Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE GOINS FAMILY IN BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP - 1863 
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THE GOINS FAMILY IN BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP - 1863
	Narrator:  Bluford Goins, 96, of Breckenridge
 
     Bluford Goins of Breckenridge was born 1839, hence he is now in his 96th 
year.  He was born at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., while his father's family was on 
the road "west" from their home in Lee County, Virginia.  They were in a 
covered wagon, of course, with a company of emigrants.  Every wagon had its 
spinning wheel and home made furniture; most of them had a package of cotton 
seed to sow in the new homes.  Much of the journey was over paths instead of 
roads and the parents walked by the slow horses or oxen as the case might be, 
so that the children might ride.  They came by easy stages and the Gap was a 
rest-stage on their road to Kentucky.  In Kentucky, they lived a few months, 
then to Texas County, Mo. and then on to Lexington, Mo.  From there Mr. Goin's 
father came overland to Caldwell County about 1863.  He invested in a farm 
north of Breckenridge and lived there on the farm till 1883.  During the 60's 
and 70's, he often cut wood and hauled it to Breckenridge for $1.00 a cord.
     During the Civil War, he served in Co. H. of the First Mo. Cavalry 
volunteers under Col. Whitman, Lieut. Col. Chandler and Gen. Steele.  The 
family still has his Cavalry sword.  It is the old-fashioned long type with 
basket hilt.  Her served 2 years, 7 months and 19 days.
     One a year, he with his son, makes a trip to Gallatin, Daviess County, to 
pay his subscription to the Gallatin North Missourian to which he has 
subscribed seventy years:  he was a subscriber when it started in 1864. 
     Interviewed  December 1933.


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