Henry H. Goodwin was a native Texan and was born in St. Augustine County, August 22, 1892. He spent his entire life there and was engaged in farming and cotton ginning. He married Miss Maude Wagoner and both of them working together, were able to get a good start.
The Goodwins moved to Dickens County in 1921 and established a home in East Afton community where he was engaged in farming and stock businesss at first. Seeing the needs of the community, he and his brother J.A. Goodwin established the East Afton Gin in 1927. It was the custom of Mr. Goodwin, while he owned the gin to have Thanksgiving dinner for the entire community. He furnished the turkeys, bread and pickles, and the ladies of the community cooked them, as well as pies and cakes and other goodies that goes with a Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Goodwin was always ready to help a neighbor or a friend, and the stranger did not leave him empty. He was a civic leader in his community.
His children are: Andy and Curtis Goodwin, Ruth Goodwin Lawson and Ira Goodwin Byrd.
Source: Dickens County History...its Land and People © Dickens Historical Commission; Printer: Craftsman Inc. Lubbock, Texas 1986
Funeral services for H. H. Goodwin were held at the First Baptist Church in Spur Sunday afternoon at four o´clock. Rev. R. C. Brown, local minister of the Christian Church, was in charge of the services. Interment followed in Spur cemetery with Campbell´s Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Active pallbearers were: F. L. Byars, E. J. Offield, Albert Power, D. W. Sims, Clay Edwards and B. W. McClung.
The immediate survivors are the widow, Mrs. Maud Waggoner Goodwin, Ty Curtis Goodwin, Mrs. Ruth Lawson and Mrs. Ira Bird, and the following brothers and sisters: W. W. Goodwin, J. F. Goodwin, E. B. Goodwin, J. A. Goodwin, Mrs. Lucinda Pate, C. C. Goodwin, Mrs. Ellen Hook, Mrs. E. Perry and Delbert Goodwin.
Mr. Goodwin became ill of pneumonia some two weeks ago and was brought to a local sanitarium. He was thought to have been improving at one time, but his heart went down which was greatly against him and he did not have enough reserve to carry through. Death came about ten p.m. Saturday.
Mr. Goodwin was a native Texan and was born in St. Augustine County August 22, 1882. He spent his early life there and was engaged in farming and cotton ginning. He married Miss Maud Waggoner and both of them working together, were able to get a good start.
Mr. Goodwin moved to Dickens County in 1921 and established a home in East Afton community where he has resided since. He engaged in the farming and stock business there at first. Seeing the needs of the community, he and his brother, J. A. Goodwin, established the East Afton Gin a few years ago and he was in charge of it until his death.
Mr. Goodwin became converted and was a member of the Baptist Church. He always believed that a man should practice what he professed and always stood firm on his convictions of right. Mr. Goodwin was always ready to help a neighbor or a friend, and the stranger did not leave him empty handed. Dickens County has lost a good citizen in his going and his place in Afton community will never be filled again.
©The Texas Spur; 1941
Transcribed by Linda Hughes
AFTON (Special) — Services for Mrs. Maude Waggoner Goodwin, 80, a longtime Dickens County resident, will be at 10 a.m. today at the First Baptist Church in Spur.
The Rev. H.T. Harris, retired Baptist minister from Childress, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Ben Pate of the Afton Baptist Church and the Rev. L. Kite, pastor of the Spur First Baptist.
Burial will be in Spur Cemetery under direction of Eudy Seale Funeral Home in Matador.
Mrs. Goodwin, a native of Minden, La., died in West Texas Hospital, Lubbock, Monday. She had lived in Afton since 1918 when she moved from San Augustine with her husband, H.H. Goodwin, who died in 1941.
For the past two months she had been living at the Poplar Grove Convalescent Home, Lubbock. She was a member of the Afton Baptist Church.
Her survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Jack Lawson, and Mrs. Drue Byrd, both of Afton; two sons, Andy, Lefors, and Ted, Dickens, 11 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
Grandsons will be pallbearers. They are Sidney Goodwin, Milford Byrd, Valdee Goodwin, Tommie Lawson, Harold Goodwin and Larry Lawson.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 10, 1962
From the records of Thelma Kimmel Scott
Mrs. Goodwin Buried Oct. 10Funeral services for Mrs. Maude Waggoner Goodwin, 80 were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church Spur. Mrs. Goodwin, a resident of the Afton area since 1918, died in West Texas Hospital, Monday, Oct. 8.
Rev. H.T. Harris, Childress, retired Baptist minister, formerly of Whiteflat, officiated. Assisting were Rev. Ben Pate, pastor of the Afton Baptist Church, and Rev. L. Kite, pastor of Spur First Baptist Church. Burial was in the Spur Cemetery under direction of Eudy-Seale Funeral Home, Matador.
Mrs. Goodwin was born January 14, 1882 at Menlin, La. She moved to Texas as a child, with her parents who settled at San Augustine. She was married there in August, 1901, to H.H. Goodwin and they moved to Dickens County in 1918.
Following her husband´s death in 1941, Mrs. Goodwin continued to reside in the Afton community until a few months ago, when she became a resident of the Popular Grove Convalescent Home in Lubbock.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Jack Lawson and Mrs. Drue Byrd both of Afton; two sons, Andy Goodwin of Lefors and Ted Goodwin of Dickens; 11 grandchildren, and 14 great grandchildren. She died October 8, 1962 at the age of 80 years, 8 months and 24 days.
©The Texas Spur, October 1962
From the records of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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