Biography of Granville Goodloe, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 22 Jan 2009
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Granville Goodloe, M. A., was born at Tulip, Ark., January 23, 1857. He was the
eldest of twelve children of the Rev. Dr. A. Theodore Goodloe and Sallie Louise,
daughter of Granville La Force Cockrill and Louise M. Turner. Dr. Goodboe was a
native of Maury County, Tenn. ; was educated at the University of Virginia, took
the degree of M. D. at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, and practiced two years
in Bellevue Hospital. Just before the war he settled with his brother in St.
Francis County, Ark., and engaged in farming. He entered the Confederate service
in April, 1862, as third lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment; the
same year he was promoted to first lieutenant, for gallantry; he served through
the war, and in 1868 entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, as an itinerant preacher, in which he is still engaged. His wife is a
native of Tuscumbia, Ala., and a relative of the Cockrills and Hardings, of
Nashville; her great-grandfather, John Cockrill, was the first white man married
in Middle Tennessee. His wife was a sister of Gen. James Robertson. The subject
of this sketch, Mr. Granville Goodloe, was a pupil of the Culleoka Institute
(Webb. School) for three and one-half years. In 1873-75 he was a student of
Emory and Henry College, Virginia, and from 1875 to 1879 of the Vanderbilt
University, where he was the first to take the degree of M. A., May 30, 1879. In
1879-80 he was principal of the Black River High School in Smithville, Ark. In
the summer of 1880 he became associated with his classmate, the Rev. E. R.
Chappell, as joint principal of McKenzie College, as McTyeire Institute was then
called. He still presides over this institution. He is a member of the Methodist
Church. 

Goodspeed Memoirs and Biograhies-1890