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     Francis Eunice Stoddard was born on 13 January 1840 at Connecticut.^1,2 She was the daughter of Dr. Thomas Stoddard and Esther Ann Gilbert.¹ She married Samuel L. Bronson on 30 November 1861 at USA.²

     John Stoddard was born on 26 January 1730 at Colonial America.² He was the son of Eliakim Stoddard.¹ He died on 22 January 1795 at USA at age 64.² He was buried after 22 January 1795 at Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut.²

     Louis Ezekiel Stoddard became a championship polo player and was inducted into the Polo Hall of Fame in 1992.

Louis E. Stoddard started his polo career with the New Haven Polo Club at the turn of the century and in 1909 was named sole substitute for the American Team which successfully challenged England. In 1913, he substituted for the injured Monty Waterbury, and he played for America again in 1921, when he was awarded a 10-goal rank for his performance.

In his playing years, he won the Junior, Senior, Open championship and Monty Waterbury Cup twice each. He was elected Chairman of the United States Polo Association in 1922 and served until 1936. During his stewardship, the Intercircuit Cup and East West Matches were initiated and international games were played with teams from Argentina, Australia, England, Ireland and between British and United States Army teams.^2,3

He was born on 25 January 1878 at New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.^1,2 He was the son of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Mary de Forest Burlock.¹ He married Rebecca McCullough Darlington, daughter of Harry Darlington, on 9 November 1904 at Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 He married Mary Andrews, daughter of Samuel Andrews and Mary Cole, on 29 April 1915 at USA.²

     Louis Ezekiel Stoddard Jr. is the son of Louis Ezekiel Stoddard and Rebecca McCullough Darlington.¹

     Her name was legally changed to Sandol.^2,3 Mary DeForest Stoddard was born on 6 June 1907 at Connecticut.^1,4 She was the daughter of Carlos French Stoddard and Sandol Humphreys Milliken.¹ She and Benjamin Rush Sturges were engaged in December 1932.⁵ She married Benjamin Rush Sturges, son of Rush Sturges and Elizabeth Hazard, on 2 September 1933 at USA.^1,6 She died on 20 April 1993 at Rhode Island at age 85.⁴

     Samson Stoddard was born on 25 October 1752 at Colonial America.² He was the son of John Stoddard.¹ He married Susanna Nettleton before 1776. He died on 31 October 1809 at Connecticut at age 57.² He was buried after 31 October 1809 at Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut.²

     Sandol Milliken Stoddard was born on 16 December 1927 at Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.^1,3,4 She was the daughter of Carlos French Stoddard Jr. and Caroline Lyons Harris.¹ She married Felix Max Warburg II, son of Gerald Felix Warburg and Marion Sophie Bab, in 1949 at Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^1,5 She and Felix Max Warburg II were divorced in May 1966.^1,6 She married Frank Drew Dollard on 19 June 1966 at Island of Maui, Maui County, Hawaii.⁷ In 1970 she legally changed her last name back to Stoddard.¹ She married Dr. Peter Randall Goethals, son of Dr. Thomas R. Goethals MD and Mary A. Unknown, in 1980.¹ She and Dr. Peter Randall Goethals lived after 1980 at Holualoa, Hawai'i County, Hawai'i. She died on 4 January 2018 at Holualoa, Hawai'i County, Hawai'i, at age 90.⁸

Sandol Stoddard, Writer, Hospice Pioneer, Dies at 90

Sandol Milliken Stoddard, the children’s author who also penned the first major work in the United States highlighting the benefits of hospice care, died on Jan. 4 at her home in Holualoa, Hawaii. She was 90 and the proud mother of five sons, 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She formerly had a long association with the Vineyard, where she summered at Lambert’s Cove for many years and wrote pieces for the Vineyard Gazette.

She authored 26 books, including the best-selling children’s classic I Like You, continuously in print since its original publication in 1965. Excerpts from the text are often read at weddings, reflecting the many kinds of love that unite us. Her landmark 1978 work The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying was instrumental in introducing the concept of compassionate, patient-centered care for the terminally ill to the United States. She helped educate medical professionals about hospice practices and spoke at conferences of practitioners who honored her for her pioneering work. A lifelong poet and interpreter of both Old and New Testament texts, she also authored The Doubleday Illustrated Children’s Bible (1983) and its companion A Child’s First Bible (1990).

Sandol Stoddard was born in Birmingham, Ala. on Dec. 16, 1927, to Caroline Harris Stoddard and Carlos French Stoddard, Jr. She received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Bryn Mawr College and completed coursework toward a master of arts degree in English literature from San Francisco State University.

A devoted mother, her career as an author began in a Marin County, Calif., household where she regularly shared her love of wordplay with her young sons, trying out lines from her early manuscripts on her boys and enriching her works with ideas and perspectives that grew out of her own experiences as both a child and a mother. Her professional career took off with the 1960 publication by Atlantic Monthly of The Thinking Book, a poetic exploration of the interior landscape of an idealistic child.

Her eclectic body of work included children’s books, stories with religious themes, and research on the history of 19th-century Christian missionaries in Hawaii. The latter became the impetus for her final work, the sweeping historical novel of early Hawaii, Dream of Eden (2016). Her passion for the history and people of Hawaii brought a steady stream of visitors from around the world to her home on the Kona Coast, including fellow writers, artists, activists and members of her far-flung extended family.

In a 2016 interview about the craft of writing, she explained the inner voice that drove her to write: “I have a very distinct memory of my joy and excitement at the age of four when I discovered that I could save the words that were circulating in my brain. That is what writing was about: you could capture these insights . . . I saw then that if you could do this strange thing called writing, you could make this memory of beauty endure, that these words and feelings and poetry could last forever.”

She regularly read her books aloud to audiences from family to school libraries. Asked to describe the unifying theme of her diverse portfolio of writing, she answered, simply, “love.”

Sandol was named for her paternal grandmother, Sandol Milliken Stoddard, a noted stage actress. She grew up in New Haven, Conn., later moving with her husband Felix Max Warburg to California to raise their family in Marin County just north of San Francisco. A longtime community activist, Stoddard was involved in efforts to preserve wilderness areas and future national parklands along the Northern California coast, and to include hospice in traditional health insurance plan coverage. She was active in Marin County education issues and an outspoken supporter of equal rights for women, minorities and the LGBT community.

She is survived by her devoted longtime companion Michael J. Walsh of Waikaloa, Hawaii, her sons Andy and his wife Judy, Pete and his wife Melinda, Gerry and his wife Joy and Jason and his wife Karen; 10 grandchildren from Australia to Germany; 10 great-grandchildren; her Stoddard cousin Dorothy Sturges and her niece Linda Delgado. She was predeceased in 2000 by her husband Peter Randall Goethals and in 1960 by her son Joshua Lyons Warburg.

A celebration of life will be held later this winter at her home in Holualoa, Hawaii.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in her name to the Hospice of Kona or to the Sandol Milliken Stoddard Scholarship Fund for young writers at Hampshire College in Amherst.⁹

     Sarah G. Stoddard was born on 6 April 1842 at Connecticut.^1,2 She was the daughter of Dr. Thomas Stoddard and Esther Ann Gilbert.¹

     Sheila Stoddard is the daughter of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Mary Alice Waller.¹

     Solomon Stoddard is the son of Anthony Stoddard.¹