 15, 1910

                         Corning Arkansas 

{Daughter of Francis M. Williams & Bertha Ann Newdecker}

B:   October 10, 1887       D:   February 18, 1967    

Children:

Francis E. Lee       September 16, 1911       d:

Harding Harville    June 12, 1914                 d:

Roy                       July 23, 1917                 d:  June 13, 1924

Violet Lillian          January 04, 1920            d: 

Marvin                  July 23, 1925                  d:  October 15, 1925