Individual Details

Found in McClung Library, East Tennessee History Center, Vertical File
GOODMAN open folder – additions accepted from anyone
Goodman Family Gazette, Quarterly.  Vol. 3, Spring.  Queries, p.9 Richard Goodman m. Polly Middleton, Barron Co KY  25 Apr 1813. 1820 census twice.  1850, Jefferson Co IL w/ wife Mary b. GA, 56; himself b. NC, age 60.  Nancy 13, Lucinda 11, Mary J. 3.  Nearby are sons Hezekiah, 35 b. KY.  William 31, b. AL.  Frances, dau, age 36 is next door with husband Ira E. Cole, Richard W. Cole, 15 and Elizabeth Goodman, age 5.  Hanson Goodman, another son, bought property near Spring Garden where Richard lived. Hanson Middleton was Polly's father. In KY, Richard was witness at the wedding of Hosea Goodman and a granddaughter of Joseph Lee.  Bysha Goodman was another witness.  1810, Harden, John, Alexander & Abraham Goodman were neighbors.  William Goodman did not live distant.  In 1820, Richard, Charles, Charles Jr., Johnson & John Goodman were in Barren Co.   Contact Lou Hale Smitheram, Santa BarbaraCA.
No year on above, others issues were from 1988 & 1989.

Listed in tax records in Maury Co, TN as Bisha Goodman.

Abisha Goodman married Polly Goodman [presumably a cousin] 27 Aug 1820, Maury Co TN, Solemnized by John Mathews, JP
Ancestry.com: Tennessee Marriages, 1780-2002

WPA  Maury Co TN  Wills & Minutes   Vol 1, Book B  1810-1825
[Minutes of the court concerning work on the roads of the county]
July 1822 p.412  Adam Klyce overseer of road in forks of the road near Pillows Mill leading to Col. Johnsons about 3 miles to a branch.  Aza Goodman, Tisha Goodman, John Goodman, William Goodman, Kemp Goodman among hands
19 Apr 1824 Elijah Pryton [Payton] overseer of road from forks of road near Pillow's Mill leading to Johnson about 3 m to branch: Ozo [Asa] Goodman, Bisha Goodman, John Goodman, William Goodman among hands
These two road orders would seem to suggest an earlier Asa Goodman - Asa Davidson Goodman, son of Alexander was born 1810 so would have been only 12-14 above.

1830 Census. Fayette Co, IL
Abisha Goodman: 2m under 5, 1m 5-10, 1m 20-30. 2f under 5, 1f 20-30

Said to be on a tax list in Wayne Co, TN, 1836, along with his brother Lemuel.

1840 Census. Gibson Co, TN
Abisha Goodman: 1m under 5, 1m 40-50. 2f under 5, 1f 10-15, 1f 30-40 [not sure if this is the same man as the one in Fayette, IL, based on the houshold - and there should have been at least two male children based on the 1850 census in Kentucky]
just before Abisha was:
Overton Goodman: 1m 5-10, 1f 10-15, 1m 40-50. 2f 5-10, 1f 40-50.
[The census was not arranged alphabetically. Overton Goodman is a name found in Greenville District, SC, around 1800, as well as earlier in North Carolina.]

1850 Census. McCracken Co, KY, Dist. 2, p. 476, Hh 208
Abijah Goodman, age 50, b. NC
Mary age 45, b. NC [believed to be Mary "Polly" Goodman; married 27 Aug 1820, Maury Co TN - probably a cousin]
James W., age 18, storekeeper, b. TN
Wm. H., 13. Mary E. 13 [?twins?], b. TN
Pertima A., age 11, b. TN
Francis M., age 8, male, b. TN
Nancy J., age 4, b. Kentucky
Bishey O., age 2, b. Kentucky

I have not been able to find any of this family in 1860.

Birth	1800	North Carolina
Marriage	27 Aug 1820	Maury County, Tennessee - Mary "Polly" Goodman

Spouse	Mary "Polly" Goodman (1805 - 1878)
Child	Pertima Ann GOODMAN (1839 - 1870)

Father	Abraham GOODMAN (1775 - 1825)
Mother	Nancy [Goodman] (1770 - 1840)
Sibling	Hosea GOODMAN (1798 - 1857)
Sibling	Mahala GOODMAN (1804 - 1870)
Sibling	NANCY GOODMAN (1805 - 1855)
Sibling	Manerva GOODMAN (1806 - )
Sibling	Lemuel Oliver GOODMAN (1813 - 1874)
Sibling	Telitha GOODMAN (1814 - 1896)
Sibling	B. Ervin GOODMAN (1817 - 1870)