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vi. HENRY GOHEEN, b. 05 Dec 1822; d. 20 Nov 1887; m. (1) ANN LIGHTLE; b.
1822; m. (2) ANN LIGHTLE; b. 25 Jan 1845; m. (3) ANN LIGHTLE, 25 Jan 1845; b. 27
Sep 1820; d. 07 Mar 1905.
Notes for HENRY GOHEEN:
The Ontario Archives Marriage Register for Northumberland/Durham states that Henry
Goheen married Ann Lyttle, Hamilton, by banns. Witnesses David Lyttle and Nelle
Brown by James Nales or Hales Canadian Wesleyan New Connexion
The 1881 census of Hamilton Twp. states that Henry was 58,was born in Ontario, was
Irish and a Methodist as well as being a farmer. His wife Ann is 59 and also Irish and his
children are listed
as David, 35 school teacher, John, 32 farm labourer, William 29, farmer, Thomas H. 21,
farmer, Mary J. 24 and Almira 21. Reel C13240 Page 9 Hamilton.
Bethel News of Nov. 14, 1887 states that Henry Goheen still remains very ill. There is
little hope of his ultimate recovery.
Nov. 30, 1887 The funeral of the late Mr. Henry Goheen took place on Tuesday of last
week and was very largely attended. Rev. Mr. Lloyd conducted services at both residence
and cemetery.
In 1982, Raymond Goheen Sr., Grandson of Henry, told me, Doris Goheen, the following
account of how Thomas Junior's farm at lot 33 Concession 5, Hamilton Township was
divided up.
"The eldest son, John, was given the north forty-five acres. We call it the Etcher Place
now. The third son, Michael, was given the next forty-five acres where Winfred farm is
now. My grandfather, Henry, had the next twelve acres and then Charles, next door, go
the next thirteen acres. As I understand it, Israel, the second son, was given thirteen acres
along the west side of the south hundred. That adds up to one hundred and twenty-eight
which leaves seventy-two acres which went to Jesse, the youngest son.
My grandfather, Henry, traded his twelve acres of cleared land for fifty acres of uncleared
land across the road. The land across the road was called the Fisher Estate. It goes from
the old house across the road down to the south end of it. He had to cut down the trees
and dig out the pine stumps. Grandfather Henry built a log cabin on the north end of this
fifty acres but when spring came he found his log cabin was in a pond of water.
George had the fifty acres north of Grandfather Henry's of this Fisher grant. He sold one
acre to grandfather Henry of his land so grandfather could build a little house up on the
knoll there in 1855. My father was four years old when it was built. A man by the name
of Davy Watt bought the log house for five dollars worth of hens and moved it up the
road to the brow of the hill. He either sold or donated the east half of that to his brother
Joseph and George and Joseph cleared that north forty-nine acres.
Senior and Junior Thomas Goheens were devout Anglicans and the first half of Thomas
Jr.'s family stayed with the Anglican church. Thomas Jr. and Thomas Sr. were buried in
the first plot in St. Mark's Anglican Church. They're buried in the north-east corner. St.
Mark's Church was organized in 1822, thirty years after the Goheens settled near there.
They may have had something to do with that little log cabin that was the first school
where Trinity College stands.
vii. GEORGE GOHEEN, b. Feb 1825; d. 06 Jul 1884; m. CLARISSA HOLLENBECK;
b. 13 Sep 1828; d. 19 May 1881.