Goulding, Capt. Ephraim^[1]

1765 - 1838  (72 years)

• Name	Goulding, Ephraim
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	4 Sep 1765	Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  _AMTID	302051502143:1030:155362986
  _UID	809C3AD1C4515A4D9C74556D4AE44B7FADE5
  Buried	1838	Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  	Address: Old Oak Street Burial Ground
  Died	14 Jan 1838  [1, 3]
  	Cause: of typhus fever
  Person ID	I4864	Tree_1
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2011

  
  

  Father	Goulding, Col. John,   3 Oct 1726, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   22 Nov 1791, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Brooks, Lucy,   16 Sep 1733, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   22 Nov 1771, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 38 years)
  Married	22 Feb 1753	Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6]
  	https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH9V-5L4
  Family ID	F1586	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Brigham, Susanna,   27 Nov 1770,   9 Sep 1850  (Age 79 years)
  Married	6 Mar 1792  [1]
  Children	1. Goulding, Susanna,   25 Mar 1793, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   Yes, date unknown   2. Goulding, Sally,   24 Jan 1795, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   24 Jan 1795, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   3. Goulding, John,   19 Jan 1797, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut   4. Goulding, Ephraim,   25 Feb 1799, Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   29 Jun 1800, Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 1 years)   5. Goulding, Ephraim,   11 Jul 1801, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   30 Oct 1869, Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)   6. Goulding, Lucy,   6 May 1803, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   6 May 1803, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   7. Goulding, William,   22 Dec 1804, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   New York, New York   8. Goulding, Solomon Edward,   28 Nov 1807, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   Yes, date unknown   9. Goulding, Lucy Emilia,   28 Nov 1807, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   Yes, date unknown   10. Goulding, Palmer,   11 Oct 1809, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   22 Mar 1849, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  (Age 39 years)   11. Goulding, Charles,   15 Nov 1812, Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts ,   Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F1630	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Sep 1765 - Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Buried - Address: Old Oak Street Burial Ground - 1838 - Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  He continued the business of tanning upon the old place, and added to the farm, left to him by his father, much of the adjacent territory. He married Susanna, daughter of William Brigham, and granddaughter of Solomon Prentice, the first minister of Grafton. He was somewhat prominent in town affairs, and possessed the confidence and esteem of his townsmen, as the records of the town will show. He was a resolute, self-reliant and capable man, and when, late in life, some reverses of fortune overtook him, although his health was seriously impaired, he took up the task of restoring his losses and preserving his estate with a vigor and energy rarely exhibited by the young and healthful. He was a man of excellent understanding, with a keen sense of the ludicrous, and a prevailing humor which displayed itself in the queer and apt terms and epithets he was wont to make use of to express the odd and whimsical resemblances he detected in men and things. He had eleven children, nine of whom survived him.

  
  

• Sources

  [S397] Grafton, History of (Frederick Pierce), pg. 493. [S418] Grafton, Massachusetts - VR, pg. 59. [S418] Grafton, Massachusetts - VR, p. 339. [S418] Grafton, Massachusetts - VR, pg. 214. [S1542] Massachusetts Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 (FS), 8 November 2018; Marriage of John Goulding and Lucy Brooks. [S2297] Brooks et al - Ancestry of My Children (Threlfall), viewed; 10 May 2020; Vol. 1, pg. 64.