This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/1082.1 Message Board Post: Linda --- I think you are amidst one of our many Goad "mysteries". On the 1850 Tenn. census records, we find a William and Martha Goad in Marion County, Tenn. They had a son Henry, age four, in 1850 plus son James and daughter Nancy. Years later we find an Ephriam Henry , a former UNION soldier, in Georgia who married Tennessee CAGLE 2 March 1865 in Monroe County, Tenn. In the same year, James Goad married Elizabeth CAGLE.These two men are the two sons on the 1850 census.Ephriam Henry stated on his pension application that his parents were William and Martha Goad. I would not suspect these men as connected to your Louis Abraham were it not for the Cagle connection, a not very common name. Ephriam Henry had no son named Louis Abraham so I would suspect James as his father. Elizabeth (Cagle) Goad later divorced James in May, 1867 in Monroe County.on the grounds of adultery. I do not find James on later censuses in Tenn. For several reasons, I believe the father of William and the older James was Hiram Goad, likely a son of old Abraham Goad (1742-1816). Hiram and wife Eliza were in Monroe County, Tenn. in 1830 along with likely brother Ayers (Ayres) who went to Indiana soon after 1830. Trying to find data on Hiram has proved very elusive. I would suggest you follow the CAGLE family and see if it might lead you to your Louis Abraham. Otherwise, a search of court and deed records in Monrie County ca 1820-1840 might help.The census records have been explored. Another lead possibly. In 1860 we found Henry, age 15 and James, age 13, livinbg in the Monroe County household of William and Mary GANN. It would appewar that Wlliam and Martha might have died in the 185Os. That's about all I have to offer. --- Ken