Wade & Webb Family History

Elisha Bates Goodrich1809–1891

New Jersey · New York · Brooklyn · Riverhead Cemetery

Born in New Jersey in 1809, Elisha Bates Goodrich married Eliza Van Velsor and raised his family first in New York City and then in Brooklyn, where in 1857 he opened a store at Stagg Street and Union Avenue that traded for forty-two years as E. B. Goodrich & Son. His wife died in 1883, and he died in Brooklyn in 1891 and was buried at Riverhead.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (5)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 27 Mar 1809 New Jersey 1

Marriages

  1. Date unknown Eliza Van Velsor

Death and burial

  1. 13 Jun 1891 Death: Brooklyn, Kings, New York 14
  2. Date unknown Burial: Riverhead Cemetery, Suffolk, New York

Family

Parents
John D Goodrich 1773–?
Sarah White 1777–?
Spouse
Eliza Van Velsor 1809–1883
Children
Emma May Goodrich 1846–1888
John Oscar Goodrich 1843–1900
Elisha Bates Goodrich 1842–1918
Leonard Goodrich 1833–?

Line of descent Wade line

  1. Elisha Bates Goodrich
  2. Emma May Goodrich, daughter
  3. William Henry Wade Jr, son
  4. Frank Edward Wade, son
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Elisha Bates Goodrich was born on 27 March 1809 in New Jersey, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives the date without a source and names his parents as John D. Goodrich, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, and Sarah White.1 His daughter Emma's New Jersey return of death in 1888 likewise gives her father's birthplace as New Jersey, though it calls him "Elijah".2 Nothing has yet been found of his parents beyond what the tree records: searches of the Chronicling America newspaper collection for John D. Goodrich and Sarah White in New Jersey found nothing that concerns them, the collection holding almost no New Jersey newspapers before 1855.3

New York City

He married Eliza Van Velsor, who was born in New York in 1809; the tree records no date or place for the marriage.4 Emma's return of death gives her mother's birthplace as Long Island and spells the name "Van Velzer".2 The tree names six children: Ann Maria (born 1832), Leonard (1833), Elisha Bates (1842–1918), John Oscar (1843–1900), Emma May (1846–1888) and Phebe Augusta (1849–1920).5 The federal census of 1840 lists Elisha B. Goodrich in New York City, and that of 1850 in the city's 13th Ward, with Eliza and the children in his household.6 In July 1852 the Brooklyn Evening Star announced the marriage, at Williamsburgh, Long Island, of Peter A. Weeks to "Miss Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Elisha B. Goodrich."7

E. B. Goodrich & Son

By 1855 the family had crossed the East River to the 16th Ward of Brooklyn, Kings County, where the state census found them that year, as did the federal census of 1860 and the state census of 1865.8 In 1857, according to the obituary of his son John Oscar Goodrich, Elisha opened a store at the corner of Stagg Street and Union Avenue in Brooklyn's Eastern District, and "for the period of forty-two years the name of E. B. Goodrich & Son stood for honesty, integrity and sobriety."9 John Oscar spent more than forty years in the grocery, hay and grain business.9 Inference The son was evidently the "Son" of the firm's name, and the business his father founded is probably the one in which he worked, though the obituary does not say so in as many words.9

The New York City marriage records name Elisha as the father of the bride or groom at three of his children's weddings: Emma May's to William H. Wade on 10 August 1868, Ann Maria's second marriage, as Anna Maria Goodrich Weekes, to John Barry on 28 May 1871, and John Oscar's to Emma Woodward Wright on 4 April 1875; his son Elisha's marriage to Annie Lehman, about 1868, is recorded in the tree without a source.10 A New Jersey marriage record of 26 July 1862, for John Asa Struble, names an "H. Goodrich" and an "Eliza".11 Inference These may be Elisha and Eliza as the parents of a bride the tree does not know, a daughter born in the gap between Leonard in 1833 and Elisha in 1842.11 Emma's return of death names a Morristown undertaker whose name was read, uncertainly, as "Stribble", which may be the same family.11 The record has not been examined and the connection is unproven.11

The censuses of 1870, 1875 and 1880 again find Elisha and Eliza in Brooklyn; in 1880 the household is indexed under the name "Emily Goodrich", apparently a misreading of Eliza's name.12 Emma died at Morristown, New Jersey, on 6 March 1888, aged 42.2

Last years

Eliza died on 5 March 1883.13 Elisha died in Brooklyn on 13 June 1891 and was buried in the Riverhead Cemetery, Suffolk County, Long Island, the burial place also of his son John Oscar in 1900.14 His estate passed through the Surrogate's Court of Kings County, the court that handles wills and estates, and a Kings County estate file for him is dated 1891.15 He is named as the father in the New York City death records of John Oscar (26 April 1900), Elisha Bates (7 February 1918) and Phoebe A. Goodrich (4 February 1920).16

Documents

  1. 15 July 1852 Married (marriage notices) Brooklyn Evening Star (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  2. 1887 Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887: the Wade brothers and E. B. Goodrich & Son Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887 (Brooklyn: Lain and Company); Brooklyn Public Library copy · book
  3. 6 March 1888 Return of death: Mary Emma Wade, Morristown, N.J., 1888 New Jersey, return of death (State of New Jersey, Bureau of Vital Statistics) · vital record
  4. 28 April 1900 Obituary: John O. Goodrich The Brooklyn Daily Times (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  5. 22 July 2015 Find a Grave memorial: Elisha B Goodrich Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1840–1850New York
  2. 1855–1891Kings
  3. 1891Kings
  4. undatedRiverhead Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 27 Mar 1809BirthNew Jersey
  2. 1840ResidenceNew York City, New York County, New York
  3. 1850ResidenceNew York City, ward 13, New York, New York
  4. 1855ResidenceE.D. 1, Ward 16, Brooklyn City, Kings, New York
  5. 1860Residence1st District 16th Ward Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  6. 1865ResidenceWard 16, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  7. 1870ResidenceNew York
  8. 1875ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  9. 1880ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  10. 1891Probate
  11. 1891ResidenceKings County, New York
  12. 13 Jun 1891DeathBrooklyn, Kings, New York

Open questions

The store's address

The 1887 Brooklyn directory gives E. B. Goodrich & Son at 82 Union Avenue, with the family's house at 86 Union Avenue. Check that 82 Union Avenue is the corner of Stagg Street (the obituary's "corner of Stagg street and Union avenue").

His parents in New York by 1811

John D. Goodrich was "of New York" when he and Sarah sold her inheritance in Shrewsbury on 1 July 1811 (1932). Elisha was born in New Jersey in 1809; he may have grown up in New York City. Look for John D. Goodrich in the New York City directories (Longworth's) from 1811.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Bulk review of Matt's OneDrive genealogy folder (Phase 3): all documents transcribed and compared with the tree3 document(s) name this person; see Documents above. Conflicts and new facts are in each document record and in research/sources/document-review-2026-11-08.md
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Elisha Goodrich, b. 1809 ±3, d. 1891 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Elisha B Goodrich (27 Mar 1809 – 13 Jun 1891), Riverhead Cemetery, Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149641954/elisha-b-goodrich); score 15 (high, before review)
  3. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 149641954](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149641954), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/149641954-elisha-b-goodrich.md); 0 headstone photo(s)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Elisha Bates Goodrich", New Yorkno matches
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Elisha Goodrich", New York196 pages; first: [Twelve generations in America; being the lineage of William Lord Brookfield, Henry Morgan Brookfield, jr., Samuel Lord brookfield, sons of Henry Morgan Brookfield & Louise Lord;, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/twelvegeneration00broo?q=%22Elisha%20Goodrich%22); [Twelve generations in America; being the lineage of William Lord Brookfield, Henry Morgan Brookfield, jr., Samuel Lord brookfield, sons of Henry Morgan Brookfield & Louise Lord; by Henry Morgan Brookfield ... with appendices A, Aa, B, C, D. Appendix A by Lewis D. Cook ..., 1937, p. ](https://archive.org/details/twelvegeneration00broo_0?q=%22Elisha%20Goodrich%22); [Lineage book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/lineagebookofnat14wash?q=%22Elisha%20Goodrich%22)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Goodrich", inside 1887BPL7 pages; first: [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 479](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n479/mode/1up?q=Goodrich); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 479](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n479/mode/1up?q=Goodrich); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 479](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n479/mode/1up?q=Goodrich); 2 with the given name (Elisha, Bates)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Goodrich", inside brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-librarynot searchable: brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-library: No hOCR or Abbyy file present
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Elisha Bates Goodrich", New YorkNo matches.
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Elisha Goodrich", New York (196 pages)First 20 reviewed: the Brookfield lineage, Goodrich family genealogies (Wethersfield, Connecticut), Glastonbury burial inscriptions (Elisha Goodriches d. 1814, 1834), DAR lineage books, a Missouri justice of 1808; all Connecticut and elsewhere. Not him.
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Goodrich" inside 1887BPL (7 pages; 2 with his given names)MATCH (high): p. 426, "Goodrich Elisha B. grocer, 82 Union av, h 86 Union av", with Elisha B. jr. and John O. at the same addresses and "Goodrich E. B. & Son, grocer, 82 Union av". Agrees with John Oscar's obituary (store at Stagg Street and Union Avenue from 1857). Record [1887](../documents/1887-lains-brooklyn-directory-wade-goodrich.md).
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: Stillwell, *Historical and Genealogical Miscellany*, vol. 5 (found under KHL6-ZJR)MATCH (high) for his parents: John D. Goodrich "of New York" and Sarah his wife sold her one-sixth share as an heir of Joseph White of Shrewsbury, 1 July 1811; Sarah White married John D. Goodrich 22 Aug 1809. Record [1932](../documents/1932-stillwell-miscellany-white-of-new-jersey-goodrich.md).
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 4 searches1 match (1887 directory, high); his parents' record found under Sarah White.
  13. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Elisha Bates Goodrich"no matches
  14. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Elisha Goodrich", New Yorkno matches
  15. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Elisha Bates Goodrich", 1891–1892no matches
  16. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Elisha Bates Goodrich", 1851–1892no matches
  17. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Elisha B Goodrich", 1851–1892no matches
  18. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: 2 searchesNo match: no hits.
  19. 2026-11-09New York Times assessment: 3 searchesNo match: no hits (no Times death notice, June 1891).

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: birth 27 Mar 1809, New Jersey, no source; parents John D Goodrich and Sarah White FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZV4-78J (their page): birth about 1773, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey back to the text
  2. Return of death: Mary Emma Wade, Morristown, N.J., 1888, New Jersey, return of death (State of New Jersey, Bureau of Vital Statistics): Father's name: Elijah [sic] Goodrich, country of birth New Jersey; Mother's name: Eliza Van Velzer, country of birth Long Island; died 6 March 1888, Clinton St., Morristown, aged 42 back to the text
  3. Research log (their page): Chronicling America: John Goodrich, John D Goodrich, New Jersey, 1788–1854: no matches; absences of coverage, not evidence of absence Research log (their page): Chronicling America: Sarah White, Sarah Goodrich, Mrs John Goodrich, New Jersey, 1792–1858: no matches back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: spouse Eliza Van Velsor, no marriage date or place FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7ZS (their page): birth 1809, New York back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: six children, with the years given back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1840", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 1840. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, 1840 census "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 1850. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, 1850 census "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Eliza Goodrich in entry for Elisha B Goodrich, 1850. Record: Eliza Goodrich, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: residences 1840 New York City; 1850 New York City, ward 13 back to the text
  7. Married (marriage notices), Brooklyn Evening Star (Brooklyn, New York): At Williamsburgh, Long Island, ... Peter A. Weeks to Miss Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Elisha B. Goodrich back to the text
  8. "New York, State Census, 1855", FamilySearch, E Goodrich, 1855. Record: E Goodrich, 1855 state census, E.D. 1, Ward 16, Brooklyn "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Elisha Goodrich, 1860. Record: Elisha Goodrich, 1860 census "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 1865. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, 1865 state census FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: residences 1855, 1860, 1865, Ward 16, Brooklyn back to the text
  9. Obituary: John O. Goodrich, The Brooklyn Daily Times (Brooklyn, New York): In 1857 his father opened a store at the corner of Stagg street and Union avenue, and for the period of forty-two years the name of E. B. Goodrich & Son stood for honesty, integrity and sobriety; engaged in the grocery, hay and grain business for over forty years back to the text
  10. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Elisha Goodrich in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868. Record: Elisha Goodrich in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Barry and Anna Maria Goodrich Weekes, 28 May 1871. Record: Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Barry and Anna Maria Goodrich Weekes, 28 May 1871 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Oscar Goodrich and Emma Woodward Wright, 4 Apr 1875. Record: Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Oscar Goodrich and Emma Woodward Wright, 4 Apr 1875 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L266-V8T (their page): marriage to Annie Lehman, 1868, no source back to the text
  11. "New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985", FamilySearch, H. Goodrich in entry for John Asa Struble, 26 Jul 1862. Record: H. Goodrich in entry for John Asa Struble, New Jersey, Marriages, 26 Jul 1862 "New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985", FamilySearch, Eliza in entry for John Asa Struble, 26 Jul 1862. Record: Eliza, in the same entry FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: children Ann Maria (1832), Leonard (1833), Elisha Bates (1842) Return of death: Mary Emma Wade, Morristown, N.J., 1888, New Jersey, return of death (State of New Jersey, Bureau of Vital Statistics): Name of undertaker: [Stribble?] & [?], Morristown, N. J. back to the text
  12. "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Elisha Godrich, 1870. Record: Elisha Godrich, 1870 census "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, Elisia Goodrich, 1875. Record: Elisia Goodrich, 1875 state census "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Elisha Goodrich in entry for Emily Goodrich, 1880. Record: Elisha Goodrich in entry for Emily Goodrich, 1880 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Emily Goodrich, 1880. Record: Emily Goodrich, 1880, attached to Eliza Van Velsor FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: residences 1870 New York; 1875 and 1880 Brooklyn back to the text
  13. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7ZS (their page): death 5 Mar 1883 back to the text
  14. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 13 Jun 1891. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, New York City Municipal Deaths, 13 Jun 1891 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: death 13 Jun 1891, Brooklyn; burial Riverhead Cemetery, Suffolk, New York "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 1891. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, Find a Grave Index, 1891 Obituary: John O. Goodrich, The Brooklyn Daily Times (Brooklyn, New York): The interment will be in Riverhead, L. I. back to the text
  15. "New York, Kings County Estate Files, 1866-1923", FamilySearch, Elisha B Goodrich, 1891. Record: Elisha B Goodrich, New York, Kings County Estate Files, 1866-1923, 1891 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPF-7HF: probate 1891; residence 1891, Kings County back to the text
  16. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Oscar Goodrich, 26 Apr 1900. Record: Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for John Oscar Goodrich, 26 Apr 1900 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for Elisha Bates Goodrich, 7 Feb 1918. Record: Elisha B. Goodrich in entry for Elisha Bates Goodrich, 7 Feb 1918 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Elisha Goodrich in entry for Phoebe A Goodrich, 4 Feb 1920. Record: Elisha Goodrich in entry for Phoebe A Goodrich, 4 Feb 1920 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Elisha Bates Goodrich (18)
  1. 1840Elisha B Goodrich, "United States, Census, 1840"
  2. 1850Elisha B Goodrich, "United States, Census, 1850"
  3. 1855E Goodrich, "New York, State Census, 1855"
  4. 1860Elisha Goodrich, "United States, Census, 1860"
  5. 26 Jul 1862H. Goodrich, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985"
  6. 1865Elisha B Goodrich, "New York, State Census, 1865"
  7. 10 August 1868Elisha Goodrich, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  8. 1870Elisha Godrich, "United States, Census, 1870"
  9. 28 May 1871Elisha B. Goodrich, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  10. 4 Apr 1875Elisha B. Goodrich, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  11. 1875Elisia Goodrich, "New York, State Census, 1875"
  12. 1880Elisha Goodrich, "United States, Census, 1880"
  13. 1891Elisha B Goodrich, "Find a Grave Index"
  14. 1891Elisha B Goodrich, "New York, Kings County Estate Files, 1866-1923"
  15. 13 Jun 1891Elisha B Goodrich, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  16. 26 Apr 1900Elisha B. Goodrich, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  17. 7 Feb 1918Elisha B. Goodrich, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  18. 4 Feb 1920Elisha Goodrich, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"