This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gothard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/1042.1668.1 Message Board Post: Theresa - I have a lot of information on the Rhea County, TN Gothards and would be happy to share. I'm trying to connect the Virginia Gothards with the South Carolina part of the family (George Gothurds is enumerated in the 1790 census of Newberry South Carolina as is William Goddard in Laurens South Carolina - both were misspelled as they were spelled correctly as Gothard in the 1800 census). Some of the Gothards migrated to Rhea County Tennessee from South Carolina in about 1810. I'm also trying to track down an LDS reference to a George Gothard being born in Christian County Kentucky about 1750 who was the father of James and Ira Gothard. If the reference is correct, this would be the same George Gothard listed in the 1790 SC census)