Robert Williams and all, Regarding the Goad family that intermarried with the Dodson and Hanks families, the local library here in Springfield, Missouri, has an interesting book on the Goads. I am not a Goad descendant, so I am not on the Goad list, but I am forwarding this message to both the Dodson and the Hanks lists and also the Wolverton list as there is some intermarriage there also. The book in our library is: THE GOADS: A PIONEER FAMILY, by Kenneth F. Haas. I do not have the publication data on this book on hand. There are several Goad families listed in early Virginia including Abraham Goad of Richmond County, John Goad of Bedford County, Abraham of Pittsylvania County, Robert os Grayson & Carroll Counties, William of Pittsylvania County. Also Joshua and Abraham Goad, two Rev. War soldiers. Also chapters on Tennessee and Massachusetts and Pennsylvania & Ohio Goads. In Tennessee there are chapters on Abraham Goad of Anderson Co., TN; John Goad of Sullivan Co., TN; William Goad of Rhea Co., TN; Robert Goad of Maury Co., TN. I have photocopied some of the pages regarding the Maury Co., TN Goads as that is where some of the Goads intermarried with my Dodson, Hanks, and Woolverton families. There is also mention of a Caleb Goad in Graves Co., KY who married Elizabeth Dodson, dau. of David and Elizabeth (Dodson) Dodson of Maury Co., TN. Some of the Maury Co., TN Goads also migrated on to Tennessee Colony, Texas where so many other interrelated families settled in Anderson County, such as Harris, Moore, Campbell, Fitzgerald, Hanks, and Woolverton. I also find Goads in this book that moved on to Madison County, Arkansas, where many of my wife's family settled. That is in Northwest Arkansas. Some of my Ledbetters from Maury an McNairy Co., TN also went to Madison Co., AR. Also, I have an interest in the Goads because Rev. Elijah Hanks (son of Moses Hanks and Agatha Dodson) was married to Mary Woolverton. Elijah and Mary had a son, Rev. Thomas Hanks, who moved to Christian County, Missouri (just south of where I live). Rev. Thomas Hanks married Mary GOAD. There are quite a few of these Hanks descendants living in Southwest Missouri. Maybe this information will help someone. I don't believe the book has an index, so it would be difficult to look up anything, unless you need one of the chapters mentioned above which cover the Goad names I mentioned at the beginning of this message. Sincerely, Glenn Gohr (Wolverton & Hanks List Manager on Rootsweb) ggohr01@mail.orion.org