*Jake GOODSON
b: ca1785
m: ca1804 Nancy __; b: ca1785 bd: HabershamCo, GA

• 1i) Larkin GOODSON, Sr.
  b: 1824 Habersham, HabershamCO, GA
  m: ca1840 WalkerCO, GA Elizabeth "BETSIE" DOVER (D/O William Simpson DOVER and Lucy Alice DOOLY/DOOLEY who have two children who married GOODSON, and sister of Hamilton DOVER; William Simpson DOVER is S/O Francis J. & Mary POSEY Dover and a brother of Johnson DOVER); b: ca1825 HabershamCO, GA; d: ca1883 CherokeeCO, TX
  NOTE: Larkin's mother, Nancy, a widow, moved her family to WalkerCO, GA when Larkin was a small child. After marrying, Larkin moved his family to CherokeeCO, Texas to make thier home. He was a Mason and had membership in Jacksonville Lodge number 108, A.F. & A.M. These Goodson were farmers and settled in the Corinth-Craft area.
  
  
  • 2i) James Polk GOODSON
    m: Ann PRIESTLY
    military: Furnishing his equipment at his own expense, he joined Capt. R. B. Martin's Company I, 10th Texas Calvary, which participated in the Battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, where in July, 1864 he became a prisoner of war and was confined at Camp Morton Prison, Indiana until the end of the war.
    
    
  • 2ii) George Watson GOODSON
    
    
  • 2iii) William GOODSON
    
    
  • 2iv) Mary Maranda GOODSON
    m: Samuel Borne PRIESTLY
    
    
  • 2v) Frank M. GOODSON
    m: Sallie WHITTLE
    
    
  • 2vi) R. B. GOODSON
    
    
  • 2vii) Jacob Lee Valcus GOODSON
    m: Martha Elizabeth McGRIFF
    
    
  • 2iix) Corella GOODSON
    m: T. W. Wylie HOLMES
    
    
  • 2ix) JOHN Larkin GOODSON, Jr.
    b: 01/02/1841 GA
    d: 03/06/1921 CherokeeCO, TX
    bd: Jarratt Cemetery CherokeeCO, TX
    m: 09/30/1864 WalkerCo, GA Barbara Matilda GOODSON (His first cousin---D/O Jacob GOODSON & Barbara WHISTENANT/WHISENANT); b: 08/15/1845 WalkerCO, GA; d: 03/21/1925 CherokeeCO, TX; bd: Jarratt Cemetery CherokeeCO, TX
    military: During Civi War, served in Company I, 10th Regiment, Texas Dismounted Calvary between 09/25/1861 and 04/05/1864
    NOTE: Moved to CherokeeCO, Texas with Larkin & Betsie Goodson in 1856.
    
    
    • 3i) William Newton GOODSON
      m: Virginia SHARP
      
      
    • 3ii) Ludy Mary GOODSON
      b: ca 1867
      d: ca 1945
      m: Wash H. HAWS
      
      
    • 3iii) Martha A. GOODSON
      m: Joe C. SHARP
      
      
    • 3iv) George Gillum GOODSON
      b: ca 1875
      d: ca 1908
      m: Mary E. WALKER
      
      
    • 3v) Buddy GOODSON
      
      
    • 3vi) John Larkin GOODSON, Jr.
      b: ca 1880
      d: ca 1960
      m: Maggie DEAN
      
      
    • 3vii) Daisy/Daisie GOODSON
      d: Young-drowned
      
      
    • 3iix) Joe GOODSON
      d: Young-drowned
      
      
    • 3ix) Jennie Nevada GOODSON
      m: J. S. HAWS
      
      
    • Jacob Watson GOODSON
      m: Ella Mae THOMPSON
      NOTE: Lived in Corinth Community and followed the family tradition of farming; they farmed tomatoes.
      
      
      • 4i) Allie Inez GOODSON
        m: William Sanford MILSTEAD
        
        
      • 4ii) Jacob Herschel GOODSON
        m: Marguerite CAVENESS
        
        
      • 4iii) Mary Alma GOODSON
        m: Newton SPRAGGINS
        
        
      • 4iv) Curtis Watson GOODSON
        m: Mary Lois CASEY
        
        
      • 4v) Vera Pearl GOODSON
        m: Bruce HENDERSON
        
        
      • 4vi) Eunice Mae GOODSON
        m: Otis BOUNDS
        
        
      • 4vii) Jesse Bruce "BILL" GOODSON
        m: Edith DAVIS
        
        
• 1ii) *Jacob M. GOODSON, Sr.
  b: 02/14/1805 NC
  d: 06/09/1883 Villanow, WalkerCO, GA
  bd: Villanow, WalkerCO, GA Old Jake Goodson Cemetery on Old Pittman Place (Gowan Farm on Hwy. 201 northwest of Villanow, GA)
  He came to HabershamCO, GA in 1834 to claim land from Cherokee Lottery of 1832. His land was north of Chickamauga.
  Reference: Family Bible
  rlgn: Methodist
  occ: Farmer
  m: 12/16/1830 Clarksville, HabershamCO, GA *Barbara Sarah WHISTENANT/WHISENANT; b: 01/01/1813 York District, SC d: 12/02/1893 Villanow, WalkerCO, GA Old Jake Goodson Cemetery rlgn: Methodist (D/O *John Nicholas WHISTENANT/WHISENANT & *Nancy THOMPSON)(Family believed to be from England.)
  Reference: 1820 BurkeCo, NC census as living with her parents
  
  NOTE: First two children were males and died as babies.
  
  
  • 2i) *Williamson Byrom GOODSON, Sr.
    b: 08/14/1831 Habersham, HAbershamCO, GA
    d: 09/11/1879 Cotaco, MORCA yellow fever
    bd: Arab, MARCA Old Skidmore Cemetery
    occ: Farmer
    rlgn: Methodist
    mltry: CSA Army Private Co. H 23rd Reg. Enlisted 1861 Surrendered 1865
    m: 11/03/1849 *Nancy Francis WHITLEY; b: 01/26/1832 Habersham, HabershamCO, GA d: 03/28/1905 Naomi, WalkerCO, GA bd: Naomi, WalkerCO, GA rlgn: Methodist (D/O *Nathan WHITLEY & *Frances __) m: 2nd 11/12/1885 J.M. NUCKOLLS (NOTE: Surname spelled WHITTLEY and WHITELY on some reports)
    
    
    • 3i) *Jefferson Pierce "JEFF" GOODSON
      b: 05/08/1853 Villanow, WalkerCO, GA
      d: 07/1938 Getup (Morgan City), MORCA at home
      bd: Rescue Cemetery, Getup (Morgan City) MORCA
      occ: Farmer and owner of a saw mill, a grist mill and a cotton gin
      rlgn: Methodist
      places of residence: Ga, BlountCO, AL & MorganCo, AL
      m: 1874 SMRVL MORCA *Martha Ann WHITTLE; b: 09/22/1856 Upper King's Bridge, MurrayCO, GA d: 05/08/1945 Getup, MORCA bd: Morgan City, MORCA Rescue Cemetery rlgn: Methodist occ: Farmer (D/O *Woodford Byars WHITTLE & *Martha Ann JULIAN)
      
      
      • 4i) Frances Lura GOODSON
        b: 07/16/1877
        d: 1893 Getup MORCA Died of typhoid fever
        bd: 1893 Skidmore Chapel Cemetery MORCA
        
        
      • 4ii) Woodford Byars GOODSON
        b: 03/25/1879 MORCA
        bd: Pleasant Grove MORCA
        m: 1st: 05/03/1900 Ethel HUGHES
        m: 2nd: 1925 Lois BARNARD
        
        
      • 4iii) William Lee GOODSON
        b: 07/27/1882 MORCA
        d: 1884 MORCA at home from Spinal Meningitis
        bd: Skidmore Chapel Cemetery MORCA
        
        
      • 4iv) Draper Elbert GOODSON
        b: 08/25/1885 MORCA
        d: 02/1952 South Carolina
        bd: Waterboro, SC
        m: Jesse THOMAS
        
        
      • 4v) *NORAH GOODSON
        b: 02/10/1888 MORCA
        d: 05/10/1971 Arab, MARCA
        bd: Morgan City, MORCA Old New Canaan Cemetery
        occ: Farmer
        rlgn: Methodist
        m: 1903 Pulaski, GilesCO, TN by elopement *Richard EMMET OWEN; b: 11/18/1882 d: 04/02/1931 bd: Morgan City, MORCA Old New Canaan Cemetery (S/O *Richard J. "BOB DICK" OWEN & *Mary E. GRANTLAND)
        
        
        • 5i) LEONARD R. OWEN
          m: 1st BERT YANCEY
          m: 2nd EDNA nee?
          
          
        • 5ii) RUTH OWEN
          m: JAMES BROOKS
          
          
        • 5iii) MILDRED OWEN
          b: 11/16/1912
          d: 02/12/1915
          bd: Old New Canaan Cemetery
          
          
        • 5iv) *LESTER Bert OWEN
          b: 07/28/1916 MORCA
          d: 03/08/1995 HNTSVL MADCA from respiratory failure
          bd: 03/10/1995 SMRVL (WP) MORCA West Point Cemetery
          occ: Construction, Logging, Gas Station, Heavy Equipment, Salvage Business, Mustard Gas Bomb Filler during ? War at Red Stone Arsenal (at age 26, his nervous system & respiratory system were damaged for remainder of life-received government pension)
          m: 03/04/1936 Rescue, MORCA Rescue Church Parsonage (MB Y, page 511) *Dorothy DIMPLE FLACK (D/O *Theodore Robert FLACK and *Fannie Mae THOMAS); b: 04/03/1917 LIVING!!
          
          
        • 5v) Melvin J.P."BUSTER" OWEN
          b: 12/22/1913
          d: 10/09/1995
          m: OPAL LAMONS
          
          
        • 5vi) "R.E." Edwin OWEN
          b: 11/14/1922
          d: 06/12/1996
          bd: West Point Cemetery
          m: KATHERINE WHISENANT
          
          
          • 6i) Emmet VAN OWEN
            
            
        • 5vii) James Roan "JIMMY" OWEN
          b: 06/10/1926
          m: WYNELL ABERCOMBIE
          
          
          • 6i) TERRY OWEN
            
            
          • 6ii) WADE OWEN
            m: PAM THOMAS
            
            
          • 6iii) JEFFERY OWEN
            
            
        • 5iix) MARTHA OWEN
          m: LEO COOPER
          
          
        • 5ix) WILDA OWEN
          m: AUDREY HENDRIX
          
          
          
        
        
      • 4vi) Claude Nancy Frances GOODSON
        b: 04/15/1890 MORCA
        d: 07/29/1985 Sexton, Missouri
        bd: Cemetery Chaffe, Missouri
        m: 08/26/1908 Eloped Cullman, CullmanCO, AL John P. PONDER
        
        
      • 4vii) Overby Jefferson "BOSS" GOODSON
        b: 07/19/1892 MORCA
        d: 08/05/1987 Decatur MORCA
        bd: Watson-Morrow Cemetery SMRVL (West Point Community) MORCA
        m: 10/16/1914 MORCA (Marriage Book N, page 442) Myrtle Verlon MORROW; b: 05/13/1896 MORCA; d: 12/06/1982 Decatur MORCA;bd: Watson-Morrow Cemetery
        
        
      • 4iix) Jacob Pierce GOODSON
        b: 09/20/1895 Getup (Morgan City) MORCA
        d: 11/27/1974 Huntsville MADCA
        bd: Rescue Cemetery MORCA
        m: 10/14/1917 Leaton Zona WATSON MORCA
        
        
      • 4ix) Mayna "MANER" Ann GOODSON
        b: 11/22/1898 Getup MORCA
        d: 06/1989 Cullman Hospital Cullman CullmanCO, AL
        bd: Roselawn Cemetery MORCA
        m: 1st: 12/27/1919 Getup MORCA Elijah H. HUBBARD divorced: 1924
        m: 2nd: 05/15/1926 Warrington MARCA Byron J. BRADLEY; d: 03/25/1975 Decatur MORCA; bd: Roselawn Cemetery MORCA
        
        
    • 3ii) Lucybia A. GOODSON
      b: 12/01/1855
      d: 08/09/1879 Cotaco Valley, Arab, MARCA
      
      
    • 3iii) Williamson Byrom "BILL" GOODSON, Jr.
      b: 11/14/1857
      d: 1940 BaldwynCO, Mississippi
      m: Josephine PARTON
      
      
    • 3iv) Greenberry Gordon GOODSON I
      b: 11/13/1859
      d: Trion, Georgia
      bd: Trion Cemetery
      rsd: At Berry College, Rome, GA in his later years
      m: 1883 Mary Jane Elizabeth KEITH
      
      
      
      • 4i) Novia Ethel
        b: 06/12/1883
        
        
      • 4ii) BARNEY Felton GOODSON
        b: 07/22/1886 Lafayette, WalkerCO, GA (NOTE: Mickey Goodson shows 07/23/1886)
        d: 10/07/1965 Gadsden, EtowahCO, AL
        m: ca 1906 Elizabeth "LIZZIE" AKINS (NOTE: Mickey Goodson shows AIKEN)
        
        
        
        • 5i) Leonard GOODSON
          
          
        • 5ii) GRACE GOODSON
          d: 1995
          m: 1st __ NELSON
          m: 2nd __ BROWN
          
          
          
          • 6i) Letha JEAN BROWN
            m: __ GORDON
            
            
        • 5iii) Green Berry "G.B." GOODSON, Sr.
          LIVING!!
          m: 1st ca1928 GordonCO, GA Ruby VAN HORN; b: ___ d: 1997
          m: 2nd: ca1932 Lucille __
          div: ca1946
          m: 3rd: 10/17/1946 JEWEL Lola FOWLER; b: 09/25/1921
          resided: G.B. and Jewel 1999 Zephyrhills, Florida
          
          
          Children of 1st m: GBG & RVHG:
          • 6i) ROY GOODSON
            m: Rita ___
            
            
          • 6ii) JERRY GOODSON
            resided: 1999 McDonough, Georgia
            Children of 2nd m: GBG & L_G:
          • 6iii) KENNETH GOODSON
            
            
          • 6iv) Green Berry "BUDDY" GOODSON, Jr.
            
            
          • 6v) JACKIE (male) GOODSON
            
            
          • 6vi) ANNETTE GOODSON
            
            Children of 3rd m: GBG & JLFG:
          • 6vii) MICKEY Lynn GOODSON
            b: 05/23/1949
            m: 04/09/1976 Carol Lee HADLEY
            
            
            • 7i) Christopher Wade GOODSON
              b: 01/19/1981
              resided: 1999 Decatur, Georgia
              
              
          • 6iix) GARY Brian GOODSON
            b: 03/26/1954
            m: Heidi WHITE
            resided: 1999 Baltimore, Maryland
            
            
        • 5iv) Robert Americus GOODSON
          d: At approximate age of 10 from meningitis
          
          
        • 5v) GLEN Eugene GOODSON
          LIVING!!
          b: ca1924
          m: Ruby Jo CASON; d: 1984
          
          
          • 6i) GLENDA GOODSON
            b: ca1944
            m: Galbrith WADE BYARS
            
            
          • 6ii) REBECCA GOODSON
            b: 01/1952
            m: 1st ca1972 LARRY PIERCE; d: 1980 Leukemia; Occ: Police Officer
            m: 2nd EARL JONES
            
            
          • 6iii) MICHAEL GOODSON
            b: ca1957
            m: ANN MOORE
            
            
      • 4iii) Green Berry Franklin GOODSON
        b: 08/15/1888
        resided: 1935 Arkansas
        
        
      • 4iv) William Robert GOODSON
        b: 04/11/1891
        d: 07/26/1891
        
        
      • 4v) Mary Birtis GOODSON
        b: 10/20/1893
        m: Clyde CRAWFORD
        resided: 1935 Fort Mills, South Carolina
        
        
      • 4vi) EPPIE Belle GOODSON
        b: 10/15/1893
        d: 1954
        m: Sam JUNKINS, Mt. Berry
        
        
      • 4vii) Annie Ruth GOODSON
        b: 04/17/1901
        d: 06/14/1901
        
        
    • 3v) Philo Wiley GOODSON
      b: 06/05/1864
      d: 04/01/1952 WalkerCo, Georgia
      bd: Concord Cemetery
      m: 08/02/1885 Martha Rebecka SMITH
      
      
    • 3vi) Jacob Hazelrige GOODSON
      b: 11/03/1866
      d: As an infant
      
      
    • 3vii) Nathon Lee "Major" GOODSON
      b: 08/11/1863
      d: 03/11/1956
      bd: Baldwyn, Mississippi
      m: Ida Ellen WARREN
      
      
    • 3iix) Hugh A. GOODSON
      b: 02/08/1871
      d:12/18/1959
      bd: Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery Section A Lot T97 Grave #6 Chattanooga, Tennessee
      m: Hester Lattermilk
      
      
  • 2ii) Susannah GOODSON
    b: 11/09/1833 HabershamCO, GA
    d: 12/05/1859
    m: C.W. HOWELL
    
    
  • 2iii) Rachel GOODSON
    b: 12/09/1835
    d: 1900
    m: 1st: 1853 Willis Newton CLECKLER; Died of typhoid fever as private of CSA when a POW in New Orleans, LA during Civil War after being captured in Vicksburg.
    m: 2nd: 1865 Thomas NORRELL; Imprisoned for robbing the post office.
    
    
  • 2iv) John T. GOODSON
    b: 11/12/1837
    m: 02/02/1862 WhitfieldCO, GA Sarah A. WHITTLE
    
    
  • 2v) James H. GOODSON
    b: 11/04/1839 WalkerCO, GA
    d: 07/01/1871
    bd: Old Jake Goodson Cemetery WalkerCO, GA
    m: Barbara E. JOHNSON
    
    
  • 2vi) Mary E. GOODSON
    b: 11/16/1841
    d: 07/16/1842 As an infant
    
    
  • 2vii) Nicholson GOODSON
    b: 06/04/1843 WalkerCO, GA
    d: 1864 Petersburg, VA Died in Civil War
    bd: Petersburg, VA
    
    
  • 2iix) Barbara Matilda GOODSON
    b: 08/15/1845 WalkerCO, GA
    d: 03/21/1925 CherokeeCO, TX
    bd: Jarratt CherokeeCO, TX
    m: 09/30/1864 John GOODSON (Her first cousin---S/O Larkin GOODSON & Elizabeth DOVER) Ten Children.
    
    
  • 2ix) Louise Maner GOODSON
    b: 08/29/1847 WalkerCO, GA
    m: Dalton, WhitfieldCO, GA Ike RICHARDSON
    
    
  • 2x) Martha Ann GOODSON
    b: 03/03/1850 WalkerCO, GA
    d: 03/24/1919 WalkerCO GA Died of pneumonia
    bd: Concord Cemetery WalkerCo, GA
    m: 06/22/1867 Macaijah FELTON POPE
    
    
  • 2xi) Jacob "JAKE" GOODSON, Jr.
    b: 05/06/1852 WalkerCO, GA
    d: 06/16/1945
    bd: Chickamauga WalkerCO, GA
    m: 1st: 02/15/1880 Ella PEEPLES
    m: 2nd: Edith CLEMENTS
    Jake killed a man for insulting his wife, and was cleared.
    
    
  • 2xii) Jesse Marsh GOODSON
    b: 06/24/1854 WalkerCo, GA
    d: 1907 Pittsburg, TX
    m: 1873 Josephine LOVE; d: 1935 bd: Macedonia Cemetery in 1935 (After Jesse's death in TX, she returned to WalkerCo, GA and married Jesse's sister Martha Ann GOODSON Pope's widowed husband, Malcaijah F. POPE after Martha died.)

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