The Jackson County family history book:
200 years of memories

Jackson County Historical Society.

Gainesboro, Tennessee

1996

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James Goolsby

James Goolsby was born in Rowan County, North Carolina ca 1788 and died in Jackson County, Tennessee before the 1870 census. The 1820 Jackson County census shows a James Goolsby with 3 children under 5 years of age and no adult female in the household, but by 1830 an adult female is in the household and Elizabeth _____ b. ca 1813 appears on the 1850 census. They lived in a log cabin on Martin's Creek, and nearby on a hill is the Goolsby Cemetery. Elizabeth is believed to be a Kirby or Brown.

The only information we have about some of these children is from the census records, Elizabeth (b. 1831; d. 1899) m. Rev. Josiah Brown (b. 1833; d. 1889), they died and are buried in Missouri. Wilson (b. 1836); Wade (b. 1838); Keria or Kirby (b. 1841); Merda (b. 1843); James "Jim" (b. 1846; d. 1922) m. Matilda Steakley (b. 1844; d. 1938); Goodall (b. 1852; d. 1922) m. Lorinda B. Pippin; Frank (b. 1853) m. 1) Tennessee _____ (b. 1851; d. 1879) m. 2) Cordelia Dyer; Mary (b. 1857) maybe a grandchild in the household.

James "Jim" Goolsby married Matilda Steakley ca 1864. The 1900 census shows that Matilda has had 12 children and has 10 living. Her death certificate list her occupation as a housewife and midwife. She worked at this occupation 80 years, the last being in 1929, and family tradition says she delivered over 2000 babies in the Jackson County area.

Their children were Jane (b. 1865; d. 1952) m. John L. Brown; William (b. 1867; d. 1939) m. Altha Dellar Bradford (b. 1875; d. 1952); Merdia (b. 1869; d. 1951) m. 1) Etta Fuqua, m. 2) Alice Allen; James Henry (b. 1870; d. 1951) m. May 15, 1888 Flora Elizabeth Rector (b. 1871; d. 1927), she was the daughter of Thomas B. Rector and Nancy Byers; John Frank (b. 1873; d. 1931) he was crippled by a log rolling on him, he was unmarried. Samuel "Sam" (b. 1875; d. 1910) m. Olie Jared. "Sam" died of appendicitis. Amos Elvis (b. 1877; d. 1950) m. 1) Josie Netherton, daughter of`Elijah Netherton and Martha Jane Adcock, m. 2) Betty Allen, daughter of Henry Allen and Etta Pippin. Ella (b. 1879; d. 1961) m. 1) Ed Waller, m. 2) George James. Ira Ellison (b. 1881; d. 1950) m. Mollicie Palk (b. 1883; d. 1950), daughter of Adam Littleton Palk and Nancy Byers. Melvin Russell (b. 1883; d. 1970) m. Lucinda Netherton (b. 1883; d. 1975), daughter of Elijah Netherton and Martha Jane Adcock. All these children were born in Jackson County and some of them lived most of their lives there.

James Henry Goolsby and Flora Elizabeth Rector's first 6 children were born in Jackson county and the last 2 were born in Putnam County, Tennessee.

Edward Wells (b. 1890; d. 1952) m. no issue; James Thomas (b. 1892; d. 1966) m. no issue; R. C. "Cove" (b. 1895; d. 1986) m. Willie Arizona Grider (b. 1892; d. 1983) they had 3 children: Cora Frances (b. 1898; d. 1989) m. William Conn born in England, they had 4 children; Ruthie Bell (b. 1899; d. 1982) m. George Davidson, they had 2 children; Z. Y (b. and d. 1902) buried in the Goolsby Cemetery Jackson County. Theodore Rhymond (b. 1904) m. Nancy Massa in 1932, they had I child; Finney Littleton (b. 1908) m. Ethel Grime, they had 2 children.

Source:
The Jackson County family history book : 200 years of memories / presented by the Jackson County Historical Society. [Gainesboro, Tenn.] : The Society, c1996.
vi, 451 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
LCCN: 96-190409
Tennessee State Library & Archives Call No. F443.J3 J33 1996
976.851

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