MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

All of the counties in the western tip of Virginia and some of West Virginia were formed from land which once lay in Montgomery County prior to the Revolutionary War.

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No members of the Gowen family [or spelling variations] ap­peared in "Montgomery County, Virginia Circa 1790" by Netti Schreiner-Yantis.

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David Goings, regarded as a native of Newburn, Virginia, was born September 15, 1783 of parents unknown, according to the research of Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin, a descendant of Arcadia, California. Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr, sixth-generation descendant of Omaha, Nebraska confirms, referring to the bible record kept by Susannah Williams Goings.  He was married October 30, 1803 at Newburn, in Montgomery County to Susannah Williams who was born there in 1783, according to Hazel M. Wood, a descendant of San Diego, California. 

 

In 1806 Giles County, Virginia was organized with land from Montgomery County, and the young couple found themselves in the new county.  Susannah Williams Goings was born to George Henry Williams and Margaret Harless Williams Octo­ber 2, 1783 in Montgomery County.  George Henry Williams was described as a German, originally known as Georg Heinrich Wilhelm, according to Elke Hall, a descendant.

 

George Henry Williams was born April 8, 1747 and died March 7, 1820 in Giles County.  His will provided that his widow was to receive one-third of "the land I live on and adjoining land on the south side of Sinking Creek." Five daughters, "Elizabeth Albert, Margaret Burk, Polly Hatfield, Susannah Goins and Catherine Stafford" were mentioned in the will.  He also mentioned the children of a daughter-in-law, Widow Williams.  He referred to them as children that she had by my son, Michael Williams.  He bequeathed to his son, Frederick Williams the "plantation on the north side of Sinking Creek, where he now lives."  He also mentions his son, George Henry Williams, Jr. whose land "adjoined David Goins."

 

George Henry Williams also devised to his grandson, Henry Williams, "son of Susannah Goins," one beast when he comes of age.  He also stated that "it is my desire that David Goins and his wife take Henry."  George Henry Williams, Jr. was named executor.  The will was proven in May 1822 by witnesses, John Burk, Christian Snidow and Isaiah Givens.

 

Susannah Williams was further identified by Elke Hall as a cousin of Daniel Harless who was married to Elizabeth Nash in 1797. Their daughter, Polly Harless was married in 1819 in Giles County to James Hall.

 

Susannah Williams was apparently the mother of two sons when she married David Goings.  According to her bible record, she had two sons, "Henry Williams born October 30, 1801 and James Williams born March 29, 1802," before her marriage to David Goings.  "The birth years are probably cor­rect, but the months must be in error," wrote Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr.  Catherine Elizabeth Strawn, a descendant of Arcadia, California, suggests that the sons were fathered by Jacob Williams, unidentified.

 

Elizabeth Williams was married to Jacob Allen Albert who was born in 1757 in Pascotank, North Carolina, according to Elke Hall.

 

Evelyn McKinley Orr wrote, "In April of 1807, David's father-in-law, George Henry Williams, gave him 150 acres of land. The Giles County Deed Book 1 records on the 3rd day of April 1807:

 

"For consideration of love and affection and the further consideration of $1.00, a parcel of land containing 150 acres in the County of Giles on the waters of Sinking Creek, a branch of New River being all that part of two tracts of land that lies eastward of a line beginning at three white oaks on the line of the last patent survey which old line runs from a Spanish oak and white oak N 71 degrees W 180 poles to two white oaks and a black oak on a ridge the dividing line beginning 70 poles from the east corner of said old line and running 24 1/2 degrees west 42 poles to an Ash & white oak thence S 52 degrees W 25 poles to three little white oaks thence S 7 degrees E 188 poles to an elm by the creek side thence S 43 degrees W 75 poIes to a chestnut oak and Spanish oak survey which line runs from two black oaks N 85 degrees E 188 to these white oaks and black oak by a path thence round to the eastward to contain all the land that lies to the eastward of the above described line which is combined in two patents, one patent paid to Henry Sharp assignee of James Salles and is for one hundred twelve acres of land and bears the date 1786 the other patent is paid to George Williams, assignee of Henry Sharp for 370 acres of land which bears the patent date 17 of January 1793."

 

David Goings was listed as a resident of Giles County in the census of 1810, according to "Index to 1810 Virginia Cen­sus" by Madeline W. Crickard.

 

The 1815 Giles County tax roll included "David Goens, white male, over age 16, no slaves, 3 horses, 4 cattle, with land along Sinking Creek near Salt Pond Mt, Doe Creek and Knob Mt."  His land was located adjacent to the home place of his father-in-law, George Henry Williams.

 

He reappeared as the head of a household in the 1820 census of Giles County, page 116:

 

    "Goings, David       white male   26-45

                           white female over 45

                           white male   16-26

                           white male   16-26

                           white female 10-16

                           white female 10-16

                           white male     0-10

                           white male     0-10

                           white male     0-10

                           white female   0-10

                           white female   0-10

                           white female 0-10"

 

Three members of the household were engaged in agriculture.

 

On June 21, 1824 David Goings sold one parcel of land to Guy French for $380 and another parcel to Guy French July 22, 1824 for $550. Other land records in Giles County in 1824 show indenture agreements between David Goings and some creditors to pay off debts.  One agreement was made the 5th day of July 1824 with Henry Williams, the first born son of Susannah Williams Goings. 

 

Sometime after 1824 and before December of 1825 when their daughter Katherine was married, David Goings removed to Montgomery County, Virginia.  Marriage records for his first five daughters are in Montgomery County.

 

"David Goaings" appeared as the head of a household in the 1830 census of Montgomery County, page 67:

 

    "Goaings, David      white male   40-50

                           white female 40-50

                           white male   15-20

                           white female 15-20

                           white female 15-20

                           white male   10-15

                           white male   10-15

                           white male   10-15

                           white male     5-10

                           white male   0-5"

 

Williams family researcher, Ethel Walters of Pembroke, Vir­ginia suggested in 1989 that David Goings had family in Montgomery County, which may have motivated him to move there.

 

Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr wrote:

 

"In 1831 and in 1832, two of the married daughters of David and Susannah left the mountains of the New River area of southwestern Virginia and moved to Indiana. Word had reached Virginia that land was available in Delaware County.  Members of the Goings family were among the very first to purchase land from the federal government in Liberty Township."

 

On December 24, 1831, David sent the following letter to his daughter, Elizabeth Goings Campbell, shortly after she had moved to Indiana. It isn't known if he wrote it or had some else write it for him. The original was written on a large sheet of paper, half of it being used for the correspondence and the other half turned over and sealed with wax to form an envelope:

 

'Dear Children,

 

I take the present opportunity of writing a hasty line to you.  We were glad to hear by Mr. Ribble that you were all well or nearly well.  I truly hope that you may enjoy good health and also that you may be pleased with that fine rich country.  Your letter by Mr. Cecil last fall brought us the distressing news of the death of your daughter, Sally.  It is needless for me now to turn back to notice the afflicting circumstance.  It is our duty to be resigned.

 

My family and all your other relations in this country are well as far as I know.  I will mention the death of one of your aunts, Mrs. Elizabeth Albert which took place several months ago.  Mr. Ribble can tell you more of the news of our neighborhood than I can write. I expect to come and see you next fall.

 

                              Your loving father,

                              David Goings.

 

My daughter Rachel and all my family joins in love to you.'

 

"The letter was sent with a Mr. Ribble who was also moving to Indiana.  Many friends and neighbors of the Goings left the rocky hills of Virginia for cheap and fertile land in Indiana.  In 1939 the original letter was in the possession of Anna Campbell Powers, granddaughter of Elizabeth Goings Campbell.

 

David Goings wrote in the letter of December of 1831 that he would be coming to visit that next fall.  David Susannah and their sons came to Indiana to live about 1833. The eldest son, Frederick, may have come in 1832 with the East family.  Three married daughters remained in Virginia.  In 1832 a cabin on the farm of Ashel Thornburg was converted into a school house, and Anderson R. East, son-in-law of David and Susannah, taught there during that and the succeeding winter. After arriv­ing in 1833, the younger Goings sons probably attended this school and were taught by Anderson East or Samuel Campbell. Schooling in Indiana was paid for by individual subscription until public law provided free schools in 1851-52.

 

On February 21, 1835, "David Goings" purchased land in sec­tion 17 of Liberty township, Delaware County.  It was located 1.25 mile west of Selma, Indiana. The tract book of original land entries lists 40 acres in Sec. 17, twp 20, Range 11E on "1/Nov/1826."  The year "1826" is an obvious typing error in the book and was possibly "01/Nov/1836" the recording date for the February 1835 purchase.

 

It is uncertain whether David Goings or David Goings II en­tered this land.  They were among the first to settle in Liberty township, and section 17 of Liberty township was entered as early as 1833 and as late as 1837.  The first road built in Delaware County was built in 1829. It crossed the township and ran from Windsor, Indiana in Randolph County, due east to Muncitown, [now Muncie] Indiana.  The county had 2,272 in­habitants in 1830.  The area was described as generally level with the soil part loam mixed with sand and very productive.  Heavy stands of timber consisting chiefly of walnut, ash, hick­ory, buckeye, beech, popular, and oak with an undergrowth of redbud, sassafras, and spice.  The chief staples raised were wheat for flour, corn, pork, potatoes and livestock.  Muncie­town had recently been established and was the seat of justice.  The largest rush of settlers came during the years 1835-40.

 

According to Norman Haskell Goings, the original Goings farms in Section 17 were still owned by the Goings family in 1939.  On a visit to Muncie in 1989, I learned from a local his­torian, Ira Bailey, that the Goings were all gone from Delaware County at that time.  Some Campbells and Easts were still in the Muncie area.  A few years after the family came to Indiana, David Goings returned to Virginia.

 

He rode horseback the approximate 300-mile distance to visit his daughter, Katherine Goings Surface, near Newbern, Vir­ginia in Pulaski County.  On his way back to Indiana he visited his daughter, Rachel Goings Burton in Pearisburg, Virginia, where he became sick and died April 26, 1840.  He was 57 years old.  This was before telegraph or mail service, and if friends or family were not traveling to and from, there was no way of getting news.  According to Norman Haskell Goings' history, the family did not know for sometime what had happened to David Going.  He was reportedly buried in an old cemetery there in an unmarked grave.  Descendants made unsuccessful trips there in 1908, 1916, and 1933 in attempts to find his grave and to place a tombstone on it.

 

In a codicil of her will dated January 24, 1846 Susannah Williams Going specified "William Chapman of Virginia to be paid the amount that David Goings went [on] his father's bail."  The meaning of the bequest is obscure, but it is suggested that court records of Delaware County, Indiana or Montgomery County, Virginia might reveal something more about the pur­pose of the trip of David Goings to Virginia.

 

Susannah Williams Goings purchased land from her son Fred­erick Goings and his wife, Hannah Hoover Goings December 29, 1837. The transaction was recorded in May 1838. She paid $125 for 40 acres located in the northeast quarter of Section 17, township 20, Range 11 of Delaware County.  This land was adjacent to the original Goings land and to the East and Campbell farms, as shown on the 1861 atlas of the county.

 

In November 1839, Susannah Williams Goings sold land in Section 17 to A. R. East.  The farms of the Easts, Campbells and Goings were all located northwest of Smithville, Indiana, the oldest village in Liberty township.  It originated with a small group of houses along the White River.  All of the early settlers settled near the rivers first.  In the early 1850s a rail­road, the Bellefontaine & Indianapolis, came through the county near Selma a few miles away, and this sounded the death-knell for Smithfield.

 

On the 18th day of March 1843 Susannah Williams Goings wrote her will:

 

'I, Susannah Goings of the County of Delaware in the State of Indiana do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say,

 

First, it is my will that after my decease all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully paid and satisfied.

 

Second, I give, devise and bequeath to my two sons Lewis Goings and John Williams Goings the farm on which we now reside known and described as follows to wit, all the North West fourth of the North West quarter of Section No. Sixteen in Township No. Twenty North of Range North Eleven East and all of the North East fourth of the North East quarter of Section No. Seventeen in Township No. Twenty North of Range Eleven East. The whole estimate to contain eighty acres share and share alike.

 

Third, it is my will that my three sons William Goings, Lewis Goings and John Williams Goings shall each have a horse after they arrive at the age of twenty one years and that John Williams Goings shall have my bed, bedding and bedstead and one cow.

 

Fourth, it is my will that the balance of my personal property be sold and divided equally amongst my chil­dren, the heirs of those who are deceased to have the share of their deceased parent, namely Henry Williams, James Williams, Elizabeth Campbell, Catherine Surface, Mary East, Margaret Brown, Rachel Burton, Frederick Goings, David Goings, Joseph Addison Goings, William Goings, Lewis Goings, and John Williams Goings.  In testimony I have appointed John Richey of the County of Delaware to be the Executor of this My Last Will and Testament hereby annulling all former wills by me at any time heretofor made or executed.

 

In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of March AD Eighteen Hundred and Forty Three.

                                  Susannah [X] Goings

Witnesses:

    John Richey

    Elizabeth Richey"

 

On the 24th day of January, 1846 she added a codicil to the will, whereby she specified that,

 

'My youngest son, John Williams Goings shall have the North forty, dividing the land East and West and also all the grain and meat that may remain on hand at the time of my decease and also a horse beast worth sixty dollars or its equivalent in cash or other property worth sixty dollars, also the table linen.  It is my will that after my decease, my son Lewis Goings shall have the bay mare and shall have a share of the fruit of the orchard for ten years. John Burton of Virginia to be paid $16.00 and William Chapman of Virginia to be paid the amount that David Goings went his father's bail.  Elizabeth East, my granddaughter to have my clock and Susannah Goings, daughter of my son Joseph Addison to have my table cloth'.

 

"Susannah Goings sold a parcel of land to her son, William Goings October 20, 1843.

 

On the 1850 Federal census she listed a $1,000 value for her farm. Her youngest son, John Williams Goings, was still living at home.  Susannah Williams Goings died September 29, 1855 at age 71.   Her will was probated October 30,1855.

 

In 1989, I visited Truitt Cemetery near Selma where Susannah is buried.  The main road that once passed alongside the cemetery was overgrown with tall grasses. The cemetery, on private land, is completely overgrown with trees and brush.  Vandals and time have destroyed or buried almost all of the headstones. County officials are aware of this. The approximate location is marked on the 1861 Land Atlas. In 1939, Norman Haskell Goings wrote that Susannah had a well preserved marker and a good location in the graveyard.”

 

Hazel M. Wood wrote October 31, 1989, "David Goings was one of those persons with swarthy skin and fine features, sometimes regarded as Melungeons.  Some of his descendants resembled people of Afghanistan or India.  His descendants moved on to Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and a few to Texas."

 

Two sons were born to Susannah Williams before her marriage to David Goings, according to her bible record:

 

    Henry Williams           born October 30, 1801

    James Williams           born March 29, 1802 ?

 

Henry Williams, son of Susannah Williams, was born in Mont­gomery County October 30, 1801.  He was married May 14, 1824 to Juliet Lucas in Giles County. 

 

They appeared as heads of a household in the 1850 census of Giles County:

 

    "Williams,    Henry          49, born in Virginia

                   Juliet   

                   Percilla    22, born in Virginia

                   Margaret A. 20, born in Virginia

                   Andrew       17, born in Virginia

                   Sarah           15, born in Virginia

                   James H.     11, born in Virginia

                   John R.         9, born in Virginia

                   Rachel E.       3, born in Virginia"

 

Norman Haskell Goings wrote in 1939, "before grandmother died Henry, the oldest, got his family together and moved west. They left their wagons in northern Indiana and came south to Delaware County to visit grandmother Goings, the Easts and the Campbells." Norman's father rode his horse with them and they joined Henry's people in Hannibal, Missouri.  They journeyed on to Johnson County, Missouri and settled around Knobnoster, Missouri  and Montserrat, Missouri.  The Delaware County Goings never heard from them again.  He died at Knobnoster, Missouri in Johnson County, according to the research of Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin.

 

James Williams, son of Susannah Williams, was born March 29, 1802, according to his mother's bible record.  "James Williams" was married October 26, 1818 to Anna Echols, ac­cording to Giles County marriage records.  Surety was George Williams, regarded as his grandfather. Peter Echols and Susana Echols, apparently her parents, gave permission for the marriage and witnessed the ceremony.

 

James Williams was security at the marriage of his half-sister Mary "Polly" Goings and Anderson East October 30, 1829 in Montgomery County. 

 

Fourteen children were born to David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings.  Included were:

 

    Elizabeth Goings                 born March 29, 1804

    Katherine Goings                born April 21, 1805

    Mary "Polly" Goings              born January 29, 1807

    Margaret "Peggy" Goings       born February 5, 1810

    Rachel Goings                born November 27, 1811

    Sally Goings                       born November 14, 1813

    Frederick Goings                born May 1, 1815

    David Goings, Jr.                born March 22, 1817

    George Goings                   born October 4, 1818

    Joseph Addison Goings          born February 20, 1820

    William Goings                   born January 1, 1822

    Lewis A. Goings                    born June 30, 1823

    John Williams Goings         born December 16, 1826

 

Elizabeth Goings, daughter of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born March 29, 1804 in Montgomery County.  She was married there December 1, 1829 to Samuel Graham Campbell.  He was born in Londonderry, New Hamp­shire October 30, 1797 to Isaac Campbell and Hannah Moore Campbell.

 

They preceded her parents in the move to Delaware County, In­diana in 1831.  On May 12, 1832 Samuel Graham Campbell and his brother-in-law A. R. East attended a government auc­tion in which land in Liberty township in Delaware County was sold with the starting bid at $1.25 per acre.  He bought a quar­ter-section of raw land and 10 acres of improved land.

 

Elizabeth Goings Campbell died there in Liberty township February 21, 1882 and was buried in Bortzfield Cemetery.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    George W. Campbell              born September 22, 1830

    Sarah "Sally" Campbell           born in 1832

    Eliza Campbell                born March 22, 1834

    Martha Jane Campbell         born May 11, 1835

    William Harrison Campbell     born June 9, 1838

    James Madison Campbell       born March 16, 1840

    Mary Campbell                   born June 2, 1842

    Samuel Geary Campbell          born April 30, 1844

    Elizabeth Campbell             born June 27, 1846

 

Katherine Goings, daughter of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born April 21, 1805 in Montgomery County.  She was married there December 21, 1829 to Jacob Sur­face, according to "Montgomery County, Virginia Marriages, 1724-1850."  The research of Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin shows their marriage date as December 31, 1825.

 

They remained in Virginia when her parents removed to Indiana.  In 1840 they lived at Newbern, Virginia.

 

Mary "Polly" Goings, daughter of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born January 29, 1807 in Giles County.  She was married October 31, 1829 to R. Anderson East.  They accompanied the Campbells in a move to Delaware County, In­diana in 1831.  He purchased 160 acres of land there in a gov­ernment auction in 1832.  He was enumerated in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census as the head of a household.  She died there July 23, 1877 and was buried in Truitt Cemetery.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Elizabeth East                     born about 1830

    James East                      born about 1832

    David C. East                     born about 1833

    Addline "Addie" East          born about 1835

    Crockett T. East                 born October 15, 1838

    William East                   born about 1840

    Anderson R. "Andrew" East       orn about 1847

 

Margaret "Peggy" Goings, daughter of David Goings and Su­sannah Williams Goings, was born February 5, 1810 in Giles County.  She was married there December 22, 1829 to Abram A. Brown, according to "Montgomery County, Virginia Marriages, 1724-1850."  They remained in Virginia when her family re­moved to Indiana.  She was mentioned in the will of her mother dated in 1843.

 

Rachel Goings, daughter of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born November 27, 1811 in Giles County.  She was married July 17, 1831 to John A. Burton. In 1840 they lived near Pearisburg, Virginia.  She died there De­cember 18, 1841.  "John Burton of Virginia," was to receive $16 from the estate of his Susannah Williams Goings, accord­ing to her will written March 18, 1843.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Sarah Burton                      born about 1833

    Cynthia Burton                   born about 1835

    Margaret Burton                 born about 18364

    John H. Burton                   born about 1838

    Rhoda Burton                     born about 1840

 

Sally Goings, daughter of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born November 14, 1813 in Giles County.  She died as a young child.

 

Frederick Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born May 1, 1815 in Giles County.  He accompa­nied his parents in the move to Delaware County, Indiana and was married there August 25, 1836 to Hannah Hoover, accord­ing to Delaware County Marriage Book C-1, page 123.  She was born December 30, 1816.  In 1832 he purchased 40 acres in Delaware County in a federal land auction. In 1837 he sold this land to his mother. 

 

He was enumerated in the 1850 census of Brown County, Indi­ana, Jackson township as the head of a household:

 

    Goings,   Frederick     35, born in Virginia

               Hannah       

               James          13, born in Indiana

               William        11, born in Indiana

               Rachel           9, born in Indiana

               John              8, born in Indiana

               Mary             6, born in Indiana

               Sarah             2, born in Indiana"

 

He died there April 8, 1860.  She died in Indiana May 8, 1872.

 

Children born to Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings include:

 

    James Anderson Goings             born September 7, 1837

    William Riley Goings              born April 16, 1839

    Rachel Emaline Goings               born Nov. 26, 1840

    John Madison Goings             born October 5, 1843

    Mary Ann Goings                   born May 27, 1846

    Sarah Jane "Sally" Goings          born May 5, 1848

    Susan Catherine Goings              born Nov. 19, 1851

    Elam Hamilton Goings            born January 5, 1854

    Hannah Margaret "Maggie" Goings born May 11, 1857

 

James Anderson Goings, son of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born September 7, 1837 in Delaware County, Indiana. He was married March 31, 1863 to Mary Ann Cripe.  They lived near Durham, Missouri in Lewis County, according to the research of Norman Haskell Goings.

 

Children born to James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings include:

 

    John Lewis Goings             born about 1865

    William Everett Goings           born November 26, 1866

    Clarence Goings                 born about 1868

    Ida Florence Goings               born March 29, 1871

    Melvin Goings                born about 1874

    Norma Goings                born about 1878

    Minnie Goings                born August 18, 1882

    Annie Goings                     born about 1885

    Jessie Goings                     born about 1887

    Grover A. Goings                   born January 16, 1889

    Samuel Frederick Goings        born August 22, 1891

 

John Lewis Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1865.

 

William Everett Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born November 28, 1866.  He died April 16, 1889.

 

Clarence Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1868. 

 

Ida Florence Goings, daughter of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born March 29, 1871.  She was married about 1891, husband's name Stephenson.

 

Melvin Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1874.  He was married March 12, 1907 to Turah Casey.

 

Children born to Melvin Goings and Turah Casey Goings in­clude:

 

    William Casey Goings         born about 1909

    Grace Opal Goings             born about 1911

    Mary Lee Goings                born about 1915

 

Norma Goings, daughter of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1878.  She was married about 1900, husband's name Hausman.

 

Minnie Goings, daughter of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born August 18, 1882.  She was married about 1902, husband's name Johnson.  She died February 21, 1913.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Daniel Johnson                   born about 1904

    Frederick Johnson              born about 1907

    Ester Florence Johnson           born about 1911

 

Annie Goings, daughter of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1885. 

 

Jessie Goings, daughter of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born about 1887.  She was married about 1907, husband's name Pettis.

 

Grover A. Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born January 16, 1889 in Haywood, Missouri. 

 

Children born to Grover A. Goings include:

 

    Loren Goings                         born July 29, 1911

    Chester Goings                      born March 11, 1913

    Thelma Goings                       born October 19, 1914

    Harold Goings                    born February 1, 1917

 

Samuel Frederick Goings, son of James Anderson Goings and Mary Ann Cripe Goings, was born August 22, 1891. 

 

Children born to Samuel Frederick Goings include:

 

    Mary Pansie Goings                   born October 13, 1914

    Nellie Fern Goings                  born October 10, 1915

 

William Riley Goings, son of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born April 16, 1839 in Brown County, Indiana.  He was married about 1866 to Ellen S. Fessler. He removed to Fredonia, Kansas in Wilson County and raised a large family, according to the re­search of Norman Haskell Goings.  He died May 24, 1900 in Wilson County.  Children born to William Riley Goings and Ellen S. Fessler Goings are unknown.

 

Rachel Emaline Goings, daughter of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born November 26, 1840 in Brown County, Indiana. She was married about 1857 to John Wesley Hickman, according to Shirley Bogart Harper.  They were enumerated in the 1860 census of Morgan County, Indiana. She died December 8, 1926 at Ft. Scott, Kansas and was buried in East Liberty Cemetery in Vernon County, Missouri, according to Rosalie Thomas Holblen. 

 

Children born born to them include:

 

    James Henry Hickman     born May 14, 1858

    Hannah Hickman             born December 28, 1859

    George William Hickman born September 28, 1861

    Sarah A. Hickman           born September 5, 1863

    Susie Violette Hickman       born April 14, 1865

    Mary L. Hickman            born September 25, 1867

    Charles Anderson Hickman born September 25, 1872

    John Riley Hickman        born March 1, 1875

    Ira Mayo Hickman [twin] born September 11, 1877

    Laura May Hickman [twin]  born September 11, 1877

    Perry R. Hickman           born December 18, 1879

 

James Henry Hickman, son of John Wesley Hickman and Rachel Emeline Goings Hickman, was born May 14, 1858 in Brown County, Indiana.  He was married January 1, 1883 to Mosie Ellen Van Meter in Vernon County, Missouri.  She was born February 9, 1865 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to Moses Hart Van Meter and Amanda Ellen Richardson Van Meter.  They lived in Vernon County until about 1895 and then removed to Oklahoma.  She died May 1, 1939 at Dacoma, Oklahoma in Woods County, and he died there November 3, 1948.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Lula Hickman                 born April 29, 1885

    Effie Hickman             born January 28, 1887

    Bertie Hickman               born April 1, 1888

    Stella Hickman            born November 13, 1889

    Azro Blake Hickman           born November 6, 1891

    Claude Hickman             born September 5, 1893

    Alta Hickman                  born November 19, 1900

 

Effie Hickman, daughter of James Henry Hickman and Mosie Ellen Van Meter Hickman, was born January 28, 1887 at Stotesbury, Missouri in Vernon County.  She was married March 1, 1905 in Kiowa, Kansas to Fred Thomas who was born November 19, 1887 in Seward County, Kansas to Charles Henry Thomas and Mary Ellen Peterson Thomas.  He died October 8, 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri and was buried in Blairstown, Missouri.  She died there June 15, 1945.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Lloyd C. Thomas           born January 1, 1906

    Jessie Mae Thomas         born August 1, 1907

    Edith Thomas                 born October 13, 1908

    Melvin Blake Thomas      born May 7, 1910

    Alta Thomas                   born April 11, 1916

 

Melvin Blake Thomas, son of Fred Thomas and Effie Hickman Thomas, was born May 7, 1910 at Alva, Oklahoma.  He was married June 2, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri to Gladys Alma Waterman.  She was born November 6, 1907 in Collins, Missouri to Royal Alfred Waterman and Hannah May Lytle.  In 1930 they lived in Kansas City and shortly afterward removed to California. He died October 20, 1988 in Crescent City, California.  She died November 1, 1995 in Bend, Oregon and was buried in Crescent City.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Ramona Ruth Thomas    born August 4, 1930

    William Lloyd Thomas        born August 19, 1936

    Rosalie Mae Thomas          born Sepember 1, 1941

    Louis Royal Thomas          born July 5, 1944

 

Ramona Ruth Thomas, daughter of Melvin Blake Thomas and Gladys Alma Waterman Thomas, was born August 4, 1930 in Kansas City. In 1997 she, a Foundation member, lived in Eureka, California.

 

William Lloyd Thomas, son of Melvin Blake Thomas and Gladys Alma Waterman Thomas, was born August 19, 1936 in Pasadena, California. He died June 21, 1984 in Vale, Oregon.

 

Rosalie Mae Thomas, daughter of Melvin Blake Thomas and Gladys Alma Waterman Thomas, was born September 1, 1941 in Bakersfield, California.  She was married about 1950 to Jerro Rowden.  She was remarried October 19, 1985 to James Lester Holben in Reno, Nevada.  Six children, names unknown, were born to Jerry O. Rowden and Rosalie Mae Thomas Rowden.  In 1997, they lived in Golden Valley, Arizona where she is active in the research of her family history.

 

Louis Royal Thomas, son of Melvin Blake Thomas and Gladys Alma Waterman, was born July 5, 1944 in Eureka, California.

 

John Madison Goings, son of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born October 5, 1843 in Brown County, INdiana. He died in 1861, perhaps in the Civil War.

 

Mary Ann Goings, daughter of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born May 27, 1846 in Brown County, Indiana.  She was married about 1866 to George Graham. She was remarried to John Edward Jennings November 19, 1876 at Monticello, Missouri.  She died March 24, 1916.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Addison Graham                        born about 1866

    Sarah Addie Graham                      born about 1869

    Franklin Spencer Jennings              born July 14, 1879

 

Sarah Addie Graham, daughter of George Graham and Mary Ann Goings Graham, was born about 1866.  She was married about 1886, husband's name Jennings.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Elbert Jennings                           born about 1888

    Laura Jennings                           born about 1890

    John Jennings                                 born about 1892

    Mary Jennings                            born about 1895

   

Mary Jennings, daughter of Sarah Addie Graham Jennings, was born about 1895.  She was married about 1913, husband's name McCubbins.  Later she was remarried to John Jennings.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Frank Jennings                           born about 1920

    Ed Jennings                                born about 1922

    Susie Jennings                            born about 1924

    Ralph Jennings                           born about 1927

 

Franklin Spencer Jennings, son of John Jennings and Mary Ann Goings Graham Jennings, was born about 1920.  He was married about 1940 to Nellie Teague. 

 

Children born to Frank Jennings and Nellie Teague Jennings include:

 

    Hazel Jennings                            born about 1942

 

Hazel Jennings, daughter of Franklin Spencer Jennings and Nellie Teague Jennings, was born October 15, 1916 in Lewis County, Missouri.  She was married March 7, 1936 to Everett Wood.  In 1993 and in 1997 she lived in San Diego, California where she, a member of Gowen Research Foundation, was engaged in family history research.

 

Sarah Jane "Sally" Goings, daughter of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born May 5, 1848 in Brown County, Indiana..  She was married about 1866 to Judge George W. McLean.

 

Susan Catherine Goings, daughter of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born November 19, 1851 in Brown County, Indiana.  She was married October 26, 1875 to William Whitely Scott.  She died April 28, 1938 and was buried in East Liberty Cemetery in Vernon County, Missouri.

 

Elam Hamilton Goings, son of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born January 5, 1854 in Brown County, Indiana. He was married about 1877, wife name Emaline.  He died in 1924 at LaGrance, Missouri and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery. Children born to Elam Hamilton Goings and Emaline Goings are unknown.

 

Hannah Margaret "Maggie" Goings, daughter of Frederick Goings and Hannah Hoover Goings, was born May 11, 1857 in Brown County, Indiana.  She was married about 1875, husband's name Attebury.  She died at LaGrange, Missouri.

 

David Goings, Jr, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born March 22, 1817 in Giles County.  He was brought to Indiana by his parents and was married there March 7, 1839 to Margaret King, daughter of Johnson King, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-1, page 230.  On May 7, 1840 David Goings, Jr. bought land from David Rath in Liberty township, according to Delaware County deed records.

 

It is believed that she died about 1852 and that he was remar­ried November 8, 1853 to Mary Legate, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-3, page 54.  In 1870 his wife Elizabeth Goings died and was buried in Union Church Cemetery. His obituary stated that he was married four times, one of his later wives was Elizabeth Smith Goings. 

 

He died April 15, 1892 and was buried in Union Church Cemetery.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  According to his obituary, 17 children were born to them.  Several Goings infants were buried near his grave.

 

His obituary, printed in the April 28, 1892 edition of the "Muncie Times," stated that he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Albany, Indiana at the time of his death which occurred at the home of his brother, John Williams Goings.

 

Children born to David Goings, Jr. and Margaret King Goings include:

 

    James Goings                         born in January 1842

    Alma Goings                          born about 1843

    William Goings                       born in March 1848

    Isaac Goings                          born about 1850

 

Children born to David Goings, Jr. and Mary Legate Goings [and other wives after Margaret King Goings] include:

 

    George Goings                       born about 1854

    Benjamin Goings                    born about 1860

    Martha Goings                    born about 1864

 

Children born to David Goings, Jr. and Elizabeth Smith Goings include:

 

    Carrie Maria Goings                   born March 5, 1867

 

James Goings, son of David Goings, Jr. and Margaret King Goings, was born in January 1842 in Delaware County.  He enlisted in Company K, 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regi­ment and was killed April 10, 1864.  He was buried in Truitt Cemetery in Liberty township.

 

Alma Goings, daughter of David Goings, Jr. and Margaret King Goings, was born about 1843 in Delaware County.  She was married there December 24, 1860 to Luther Miller, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-5, page 246. 

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Eli Miller                             born about 1863

    Harriet Miller                          born about 1865

    Lucille Miller                          born about 1868

    Herbert Miller                     born about 1872

    Luther Miller                           born about 1875

 

William Goings, son of David Goings, Jr. and Margaret King  Goings, was born in March 1848 in Delaware County.  He was married there December 22, 1867 to Adeline Godlove.  He died December 4, 1917.

 

Isaac Goings, son of David Goings, Jr. and Margaret King Go­ings, was born about 1850 in Delaware County.  He was mar­ried there March 4, 1871 to Elizabeth Sellers, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-5, page 273.  Children born to Isaac Goings and Elizabeth Sellers Goings are unknown.

 

George Goings, son of David Goings, Jr. and Mary Legate Goings, was born about 1854 in Delaware County.

 

Benjamin Goings, son of David Goings, Jr. and Mary Legate Goings, was born about 1860 in Delaware County.  He died at age 12 February 18, 1872 and was buried in Bortzfield Ceme­tery.

 

Martha Goings, daughter of David Goings, Jr. and Mary Legate Goings, was born about 1864 in Delaware County.  She was married December 17, 1881 to Robert Winget.

 

Carrie Maria Goings, daughter of David Goings, Jr. and Elizabeth Williams Goings, was born March 5, 1867 in Delaware County. She was married about 1882, husband’s name Harness.

 

George Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born October 4, 1818 in Giles County and died as a young child.

 

Joseph Addison Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah William Goins, was born February 20, 1820 in Giles County, according the research of Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr.  He was married September 5, 1841 to Delilah Tharp, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-1, page 347.  She was born in Ohio July 4, 1825.  She was the daughter of Alexander Tharp and Basheba Davis Tharp.  In 1847 they continued in Delaware County, and in 1850 they were enumerated in Randolph County, Indiana.

 

Joseph Addison Goings joined his brother Lewis A. Goings in moving to Benton County, Iowa.  On August 6, 1855 they jointly purchased 200 acres in Polk township. When his brother elected to leave Iowa, Joseph Addison Goings pur­chased his land from him. 

 

Joseph Addison Goings made a trip back to Delaware County, Indiana to visit family members remaining there about 1874. Once his brother John Williams Goings came to Iowa for a visit.  He came on horseback and crossed the Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa, walking his horse across solid ice.

 

Joseph Addison Goings was struck by lightning while working on his farm June 18, 1877 and was killed instantly, according to the research of Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr.  He was buried in Spencer's Grove Cemetery.

 

The "Vinton Eagle" reporting on the death in its edition of June 17, 1877 stated,

 

"One week ago last Monday Mr. J. A. Goings of Polk township was killed by lightning.  While the storm was approaching, he went to the field and told the man who was working that he had the horses unhitched and to go to the house.  He did so and asked Mr. Goins to ride, but he declined, saying he preferred to walk.  Before he reached the house, the storm overtook him, and he took shelter under a tree where he was struck and killed."

 

He was buried there in Spencers Grove Cemetery. At the time of the 1880 census Delilah Tharp Goings was continuing the farming operation with the assistance of her 18-year-old son, William E. Goings and her 14-year-old daughter, Mary "Minnie" Goings.

 

Delilah Tharp Goings was remarried about 1881 to A. J. Fran­cis.  On June 28, 1881 Delilah Tharp Goings Francis was ap­pointed guardian of her minor children.

 

Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr wrote of the pain and suffering that afflicted the family after the marriage:

 

"Sometime after the 1880 census and before June, 28 1801, Delilah had married A. J. Francis, and with him came a bag full of trouble.  This marriage offered a dif­ficult time period for Delilah and her family. Benton County court records show that A.J. Francis married Delilah to gain control of the large amount of property she owned.  He successfully defrauded her of almost all of it before he abandoned her. 

 

Prior to 1884, she and her children failed in attempts to transfer the land back to her.  It was stated by her heirs that she had property worth a considerable amount of money at the time of her marriage to A.J. Francis.  I saw no record of her getting any land back. Her divorce was final October 9, 1884. In the 1885 census the scoundrel, A. J. Francis and four of his children were living on the former farm of Delilah and Joseph Addison Goings.

 

They had settled, improved and made it a successful business. What a sad and tragic ending.  In 1884 a guardian was appointed to help handle Delilah's money and affairs.  She apparently developed an inability to handle the swindle and events leading to it. She had married J.A. at about age 15-16 and apparently was not prepared to deal with finances after his sudden death. Though she signed her own name, spelling it as Delilah, there was little schooling for women when she was growing up in the early wilderness of Ross County, Ohio.  In September 1888 a guardianship report listed Delilah living in the town of Walker, Iowa, renting property and in reasonably good health and was supporting herself.

 

At the time of this report she was requesting funds, not to exceed $400 from her estate. She wanted to buy a small house so she could take in one or two borders to add to her support.  In 1894 proceeds from the sale of her property in Vinton, Iowa, was used for her to buy real estate in Independence, Iowa in Buchanan County.  This could have been for a place to live near some of her children.  Delilah Tharp Goings died there February 20, 1899 and was buried beside her husband."

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Susannah Goings                born in 1842

    Matilda Goings                   born in 1844

    John Goings                       born in 1847

    Sarah E. Goings                 born about 1850

    George W. Goings             born December 26, 1853

    Alexander Goings               born in 1856

    Clarisa Goings                born in 1858

    Samantha Goings                born in 1859

    Jane Goings                    born in 1860

    William E. Goings               born in 1862

    Mary "Minnie" Goings        born in 1864

    Nancy Goings                    born in 1867

 

Susannah Goings, daughter of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in Indiana in 1842.  She was married January 6, 1861 to John F. Robey in Benton County.  He was born in 1839 and died October 4, 1868 at age 29. 

 

Susannah Goings Robey, a widow was enumerated in the 1870 census of Benton County, Polk township:

 

    "Robey,   Susannah     28, born in Indiana

               Elmyrrh         7, born in Iowa

               Mary             6, born in Iowa

               Joseph     A.      5, born in Iowa

 

Susannah Goings Robey was remarried to Merida Brammer, a man 22 years older than she.  They were enumerated in the 1885 state census of Benton County, Polk township:

 

    "Brammer,   Merida     65

                   Susannah     43

    Robey,        Joseph A.        19"

 

She died of heart failure March 16, 1899, at age 58, according to Benton County death records.

 

Children born to John F. Robey and Susannah Goings Robey include:

 

    John F. Robey, Jr.                         born in 1862

    Elmira Robey                                 born in 1863

    Mahitabell G. Robey                          born in 1864

    Mary Robey                                  born in 1864

    Joseph A. Robey                           born in 1865

 

Matilda Goings, daughter of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in 1844 in Indiana, probably Randolph County. She was enumerated at age 26 living in her parents' home in Benton County.  She was married about 1872 to Cyrus H. Robinson who was born June 1, 1837.

 

He enlisted as a private in Company A, 105th Illinois Infantry Regiment and served during the Civil War.  She died in 1877, three months after her father's death.

 

John Goings, son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Going, was born July 10, 1847 in Randolph County, Indiana.  On July 3, 1867 he was married to 16-year-old Margaret Kelso who was born January 1, 1851 to Samuel Kelso and Catherine Kelso. Margaret Kelso Goings died December 19, 1873 at age 23.

 

John Goings was remarried September 23, 1876 to Mrs. Lucinda Bradburn Gordon Brown, widow of Joseph Brown with three Children. She was born in Illinois November 29, 1840 to William Smith Gordon and Anna Wilson Gordon. 

 

John Goings was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1880 census:

 

    "Goings,  John        31, born in Indiana

               Lucy           37, born in Illinois

               Abbie          12, born in Iowa

               Albert          10, born in Iowa

               Mary             8, born in Iowa

               Delilah       3, born in Iowa

               Lucy          6/12, born in Iowa

    Brown     Isaac           12, born in Iowa

               Annie            8, born in Iowa"

 

By the time of the 1885 Iowa census, the family had dwindled to just:

 

    "Goings,  John        36

               Lucy           42

               Abby           17

               Mary           13

               Delilah       8

    Brown     Annie          13"

 

The years of 1882 and 1883 had brought much tragedy, with the deaths of three children and the loss of his mother's farm.

 

Lucinda Bradburn Gordon Brown Goings died in Benton County, Iowa in 1901, and John Goings was remarried to Alice Cushman. 

 

They were enumerated in the 1925 state census of Linn County, Iowa:

 

    "Goings,  John    77, retired farmer, Baptist

               Alice        69"

 

He died in Linn County, Iowa January 19, 1929. He was buried in Bear Creek Cemetery beside his second wife..

 

Children born to John Goings and Margaret Kelso Goings in­clude:

 

    Abigail J. Goings                born in September 1869

    Albert J. Goings                 born September 1, 1870

    Mary M. Goings                 born in December 1872

 

Children born to John Goings and Lucinda Bradburn Gordon Brown Goings include:

 

    Delilah "Della" Goings        born December 5, 1876

    Lucy Goings                      born in 1879

    Willy Goings                      born in 1881

 

Abigail J. Goings, daughter of John Goings and Margaret Kelso Goings, was born in September 1869.  She was married September 12, 1886 to Glen Green Fulton in Benton County.  He was born in September 1859. 

 

Albert J. Goings, son of John Goings and Margaret Kelso Go­ings, was born September 1, 1869.  He died at age 13 December 14, 1883 in the same diphtheria epidemic that killed his half sister and half brother on December 9 of that year.

 

Mary M. Goings, daughter of John Goings and Margaret Kelso Goings, was born in December 1872 in Benton County.  She died April 6, 1888 at age 15 and was buried near her mother in Spencers Grove Cemetery.

 

Delilah "Della" Goings, daughter of John Goings and Lucinda Brad­burn Gordon Goings, was born in 1876 in Benton County, Iowa.  She was married October 23, 1895 to Frederick Hoffman who was born in 1874 in Linn County. 

 

Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr described their life:

 

"On October 23, 1895. at age 21, Fred married 18-year-old Delilah "Della" Goings whose family lived on a farm about eight miles west of Fred's family.  Soon after their marriage they rented the original farm home of his parents, Frederick and Sylvia Hoffman where he grew up.

 

The 1900 census enumerates them with daughters Pauline, age 3, and Marian, age 2, living on this farm in Grant township in Linn County.  According to family sources, about 1902 they moved to the 80-acre farm of Della's father, John Goings where Della grew up.  Della's mother Lucinda died in 1901.  This event proba­bly contributed to Fred and Della's move to this farm. About 1903 they built a large new home which is still there in 1993.  The old wood shed, still standing, was part of the original Goings house where Fred and Della and daughters lived while building the new house. Fred became a prosperous farmer and expanded the farm to around 200 acres. 

 

There was some association with the Spencers Grove Church and the Bear Creek Methodist Church which was located on Bear Creek in Harrison township.  It was through association with this church, located a few miles southwest of the Hoffman farm that my mother, Marian and her sister, Pauline, met and married the McKinley brothers.

 

Bear Creek Church was established about 1853 when the first settlers came to the area and was the center for church and neighborhood activities until 1921.  The Methodist Conference sold the property to Harrison township, for $150 to be used as a voting place, and it is still used for that purpose today. It has a colorful his­tory which includes stories of bands of wandering Gyp­sies who camped on the church grounds.

 

Fred Hoffman was an ardent Democrat in politics as was his father before him. Della was inclined toward the Re­publicans.  I recall vividly the 1940 presidential elec­tion.  This was during the time I was living on the farm with my grandparents.

 

Grandmother wanted to vote for the Republican Wen­dell Willkie.  She could not drive and Grandad did not take her to vote, and a real fuss occurred. 

 

I recall Fred being slightly under six feet tall and of av­erage weight.  As a young man, he had dark brown or black hair. Della was a very petite woman with slightly olive skin and very pretty with fine features. Her hair appeared to be black with dark penetrating eyes. She had small dainty hands and feet and was always neat and smartly dressed.

 

In later years Della suffered from asthma.  She died on the family farm in April of 1947 at age 71.  Services were held in  Spencers Grove Church, and she was buried in the Walker, Iowa Cemetery.  Fred continued to work on the farm with his son Freddie and family who carried on the farming operation.

 

Fred became ill during the winter of 1957-58 while liv­ing with his son, Robert, in Independence, Iowa.  He died of coronary thrombosis January 3, 1958, two days shy of his 84th birthday.  He was buried beside Della in the Walker Cemetery.  The obituary in the Independence newspaper read as follows:

 

'Funeral services for Fred Hoffman, lifetime resident of the Walker community, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Swanson Funeral home in Independence. The Rev. L.C. Beenken, pastor of the Quasgueton Union Church officiated.  Burial was in the Walker cemetery. Mr. Hoffman died January 30 at the home of his son Robert Hoffman in Independence, where he had been making his home the past winter.  He was born February 2, 1874 in Linn county, the son of Fred and Sylvia Bumgartner Hoffman. He lived in the Walker community his entire lifetime and for the past 60 years resided on a farm eight miles west of Walker.  On Oct. 23, 1895 he married Della Goings.  She preceded him in death in 1947. He is survived by two son's Robert, Independence, Fred, Walker; three daughters, Mrs. Pauline Brody, Center Point; Mrs. Marian McKinley, Independence; Mrs. Joseph Lechtenberg, Libertyville, Illinois, 13 grandchil­dren and 12 great-grandchildren.  He is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. J.S. Archibald, Greeley, Colorado; Miss Ada Hoffman, Los Angeles, California and Miss Maude Hoffman, Cedar Rapids and one brother, J. D. Hoffman.'"

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Pauline Hoffman                 born February 6, 1897

    Marian Lucille Hoffman          born May 27, 1898

    Anna Belle Hoffman               born February 14, 1903

    Robert Brian Hoffman        born August 2, 1910

    John Frederick Hoffman         born September 10, 1917

 

Pauline Hoffman, daughter of John Frederick Hoffman and Delilah "Della" Goings Hoffman, was born February 6, 1897. in Linn County.  She was married November 22, 1916 to Grover Cleveland McKinley.

 

Marian Lucille Hoffman, daughter of Fred Hoffman and Delilah Goings Hoffman, was born in Linn County in 1898.  She was married in June 1925 to Merton Wallace McKinley who was born in Benton County in 1895.  He died in Linn County in 1964, and she died in Fayette County, Iowa in 1979.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Evelyn Lee McKinley                     born in 1932

 

Evelyn Lee McKinley, daughter of Merton Wallace McKinley and Marian Lucille Hoffman McKinley, was born in 1932 in Mitchell County, Iowa.  She was married in June 1958 to John Orr.  In 1993 they lived in Omaha, Nebraska where she, the chairman of the Melungeon Research Team for Gowen Re­search Foundation, was actively engaged in the research of her Goings ancestors in particular and the Melungeons in general. In that year she became a member of the Melungeon Documentary Film Committee. 

 

Children born to John Orr and Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr in­clude:

 

    Toy Lynn Orr                            born in 1960

    Tracy Ann Orr                       born in 1962

    Terry Lou Orr                            born in 1964

 

Anna Belle Hoffman, daughter of John Frederick Hoffman and Delilah "Della" Goings Hoffman, was born February 14, 1903. She was married about 1919 to Frank Bland.  He died at age 34 in 1953. She was remarried to Floyd Brooks and removed to Libertyville, Illinois where he died of tuberculosis She was re­married to Joe Lechtenburg and lived in Wood­stock, Illinois.  He died November 1, 1982 of cancer.

 

Children born to Frank Bland and Anna Belle Hoffman Bland include:

 

    Donald Bland                                 born in 1919

 

Children born to Floyd Brooks and Anna Belle Hoffman Bland Brooks include:

 

    Johnny Brooks                       born about 1924

 

Robert Brian Hoffman, son of John Frederick Hoffman and Delilah "Della" Goings Hoffman, was born August 2, 1910 in Benton County.  He was married to Mildred Hand about 1940.  He died April 17, 1968 in Iowa City, Iowa.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Robert Dean Hoffman         born December 15, 1944

    Marshall Joseph Hoffman       born in 1947

   

John Frederick Hoffman, son of John Frederick Hoffman and Delilah "Della" Goings Hoffman, was born September 10, 1917 in Benton County.  He was married March 11, 1937 to Lola Morris.  He died July 11, 1990 at Vinton, Iowa and was buried in Walker Cemetery.

 

Robert Brian Hoffman, son of John Frederick Hoffman and Delilah "Della" Goings Hoffman, was born August 2, 1910 in Benton County, Iowa. 

 

Lucy Goings, daughter of John Goings and Lucinda Bradburn Gordon Goings, was born about 1879 in Benton County.  She died of diphtheria December 9, 1883 at age four.

 

Willy Goings, son of John Goings and Lucinda Bradburn Gor­don Goings, was born in 1881 in Benton County.  He died of diphtheria December 9, 1883 at age two and was buried in Bear Creek Cemetery.

 

Sarah E. Goings, daughter of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in Randolph County, Indiana about 1850. She was married August 27, 1866 in Benton County to Benjamin F. Manwell.  She died in 1922 at age 72 and was buried in Spencers Grove Cemetery in Benton County.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Charles W. Manwell            born about 1875

 

George W. Goings, son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in Indiana December 26, 1853.  He was married June 1, 1873 to Polly Fetherkile in Benton County.  

 

George W. Goings was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Buchanan County, Enumeration District 87, page 3, Homer township:

 

    "Goings,  George W.      26, born in Indiana

               Polly               26, born in Iowa

               Joseph A.              6, born in Kansas

               Sarah D.            4, born in Iowa

               Maud E.            2, born in Iowa

               Ellen A.         6/12, born in Iowa"

 

George W. Goings died May 13, 1883 at age 30. Polly Fetherkile Goings died 40 years later, March 3, 1923.  They were buried in Spencers Grove Cemetery.

 

Alexander Goings, son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in 1856 in Benton County.  He was married May 1, 1876 in Linn County, Iowa to Juletty Glimpse.

 

Alexander Goings was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Linn County, Enumeration District 277, page 20, Washington township:

 

    "Goings,  Alexander            25, born in Iowa

               Letty               21, born in Illinois

               Bertha                3, born in Iowa

               Arthur               1, born in Iowa"

 

Two other persons were enumerated in the household.  Alexander Goings did not reappear in the 1885 or 1890 enu­merations.

 

Samantha Goings, daughter son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born about 1859 in Benton County.  She was married December 27, 1875 to George W. Walker with the consent of her parents.  She died before the death of her father in June 1877.

 

Jane Goings, daughter son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born about 1860 in Benton County.  She was age 17 when her father died in 1877, but did not ap­pear in the 1880 enumeration with her mother.

 

William E. Goings, son of Joseph Addison Goings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born about 1862 in Benton County.  He was enumerated at age 18, living in his mother's household. He applied for a marriage license to marry Rosina McCalley July 22, 1880, however the license was not returned to the county clerk's office.

 

William E. Goings, a resident of Independence, Iowa in Buchanan County, was named in his mother's will as the ad­ministrator of her estate in 1899.  He died of appendicitis September 4, 1903, according to Buchanan County death records.

 

William E. Goings and Rosina McCalley may have married later, according to the research of Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr.  Rosina Goings, a widow age 49 appeared in the 1910 census of Linn County, Washington township in the 1910 census:

 

    "Goings,  Rosina         49

               Opal        17

               Pearl              7" 

 

Mary "Minnie" Goings, daughter son of Joseph Addison Go­ings and Delilah Tharp Goings, was born in Benton County in 1864.  She was listed as a 14-year-old in the probate records of her father who died in 1877.  She is believed to have lived in Center Point, Iowa in Linn County in 1884.

 

William Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born in Giles County January 1, 1822.  He was brought to Delaware County by his parents.  He was married there August 31, 1845 to Susannah Bortzfield, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-2, page 167.  She was the daughter of John Bortzfield and Mary Bortzfield, who was born July 18, 1827.  He was enumerated in 1850 as the owner of a $2,000 farm, and in 1860 he showed the value of his land at $12,000.  William Goings and William Miller were shown as grain dealers in Selma, according to "History of Delaware County."

 

William Goings, farmer and grain dealer, died there March 10, 1890 and was buried in Bortzfield Cemetery.  The  "Muncie Times" in its edition of November 3, 1890 stated, "Word reached the city this morning of the death of Mr. William Go­ings of Selma, last night after a lingering illness.  Mr. Goings was one of the county's oldest and respected citi­zens who death is widely regretted."

 

Children born to William Goings and Mary Bortzfield Goings include:

 

    Mary J. "Jennie" Goings                 born about 1842

    Emily C. "Kate" Goings                 born about 1852

    William A. Goings                      born about 1855

    Matilda Goings                           born about 1856

    Amos Goings                             born about 1862

 

Mary J. "Jennie" Goings, daughter of William Goings and Su­sannah Bortzfield Goings, was born about 1842, according to the research of Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr.  She was mar­ried August 6, 1868 to Samuel Orr, Jr, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-5, page 203.  He died March 9, 1871 at age 24 and was buried in Orr Cemetery.  Mary J. "Jennie" Goings was remarried to Thomas Orr, regarded as a kinsman to Samuel Orr, Jr.  Children born to them are un­known.

 

Emily C. "Kate" Goings, of William Goings and Susannah Bortzfield Goings, was born about 1852.  She was married in 1874 to James Simmons.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Bess Simmons                       born about 1877

    Herbert Simmons                       born about 1880

 

William A. Goings, son of William Goings and Susannah Bortzfield Goings, was born about 1855 in Delaware County.  He was married there March 16, 1881 to Harriet Antoinette Koontz, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-7, page 429.  She was the daughter of Col. Koontz and Anna Brown Koontz. 

 

Children born to William A. Goings and Har­riet Antoinette Koontz Goings are unknown.

 

Matilda Goings, daughter of William A. Goings and Susannah Bortzfield Goings, was born about 1856.  "Clara M. Goings was married to James Simmons September 23, 1874, accord­ing to Delaware County Marriage Book C-6, page 258.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Gertrude Simmons                         born about 1875

    Grace Simmons                             born about 1877

 

Amos Goings, son of William Goings and Susannah Bortz­field Goings, was born about 1862.  Of this individual noth­ing more is known.

 

Lewis A. Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born June 30, 1823 in Giles County, Virginia.  He was brought by his parents to Delaware County about 1833. He was married there April 2, 1846 to Mary Elizabeth Ketterman, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-2, page 201.  Under the terms of his mother's will he and his brother John Williams Goings received the family 80-acre farm in Delaware County.  The will also specified that Lewis A. Goings, John Williams Goings and their brother William Goings were to each have a horse.

 

In 1855 Lewis A. Goings joined his brother Joseph Addison Goings in removing from Indiana.  In the 1856 state census they were recorded living in Benton County, Iowa. He elected to leave Iowa before the 1860 federal census and sold his land to Joseph Addison Goings.

 

He left there for Smith County, Missouri, according to a family history written by Norman Haskell Goings in 1939.  He wrote, "Lewis Goings landed there early in the 'grasshopper' year, and all his crops were consumed by the insects. He had four sons and two daughters who settled near him.  He was a very large man, weighing 325 pounds.  He next removed to Smith County, Kansas.  He came back to Indiana on a visit in 1890, but he was there only a few days when his asthma became so bad he had to leave.  He died August 18, 1890, shortly after returning to Kansas."

 

Children born to Lewis A. Goings and Mary Elizabeth Ketterman Goings include:

 

    Susannah Goings                    born in 1850

    John Goings                           born about 1851

    Rebecca Jane Goings                 born about 1852

    Mary Ann Goings                   born about 1854

    William Lewis Goings             born March 10, 1855

    James Henry Goings                   born about 1857

    Jacob Hunt Goings                 born August 12, 1859

   

Isaac Newton Goings                 born in 1860

    Henry Goings                         born about 1862

    Edward Goings                      born about 1868

 

Susannah Goings, daughter of Lewis Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born in 1850 in Indiana.  She was married about 1870 to Dr. Lapman.  She died June 5, 1902.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Asa Lee Lapman                        born about 1871

    Ada Luella Lapman                    born about 1872

    Bertha Louise Lapman                born about 1875

    Daisy June Lapman                    born about 1878

 

John Goings, son of Lewis Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born about 1849 in Indiana.  He was married about 1869 in Benton County, Iowa to Mrs. Lucy Brown, a widow with three children.

 

They were enumerated in the 1880 census of Benton County, Enumeration District 36, page 2, Polk township:

 

    "Goins,    John        31, born in Indiana, farmer

               Lucy           37, born in Iowa, wife

               Jonnie          10, born in Iowa, son

               Dellie             2, born in Iowa, daughter

               Lucy          6/12, born in Iowa, daughter

    Brown     Isaac           12, born in Illinois, step-son

    Goins      Annie          8, born in Iowa, step-daughter

               Mary           10, born in Iowa, step-daughter"

 

Rebecca Jane Goings, daughter of Lewis Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born about 1852.

 

Mary Ann Goings, daughter of Lewis A. Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born about 1854.  She was married about 1872 in the home of her parents to Thomas Garner in Blackhawk County, Iowa.

 

William Lewis Goings, son of Lewis A. Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born March 10, 1855 in Black Hawk County, Iowa, according to great-great-grandson, Sen. Calvin Goings of South Hill Washington. He was married about 1878 to Lucinda White. 

 

Children born to William Lewis Goings and Lucinda White Goings include:

 

    James Franklin Goings        born June 14, 1879

    Lewis Eugene Goings         born November 13, 1882

    Walter Leroy Goings              born December 4, 1884

    William Edgar Goings         born September 8, 1887

    John Arthur Goings            born October 31, 1889

    Myrtle Lenore Goings         born March 9, 1891

    Paris Lucinda Goings          born June 4, 1894

    Telva Adora Goings               born July 24, 1896

    Floyd Lycurgas Goings          born January 25, 1899

 

Lewis Eugene Goings, son of William Lewis Goings and Lucinda White Goings, was born November 13, 1882.  He was married about 1905 to Glenna Anderson.

 

Children born to Lewis Eugene Goings and Glenna Anderson Goings include:

 

    Merritt Goings                    born April 12, 1913

 

Merritt Goings, son of Lewis Eugene Goings and Glenna Anderson Goings, was born April 12, 1913.  He was married about 1936 Bertha Edna Cross.

 

Children born to Merritt Goings and Bertha Edna Cross Goings include:

 

    Priscilla Ann Goings                   born about 1940

    Amy Ruth Goings                  born May 26, 1944

    Meridell Irene Goings             born March 3, 1947

 

William Edgar Goings, son of William Lewis Goings and Lucinda White Goings, was born September 8, 1887 in Smith County, Kansas, according to Sen. Calvin Goings, a great-grandson.

 

James Henry Goings, son of Lewis A. Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born about 1857.  He was married about 1880, wife's name Yarger. 

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Warren Goings                       born January 20, 1883

    Addie Goings                         born about 1885

    Grace Goings                         born about 1887

    Maude Goings                    born about 1890

    Nellie Goings                          born about 1894

 

Warren Goings, son of James Henry Goings, was born January 20, 1883.  He was married about 1906.  Children born to him include;

 

    Keith Francis Goings                  born about 1908

    Irma Goings                       born about 1910

    Ruby Lee Goings                       born about 1912

    Helen Goings                         born about 1915

 

Jacob Hunt Going, son of Lewis Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born August 12, 1859

 

Isaac Newton Goings, son of Lewis Goings and Elizabeth Ketterman Goings, was born in 1860, probably in Benton County, Iowa. He was married June 8, 1908 to Inez Clara McCannon.  In 1912 they lived in Goodland, Kansas.  He died in 1915, according to Evelina Goings Van Ness, a daughter.

 

Children born to Isaac Newton Goings and Inez Clara McCannon Goings include:

 

    Ruby Melvina Goings         born December 17, 1910

    Evalina Clementina Goings      born March 30, 1912

    Josie Amelia Goings               born December 14, 1913

 

Ruby Melvina Goings, daughter of Isaac Newton Goings and Inez Clara McCannon Goings, was born December 17, 1910.  She was married about 1930 to Alva Sullivan and lived in Illinois. 

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Fedrick Sullivan                  born June 9, 1931

    Harvey Sullivan                   born December 12, 1933

    Kenneth Sullivan                 born April 4, 1936

    Philip Sullivan                 born April 22, 1939

    Floyd Sullivan                 born December 27, 1941

    Virginia Sullivan                  born September 6, 1947

 

Evalina Clementina Goings, daughter of Isaac Newton Goings and Clara McCannon Goings, was born March 30, 1912 in Goodland, Kansas. She was married July 3, about 1936 to George Clinton VanNess.  Later they lived at Ronan, Montana

 

Children born to them include:

 

    George Clinton VanNess        born February 19, 1937

    Jerrie Allen VanNess               born July 18, 1938

    Phyllis Lucille VanNess           born April 8, 1940

    Charles Dwain VanNess          born November 10, 1941

    Roy Wyman VanNess        born November 18, 1943

    Robin Russell VanNess          born May 15, 1945

    Paul James VanNess               born May 22, 1947

    Rodney Ward VanNess          born November 17, 1949

    Marion Joyce VanNess           born December 4, 1950

    Gail Lynn VanNess             born March 8, 1951

    Joe Murray VanNess              born August 8, 1953

 

Josie Amelia Goings, daughter of Isaac Newton Goings and Clara McCannon Goings, was born December 14, 1913.  She was married about 1933 to James Cotter. 

 

Children born to them include:

   

    Donna Yvonne Cotter         born November 9, 1935

 

John Williams Goings, son of David Goings and Susannah Williams Goings, was born December 16, 1826 in Giles County. About 1833 his family removed to Indiana.  In 1850 he was enumerated living on his mother's farm. 

 

He was married April 9, 1857 in Delaware County, Indiana to Sarah Ann Bortzfield, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-3, page 325.  She was a sister to Susannah Bortzfield and daughter of John Bortzfield and Mary Bortzfield.  He was a farmer and the proprietor of a drygoods store at Selma, according to  "History of Delaware County, Indiana" by Thomas Helms.

 

She died there March 28, 1905, and he died there July 8, 1906.  They were buried in Bortzfield Cemetery.  They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 

Children born to John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings include:

 

    Mary Adelaide Goings            born January 19, 1858

    Eliza Ellen Goings                   born October 7, 1859

    David Clark Goings                born March 15, 1862

    Lavinia Goings                   born about 1863

    Norman Haskell Goings              born June 11, 1866

    John Francis Goings                   born January 17, 1869

    Jennie Opal Goings                 born December 3, 1875

   

Mary Adelaide Goings, daughter of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born January 19, 1858 at Selma, Indiana in Delaware County.  She was married there December 24, 1879 to Calvin Sumner Moorman who was born in 1859, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-7, page 277.  He was a son of Rev. John Allen Moorman and Mercy Shaw Moorman, according to Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin, a descendant of Arcadia, California.  He was a railroad conductor in Indianapolis.  Mary Adelaide Goings Moorman died Jan­uary 7, 1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he died there October 1, 1917.  They were buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.  She suffered from glaucoma and in later years, had an eye removed which was replaced with a glass eye.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Edgar Morton Moorman             born February 20, 1883

    Virginia "Nettie" Moorman          born in 1889.

    Nellie Reed Moorman             born July 16, 1898

 

Edgar Morton Moorman, son of Calvin Sumner Moorman and Mary Adelaide Goings Moorman, was born February 20, 1883 at Selma.  He died at age five months on July 27, 1883.

 

Nellie Reed Moorman, daughter of Calvin Sumner Moorman and Mary Adelaide Goings Moorman, was born July 16, 1898 in Indianapolis.  She was married October 27, 1917 to Forest Jimmerson Rogers, son of Walter Benson Rogers and Gertrude Alice Robertson Rogers.  He was born September 17, 1897 at Eaton, Ohio.  Nellie Reed Moorman Rogers died March 27, 1958 at Glendale, California. He died there August 3, 1966. They were buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Betty Jane Rogers                      born about 1920

 

Betty Jane Rogers, daughter of Forest Jimmerson Rogers and Nellie Reed Moorman Rogers, was born about 1920.  She was married about 1946 to George Alden Strawn.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Catherine Elizabeth Strawn             born about 1948

 

Catherine Elizabeth Strawn, daughter of George Alden Strawn and Betty Jane Rogers Strawn, was born about 1948.  In 1996, she a member of the Foundation, lived at Arcadia, California.

 

Eliza Ellen Goings, daughter of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born October 7, 1859.  She was married to Willis G. "Chick" Sale May 18, 1901.  He was a famous vaudeville comedian.  She died February 11, 1920.  No children were born to them.

 

David Clark Goings, son of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born March 15, 1862 in Delaware County. He died May 29, 1871 at age nine and was buried in Bortzfield Cemetery.

 

Lavinia Goings, daughter of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born at Selma about 1863, according to the research of Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin who wrote that Lavinia "Aunt Vine" Goings died about 1906.

 

Norman Haskell Goings, son of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born June 11, 1866 in Delaware County. He was married November 22, 1894 to Martha G. Newlee who was born March 3, 1864, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-11, page 66.

 

The family is indebted to him because he took the time to write a history of the descendants of David Goings and Su­sannah Johnson Goings.  His volume, "David and Susannah Goings" written in 1939 is the basis for the material that Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr gathered for the section of the Foundation manuscript.

 

He died September 1, 1943, probably in Delaware County, and she died in 1949.

 

Children born to Norman Haskell Goings and Martha G. Newlee Goings include:

 

    Sarah Mildred Goings         born December 15, 1897

    Edith Lenora Goings               born April 2, 1900

    Elma Marie Goings             born May 30, 1902

 

Sarah Mildred Goings, daughter of Norman Haskell Goings and Martha G. Newlee Goings, was born December 15, 1897.  She died January 14, 1963.

 

Edith Lenora Goings, daughter of Norman Haskell Goings and Martha G. Newlee Goings, was born April 2, 1900.  She was married about 1920 to Jessie E. Green. 

 

Elma Marie Goings, daughter of Norman Haskell Goings and Martha G. Newlee Goings, was born May 30, 1902.  She was married about 1922 to Emerson L. Morris.

 

John Francis Goings, son of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born January 17, 1869.  He died April 6, 1881 at age 12 and was buried in Bortzfield Cemetery.

 

Jennie Opal Goings, daughter of John Williams Goings and Sarah Ann Bortzfield Goings, was born December 3, 1875 in Delaware County.  She was married May 1, 1892 to John Kin­caid Vance who was born November 5, 1872.  Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin shows the marriage date as May 11, 1893.  She died August 12, 1943 and he died in 1950.

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Helen Magnolia Vance            born October 16, 1893

 

Helen Magnolia Vance, daughter of John Kincaid Vance and Jennie Opal Goings Vance, was born October 16, 1893.  After graduation from high school, she removed to Texas to become a school teacher.  Her parents were unhappy about the move, according to Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin.  She was married April 17, 1919 to Winfield Bruce Blank who was born June 18, 1895.

 

He collaborated with his uncle Norman Haskell Goings on the family history and continued the family history research after the death of his uncle.  Jennie Opal Goings Vance died August 12, 1943, and he died January 5, 1946. 

 

Children born to them include:

 

    Winfield Bruce Blank, Jr.    born September 20, 1921

 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISCELLANEOUS

 

Nancy F. Goings was married in 1864 to Isaiah Overman, ac­cording the Montgomery County marriage records.

                                               ==O==

Oney Goins was married in 1901 to Daniel Harris, according to Montgomery County marriage records.

==O==

Sylvana Goins was married in 1874 to Henry Wyson, according to Montgomery County marriage records.

==O==

Fanni Gowens was married in 1872 to John Holley, according to Montgomery County marriage records.

==O==

John Gowens, a farmer, was enumerated in the 1820 census of Montgomery County, page 175:

 

    Gowen, John       white male   26-45

                       white female 26-45

                       white female 0-10"

 

He did not reappear in the 1830 census of Montgomery County.

                                               ==O==

James Gowins was sued by 1798 by David Collins, according to Montgomery County court records.  "James Gowing" filed suit against Pate Dickerson in 1797.

 

DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA, MISCELLANEOUS

 

Alma Goings was married to Luther Miller December 24, 1868, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-5, page 246.

==O==

Buela I. Goings was married to Frank D. Fulkner November 15, 1902, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-14, page 421.

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Daisy Goings was married to Charles Means February 2, 1904, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-15, page 234.

==O==

Ethel Goings was married to Ralph Simmons August 26, 1893.  The marriage was refiled December 7, 1912, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-20, page 504.

==O==

George W. Goings was married to Elizabeth Worley Novem­ber 27, 1882, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-8, page 55. Children born to George W. Goings and Eliz­abeth Worley Goings are unknown.

==O==

Isaac N. Goings was married to Sarah Wort June 217, 1886, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-8, page 479. Children born to Isaac N. Goings and Sarah Wort Goings are unknown.

==O==

John C. Goings was married to Addie Fogle August 15, 1907, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-17, page 231.  Of John C. Goings and Addie Fogle Goings nothing more is known.

==O==

Laura B. Goings was married to Charles Means March 25, 1901, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-13, page 499.

==O==

Lucian H. Goings was married to Bertha Wolford February 25, 1908, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-17. page 368. Children born to Lucian H. Goings and Bertha Wol­ford Goings are unknown.

==O==

Martha Goings was married to Robert Wingate December 17, 1881, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-7, page 525.

==O==

Nannie Goings was married to Charles Hoover April 15, 1905, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-16, page 7.

==O==

Rena Goings was married to Sidney Buckner June 22, 1901, ac­cording to Delaware County Marriage Book C-13, page 572.

==O==

Sarah Goings was married to Edward Colwell March 10, 1900, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-13, page 205.

==O==

William Goings was married to Clara Daviss January 25, 1888, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-9, page 109. Children born to William Goings and Clara Daviss Goings are un known.

==O==

Williams Goings was married to Adelia Godlove December 22, 1867, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-5, page 142.  Of Williams Goings and Adelia Godlove Goings nothing more is known.

==O==

Zora Goings was married April 14, 1896 to Mary Bell Shoecroft, according to Delaware County Marriage Book C-11, page 375.  Children born to Zora Goings and Mary Bell Shoecroft Goings are unknown.

 

Descendant Researchers:

 

Sharla G. Bertram, 3806 Manchester NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87107, E-mail:

    [email protected]

Sen. Calvin Goings, Box 73502, South Hill, WA, 98373, 253/481-9683,

[email protected]

Elke Hall, 500 Tab Lakes Dr, Yorktown, VA, 23693-4127, 804/867-8528, E-mail:

    [email protected]

Rosalie Thomas Holben, 748 S. Aztec Road, Golden Valley, AZ, 86413, 602/768-

5402

Catherine Elizabeth Strawn Olguin, 6515 N. Golden West Ave, Arcadia, CA, 91006

Evelyn Lee McKinley Orr, 8310 Emmet Street, Omaha, NE, 68134, 402/571-3422

Ramona Thomas, 112 "I" Street, Apt. 10, Eureka, CA, 95501

Alice P. Thorn, Box 192, Pembroke, VA, 24136

Paula Wiegand, 2123 Alice Ave, #1, Oxon Hill, MD, 20745, E-mail:

[email protected]

 

NELSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

Cynthia Going was married January 12, 1841 to Samuel Turner, according to "Mecklenburg County, Virginia Marriages, 1765-1850."

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Charles Gowen was married to Nancy Fitzgerald November 6, 1843, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850."  Children born to Charles Gowen and Nancy Fitzgerald Gowen are unknown.

                                             ==O==

John Gowing was married July 28, 1831 to Lucy Dodd, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850."  Of John Gowing and Lucy Dodd Towing nothing more is known.

                                             ==O==

Mariah Gowing was married January 17, 1825 to John Pugh, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850." ==O==

Mary Ann Gowing was married January 18, 1822 to John Pugh, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850." 

                                             ==O==

Robert A. Gowing was married April 10, 1858 to Lucinda Harding, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850."  Children born to Robert A. Gowing and Lucinda Harding Gowing are unknown.

==O==

William H. Gowing was married July 1, 1837 to Mary Regis, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850."  Mary Regis Gowing may have died about 1841. William H. Gowing was married to Susan J. Harvey June 26, 1843, according to "Nelson County, Virginia Marriages, 1804-1850."  Children born to William H. Gowing and Susan J. Harvey Gowing are unknown.

 

NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

New Kent County was formed in 1654 from York County, and Hanover County was formed in 1720 from New Kent County. 

==O==

George Gowan and his wife Sarah Gowan, were residents of New Kent County, Virginia September 3, 1738 when a son, Aaron Gowan was christened there in St. Peter's Parish, ac­cording to the research of Donna Johnston of Casper, Wyoming.  Children born to them include:

 

    Aaron Gowan                            born in 1738

 

Aaron Gowan, son of George Gowan and Sarah Gowan, was christened September 3, 1738 in New Kent County, St. Pe­ter's parish. Shadrack Going, a kinsman was also born in New Kent County, according to Donna Johnston.

 

"Aron Going" received 410 acres "on the head of Matrimony Creek of Can River and on Paw Paw Creek of Mayo River" from the State of North Carolina May 16, 1786, according to Rockingham County Deed Book A, page 33.  The research of Donna Johnston reveals that the land was located "on the headwaters of Matrimony Creek on the Dan River and on Paw Paw Creek of the Mayo adjoining the former line of Samuel Gates & Hamil­ton,"

 

"Arron Gowin" sold the land for £200 October 21, 1786 to Turbefield Barnes, according to Rockingham County Deed Book A, page 139.  On November 8, 1788 "Aaron Gowin" gave a confirmation deed to Barnes as recorded in Rocking­ham County Deed Book C, page 13.

==O==

Phillip Gowen, "negro" sued John Lucas for his freedom June 15, 1675 in New Kent County and won his case.  The court awarded him three barrels of corn in addition.

==O==

Phillip Gowen appeared there July 4, 1702 and on the 1704 New Kent County Quit Rent Rolls as holding 50 acres of land.

                                               ==O==

A Gowen individual received a grant of 1,000 acres in New Kent County on the south side of Totapottomays Creek April 20, 1682, according to "Cavaliers & Pioneers Abstracts" by Nugent.  The land adjoined that of Cornelius Dabney and had been previously granted February 27, 1666 to John Davis who "deserted it.".

==O==

The genealogy of the Gowen family of New Kent County and Cumberland County written about 1880 by W. F. Clayton is filed in Newberry Library in Chicago as "Volume F841 225.3" and "Volume F8395.605."

 

NORFOLK COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

Mary Gowan appeared as the head of a household in the 1850 census of Norfolk township, Norfolk County, page 48.

                                             ==O==

J. Gowen was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1820 census of the Borough of Norfolk, page 93:

 

    "Gowen, J           white male       26-45

                       white female    16-26

                       white male       0-10

                       white male       0-10"

 

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

No members of the Gowen family [or spelling variations ap­peared in "Northampton County, Virginia Marriage Li­cense Bonds, 1706-1854" by Stratton Nottingham.

 

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

John Gowen arrived in Virginia in 1650, according to "Early Virginia Emigrants" by Greer. The volume lists the names of 25,000 emigrants who came to Virginia between 1623 and 1666.  John Armesbee of Northumberland County was the patentee or sponsor of John Gowen who was likely endentured to him to pay for his passage.

 

ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA

 

Margaret Goan was married to Benjamin Head, Jr. in Orange County in 1784, according to "Virginia Magazine of History & Biography", Volume 26, page 195 .

==O==

Betty Gowan appeared as the head of a household in the 1820 census of Orange County, page 96A. The family was enumer­ated as:

 

    "Gowan, Betty white female over 45"

                       white female 26‑45

                       white male   10‑16

                       white female 10‑16

                       white female 0‑10

                       white male   0‑10"

 

Nearby was the household of Jonathan Gowan, possibly a son of Betty Gowan.  Jonathan Gowan, a farmer was listed as the head of a household in the 1820 census of Orange County, page 96A:

 

    "Gowan, Jonathan   white male   26‑45"

                           white female 26‑45

                           white male   0‑10

                           white male   0‑10

                           white male   0‑10

                           white female 0‑10

                           white female 0‑10

                           white female 0‑10"