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ELIAS GLASGOW2 GOSS (STEPHENSON1) was born c1805 in South Carolina. On April 15, 1837
in South Carolina, he married EMILY CRUTCHFIELD.
By 1850, "Glassy" Goss
was living in Stewart County, Georgia, with his wife and six children. He owned a farm
worth $600 and had two slaves. Emily's father was probably O. P. Crutchfield, who lived
north of Lannahassee, Georgia.
Children of ELIAS GOSS and EMILY CRUTCHFIELD are:
- ABI3 GOSS, b. 1838,
Georgia.
- FERABY3 GOSS, b. 1840,
Georgia.
- MARTHA3 GOSS, b. 1842,
Georgia.
- R. E.3 GOSS, b. 1844,
Georgia.
- ANGELINE3 GOSS, b. 1846,
Georgia.
- SUSAN3 GOSS, b. 1848,
Georgia.
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ANN JERUSHA2 GOSS (STEPHENSON1) was born in 1812 in South Carolina. She married WILLIAM
ROGERS November 24, 1843.
Children of ANN GOSS and WILLIAM ROGERS are:
- GEORGIA3 ROGERS, b. 1846.
- GEORGE W.3 ROGERS, b. 1847.
- LOUISE J.3 ROGERS, b. 1849.
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JOSEPH2 GOSS (STEPHENSON1) was born in 1813 in South Carolina, and died November 02,
1873 in Stewart County, Georgia. He married 1) ELIZABETH JANE SMITH September 15,
1836 in Stewart County, Georgia. He married 2) CATHERINE LUCINDY HEWLIN November
25, 1855, daughter of RILEY HEWLIN and MILDRED TURNER. (Catherine's last
name may be Huland.)
Joseph Goss was a teenager when
his father moved the family from South Carolina over the mountains to southern Georgia.
Five years later he married Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Smith, who was probably the
sister of Reverend George Lynch Smith, and they settled in the Rural Hill area of Stewart
(later Webster) County. That same year, 1836, tensions arose with the Indians, and Joseph
fought with the Stewart County Militia.
The following year, the first of twenty-two children was born; he would have eleven by
each of his wives. By 1850, Joseph was working on a small farm valued at $200 and owned
two slaves. Neither he nor Eliza could read or write. Tragedy followed soon after when
Eliza and six of their children died in August and September of 1853.
Joseph married again in the fall of 1855, to Catherine Lucindy Hewlin, whose parents,
Riley Hewlin and Millie Turner, had come to Stewart County with the Goss family. By 1860,
the farm had grown to a value of $2500 and Joseph's personal worth was valued at $8500. He
no longer held slaves, but employed and housed a white farm laborer named William Hamton.
When Joseph passed away in the fall of 1873, his grave was decorated with a government
headstone for his military service. Catherine was left to care for several young children,
and she and her sons worked the farm.
Children of JOSEPH GOSS and ELIZABETH SMITH are:
- WILLIAM C.3 GOSS, b. 1837,
Georgia; d. 1853, Stewart County, Georgia.
- JAMES L.3 GOSS, b. 1839,
Georgia; d. 1853, Stewart County, Georgia.
- STEPHEN
ELISHA3 GOSS (9), b. November 1840, Georgia; d. 1909, Stewart Co., Georgia.
- JOSEPH W.3 GOSS, b. 1841,
Georgia; d. 1853, Stewart County, Georgia.
- JOANNA3 GOSS, b. 1846,
Georgia; d. 1853.
- ELISHA3 GEORGIA GOSS, b.
1848, Georgia; d. 1853, Stewart County, Georgia.
- ALLISON3 GOSS, b. 1850,
Georgia.
- WILLIAM PALESTINE3 GOSS, b.
1850, Georgia; d. 1853, Stewart County, Georgia.
- ZACHARIAH
BENJAMIN3 GOSS II, b. August 18, 1853, Stewart Co., Georgia; d. c1917.
Children of JOSEPH GOSS and CATHERINE HEWLIN are:
- MARY ELIZA3 GOSS, b. 1857;
d. 1930.
- DAVID W.3 GOSS, b. 1859; d.
1862.
- GEORGANN S.3 GOSS, b. 1860.
- BENJAMIN F.3 GOSS, b. 1861.
- ARCHIE B.3 GOSS, b. 1864.
- CATHARINE A.3 GOSS, b.
1866.
- ROBERT D.3 GOSS, b. 1868.
- SIDNEY W.3 GOSS, b. 1871.
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