By Evelyn Goble Steen
Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2001
Copyright (c) 2001 by Evelyn Goble Steen all rights reserved.

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Hello all,

Happy New Year! This is our first issue of 2001. There will be only 2 issues in 2001 with the second in September. There will also be an extra reunion mailing this year for those planning to attend our reunion in Reno in August.

The Goble Family Association's main focus has been to discover all the descendants of Thomas Goble (1590/91-1657) of West Sussex, England and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. That database now contains over 22,000 individuals. We hear from newly discovered cousins every week and continue to welcome all who are interested in the history of the Goble name.

If you would like to provide data, a story about one of your ancestors to be published in this newsletter or on the homepage, or if you have a question for me or our readers, please send them to: Evelyn Goble Steen, 4121 Nantucket Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, or e-mail: GobleNews@aol.com

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If you're in need of special flowers for a special someone or occasion, this is the place to go! The Goble Flower Farm has beautiful Maui grown tropical flowers and flower arrangements available via the internet. http://www.goblesflowers.com/

PHOTOGRAPH of Woody Goble

Woody Goble is the owner and grower of the Goble Flower Farm.

Woody's grandfather, David W. Goble, owned the Goble Funeral Home at 22 Main Street in Sparta, New Jersey. The funeral home had been in the family since 1852. Woodruff Willard Goble ran it in the 1960's and then sold it.

Woody was born in Newark, NJ 1943 while his father was flying bombers in Europe. When his father came back from overseas the family moved back to their hometown of Sparta. Woody's parents were divorced when he was eight and they moved to East Orange, NJ then to Livingston, NJ where he and his brother, David, went to high school. Woody attended The Citadel graduating in 1966. As a Marine 2nd Lt Woody attended The Basic School then flight school. He shipped out to Vietnam on May 5, 1968. After his tour in Vietnam he was ordered to MCAS, Kaneohe, Hawaii. Due to wounds he received when his Helicopter was shot down he was medically retired. He studied Horticulture at the University of Hawaii with the intent of growing flowers on Maui, his wife's place of birth. They have two children by a former marriage and two of their own.*1

Woody has not been connected to a specific Goble tree as yet so is listed in our "Unconnected" family tree. His ancestry is

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GOBLE, David (also known as "King David"), GOBLE, Isaac, GOBLE, Isaac Jr., GOBLE, David Woodruff, GOBLE, Woodruff Willard, GOBLE, Woody

Recently I received a lovely book from Ernest Goble of San Jose, California. It is entitled "I Wanted C-U-R-T-A-I-N-S on My Windows." Ernest Goble published his work in 1993. This is a biography of his Goble family and is a very interesting and heartfelt expression of his life. I will bring a copy to the Reunion in Reno!

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PHOTOGRAPH of Sister Hummel

German publishers began printing some of her artwork in the form of postcards, which caught the eye of Franz Goebel, the head of a porcelain company of the same name. He had been looking for a subject for a new line of figurines.

Franz Goebel, who was the owner of the renowned porcelain firm made the decision to create a line of figurines based on the drawings of Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Franz Goebel asked Sister Hummel for sole manufacturing and distribution rights, pledging his personal supervision of the figurines that would bear her name. Royalties would go to the Convent of Siessen. An agreement was signed on January 9th, 1935, which was the official birth of M. I. Hummel figurines.

PHOTOGRAPH of Goebel Figurine "Stormy."

The first figurines were introduced in 1935 and were immediately successful. Sister Hummel died in 1946 at only 37 years of age. Her artistic legacy, however was carried on by Goebel.*2

Goebel artists still discuss each new M. I. Hummel work with an Artistic Board at the Convent of Siessen. Standards of craftsmanship established more than sixty years ago have been strictly preserved.*3

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

--- Gandhi

Goble chairs are a cherished household fixture in the homes of many older Pike County residents. They are splint bottom and are the embodiment of homespun simplicity; and like their contemporary Wells Fanning Mills, are among the prized products of Pike County craftsmanship. *4

PHOTOGRAPH: Goble Chair

Samuel (Lemuel) C. Gobel came to this country in 1825 and settled on the Milford and Owego turnpike. He followed his vocation of chairmaker and farmer, his one-man shop being a part of the barnyard. His son, Charles, continued in the business.

To Edward Dubois of Frenchtown, a neighbor of the Gobles, who in his boyhood had been a frequent visitor to the shop, we are indebted for this precise account of the making of these chairs:

The wood was maple or ash. Young trees, or poles as the natives called them, were required. The posts were turned while the wood was still green - then put in a rack to form the crook (for the back). While still somewhat green, holes were drilled for the chair rounds, and slots chiseled for the back rests (which had also been shaped in racks).

Rounds were turned to size from thoroughly dried wood, the ends shaped with a slight knob to snugly fit the post hole. As the green post hole shrunk on the dry round, an everlasting joint was formed, which without glue, nails or screws, has outlasted a lifetime.

The splints were obtained from 8 foot maple posts, 3 to 4 inches thick, cut in early spring as the frost was coming out of the ground. They were quartered and sized to 5/8 inch width with the heart wood removed. These sticks were then severely pounded with a wooden mallet on a hard surface, till the fibers loosened, and were ready to part in layers convenient to weaving.

The splints were wrapped across the seat round and then woven like a cloth, the joints ingeniously tied as not to be visible. (Ed Dubois also recalled Goble's sister used cattail reeds instead of splints.) The appearance of the shop must have been a sight to behold. From the ceiling of the shop, which covered an area approximately 30 X 15 feet, bundles of posts, rounds, splints and racks were suspended for drying and storage. There was a wood cutting lathe with a balance wheel and treadle drive. Can you picture Goble pumping with one foot while turning a post with his hands?

The finished product was in natural wood - unstained and unpainted. The price - about $6 or $8 a dozen. There was real value in a dollar in those days.

The "chair-maker" was Lemuel Goble, often mistakenly referred to as Samuel. The sister was most likely Sarah "Sally" Maria (Goble) Stidd.

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Jan		Fredie Lee (11) Goble (87) 
		Lucy (Emerson) Goble (86)	
		Charles Milton (12) Moffat (83)
		Edith Maxine Greene Goble (83)
Feb		Howard Clarence (10) Larson (83)
		Norma Severne (11) Goble Boykiw (83)
Mar		Jess Stidd (81)
Apr		Herman J. Goble (84)
		Robert Jr (11) Goble (84)
May		
Jun		Theodore William "Dude" (11) Goble (83)

Please remember our cousins in your prayers.

*Donald B. Klem, husband of Helen (Goble) Klem is in a rest home in Bonner Springs, Kansas after an infection, and is now recovering.
*Elizabeth Goble, wife of Floyd (11) Goble has been ill.
*Peggy (Goble) Wyss, is suffering from cancer.

If you know of someone who should be listed, please contact me.

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, that he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pullout one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us."

YOU are my FRIEND and I hope I have never left a hole in your fence.

Author Unknown

In the Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2000 of the Goble Family Newsletter I provided the Last Will of Thomas (1) Goble. We have received several additional interpretations of the will and I have combined these efforts to provide us with a more complete copy. *5

WILL INTERPRETATION:
No9235
The will of Thomas Goble
Thomas Gobel - Concord
Recorded
29 (10) 57
Dec 29, 1657
Vol. 1, Page 130
1. The last will of Thomas Goble of Concord, being invalid in
2. body but of memory and understanding able sufficiently to dispose
3. of my affairs as followeth
4. Imp[lrimis] I give & bequeath to Alice my wife fair profit of all my stock (belongings) Imp[lrimis] [Imprimis is Latin for 'firstly', it starts off the list of gifts or bequests. It usually starts a new paragraph and then Item or Itm or It usually start another line indicating that another bequest is following.]
5. so long as she keepeth a widow, & my house in Charlestowne with
6. all belongings thereto for term of life & if my wife shall dispose of her
7. self in marriage then the stock that then shall be shall be disposed to my
8. children as followeth. my three sons to have the house & equally
9. divided & my three daughter(s) ___ of them and _____ __ __ ______
10. gauge that is to say one fourth part of my estate then in stocke & for my
11. house at Charlestowne my will is to ___ minor daut[g]h[ter] that at my wives death
12. equally divided as the rest of my estate aforesaid and whereas my daughter
13. Sarah is yet to be disposed in marriage my will is that if she shall change
14. her condition in marriage before the estate is to be divided then my wife
15. shall have power to take out her proportions out of the estate and give it to
16. her & whereas my eldest son being now in England, my will is if he
17. come not himself for his portion, then my other two sons shall have it
18. equally divided between them & if either of my sons that be unmarried
19. dy (die) before marriage, then their portions shall be equally divided amongst the
20. rest of my children then living, & to conclude my will is that if either
21. of my children shall be unsatisfied with my will, so as to make disturbance
22. by suits at law then my mind & will is that they shall have but ten
23. shillings for their portions & the rest to be divided as aforesaid & for my household
24. leave my wife shall have that for the time of her life & then it shall be divided as
25. afor[e]sa[i]d between my children, & my will is that my son Thomas two his children
26. Thomas & Stephen shall have each of them one calfe out of the stocke two years hence
27. and I do make my wife my Executrixe to this my will.

The 30th day of the 9th month 1657

Witness my hand
At the County Court Held at Charlestown

Decem 29 1657

Major Simon Willard & John Hall attested
upon oath that the above named Thomas Goble
deceased being of a sound judgment & a disposing
mind made signed & Declared this above written
instrument to be his last will and testament
Thomas Danforth Recorder
Entered & Recorded December 29th 1657
Lib. 1, page 137 As attests Thomas Danforth, Recorder

For more information visit the 1930 Census page at the National Archives website at: http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/1930cen.html.

On Saturday, March 11, 2001, about 750 mourners gathered at Pathways Community Church in Santee, California to remember 17-year-old Randy Gordon Burke, who was shot in the back and killed during a mass shooting at Santana High School on Monday, March 5, 2001.

Randy was one of two students killed, while thirteen other people (11 students and two adults) were wounded in the shooting.

Randy was a distance runner on the school track team, a senior with a B average who doted on his half brother and half sister. He was shot in the back between a row of lockers and dragged himself around a corner. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. Pastor Phil Harrington, who conducted the hour-long funeral service, memorialized Randy as bright and ambitious. He said, "Randy had signed with the U. S. Navy with a desire to serve in intelligence and dreamed of being an FBI agent. He devoured books on the Navy as well as Tom Clancy novels."

Randy was a very popular student at Santee High. His fellow students remembered him as a "good person" who "always gave" and who "will be missed very much."

Friends remembered Randy on Saturday and watched a photomontage played to the theme from the submarine thriller "The Hunt for Red October," one of the young man's favorite tunes and a nod to his plans to serve in the Navy.

After Randy was laid to rest, dozens of relatives gathered at a private reception in El Cajon. Dale Goble, Randy's great-uncle, flew from Japan to join them. He remembered asking Randy several times when he would cross the Pacific for his first visit. "Someday" was always the answer. Just recently, that exchange made Goble think about buying Randy a ticket as a graduation gift. Like the watch his mom, step dad and siblings bought Randy for graduation, it will never be given. "But," Goble said, tapping his heart twice, "I'm taking him home with me right here."

Charles Andrew Williams, a 15-year-old ninth-grader who apparently fired more than 30 shots in the school Monday with a .22-caliber long-barreled revolver will be charged as an adult for this violent crime.

Randy's father was Edward James Burke. His mother and stepfather were Mari Gordon-Rayborn and Stan Rayborn. His Goble ancestry is from our "Southern Goble" tree as follows:

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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake . . ."
-----Marie Beyon Ray

We have added some new photographs on the homepage and for those of you without access to that information here is a sampling.

Belle (9) Goble was born 1871 in Bloomingdale Twp., VanBuren Co., MI. She was the daughter and youngest child of Warren (8) Goble and Cordelia M. Waffle.*7

Alexander and Susan Davis Gobble. Alexander was the son of Frederick, born 1791 in Lexington, Davidson/Rowan County, North Carolina. (German Tree).*8

Erskin Goble of the Southern Goble tree was born April 11, 1920 in Boaz, Marshall County, Alabama to Jesse Izell Goble and Rebecca Millisa (Lissa) Blankenship. Erskin married Velda Leoma Dobbins. He served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He died October 10, 1992 in Flint, Genesee County, Michigan.*9

Sarah Elizabeth (10) Burris was the daughter of Daniel Burris and Indiana Goble (9) Liston. She was born in 1859 in Henry Co., IN. She married Stantford Lewis Dudley.*10

Mary Edna (9) Goble was born August 29, 1862 in Bloomingdale Twp., Van Buren Co., MI. She was the daughter of Hiram Edwin (8) Goble and Susan Aurelia Perry. She received her PHD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and began her practice in 1908. She practiced medicine at Hull House in Chicago, IL and in Gobleville, MI. She never married and died August 11, 1912 in Gobleville (Goble), Van Buren Co., MI.*11

A collectible corn sheller was recently auctioned in Ohio. It has two opposing handles necessary for switching hands to feed the corncob through. The support is embossed with the manufacturer's info - "GOBLE BROS. & Co. SOLE MFR'S No. 123 GEST ST. CINCINNATI". This would indicate there was a patent.

If you have knowledge of the "Goble Bros" manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 1900s, please let us know who they might have been.

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Bert Goble's Tulsa Wiggler was as invention of Robert (Bert) Gerard (10) Goble. These glass-eyed jointed baits were made by Bert Goble sometime in the 1920s. They were made in several sizes, and featured a carved tail that must have required some expertise at the factory. Goble baits have some of the most elaborate and attractive paint finishes of any lure. He had the lures produced in Germany and sold them in wooden boxes labeled "Goble Bait." Bert Gerard Goble also invented the "Goble Pump Jack" for use in the oil industry.

Bert was considered a brilliant man and inventor. He also was a bicycler and won many medals and silver cups in Pittsburgh before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma. In Tulsa he planned and designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church.

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I have seen this photograph before, but have not been able to ascertain the name of the original owner. The name on the top of the building appears to be D. S. Goble. I believe it was David Goble who was also known as "King David" or "King Goble." He is said to have owned most of the property in Sparta, NJ. "He owned the entire Sparta Mountain, from Sparta to Hopatcong." This David Goble is in our "Unconnected" tree and was married to Martha/Marta with one son, Isaac.

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I recently obtained this glass milk bottle printed in red with: GOBLE'S Dairyland Products.

On the back
Do You Know We Sell:
o Pasteurized Milk
o Bireley's Orangeade
o Stillicious Chocolate Milk
o Wichita Maid Butter
o Buttermilk
o Cottage Cheese
o Light & Heavy Cream

There were two Goble dairymen in California in the late 1800s and early 1900s. If you know who may have been the owner of Goble's Dairyland Products, please contact me.

DOROTHY (LYONS) GOBLE *12

Dorothy Goble, wife of Roy Scott (11) Goble had heart bypass surgery February 13th in Mission, Texas. She had an allergic reaction to a dye used during the surgery and died February 27, 2001 in Texas. (Aunt Dorothy was always helpful and interested in the Goble history. She will be missed.)

Dorothy Lula Lyons Goble, 77, Bonner Springs Kansas died Tuesday February 27th 2001 at the McAllen Heart Hospital at McAllen Texas. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday March 5th at the Alden-Harrington Chapel, Bonner Springs. Burial in Bonner springs cemetery.

She was a former member of the Bonner Baptist Church. She was known for her wonderful faith and her wisdom and beautiful spirit. She was extremely talented seamstress and artist. Winning several awards for her paintings and quilts. She worked as a supervisor in the early 1960s. For Swingster Manufacturing in Bonner Springs.

She was preceded in death by an infant son and a daughter Mary Gale Hisel. She is survived by her husband of over 61 years, Scott Goble of the home. Three sons: Stan and wife Holly Goble of Leewood Kansas. Roy and wife Bev Goble of Overland Park, Kansas; Ed and wife Connie Goble of Lee Summit, Missouri; one brother and sister-in law; Harold Lyons and wife Rosy Lyons of Piper Kansas and grandchildren: Megan and Brandon Caldwell of Piper, Laura and Paul D-Anieri, Jaye and John Shaer of Lake of the Forrest, Kansas; Suzie and Brian Pilsl of Chandler, Arizona. Stephanie and Mike Stevenson and Carrie and Jeff Hicks of Overland Park, Kansas and 12 great grandchildren. For more than 20 years she and her husband Scott wintered at their home in Mission, Texas where she was in charge of women's activities for the Bentsen Palms R-V Park.

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ROGER LEE OVERHOLSER, *13

As a result of an ultra light plane crash on September 9, 2000, Roger was hospitalized after which he died of an E coli infection.

Roger L. Overholser, 46 of Washington Twp., Whitley Co., IN died at 12:57 PM Saturday, September 30, 2000 at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN.

Born November 9, 1953 at Wolf Lake, Noble Co., IN a son of Isaac Franklin and Clara Elizabeth Murphy Overholser, he graduated from Columbia City High School with the class of 1972. Reared in Thorncreek Twp., he had lived in Washington Twp. since 1992.

On August 4, 1973 he was united in marriage to Connie S. Ware at the First Church of God in Columbia City by the Rev. Hubert E. Miller. A member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, he was retired from Tom Kelley Buick in Fort Wayne as parts manager in the body shop.

Survivors include his wife, Connie, three sisters, Shirley Ann Jeffers, Wabash; Norma Jean Keppler, Churubusco; and Sharon Mae Brundige, Goodyear, AZ; his in-laws, Orren A. and Deloris M. Ware, Columbia City and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister Helen Joan Overholser Harmon.

The funeral service was 1 PM Wednesday October 4 at DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home in Columbia City with Pastor John Cummings of Community Bible Church officiating. Burial was at Beech Grove Cemetery, Huntington Co., IN. Visitation was 6 - 8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home.

For those who wish, memorials may be made to Washington Twp. Volunteer Fire Dept and First Responders.

Subscription renewal for the 2002-2003 Goble Family Newsletter will be announced and requested in the next newsletter due out in September. As a reminder, at the last reunion in 1998 we discussed and it was decided that the newsletter would be produced semi-annually until time permitted quarterly publications to resume. Therefore the dues were reduced to $10.00 for a 2-year membership starting in year 2000 and covering 2001. e-mailed subscriptions are free. At the end of this year we will begin to collect dues for the 2002 to 2003 period. If there are any changes to our newsletter schedule or cost discussed at the 2001 reunion in Reno, Nevada in August they will be reported in the September issue. Thank you for you continued support.

Goble is the 3,574th most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.003%; percentile is 59.183 [Source CBN]

Dear Family,