This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kIZ.2ACEB/1092.1 Message Board Post: Raxanne -- I have a "Malissie" Goad born 1877 that sounds about right for yours. Her family appears on the 1880 Greene census. She was the daughter of Ayers and Derinda (Knight) Goad, he the son of Peyton and Sophia (Jones) Goad. Peyton was the son of Ayers and Edith (Collier?) Goad, the founder of the Greene County Goad clan. From there we go back to Abraham, John and the oldest Goad of which we have knowledge, Abraham of Richmond Count, Va. I wrote a book on Goads all over the U.S. -- Ken