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Sergeant,
U.
S. Army
World
War I
Military
Information
Buried at Oise-Aisne
American Cemetery, Fere-en-
Tardenois (Aisne), France.
Mother:
Mrs.
Ellen Goodall, who lived at:
823
E. State St.
Sharon,
PA
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On Sunday morning
in the week of December 24, 1917, Rev. H. E. Phipps,
pastor of Oakland Avenue M. E. Church, Sharon, read a message of profound
sadness to his congregation. The impact of the message soon spread from
the church into the community, where sorrow was prevalent everywhere. The
message told of the death, in France, of Sergeant
Grover Cleveland Goodall, Sharon’s first martyr in the First
World War.
Grover
Goodall was a young man of exemplary character, well known all over
Mercer County and highly respected by all who knew him. A member of the
Oakland Avenue M.E.Church, he was an earnest church worker, interested and
active in congregational, community, county and national church work. He
was for a number of years president of the Epworth League in the District
composed of Mercer and
Sergeant
Goodall was born in Wheatland, Pennsylvania. His entire life was
spent in the community which mourned his death. He was an automobile
salesman for the W. C. DeForeest & Son
Company. He was a member of Truck Train No 402, Company 405, U. S.
Army in France. On December 22, 1917, he gave his life for his
country in the War For Democracy.
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Click to enlarge photograph.
from 150 Years of Methodist, The Story of
the First Methodist Church, Sharon, Pennsylvania, p.252-253.
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