John Goset

SOURCE: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889
Contributed by Michael Brown
18 Oct 1998

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John Goset is a prosperous farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., being a native of Union County, S. C., born on the 15th of November, 1831. He is one of the five surviving members of a family of nine children born to the marriage of Nathaniel Goset and Arena Bishop, the former born in North Carolina in 1809, and the latter in South Carolina in 1814. They were married in the latter State, and there the father died in 1873. His widow is still living, together with the following children: John, William, Mary (Mrs. Austin), Louisa (Mrs. Clark) and Laura Ann (Mrs. Stokes). The paternal grandparents, George and Mary (Boone) Goset, were of Scotch descent, born in Maryland, and died in South Carolina in 1811 and 1839, respectively. John Goset spent his boyhood days in South Carolina, and at the early age of seventeen years began to fight the battle of life for himself as a farm hand. In 1851 he espoused Ellen Clark, who was born in South Carolina in 1830, and died November 26, 1854, and the following year he married Mary E., a daughter of John and Mary (Thrift) Gregory. She was born in South Carolina in 1832, and died February 22, 1880, having borne a family of ten living children, who all reside in Sebastian County, Ark. Their names are [p.1321] as follows: Jennie (Reeves), Mary E., J. N., W. F., B. A., C. R., E. S., Mattie, Belle and Thomas J. October 9, 1880, Mr. Goset married Sarah A., a sister of his second wife. They have three children: Josie, Lillie, and an infant unnamed. In 1866 Mr. Goset removed with his family to Arkansas, and took up his abode in Jefferson County, thence to Roane County in 1867, from there to the Indian Territory in 1871, coming to Sebastian County in 1881, where he has since made his home. He is a Mason and a Democrat, and at the breaking out of the late Civil War enlisted in Company B, Eighteenth South Carolina Infantry, but was afterward transferred to Company K, Fifth South Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Petersburg and James Island, and served until the close of the war.