Obituary of Mrs. G. C. Goldman,  Tensas Parish, Louisiana
From The Tensas Gazette, January 1937; written by Mr. Josiah P. Scott
Transcribed, as written, and submitted by Edith Ziegler

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Mrs. G. C. Goldman
     With the passing of Mrs. Betty Scott Goldman, relict of the late
Hon. George Carneal Goldman, distinguished soldier and citizen, another
link is broken in the golden chain that has united the romatic past of 
Tensas parish with the living present. Reared and married in Tensas
Parish, she has lived her entire life, with exception of such time as
was spent away at boarding school and college, among  the people and
scenes of her childhood, and as she was ever loved and honored by all
who knew her in life, she is likewise mourned in death.
     After scarcely more than a week's illness of flu, developing into
pneumonia, this good lady, on Tuesday, January 12, just 12 days before
her 81st birthday, passed from labor to rest, in the home over which she
presided for sixty-one years; the home to which she went as a bride, in
1875; the home where her children were born, and the home she made happy
by her presence and which was ever a mecca for the young people of
Tensas parish, for the portals of no home were ever more open to friends
who found there all that made for welcome, pleasure and comfort.
     Mrs. Goldman was born, January 24, 1856, on Beachland plantation,
in Claiborne county, Miss, to Mr and Mrs. William Scott. Coming to Tensas
when scarcely two years old, to make her home with her uncle and aunt,
the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Briscoe, pioneers of this section, she was
reared on "The Mound" place, several miles out of St. Joseph, and here,
in 1875, she was married to Mr. Goldman. This union was blessed with 
three sons, Jeff Briscoe Goldman, now living at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 
and Geo. Carneal and Harry T. Goldman, of Tensas Parish. One daughter
who married the late Magreuder Hays, preceded her Mother to the Great
Beyond. Aside from her three sons, this good mother is survived by
seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, by whom she was
greatly beloved  and to whom she was ever a most doting mother and
grandmother, while the great-grandchildre, born to her eldest grandson,
Peter B. Hays, of Tensas parish, were her pride.
     Although one of the oldest ladies in Tensas parish, Mrs. Goldman
always preferred to live in the present, rather than the past, as so 
many are wont to do who find themselves approaching the setting sun of
life. She was always as young as those about her and was a regular
attendant at all social functions in her neighborhood. Indeed no social
gathered  was considered complete without her bright and cheerful  presence. 
She enjoyed life and diffused happiness. Her life was long and useful; the world 
was made better by her living, and in the hearts of all who enjoyed her
friendship her memory will ever remain green.
     The funeral services were conducted at the residence, at Soudan plantation,
on Wednesday morning, the Rev. Joseph Kuehnle, rector of Old Trinity
Church, Natchez, officiating, after which the remains followed by a
long train of sorrowing friends, were taken to Natchez for interment,
There, in the beautiful city of the dead, beneath a mountain of sweetest
flowers, watered by many teard, all that was mortal of this noble 
mother, sleeps peacefully. Her soul is with God.