The Garwood Family

The Garwood Family
The following information was shared by lifetime member Roger Garwood at our “Show and
Tell” program in March 2005. Excerpts have been taken from a report written by Steven
Garwood, his son, entitled “My Family Heritage.”
Three Garwood brothers came to America from Evesham, England in 1690. Their names
were Richard, Thomas and Samuel. They settled in Garwood, New Jersey a town named after
them. Roger’s grandfather, George (1895-1980) married Mary Edith Burkett (1898-1950) and
they settled in Pyrmont, Ohio. In later years they lived on Garland Road in West Milton. They
had six children: Edward, Everett Eugene, Maryella, Rozanne, E. Edwin and Myron. E. Eugene
“Red” Garwood, Roger’s father, was born on December 4, 1917. He served in the Navy in WWII
and returned home. Over the years he worked many jobs including running a bread truck in
Union, selling Fuller Brush products and also working at Aero Products and later Wright
Patterson AFB where he retired in 1980. Roger was born in Union, OH in 1939 on Martindale
Road. Roger has a brother Tom. The family lived for several years in the first brick schoolhouse
in Union that had been remodeled into a residence. Roger graduated from Randolph and Tom
graduated from Northmont.
Red’s wife was Bertha Elsie Maggert (1918-1954). Her parents were Forrest
Independence (born on the 4th of July) Maggert (1894-1944) and Alice Hoover (1895-1981).
Alice’s parents were Marion Samuel Hoover (1870-1964) and Amanda Hoe (1869-1944) and her
grandparents were Jeremiah S. Hoke (1834-1907) and Mary E. Dohner (1834-1925). Forrest’s
parents were Pierce Riley Maggert and Rosetta Amelia Funderburg. The Hokes, Hoovers and
Maggerts all had large families so many descendants still live in the Union area. Ancestors are
buried in many local cemeteries.
What makes genealogy lines most interesting is when facts about their everyday lives
have been recorded. Some of the stories from the Garwood family include the following:
– Pierce Riley Maggert was a blacksmith
– Rosetta Funderberg Maggert was part Indian
– Son Forrest Maggert drove a gravel truck and was a carpenter
– Forrest and his wife Alice had ten children. Alice was one of 14 siblings
– Marion Hoover was a millwright and later worked out of his home on North Main Street
in Union sharpening saws
Roger married Judy Ann Knaus who grew up in Clayton and attended Clayton
Consolidated School. The Knaus family has strong ties to Greene Co., Ohio and counts among
their ancestors the Coys, Brannums, Sidensticks and Ankeneys.
The complete Garwood genealogy is on file in the archives room. We welcome the
donation of all family genealogies.