#1 GOODMAN Cemetery Records Part 1 [[email protected]] thanks so much for the info..........still looking for my Margaret Goodman md Archibald Smeathers 1824 in Davies co KY, they later moved to Spencer co IND. She obviously died when their only child Mary Jane was 13mos old, MJ was born 1825. Also still trying to find Mary Jane's husband's family, Foster who was born Indiana. I do have both these marr records. Archibald Jacob Smeathers b 1795 Tennessee d Mar 16 1864 Burleson Co Tx + Margaret Goodman Jul 22 1824 Daviess Co Ky b ? In d by 1826 In Mary Jane Smithers b Sep 1825 Ind d 1913 Swisher Co Tulia Tx probably at home of her oldest son, Joe Foster + Alexander Hamilton Foster Nov 13 1842 Dubois Co Ind b 1816 KY d abt 1895 census Tx [ 8 kids all born IND] We are fortunate to have a 1910 rather 2, letters written by MJ to her Uncle John in TX that tells us what happened to Margaret, her mother. BUT still can not find the Goodman family Margaret was from or exactly when she died or buried. again, any help is appreciated. thanks, Nena ========== Mary Jane came to Texas at the age of 26 in 1853 to be with her father, Archibald. In a letter she wrote 2-27-1910 to her Uncle John Bate Smeathers Sr, her father's brother, she says she found her dad in Burleson County, Caldwell, Tx at her Uncle John Berry's and he had come up from Colorado Co Columbus, Tx where he had been living on land he owned. She states he had a League of Land in Austin Co. She says she is 84 old when writing this letter and she even says she is old. She speaks of her grandfather William Smeathers coming to the Austin Colony 15 years before she was born. She mentions her father came but when she was 5 years old which would be abt 1831. She says her mother Goodman died when she was 13 months old and Goodmans of Indiana raised her. All she knows is from her father and Uncle John Berry who married a daughter of her grandfather, assuming she refers to Betsy Smeathers. She mentions that her grandfather had land near Colorado Co Columbus, Tx. and it was left to Jack and Batie Berry, which most likely is John Berry's son Andrew Jackson Berry and bro John Bate Berry.In Mary Jane's grandfather, William Smeathers will, he does leave this land to Andrew Jackson and John Bate Berry & their father, John Berry. But why is she living so far from her family we cant figure out, except her husband Alexander Foster had died and left her a widow. She speaks she does not walk well and this might have instigated her son Joe to have her live with him in Lockney where he was working at a publishing company, then they must have moved to Swisher as she died 1913 in Swisher Co, as I found her death certificate but not where she got buried. Her father Archibald Smeathers died March 1864 Burleson Co Caldwell, Tx. Prob Alexander died by 1895 or she would not have said in her 1910 letter she had lived with her son Joe Foster for 15yrs. 1850 Illinois, Minard co., Pg 280 Family #197 A H Foster 34 Ky M J 25 Ia W L 6 Ill William S H 4 Ill Stephen I E Ill (Male) Joseph ? I've come to the conclusion this enumerator must have used IA for Indiana. This is all I've found. G [email protected] 1860 Texas, Burleson Co., Pg 138-A Family # 410..... A H Foster 42 Ky M J Foster 34 Ind. William 15 Ind. Stephen 14 Ill Joseph 4 Tex. Bennette 2 Tex. 1870 Burleson Co Tx census Foster, Alexander H 54 Preacher Ky Mary J 45 Khouse Ind Joseph H 15 at sch Tx [this is the one who prob md Minnie E Hill Aug 19 1910 Floyd Co Tulia Tx Brunett A 'Nettie' J 12 " " Mary E 8 " " Naomi 'Nannie' 6 " " Alexander 4 " " Robert J 2 " " Joseph H Foster sr would been b 1855, couple yrs after they got to Tx. He is the son Mary Jane lived with in Tulia Tx aft her husband Alexander died. I know Mary Jane & Alexander had 8 kids.....Alexander was a Preacher. I have 2 dod's for 2 children: Ambrose A Foster male b Tx 1month Aug Debility 1870 Sarah W Foster female b Tx 03yr May Fever 1870 1880 Census Place: District 103, Milam, Texas Mary Jane Smithers Alexander Hamilton Foster Mary dau of Archibald Jacob Smeathers.-son/o Wm Smeathers/Mary Winters Mary/Alexander were marr 1842 Dubois Co Indiana Alexander H. FOSTER Self M M W 63 KY Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC dob 1817 Mary J. FOSTER Wife F M W 54 IN d 1913 Swisher Co Tx Occ: KHouse Fa:OH Mo:KY dob 1826 Joseph H. FOSTER Son M W 24 TX dob 1856 d 1936 Deaf Smith Co Tx Occ: School Teacher Fa: KY Mo: IN [newspaper publisher in Swisher Co] Nettie J. FOSTER Dau F S W 22 TX -dob 1854 Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: IN Mary E. FOSTER Dau F S W 19 TX -dob 1861 Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: IN Naomi FOSTER Dau F S W 16 TX -dob 1864 Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: IN Alexander FOSTER Son M W 14 TX -dob 1866 Occ: At Home Fa: KY Mo: IN Robert J. FOSTER Son M S W 11 TX -dob 1869 Occ: At School Fa: KY Mo: IN Source: FHL Film 1255319 National Archives Film T9-1319 Pg 259B Mary Jane used the sp Smithers. She md Alexander Nov 13 1842 in Indiana then when they left in 1853, they went to Tx to meet up with her father Archibald Jacob Smeathers in Burleson Tx. I have 2 marr certificates for this family. Both are for children of the above Joseph H Foster, Mary Jane's son. Leona Foster md Frank Burleson Nov 15 1910 Floyd Co Tx JH Foster jr md Minnie E Hill Aug 19 1910 Floyd Co Tx 1910 census no doubt done bef Leona Foster married, she is listed as 17y. JH Foster jr is not on it, so he must have been md by the time of the census. They also had a son Archie A age 19y The Burleson family Leona Foster md into is living right next door to them in this 1910 census. Frank is on it listed as 19y.