Stephen Gookin Goggin Sr

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  • CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
                Family  Sketches - Goggin
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                       CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES
    
                  Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                      1782-1926
                                    By R. H. EARLY
                                  With Illustrations
                                  J. P. BELL COMPANY
                               LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927
    
    
    Goggin
    
      The Goggin family was of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. Their original name is said to
    have been De Cogan, and they were domiciled in South Ireland. Stephen Goggin,
    Sr., came to Virginia in 1742 from Queen's county, Ireland. He was a member of
    the Episcopal church. In 1759 he patented 2O4 acres of land on Flat creek, and
    in 1773 patented 452 acres lying on both sides of Flat creek. In 1791 Richard
    Goggin married Nancy Irvine; Richard was probably son of Stephen, Sr. Children
    of Stephen:
    
    �Stephen, Jr., m. Rachel, dau. of Thomas and Rachel Clark-Moorman; their
    children were Pamela, m. in 1797, Samuel Clemens;
    
    -Polly m. Alexander Gill;
    
    �Nancy m. Obadiah Tate; William m. Pamela Tate; Elizabeth m., 1st, Samuel
    Fulkes; m., 2nd, John B. Witt; Thomas m. Mary Walden; Pleasant M. m. Mary O.
    Leftwich; Stephen (3rd) m. Janette Robertson.
    
      Mary O., wife of Colonel Pleasant M. Goggin, was the dau. of Rev. Wm. Leftwich
    (who went by the name of "Black-head Leftwich," and was son of William and
    grandson of Augustine Leftwich, Sr.) and his wife, Frances, dau. of Col. John
    Otey. Col. P. M. Goggin was a member of the Virginia Legislature. He died in
    1831. Children:
    
    �William L., married twice, Misses Cook, who were cousins of each other. His
    son, Samuel Cook Goggin, m., 1st, Lizzie D., dau. of Littleberry and Martha P.
    Moon; m., 2nd, Elsie Lee, dau. of Wm. A. Jones. S. C. Goggin was county clerk of
    Campbell from 1893 till 1925, when he was succeeded by C. W. Woodson, his
    son-in-law.
    
    �Lucian Buonaparte, born 181O, m. Anne J. Curtis.
    
    -Emily, born 1812, m. Edmund Matthews; their dau., Mrs. Cornelia Jordan, was a
    Lynchburg poetess; a volume of her poems were published by her dau., Mrs. Ambler.
    
    �John O. L., attorney-at-law of Lynchburg, m. Susan S. Holt.
    
    -Elizabeth Frances, born 1818, m. Thomas B. Moorman.
    
    �James Monroe, born 182O, m. Elizabeth Nelson Page.
    
    -Sarah Paulina, born 1828, m. John R. Steptoe.
    
      Hon. Wm. Leftwich Goggin was a member of Virginia Legislature in 1837, and
    member of Congress 1839-41-43-47; was one of the Visitors to West Point Academy.
    In 1859 he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Virginia; a member of
    the Richmond Convention of 1861; served in the Confederate army. Colonel Lucien
    B. Goggin moved to Mason county, Kentucky; served in both houses of Kentucky
    Legislature.
    
      James M. Goggin, attorney-at-law, was special agent of the Post Office
    Department to California; established post offices and post-roads in northern
    California and Southern Oregon. He then moved to Tennessee. He organized a
    battalion of infantry in the 32nd Virginia Regiment; commanded a brigade at the
    battle of Cedar Creek; moved to Texas in 1889.
    
    �John Goggin, brother of Stephen, Jr., m., 1777, Lucy Branch. He was a
    lieutenant in the Continental army.