Note: WorldConnect family trees will be removed from RootsWeb on April 15, 2023 and will be migrated to Ancestry later in 2023. (More info)

Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ellen Narcissus SMITH: Birth: December 26,1859 in Scott Co., MS. Death: October 2,1928 in Elk City, Beckham Co., OK


Notes
a. Note:   rrections by ABG): Aletha's father was a stern man. When she was 16, she in that time was supposed to be a young lady. On Sunday afternoons they would race horses. One Sunday her father came home and found her racing horses and he became very angry with her and her mother. So he said he was going to punish her and send her off to girl's school to learn decorum. Letha rebelled, ran away from home, and married the son of her father's overseer. Her father was so angry he said she could never darken their door again. She lived not far away, as shown by the census records, but was never allowed to come back into the house. She had a little sister named Louisa who said that her mother died of a broken heart, since her little daughter was not allowed to come back home. When her first husband (Abraham Smith) died, she came to Texas with her children in a wagon. The only other person with her was a black man named Clark. They came to Hill County and met Elijah T. Goodwin who already had a big family himself. His wife had just died and although he was 30 something years older, they married and had our family. Ceaborn was the last to be born when Elijah was 74. Letha had a total of 11 children. Ceaborn's name (Seborn or as Ceaborn spelled it Seaborn) came from the Lewis line. Source (unedited version): Branch/Goodwin/Sullivan/Woodham by Ron Goodwin: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Ron-D-Goodwin
  ---Letha Lewis, age 16, Female, born in Mississippi.
  Source: Stephen Lewis Family 16 Sept 1850 Federal Census( Scott Co, Mississippi) ---Aletha Smith, female, age 24, born in Mississippi.
  Source: Abraham Smith household on 30 June 1860 Federal Census (Scott Co., Forrest Depot, Mississippi).
  ---Letha Goodwin, age 35, place of birth Mississippi
  Source: Elijah Goodwin Family on 25 Aug 1870 Federal Census (Hill Co, Precint 4, TX).
  ---Letha Goodwin, age 45, wife, married, keeping house, can not read, can not write, born in Miss. father born in Ga, Mother born in Ga.
  Source: E. P(?) Goodwin Family on Federal Census dated 26 June 1880 (Erath Co., District 151, TX). ---Letha Goodwin, Mother, female, born Mar 1836, age 64, widowed,
 children born 11, children still living 8, born in Mississippi,
 father born in Mississippi, mother born in Mississippi, can read, can not write, can speak english.
  Source: FEDERAL CENSUS YR: 23 Jun 1900 STATE or TERRITORY: TX COUNTY: Erath Co. E.D.: 70 Ceaborn H. Goodwin household.
  ---Letha Goodwin, mother-in-law, female, age 81, widowed, can not read or write, born in Mississippi, father born in Mississippi, mother
 born in Mississippi, can speak English, no occupation.
  Source: FEDERAL CENSUS YR: 19 Feb 1920 STATE or TERRITORY: TX COUNTY: Taylor Co. E.D.: 271, Andy Turnbow household.
Note:   ---Story according to Coreta Fae Goodwin Smith (edited with some alterations/co


RootsWeb.com is NOT responsible for the content of the GEDCOMs uploaded through the WorldConnect Program. The creator of each GEDCOM is solely responsible for its content.