Oklahoma Family Group Sheet for William Arthur GOIN Family *********************************************** Copyright © Glendyne R. Wergland. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Glendyne R. Wergland Email address: G.Wergland@att.net Husband: William Arthur GOIN Birthdate: 16 Apr 1871 Birthplace: Arlington, Tarrant Co. TX Death date: 10 Apr 1953 Place of death: Okmulgee , OK Burial: Okmulgee Cemetery Father: William T. GOIN Mother: Sarah CANNON Married: 26 Jul 1894 Location: Norman , OK Wife: Mary Bessie SHAFFER GOIN Birthdate: 3 Jun 1877 Birthplace: Bluffton, Wells Co., Indiana Death date: 20 Nov 1962 Place of death: Okmulgee , Oklahoma Burial: Okmulgee Cemetery Father: Charles SHAFFER Mother: Viola SPENCER (Charles Shaffer’s wife #2) CHILDREN Child No. 1: Charlie Sex: M Birthdate: 12 Mar 1895 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 13 Apr 1975 Place of death: Kermit , Texas Marriage date: by 1919 Marriage place: unknown Spouse’s name: Viola GOZA Child No. 2: Oscar Sex: M Birthdate: 1897 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: April 12, year uncertain (see below) Place of death: Indian Territory Marriage: none Child No. 3: Claude Sex: M Birthdate: 7 Jan 1899 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 13 Jan 1981 Place of death: Okmulgee , Oklahoma Marriage date: 21 Dec 1937 Marriage place: Oklahoma Spouse’s name: Helen MCSTRAVICK Child No. 4: Nannie Sex: F Birthdate: 1901 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 1966 Place of death: unknown Marriage date: 7 Dec 1918 Marriage place: Okmulgee Spouse’s name: James Lee DONATHAN Child No. 5: Willie, a.k.a. Bill Sex: M Birthdate: 23 Mar 1903 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 9 Apr 1984 Place of death: Okmulgee Marriage date: 27 Sep 1922 Marriage place: Okmulgee Spouse’s name: Bessie Irene HELLER Child No. 6: Ted Sex: M Birthdate: 1905 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 6 Oct 1915? Place of death: west of Sharp, OK Marriage: none Child No. 7: Allie Sex: F Birthdate: 17 Sept 1907 Birthplace: Indian Territory/Oklahoma Death date: 19 June 1916 Place of death: near Sharp, OK Marriage: none Child No. 8: Buck (Floyd) Sex: M Birthdate: 1909 Birthplace: probably Okmulgee County Death date: 1988 or '89 Place of death: Irving , Texas Marriage date: unknown Marriage place: unknown Spouse’s name: Katherine ROBINSON of Henryetta , Oklahoma Child No. 9: Ernie Sex: M Birthdate: 3 Apr 1911 Birthplace: near Sharp, OK Death date: 10 Dec 1955 Place of death: Jerome , Idaho Marriage date: unknown Marriage place: unknown Spouse’s name: Violet ____ Child No. 10: Jim Sex: M Birthdate: 1913 Birthplace: probably Okmulgee County Death date: 1947 Place of death: V.A. hospital, Sulphur , OK Marriages (dates and places unknown): #1 Betty BROWN of Okmulgee Marriage #2 Catherine ELLIS? of Okmulgee Marriage #3 Dorothy WILKINS? WILKERSON? of Jackson , Mississippi Marriage #4 Kathleen ROGERS, res. Nashville , TN. Child No. 11: Juanita Sex: F Birthdate: 1915 Birthplace: probably Okmulgee County Death date: June 2005 Place of death: Oklahoma City Marriage date: March 6, 1937 Marriage place: Okmulgee Spouse’s name: Leo HASSELL Documentation: Arthur and Bessie’s Oklahoma death certificates; Bill Goin oral history collected 1979-1982; Obituary for Arthur’s brother Walter Goin, Abilene Reporter-News, June 9, 1968, p. 2A; family lore. Hassell and Donathan families: Bill Goin; Juanita Hassell; History of Okmulgee County, OK (1985), 322, 711, 818. Shaffer family: Arthur and Bessie’s granddaughter; 1880 census, Bluffton , Indiana ; 1900 census, Cleveland Co., OK. GOIN Notes: According to family lore, W.T. and Sarah (Cannon) Goin moved to Tarrant Co., Texas after the Civil War. They took the family from Texas to Cleveland Co., Okla. ca. 1891-94 (receipt/ctf of purchase #536, Oklahoma Historical Society Library, OKC, land tract record). They moved to Okmulgee Co. about 1895 (Obituary for Arthur’s brother Walter Goin, Abilene Reporter-News, June 9, 1968, p. 2A). Arthur and Bessie (Shaffer) Goin were among the founding families of East Side Methodist Church (later Butler Memorial Methodist Church ). Arthur’s identical twin was Oscar Goin. SHAFFER Notes: Mary Bessie Shaffer walked from Indiana to Indian Territory when she was a teenager. “I walked every step of the way,” she told a granddaughter—about eight hundred miles. Her father’s wagons were too full for her to ride. In the 1880 census, her father was a wagon maker in Bluffton , Indiana . According to Goin family lore, he was prosperous, well-dressed, and aloof. In Indian Territory , he res Morris and perhaps ran a butter and egg business there. By 1900, he was a farmer in Moon twp, Cleveland Co., Oklahoma , where he lived with wife #3. CHILD #1 Notes: They had 8 children. Charlie and Viola both died on the same day. CHILD #2 Notes: Oscar was carried away by a tornado on an April 12, about 1901. His body was found far from their collapsed house. CHILD #3 Notes: They had 2 daughters. CHILD #4 Notes: They had 3 daughters. CHILD #5 Notes: They had 3 children. CHILD #6 Notes: Died of typhoid. CHILD #7 Notes: She fell into their cistern and drowned. CHILD #8 Notes: They had one child. CHILD #9 Notes: They had 3 children. CHILD #10 Notes: Jim served in World War II and later ran a gas station in Okmulgee . He had one child with either Betty or Dorothy (family sources differ on which). CHILD #11 Notes: At one point during the Depression, Juanita was the only Goin child earning a paycheck; her job was clerking in the five-and-dime store. Leo served as Okmulgee ’s mayor 1950-53. They had 2 children. In later life, the Hassells res Arkansas and Oklahoma City.