Biography of M.F. GOSS, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	M.F. GOSS, farmer and carpenter, Delaware, Ark. In addition
to being a first-class agriculturist, Mr. Goss is also a carpenter
and builder, and many evidences of his ability and skill are to be
seen in this part of Logan County. His parents, Noah and Ann Eliza
(Crittendon) Goss, were born in North Carolina and Tennessee,
respcectively, and came to Arkansas about 1840. To their marriage
were born three children who are named in the order of their births
as follows: John W., Manfred F. (subject) and George E. The parents
settled in Yell County, and there the father cultivated the soil for
many years. He purchased 300 acres of land, improved 100 acres of
this, and erected good buildings, etc. The mother died in December,
1886, and the father in 1889. Both were members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and the father was a steward of the same.
M.F. Goss was born in Yell County, Ark., in 1849, and tilled the
soil in that county until 1875, when he made his advent into Logan
County. He purchased 80 acres of good land, cleared 40 acres of this,
and has made many and vast improvements on the same. His principal
productions are cotton, corn, wheat and oats, and as his land is
rich and productive, his crops seldom fail. Mr. Goss was married
in 1867, to Miss Isabel Johnson, a native of North Carolina, born
in 1847, and the daughter of Robert and Melvina Johnson. Of the
eight children born to this union, five are now living: Benny,
Norah V., Manfred E., Annie and Sammy (twins). During the late
unpleasantness between the North and South Mr. Goss engaged in
the Confederate service, in Capt. Orr's company of cavalry, when
but fourteen years of age. He was deputy sheriff in 1879-80, and
held the same position in 1884-85. He was elected justice of the
peace in 1888, and when his school district was first formed he
was made director, serving in that capacity for ten years. In
addition to his occupation as farmer Mr. Goss is also a carpenter
by trade, and contractor and architect, doing his own draughting
and designing. He and wife are both members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, and Mr. Goss is a steward in the same,
also teacher in the Sunday-school.