Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887
Bath County

V. W. GOODPASTER, county judge of Bath County, Ky., was born in Owingsville,
Ky., January 14, 1856.  His parents were Levi and Jane (Allen) Goodpaster.
Levi Goodpaster was born in Bath County in 1821; when twelve years of age he
went to Owingsville and clerked in a store for a number of years.  He then
engaged in the mercantile business in Owingsville, where he remained until
1863, when he moved to Greencastle, Ind., and merchandised one year.  He
then returned to Owingsville, where he established a bank in 1866, which he
conducted until his death in 1876.  He was a member of the Christian Church,
and a son of Joseph Goodpaster, native of Virginia, who moved to North
Carolina and subsequently to Bath County, Ky., where he died in his 82d
year.  Mrs. Jane Goodpaster was born in Nicholas County, Ky., and is a
daughter of Granville S. Allen, a native of Virginia.  C.W. Goodpaster was
educated at the schools in Owingsville and at Lexington, Ky.  He acted as
book-keeper for his father until the death of the latter, when he went to
Maysville, Ky., and read law under Hon. W. H. Wadsworth; he was admitted to
the bar in March, 1879, and immediately opened an office in Owingsville,
following his profession there until 1882; he was then elected county judge
of Bath County, being re-elected in 1886.  December 7, 1879, Mr. Goodpaster
married Clara McAlister, of Bath County, a daughter of Joseph L. and Jennie
(Barnes) McAlister.  They are the parents of one child, Hoyt Sherman.  Mrs.
Goodpaster is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  The Judge is a member of
the Christian Church, and in politics affiliates with the Democrats.

Goodpaster Allen Wadsworth McAlister Barnes 
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IN VA NC Nicholas-KY

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