TX Family Group Sheet for the William Arthur GOIN Family *********************************************** Copyright © Glendyne Wergland . All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Glendyne Wergland Email address: g.wergland@att.net Husband: William Arthur GOIN Birthdate: 16Apr 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 Marriage date: 26 Jul 1894 Marriage place: Norman, OK Wife: Mary Bessie SHAFFER Birthdate: 3 Jun 1877 Birthplace: Bluffton, Wells Co. Indiana Death date: 20 Nov 1962 Place of death: Okmulgee, OK Burial: Olmulgee Cemetery Father: Charles SHAFFER Mother: Viola Spencer (Charles Schaffer's #2 Wife) CHILDREN Child No. 1: Charlie Sex: M Birthdate: 12 Mar 1895 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 13 Apr 1975 Place of death: Kermit, TX Burial: 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: 12 Apr ? Place of death: Indian Territory Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: None Child No. 3: Claude Sex: M Birthdate: 7 Jan 1899 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 13 Jan 1981 Place of death: Okmulgee, OK Burial: Marriage date: 21 Dec 1937 Marriage place: OK Spouse's name: Helen McSTRAVICK Child No. 4: Nannie Sex: F Birthdate: 1901 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 1966 Place of death: Unknown Burial: Marriage date: 7 Dec 1918 Marriage place: Okmulgee, OK Spouse's name: James Lee DONATHAN Child No. 5: Willie (Bill) Sex: M Birthdate: 23 Mar 1903 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 9 Apr 1984 Place of death: Okmulgee, OK Burial: Marriage date: 27 Sep 1922 Marriage place: Okmulgee, OK 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 Burial: Died of typhoid Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: None Child No. 7: Allie Sex: F Birthdate: 17 Sep 1907 Birthplace: Indian Territory Death date: 19 Jun 1916 Place of death: Near Sharp, OK Burial: Fell into cistern & drowned Marriage date: None Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 8: Buck (Floyd) Sex: M Birthdate: 1909 Birthplace: Probably Okmulgee Co. Death date: 1988 or 89 Place of death: Irving TX Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Katherine ROBINSON of Henryetta, OK Child No. 9: Ernie Sex: M Birthdate: 3 Apr 1911 Birthplace: Near Sharp, Ok Death date: 10 Dec 1955 Place of death: Jerome, Idaho Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Violet ? Child No. 10: Jim Sex: M Birthdate: 1913 Birthplace: Probably Okmulgee Co Death date: 1947 Place of death: VA Hospital, Sulphur, OK Burial: Marriage date: See Notes: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 11: Juanita Sex: F Birthdate: 1815 Birthplace: OK Death date: June 1005 Place of death: Oklahoma City Burial: Marriage date: 6 Mar 1937 Marriage place: Okmulgee Spouse's name: Leo HASSELL (See Notes) Documentation: 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. 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. NOTE ON 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. NOTES ON CHILD #10: Marriages (dates and places unknown): m. #1 Betty Brown of Okmulgee; m. #2 Catherine Ellis? of Okmulgee; m. #3 Dorothy Wilkins? Wilkerson? of Jackson, Mississippi; m. #4 Kathleen Rogers, res. Nashville. 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). Notes: Leo served as Okmulgee’s mayor 1950-53. They had 2 children. In later life, the Hassells res Arkansas and Oklahoma City. Sources: Arthur and Bessie’s Oklahoma death certificates; Bill Goin; 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, Oklahoma (1985), 322, 711, 818. Shaffer family: Arthur and Bessie’s granddaughter; 1880 census, Bluffton, Indiana; 1900 census, Cleveland Co., Oklahoma.