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Isham Goins Sr. (abt. 1784 - 1860)

Isham Goins Sr.
Born about in Virginia, United States of Americamap
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Husband of — married 15 Nov 1802 in Claiborne County, Tennessee, USAmap
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Died at about age 76 in Tennessee, United States of Americamap
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Biography

ISHAM AND SUSANNA "SUSAN" BRATCHER GOINS[1]
Isham Goins Sr. served in the Tennessee Militia in the War of 1812
Service started: 1812
Unit(s): 3rd Regiment
Service ended: before May of 1815

Isham Goins (spelling varies) was born ca. 1784 in Virginia. His birth year is based on the fact that he seems to have first paid taxes in the year 1800 at age 16 as was required by law at that time. We believe he was born in Bedford County where his father appears on tax lists in 1783 and 1786, though NOT in 1784 or 1785. His mother's name is not known. We wonder if her maiden name was "Preston" as Isham named his first child Preston. Campbell Co., TN records in 1839 tell us that Isham was the only child of his parents marriage. He grew up in Bedford Co.,VA. Research is made difficult in two early years of the State of Virginia due to the fact that the 1790 and 1800 censuses were damaged or destroyed during the War of 1812. The 1790 and 1800 censuses have been "reconstructed" by using tax lists of the time periods. By the 1810 census, which does exist for Bedford County, our Daniel Going and Isham Goin families have left Virginia and migrated to Tennessee. The early Tennessee censuses were also destroyed during the War of 1812 and the 1820 census for east Tennessee is "lost" or "destroyed." The earliest census we have for east Tennessee is the 1830. So documentation in the areas where our particular Going/Goins families lived in the late 1700s and early 1800s must be done from sources other than census records.

Isham Goins was married October 15, 1802 in Bedford County, Virginia to Susanna Bratcher. This marriage is found in "Bedford County, Virginia Marriages, 1800‑1850".[2]

Susanna, referred to on the 1850 census as Susan and in Gowen Research Foundation manuscripts as "Sookie", was born in Bedford County, Virginia in 1787. Her father was Canada/Canidy Bratcher which is verified by information given on the marriage license in Bedford County. Canada Bratcher is on the 1787 Bedford County, Virginia tax list, verifying Susanna's place of birth. Her mothers name has not been verified. Old Bratcher family information states that Canada Bratcher married Rachael "Biddy" Robinson in Warren County, Tennesse, but gives no date for the marriage. Warren County, Tennessee was not formed until 1807 so a marriage for these individuals could not possibly exist in that county. As previously stated, Canada Bratcher was in Bedford County, Virginia in 1787. Also on that same tax list is John Bratcher who is said to be Canada's father. Canada's mother's name is given as Jane Canada. We have not found marriage records for.either John and Jane Canada Bratcher or Canada and Rachael Robinson Bratcher, but we feel they will eventually be found in the state of Virginia, not in the state of Tennesse. We think from looking at the surnames in the areas or Virginia and Tennessee where the Bratcher families lived that Canada Bratcher's wife surname is likely to be Robertson instead of Robinson. This feeling is also based on a statement in the Bratcher family information that Susanna had a brother Robertson Bratcher who who appears on Campbell County, Tennessee censuses, the same county in which Isham and Susanna Bratcher Goins lived.

Isham and Susanna were young when they married, with Isham being about 18 years of age and his new wife perhaps as young as 15 years of age. Their grandson, Benjamin Franklin Goin , son of their second child Daniel Goin, states that his father Daniel was the second born child of Isham and one of a family of 14 children. This information is found in “Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson and Pettis Counties, Missouri",” published in 1895. (Copy of this history with this material) We have identified by name 11 children believed to be the sons and daughters of Isham and Susanna. It is likely that the other 3 children died as infants or in their younger years. At this time only three of the eleven children listed have been documented as the children of Isham and Susanna: Daniel, Isham (Jr.) and Martha. There is information given here on the eleven children who are at this time assumed to be their children. We hope that further research will lead to documentation of more of their children.

Isham and Susanna's first child, Preston Goins, was born in 1804 in Bedford County, Virginia. The young couple was living with Isham's parents at that time, as indicated by Bedford County tax lists. This was a time when children were usually named after grandparents. We do not find the name “Preston” to be a name found in the Goins family, which causes us to wonder if “Preston” could have been Isham’s mother’s maiden name. Shortly after the birth of their first child, Isham and his family, along with members of Susanna's family migrated across the mountains of Virginia and south into the state of Tennessee. We find no evidence the Isham and Susanna lived at any place in Tennessee except Campbell County. The area where we believe they settled would have been in Claiborne County in 1805 but the new county of Campbell was formed the next year.

In 1806 Isham and Susanna's second child, Daniel, was born in Tennessee. The year and state of his birth are verified by the 1850 Claiborne County, Tennessee census. Daniel's son Benjamin Franklin Goin (1835‑1913) states in the year 1895 in "Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson and Pettis Counties, Missouri" that his father was born in Tennessee, “the second born in a family comprised of fourteen children". Daniel’s father, Benjamin's grandfather, is named in this record as Isham Goins. Daniel was named after his paternal grandfather, Daniel Going/Goins.

In 1807 Isham and Susanna's third child, Jane, called Jenny, was born in Tennesee, probably in Campbell County. The 1850, 1860 and 1880 Campbell County Tennessee census verify this information. Jenny and her family have not yet been found on the 1870 census.

The couple's fourth child, Canada, was born in 1808 in Tennessee, probably in Campbell County. This year and place of birth are verified by the 1850, 1860 and 1870 Whitley County, Kentucky censuses. Canada and his family moved to Whitley County, which is adjacent to Campbell County Tennessee on the north, across the Kentucky state line. We have an unverified birth date for Canada of October 25, 1808. He has only a Civil War marker on his grave and we have not been able to find a record of any birth date except the year indicated by censuses. He was named after his maternal qrandfather, Canada Bratcher.

There was probably a fifth child born to Isham and Susanna about 1810 who is assumed to have died at a young age.

In 1812 the sixth child, William, was born in Tennessee, probably Campbell County. His age and state of birth are verified by the 1850 and 1860 Campbell County, Tennessee censuses.

There is another William Goin who was born in 1804 who appears with his wife Lucitha on the 1830, 1840 and 1850 Campbell County, Tennessee censuses and on the 1860 Fannin County, Texas census. This William has been considered to be the son of Isham and Susanna in the past. There are many mentions of this "older" William in LDS Church records and in Gowen Research Foundation manuscripts. He has been listed many times as the son of Isham Goin. Recent research by Jim Young of Mcalester, Oklahoma has omitted this "older" William as Isham’s son primarily based on his place of birth. The 1850 Campbell County, Tennessee census lists him as being born in South Carolina. The 1860 Fannin County, Texas census also lists his birthplace as South Carolina. We do not know his relationship to the family of Isham Goins. He appears on the 1830 and 1840 Campbell County, Tennesse census, married, with a family. He is not living "adjacent" to Isham Goins on any Campbell County census but could be considered to be living "in the same neighborhood". We hope further research may someday tell as who the parents of this “olderl” William are. We do believe that he is not the son of Isham, but that the "younger" William born about 1812 is Isham's son. As the older William is found in Campell County on early censuses along with Isham and his family we can't help but wonder if there is not a family connection that we have not found.

In 1814 we find the first record of Isham/Isam Goins in the state of Tennessee. Isham served in the 3rd Regiment of the East Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. His record from the National Archives, Washington, DC shows him on a muster roll with his company in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1814. In May of 1815, after his discharge, we find an affidavit made in Knoxville appointing a Knoxville Attorney to collect the pay due him for his service. In this affidavit Isham Goins states that he is "of Campbell County, Tennessee". (War of 1812 record is enclosed with this material.)[3]

In 1815 there was probably a seventh child born to Isham and Susanna who died as an infant or at a young age.

In 1816 Isham Going bought 2 parcels of land in Campbell County, Tennessee from Ephriam Ellison/Allison. Both deeds bear the same date of September 18, 1816. Each deed is for ten acres of land for a total purchase of 20 acres. We now know from the land descriptions in the deeds that our family is living in Campbell County at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains on a wagon road cut to the mountains near Davis Gap. The land bought at this time is bounded by Ellison's land as well as the land of Charles Bratcher, believed to be the uncle of Susanna Bratcher Goins. (Deeds are included with this material)

The next year, in 1817, Isham and Susanna's eighth child, John, was born in Campbell County, Tennessee. We have an unverified birth date for John of August 17, 1817. He has only a Civil War marker on his grave in Whitley County, Kentucky and we have not been able to find any date for his birth except the year indicated by census records. The year of 1817 is verifed by the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 Whitley County, Kentucky censuses.

In 1818 we find the second record of Isham Goins in Campbell County when he appears on the tax list there.

On February 8, 1818 the ninth child of Isham and Susanna, Rachael was born in Campbell County, Tennessee. We assume she was named for her maternal Grandmother, Rachael Robinson/Robertson Bratcher. The 1850 and 1860 Campbell County, Tennessee censuses as well as the 1870 and 1880 Anderson County, Tennessee censuses verify this year for her birth. Her birth and death dates are given on the her marker in Ross Cemetery, near Coal Creek and Clinton, in Anderson County, Tennessee.

In 1820 it would seem that the tenth child was born to Isham and Susanna in Campbell County, Tennessee. This child died young, prior to the 1830 census.

On January 12, 1822 Isham Goins bought 60 acres of land in Campbell County, Tennessee from “Canidy” Bratcher, who is assumed to be the brother of Susanna Bratcher Goins. This deed was witnessed by Daniel Goins, Isham's father and “Canidy” Bratcher, Sr., Susanna's father. The deed states that this is the “place whereon Isham Goins now lives". It would appear that with a growing family which now included at least seven children, Isham and Susanna had moved from the "Ellison land" purchased in 1816 to the land of Susanna's brother prior to the purchase of this land in 1822. The property, according to the deed, adjoins the land that Isham purchased from Ellison in 1816. Other conditional lines mentioned in the deed are with the property of Canidy Bratcher and Charles Bratcher. The witnesses on this deed show that Isham's parents, Daniel Going and his wife, as well as Susanna's parents, Canada and Rachael Bratcher (Sr.) were in Campbell County, Tennesse in 1822.

In 1823 Isham Goins again appears on the tax list in Campbell County, Tennessee..

In 1823 the eleventh child, Isham, was born to Isham and Susanna in Campbell County, Tennessee. We find Isham referred to in Lee County, Virginia records in later years as Isham M. Goins. Isham is found living at home with his parents on the 1850 Campbell County, Tennessee census. After his marriage in Campbell County we find him living in Rose Hill Township, Lee County, Virginia on the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses. The record of his third marriage in Lee County, Virginia states that he is the son of Isham and Susan Goins of Campbell County, Tennessee.

On July 5, 1824 Isham and Susanna's twelfth child, James, was born in Campbell County, Tennessee. The 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 Campbell County censuses verify this birth year. His birth and death dates are taken, also, from his marker at Glade Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in the community of Fincastle, Campbell County, Tennessee.

In 1827 the thirteenth child, Elizabeth, called Betsy, was born in Campbell County, Tennessee. We have found her marriage in Campbell County but do not find she and her husband on the 1850 Campbell County census. "Betsy" appears to have died young, prior to September 1857, when her husband remarried in Campbell County, Tennessee.

The 1830 Campbell County, Tennessee census shows the household of Isham Goins and his wife with 9 children living at home, 6 sons and 3 daughters. Sons Preston, Daniel, William, John, Isham (Jr.) and James are all unmarried and living at home. Their daughters, Jane, Rachael and Elizabeth are also all unmarried and at home. Only their son, Canada has married and is found to be living 10 houses away from his Parents on this census.

Also in the household in 1830 is a male aged 60‑70 (born 1760‑1770). We believe this to be Isham's widowed father Daniel Going/Goins. We know that Daniel was living in Campbell County in 1822 when he witnessed a deed between his son and Canada Bratcher. He is not listed on the Campbell County, Tennessee census as head of his own household. We also know from Campbell County court records that Daniel died in Campbell County in 1838. It seems evident that this is he, living with his only son and his family in 1830. Daniel was born 1755‑1758 and should be recorded on this census as age 70‑80 (rather than age 60‑70)‑but probably whoever gave the information to the census taker just wasn't sure how old "Grandpa" was! Actually "Grandpa" Going himself may not have been sure just how old he was! (Census enclosed ‑ though you already have it)

In 1831 Isham and Susanna's fourteenth and youngest child, Martha,was born in Campbell County, Tennessee. Martha is referred to on later censuses as Mattie. Martha is found still unmarried and living at home with her parents on the 1850 Campbell County, Tennessee census. She married in Campbell County, Tennessee in 1852 but has not been found on the 1860 census. The 1870 and 1880 census of Campbell County verify her year of birth, as does the age given on the 1850 census.

By the end of this year, 1831, Susanna had given birth to 14 children in her life. Eleven of them were living. Only their son Canada was married and had left home. Their home was probably typical of the times, perhaps a two room log structure. With ten children living at home their household was likely very crowded and one can imagine the work involved just raising their food and cooking for a family of twelve!!

We believe Isham and Susanna and their large family were living at this time in the eastern part of Campbell County toward the Claiborne County line. There was a Post Office of Glenville established in this area in 1832 with the name being changed to Fincastle in 1836. This post office existed until 1907 when it was moved to Lafollette, Tennessee. The mail in this area today is delivered from the post office in Lafollette. But if you drive northeast out of Lafollette on Route 63 along the base of the Cumberland mountains toward Cumberland Gap you will still find the area called Fincastle. The settlements of Well Springs, Bethlehem and Flat Hollow are still there also where our Goins family lived and their descendants still live today. The area has been changed since the early years of the county by the building of Norris Dam on the Clinch River. Norris Lake now fills many of the valleys between the mountains where this family once lived.

On March 4, 1839 Isham Goins appeared in Campbell County, Tennesse Court to establish his fathers death and his right of inheritence. The court minutes read: "This day satisfactory evidence was produced in court proving that Daniel Goins was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of eight dollars per month, was a resident citizen of the County of Campbell, in the State of Tennessee, that he died in the County of Campbell and State of Tennessee, in the year one thousand eighthundred and thirty eight on the 22nd day of August, that he left no widow that he has but his one child is Isham Goins, who is his only heir at law.”

On April 27, 1840 Isham Goins sold his land in Campbell County, Tennessee to his son Preston Goins. The deed states that there are 100 acres of land being sold, but this is in error. It is actually only 80 acres.

The deed states that the land is in three tracts and describes each tract seperately. The three tract descriptions are exactly the same as the descriptions of the two ten acre parcels of land bought from Ephriam Ellison in 1816 and the 60 acre parcel bought from Canada Bratcher in 1822. Curiously, Preston Goins is not found on the Campbell County census in 1840, the same year he acquired his father's property. Preston appears to have married ca. 1836 and seems to have had two daughters by his first wife, both born prior to 1840. We have searched the census for 1840 in Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky but do not find him as the head of household in any of those three states.

The 1840 Campbell County, Tennessee census shows that in this year Isham and Susanna have only their five youngest children living at home.[4] In addition to Canada, who married prior to the 1830 census, their sons Preston, Daniel and John as well as their daughter Jane have married since the last census was taken. Their son William, who is about 28 years of age at this time is not living at home. We have not been able to find him in 1840, as we have not been able to find Preston the same year. Also in the household with Isham and Susanna on this census is an older female, age 70‑80 (born 1760‑1770). This female has been tradionally thought to be Susanna's mother Rachael "Biddy" Robinson/Robertson Bratcher. We cannot verify this.

We have seen "old” Bratcher family information which has been passed on by Janet Jensen. She stated that she did not compile the data, but found it in the form of a hand written Family Record in the same format as a family group sheet. The compiler of the information was not known to Mrs. Jensen. It was obtained by her from the Bradshaw--Bratcher Letter which was published and sold several years ago. The information on Canada Bratcher, Sr. and his wife Rachael "Biddy" Robinson as found in this information certainly needs to be documented. We cannot find Susanna's father Canada Bratcher, Sr. on the 1830 census in East or Middle Tennessee. There is an estate settlement for him in Warren County, Tennessee dated May and July 1834. The administrator of this estate is Allen Bratcher, said to be the son of Canada.There is a "Biddy Bratcher" listed on the 1830 Campbell County, Tennessee census,but if her age is stated correctly, she is too young to be the mother of Susanna Bratcher Goins. Further research on the Bratcher family will, hopefully, provide some documentation on Canada Bratcher, Sr. and his wife. Until further research is done, we will reserve our judgement as to whom the 70‑80 year old female might be who is living with Isham and Susanna Goins in 1840.

We find a deed dated Decamber 4, 1843 in Campbell County, Tennessee in Book K, pages 202 through 206. This deed is listed as "The Board of Directors of the Bank of Tennessee vs. Ishem and Preston Goin.” These four pages show the actual disposition of the property owned by Isham Goins. In June of 1843 Chancery Court sitting at Tazwell for the District composed of Grainger, Claiborn, and Campbell Counties found that a judgement in the amount of $521.31 due to the Bank of Tennessee had existed prior to the sale of Isham Goins property to his son Preston Goins. The Court declared the deed dated April 27, 1840 to be void. They further ordered that the property be sold for the debt of Isham Goins. This sale was held on December 4, 1843 on the courthouse steps in Jacksborough, the county seat of Campbell County. The property was sold for the amount of the judgement-- $521.31 ‑ with the buyer being the Bank of Tennessee. On the September 16, 1847 the President and Board of Directors of the Bank of Tennessee at Rogersville requested that the court convey the lands bought by them to George W. Woodson of Campbell County, Tennessee. (Copy of this deed and court action is included with this material)

The 1850 census of Campbell County, Tennessee lists "Isem" Goin, 64 years of age, born in Virginia.[5] He is a farmer with no value listed for land, indicating he does not own the land he is living on. His wife, Susan, is 63 years of age, born in Virginia. The couple has two children living at home, Isem, age 26,and Martha, age 19. Isham and Susan are living three houses from G. W. Woodson, who we believe to be George W. Woodson who bought Isham's land from the Bank of Tennessee in 1847. It appears that Isham Goins and his family may still be living in the same home that they have lived in for years, perhaps "rented" from Woodson at this time. Isham and Susanna's married children Preston, William, John and Rachael are not living close to their parents, although they are living close to each other. Perahps Woodson let Isham and Susan stay on the land they had lived on for so many years‑but did not let their married children live on that land. None of the above mentioned children own land in 1850.

Isham Goins and his wife Susanna "Susan" Bratcher Goins both died after the 1850 census but prior to the 1860 census. It seems logical that they both died in Campbell County, Tennessee where they had lived all of their lives. We find no Will or estate settlement for Isham in Campbell County, but this would not be unusual as he owned no land at the time of his death.

We will mention that we have found, in Gowen Research Foundation manuscripts, death dates for both Isham and Susan Goins. There is no source given for these dates and we have not been able to verify them. The death date given for Isham Goins is December 18, 1855 and it is said that he died in Campbell County, Tennessee. Susan Bratcher Goins is said to have died May 24, 1860 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. None of Isham and Susanna's children appear on the 1860 census in Claiborne County and Susanna is not listed on the mortality schedule of that census. We would very much like to find the source of these death dates. We have checked the 4 volumes of "Campbell County, Tennessee Cemetery Records" by Edith Hutton and "Cemeteries of Claiborne County, Tennessee" by Paul Johnson and do not fine marked qraves listed for either Isham or Susanna.

We believe that they both died in Campbell County, Tennessee. We believe them to be buried in unmarked graves in the eastern part of that county, probably in the area of Fincastle, Well Springs or Bethlehem where their children are known to have lived in later years.

Sources

  1. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms140.htm (last accessed : 18 July 2016)
  2. "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZHS-N176 : Sat Oct 21 15:27:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Isham Goin and Susanna Bratcher, 15 Oct 1802.
  3. United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29K-839Q : 8 March 2021), Isham, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 108; FHL microfilm 882,626.
  4. "United States Census, 1840", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT1-4XK : Thu Oct 05 22:22:36 UTC 2023), Entry for Isham Goin, 1840.
  5. "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDW-HLV : Thu Oct 05 04:02:21 UTC 2023), Entry for Isem Goin and Susan Goin, 1850.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Brenda Goins for creating WikiTree profile Goins-296 through the import of Martin-Goins.ged on Sep 3, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Brenda and others.






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