Dr. James E. Goethe was a son of William Goethe (Goettee) and Sarah C., according to Dean Broome's History of Pierce County, Georgia. Mr. Broome was given information that Sarah's maiden name was Box. James E.'s mother Sarah C. Goethe was widowed by the 1900 census, when she was living in the household of another son, George R. Goethe (also widowed). They were enumerated next door to James E. Goethe on the 1900 Irwin County, Georgia census. On that 1900 census, James E. and Eliza E. Goethe are shown to have been married for just one year. Therefore, none of the children listed would have been Eliza's. Kathleen Marsh