Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Goss, Perry 1823 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Perry Goss, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of these lines, P. Goss, is a 
native of Portage County, Ohio, born August 7, 1823, son of Beder and Phydelia 
(Cross) Goss. Subject's father was born in Connecticut February 28, 1796, and 
moved to Ohio in 1804; died in Ohio May 3, 1879; his mother, a native of 
Vermont, was born September 30, 1800; she is still living in Wisconsin. 
Subject came to Indiana from Ohio in 1847; was married, in Montgomery County, 
Ind., March 7, 1850, to Miss Mary Frances Spillman, daughter of William and 
Dorcas J. Spillman, Kentucky. She was born in Kentucky April 18, 1827; her 
parents died in Crawfordville, Ind., father March 20, 1876, mother March 8, 
1879. Mr. Goss and family came to Grundy County September, 1854, and settled 
in Norman Township. Their family consists of nine children, seven sons and two 
daughters. Their names are Albert B. Goss, born in Indiana April 12, 1851, 
married to Ellen A. Kimball August 10, 1882; William E. Goss, born in Indiana 
January 10, 1854; Charles B. Goss, born in Grundy County, October 14, 1856; 
Mary Frances Goss, born January 22, 1858; George P. Goss, born July 31, 1860; 
John F. Goss, born April 9, 1863; Edwin Lincoln, born May 7, 1865; Eva Jane 
Goss, December 14, 1866; Julius Goss, born December 19, 1870. Mr. Goss now 
owns a farm of 213 acres, 200 of improved farm land in Section 27, of Norman 
Township, value $60 per acre; valuable improvements eight and a half miles 
southwest from Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Goss are members of the M. E. Church 
(Zion), of Norman Township. Mrs. Goss' father, William Spillman, was born in 
Kentucky December 15, 1803; mother, Dorcas (Garrison) Spillman was born in 
Kentucky September 22, 1802.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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