1850  Marshall County Mississippi

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#1328   Gossett, David     age  44 b.VA b.c1808
           "   , Nancy E.       32   SC
           "   , Samuel A.       7   MS   c1843

A David Gossett married Dec.04, 1824 Deborah Wynn in Caldwell Co. Kentucky.

#1343   Gossett, John           51   VA   c1799 (John Gossett traveled onto Arkansas)
           "   , Frances                 42   KY   c1808
           "   , Allen                     15   Tn   c1835
           "   , Nancy                    13    "   c1837
           "   , Martha                  11    "   c1839
           "   , Frances                   8    "   c1842
           "   , Martin A.J.             6    "   c1844
           "   , Narcissis J.             2    "   c1848
           "   , Ann S.                      2    "   c1848 (twins)
1840 Benton Co.Tn. is John Gossett pg#006
 

#1360   Gossett, Allen          41   VA   c1809
           "   , Manervia              33   TN   c1817(Nancy Minerva Forehand)
           "   , Mary J.                  17    "   c1833
           "   , James R.                16    "   c1834
           "   , Thomas A.             14    "   c1836 (married Victoria King)-info from letter 1867
           "   , Wm.H.                     9    "   c1841
           "   , Susan F.                  6    "   c1844
           "   , Andrew T.              3    "   c1847
           "   , Martin R.               1   MS   c1849
        Forehand, Susan          30   TN   c1820 (May be Minerva Forehand's sister)
        Sawyer, Liddia            23    "   c1827
1840 Benton Co.Tn. is Allen Gossett pg#005

#1365   Forehand,Randal         35   Tn   c1815 (most likely Minerva Forehand's brother)
           "   , Martha                       30    "   c1820
           "   , Thomas H.                 12    "   c1838
           "   , Elizabeth                   10   AL   c1840
           "   , Susan M.                      7   MS   c1843
           "   , William A.                   3    "   c1847 (married Virginia Gossett)
           "   , James M.                      1    "   c1849
        Sawyer , Louisa                  20   TN   c1830
        Hill,    Wm.H.                      23   NC   c1827
        Hipp?,   J.                            34   PA
        Urnhart, Samuel                 24   NC   c1825
        Solmond, George               72   VA   c1778
 

Oct. 8th, 1850 Marshall Co. Ms. census:

Martin C. Gossett age 31 (tailor) born Tn.  (ca.1819)
Justana (wf)      age      26 born S.C.
Elizabeth           age         8 b.Ms.
John                   age         6 b.Ms.
Mary      (6 months old) b.Ms.

Gossett, Daniel age 54 b.ca. 1808 Va. (? is David & Daniel Gossett the same person).
         (living alone)

Gossett, Allen    age 52 b.ca.  1809   Tn.
         Marvey          48               N.C.  (Minerva Forehand)
         James            23        1834   Tn.
         W.H.             18        1841    "
         Taylor           13        1847    "
         Martin           10        1840    "
         Virginia           8        1852    MS. -(m) Wm. Forehand
         Tennessee       4        1856    "
Walker,  Rufus        22        1838   S.C.

 

Marshall Co.Ms. marriages
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Emery Gossette (m) Mary May on Feb.23,1844
Mary Gossett (m) James Moore on May 13,1851
Susan Gossett (m) George McClain on Dec.30,1865
Louis Gossett (m) Tabitha Bishop on NOv.21,1865
Narcissis Gossett (m) Dec.22,1866 John Jones
Virginia Gossett  (m) Nov.14,1873 William A.Forehand
G.D. Gossett (m) Miss S.E. Cooper on May 26,1888
Floy Gossett (m) W.E. Cooper on Nov.16,1896
Mary Gossett (m) F.M. Taylor on Feb.09,1900

Lee Co. Mississippi Marriages:
W.H. Gossett (m) Julia Hughes on Feb.19,1884

The two letters below were forwarded to me by my daughter Sharon (Kennemore) Forehand. I thought these letters were very interesting and thought many of the Gossett families may enjoy reading them also.{kgk}

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Fort <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, November 28, 1999 10:27 AM
Subject: 1867 Forehand Letters

 
 

>The following are two letters written in 1867 by William H. Gossett b.
>1841 (son of Allen Gossett and Nancy Minerva Forehand b. 1816... Nancy (Nancy Minerva Forehand)
>Forehand was the daughter of Thomas Forehand b. 1788 & Elizabeth
>Grimes).  The letters were written to Julia Manor who was the daughter
>of Blake Forehand.  These were sent to me by <[email protected]>.
>
>Mentioned in the letters are Sally, Susan, and Blake -- William
>Gossett's aunts and uncles and all children of Thomas Forehand and
>Elizabeth Grimes.
>
>
>North Mount Pleasant Miss.
>May 17th 1867
>
>Mrs. Julia A. Manor
>
>Dearest Cousin
>
>I am going to draw upon your time once more to read another one of my
>letters thinking (or rather hoping) that this effort may prove more
>successful in accomplishing my object than the other (that object being
>an answer from you).
>
>I wrote you from Prison I think in February 1865.  Since my return I(Wm.H. was C/W prisoner)
>wrote to T.H.F. and made inquiry of him regarding the above mentioned
>letter and he informed me that it reached its proper destination.
>I am not willing to believe that you laid it on the table never to be
>answered or taken up for future consideration, but I am hoping that you
>have been troubled to answer it but that the letter has been miscarried.
>That is a more pleasant thought than the other and I indulge in it.
>Julia I was twenty six years old last Sunday and my new sis Thos. A.   (Thomas A. Gossett)
>Gossett's wife baked me a nice birthday cake besides giving me and some
>of my friends a nice dinner.  It is indeed a pleasure to have such Honor
>bestowed upon ones birth day but that pleasure is mared the reconlection
>that the grave and death is one year nearer than twelve months before
>and I was very forcibly impressed with this idea by seeing the flowers
>with which the cake had been decorated withered.  That convinced me that
>but a single day was required to sever my body like the flowers from the
>branch of life and all would be over with me.  I now think that I will
>have no more birthday cakes made for me and will if possible permit that
>day to glide by unnoticed and not remembered.
>
>I will now attempt a discription of the aforesaid new sister.  Her name
>was Victoria King (daughter of K. King) and old settler and I think that (Victoria King, wife of Thomas A.Gossett)
>uncle Blake and perhaps you will remember the family. She is about five
>feet two and three inches high, good tempered and considered by Thos as
>being very beautiful. She weighs about one hundred thirty lbs. I mean AT
>THE PRESENT TIME and is twenty one years old. Thos and her had some
>photographs took and if I can pursuade them to let me I will send you
>one with this.
>
>Aunt Sally and family live in town at the old Brigance place and they (Aunt Sally-Lucy-are they Gossett's or Forehand's)?
>are all well. Aunt Sally is broken but very little since you saw her and
>seems to be growing younger.  Lucy is as steady and attentive to
>business as Aunt Susan ever was and any one not knowing better would-(Aunt Susan)is she the same as Sally?)
>think Lucy the mother and Aunt Sally the daughter.  Sookey is always in
>good spirits never meet her without seeing a smile upon her face and she
>is as gay and frollickksome as a girl of sixteen.  They all wish to be
>remembered kindly by you and all other relations in Texas.
>
>Fathers family enjoys good health he has but two children that stay
>regurarly with him.  Virginia and Tenie.  They wish me to tell you that
>you have not been forgotten by them  and wish you to indulge an
>occasional thought of them.
>
>Crops are rather backward this spring with us.  Corn is up and a good
>stand generally  but very few have as yet a stand of cotton up.
>We haven't had scarsely any vegetables yet a few radishes onions and
>greens, but our prospect for a good garden is very flattering.  Vic has
>something near one hundred young chickens now and a prospect for as many
>more. We are going to have fried chicken at my boarding house soon.  I
>and Thos are selling goods at the same place trade is very dull with us.
>
>Tender my kindest regards to Mr. Manor and all other of my realtions and
>friend.  Miss Mattie Hunter when you left was a little girl one and a
>half years old is to be married next month and I am an attendant for the
>groom.
>
>No more at present, all are well so far as I know. Write soon to your
>affectionate cousin
>W.H. Gossett
>
>
>North Mount Pleasaant Miss
>Sept 23rd, 1867
>
>Dear Cousin (Julia A, Manor) (nee Forehand)
>
>Your favor reached its destination one week past today, at least I
>recreived it at that time and I will assure you that its contents were
>greidly purused more than once.
>
>Today is Sunday and I have just returned from Sabath School, Our school
>is very interesting even to me notwithstanding I am no professor.  We
>have an excelent Gentleman for our Supertintendant who is well educated
>and a good Scriptorian and he takes great pains to instruct us in the
>Bible.  Mrs. Dr. Sale, her daughter Tommie Raford and Miss. Tennie
>McElroy are three of our teachers all of whom you remember. We are
>having preaching in town today.  Parson Nebblett, a Mthodiest is
>preaching now at the Methodist church. I shall not attend as I am
>anxious to answer your letter this morning and go to see father this
>evening.
>
>All the realations as far as I know of are well. We had up to a few days
>past as fine a prospect for a good crop of cotton as I ever saw. Not so
>now. There has appeared a worm something like the army worm which has
>entirely devested the stalks of its leaves, squares and bowls, that is
>the bowls that were not over half grown. The grown ones have not been
>injured yet but the farmers are apprehensive that they will not escape
>damage from these ravagers. Father thinks that the cotton crop has
>been cut off at least a third. The corn crop which is now matured is
>very good the best made in this country for many years.
>
>Some few days ago Aunt Sally had a letter wrote to uncle Blake and asked
>me to direct it for her neither myself or her know  uncle Blakes post
>office as he had not given it at the caption of his letter so I directed
>it to you knowing that you would devise some means of getting it to him.
>I state this that you may know why it was done.  In that letter Aunt
>Sally made inquirey of Uncle Blake of Lurania's whereabouts and
>requested of him to send her proper address for fear he should not be
>prompt in reply or negligent in questions asked.  I will make the same
>request of you.
>
>You say Julia that I have misconstrued your letter or that portion of it
>where it refers to all the girls in Texas being poor and ugly, perhaps I
>have. But that is what you pened in plain and unmistakeable words.
>I hope I have for I don't wish to believe that one of our once proud
>Confederate States is devoid of pretty girls. I like the disposition
>shown by Texas parents not to permit their daughters and son in law to
>start life's journey with nothing. I feel confident that if some old
>Texas Nabor would give me his daughter together with a section of good
>land well improved and either forty, fifty, or one hundred bales of
>cotton that I could and would take good care of her and her property and
>would if no misfortunes overtook me add more to what I started with, so
>I will authorize you to make a trade of that kind for me if such a
>chance presents itself . You may state these fact to all the girls you
>know of that has the above name posessions that you have a cousin (a
>male one) who is willing to marry them providing they bring the
>aforesaid along with them. I have no objections to living in Texas or
>anywhere else that they may designate anywhere with me just so I get the
>property. I will raise no objection either about her beauty, birth or
>education nor shall any defect about person or form brake off the
>engagement. I care not if she is hump backed, noc need bunder shunked
>cross eyed with one out or both, I will marry her. So you see, Julia,
>all I want is a wife who is able to let me take care of her without
>either of us having to perform manual labor.  I am a splendid hand to
>plan and superintend but a very poor one to execute. One word more
>concerning your selecting my Texas bride that is far you to be in great
>haste about it for I want you to know that I am now living by my own
>feeble exertions and I want a change for my energy is about played
>out.
>
>My south Mississippi  girl has a younger sister who will be on a visit
>at father's this week that why I want to go there this evening so as to
>find out when she will arrive there.  I have a sneaking notion of trying
>to win her and if so marry her, not because I expect I will lover her
>but to spite the older one for her great haste in marrying?  What do you
>think of the plan?
>
>Julia, I was asked the other day to wait on an old gentleman who is to
>be married soon.  You perhaps will remember him, James E. Teel oldest
>son of Esqr. Teel's who lived two miles south of town  on the Holly
>Springs Road. He is to marry a Miss. Lizzie Hart, daughter of Herren
>Hart.  I told him Jim Teel that I would attend him but I am in hopes
>that he will not require me to carry out my promise for it will run me
>to and expense which I do not wish to incur.
>
>Julia, you say that when I commensed in my other to write about our
>protracted meeting that you exspected me to say that I had obtained the
>blessing and found religion I am sorry that truth and surrounding
>circumstances forced me to with hold that news for I am a believer in it
>and have as much respect for it as any person, but I do not think that
>the time has come for me to have it. For if I had it I do not think I
>could retain it. There are many temptations thrown out to check mans
>progress  heavenwards and there are some that I doubt much if I could
>resist them. I as much intend to be a religious man in time to come when
>I shall be differentlly situated as I do to ever respect the commands of
>my Father or the advise given by my dead Mother.
>
>Julia, it is very probable that I will visit Texas next year.   I am now
>thinking of quitting the Dry Goods business at this place if I do I
>think I will leave this country and seek a home elsewhere and I would
>sooner visit Texas than any country in the world for the fact that it is
>the home of so many of my relations.
>
>You will please give my regards to all of  my relations and kindly
>remember me yourself. Aunt Sally and family send their love to you.
>Father has come to town and sends his love and with the other members of
>his now little family.
>
>Write soon and often to your affectionate cousin,
>W. H. Gossett.

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