Descended from Royalty.

Abraham Goodman married Martha Woolery who has reportedly been described in a local history book as descending from royalty. Martha’s mother was Hannah Susannah Todd whose family had been in the American colonies since the seventeenth century originating with Joseph Tudor Todd who lived in Bermuda before immigrating to Philadelphia. They are supposedly descended from an illegitimate child of the Tudor dynasty and seemed to have been a prominent colonial family.

Abraham was born around 1820 and briefly served in the civil war on the Union side. He was the son of Indiana pioneer Jacob Goodman Jr. and grandson of Kentucky Planter Jacob Goodman Sr. Martha and Abraham had at least eight children together whose heirs can still be found in Lawrence, Sullivan, Monroe, and Owen counties Indiana.