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From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] GOAD (Peggy, Vera, et al.)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:31:34 -0700
References: <001501c31687$95633a10$6d2ee542@geneology1> <4.3.2.7.2.20030511174402.00bb36d0@mail.so.centurytel.net> <BAY3-DAV17OAmEaJswF0000003b@hotmail.com> <00b401c31834$8e36ade0$6601a8c0@D388LL11> <BAY3-DAV155vBDxroC600000bb0@hotmail.com> <004501c3187c$8ae17ab0$c9a53e44@HAROLDBLEVINS> <002501c3189a$ccbf5fb0$6601a8c0@D388LL11> <003b01c318ba$d9671120$0b00a8c0@VeraReeves> <00a401c318bc$cdc369c0$6601a8c0@D388LL11> <006e01c318c2$22a88f60$0b00a8c0@VeraReeves> <00f101c318c5$1ef19a80$6601a8c0@D388LL11> <BAY3-DAV107ZqYW8BYX00000351@hotmail.com> <BAY3-DAV95M7RAluo3n0000084e@hotmail.com>


Peggy

Isn't Wilmoth a given name? Not a surname? Or am I wrong?

Bernie Moore-Knowles
Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aola, Hawai'i


"I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
question my honesty." ........Will Rogers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy Truesdell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] GOAD (Bernie, Vera, et al.)


> On ancestry.com the maiden name of Alexander S. GOAD's second wife is
> CANTRELL -- from the same source (Douglas Wilson) as this material. There
> are 17 or 18 entries for Alexander S. GOAD and information varies with
> submitters. Others show it as WILMOTH, previously married to WOMACK.
>
> Douglas Wilson's name is shown as source at the end of one of them with a
> website address.
>
> Peggy
>
>
> Peggy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peggy Truesdell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] GOAD #1 (Bernie, Vera, et al.)
>
>
> > First of all, I had information on Alexander GOAD that I discovered
today.
> >
> > Alexander S. GOAD, b. 1810, White County, Tennessee, d. 1889, buried in
> > Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Marion County, Arkansas (per Max Parnell's
> > inventory, online), married Jane HENDERSON, daughter of William
HENDERSON.
> >
> > About 1863, he married widow WOMACK, whose maiden name was Jane WILMOTH.
> >
> > " . From a Brief History of Alexander Goad
> > An Early Settler of Madison County Arkansas
> > by Douglas Wilson - presented with permission.
> >
> > I believe that my great-great-grandfather Alexander Goad was the first
of
> > James and Margaret's children born in Tennessee. If one can visualize
> > conditions that prevailed when Alexander was growing up in White County,
> we
> > can safely assume that he received little or no schooling. He probably
> > hunted, fished, trapped and worked very hard at helping his father and
> > brothers at farming.
> >
> > One story handed down through my family and supported by other branches
is
> > that Alexander was a skilled wrestler. That he engaged in the sport for
> > money is likely. It was thought that his family disapproved of this as
> not
> > a very dignified profession and that Alexander traveled around to
wrestle
> at
> > different places.
> >
> > I have a picture of Alexander that was taken when he was an old man.
From
> > this evidence and from physical descriptions of his sons on their civil
> war
> > records (hereditary evidence), I do not believe that Alexander was a
large
> > man, although he was probably quite strong.
> >
> > The year 1830 finds 20-year old Alexander and his bride living near or
> with
> > his father-in-law William Henderson in Warren County. His sister Mary
> Goad
> > Dodson (a young widow) died in November 1830 and it seems that Alexander
> and
> > Jane Immediately adopt two-year old Eli Dodson, Jr. Two months later
> their
> > first child, Martha, is born and young Alexander is the head of a family
> of
> > four. Just one month after his twenty-second birthday, another
daughter,
> > Ibbie, is born.
> >
> > The talk of new lands opening up in the Arkansas Territory must by now
be
> > the topic of the day in their conversation. Probably a brother or
> > brother-in-law has already been there and brought back very good
reports.
> > So in 1834 the same restless spirit that caused his father to move from
> > Virginia into White County now tugged at young Alexander Goad. Things
> were
> > likely "not too good" at that time for it seems that most of the
> Hendersons
> > and Goads left their homes in Tennessee and came to Arkansas together.
> >
> > There was probably little difference in the trip from Tennessee to
Madison
> > County and the trip from Virginia to White County some twenty-six years
> > before. I believe they came overland by wagon. There were likely many
> > families that made the trip together. The exact route, I know not, but
> the
> > trip took several weeks and was close to seven hundred miles.
> >
> > In 1827 and 1828 a number of families came to present day Madison
County.
> A
> > family named Jackson (not related) was living in the area as early as
> 1818.
> > The United States lands were opened for entry in 1834. This was the
event
> > which enticed the Goads to move to Arkansas. Madison County, of which
> > Huntsville is the county seat, was established 30 September 1836. ."
> >
> > (to be continued in new post)
> >
> > Peggy
> >
> >
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