GOBLE
FAMILY ASSOCIATION
2005-2006 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Hello Goble cousins, families, historians and
genealogy researchers. We are beginning
our yearly membership drive with this newsletter. If you have already joined the Goble Family Association for
2005-2006, THANK YOU! When you join the
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Reunion Business meeting, requiring a
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Homepage will remain free to all researchers.
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and mail the form included with this newsletter. If you have already joined, send the membership form to a
relative. Go ahead and make more
copies. The best way to grow our
Association is by word of mouth!
GOBEL
STOGIES [1]
Harry
J. Gobel was a big tobacco man in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1894 Peter R. Gobel and his nephew Harry Gobel, then 17,
founded the Gobel wholesale and retail tobacco store after emigrating from
Germany. After Peter Gobel’s death in
1936 his nephew, Harry Gobel became president and general manager of the
company. The cigar store was located at
the corner of Fifth and Main Street in Zanesville, Ohio. The name of the business was P. R. Gobel
Tobacco Company.
The
store in its early days was the Mecca for men purchasing tobacco in varying
forms from hand rolled stogies and snuff to the cut plug chewing type. They found it a place to exchange the news
of the day for there were no radios or TV sets and the other types of
communication were slow. Gobel’s “Smoke
House” was an institution in Zanesville.
It was furnished with comfortable chairs and a settee.
There
was a prominent fixture of the store – a wooden Indian, Chief Penokee, who
stood guard at the door of the store until vandals began marring it. The statue was then moved inside the store
and was there until 1967 having stood guard for 73 years. The Indian is now located at the Zanesville
Art Center.
THE
WISKEY REBELLION
A
little history on WESTSYLVANIA
The WHISKEY REBELLION
Brackenridge's son, Hugh Marie,
described this flag as having "six
stars and six bars" - the first "Stars & Bars?"
The
1794 Whiskey Rebellion is usually thought of as a localized riot against an
unpopular tax, but that is just one component of a much more complicated
event. Far from being a riot limited to
a remote, western area of Pennsylvania, the Whiskey Rebellion involved several
States and international intrigues that reached deep into the Washington
administration. Years earlier some in
the western region of Pennsylvania, tiring of the border dispute with Virginia,
proposed creating a new State - Westsylvania.
During the Whiskey Rebellion there were some, inspired by the French
Revolution, who called for a break with the United States and the creation of a
new country. The Farmer's Flag (shown
above) was described by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, who called it a "rebel
flag."
Westsylvania was a name suggested for
an unrealized 14th state of the United States; it was to include southwestern
Pennsylvania, the western panhandle of Maryland, nearly the whole of what is
now West Virginia, a small part of what is now Virginia, and a small part of
eastern Kentucky. The creation of Westsylvania was petitioned in October 1775
by settlers in that region of the Second Continental Congress, believing the
state governments apathetic to their concerns; however, shortly thereafter, the
American Revolutionary War broke out and, in the interest of unity between the
states, Congress chose to ignore their request.
There were 1991 signatures on the petition to
create Westsylvania. They included:
- Benjamin (6) Goble/Gobel (pg 146/3)
- Caleb (6) Goble (pg 146/3)
- Daniel (6) Goble (pg 146/3)
- Ebenezer (6) Goble (pg 146/3)
- John Goble (pg 144/3)
ANNOUNCEMENT
DAR
GRAVE MARKING CEREMONY
All
descendants of Rev. Charles and Cassandra Pennington are cordially invited to
attend a DAR Grave Marking Ceremony on Saturday, September 24, 2005. We
will be meeting at Otterbein Cemetery, at 1:30 CDT and will have a brief
reception following the ceremony. Otterbein is located just West of Westfield,
IL, North off the Charleston-Westfield Road on CR 2480E. While Rev. Pennington
has been a recognized DAR Patriot for many years, his grave was never
officially recorded and marked by the DAR. After submitting the appropriate
paperwork, the National Society has granted permission to place these markers.
The ceremony will be conducted by the Governor Edward Coles—Sally Lincoln
Chapter, NSDAR, Mattoon, Illinois. Anyone descending from Joseph (8) Goble
and Sarah Rebecca Connely and/or has ties to the Penningtons. Please
make plans to attend this important ceremony and to help us honor these
Revolutionary War Patriots. For more information please contact: Janice Goble Caloia at
janrich@sprintmail.com.
PRAYERS
& GOOD WISHES
Joede Karsten is still undergoing treatment for cancer
and has a treatment once every 3 weeks. Prayers and Good wishes to
Joede and Mel.
GOBLE INVENTOR
Knee Reconstruction Techniques [2]
E. Marlowe Goble, M.D.: Goble, founder and
director of research and development at Medicine Lodge, Inc., is also an orthopedic
surgeon at Goble Knee Clinic. He started his independent orthopedic surgery
practice in Logan, Utah, in 1981. In performing his daily job as knee surgeon,
he conceived and developed a unique set of 
methods for drilling
and securing ligament replacements to bones in joint reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Goble
partnered with an engineering friend, who ran a typical machine shop in town,
to develop the initial prototypes tools and devices. The technology they
invented together enhances recovery and full use of injured joints and torn
ligaments.
These
techniques have been successfully applied to one of the most common athletic
injuries: an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in the knee.
Dr. Goble's
contribution combined with that of many other surgeon inventors and
biomechanical engineers, has enhanced minimally invasive ACL reconstructive
surgery, allowing athletes to regain full use of their legs more rapidly and
return to full athletic activity.
OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM[3]
In 1812, the United States went to war
with Great Britain, primarily over freedom of the seas. We were in the right.
For two years, we held off the British, even though we were still a rather weak
country. Great Britain was in a life and death struggle with Napoleon. In fact,
just as the United States declared war, Napoleon marched off to invade Russia.
If he won, as everyone expected, he would control Europe, and Great Britain
would be isolated. It was no time for her to be involved in an American war.
At first, our seamen proved better
than the British. After we won a battle on Lake Erie in 1813, the American
commander, Oliver Hazard Perry, sent the message "We have met the enemy
and they are ours." However, the weight of the British navy beat down our
ships eventually. New England, hard-hit by a tightening blockade, threatened
secession.
Meanwhile, Napoleon was beaten in
Russia and in 1814 was forced to abdicate. Great Britain now turned its
attention to the United States, launching a three-pronged attack. The northern
prong was to come down Lake Champlain toward New York and seize parts of New
England. The southern prong was to go up the Mississippi, take New Orleans and
paralyze the West. The central prong was to head for the Mid-Atlantic States
and then attack Baltimore, the greatest port south of New York. If Baltimore
was taken, the nation, which still hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in
two. The fate of the United States, then, rested to a large extent on the
success or failure of the central prong.
The British reached the American
coast, and on August 24, 1814, took Washington, D. C. Then they moved up the
Chesapeake Bay toward Baltimore. On September 12, they arrived and found 1000
men in Fort McHenry, whose guns controlled the harbor. If the British wished to
take Baltimore, they would have to take the fort.
On one of the British ships was an
aged physician, William Beanes, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought
along as a prisoner. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician,
had come to the ship to negotiate his release. The British captain was willing,
but the two Americans would have to wait. It was now the night of September 13,
and the bombardment of Fort McHenry was about to start.
As twilight deepened, Key and Beanes
saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry. Through the night, they heard
bombs bursting and saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the fort was
resisting and the American flag was still flying. But toward morning the
bombardment ceased, and a dread silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had
surrendered and the British flag flew above it, or the bombardment had failed
and the American flag still flew.
As dawn began to brighten the eastern
sky, Key and Beanes stared out at the fort, trying to see which flag flew over
it. He and the physician must have asked each other over and over, "Can
you see the flag?"
After it was all finished, Key wrote a
four-stanza poem telling the events of the night. Called "The Defense of
Fort M'Henry," it was published in newspapers and swept the nation.
Someone noted that the words fit an old English tune called "To Anacreon
in Heaven" --a difficult melody with an uncomfortably large vocal range.
For obvious reasons, Key's work became known as "The Star Spangled Banner,"
and in 1931 Congress declared it the official anthem of the United States.
Now that you know the story, here are
the words. Presumably, the old doctor is speaking. This is what he asks Key
Oh! say, can
you see, by the dawn's early light,
W hat so
proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad
stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the
ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the
rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof
thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does
that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land
of the free and the home of the brave?
"Ramparts," in case you
don't know, are the protective walls or other elevations that surround a fort.
The first stanza asks a question. The second gives an answer
On the shore,
dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the
foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that
which the breeze, o'er the towering steep.
As it fitfully
blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches
the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory
reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the
star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land
of the free and the home of the brave!
"The towering steep" is
again, the ramparts. The bombardment has failed, and the British can do nothing
more but sail away, their mission a failure.
In the third stanza Key allows himself
to gloat over the American triumph. In the aftermath of the bombardment, Key
probably was in no mood to act otherwise.
During World War II, when the British
were our staunchest allies, this third stanza was not sung. However, here it is
And where is
that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc
of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a
country should leave us no more?
Their blood
has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge
could save the hireling and slave
From the
terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the
star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land
of the free and the home of the brave.
The fourth stanza, a pious hope for
the future, should be sung more slowly than the other three and with even
deeper feeling.
Oh! thus be it
ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their
loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with
vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land
Praise the
Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer
we must, for our cause is just,
And this be
our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the
star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land
of the free and the home of the brave.
I hope you will look at the national
anthem with new eyes. Listen to it, the next time you have a chance, with new
ears. [4]
OBITUARIES
Rodney Maurice Goble, 65, of La
Grande died May 25, 2005 at Grande Ronde Hospital. A celebration of life
and graveside service will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Island City
Cemetery. Loveland Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Goble was born Jan. 23, 1940, to Verda and Kathlien Eliason Goble in
Nephi, Utah. He graduated from Santiam High School in Mill City in 1957, and
served in the Air Force from 1958 to 1962.
He worked as a service technician with GTE and spent most of his career
in La Grande. He retired in 1992.
Survivors include a brother, Philip
Goble, of Sun City, Calif.; a sister and brother-in-law, Camille and Bruce
Gordon of Salem; and LaNay Swan of Oregon. A sister, Beverly Mattson, of
Crabtree died earlier.
Published: June 1, 2005:
Rodney Maurice Goble was from the English Lines of
Richard Goble and Ann Winter of Fernhurst, Sussex, England.[5]
Lloyd
Herman Goble,
84, of Terre Haute died at 5:13 p.m. Saturday, May 21, 2005, in Terre
Haute Regional Hospital. He was a design engineer, worked at Visqueen in Terre
Haute and retired from Exxon, having lived and worked in the Chicago area and
in New Jersey and Texas. He was born July 21, 1920, in Farmersburg to Herman
Goble and Ruth Patten Goble. His first wife, Etta Petty Goble, died Oct. 1,
1996. Survivors include his wife, Lavelda Bales Johnson Goble, whom he married
in 2001; one daughter, Bonnie Goble of Atlanta; one son, Larry Goble of
Centralia, Ill.; one sister, Freida Alldredge of Bucknew, Mo.; one
granddaughter, Jessica Goble of Frankfort, Ky.; and one great-grandson, Billy
Goble of Frankfort. He also was preceded in death by his parents; and one
sister, Mable Petty. He was a graduate of Farmersburg High School and
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and received his master's degree from the
University of Chicago. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the
Philippines and in Japan. He was a member of Eastside Church of Christ and the
Senior Seekers Bible Study Group. A devout Christian and Bible scholar, he
served in many capacities. Services are 1 p.m. Wednesday, in Eastside Church of
Christ at Fruitridge and College avenues. Burial is in Farmersburg Westlawn
Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today in DeBaun Springhill Chapel. The
family suggests, that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to
Camp Wabashi, c/o Tom Woodason, 30 Park Lane, Terre Haute, IN 47803. (Provided
by Elsie Goble Smith from the Terre Haute, Ind. Trib. Star)
Lloyd
Herman Goble was an 11th generation Goble from the Thomas Goble tree
Samantha
"Manchie" Goble 1902-2005
Funeral
services were held Thursday, May 19, 2005 2 p.m. at the Jones-Preston
Funeral Home Chapel for Manchie Goble, 102, of Paintsville, Ky., who passed
away Sunday, May 15 at Paul B. Hall Medical Center in Paintsville, Ky. Mrs.
Goble was born December 30, 1902 in Johnson County, Ky., daughter of the late
Tom and Mintie Goble Robinson. She was a homemaker. She was also preceded in
death by her husband, Ben Goble. Surviving are one son, Buddy Goble of Hager
Hill, Ky.; two daughters, Allene Alred of Paintsville, Ky., and Amogene Adams
of Columbus, Ohio; one sister, Amy Titlow of West Van Lear, Ky.; special
friends Roger and Geneva Ann Wiley of Paintsville; and several grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. The service was officiated by Tim Salyer, with burial
in the Goble Family Cemetery. Arrangements under the direction of the
Jones-Preston Funeral Home of Paintsville, Ky. (Submitted by JoAnn Goble
Horn).
See
the Interview
on the Goble Genealogy Homepage for Samantha by JoAnn Horn
Manchie
Goble was connected to our German Goble tree.
Lucy O. Goble, 90, Bonner Springs, KS, passed away on Sunday, April 24, 2005,
at the Center for Longterm Care in Bonner Springs, KS. Funeral services will be
11 a.m. Wednesday, April 27 at Alden-Harrington Funeral Home in Bonner Springs.
Burial to follow in Bonner Springs Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m.
Wednesday prior to the service at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the
family suggests memorials to Odyssey Hospice or Bonner Springs United Methodist
Church in c/o the funeral home. She was born on January 31, 1915, in Fulton,
KS. She was a longtime area resident. She was a member of the Loring Sunshine
Club, the VFW Auxiliary and the Bonner Springs United Methodist Church. She was
preceded in death by son Larry Goble in 1992. She is survived by her husband of
70 years, Fredie Goble, Gardner, KS; son Fredie Goble (Evelyn); two daughters,
Roberta McCully (Don), KCK, and Catherine Bowen (Jim), Bonner Springs, KS;
seven grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and
five step-great-grandchildren. (Arr. Alden-Harrington Funeral Home,
913-422-4074)
Published
in the Kansas City Star on 4/25/2005.
Fredie
and Lucy have been members of the Goble Family Association since we began. They
attended the 1995 Goble Reunion in Leavenworth, Kansas. Our condolences to
Lucy's family.
Catherine Mary Reed, 100, of
421 Pine St. Clarion, died Sunday Dec 12, 2004 in Clarview Nursing &
Rehabilitation Center, Sligo.
Born Nov 11, 1904 in Clarion, she was the daughter of Harry and Myrtle
Goble McClaine.
Mrs. Reed retired in 1965 from Riverside Markets in Clarion. She was a member of the Craig E. Fleming
Post No. 66 in Clarion, the Auxiliary of the American Legion, Clarion County
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, the Clarion Women’s Benefit Association
(WBA) and the North American Benefit Association (NABA).
Mrs. Reed also was a member of the 500 Card Clubs, Jolly Club of Clarion
and the Clarion Senior Center. She
enjoyed traveling, reading, playing cards and spending time with her family and
friends.
Mrs. Reed was married in 1924 to Frank Reed, who died in 1966. Surviving are two daughters and their spouses,
Phyllis and Gerald Foust of Clarion and Ann and Richard Fleming of Lakeland,
Fla.: 9 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and 8 great-great
grandchildren. In addition to her
parents and husband, Mrs. Reed was preceded in death by a son, Frank Reed Jr.,
3 brothers, 3 sisters and one great-grandson.
Visitation was held at the Goble Funeral Home of Clarion. Funeral services were held in the funeral
home with the Rev.
Dean W. Meyer officiating. Interment followed in the Clarion Cemetery.[6]
Mary Catherine McClain Reed was an
11th generation Goble from the Thomas Goble tree.
A FAMOUS QUOTE[7]
"Because of their
courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly
mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person
knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The
creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes,
to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue
stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
"—
by Frank Goble
BUYER BEWARE
Halberts strikes again. This company is notorious
for selling listings/directories, etc. to families claiming they are historical
research. They are not. It is just listings from public records.
I recently received an offer for “The
Year 2005 International Goble Family Yearbook” claiming “You are in
it.” [8]
The address (Parker Rd, Denver, CO) is
the same as the old “Halbert” family books scam. The cost is $38.85 for a CD.
This is in no way connected to the Goble Family Association or to our
research. It is a CD of information
available through public records and compiled to sell to researchers. If you receive this mailing, or if you have
purchased the CD, please let us know your thoughts so we can share with our
readers.
Have you ever seen a book called "The Gobles's
In America": from 1790 to 1997, no original Gobles from any county other
than Floyd co. was mentioned and then they left out some real important people
ALL of mine and even the uncles who served in the World War I and others. It
was published exclusively for the Gobles copyrighted 1997 by Halbert's . No
phone numbers or anything listed to retract or add statements, what do you
suggest? Freda
Thanks! Glad to know I was not the only taker on this book[9]
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PAST [10]
Thanks
to all who have provided copies of historical photographs. It’s very hard to choose just a few to
display, however, here are some of our new ones!
Versa Lyle
Goble/Gooble at the Shumach School in
Missouri. Versa is in the front row
sitting in the checked dress. Versa was the daughter of Benjamin F.
Goble/Gooble and Georgia Ann Smith in our “Unconnected” Goble tree. Provided by Alice K Whiteside
Lewis
Gemenemus (9) Goble served in the Civil War, Co
G, 4th Iowa Inf, 2nd Lt. Co K, 139th Illinois Inf, Capt Co E, 151 Illinois
Inf. This
photograph was discovered on eBay a few months ago and it provided the valuable
information on his first name.
Alice Evelyn Sadler Goble, born 30 Oct 1907 was the
wife of Kenneth Goble of Magna, Utah.
Alice Evelyn and Kenneth were in our English Lines
of Richard Goble and Ann Winter of Fernhurst, Sussex, England
Mary E. (8) Goble Ford, born 3 Mar 1842 – died
1902, daughter of Hiram (7) Goble and Rosanna/Mary Brooks. “Hip injury in the Kansas trip never set
properly. She walked with a
crutch. Became stout from lack of
exercise.” Adelbert Ford. Provided
by Peter Ford
Homer Leslie (9) Goble, born 1 May 1895 in Paw
Paw, Lee County, Illinois served in World War I - 5th Recruit, Fort Logn,
Utah. Transferred to Fort Warden,
Washington 7th pos. Provided by Gary Goble.
Lewis Harold (10) Goble born 22 May 1891 in
VanBuren Co., Michigan to Hurlbert W. (9) Goble and Eva Belle Veley. Lewis is on the left, holding up a lynx he
had apparently shot. This photo was on
a post card sent to his grandmother, Mrs. William (Lavina) Veley in Gobleville,
Michigan. Provided by Lola Goble
Hallford.
Personal Note from Evelyn
Thanks to all who have
contributed information this year. Our
databases have all grown and a lot of missing information has been found. It always amazes me when we’re able to find
missing pieces and still have so much still unknown. I suppose this is the nature of genealogy. We will be taking a 3-week vacation during
the month of August; so don’t expect to reach me by email during that
time. We’ve had a few minor health
problems this year, but all in all doing great! We’re enjoying having all our children closer to us and seeing
them more frequently. Have a wonderful summer!
Love, Evelyn