Fannin County, Texas - History: David and Eleanor Pounds Goodwin Family To Fannin County, Texas mid 1860's ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sara Rollins March 25, 2002 ************************************************************************ From Mississippi to Fannin Co., Texas about 1865 and the partial story of the move of some of the David and Eleanor Pounds Goodwin family from Chickasaw Co.,Mississippi to Fannin Co., Texas March 20, 1990 Interview with Cordia Bodine I went to Duncan today to visit with Cordia Bodine, grand daughter of Frances Goodwin and her daughter Billie Whaley of Duncan. She is a young 83 and remembers Dave, John, Dick, Roxie and Queen Goodwin from her young days near Wellington, Texas. She remembers also seeing my great grandfather Redden Goodwin on about three occasions. She recalled he looked very much like the picture I have of him but the moustache being different than in the picture. Electa she remembers as having "eyes as black as coal and straight jet black hair." She told me the Goodwin's fought for the Confederacy. Dick came to Texas from Mississippi, went back to get his mother Eleanor and brother John. They traveled by covered wagon. John had one wagon and Dick had another. They each had a stove in them with the stove pipe protruding from the top. John took care of his mother a lot of her later life. She was blind and had been for a long period of time. John was the cook and housekeeper and Dick was the talker. These two remained unmarried and lived together off and on most of their lives. They owned property south of Aberdeen, Texas. There they had a kitchen that was partly in the side of a hill and was about half dirt with a wood stove, table and chairs. The bedroom was a separate building about a block away. The inside ceiling was building paper similar to felt. It had a wood stove, 2 beds, trunks and chairs in it. They also owned property in Oklahoma, Paducah, Texas and New Mexico in some stage of their lives. Dick drank quite a lot and was a "live wire". He had a bad leg from "busting broncs". He loved to joke and tell the children scary stories and would slap his bad leg. At one time he worked for the Bean Ranch in Texas. While in route from Mississippi to Texas somewhere near Fannin County, Texas they were camped. They had washed, cooked, eaten and slept there that night and the next morning John got up and went for a walk and found five or six men hanged. He scurried back, told them to break camp, they were leaving. They packed and went as far as possible that day. Dick would often make bond for people around Wellington and got stuck on more than one occasion for the bond. Finally the sheriff told him no more bonds he had made enough for other people and been stuck to often for the bond money. Dave it seems did some horse stealing with his friend Mr. Beasley around the Wellington area. They had about 50 head and Dave sold them and didn't split with Beasley. Beasley went looking for him and found him at the courthouse in Wellington. Someone yelled "duck" and fortunately for Dave the shot missed him. The hole was still in the old courthouse when it was torn down. If I remember correctly they patched up their friendship later. Dave married a lady named Annie. They had several children, Ella, Ora, Hunter, Janie and Frankie. Sons Sidney and twins Earl and Merle who lived in Wichita Falls. Roxie married Sam Blake and they had three daughters. The two known at this time are Zora and Katie. Queen lived near Weatherford, Oklahoma and married a man named Jim Weatherby. The only child known is Dewey. Dewey brought Redden to the Wellington area a couple of times to visit with the family. Queen was a very pretty woman and a fancy dresser and said to be quiet. Roxie and Frances were neat and tidy ladies, not as pretty nor as fashion conscious as Queen. Cordia remembers being told that David A. Goodwin, father of Dave, John, Dick and Redden as being buried in Mississipppi and it is not known where his wife Eleanor is buried. (In the 1870 Fannin Co., Texas census David and Eleanor Goodwin are both accounted for so it is not this David that is buried in Mississippi. In the 1880 census David is not there but Eleanor is with sons Dick, John and Redden.) It is thought by this researcher that both David and Eleanor Pounds Goodwin are buried in Fannin County.) David A. Goodwin and Eleanor Pounds were married 5-4-1836 in Bibb County, Alabama The family of Goodwin's that is spoken of is: David A. Goodwin, born in 1810 in Georgia and his wife Eleanor Pounds born 1814 in Alabama. Their children of whom some are named in this note are: Arthur Goodwin born in 1838 in Alabama, married Callie Woffard 2-15-1866 in Chickasaw Co. Miss. America Goodwin born in 1839 in Alabama. Queen Elizabeth Goodwin born 2-16-1842 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi and married Jim (H.D.) Weathersby 10-6-1873 in Fannin Co., Texas. She is buried in Washita Co., Okla. William Jackson Goodwin born 11-16-1845 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi and married Sarah Elizabeth Hightower 10-10-1869 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi. He died in Oklahoma 7-30-1929 Frances "Fannie" Goodwin born in 1846 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi, married John Henry Tabb 6-4-1884 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi Richard E. Goodwin aka Uncle Dick born in 1849 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi David Godwin born 1851 in Chickasaw Co., Mississipi and married Annie Davis 7-23-1881 in Fannin County, Texas. John B. Goodwin aka Uncle John born in 1854 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi Roxanna Goodwin born 1855 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi, married Sam L. Blake 12-23-1879 in Fannin County, Texas Redden Andrew Goodwin born 10-5-1859 in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi, married Electa Elizabeth Williams 7-17-1880 in Fannin County, Texas. Redden Andrew and Electa Elizabeth Williams are my great grand parents. Their family except for a couple were born near Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. They are as follows: Effie Eleanor Goodwin born 5-18-1881 in Arkansas Annie Mae Goodwin (my grandmother) born 11-5-1883 near Bonham, Fannin, Texas Felix Richard born between 1884 and 1887, died early and probably is buried in Fannin County Frances Alleen Goodwin born 12-31-1888 near Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas Dora Iwarnie Goodwin born 8-7-1889 near Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas William Charles Goodwin born 10-6-1890 near Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas Redden Goy Goodwin born 11-3-1892 in the Choctaw Nation, what is now southern Oklahoma near Blue. Johnny Fannin Goodwin born 11-5-1894 in the Choctaw Nation, near Blue. Pearl Electa Goodwin forn 1-10-1897 near Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas Ruby Goodwin born 2-4-1902 near Bonham, Fannin Co., Texas Rayburn Otto Goodwin born 4-25-1904 in Fannin Co., Texas (these dates and places come from a family Bible)