Dudley
Goin, a free mulatto, was listed in the 1810 tax list of Grayson County. The list, prepared March 30, 1810, showed
that Dudley Goin owned no slaves and no horses, according to "Supplement to 1810 Census of Virginia."
==O==
Joseph
Gowen, "free colored" was enumerated in the 1820 census of Grayson
County, page 46 as the head of a household of 19 people.
Nancy
Gowen, "free colored," was recorded, also on page 46, as the head of a
household in the 1820 census composed of 14 people.
GREENBRIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA
[Later
West Virginia]
Elizabeth
Goan was married June 15, 1839 to Daniel Salsbury, according to "Greenbrier
County, Virginia Marriages, 1700-1850."
==O==
Susan
Goen, "free colored" was recorded as the head of a household in the
1820 census of Greenbrier County, page 74:
"Goen, Susan free colored female 26-45
free colored male 14-26
free colored female
0-10
free
colored male 0-10
free colored female 0-10"
"Susan
Goin, free colored" was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1830
census of Greenbrier County, page 178:
"Goin, Susan free colored female 24-36
free colored male 36-55
free colored male 10-24
free colored male 0-10
free colored female 0-10
free colored male 0-10
free colored female 0-10
free colored male
0-10"
GREENSVILLE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
[See
Brunswick County, Virginia]
Ann
Eliza Gowing was married Januar 4, 1836, according to "Greensville
County, Virginia Marriages, 1781-1850."
==O==
Polly
Gowing was married December 24, 1836 to Monroe Dupree, according to "Greensville
County, Virginia Marriages, 1781-1850."
==O==
HALIFAX
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Prepared from research developed
By Louise Goins Richardson
Editorial Boardmember
William
Goings [or Gowan] was born in Virginia in 1764 of parents unknown. He enlisted in the First Regiment of the Virginia
Continental Line in 1780, at the age of 16 and served in the light infantry company
commanded by Capt. Tilman Dixon. The
light infantry company was part of a regiment commanded by Col. Henry Dixon and
Maj. Doniphan. In his pension
application he stated that he participated in the Battle of Brandywine, but it
is likely that his scribe misunderstood.
That battle was fought in Pennsylvania in 1777 when William Goings was
13 years old.
William
Goings received his baptism of fire at the second Battle of Camden, earlier
called Pine Tree, South Carolina. Lord
Cornwallis had routed Gen. Horatio Gates and the Americans there August 16,
1780. Four months later, the First Virginia
came back to Camden under Gen. Nathanael Greene and this time was successful
against the British December 3, 1780.
In this battle William Going received grapeshot wounds in his knee and
ankle and carried the effect of them to his grave.
This
battle was followed by their victory in the Battle of Cowpens January 17, 1781
in Spartanburg County under Gen. Daniel Morgan. The First Virginia was handed back to Gen. Greene for the Battle
of Guilford Court House which was fought to a draw March 15, 1781 near present-day
Greensboro, North Carolina. Under
Greene they were successful in the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last battle of
the war in South Carolina, September 8, 1781.
When Lord Cornwallis walked into the trap at Yorktown, the First Virginia
was quickly called home to participate in the Battle of Yorktown in
October.
After
the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, William Goings set out on foot to
return to his home in Halifax County, and in his pocket was an honorable
discharge, personally signed by Gen. George Washington. In October 1793, at age 29 he was married in
adjoining Caswell County, North Carolina, wife's name Elizabeth. She was born in 1769. Parts of three decades slip by before the
couple is again located, according to research on them to date.
On
May 25, 1819, at age 56, William Goings appeared before the Hawkins County,
Tennessee County Court to file an affidavit of his Revolutionary service in an
application for a pension. His war
wounds had continued to plague him through the years, and combined with
advancing age, they had made him unable to continue working as a farmer and a
day laborer.
"State of Tennessee
Hawkins County May Session,
1819
Personally appeared in open court this twenty-fifth day of May 1819
William Going or Gowan, aged about fifty-six years, a citizen of said county
& State & being first duly sworn in open Court according to law maketh
the following declaration, viz: That he enlisted in the Regular Service of the
United States during the War of the Revolution sometime in the year 1780 in the
Spring (of [------] this deponent [------] [----] to oath) at Halifax Court
House, State of Virginia under Captain Tilman Dixon of the 1st Regiment of
Light Infantry commanded by Col. Henry Dixon & Major Doniphan attached to
General George Washington's Command for the duration of the War, that this
deponent served under Col. Dixon in said First Regiment three years of one
continued time without leaving said Service any time and that having served
his country honorably and faithfully during said period was honorably
discharged at York Town, State of Virginia (when Cornwallis was taken in the
Year 1781) by his Excellency General George Washington. This deponent further declareth on oath
that he was in the following battles, viz: at the Battle of Brandywine when
he was wounded in his knee and ankle by Grape Shot thrown by the Enemy, at the
Battle of Camden (or Pine Tree) North Carolina when General Greene commanded,
in the Battle of Cowpens, at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, in the Battle
of Eutaw Springs and at the Battle of York Town when Cornwallis with his army
was taken by Grnl. Geo. Washington. He
further saith that he has suffered great hardships, privations and extreme fatigue
while in said service of which he now feels the effects, that he is in extreme
poverty & hardship and without the support of his Country he will suffer
greatly, that his circumstances are such as having nothing at all to support
himself with, that he has never drawn any pension altho he believes he was
entitled thereto on account of his wounds, but has hitherto supported himself
by his labors, and is now compelled to apply for relief by reason of his
further debilitated state of health.
He further states that his honorable discharge which he received from
the commander-in-chief he has lost sometime ago in Virginia. That he knows of no person in this country
by whom he could prove his service and that having served faithfully and
honorably more than nine months, the period requisite to be placed on the
pension list, at one continued time he hopes to receive the benefit of the act
passed for the relief of the Soldiers of the Revolution whose case is comprehended
by such act.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day and date above.
P. D. Mitchel, Clk William
"X" Going
By W. A. Mitchell, his deputy"
A
pension of $8 per month was granted to him in Washington, D. C. July 16, 1819:
"Pension No. 12757: East Tennessee
William Goings of Hawkins County in the state of Tennessee who was
private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dixon of the Virginia line, for
the term of the War. Inscribed on the
Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16 of July 1819 and sent to D. Alexander, Esq. Agt, Rogersville,
Tennessee."
Apparently
a review board sought additional information about his financial status in the
following year, and William Going had to return to the Rogersville, Tennessee
courthouse and file an amendment to his earlier affidavit, giving an inventory
of his property and the number of people living in his household:
"On this 29th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open
Court, being a court of record in the County of Hawkins in the state of
Tennessee, William Going, aged about 56 years [57?], resident of said county of
Hawkins and who being first duly sworn according to law did on his oath declare
that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: Enlisted in Captain
Dixon's Company, First Regiment, Virginia Line, that he has received a pension
certificate, now in his possession, November 12, 1819, that his first
declaration was made out in said County Court of Hawkins County about the 6th
day of May 1819, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time
by Gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof
with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of
an Act of Congress entitled An Act to Provide for certain persons engaged in
the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War
passed the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not given to any person in trust
for me any property or securities, contracts or notes due to me nor have I
any income other than what is contained in the schedule herein assessed and by
me subscribed, viz: four hogs, 1 pot & one oven, 1 old chair, 1 axe, 1 hoe,
four forks, four knives, 2 tin plates.
I am by occupation a daily laborer or farmer, but am frail and not
able to support myself and family which is composed of the following persons,
viz: my wife aged about 48 years, 1 boy 11 years old, 1 girl 10 years, 1 girl
aged 5 years and one boy aged two years and that I stand in great need of the
assistance of my country for support.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court.
William
[X] Going
The Court values the property contained in the foregoing schedule to
thirteen dollars and thirty cents."
William
Going wrote his will August 21, 1827 and died two days later. He named sons, "Sheard Going and Andrew
Going" and appointed Nicholas Long to be his executor. Witnesses were John King, William
Willeford. On December 18, 1847,
Elizabeth Long was married to William willeford.
William
Goings died in Hawkins County August 23, 1827. Elizabeth Goings, at age 70
filed an application for a widow's pension June 8, 1839. Her affidavit, in part, read:
"On this 8th day of June in the year 1839 personally appeared
before me, the undersigned Justice of the Peace for the County of Hawkins,
Elizabeth Goings, a resident of this county & state, age Seventy Years,
who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath state . . . that
she is the widow of William Goings who honorably served in Captain Tilmon
Dixon's Company in the 1st North Carolina [Virginia] Regiment. . . She further
declared that she was married to him in the month of October 1793 in Caswell
County, North Carolina and that her said husband died at his residence in
Hawkins County on the 23rd day of August in the year 1827 and since that time
she had not been married. . . . She has no record of proof of said marriage.
Elizabeth
X Goings"
Elizabeth
Going was successful in her application and received the following pension:
"Pension No. W930: Tennessee
Elizabeth Goings, widow of William Goings, decd. who was a pensioner
under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 23rd Aug. 1827 of Hawkins County in
the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain
Dixon of the regt. commanded by Col. Dixon in the N. Carolina. [Virginia]
line for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll
of Tennessee at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836. Certificate of Pension
issued the 10th day of Feby. 1840."
At
least four children were born to William Going and Elizabeth Going.
Sherrod Going born about 1809
[daughter] born
about 1810
[daughter] born
about 1815
Andrew Going born
about 1818
HALIFAX
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
In
the case of "Aron Going vs. Philip Going" held in 1778, the defendant
"confessed judgement £100 pounds current money," according to Halifax
County Court Minute Book 9, page 304.
==O==
Mary
Going was married July 25, 1842 to Henry Davis, according to "Halifax
County, Virginia Marriages, 1781-1850."
HAMPTON
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Pvt.
John Goins, a black Union prison guard, shot a Confederate prisoner of war
near Newport News, Virginia after the Civil War had been ended, according to
an article written by Benjamin Tyree for the March 7, 1992 edition of "The
Washington Post."
"Confederate war prisons may have a worse reputation than those
of the Union, owing partly to the horrific Andersonville in Georgia, where
13,000 Union soldiers died.
But despite the more ample provision available to the Union, its
prisoners often found conditions anything but a picnic. There were many reports
of inadequate and tainted food and water, unsanitary conditions and fatal
epidemics of smallpox and other diseases. There were many deaths among prisoners
poorly clothed and: sheltered (often outdoors) in the freezing northern
winter.
Complicating. the treatment of prisoners, and the whole postwar
occupation of the South, was the broader conflict between black Union troops
and white Confederates. Southerners deeply resented the Union's arming blacks
and putting the defeated Confederacy under the heel of an army that included
many former slaves. Black soldiers had the bitter memories not only of slavery
but also of bloody pursuits of runaways seeking Union lines and of take no‑prisoners
battlefield carnage concentrated against them at such places as Fort Pillow
and the Petersburg Crater.
Perhaps issuing from this poisoned relationship was an episode
investigated by the Newport News, Virginia Union Army post headquarters
involving a Confederate prisoner of war and three black Union sentries.
The prisoner, a Pvt. Thomas Tyree (no known relation to this writer),
was shot three times in an alleged escape attempt the night of April 20,
1865. This occurred a week and a half after Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at
Appommattox and the paroling of his army by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant but also less
than a week after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln had further inflamed
anti-Southern feeling.
The prisoner said: he was heading "to the sink when the sentinel
hailed me several times and ordered me
to halt. l did not know at first that
he was hailing me. I halted when
ordered. The sentinel told me to come
up to him. I did so, and when within 15
paces of him, he ordered me to halt again. I halted. He then asked me what l
wanted. I told him I had the diarrhea
and was going to do a job. The sentinel
said it was a damned die and that I didn't want to . . . . He then shot me. I was also shot by the
sentinel on each side of me.
The sentinel who first fired, John Goins, said, "Tyree didn't halt
when ordered to, but turned away from me . . . . I feel certain that the man I
shot was trying to escape." The sentinels said they had standing orders
to shoot prisoners who did not halt on command. They said Tyree had rushed the post of the first sentry, and was
followed by as many as 15 other prisoners.
Union Capt. A.D. Clark said he heard the sentinel repeatedly order
someone to halt. "In about 10
seconds, three shots fired in rapid succession." The official account of the investigation was inconclusive. But war records at the National Archives
show that the black sentries' company sailed from Newport News that May, bound
for new duty in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Prisoner of war Thomas Tyree took the oath of allegiance to the United
States and was released in July 1865."
==O==
Phillip
Gowen, negro won his freedom in court in June 1675, according to "Judicial
Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro" by Helen Honor
Tunnicliff Catterall. Court records
reveal:
"Phillip
Gowen, negro, Suing Mr. Jno. Lucas . . . for his freedome. It is Ordered that the said Phill. Gowen be
free from the Said Mr. Lucas, his Service and that the Indenture Acknowledg'd
in Warwick County be Invallid and that the said Mr. Lucas pay unto the sd.
Gowen three Barrels of Corne att the Cropp [harvest time], According to the
Will of Mrs. Amy Boazlye, deceased with costs."
Warwick
County, Virginia was merged into the city of Warwick, Virginia and then into
the city of Newport News, according to the research of Virginia Easley De
Marce of Arlington, Virginia.
Surviving records in 1991 were being maintained by the City of Newport
News.
Descendant
Researchers:
Ethel Louise Goins Dunn, Rt. 1, Box 101D,
Crandall, GA, 30711, 706/695-3679
HANOVER
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Shadrach
Going was born about 1725 of parents unknown, probably in Hanover County. The county was formed in 1720 from New Kent
County, the residence of Mihil Gowen when he died. Shadrach Going was married about 1748, wife unknown, probably in
Hanover County. It is believed that he
was married three times.
He
continued to live in Hanover County in November 1757 and in 1760 when sons
David Smith Going and Laban Going were born.
By 1765, he had removed to Halifax County, Virginia. Halifax County was formed in 1752 from
Antrim Parish of Lunenburg County.
In
the May 1765 Court session "Shadrack Going" & Peter Rickman were
indicted by the Halifax County grand jury "for concealing each one
Tithable." In the August 1766
Court term charges against "Shadrack Going" were dismissed by the
Grand Jury, according to Minute Book 5, [Part 2], page 358.
Shadrach
Going purchased June 3, 1768 from Lewis Jenkins of adjoining Pittsylvania
County, Virginia 387 acres of land located on both sides of Polecat Creek for
£35, according to Halifax County Deed Book 7, page 223. The land was "bounded by Echols, Robert
Walton, Anderson and Main Creek.
Witnesses to the deed were Thomas Lovelace, George Combs, Bebajah Parker
and William [X] Mays. Shadrack Going had
the document recorded August 18, 1768.
On
October 4, 1780, in Halifax County, "Shadrack Going," "David
Going" and Peter Wilson witnessed the will of Stephen Wilson. The will was proved June 20, 1782 "by
two witnesses [unnamed]." Shadrach
Going appeared in the 1782 tax list of Halifax County with 12 in his
family. "Shadrack Going,"
with 10 members in his household, appeared in the 1785 census of Halifax
County, along with John Going, four members and David Going, four members,
assumed to be his sons.
On
a deed recorded November 17, 1785, "Shadrack Going" sold 451 acres on
Pole Cat Creek to Henry Hobson. This
may have included the land he purchased from Lewis Jenkins in 1768.
Pittsylvania
County, Virginia was formed in 1766 with land from Halifax County. Henry County, Virginia was formed in 1776
with land from Pittsylvania County.
Patrick County, Virginia was formed with land from Henry County,
Virginia in 1790.
Shadrach
Going was first mentioned in Patrick County, Virginia records when he bought 1,000 acres June 11,
1792 on both sides of the Little Dan River from John Marr for £500 pounds, a
lot of money for that time, according to Donna Gowin Johnston, researcher of
Casper, Wyoming.
The
plantation of Shadrack Going was the scene of a jury inquest held to determine
the cause of death of Nathan Going, believed to be his son, according to
Patrick County Will Book 1, page 53.
The inquest was dated November 9, 1793, according to Lela C. Adams in
"Abstracts of Wills, Inventories and Accounts, Patrick County,
Virginia:"
"Inquisition taken at the plantation of Shadrack Going before
Edward Tatum, a commissioner. The body
of Nathan Going then and there lying dead.
One Robert Hall on Saturday, 21 September last, on the plantation of
Jacob Lawson mortally wounded the said Going on the head with a weeding hoe and
broke the skull of Going through the rage and passion of Robert Hall.
Jurors: Jonathan Hanby, foreman, Obadiah Hudson, Isaac Pennington,
Aaron Rea, Harberd Smith, Warham Easley, William Easley, Thomas Collings, William
Collings, Anthony Collings, John Wilson and Richard Davidson."
Shadrack
Going posted bond and was appointed administrator of the estate of Nathan
Going December 10, 1793, according to Will Book 1, page 6. The estate of "Nathan Goings" was
appraised at 25 pounds, 8 shillings and 10 pense" by Obadiah Hudson, John
Rea and James Taylor and returned to the court May 23, 1794, according to Will
Book 1, page 22. The estate consisted
of "4 notes amounting to £24.2.3, hammer, gun and rasp, Total:
£5.8.10."
On
November 4, 1793 Shadrack Going administered the estate of Nathan Going who
had been "killed by being struck in the head with the eye of a weeding hoe
by Robert Hall on the plantation of Jacob Lawson." Thomas Ward and Joshua Adams were his
bondsmen. Edward Tolman, John Hanby and
Nathaniel Smith were appointed to settle the estate.
In
1797, "Shadrach Going, Sr, Joseph Going, John Going, James Going, Zeph
Going, Shadrack Going, Jr, David Going, Laban Going, William Going and Isaac
Going" appeared as taxpayers in Patrick County, Virginia.
June
Smith, Foundation Member transcribed the Going individuals listed in the early
tax lists of Patrick County which was formed in 1790 from Henry County.
In
1800, "Shadrach Going, Joseph Going, Isaac Going, Benjamin Going, Labon
Going, Caleb Going, William Going, James Going, Martin Going, Obediah Going,
Jacob Going and David Going" appeared as taxpayers in Patrick County.
In
1801, "Shadrach Going, John Going, Obediah Going, Caleb Going, Laberne
Going, Isaac Going, Johnson Going, David Going, James Going, John Going on the
Dan River, Benjamin Going, William Going and Joseph Going" was on the
Patrick County tax list.
In
1802, "Shadrach Going, William Going, Benjamin Going, John Going on Dan
River and Benjamin Going appeared on the Patrick County tax list.
In
1803, "Shadrach Going, Johnson Going, John Going, William Going, Sr,
Laban, Benjamin Going on Dan River" were recorded as taxpayers.
In
1804, "Shadrach Going, William Going, William Going, Jr, James Going,
Benjamin Going, John Going, Obediah Going and Johnson Going" were
taxpayers in Patrick County.
In
1805, "Shadrach Going, James Going, John Going, John Going, Jr, William,
Abidiah Going, Benjamin Going were taxpayers in Patrick County.
In
1806, "William Going, William Going, Jr, John Going, Obadiah Going,
Benjamin Going, James Going and Stephen Going appeared on the Patrick County
tax rolls.
In
1807, "Hezekiah Gowing, Obediah Going, James Going, William K. Going,
Stephen Going and Barbrezel Going" appeared as Patrick County taxpayers.
In
November 1803, "Shadrack Goine" sold 48 acres of his 1,000 acres to
his grandson, Shadrack Beazley for a "valuable consideration."
The
will of Shadrack Going, dated June 4, 1805, was filed in Patrick County Will
Book 1, pages 80-81 and abstracted in "Abstracts of Wills, Inventories
and Accounts, Patrick County, Virginia:"
"Will of Shadrack Going, being sick and weak . . .
Legatees: to my beloved wife, Hannah one feather bed, furniture,
kitchen furniture, 'youse' of one sorrell mare and possession of my house and
her support out of my plantation during her natural lifetime and at her death
her bed, furniture, etc. to be 'ekwil' divided between Jerushe & Keziah Going.
The plantation whereon I now live on both sides of Little Dan River to
my beloved son Obediah, also my hackle and one sorrell stud, mare and
colt. His mother is to have the use of
the mare when she wishes. Also to him
bed, furniture, plantation working tools, 4 head cattle, all hogs in order to
support himself and mother.
To beloved daughter Keziah Going, 1 rone horse, saddle, bridle, 1 cow,
bed and furniture.
To Rebecca Going, daughter of Fanny Going, wife of Edmond Bowlin, one
cow.
To the following beloved sons, 5 shillings each, to wit: John Going,
David Smith Going, James Going, Claborne Going, Solomon Going, Shadrack Going
and Caleb Going.
To daughter Fanny Bowlin, wife of Edmund Bowlin, 5 shillings.
To daughter Hannah Beazley, wife of Thomas Beazley, 5 shillings.
My upper plantation on the south side of Little Dan River I have
already given to Shadrack Beazley, son of Thomas Beazley, by deed.
Executors: William Carter and William Burge.
Witnesses: David P----, William Coomer, H--- Adams.
Will returned to December Court, 1805."
On
March 27, 1806, William Carter posted bond and received the administration of
the estate of Shadrack Going. He made a
return to the court in March 1806. In
the May 1806 term of the court he returned the inventory of the deceased:
"5 books, household items and livestock, Total: $289.13." Appraisers were Nathaniel Smith, James L.
Gaines and Samuel Hanby, Jr.
Quoting
from Patrick County Deed Book 3, page 87:
"State of Tennessee}
County of Grainger}
"Whereas Shadrack Gowing, late of the county of Patrick . . .
possessed land in said county lying on Little Dan River, containing 912 acres
and also possessed of a considerable personal estate . . . whereas Shadrick
Gowing had the following children, Jerusha, John, David Smith, James, Fanny,
Claiborne, Leaborne [Laban], Kesiah, Shadrake [Shadrach], Hannah, Obediah, and
Caleb. . . . sons John, James, Caleb,
Claiborne, Shadrick and Leaborne . . . appoint Henry Howell of the County of
Grainger . . . their true and lawful attorney . . . to sue . . . Obediah
Gowing for settling the property unfairly and submitting a will which was not
Shadrack Gowing's will.
July 24, 1806 John Gowing James Gowing
Caleb Gowing Claiborne Gowing
Leaborne Gowing Jerusha Gowing
Witnesses:
J. J. Jack, Leaborne Gowing,
Henry Howell"
It
is interesting to note that Jerusha Going signed the instrument with her
brothers, but was not mentioned in the document. "Shadrack Gowing" was mentioned in the document, but
did not sign it. "Leaborne [Laban]
Gowing, one of the plaintiffs, also signed as a witness.
On
March 31, 1808 "Jerusha Gowing and Kesiah Gowing, heirs of Shadrack
Gowing, dec'd, gave a quit claim deed to their interest in the estate to
Gabriel Hanby, Sr. On August
"Obediah Going of this county sells to Gabriel Hanby 1,200 acres on the
Little Dan River for $1,600 whereon Shadrick Going, deceased lived." The deed was witnessed by William Carter,
Thomas [X] Beasley and John Tatum.
Patrick
County Deed Book 3, page 83 records an apparent settlement of the dispute
dated October 30, 1807:
"I, Henry Howell, attorney for John Going, James Going and Laborne
[no last name] have this day by virtue of my power compromised all manner of
dispute about the will of Shadrack Going, dec'd and so hereby for the above
named persons transfer all their right and rights unto a certain tract of land
to Gab'l Hanby and for which land a suit was brought in Patrick Court to set
aside a second will, as witness my hand and seal.
Witnesses: Henry
Howell
Nat'l Claiborne,
Fleming Saunders"
On
February 20, 1812, James S. Gains and Obediah Goin, "heir at law of
Shadrack Goin, dec'd exchanged land on the west side of the Goin line on Thomas
Beazley's corner," according to Patrick County Deed Book 3, page
530. Witnesses were John Tatum, Thomas
Beazley and William D. Gaines.
Following
is the list compiled by Donna Gowin Johnston of the known children of Shadrack
Going/Gowing:
John Going born
about 1749
David Smith Going born November 21, 1751
Laban Going born
in 1757
Daniel Going born
about 1760
Hannah Going born
about 1763
Caleb Going born
about 1765
James Going born
about 1769
Solomon Going born about 1771
Claiborne Going born about 1773
Shadrack Going, Jr. born about 1775
Nathan Going born about 1777
Obadiah Going born about 1779
Fanny Going born
about 1781
Rebecca Going born about 1783
Jerusha Going born about 1787
Keziah Going born
about 1789
Traces
of the descendants of Shadrack Gowing have been found in several counties in
Tennessee: Claiborne, Grainger, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox,
Roane and Wilson. The 1810 tax list of
Grainger County lists six sons and one son-in-law of Shadrack Gowin/Going of
Patrick County, Virginia:
"Bolling, Edmund 1 white poll
Goan, John 1 white poll 90
ac. on Young's Crk
Goan, Claiborne 1 white poll 100
ac. on Young's Crk
Goan, James 1 white poll
Goan, William 1 white poll
Goan, Shaderick 1 white poll
Goan, Daniel 1 white poll 338 ac, Richland Crk
Gowin, Caleb 1 white poll
*Howell Henry 1 white poll 900 ac. on Young's Crk
*Attorney for Going brothers in Patrick
County lawsuit.
The
1810 census records these families differently:
"Bolen, Edmund 8 free colored 6 children
Goan, John 9 free colored 7 children
Goan, Claibourn 8 free colored 6
children
Goan, James 3 free colored 1 white fem. 16-26
Goan, Shadrach 5 free colored 3
children
Goan, Caleb 6 free colored 4 children"
"Goin, Daniel
white male 26-45
white female 26-45
white female 10-16
white female 10-16
white male
0-10
white male
0-10
white male
0-10
white male
0-10
white female
0-10
slave"
"Guin, Joseph white male 26-45
white female 16-26
white male 0-10
white female 0-10"
"Guin, William white male 26-45
white female 26-45
white female
10-16
white female
0-10"
Virginia
Easley DeMarse, Foundation researcher, compiled a list of the early taxpayers
of Grainger County of interest to Gowen chroniclers. Her account read:
"By the provisions of the Act of 1797, the justices were
authorized to take lists of taxable property and polls in various captains'
companies of the militia. White polls
were "all free males and male servants, between the age of twenty-one and
fiftyyears;" slaves, "all slaves male and female, between the age
oftwelve and fifty years." On
Monday, November 3, 1809, the Grainger
County Court ordered ten justices to take the list of taxable property and make
their returns at the next court session.
The returns were made February 19, 20, 21, 1810. The amount of tax was omitted on the copy I
abstracted from.
The headers for the following list are:
1) on each 100 acres, 12.5 cents
2) each town lot, 25 cents
3) each free poll, 12.5 cents
4) each black poll, 25 cents 5)
5) each retail store, $5.00.
The acreage is listed after item 1.
Polls and Taxable property in Captain William Mayses Company of
Militia returned by Moses Hodge included:
John Goan, 90 acres North Holston, Young's Creek, no polls.
Claiborne Goan, 100 acres North Holston, Young's Creek , 1 free poll.
James Goan, 1 free poll.
List of polls and taxable property in the bounds of Captain Elisha Williamson's
Company returned by Henry Boatman included:
William Goan, 1 free poll.
Shaderick Goan, 1 free poll.
List of polls and taxable property in the bounds of Captain John Bull's
Company, returned by John Moffet included:
Caleb Gowin, 1 free poll.
List of Polls and Taxable Property returned by William Clay in the
bounds of Captain Richard Cotses' Company included:
Samuel Bunch, 180 acres at Richland, 1 free poll.
Samuel Bunch for John Spencer, 2.
John Bunch, Senr. 187 acres R. C, 2 polls (black?).
John Bunch, Senr. 200 acres R. Knobbs, 6 (black?) polls, 4 other polls.
Captain Samuel Richardson's Company returned by David Tate, included:
William Guynn, 200 acres, 1 free poll.
Captain Thomas Sharp's Company returned by Mathew Campbell included:
Daniel Goan, 338 acres R. Creek, 1 free poll.
Robert Gains, 150 acres R. L. McNabbs, 1 free poll.
From
tax lists it is apparent that six sons of Shadrack Going spent these years in
Grainger County:
John Gowin 1806-1828
James Going 1799-1811
Claiborne Goins 1810-1811
Caleb Gowin 1808-1819
David Smith Goins 1819-1827
Shadrach
Going had at least 10 children born by 1782.
The sons in Grainger County at the time of his death in 1805 were at
least 18 years old, all born before 1787.
Judging from the size of their families in 1810, they were probably
much older.
==O==
John
Going, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1749 in Hanover County, according
to the research of Donna Gowin Johnston.
He accompanied his father in his moves across Virginia. He appeared on the tax lists of Patrick
County in 1797, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804 and 1805.
David
Smith Goins, son of Shadrach Going and regarded as a Melungeon, was born in
Hanover County, Virginia November 21, 1757, according to his Revolutionary
War pension application abstracted in "Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution"
by Zella Armstrong.
"David
Going of Halifax County" bought 270 acres for £55 from Joseph Tate of Rowan County, North
Carolina, according to Halifax County Deed Book 1759-1767, page 440.
Apparently
David Smith Goins was married, wife's name unknown, shortly after his return
home. "David Going" was
listed in the state census of Virginia of 1782 as the head of a household of
two people in Halifax County, according to "Heads of Households, Virginia,
1790," page 24. He reappeared
in the 1785 state census of Halifax County as the head of a household of
"four white souls," according to the same volume. In 1787 in Halifax County "David
Gowin" rendered for taxes "two horses and five head of
cattle." About In the fall of 1787
he removed to Grayson County, Virginia and from there he relocated in adjoining
Wythe County about 1791.
"David
Going" appeared on the tax lists of Patrick County, Virginia for the years
of 1797 and 1800.
The
case of "Obadiah Going vs David Going" was tried in Patrick County on
July 25-26, 1799, according to Patrick County Order Book 0, pages 217 and
218. Laban Going appeared as a witness on
both days.
"David
Gowin" was listed as the head of a household in the 1810 census of Wythe
County, according to "Index to 1810 Virginia Census" by
Madeline W. Crickard. About 1811 he
moved again to Grainger County, Tennessee "where he had a brother, Laban
Goin," according to his pension application.
The
1820 census of Grainger County [and all but 10 counties of Tennessee] was
destroyed by a fire in Washington, and no copy remains. "David S. Going, free negro"
appeared in the 1821 tax list of Grainger County and paid a tax on "one
free poll." "David Goan"
reappeared in the 1830 census of Grainger County, page 359, heading a household
of "free colored persons."
It is believed that David Smith Goins removed to Hamilton County,
Tennessee to join his brother Laban Goins, about 1832.
In
1830, the federal census of Grainger County, Tennessee listed him as
"David Goan, free colored."
In 1832, he applied for his pension at age 76 in Hamilton County,
Tennessee. He died there February 26,
1834. His pension file states in 1840
that his pension was paid to his children [unnamed].
During
his life he was sometimes enumerated as "white" and sometimes as
"free colored." His family
removed to Halifax County prior to the Revolution. He enlisted there in a militia company commanded by "Capt.
Rogers," according to his pension application:
"David Goins, a resident of Hamilton County and State of
Tennessee, aged 76 years doth appear in open court before the Worshipful
Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Hamilton County now
sitting and on his oath make the following Declaration:
That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under
Capt. Rogers in Halifax County, State of Virginia and was mustered into
service under Col. William Terry at Halifax Courthouse, to Williamsburg, from
Williamsburg to Norfolk, and from Norfolk to Portsmouth where he was discharged,
having served three months.
"Six or eight months after his return home, he was drafted,
according to his memory under Capt. Bates and joined the regiment at Bibb's
Ferry under Maj. Jones. He was marched
from there to Cabbin Point below Petersburg, Virginia and was stationed there
until his term of service expired, having served three months this tour and was
discharged by Capt. Bates and returned home.
About two years after the last mentioned service, this applicant was
again drafted, according to his memory under Capt. Pregmore in Halifax
County. They marched to join Gen.
Washington's army at Portsmouth where this applicant remained about two months
before the surrender of Corn Wallis.
About three days afterward, his term of service expired, and he was
discharged by Capt. Pregmore and returned home, having served three months
this tour.
Four or five years after the termination of the Revolutionary War
[October 1781], he moved from Halifax County to Grayson County, Virginia where
he resided three years. From there he
moved to Wythe County, Virginia and resided there for 10 years. From there he moved to Grainger County and
resided there for 14 years. From there
he moved to Hamilton County, Tennessee and has resided here twelve months the
last day of this month and still resides here."
"David
Goins, age 76" was listed as Revolutionary War Pensioner S3406 in
Hamilton County in 1834, according to "Twenty Four Hundred Tennessee
Pensioners" by Zella Armstrong.
David
Smith Goins died in 1840 in Hamilton County, "his pension then being paid
to his children" [unnamed], according to pension records. He did not appear in the 1840 census of
Hamilton County.
Children
born to David Smith Goins are unknown.
E.
Raymond Evans, an anthropologist, made a study of the mysterious Melungeons of
Hamilton and Rhea Counties, Tennessee and wrote a report of his findings in "Tennessee
Anthropologist," Spring
1979. He wrote:
"Located approximately 30 miles north of Chattanooga, the community
of Graysville, Tennessee contains one of the most stable Melungeon settlements
in the state. Field work in the
community conducted in conjunction with archival research demonstrates that the
Melungeons, who now compose more than half of the local population, came from
Hamilton County during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Census records and other archival sources indicate that prior to coming
to Hamilton County they had lived in Virginia and North Carolina. In Graysville, the Melungeons strongly deny
a black heritage and explain their genetic difference by claiming to have had
Cherokee grandmothers.
Many of the local whites also claim Cherokee ancestry and appear to
accept the Melungeon claim. The racist
discrimination common in Hancock County and in most other Melungeon communities
is absent in Graysville. Here, the
Melungeons interact in all phases of community life, and exogamy with local
whites is a common practice. The group
is called after the most common surname present--Goins--and the term
'Melungeon' is not used by the people or by their neighbors.
Recent field observations have led to the conclusion that the culture
and social activities of the Graysville Melungeons differs in no way from that
of any small Southern Appalachian community.
No people in Tennessee have been subjected to more romantic speculation
than have the so‑called 'Melungeons.'
These dark‑skinned people, living in a white world, have attempted
to explain their color by saying they were of Portuguese descent, according to
Swan Burnett in 1889 in 'The
American Anthropologist. Popular
writers, including Thurston L. Willis in 'The Chesapiean' in 1941 and
Leo Zuber in 'The Melungeons' in 1941, have elaborated on this
theme They have been claimed to be
descendants of the 'lost' tribes of Israel as reported by Jean Patterson Bible
writing in 1975 in 'Melungeons Yesterday and Today.' and 'old world
Gypsies,' 'Welsh Indians,' and Arabs by others.
Others have attempted to link their origin with established historical
events. Raleigh's 'Lost Colony' and the
De Soto expedition are two examples suggested by Mozon Peters writing in 1970
in the 'Chattanooga Times.' In
what is probably the least plausible claim, it is a matter of legal record
that the Tennessee courts have accepted 'proof' that the Melungeons are
descendants of settlers from ancient Carthage propounded by Judge Lewis
Shepherd in 1915.
The actual ethnic background of the Melungeons and their place of
origin is far less dramatic. Modern
genetic studies have demonstrated that Melungeons are a tri‑racial people
with Indian, African and European ancestry.
In Tennessee, public attention has usually focused on the Melungeon
Communities of upper East Tennessee. In
particular, Hancock and Hawkins counties are usually regarded as the Melungeon
homeland. There are, however, well
documented Melungeon communities in Virginia and Kentucky as well as in other
parts of Tennessee. In addition to the well known Hancock-Hawkins county
Melungeons, there are established communities such as Oakdale, Morgan County,
Tennessee Bazeltown, Roan County, Tennessee; in the Bell's Bend area of the
Cumberland River west of Nashville and
in Graysville, Rhea County, Tennessee.
Regarding the Graysville community, Jean Patterson Bible as observed:
'The Graysville aggregate is probably one of the most stable of all Melungeon
communities today.'
The purpose of this paper is not to perpetuate the popular myth of an
exotic Melungeon 'race,' but rather to provide an ethnographic description of
the cultural background and contemporary life of the Graysville
Melungeons. The term 'Melungeon' is
used solely for the purpose of defining the study group and is not intended as
a negative reflection on the ethnic background of any member of the community.
The data presented herein were obtained by the author during an extended study
of the community from November 1976 through August 1977, and are based on
personal observations, 83 informal interviews with 36 residents of the
community and surrounding areas, and a review of available documentary and
published materials.
Graysville is a small semi‑urban community similar to the
hundreds of other country towns characteristic of the Appalachian area. There are no paved streets, and there is no
real business district. Sprinkled
haphazardly among a the fading frame dwelling houses are two general purpose
'grocery' stores, a TV repair shop, a small community library, a barber shop,
three automotive repair shops and one service station. The community has a school and eight
Protestant churches‑‑four of which are Baptist.
There is no local industry. The economy of the area is geared toward
small scale farming, mining, and pulp‑wood cutting, supplemented with
sporadic industrial employment outside the area.
The community is located in the southern part of Rhea County, Tennessee
approximately two miles north of the Hamilton County line and one mile west of
U.S. Highway 27. Rugged ridges,
typical of the eastern Tennessee Valley surround the town. Lone Mountain in the north and Black Oak
Ridge to the east form two sides of a rough triangle in which Graysville is
located. The third side of the triangle
is formed by Walden's Ridge on the west.
The Cumberland escarpment, which forms the eastern edge of the ridge, is
cut by many streams heading directly against the rim. One of these, Roaring Creek, flows along the
southwestern side of Graysville. The
central portion of the community sprawls between the base of Walden's Ridge on
the west and the tracks of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Railroad to
the east.
The town takes its name from William Gray, one of its earliest and bestknown
residents, who arrived after the Civil War.
The real beginning of the community, however, is marked by the coming
of the railroad. It then experienced an
influx of population from all points of the compass. The post office was established in 1875 with William Gray as
postmaster. In 1884 Henry and William
Fox organized the Fox Coal Company, which opened mines in the side of Walden's
Ridge west of the town. In addition to
coal, a large deposit of tile clay was also mined from an adjoining range of
hills and shipped to markets in other areas.
A bank was organized and two hotels were established. In 1835, an additional demand for coal was
created in the area by the establishment the Dayton Coal & Iron Company a
few miles to the north. Funded by
European investors, the Dayton Coal & Iron Company operated 375 coke ovens
in which coke was made from coal to fuel two large blast furnaces with an
annual production capacity of 90,000 tons of foundry and forge pigiron. After 1900 the Fox Coal Company at
Graysville was acquired and expanded by the Durham Coal & Iron Company, and
a large coke oven complex was established near Roaring Creek. After an initial period of intense
prosperity, the industrial development of Graysville entered a decline
following World War I and was completely crushed by the economic depression of
the 1930's.
Most of the mines were closed. The bank was consolidated with the
Dayton Bank, the hotels were closed, and the people began to leave. The present population is less than one
thousand persons.
Ethnically, with the exception of the Melungeon component, the
community is largely composed of persons of Anglo‑Scotch‑Irish
descent who have lived in the area for at least three generations. There are no blacks in the community, and
most of the residents, including the Melungeons, tend to express strong racist
attitudes in their conversation. Social
cleavage is along religious rather than ethnic lines in Graysville. In 1891, several families of Seventh Day
Adventists settled in Graysville. A
year later a religious academy was established by the group. A sanitarium was also set up and enjoyed a
wide patronage. While these facilities
were later moved to Collegedale in Hamilton County, many of the people remained
in Graysville and still tend to hold themselves apart from the rest of the
community.
The most common surname among the Graysville Melungeons is Goins, being
so prevalent that the whites in the surrounding area call all the Graysville Melungeons
'Goinses,' rather than Melungeons. In
fact, the term 'Melungeon' is rarely used anywhere in lower East Tennessee. The
Goins families are so well known in Rhea County that any dark skinned person,
not regarded as a black, is said to 'look like a Goins.'
Edward
T. Price wrote:
'The name Goins seems to be a peculiar marker of these mixed‑bloods.
It has already been mentioned in connection with the Melungeons and certain
strains in North Carolina. It is
prominent among the mixedbloods of Darke County, Ohio, and was associated with
the Redbones in what is now Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It is a minor name among the Croatans and is
the chief name among a mixed‑blood group with a special school in
Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
Further, Goins is an unusual name; though many whites are named Goins.'
It occurred with a much greater frequency among free colored persons in
1830 [2.8 per thousand] than among the population at large in 1790 [0.1 per
thousand] in six populous Southern and Middle states. Over a hundred free
colored families named Goins were well scattered in 1830 through the South and
southern parts of the Northern border states.
The two greatest concentrations occurred in the Melungeon area and the
North Carolina‑Virginia Piedmont where so many are found today.
Will Alen Dromgoole states that among the Hancock-Hawkins County
Melungeons the first was a man named Goins who entered the area shortly after
the formation of the state of Tennessee. Early land records indicate that the
Goins mentioned came from North Carolina.
Both North Carolina and Virginia had several mulattoes named Goins
(spelled Gowen or Goin), who were veterans of the American Revolution, and it
is possible that the individual in question came to Tennessee as the recipient
of a land grant for his military service.
Colonial records show three men named Gowen serving in a mulatto
militia unit in 1754, and land records from 1718 show a Mihil Gowen as a
property owner in James City County, Virginia. The same unusual name, Mihil
Gowen, was born by a 'colored servant' who gained his freedom in 1657.
Both local tradition and documentary sources agree that the Graysville
Melungeons entered the community from Hamilton County, Tennessee sometime after
1880. Census records show that prior to
1880 there were no persons with Melungeon surnames living in Rhea County.
There were, however, such persons among the earliest non‑Indian
settlers in Hamilton County. In 1830,
when Hamilton County reported less than 400 families total in the census
records, there were four Goins [spelled Gowan, Gowin, or Goens] families
present. Each of these families listed
colored members [total of 13] and three of them had white members [total of 6].
The most prominent of these first Melungeon settlers in Hamilton County
was David Goens, a veteran of the American Revolution. David Goens was born in Hanover County,
Virginia. During the war he served in
the company commanded by a Capt. Rogers of Halifax County, Virginia. After the close of hostilities, he lived in
Wythe and Grayson counties, Virginia, before moving to Grainger County,
Tennessee. From Grainger County, he
moved to Hamilton County, where he died in 1834. His younger brother, Laban Goens preceded him to Hamilton County by
a short time.
Hamilton County census for 1840 listed 13 'free colored' families as
residents of the county. eight of which were named Gowin with a total of 53
persons. In 1850, there were 16
'mulatto' families named Goins [spelled Goins, Goinz or Gowens]. Of this group two members were born in
Virginia and one in North Carolina. The
rest, including some as old as 50, were born in Tennessee.
After the 1850 census the Melungeons in Hamilton County are no longer
listed as 'free‑colored' or mulattos.
A few were regarded as blacks, but most are listed as white. Other Melungeon names present in the early
records are Bolden [Bolin or Bolton] and Collins. Following 1880 there is a decrease in Melungeon names listed
for Hamilton County, accompanied by the appearance of them on the lists from
Rhea County.
With the exception of David and Laban Goins, there is no record of
where the individual Melungeons who moved to Hamilton County originated. It is probable, however, that most of them
came from the upper East Tennessee area where Melungeons were numerous by the
end of the eighteenth century.
Most of their members entered Tennessee from the Virginia-North
Carolina Piedmont area. There is no
record that the early Melungeon settlers in Hamilton County formed a separate
community or regarded themselves as a distinct ethnic group. Many of them settled in the northern end of
the county in the Sale Creek area, only about five miles from the present town
of Graysville. Here there was some
inter‑marriage with the Hicks and Fields families who were a European‑Cherokee
mixed‑blood group. Today Sale
Creek has a few families who call themselves 'Black Cherokees,' but are
regarded as blacks by their white neighbors.
The Graysville Melungeons emphatically deny any relationship with this
group, but it is probable that such a relationship does, in fact, exist.
Some of the Hamilton County Melungeons seem to have been regarded as
Indian. A newspaper article. appearing
in the 'Chattanooga Times' March 31, 1894, relates to a man named
William Bowlen described in the sub‑heading as 'A half‑witted
Melungeon,' and in the text as 'a half‑witted Indian.' Further in the text he is referred to as
'belonging to that peculiar people called the Melungeons.'
Also in Chattanooga, in 1872, there was a widely publicized court case
involving a Melungeon. The case involved
a lawsuit challenging the inheritance of some property by a girl whose mother
had been a Melungeon named Bolton. The
contention was that the girl could not legally inherit the land due to the fact
that, as a Melungeon, her mother had been part black and since interracial
marriage was illegal in Tennessee, the girl was therefore illegitimate. Her attorney, S. L. Shepherd, won the case
by convincing the court that Melungeons have no black ancestry, but are rather
derived from ancient Carthaginians who came to North America by way of
Portugal.
The first Melungeon to settle in the Graysville community was George
Goins, who has children still living in the area. He was born in Hamilton County around 1865. His wife, Cordie, was born in 1876. Her maiden name and place of birth are not
known, but her children recall that she claimed to be Cherokee. The children of
George and Cordie Goins, Alvin [also known as 'Albert'] Goins and Gracie Goins
Patton are the oldest Melungeons living in the community today. Alvin was born in 1903, and his sister was
born a few years earlier.
A photograph was taken of Alvin Goins preparing roots to be used in a
'blood tonic.'
In Graysville, the Melungeons are fully accepted and participate fully
in all phases of community life. When
schools were segregated, their children attended white schools without
question. Intermarriage between
Melungeon and white non‑Melungeon individuals in the community is a common
pattern. A less tolerant attitude was
reported by an earlier observer by Edward T. Price who wrote:
'The Melungeons here are characterized by a single surname, Goins,
though several others have been acquired, apparently by intermarriage with the
Goinses. The group consists mostly of miners and farm laborers and forms 30 or
40 percent of the population of the town.
These people are grouped under the general term, 'the Goins,' and the
better known term Melungeon is applied by the relatively few who link them with
the broader group. Some of these people
are distinctly dark in skin and claim Cherokee Indian ancestry.
Based on appearance, it appears that the strongest genetic factor in
the background of the Graysville Melungeons is northern European. About half of them have very fair skin, with
light brown or blond hair. Some have blue eyes. This is particularly true of the younger members of the community. Some have dark skin, but no more so than
many non-Melungeons who spend much of their time out‑of‑doors. There are a few with slight Negroid features
such as wide noses, thick lips, etc., and some who have a somewhat similar
appearance to Cherokee‑White mixed‑bloods.
The Graysville Melungeons apparently feel no special kinship with other
Melungeon groups in the state. When
asked directly if they had relatives in the Hancock-Hawkins County area, most
responded that they did not.
From the beginning, the major occupation in the Graysville area has
been coal mining. This was especially true while the big iron works were
active here and in near‑by Dayton.
With the passing of the major industries, some of the Melungeons left
the area to seek work elsewhere. Others
continued to mine coal for which there is still, even today, a moderate demand
as a domestic heating fuel."
==O==
Laban
Goins, son of Shadrach Going and a younger brother of David Smith Goins, was
born in 1760 in Hanover County. He
lived in Halifax County during the Revolutionary War, but did not serve in the
militia with his brother. He was shown
as a taxpayer there, along with "James Goin, Claiborne Goin, Daniel Goin,
John Goin and Caleb Goin."
He
was married about 1787 to Ella Duncan, according to testimony of Sarah Goins, a
granddaughter, according to the research of Ethel Louise Goins Dunn of
Crandall, Georgia.
On
July 25 and July 26, 1799, Laban was allowed "one day witness pay in
Obadiah Going vs. David Going," according to Patrick County Order Book O,
page 217-218.
He
appeared as a taxpayer in Patrick County, Virginia in 1797. "Laberne Going" was taxed there in
1801. "Laban Going" was
included among the Going taxpayers in Patrick County for the last time in 1803.
About
1803 Laban Goins removed, apparently with several families of relatives, to
Grainger County, Tennessee. The 1805
tax list of Grainger County included "Laborn Going, Claborn Goins, Daniel
Going, Caleb Going, James Goins and John Goins. A second version of the "Taxable Inhabitants for the
Year 1805" listed "Laban Going, Claiborne Going, Daniel Goin,
Shadrack Goin, James Going, John Going and Calib Going."
Although
the spelling varies from the first list to the second, it is obvious that the
two lists refer to the same individuals.
Of the second group only Shadrack Goin does not appear in the first
list. "Laborn Going" was
rendered as "one free poll, negro" in the tax list.
Laban
Goins preceded his brother in the move to Hamilton County, arriving there about
1829. He appeared in the 1830 census of
that county, page 75, as the head of a "free colored" household. The enumerator obviously had no way to properly
record a Melungeon household. Although
he did not record the "free colored" individuals, he did enumerate
in the household "one white female, 5-10" and "one white
female, 0-5."
In
the 1830 census, Hamilton County reported less than 400 families. Four of them were headed by "Laban
Gowan, Roland Gowin, Sandford Gowin and Dodson Gowin." Each of these families listed colored
members [total of 13] and three of them listed white members [total of 6]. All were listed on Page 75 and were located
in the north part of the county, just south of Graysville, Tennessee.
On
February 7, 1834 Laban Goins submitted his affidavit to the Hamilton County
Court attesting to his brother's Revolutionary War service.
Laban
Goins lived on the land that David Gray, the founder of Graysville, Tennessee,
later donated to the Audubon Society.
Ethel
Louise Goins Dunn, Gowen Research Foundation member of Crandall, Georgia,
wrote an article on Laban Goins and his descendants for "History of
Rhea County, Tennessee." She
wrote:
"Laborn Goins was the first one of the name in this area. He was
born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1760. His brother, David. two years his
senior, fought with George Washington in the Revolutionary War. In 1802-84,
both of these brothers were in Grainger and Jefferson counties tax
records. The 1830 census shows them
living in the northern end of Hamilton County."
On
July 18, 1855, a younger "Laborn Goen" was married to Artine Clark in
Cannon County. Of Laborn Goen and
Artine Clark Goen nothing more is known.
Children
born to Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins include:
Carter Goins born
about 1788
Merilla Goins born about 1790
Shadrach Goins born about 1792
Tilman Goins born
about 1795
Thomas Goins born
about 1797
Preston Goins born about 1800
Harvard Goins born about 1804
Carter
Goins, son of Laban Goins was born about 1788 in Virginia, and died in
northern Hamilton County in the Graysville area.
Children
born to Carter Goins include:
Carter Goins, Jr. born in 1810
Carter
Goins, Jr, son of Carter Goins, was born in 1810 in Grainger or Jefferson
County, Tennessee. He was brought to
Hamilton County, Tennessee by his father about 1829. Carter Goins, Jr. was married about 1834 to Cynthia McGill of
Graysville, Rhea County, Tennessee.
Seven
children, four sons and three daughters were born to Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia
McGill Goins:
William Goins born in 1836
Francis Marion Goins born about 1838
James Goins born
about 1840
Elizabeth Goins born in 1842
Jefferson Goins born in 1844
Vandola Goins born in 1848
Minerva Goins born in
1852
William
Goins, son of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born in 1836 at
Graysville.
Francis
Marion Goins, son of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born about
1838 at Graysville. He enlisted in the
Union Army and was injured in the Cumberland Gap area for which he received a
pension in his older years.
He
was married about 1865 to Sarah Neely who was born in 1843 in Cannon County,
Tennessee. They continued to live there
until about 1871 and then returned to Graysville. She died there in 1881 and he was remarried to Margaret J. Murphy
in Cannon County. Francis Marion Goins
died March 2, 1895 at Burt, Tennessee in Cannon County and was buried on his
farm there.
Six
children, five sons and one daughter, were born to Francis Marion Goins and
Sarah Neely Goins:
James M. Goins born in 1867
William J. Goins born in 1870
Samuel Ulysses S. Grant Goins born July 29, 1872
Charley Goins born in 1874
Andrew Goins born
in 1876
Lavada Goins born in 1880
Three
children were born to Francis Marion Goins and Margaret J. Murphy Goins:
James Robert Goins born March 26, 1883
Ida Jane Goins born July 12, 1887
Maria Elizabeth Goins born June 10, 1892
James
M. Goins, son of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins, was born in
Hamilton County in 1867.
William
J. Goins, son of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins, was born in
Hamilton County in August 1871. He was
married about 1890 to Mrs. Maggie E. Merritt.
They were recorded living in Cannon County near his brother, Samuel
Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins in 1900.
"William
J. Goin, Indian," was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1900
census of Cannon County, Enumeration District 24, page 8, 4th Civil District:
"Goin, William
J. 28, born in TN, August 1871
Maggie E. 30, born in TN, March 1870
Sarah F. 9, born in TN, June
1891
Julia A. 3, born in TN,
January 1897
[son] 3/12, born in TN, February 1900
Merritt,
William F. 15, born TN, Feb. 1885,
step-son
Robert C. 10, born TN,
June 1889, step-son"
Samuel
Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins, son of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins,
was born in Cannon County July 29, 1872.
He was married there July 17, 1892 to Mrs. Amanda A. Mooneyham Barrett. She was born there January 16, 1864 to
Robert Mooneyham and Mary M. Manus Mooneyham.
She had four children, but only one of the four survived. Her first husband was Albert Barrett of
Cannon County.
"Samuel
U. G. Goin, Indian," was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1900
census of Cannon County, Enumeration District 24, page 10, 4th Civil District:
"Goin, Samuel
U. G. 26, born in TN, July 1873
Amanda E. 40, born in TN, July 1870
John 4, born in TN, October
1895
Lavada 1, born in TN, August
1898
Barrett, Maggie 14, born in TN, Sept. 1885,
step-daughter"
They
removed to Hamilton County and settled at Graysville about 1904. She died in Chattanooga January 21, 1944 and
was buried in Lomineck Cemetery there.
He died in Cannon County February 21, 1947 and was buried in Cherry
Cemetery at Woodbury, Tennessee.
Children
were born to Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins and Amanda A. Mooneyham Barrett
Goins:
Maggie Barrett born in September 1885
John Wiley Goins born October 18, 1895
Levada Emiline Goins born August 13, 1897
Andrew Jackson Goins born July 26, 1899
Ammie Marchell Goins born November 2, 1903
Charles W. Goins born July 29, 1908
Maggie
Barrett, daughter of Albert Barrett and Amanda A. Mooneyham Barrett, was born
in September 1885 in Cannon County. She
was married eight or nine times, but had no children. She died in Dalton, Georgia.
John
Wiley Goins, son of Samuel Ulysses Simpsson Grant Goins and Amanda A. Mooneyham
Barrett Goins, was born October 18, 1895 at Manchester, Tennessee in Coffee
County. He was brought back to Hamilton
County about 1904 by his parents. He
was married December 29, 1916 to Dovie Mae Bedwell, daughter of Jessie Harrison
Bedwell and Sarah Doss Bedwell of McMinn County, Tennessee. They lived on adjoining farms from 1905
until they were married.
He
served in World War I and was buried in the National Cemetery in Chattanooga
when he died there October 2, 1938.
Children born to John Wiley Goins and Dovie Mae Bedwell Goins are
unknown.
Levada
Emilene Goins, daughter of Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins and Amanda A.
Mooneyham Barrett Goins, was born August 13, 1897 in Hamilton County. She was married about 1918 to Charles Albert
Leffew who was born at Dayton, Tennessee in 1880. Four sons and three daughters were born to them. She died August 18, 1973 in San Bernandino,
California.
Andrew
Jackson Goins, son of Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins and Amanda A.
Mooneyham Barrett Goins, was born July 26, 1899 in Cannon County. He served in World War I. He did not marry and for years pushed an ice
cream cart around Chattanooga. He died
in 1982 and was buried in the National Cemetery there.
Ammie
Marshell Goins, daughter of Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins and Amanda A.
Mooneyham Barrett Goins, was born November 2, 1903 in Cannon County. She was married January 13, 1921 to Floyd
Martin Larmon who was born in Dalton, Georgia in 1902. In 1991 they lived in Etowah, Tennessee. Five children, one son and four daughters,
were born to them.
Charles
W. Goins, son of Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins and Amanda A. Mooneyham
Barrett Goins, was born July 29, 1908 at Graysville. He was married about 1931 to Beatrice Goins, a second
cousin. She was the daughter of James
Granville Goins and Ora Goins. James
Granville Goins was a first cousin to Samuel Ulysses Simpson Grant Goins.
One
son was born to Charles W. Goins and Beatrice Goins Goins:
Charlie Goins born in 1935
Charley
Goins, son of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins, was born in Cannon
County in 1874.
Andrew
Goins, son of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins, was born in 1876 in
Cannon County. He was married about
1899, wife's name Lizzie. Children born
to Andrew Goins and Lizzie Goins are unknown.
Lavada
Goins, daughter of Francis Marion Goins and Sarah Neely Goins, was born in
Cannon County in 1880. She was married
about 1898 to William Bolin.
James
Goins, son of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born about 1840
at Graysville.
Elizabeth
Goins, daughter of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born in 1842
at Graysville. She was married about
1860 to Pleasant Bowling.
Jefferson
Goins, son of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born in 1844 at
Graysville. He was married about 1867
to Sarah Mooneyham.
Vandola
Goins, daughter of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born in 1848
at Graysville.
Minerva
Goins, daughter of Carter Goins, Jr. and Cynthia McGill Goins, was born in 1852
at Graysville. She was married to
James Goins, her second cousin.
Merilla
Goins, daughter of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about 1790 in
Patrick County.
Shadrach
Goins, son of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about about 1792,
probably in Patrick County.
Tilman
Goins, son of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about 1795, probably
in Patrick County. He was married about
1818 and lived in Cherokee County, North Carolina, in the extreme western tip
of the state, according to Melton E. Gene" Scott, a descendant of Trenton,
Georgia.
Children
born to Tilman Goins include:
Julia Ann Goins born about 1820
Julia
Ann Goins, daughter of Tilman Goins, was born about 1820 in Cherokee County,
North Carolina. She was married about
1836 to John Goins who was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, a son of Thomas
Goins of Grainger County, according to Melton E. "Gene" Scott, a
descendant of Trenton, Georgia.
Children
born to John Goins and Julia Ann Goins Goins include:
Sarah Isabelle Goins born 1860
Sarah
Isabelle Goins, daughter of John Goins and Julia Ann Goins Goins, was born
about 1860. She was married November
28, 1883 to Columbus Scott at Smithville, Tennessee in DeKalb County, according
to Melton E. "Gene" Scott, a grandson.
Thomas
Goins, son of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about 1797, probably
in Grainger County. He lived in Bledsoe
County about 1820 where a son was born.
Children
born to him include:
John Goins born
about 1824
John
Goins, son of Thomas Goins, was born about 1824 in Bledsoe County.
.......
Preston
Goins, son of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about about 1800,
probably in Patrick County.
Harvard
Goins, son of Laban Goins and Ella Duncan Goins, was born about 1804, probably
in Grainger County.
Harvard
Goins was enumerated as the head of Household No. 422 in the 1850 census of
Hamilton County, Page 796. The family
was rendered September 18, 1850 as:
"Goins, Harvard 46, farmer, born in Tennessee
Laborn 16, born in Tennessee, laborer
William 11, born in Tennessee
Duncan 9, born in Tennessee
Jane 7, born in
Tennessee"
Charlie
Goins was enumerated as the head of Household No. 423-423 adjoining Harvard
Goins in the 1850 census of Hamilton County:
"Goins, Charlie 45, born in North Carolina
Nathan 18, born in Tennessee
Rhoda 15, born in Tennessee
Catharin 8, born in Tennessee
Sarah 5, born in
Tennessee"
Melton
E. "Gene" Scott, Trenton, Georgia wrote December 20, 1993:
"My grandmother was born Sarah Isabelle Goins. Her father was John Goins, born in Bledsoe
County, TN. His father was Thomas
Goins, born in Grainger County, TN. The
mother of Sarah Isabelle Goins was also a Goins. Julia Ann Goins was her maiden name. She was the daughter of Tilman Goins, born in Cherokee County,
North Carolina. His father was Laborn
Goins, born in Patrick County, VA. The
sister of Tilman Goins, Marilla Goins was born in Patrick County also. His brothers were Preston Goins, Harbard
Goins and Shadrack Goins.
My grandmother, Sarah Isabelle Goins was married to my grandfather,
Columbus Scott November 28, 1883 at Smithville, TN in DeKalb County. His brother, James Scott was his bondsman. I believe that the mother of Columbus and
James Scott was a Goins also. Both were
listed as Indian in the 1880 census of DeKalb County. My grandmother had cousins in Grainger County by the names of
Granville Goins and Sanford Goins."
Daniel
Going, regarded by some researchers as a son of Shadrach Going, was born about
1760, probably in Hanover County and brought to Halifax County by his
father.
"Daniel Going, born
about 1760," was enlisted in the Virginia Continental Line in February
1777, according to his pension application.
He served in the Battle of Germantown and in the Battle of
Brandywine. He was discharged at Valley
Forge, Pennsylvania.
Daniel Going appeared on the
1782 tax list of Halifax County with two in the family. He began paying taxes in Bedford County in
1783. He reappeared on the Bedford
County tax rolls from 1786 through 1794, according to the research of June A.
Smith of Bremerton, Washington.
Daniel Going was one of the
men who posted bond when items were sold from the estate of Maryann Franklin in
Bedford County November 22, 1794. The
bond was "examined by the Bedford County Court September 19, 1797 and
returned July 23, 1798," suggesting that Daniel Going remained there at
that time.s
He was not mentioned in the
will of Shadrach Going written in 1805.
Daniel Going appeared in the 1805 tax list of Grainger County,
Tennessee, but did not join the sons of Shadrach in filing suit against their
younger brother, Obadiah Goins, executor of the will of Shadrach Goins, for
forging the will of Shadrach Goins.
Hannah
Going, daughter of Shadrach Going, was born about 1763 in Hanover County. She was married to Thomas Beasley about
1881. She was mentioned in the will of
her father written in 1805 as the recipient of "five shillings."
Caleb
Going, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1765, probably in Hanover
County. He appeared as a taxpayer in
the 1782 tax list of Halifax County. He
was mentioned in the will of his father written in 1805 as the recipient of
five shillings.
Caleb
Going appeared on the 1805 tax list of Grainger County, Tennessee as "one
white poll." In 1806 he joined his
brothers in protesting the administration of his father's estate by his brother
Obadiah Going.
"Caleb
Goan" was enumerated in the 1810 census of Grainger County as the head of
a household composed of "6 free colored, 4 children."
James
Going, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1769, probably in Hanover
County. "James Goin" appeared
as a taxpayer in Halifax County along with "Laban Goin, Claiborne Goin,
Daniel Goin, John Goin and Caleb Goin."
About
1797, James Goin removed, apparently with several families of relatives
regarded by some researchers as Melungeons, to Grainger County,
Tennessee.
On
November 27, 1797, James Goin received North Carolina Land Grant No. 300 for
262 acres on the Tennessee River and 938 acres on the north side of Tennessee
River in what is now Grainger County. The 1799 tax list for this county shows
"Thomas Goen, James Goen, John Goen, John Gowen, William Gowen and
Alexander Gowen," all listed as "white." Grainger County was formed from Hawkins and
Knox Counties in 1796.
"James
Goin, free colored" appeared in the 1799 tax list of Grainger County
"in Capt. McKee's Company."
The 1805 tax list of Grainger County included "James Goins, Laborn
Going, Claborn Goins, Daniel Going, Caleb Going and John Goins. A second version of the "Taxable
Inhabitants for the Year 1805" listed "James Going, Laban Going,
Claiborne Going, Daniel Goin, Shadrack Goin, John Going and Calib Going." "James Goin" was shown with
"one free poll" in each tax list.
"James
Goan" was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1810 census of
Grainger County as "three free colored and one white female,
16-26." Enumerators at that time
did not record the age of free colored individuals. A duplicate enumeration for "James Goan" appeared in
adjoining Claiborne County, Tennessee in 1810. Claiborne County was organized in 1801 from land taken from
Grainger and Hawkins Counties, perhaps explaining the duplication.
"James
Goin, Sr." received a deed from Blain Davison in 1815 to land in Claiborne
County for $200, according to Claiborne County Deed Book H, page 14.
The
1820 enumeration of James Goin did not survive. Most of the individual enumeration sheets of the census of 1820
of the state of Tennessee were destroyed by fire in Washington, D. C. Fragments of the census for only ten
counties and recaps of others escaped the fire. No enumeration sheets were available for Claiborne or Hawkins
County. Recap sheets showed 310
"free persons of color" in the 1820 census.
In
1825, "James Goin, Sr." deeded land in Claiborne County to John
Harris for $200, according to Claiborne County Deed Book H, page 448. It is believed that James Goin died before
1830 because he did not appear in the 1830 census of Tennessee.
It
is obvious that the census enumerator in 1830 had difficulty in deciding
whether to list the seven Goen and Goin families as "white" or
"free colored people." In the
summary sheet 37 families composed of 331 people were recorded as "free
colored" in 1830. White and
"free colored" were listed in consecutive entries which perhaps
indicated adjacent locations.
A
possible son of James Goin, Sr. is:
James C. Gowan born
June 1, 1795
James
C. Gowan, possible son of James Goin, Sr, was born June 1, 1795, probably in
Halifax County, according to Mary Alice Fritch, a descendant of Flat River,
Missouri. He enlisted January 8, 1814
in Capt. George Gregory's company of Tennessee militiamen. He was discharged as a private May 17,
1814. He reenlisted September 20, 1814
in preparation for a march to New Orleans with Gen. Andrew Jackson. He was discharged May 5, 1815, again a
private, according to "War of 1812, Index of Pensioners."
James
C. Gowan was married May 25, 1824 to Lucinda Margaret True at Tazewell,
Tennessee. She was born in Virginia
February 12, 1806, according to a letter written August 26, 1991 by Mary Alice
Fritch.
He
was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1830 census of Claiborne
County, page 106:
"Goin, James white male 30-40
white female 30-40
white female 0-5
white female
0-5"
Some
disabling statutes were installed in 1831, 1832 and 1834 in the Tennessee
constitution to prevent free colored from certains rights enjoyed by the white
citizens. They could not own land, pay
taxes, vote or testify in court in matters involving white men. These discouraging statutes caused many
Melungeons and free colored to leave the state. However, the census enumerators mitigated some of the injustice
by a liberal interpretation of who was white and who was free negro or
mulatto.
James
C. Gowan did not reappear in the 1840 census of Claiborne County. It is believed that they had removed about
1835 to Harrison County, Indiana, perhaps in the expectation of receiving a
bounty land grant. In 1850 James C.
Gowan received Bounty Land Grant No. 8904 to 80 acres of land.
He
was enumerated in the 1850 census of Harrison County, 45th township, page 398
as the head of a household composed of:
"Gowan, James 54, born in Virginia
Lucinda 46, born in Virginia
Jahue 20,
Mary A. 18,
John 16,
James E. 13,
Lucinda 12,
Levina 9,
Rezin 7,
Miriam 5"
The
sons of James C. Gowan were stonemasons, carpenters and farmers, and all were
in Harrison County in 1850, according to Mary Alice Fritch.
In
1855, James C. Gowan and Lucinda Margaret True removed to Jefferson County,
Missouri, just south of St. Louis.
James C. Gowan died there July 28, 1874 at age 79 and was buried in the
Gowan Cemetery, according to Mary Alice Fritch. Lucinda Margaret True Gowan died there August 3, 1880 and was
buried beside her husband.
Children
born to James C. Gowan and Lucinda Margaret True Gowan include:
Jehu Gowan born
about 1830
Mary A. Gowan born about 1832
John Gowan born
about 1834
James E. Gowan born August 20, 1836
Lucinda Gowan born about 1838
Levinia Gowan born about 1841
Rezin Gowan born
about 1843
Miriam Gowan born
about 1845
John
Gowan, son of James C. Gowan and Lucinda Margaret True Gowan, was born about
1834 in Claiborne County. In the 1880
census of Jefferson County "John Gowan" appeared as the head of a
household, Enumeration District 190, Vallie township, page 6:
"Gowan, John 49, born in Tennessee
Henry 22, born in Indiana, son
Emma 18, born in Indiana, daughter
Anna 11, born in Indiana, daughter
Eliza L. 9, born in Indiana,
daughter
Minnie E. 5, born in
Missouri, daughter"
James
E. Gowan, son of James C. Gowan and Lucinda Margaret True Gowan, was born in
Harrison County. He was married in
Jefferson County, Missouri December 27, 1864 to Susan Robertson.
They
were enumerated as the heads of a household in the 1880 census of Jefferson
County, Enumeration District 190, Vallie Township, page 6:
"Gowan, James 43, born in Indiana
Susan 40, born in Missouri
Lenard A. 14, born in Missouri
Sarah 12, born in Missouri
Carry 9, born in
Missouri
Maggie 7, born in Missouri
Eugene 3, born in
Missouri"
Children
born to James E. Gowan and Susan Robertson Gowan include:
Leonard A. Gowan born about 1866
Sarah Jane Gowan born about 1868
Carrie Gowan born
about 1871
Margaret "Maggie" Gowan born about 1873
Eugene Gowan [twin] born about 1877
[twin] born
about 1877
Irene Anna Gowan born about 1881
Sopha Gowan born
about 1884
Irene
Anna Gowan, daughter of James E. Gowan and Susan Robertson Gowan, was born
about 1881. She was married in October
1899 to John Ruff, according to Mary Alice Fritch.
Rezin
Gowan, son of James C. Gowan and Lucinda Margaret True Gowan, was born about
1842 in Harrison County. He was
married about 1867, wife's name Lavonie.
They
were enumerated in the 1880 census of Jefferson County, Enumerating District
190, Vallie Township, page 1 as:
"Gowan, Rezin 38, born in Indiana
Lavonie 34, born in Missouri
Richard A. 12, born in Missouri
James T. 6, born in Missouri
Lovenia 6, born in Missouri
Rhoda E. 3, born in Missouri
Nancy 3/12, born in Missouri"
Six
other Gowan families were recorded in the 1880 census of Jefferson County.
James
Gowan was enumerated as the head of a household in Jefferson County,
Enumeration District 190, Vallie Township, page 18:
"Gowan, James 29, born in Illinois
Marthy J. 35, born in Indiana
Henry A. 6, born in Missouri
Arther E. 2, born in Missouri"
John
B. Gowan was reported as the head of a household in Jefferson County,
Enumeration District 190, Vallie township, page 3:
"Gowan, John
B. 28, born in Indiana
Perlina E. 22, born in Missouri
William E. 2, born in
Missouri"
Edward
F. Gowan was recorded as the head of a household in Jefferson County,
Enumeration District 190, Vallie township, page 1:
"Gowan, Edward F. 26, born in
Illinois
Margery E. 19, born in Missouri
Frazel E. 3, born in Missouri"
Elemael
Gowan was enumerated as the head of a household in Jefferson County,
Enumeration District 190, Vallie township, page 12:
"Gowan, Elemael 26, born in Missouri
Matilda J. 21, born in Indiana
Malcum L. 5, born in Missouri"
Ervin
F. Gowan was reported as the head of a household in Jefferson County,
Enumeration District 190, Vallie township, page 1:
"Gowan, Ervin F. 24, born in
Illinois
Mary J. 19, born in Indiana
George 1/12, born in
Missouri"
Benjamin
Gowan was recorded as the head of a household on DeSoto, Missouri, Enumeration
District 18, page 14:
"Gowan, Benjamin 26, born in Indiana
Kate 24, born in Missouri
Ida 4, born in
Missouri
Dora 2, born in Missouri
Benjamin F. 4/12,
born in Missouri"
Solomon
Going, identified as a son of Shadrach Going by Donna Gowin Johnston, was born
about 1771, probably in Halifax County.
He was not mentioned in the will of Shadrach Going.
Claiborne
Going, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1773, probably in Halifax
County. He was married about 1796,
wife's name Sarah. He was living in
Grainger County, Tennessee July 24, 1806 when he joined his brothers in protesting
the administration of the estate of his father. The 1810 tax list of Grainger County showed "Claiborne Goan,
1 white poll" assessed taxes on "100 acres on Young's
Creek." His brother, "John
Goan" lived nearby.
The
1810 federal census enumerated "Claibourn Goan, 8 free colored, 6
children."
Children
born to Claiborne Going and Sarah Going are unknown.
Shadrach
Going, Jr, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1775, probably in Halifax
County.
Nathan
Going, son of Shadrach Going, was born about 1777 in Halifax County. He accompanied his father in the move to
Patrick County. He was killed there in
1793 with a hoe by Robert Hall on the plantation of Jacob Lawson. His father administrated his estate which
was valued at "£25:8:10."
Obadiah
Going, son of Shadrach, Going, was born about 1779 in Halifax County. On June 25-26, 1799, the case of Obadiah
Going vs. David Going" was heard by the Patrick County Court. Laban Going appeared as a witness.
Obadiah
Going was named administrator of the estate of his father in 1805 in Patrick
County. "Obadiah Gowing" was
sued by his brothers in Grainger County, Tennessee in 1806 for settling the
property unfairly and submitting a will which was not Shadrack Gowing's
will."
On
August 6, 1808, Obadiah Going of Patrick County sold to Gabriel Hanby 1,200
acres on the Little Dan River for $1,600 whereon Shadrick Going, deceased
lived."
On
February 20, 1812, James S. Gains and "Obediah Goin," "heir at
law of Shadrack Goin, dec'd exchanged land on the west side of the Goin line on
Thomas Beazley's corner," according to Patrick County Deed Book 3, page
530. Witnesses were John Tatum, Thomas
Beazley and William D. Gaines.
Fanny
Going, daughter of Shadrach Going, was born about 1781, probably in Halifax
County. She was married about 1798 to
Edmund Bowlin. She was mentioned in the
will of her father written June 4, 1805 as the recipient of a cow and five
shillings.
Rebecca
Going, daughter of Shadrach Going, was born about 1783 in Halifax County. She received a cow by the terms of the will
of Shadrach Going. She was married
about 1806 to P. Finley.
Jerusha
Going, daughter of Shadrach Going, was born in Halifax County about 1787. "Jerusha Gowing" joined five of
her brothers in protesting the administration of Obadiah Going of the estate of
Shadrach Going, but was not mentioned in the body of the document. On March 31, 1808 "Jerusha Gowing and
Kesiah Gowing, heirs of Shadrack Gowing, dec'd, gave a quit claim deed to their
interest in the estate to Gabriel Hanby, Sr.
Keziah
Going, daughter of Shadrach Going, was born about 1789. She and her sister, Jerusha Going were named
in the will of Shadrach Going to receive the household furnishings of his home
upon the death of his widow. She was
also named to receive "1 rone horse, saddle, bridle, 1 cow, bed &
furniture."
==O==
Henry
Going, born before 1761, was on the 1782 tax list for Hanover County with eight
in his family, possibly six children born before 1782.
HALIFAX
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Halifax
County was formed from Antrim Parish of Lunenburg County in 1752.
==O==
Jacob
Gowen, in his pension application, stated that he was born in Henry County,
Virginia in 1762, however in 1762, that area was in Halifax County. Henry County was created in 1776, and Jacob
Gowen enlisted there in the Virginia Continental Line, according to "Genealogical
Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files" abstracted by Virgil D.
White.
"Jacob
Goan of Henry County" received compensation of four pounds, six shillings
for "150 bundles of fodder which had been taken for public service,"
according to Henry County records published in "Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography," Vol. 10.
The compensation was authorized by the Quartermaster General's office
during or shortly after the Revolutionary period. Jacob Gowen later received a pension, No. S32273. His name appeared in "List of
Colonial Soldiers of Virginia" by H. J. Eckenrode.
He
lived in Kentucky between 1790 and 1820 and then moved to Vincennes, Indiana. On June 7, 1832, he was in Vermillion
County, Illinois. From 1826 to 1838, he
lived in Lawrence County, Illinois, the county where Shadrack Gowin died in
1878.
==O==
William Goings, born 1763, enlisted
at Halifax Court House, Virginia for the period of the Revolutionary War. He was married in October 1793, wife's name
Elizabeth, in Caswell County, North Carolina, adjoining Rockingham on the
east. He applied for a pension in 1819
in Hawkins County, Tennessee and mentioned his wife, two sons, ages 11 and 2
and two daughters, ages 10 and 8. He
died there August 23, 1847. [See GRF
Newsletter, August 1990.]
In
1776, Henry County, Virginia was formed from Pittsylvania County. Goin/Going/Gowin individuals appearing in
Henry County include; Charles, Clabourn, David, Elizabeth, Jacob, James,
John, Josiah, Littleberry "Berry," Nancy, Simon, Susanna,
Zacheriah, Zedekiah and Zephaniah32,33
John Goan received land in
Pittsylvania County in 1770.34
"John Going" took the oath of allegiance August 30,
1777.35 Why? He received a land grant on March 1, 1784 of
374 acres on both sides of Blackberry Creek, adjoining his own land and that
of John Witt. "John
Gowin" patented an additional 79 acres on Blackberry Creek April 16,
1788. In 1795 he purchased land from
Bartlett Washington. "John
Going" was granted 153 acres on both sides of Little Blackberry Creek.36 Henry County Will Book 2, page 37 records
the will of John Going, Sr, proved in 1801. Heirs named were Clabourn, Elizabeth, John, Nancy,
Josiah, Littleberry, Susanna, Simeon, Zedekiah and Zacheriah.37 Where did these seven sons live?
David
Goan received land in Pittsylvania County in 1770.34 On March 30, 1789, "David Gowin"
was granted 94 acres on Spoon Creek, adjoining the land of John Ward and 185
acres on the south side of Spoon Creek, "adjoining Collier."36 [David Smith Goins was supposedly in Grayson
County, Virginia at this time.]
HANOVER
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, Miscellaneous
"John
Gowen" leased land in Hanover County 7th, 6th month, 1734, according to "Valentine
Papers," Volume 3. In the same
year he was mentioned as adjoining land that was owned by William Hix.
HARDY
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
[Later
West Virginia]
Hardy
County was organized in 1785 from Hampshire County. In 1861 it became
Hardy County, West Virgi‑nia when
Virginia went with the Confederacy and the western portion of the state elected to stay with the
Union.
Jonas
Goings was about 1789 of parents of unknown.
He is reported to have 12 brothers, all named for biblical characters,
according to Annette Miner, a descendant of McAllen, Texas. She regards Jonas Goings as a brother to
Shadrack Going who was born in Virginia about 1796 and who operated a ferry
across the south branch of the Potomac River during the Civil War.
Jonas
Goings was married about 1811 to Temperance Scott Howie who was born about 1793
in Scotland or Northern Ireland to James Howie and Temperance Scott Howie. The family, including brothers, James Howie
and Mike Howie, emigrated to Philadelphia.
Annette Miner has a report that Temperance Scott Howie [Jr.] had been
married previously, husband's name also Goings.
Jonas
Goings died in 1863 in Illinois, and Temperance Scott Howie Goings died about
1875.
Children
born to Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings include:
John Wesley Goings born about 1813
Mary Goings born
about 1815
Sarah Mandy Goings born about 1820
Charles Goings born about 1823
Catherine Anne Goings born about 1825
Elizabeth Almira Goings born November 4, 1828
William Goings [twin] born about 1830
Caroline Goings [twin] born about 1830
James Goings born
about 1832
Granville Goings born about 1835
John
Wesley Goings, son of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born
about 1813, according to Annette Miner, a descendant. She is also a descendant, through the marriage of cousins, of
Elizabeth Almira Goings, sister to John Wesley Goings. John Wesley Goings was married about 1836 to
Margaret Cox, an only child of her parents.
Children born to John Wesley Goings and Margaret Cox Goings are unknown.
Mary
Goings, daughter of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born
about 1815. She died about 1825.
Sarah
Mandy Goings, of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born about
1820.
Charles
Goings, son of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born about
1823.
Catherine
Anne, daughter of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born
about 1825.
Elizabeth
Almira Goings, daughter of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was
born November 4, 1828 "on the south branch of the Potomac River" in
Hardy County, according to Annette Miner, a descendant. She was married February 28, 1845 to James
Riley Knapp [1821-1892]. Elizabeth
Almira Goings Knapp died October 31, 1921 in Winchester, Illinois and was
buried there in Young Cemetery. She
provided most of the information on Jonas Goings and descendants in a note
written in 1897. Children born to James
Riley Knapp and Elizabeth Almire Goings Knapp are unknown.
William
Goings, twin son of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born
about 1830. He died about 1ge 19
"on the Plains on the way to the California gold rush," according to
Annette Miner.
Caroline
Goings, twin daughter of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was
born about 1830. She died in 1884.
James
Goings, son of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born about
1832.
Granville
Goings, son of Jonas Goings and Temperance Scott Howie Goings, was born about
1835. He served in the Civil War,
probably in Union service. Annette
Miner retains a daguerrotype of him in his uniform.
==O==
Descendant
Researchers:
Annette Miner, 4809 N. 4th St, McAllen, TX,
210/787-2144, E-Mail: [email protected]
HARRISON
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
John
Goowin was listed as the head of a household of three people in the 1785 census
of Harrison County which was created in 1784.
In 1861 it became part of West Virginia.
HENRICO
COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Edmund
Goin, living alone, was a resident of King Williams Parish in June 1744,
according to a Huguenot census taken in that years, according to "Huguenot
Emigration to Virginia." King
Williams Parish was established in 1700 as a sanctuary for the French Huguenots
fleeing the religious persecution of Europe.
==O==
Henry
J. Going, Esq, "son of Venerable Archdeacon Going of Killaloe County,
Tipperary, Ireland, was married to Mary Bowler, daughter of Henry Bowler of
Richmond by the Rev. T. G. Dashiell at Richmond November 19, 1874,"
according to "Index of Marriage Notices in the 'Southern Churchman'"
compiled by the Works Progress Administration.
Children born to Henry J. Going and Mary Bowler Going are unknown.
==O==
James
Going purchased 100 acres of land for 10 pounds from Abraham Childers of
Henrico County April 14, 1736. In a
deed dated May 30, 1737 Abraham Childers conveyed 200 acres, "being part
of tract where Childers now lives, granted by patent to him, bounded by land he
sold to James Going, according to "Colonial Wills of Henrico County,
Virginia."
The
will of James Going was presented by John Williamson, executor to the county
court [date not noted], according to "Colonial Wills of Henrico County,
Virginia." Henry Stokes, John
Watson, Robert Sharp and John Watkins were appointed to appraise the estate.
==O==
Milley
Going was married September 21, 1792 to John Harlow, according to "Henrico County, Virginia Marriages, 1682-1850."
==O==
William Going of Henrico
County was paid £250 [sterling or tobacco?] July 8, 1771 by the church wardens
of Henrico Parish & Old St. John's Church for taking Shadrach Vaughan as
apprentice "and indemnifying them from any further charge for bringing up
the said child," according to the research of Alicia Towster. She suggested that James Vaughan who
appeared in Henrico County 1756-1768 is possibly his father.
==O==
John
Goins was married to Mrs. Mary Hodges December 3, 1779, according to "Henrico County, Virginia Marriages, 1682-1850." Children
born to John Goins and Mary Hodges Goins are unknown.
Mrs.
Edith Gowen, a clerk for Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, lived at 505 W.
Grace in 1963 in Richmond, according to the city directory.
==O==
Mrs.
Joyce Gowen, employed by Richmond Ceramic Studio, lived in Henrico County in
1963, according to the city directory of Richmond.
==O==
Mrs.
Lillie V. Gowen, an employee of Friedman-Marks Company, lived at 2812 4th
Avenue in Richmond, according to the 1963 city directory.
==O==
Marzie
Gowen, secretary for Virginia State Poultry Association, lived at 1037 W. Grace
in 1963, according to the Richmond city directory.
==O==
Robert
L. Gowen lived at 910 Park Avenue in 1963, according to the Richmond city
directory.
==O==
Walter
P. Gowen and his wife, Willie Gowen, lived at 518 Bancroft Avenue in Richmond,
according to the 1963 city directory of Richmond. He was listed as an employee of Wilson Paper Box Co.
==O==
William
B. Gowen was buried in Shockhoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, October 5, 1861,
according to "Shockhoe Hill Cemetery."
==O==
William
Garland L. Gowen and his wife, Katherine M. Gowen lived at 4813 Bromley Lane,
according to the 1963 city directory of Richmond. He was identified as the "superintendent of B&G
Olsen. William Garland L. Gowen, Jr, a
student, lived at the same address.
==O==
David
Gowin of Henrico County purchased 40 acres in Henrico County for 40 pounds
from Michael Gowin "of North Carolina," on March 20, 1765, according
to Henrico County Court Minutes. John
Gowin was one of the witnesses.
Spelling of the surname is uncertain; four different versions have been
found in the legal records of the county.
David
Gowin "of Henrico County" in 1779 turned in $142 in paper money to
the Virginia Continental Loan office for new currency, according to "A
Short Census of Virginia" published in the National Genealogical
Society Quarterly in 1958.
He
was listed as "David Gowine," head of a household was the only person
of interest to Gowen chroniclers in the 1810 census of Henrico County,
according to "Index to Virginia Census, 1810" by Madeline W.
Crickard.
"David
Goyne," a farmer, was recorded as the head of a household in the 1820
census of Henrico County, page 101:
"Goyne, David white male over 45
white female 16-26
white male 16-26
white male 16-26
white female 10-16
white male 10-16
white male 10-16
white female
0-10
white male
0-10"
"David
Going" reappeared as the head of a household in the 1820 census of Henrico
County, page 323:
"Going, David white male 50-60
white female 40-50
white male 20-30
white female 20-30
white male 20-30
white male 20-30
white female 20-30
white male 15-20
white female 10-15
==O==
Elizabeth
Gowin was married to John Vaughan in Henrico County, according to the research
of Alicia Towster, [email protected] in an E-mail message written July 17, 1999.
==O==
James
E. Gowing who "died in his 20th year" was buried November 14, 1832 in
Shockhoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, according to "Shockhoe Hill
Cemetery" by A. Bohmer Rudd.
==O==
Rap
Gowing, also known as "Anthony Gilliat or Anthony" was reported in a
Richmond newspaper [date unknown] as "a runaway [slave?] from Alexander
Quarrier, Richmond. He may be on his
way to Pennsylvania."
Alexander
Gown, a resident of Richmond on January 7, 1835, was a Revolutionary infantry
soldier who had not received bounty land for his military services, according
to "Revolutionary War Records of Virginia."
==O==
James
Gowns, Jr, who lived in Henrico County May 2, 1792, signed a petition to the
governor requesting clemency for Ralph Crawford Anderson, a convicted murderer
of Amelia, Virginia, on the grounds of insanity, according to the records of
the county.
==O==
Elizabeth
Goyne was married January 19, 1787, according to "Henrico County,
Virginia Marriages, 1682-1850."
==O==
Joseph
Goyne was a resident of Henrico County in 1865 and was identified as a co-owner
of a plantation there with an unnamed brother, according to "Baird's
History of Clark County, Indiana."
Joseph Goyne was married about 1860 to Martha Vaughn. She died in childbirth in 1866 with the
birth of a son. Joseph Goyne died in
1869, leaving their two sons orphans.
Children
born to Joseph Goyne and Martha Vaughn Goyne include:
Allen Goyne born
about 1863
Jefferson Davis Goyne born
May 15, 1866
Allen
Goyne, son of Joseph Goyne and Martha Vaughn Goyne, was born in Henrico County
about 1863. After the death of his
parents, it is believed that he lived in the home of an uncle, John W. Barnhill
of Owensboro, Kentucky. He was reported
"out West" in "Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana"
which was published about 1906.
Jefferson
Davis Goyne, son of Joseph Goyne, was born May 15, 1866 "near Richmond,
Virginia," according to Brenda L. Barnes of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in a
letter dated April 2, 1999. He was
reared by an uncle, John W. Barnhill of Owensboro and was apprenticed to learn
the trade of a machinist.
"Baird's History of
Clark County, Indiana" reported of him:
"As a journeyman, he secured employment at the works of the
American Car & Foundry Company in Jeffersonville [Indiana]. He remained there eight years in the tool
dressing and saw filing departments.
Subsequently he embarked in the mercantile business, but suffered a loss
of some $6,000 as the result of a fire that destroyed his entire stock of
goods. After this disaster, he returne
to his old home farm in Henrico County, but eventually returned to Indiana to
start life over again."
Jefferson
Davis Goyne was married about 1890 to Alice Eliza White, "a resident of
Port Fulton, but a native of New Albany."
She was the daughter of William H. White and was graduated from
Jeffersonville High School.
Children
born to Jefferson Davis Goyne and Alice Eliza White Goyne include:
Arminta Goyne born
April 2, 1892
Catherine Goyne born
March 3, 1895
Erol Jefferson Goyne born
April 5, 1899
William C. Goyne born
March 15, 1904
==O==
Mary
Goyne was married December 23, 1791 to Meredith Childers, according to "Henrico
County, Virginia Marriages, 1682-1850."
==O==
Nancy
Goyne was married December 12, 1797 to Patrick Childers, according to "Henrico
County, Virginia Marriages, 1682-1850."
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Researchers:
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Road, Crandall, GA, 30711
Jack Harold Goins, Route 2, Box 275,
Rogersville, TN, 37857, 615/272-6132
Jon Lee Goins, 9404 Hunters Trace, Austin,
TX, 78758
Pamela R. Lawson, Route 1, Box 4955,
Rogersville, TN, 38758, 615/272-9847
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Kevin
Edward Smith regards Shadrack Going as the father of James Going who died about
1807 in Patrick County, and the grandfather of Stephen Going.
Daniel
Gowin, born between 1735 and 1745, died in Jefferson County, Tennessee prior
to September 1810, the date of his estate inventory. He had a son, Shadrack Gowin who was born in 1790 and who married
Syntha Inman January 31, 1809 and who remained in Jefferson County. Daniel Gowin had a grandson, Drury Goin,
born to Fanny Goin out of wedlock.
There were two individuals named Drury Gowin/Goans in Grainger County. One who was born before 1781 was a bondsman
for the marriage of Nancy Gowen to James Randolph November 22, 1802. Drury Goans was born in 1793 in Tennessee
and was married to Mary Goans August 23, 1817 in Grainger County. She was born in Tennessee in 1798. The younger Drury Goans was on the Grainger
County tax lists from 1819 to 1828 with Daniel Goan/Gowen. Daniel Goan and Drury Goans were recorded as
"white" on all tax lists and census returns. Daniel Goan, born between 1755 and 1758,
applied for a Revolutionary pension in Campbell County, Tennessee in 1818 and
make a supplemental application in 1820.
Having reached the age of 65, he was not assessed for his 363 acres in
Grainger County after 1824.
Appearing
in Grainger County records between 1799 and 1834 were: Alexander Gowin,
Jeremiah Gowin, Henry Gowin, Riley Gowin, Carson Gowin, Levi Gowin, Nathan
Gowin, Preston Gowin, Pryor L. Gowin, William Gowin and Thomas Gowin.
Appearing
in Grainger County records between 1799 and 1834 were: Alexander Gowin,
Jeremiah Gowin, Henry Gowin, Riley Gowin, Carson Gowin, Levi Gowin, Nathan Gowin,
Preston Gowin, Pryor L. Gowin, William Gowin and Thomas Gowin.
William
Goin and Thomas Goin, both born between 1750 and 1760 and both enumerated in
the 1830 Claiborne County census are the right age to be sons of Shadrack
Going. Zephaniah Gowin, born in 1758 in
Halifax County, Virginia, applied for a Revolutionary pension in Hawkins
County, Tennessee, is also the right age to be a son of Shadrack Going. William Going, born in Hawkins County
between 1754 and 1764 was also the right age.
==O==
In
the case of "Aron Going vs. Philip Going" held in 1778, the defendant
"confessed judgement £100 current money," according to Halifax County
Court Minute Book 9, page 304.
==O==
Zephaniah
Gowin, born about 1758 in Halifax County.
He enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in 1779 from Henry County,
Virginia.26 In 1810, he was
in Rockingham County, North Carolina.21 "Zephamiah Goans, free person of color" was enumerated
in the 1830 census of Roane County, Tennessee [where Nathaniel Gowin
was married in 1813]. On December 18,
1834, he was a justice in Hawkins County, Tennessee when he applied for his
pension.
==O==
William
Goin and Thomas Goin, both born between 1750 and 1760 and both enumerated in
the 1830 Claiborne County census are the right age to be sons of Shadrack
Going. Zephaniah Gowin, born in 1758 in
Halifax County, Virginia, applied for a Revolutionary pension in Hawkins
County, Tennessee, is also the right age to be a son of Shadrack Going. William Going, born in Hawkins County
between 1754 and 1764 was also the right age, according to Donna Gowin
Johnston.
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