GOODRICH Cephus Edwin

1924 - 1999  (75 years)

• Name	GOODRICH Cephus Edwin  [1]
  Birth	24 Apr 1924	Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States   [1, 2]
  Christening	Y  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Military	ARMY AIR CORPS WW-II  [1]
  Nickname	Peter  [1]
  Name	Peter  [4]
  Occupation	Machinist/Georgia-Pacific  [1, 3]
  Death	12 Dec 1999	Suffolk, VA (Louise Obici Hosp)   [1, 3]
  Burial	Wakefield, VA (United Methodist Church)   [1]
  	Purviance Funeral Home
  Notes	Member Wakefield United methodist Church, the Wakefield Masonic Lodge No. 198, AF & AM. Edwin Gurney Goodrich Plantation Peanut Company: My father was Cephus Edwin (Peter) Goodrich (1924-1999). son of Cephus Gurney Goodrich (1893-1955). My wife Tammy and I own and operate Plantation Peanut Company in Wakefield. We operate out of the same building in Wakefield previously owned by my father and his father. The back part of this building was my grandfather's sheet metal shop. It was in conjunction with his sheet metal shop that my grandfather invented the Goodrich Peanut Digger. In addition, he made the weather vane that was atop the Suny Lumber Company. Presently the weather vane is the property of our family and is on loan to the Dendron Historical Society. Another interesting connection between my family and the Suny Lumber company was our ancestral family home. My grandfather dismantle one of the "company houses" in Dendron, moved it to Wakefield. and reconstructed it on Church Street. It was a white weatherboard two-story home located adjacent to Tidewater Academy. This is where he and his wife. Leda Whitmore Goodrich (1893-1974), raised a family of two boys and two girls. During the past several years, the Academy purchased the home and had it torn down in the spring of 2005.
  Person ID	I5209	Booth Family
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	GOODRICH Cephus Gurney,   b. 9 Jul 1893, Sussex County, VA d. 1 Apr 1955 (Age 61 years)
  Mother	WHITMORE Leda Eugenia,   b. 26 Aug 1893   d. 2 Apr 1974 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	19 Dec 1912
  Family ID	F652	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HOLT Eleanor Paige,   b. 8 Sep 1928   d. 15 Feb 1992 (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	6 Dec 1946
  Children	1. GOODRICH Gayle Paige,   b. 1 Jul 1948 (Age 75 years)   2. GOODRICH Edwin Gurney,   b. 20 Aug 1952 (Age 71 years)   3. GOODRICH Douglas Holt,   b. 2 Nov 1960 (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F1894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2008

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 12 Dec 1999 - Suffolk, VA (Louise Obici Hosp) Burial - - Wakefield, VA (United Methodist Church)  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S193] Tombstone (Reliability: 3). [S445] CALLED BIG PETER TO DIFFERENTIATE HIM FROM PETER GOODRICH. [S360] Obituary- Daily Press. [S923] Dendron Historical Society, A Taste of Dendron, (A colletion of Recipes and Memories of the people of the Dendron Area) (Reliability: 3).