Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/371 Surname: GOOCH, JENNINGS, CLENDENNEN, WHEELER, COPPEDGE ------------------------- Thank you for answering my query. I would like to exchange Gooch information with you. How are you related to the Gooch's? Thomas and Verlinda were my great grandparents. Several years ago, my husband and I searched for Thomas and Verlinda Gooch's graves in the Bluffton cemetery. Of course, we didn't find them there. We looked at cemetery books in the Llano Library and found they were buried in the New Bluffton Cemetery and read the story of the moving of the graves. The notation in the cemetery book indicated the graves were unmarked, but were located in Lot 65, graves 1 & 2. We didn't take time to look for their graves that day. Based on Thomas Gooch's military records with the War of Mexico, we ordered a veteran's marker for Thomas. In the meantime, Dayna Jacob sent me a picture of Thomas and Verlinda's tombstone. Someone, apparently, has placed a headstone in place for them. I will send you a copy of the photo. We planned to take the veteran's marker down on our way to spend Thanksgiving with my son's family. We decided against carrying it on this trip, since our car was loaded with Christmas gifts and luggage. We plan to take the marker down within the next few days when we find a warm, pretty day suitable spending time outdoors. We will place the veteran's marker at the foot of Thomas' grave. We will have to find a little time hunting the grave and the cemetery. We have seen in census records where Thomas and Verlinda lived next to Verlinda's parents in San Saba Co. A few years back, we researched Thomas' family in the Llano Courthouse and found some things about him and his family such as land records. Wiley Gooch, that you mentioned, was my grandfather. My mother was Lois Gooch Wheeler. Wiley died in 1931 in Winters, Runnels Co., TX. Also, we used to visit with my mother's cousin, Ed (Edward) Clendennen and his wife, Georgia. They lived in Buffalo Gap and Abilene, TX. Ed died in Abilene and Georgia moved to Clyde TX next door to her daughter, Ann Coppedge. Georgia died in Clyde and I believe Ann Coppedge has passed away too. Betty Thomason