GOODRICH Edwin Gurney

1952 -  (71 years)

• Name	GOODRICH Edwin Gurney
  Birth	20 Aug 1952
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Wakefield Township, Sussex County, VA   [1]
  	Owner, Plantation Peanut Company
  Notes	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 Puanut 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 dismantled 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. [2]
  Person ID	I5213	Booth Family
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	GOODRICH Cephus Edwin,   b. 24 Apr 1924, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States d. 12 Dec 1999, Suffolk, VA (Louise Obici Hosp) (Age 75 years)
  Mother	HOLT Eleanor Paige,   b. 8 Sep 1928   d. 15 Feb 1992 (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	6 Dec 1946
  Family ID	F1894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MONAHAN Tamara Anne
  Marriage	10 Mar 1979
  Children	1. GOODRICH Megan Carol,   b. 24 May 1983 (Age 40 years)   2. GOODRICH Jennifer Paige,   b. 17 Apr 1985 (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F1896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2008

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Owner, Plantation Peanut Company - - Wakefield Township, Sussex County, VA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Goodrich: Edwin Gurney Owns Plantation Peanuts in Wakefield

  
  

• Sources

  [S923] Dendron Historical Society, A Taste of Dendron, (A colletion of Recipes and Memories of the people of the Dendron Area), Pg. 89 (Reliability: 3). [S923] Dendron Historical Society, A Taste of Dendron, (A colletion of Recipes and Memories of the people of the Dendron Area) (Reliability: 3).