Goad Ancestors
My grandfather's maternal grandfather was William Ira Goad. William is my next 2nd Great Grandfather who was born before the start of the Civil War to look at for his family's involvement in the institution of slavery. William was born in Maury, TN in 1850. His father, James R. Goad, was in Company F, 3rd Tennessee Infantry, CSA. He joined in April and shortly afterward started training at Camp Cheatham. He never saw military action because he contracted an illness (probably measles) and died in September of the same year, when William was only 11 years old.
There is no record showing that James or his wife, Mary, owned slaves themselves. However, Mary certainly, was raised in a household where slaves were present.
James's father, Robert, is purported to have come to Maury County, TN from Virginia. He first appears Tennessee in the 1820 Census, where he and his wife seem to have six children under the age of 10. In that year, he is not recorded as having any slaves. The 1860 slave schedule contains and R.M. Goad owning two slaves. If R.M. Goad is Robert, then Robert obtained slaves after the 1850 census in his later years - over 70.
Mary's parents were John and Catherine Toombs. John came with his parents to Tennessee from Virginia. Based upon census data from 1820 through 1860, John owned up to seven slaves. In 1860 he owned five female slaves aged: 48, 29, 10, 6, and 4 and he owned two male slaves aged 3 and less than 1.
Mary's mother's maiden name was Weems. She was descended from a line of Weems who had lived in Anne Arundel, Maryland for generations, when her ancestor David arrived from Scotland as a boy in the early 18th Century. His Will identified eight slaves by name.
- Females: Bett, Beck, Rachel, Nell, Easter, Cate.
- Males: Seymonant and Ned.
Mary's father, William, owned slaves named Linda Wright, Ann Blakard, and Isom (or Isham)
Conclusion: The Goad family’s ancestors participated in slavery in Maryland, Tennessee, and possibly Virginia, though not all branches were direct slaveholders.
Scott Ancestors
My grandfather's maternal grandmother was born Mary Scott in 1848. Her parents were Robert Scott and Sarah Walker. They lived in Maury, TN. Robert began accumulating slaved after 1840. He owned two female slaves (one 11 and the other 17) in 1850 and five slaves in 1860. In 1860 he had one 29-year-old male a 28-year-old female and three child slaves (ages 3, 2, and infant).
Robert's father, Andrew, was also a slave owner. In 1820 he owned one female slave under 14 years old. By 1860 Andrew had acquired fourteen slaves. Andrew's wife's (Mary) maiden name is presumed to be Matthews. A John Matthews on the same 1860 slave schedule census page shows he owned four slaves. Sarah's father, Andrew Walker, owned seven slaves in 1860. The Scott, Walker, Matthews families (assuming they had a close relation to Robert and Sarah Scott) that appear in Maury County, TN in 1860 combined owned nearly eighty slaves. (Twenty-three attributed to Matthews, Ten attributed to Walker, and forty-six attributed to Scott.)
Conclusion: Taken together, the Scott, Walker, and Matthews families accounted for nearly 80 enslaved individuals in Maury County by 1860—roughly 20% of the county’s enslaved population. The slave schedules, however, offer limited detail: no names, only age, gender, and owner initials, making identification difficult.
Summary: This particular blog about the Goads and Scotts contains little "interesting" tidbits. It is simply, "They lived in the south."; "They were farmers and landowners."; and "They owned and used slaves." The most interesting thing about this family's history is that they moved to Maury from Waxhaw region of North Carolina and two of their ancestors, William McCain and Andrew Walker were closely associated and shared some adventures with a young man, Andrew Jackson, who would later become the nation's seventh president.
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