Individual Details

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This household two households from son Samuel Goble age 32.

Ebinezar Goble age 63 farmer real estate $5500, born Ohio
Sarah age 57 born Kentucky
John age 26 farmer born Indiana
Wilson age 23, born Indiana
Elizabeth age 20 born Indiana
Washington age 18 born Indiana

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E Goble age 74 farmer born Ohio real estate $1000 personnel estate $8000
Sarah age 68 born Ohio
W. C age 28 a Plasterer born Indiana, real estate $1000 personnel $200

Military

31 Cavaley (Hawpe's Regiment Company A
Private, age 30, confederate
Feb 1863, absent without leave since Feb 6, 1863
March present
height 5 feet 6 inches, hair black, eyes blue

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Washington Goble age 37, farmer, born Indiana, personnel estate $425
Sarah A age 27 Born Illinois
Allise B age 3 female born Texas
Arthur W age 9 months, born Texas
Sarah age 77 born Kentucky
Henry Brown age 70 born England
Sarah Brown age 63 born Ohio

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W C Goble, born Feb 1832, married 13 years, married 13 years, born Indiana, father Kentucky, mother Indiana, owns home free of mortgage, also within his home are 7 families renting from him.
Mary, wife, born August 1850, married 13 years, has had 2 children and alive, born Texas, father Ireland, mother Tennessee

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Juluis L Coffman age 39 married 9 years, born Tennessee, father born Kentucky, mother born Tennessee, redistributer of farming, owns home free of mortgage
Alice B, wife, age 42, has had 2 children both alive, born Texas, father born Indiana, mother born Indiana
Lee, son age 20 born Texas, father Tennessee, mother Texas
Wash C Goble, father-in-law age 78, widower, born Indiana and parents born Indiana

Death

W C Goble, Father of former Denton Man, Died at Dallas
Denton friends and relatives of A W Goble, a former well known Denton citizen, will learn with sympathy of the death of his father. W C Goble, at Kerens recently. Of his death the Dallas News publishes the flowing:
The body of W C Goble, a pioneer of Dallas, who died Dec 8 at the home of his daughter, Mrs J L Coffman, in Kerens, was received in Dallas at 7:40 o'clock yesterday morning, accompanied by his son A W Goble of Sweetwater. The funeral services were held at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the chapel of the Ed C Smith & Bro. Undertaking Company and burial took place in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr Goble was born 12 Feb 1828, in Henry County, Indiana, near Indianapolis, being 85 years old at the time of his death. He came to Texas in 1856, located on a farm south of Dallas, near Ferris. He served the four years during the Civil War in the Southern army under Polignas. At the end of the second year he received a furlough and walked from New Orleans to Ferrris. After the war Mr Goble moved to Dallas and bought two acres of ground, now the corner of Elm and Ervay streets, paying $450 for it. At this time there were no railroads in Texas. He established the first broom factory in Texas and received a premium at the first Texas State Fair. He built the first corn mill in Dallas located on Ervay and Elm streets. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.
Mr. Goble married Miss Sarah Ann Brown of Chatfield, Navarro County. He is survived by two children, A W Goble of Sweetwater and Mrs J L Coffman of Kerens.