Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:Marion Co., SC Deeds (D-72, D-79 and E-31 show a Lurany/Lucany Ford Goodyear who could easily be William's wife, but I haven't yet seen any hard evidence she was his wife.;

!CENSUS:1790 Georgetown Dist., SC Prince George Parish pg 507
{ Richard Miller
{ William Goodger 3-6-4-0-0;

!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 458-802
William Goodyear age 45+ (bef 1755)
20001-20001-0-0;

!PROBATE ROLL # 335 Marion Co., SC William Goodyear of Little Pee Dee 1801
John Ford, adm. 17 Jan 1801
... no heirs listed ...;


!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 192-193

GOODYEAR.—The Goodyear family, so far as Marion County is concerned, sprang from William Goodyear, who died in 1800. His wife, I think, was a Ford or a Grainger ; his sons or grandsons were the late John Goodyear and Love Goodyear, both dead. John Goodyear had only one son, who was killed or died in the war; he raised ten daughters, of whom something has already been said herein. Love .Goodyear died in 185 1, and left a family of sons and perhaps daughters ; the sons, as remembered and known, were William, Elias and Harman. William Goodyear, now an old man and very worthy citizen, lives near Nichols, and has raised a family who are now among our people and known. I do not know what became of Elias, whether dead or alive; Harman, I think, is dead. There is one, Madison Goodyear, if alive, whose son he is, or was, is not now remembered. Some six or eight years ago, the writer received a letter from a lady in the State of Washington or one of the Dakotas, the wife of a Lieutenant in the regular army of the United States, stationed out there in the far West, who signed her name "Grace Goodyear " (the last name not remembered, and the correspondence is mislaid). This lady said she belonged to the family of Goodyears in this county, or was collaterally related to them ; that she had been referred to me as an antiquarian and genealogist ; she said she was trying to trace her family, the Goodyear family, back to a Goodyear (John, I believe), who was Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, then a province of Great Britain, about 1690.; The writer made what investigation he could, and wrote the result to her, which she received and acknowledged its receipt in very complimentary and appreciative terms. I have heard nothing from her since. The Goodyear family are, doubtless, of English extraction, and were among the early settlers of the country. There is now in the city of New York a very wealthy family of that name, and a strong company called "The Goodyear Rubber Company," and the Goodyears of this county are, doubtless, of the same family. ;