Nathan Boone Goe (1791 - 1862)

Born 28 Jan 1791 in Nicholas Co., KY

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Frame) Goe — married 23 Jan 1822 in Kentucky

Descendants

Died 1862 at about age 70 in Kentucky

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Biography

Son of Philip GOE 1767 – 1805 and Rebecca BOONE 1768 – 1805

On 23 Jan 1822, married Elizabeth "Betsey" FRAME 1800 – 1882; parents of:

Isabel GOE 1822 – ? Susan GOE 1824 – 1857 Ambrose GOE 1825 – 1857 James GOE 1828 – 1919 Celia GOE 1830 – ? Benjamin Turner GOE 1832 – 1897 Mary Frances GOE 1839 – 1874 Dorcus GOE 1842 – 1921

Family links: Parents: Philip Goe (1767 - 1805) Rebecca Boone Goe (1768 - 1805)

Spouse: Elizabeth Frame Goe (1800 - 1882)

Children: Susan Goe Newnam (1824 - 1857)* Benjamin Turner Goe (1832 - 1897)* Mary Frances Goe Estes (1839 - 1874)* Darkus Goe Ashcraft (1842 - 1916)*

• Calculated relationship

Inscription: Goe, Nathan B. Died 1862 Grandson of Daniel Boone

Burial: Goe Cemetery Lee County Kentucky, USA

Nathan Boone Goe was born to Phillip and Rebecca in January of 1791.

Nathan was thirty-one when he married twenty-two year old Elizabeth Frame of Clark County in 1822.

Sometime around 1840 Nathan and Elizabeth moved to the Old Landing area near the border of present day Lee and Estill Counties. Nathan died in 1862 and Elizabeth twenty years later.

Both are buried in an Old Landing cemetery. Several of their children married Old Landing natives and they, in turn, spread Boone’s genes all up and down the river, and throughout the hills and hollows of the two counties. The Children of Nathaniel Boone Goe and Elizabeth Frame were: Ambrose, Isabel, Mary, William, James, Celia, Benjamin Turner, Elizabeth, Dorcus, and Susan. Two of his youngest children probably have the most descendants left in Estill County. Benjamin Turner Goe remained in the area and married Mary Francis Howard. They produced at least nine children and probably have dozens of descendants living in Lee and Estill counties.

The Cabin

This cabin was built by Nathan Goe in the early 1840s. Nathan was Daniel Boone's grandson. Dorcas Goe (Nathan's daughter) was probably born in it and spent most of her life there. It was moved from Eastern Kentucky to Del Rio Tennessee. Here's some history.

During the 1780s, Daniel Boone (1734-1820), his wife Rebecca, and his family was traveling in the Kentucky River area of Lee Co. and camping at Old Landing. It was here that his daughter, Rebecca Boone (1768-1805) at a young age married Phillip Goe (1767-1805) who was with his family and traveling with the Boone Group.

Their second child, Nathan Goe (1791-1862) married Elizabeth Frame (1800-1882) in 1822. They lived in the old landing area and then later moved to Winchester. Both are buried at the Goe cemetery near the cabin's original site, which was called The Homeplace.

Philip and Rebecca stayed close to Daniel all his life however Daniel once said that Philip had drunk away the fortune he had given him. It was Nathan and Elizabeth who built the cabin around 1840.

Their youngest daughter, Dorcas Goe (1842-1916) married Gideon Ashcroft (1838-1902) in about 1860 and they lived in the cabin for their entire lives.

The 1880 census shows Gideon, Dorcas, 3 daughters, Elizabeth Goe (mother in law), a boarder and a servant - all living in the cabin. Gideon made and sold moonshine for a living and has quite a history around Lee County.

There were a series of caverns that ran under the cabin and came out in back. Gideon had built a shed over the entrance to the cave and had a hidden trap door in it to access his storage of shine.

When the cabin was taken down, the trap door, parts of the shed and parts of the moonshine still were found underneath. When the revenuers tried to catch him he would disappear into the caves.

Entering the cave through the back entrance revealed a narrow shaft about 20 feet long dropping into several large rooms, a drop-off and an underground stream. Dorcas and Gideo n are buried on the hill above the what was the old Cabin site.

Residence

Date: 1854

Place: Kentucky

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11770929

"Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW19-C5Z : 12 January 2020), Nathan Co. Gae, 1822.