Individual Details

Brothers David and Nathaniel lived next to each other:

Caswell DB S, p.22 3 May 1816 William Gooch as executor of John C. Gooch, dec'd to James Vaughan. 300 acres south fork County Line Cr adj David Gooch, Isaac Johnston now Abner Walker, Nathaniel Gooch. Ack in open court.

DB S, p.76 16 Jun 1817 Nathaniel Gooch Sen. of Caswell to James Lampkin for $1000. 283 acres south fork County Line Cr adj David Gooch, James Yancey. Wit: Wm. Gooch Senr [Nathaniel's older half-brother - their father, William Gooch was long deceased.], Jas. Yancey.

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Mrs. Virginia Gooch Watson (Mrs. George F.), 613 Hillsboro Road-B17, Franklin, TN. 37064-2180
Bible record of Allen Tait Gooch, resident of Valerhermoso Springs Resort Hotel from about 1855/56 until about 1870. Gooch's son-in-law, Jean Joseph Giers and his wife, Mary Lucinda (Gooch) Giers, owned the Valerhermoso Springs Hotel. Allen Tait Gooch and his family, from Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN., went to Valerhermoso Springs to stay during the Civil War when the war clouds began to appear in TN. The Bible family pages are pasted in a scrapbook that belonged to a granddaughter of Jean Joseph & Mary Lucinda (Gooch) Giers, Mrs. Cherie Giers Lindsay (Mrs. David) of Town Creek, Ala. Cherie died in 1993 and it is not known whether this Bible record and the original Valhermoso Springs Hotel Register are still in her family or were given to the Huntsville, Ala. Library. Cherie's sister, Mrs. Romola Delphine (Giers) Colson (Mrs. Sebron Colson of Eutaw, Ala.) may have these records. The Allen Tait Gooch Bible contains the birth & death dates of Allen Tait Gooch and his wife, Elizabeth Venable (Morton) Gooch and their children, and Allen T. Gooch's parents. The Bible is as follows:
Nathaniel Gooch was born Oct. 10th 1768
Martha Gooch wife of N.G. was born November 6th 1777
Allen Tait Gooch was born Sept. 11th 1806, Died Feb. 28, 1883
Nathaniel Gooch was married to Martha Tait Dec. 7th 1797
Nathaniel Gooch died Oct. 30th 1841
Martha Gooch died Sept. 18th 1827
Elizabeth Venable Morton Gooch was born November 6th 1809, Died August 2,
1865,
Buried in Valerhermoso Springs Cemetery.
Nathaniel M. (Morton) Gooch was born August 28th 1827
John Claiborne Gooch was born Sept. 6th 1827, died January 8th, 1866 in
Huntsville, Ala., buried in the Huntsville City Cemetery. (Great
grandfather of Virginia Gooch Watson)
Mary Lucinda Gooch was born January 24th 1832, died Spring 1909, buried in
Valermoso Springs Cemetery, married Jean Joseph Giers May 5, 1849 in
Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN.
Martha M. (Morton) Gooch was born December 27th 1833, Died 1837 in
Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN.
Harriett M. Gooch was born November 4th 1835, died 1913 in Huntsville, Ala.,
buried
in Huntsville City Cem., married Theodore Acklen 1856 in Madison Co.,
Ala.
James Thomas Gooch was born February 22nd 1838
Sarah Tait Gooch was born Sept. 8th 1840 , Died August 3, 1865 in
Murfreesboro, TN.
Elizabeth Venable Gooch was born December 24th 1842 and died June 1843
Irene Catharine Gooch was born March 14th 1845, died July 29, 1926 in
Memphis, TN.

The Nathaniel Gooch in the Bible was born in Hanover Co., VA. and migrated by way of Caswell Co., N.C. to Rutherford Co., TN., and his wife, Martha
Tait (Patsey) was born in Guilford Co., N.C. They married in Caswell Co., N.C. They were deceased long before their son, Allen Tait Gooch, moved to Valhermoso Springs, AL.

Two of the Giers children of Jean Joseph & Mary Lucinda (Gooch) Giers, died and are buried at the Valhermoso Springs Cemetery: Elizabeth Gertrude Giers, born March 1, 1850, died Dec. 31, 1862, aged 12 years and 10 months; and Ernest Emil Giers, born Oct. 5, 1868, died Nov. 1, 1937. Ernest Giers ran the Valhermoso Springs Hotel for many years. Although the Gooch family were not in Morgan County, AL long, several of the sons of Allen Tait Gooch joined the Civil War in Alabama.

Birth	10 Oct 1768	Granville County, North Carolina
Marriage	30 Nov 1797	Caswell County, North Carolina - Martha Tait
Death	30 Oct 1841	Smyrna, Rutherford County, Tennessee

Spouse	Martha Tait (1777 - 1827)
Child	Allen Tait Gooch (1806 - 1883)

Father	William Gooch Sr. (1714 - 1802)
Mother	Frances Rice ( - 1816)
Sibling	David Gooch (1763 - 1831)
Sibling	Sarah "Sally" Gooch ( - )
Sibling	John Claiborne Gooch ( - 1804)
Sibling	Thomas Gooch (1773 - 1817)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Gooch ( - )
Sibling	Sicily Gooch ( - )