Ohio Democrat, New Philadelphia OH, Thursday, March 6, 1879, page 4. "Thirty-Two Children. From the Glasgow (Ky.) Times. "One of the most remarkable men in Monroe county, Ky., is Mr. John Jacob Goodman. He was born in North Carolina in 1783, and is now in his ninety-seventh year. In 1804, he removed to Monroe county, then a part of Barren, and has lived on the same place ever since, a period of seventy-five years. For upward of forty year he as a distiller, and at the age of sixty-five he could lift a forty gallon barrel of whiskey and take his toddy out of the bunghole. He is now living with his second wife, his first having died many years ago. Fifteen children were the fruit of his first matrimonial experiment, and seventeen of the last, making a grand total of thirty-two - twenty-seven of whom lived to be married.Mr. Goodman has always been a moderate dram-drinker; for sixty-two years a member of the Baptist church and forty-two years a clerk of that body. Besides this, he is a life-long Democrat, and never ailed to vote in elections but on one occasion in his life. He says his object is leaving Carolina was to raise a large family of children and that he has never ceased regretting this step, as he thinks he could have done as well in that line in Carolina as he has succeeded here." SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html