Hamon V. Price and Nettie *UNKNOWN
Husband Hamon V. Price
Born: 27 Apr 1903 - TX Died: 9 Jul 1968 - TX Buried: - DUREN CEM., MILLS CO., TX
Father: Seth S. Price Mother: Francis Hilliard
Marriage:
Wife Nettie *UNKNOWN
Born: 5 May 1909 - TX Died: 27 Sep 1993 - TX Buried: - DUREN CEM., MILLS CO., TX
Children
Robert Lee Gooch and Olie *UNKNOWN
Husband Robert Lee Gooch
Born: 2 Oct 1881 Died: Abt 1940 Buried:
Father: John Gillentine Gooch Mother: Elizabeth Ann Talley
Marriage: Abt 1905
Wife Olie *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1885 Died: Abt 1940 Buried:
Children
Calvin Dale Kester and Pam *UNKNOWN
Husband Calvin Dale Kester
Born: 3 Jul 1959 - Stilwell, Oklahoma Died: Buried:
Father: William Kester Mother: Anna Sue White
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Jan *UNKNOWN
Other Spouse: Lisa Osburn - 1977 - Stilwell, Oklahoma
Wife Pam *UNKNOWN
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
David Verril White and Paula *UNKNOWN
Husband David Verril White
Born: Died: Buried:
Father: David William White Mother: Bessie Thompson
Marriage:
Wife Paula *UNKNOWN
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
Aaron Singleton and Polly Ann *UNKNOWN
Husband Aaron Singleton
Born: Abt 1840 Died: Abt 1910 Buried:Marriage: Abt 1860
Wife Polly Ann *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1840 Died: Abt 1920 Buried:
Children
1 M Isaac Singleton
Born: Abt 1865 Died: Abt 1930 Buried:Spouse: Sarah Gooch Marr: Abt 1887 - KY
Ernest Luther Gooch and Reba *UNKNOWN
Husband Ernest Luther Gooch
Born: Abt 1895 - TX Died: Abt 1980 Buried:
Father: Luther Martin Gooch Mother: Katie Belle Cotham
Marriage: Abt 1931 - TX
Other Spouse: Francis *UNKNOWN - Abt 1924 - Fort Worth, TX
Wife Reba *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1896 - Unknown Died: Abt 1980 Buried:
Children
1 M William D. (Bill) Gooch
Born: 1932 - TX Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Ernest Luther Gooch
Ernest Luther Gooch was a son of Luther Gooch, and a nephew of William Elijah Gooch.
General Notes: Wife - Reba *UNKNOWN
Reba, last name unknown, was the second wife of Ernest Luther Gooch.
They had at least one child, William D. (Bill) Gooch.
Jesse Gooch and Rebecca Elizabeth *UNKNOWN
Husband Jesse Gooch
Born: Jun 1836 - McNairy County, TN Died: Abt 1900 Buried:
Father: John Gillentine Gooch Mother: Louvina Brumbeloe
Marriage: Abt 1860 - McNairy County, TN
Wife Rebecca Elizabeth *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1840 Died: Abt 1900 Buried:
Children
Greg Logan and Rhoda *UNKNOWN
Husband Greg Logan
Born: 1 May 1903 Died: 28 Aug 1971 Buried:
Father: John Benjamin Logan Mother: Mollie Caloma Callahan
Marriage: Abt 1928
Wife Rhoda *UNKNOWN
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M Bobby Logan
Born: Abt 1930 Died: Buried:
2 M Dicky Logan
Born: Abt 1932 Died: Buried:
3 M Billy Logan
Born: Abt 1934 Died: Buried:
George (alias) Waters and Sally *UNKNOWN
Husband George (alias) Waters
Born: Abt 1865 Died: Abt 1905 Buried:Marriage: Abt 1895 - TX
Wife Sally *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1875 - AR? 5 Died: Abt 1960 - Koontz, TX Buried:
Other Spouse: Jesse James Gooch 6 - 1917 - Brown Co., TX 4
Children
1 F Laura Waters
Born: Abt 1898 - TX Died: Abt 1985 - TX Buried:
2 F Nettie Waters
Born: Abt 1901 - TX Died: Abt 1984 - TX Buried:
3 F Ada Waters
Born: 23 Jul 1905 - TX Died: 1 Feb 1980 - Kountze, TX Buried: - Kountze, TXSpouse: Elmer Curtis Marr: Abt 1924 - TX
General Notes: Wife - Sally *UNKNOWN
SALLY UNKNOWN (Second wife of Jess Gooch)
Jesse James Gooch and Sally *UNKNOWN
Husband Jesse James Gooch 6
AKA: Jess Gooch, Jesse Gooch, Jesse C. Gooch, Jessie Gooch Born: 18 Jan 1874 - MS 7 Died: 31 Jan 1935 - Brownwood, Brown Co., TX 8,9 Cause of Death: Cancer of the tongue and mouth Buried: 1935 - White Point Cem., Comanche County, TX
Father: William Elijah Gooch 10,11,12,13 Mother: S. Jane Elizabeth Davis
Marriage: 1917 - Brown Co., TX 4
Other Spouse: Bessie Fannin - 26 Dec 1901 - Paris, Lamar Co., TX 14
Wife Sally *UNKNOWN
Born: Abt 1875 - AR? 5 Died: Abt 1960 - Koontz, TX Buried:
Other Spouse: George (alias) Waters - Abt 1895 - TX
Children
General Notes: Husband - Jesse James Gooch
Jesse James Gooch (1874 - 1935)
The man who went by the name Jesse James Gooch was a man of mystery in many ways. Not much is known about Jesse James Gooch until about 1914, when my mother, Mava, was old enough to have memories of him. Official records show "Jesse Gooch" or "Jess Gooch"; never "Jesse James Gooch". My mother recorded his name as "Jesse James Gooch" in Bible entries. A census record from 1880 lists his name as "Jesse C. Gooch".
The scenario follows, as I remember my mother talking about it, : Mother was living with an unknown family somewhere in Oklahoma when her father came to get her when she was five years old, in 1914. Mother mentioned the towns of Lawton, Ada, and Snyder when talking about Oklahoma, but I don't know where those places fit in. He took my mother to Mullin, Mills County, Texas, where he ran a blacksmith shop in partnership with a man named Dave Hutchins (Hutchinson). Mother called that man "Uncle Dave", although I do not think there was any blood relation. The blacksmith shop was already well established and it provided Jesse with a stable income. Mother was always well provided for as a girl. In her early childhood, mother remembered her father as being very happy and loving, always teasing her, and spoiling her by buying her gifts. There was an old photograph (long since lost) which showed Mother as a little girl of five or ssix , sitting on a sofa beside a large stuffed bear that was bigger than she was. For the first few years, Mother was left in the care of a woman who lived near them during the day, while Jesse went to work in his shop. Jesse would take time away from his work to come there several times each day, to check on his little girl. It seems that he was a doting father. Around 1917, Jesse married a widow lady named Sally Waters. Mother always said there was no real love between them and it was a marriage of convenience, on both sides. Jesse needed a care-giver for his little girl, then about 8. Sally was a widow woman with three daughters. Sally needed a provider for herself and her young daughters, Laura, about 15, Nettie, about 13, and Ada, about 10. It was not a warm and loving relationship, but still, Mother and the other girls were always well cared for. Sally was quiet and rather distant, but she was a good woman, always kind to Mother. Mother got along well with her step sisters, especially Ada, who was near her age. Laura married young and moved out of the home within a year or two after the marriage. Nettie married and moved out a year or two later. Ada remained in the home until about 1925, when she married an older man and moved away to southeast Texas. I remember Ada visiting my mother in the 1970's, when they were both in their sixties. From listening to their stories, I formed these conclusions.
As Mother entered puberty, her father became very strict, and he was sometimes unreasonable and overbearing with her. He set very strict rules for both Mother and Ada. It seems that their lifestyle was very regimented, and everything was done by a schedule. They were well cared for, but Mother seemed to be scarred for life by the lack of love and affection during that critical period of her development. Her father was a basically a silent and serious minded man. He showed little warmth and affection. He was given to bouts of drinking. When he drank, he sometimes got mean with his wife; usually not to the point of physical abuse, but there was sometimes verbal abuse. He would sometimes do things to embarrass the family when he was drunk. Mother talked about a few times when he came home so drunk that he had to crawl from the street, where a car would drop him off, to their front door. She also talked about times when he would go out to their back yard and start preaching, although there would be no one there to hear him - except maybe the family dog. She said that when he preached, it was in the "fire and brimstone" spirit of a Baptist minister, and he would quote scriptures from the Bible from memory. Mother was perplexed by that, since he was not a Church going man. He often used profanity in his day to day conversation, and he rarely talked about religion. Still, when those moods hit him, under the influence of liquer, those feelings would come out , and he would become a preacher. His standards of lady-like conduct were those of the 1800's, and he was unbending in enforcing those standards on the girls living under his roof, especially with Mother.
There are events that make Jesse Gooch stand out as a strong willed and independent minded person, whose attitudes were ahead of his time. He was not a friendly man, and he did not try to be popular. He had few friends. He seemed to believe in minding his own business, and letting the other man mind his. He was straight forward, and he did not hesitate to speak his mind - even when it was not the popular thing to do.The following story came from Seburn Price.
During the World War I years, there was a secret group operating in that part of Texas in the "nightrider" tradition, to persecute the many German settlers who lived on outlying farms. Jesse took a stand against these vigilantes. In his outspoken way, he made it clear that would take no part in their activities, and he thought they were cowards. He was branded by some as being a "German lover". One night when he was drinking, a group of several men beat him savagely, and left him in a ditch beside a country road several miles from town, bleeding and unconscious. A passerby saw him there the next morning, and brought him to town, where he was given medical attention. No one ever found out who did it.
As a girl in her teens, Mother talked about a feeble old white haired black man who would come to their home every Sunday for dinner. The old man would not come into their home to eat at the table with the family. They had a wide screened in front porch at their home. Jesse would have his wife prepare a nice table there for the old man to dine at, complete with a white table cloth. Jesse would sometimes sit there with the old man while he ate. Mother said that her father always had kind words for the old man, and engaged in pleasant conversation with him. She never knew why he did it, or how he met the old man, or what the old man meant to him. This may seem like a small thing by today's standards, but in those times, the revived Ku Klux Klan was very active throughout the south, including that region of Texas. Texas was still a segregated society, with deep racial hatreds. Jesse was very outspoken against the Klan, also calling them cowards, who hid themselves behind hoods and robes.
Seburn Price also told this story:
In his boyhood years (1910's) the Price family lived on a farm several miles from the town of Mullin. There were several children, most of them boys. The boys would take turns riding an old plow horse to town to go to school, while the others walked. When going into town, which was built along one main street, they had to pass old Jess Gooch's blackmith shop. Jess would usually be working at an anvil in front of his shop when they came by. The boys were afraid of Jess, because he was always so mean looking. He rarely spoke to them, or even looked up to awknowledge their presence. One day it was Seeburn's turn to ride the old horse. As he passed Jesse's shop, he was startled when Jess hollered out at him, "Hey boy, get down off that horse!" He stopped the horse, and did as he was told, as old Jess walked over. Old Jess picked up one of the horse's front legs and started examining the hoof. He then told the boy that the horse was foot-sore, and not fit to be be rode. He told Seeburn to go on to school and stop back by there that afternoon. When Seeburn came back later that day, the old horse had been fitted with new shoes.
My mother told this story about an incident that happened one day when she was in her father's shop as a girl.
An old man that was known as a "gossiper" came into her father's shop. The old man was trying to be friendly by making casual conversation, but her father was busy with his work, and he did not want to be bothered with it. The old man asked her father what he had been doing. In his blunt spoken way, her father replied, "Well, I have been very busy. I have spent part of my time minding my own business, and the other part of the time keeping my nose out of everbody else's business." The old man took the hint and left.
I think Mother had a "love-hate" relationship with her father, which was to stay with her for the rest of her life. In talking with others that knew him, I get mixed signals about what he was like. Almost all of them agree that he was a powerfully built man with a proud bearing and a strong physical presence. They talked about his hard, piercing blue eyes and gruff manner. Most remember him as being somber and silent. Some thought he was aloof and arrogant. A few thought he was mean, and they were afraid of him. All of them talked about his drinking binges, and a few classified him as a drunkard.
In the early 1920's the family moved to nearby Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, where Jesse also operated a blacksmith shop, adjacent to their home. They lived in a comfortable home, not far from the County Court House and the town's central business district. The home and the building that he used as a shop were still there as late as 1985, when I last visited the site.
Jesse Gooch does not show up in census records until 1920, when he is shown living in Mullin, Mills County, Texas. The 1920 census showed his place of birth as Arkansas.
I can only guess about Jesse Gooch's life before about 1914. (See the notes under Lige Gooch for a description of his boyhood years.)
Based on what I have been able to find out, it is believed that Jesse Gooch came to Texas around 1890. He would have been about sixteen years old. If he was connected to the Gooch line in northeastern Mississippi, he may have came to Texas with others in the family. Most of that line came to Texas in the late 1880's and early 1890's. It is known that Jesse had connections with George Gooch, and he seemed to be close to him in his younger years. It is known that George Gooch came to Texas around 1890, settling in Hunt County. He lived there for several years, before moving west to Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, probably in the early 1900's. I doing research, I note that an older brother of George named Luther Martin Gooch also came to Texas around that time, and he had connections to Mills County, Texas in the early 1890's. It seems that Luther Martin was a freight hauler. From about 1890 until the middle 1910's, records show that Luther Martin lived in several areas of Texas. He owned one or more wagons, and probably hauled freight from towns near the railroad to the outlying towns. Records show that Luther Martin Gooch's first child, a son, was born in Mills County, Texas in 1891. While no connections have been made, this forms an early connection to Mills County. While I have not proven any connections yet, I believe that Jesse would have been attracted to the lifestyle Luther Martin Gooch led, and he may have worked with him on the wagons. Jesse would have been a good hand for Luther Martin to have around. He was strong, handy at working with his hands as a blacksmith, and he had a way with animals.
Jesse James Gooch died January 31, 1935 in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas. His death was caused by cancer of the tongue and mouth. He is buried in the White Point Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas.
TEXAS STATE ARCHIVES, RECORDS OF DEATHS, 1903-1940, FILE # 696: GOOCH, JESS, BROWN COUNTY, 1-31-1935.
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06/25/99
Census information received from Connie Bird, Houston, TX:
1920 TX Census:
Gooch, Jesse age 45 born in Ark. (Did you have this?)
Mullin, Mills Co., TX
street: Sherman
vol. 125 E.D. 170 sheet 2 Line 12
Gooch, Sallie wife age 38 b. Ark.
, Ada B. dau. " 13 TX
, Mava O. dau. " 10 OK
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09/29/01
BURIAL INFORMATION
Bessie A. Gooch b. 29 July 1903 d. 3 August 1903
Interment Record for Bessie Ann Gooch
Name: Bessie Ann Gooch
Born: 29 Jul 1903
Died: 3 Aug 1903
Buried: Not Stated
Location: NOT PLOTTED
Notes: Lamar County Death Records Bk.#1, p.6, #52, white female, 6 da., resided & died in near Deport, of congestive fever & premature birth, by T.E. Oliver, Deport. Birth is calculated.
Infant Boy Gooch b. 10 July 1903 d. 13 July 1903
Interment Record for Infant Son Gooch
Name: Infant Son Gooch
Born: 10 Jul 1903
Died: 13 Jul 1903
Buried: Not Stated
Location: NOT PLOTTED
Notes: Lamar County Death Records Bk.#1, p.2, #15, white male, 3 days old, residence & died near Deport, of premature birth, by T.E. Oliver, M.D., of Deport.
Marriage license - Jesse Gooch & Bessie Fannin/Fannen
Paris, Lamar Co., TX
26 Dec. 1901 (this would go along with how long they said that they were
married in the 1910 Ok Census)(9 years)
Dee Thompson - clerk
Edwin Moore - deputy
They married on Dec 27th 1901.
By : T. Giles
Returned and filed 3 Feb. 190_
UPDATE 9/9/2001
Census records from Crockett County, Tennessee from 1880: MICROFILM#: T9-1249 DISTRICT: 1st Civil District SUPV/DISTR: 5 ENUM/DISTR: 1 ENUMERATOR: Thos. N. Humphreys
Gooch Wm. E. W M age 30 (HEAD)
Gooch S. E. J. W F 36 Wife
Gooch Jesse C. W M 6 Son
Gooch Mary E. W F 4 Daughter
Gooch Wm. T. W M 1 Son
Link to the Jesse James Gooch memorial page on Find A Grave:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=1&GScid=185228&GRid= 8365690&
1931 City Directory Brownwood Texas- 701 Sharp Street
General Notes: Wife - Sally *UNKNOWN
SALLY UNKNOWN (Second wife of Jess Gooch)
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