OBITUARY: Dameris Goddard, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Talent (Oregon) News, 1 Apr 1893, p. 3

OBITUARY

Mrs. B. C. Goddard died on the 18th, ult. and was buried in the Stearns
cemetery on the Sunday following. A large number of people, many from a
distance, attended the funeral.

[Nongenealogical material has been edited from the text.]

...Mrs. Dameris Goddard was born in Guilford county, North Carolina,
November 13, 1826. She moved with her parents to Ray county, Missouri, when
about 9 years of age, and was married to Blin C. Goddard in 1844--49 years
ago.

In the spring of 1864, she with her husband and four children made the long
and tedious journey across the plains to Jackson County, Oregon, locating
near Phoenix. Two years later they moved to Wagner creek, where she resided
until the time of her death.

She was the mother of four sons and four daughters, four of whom are still
living, Hendrick, Reno, Mrs. M. H. Coleman and Mrs. W. J. Dean. In early
life she was strong, being able to perform a prodigious amount of labor,
but about fifteen years ago became afflicted with heart troubles from which
she never recovered and which resulted in her death.

For the past 14 months she has lived alternately with her daughters that
she might receive their personal care and attention. She gradually grew
worse, becoming prostrated about three weeks ago...