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Gemima Goggans or Goggins

Female Abt 1763 - Bef 1809  (~ 45 years)


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  • Name Gemima Goggans or Goggins 
    Born Abt 1763  of, Culpeper, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Bef 1809  Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1340  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family John Mangum,   b. 19 Jan 1763, , Lunenburg, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 2 Mar 1842 to 4 Mar 1844, Fulton, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married Abt 1802  of Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Cyrus Mangum,   b. 5 Jan 1803, , Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1862, Moulton, Lavaca, Texas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
     2. Mary Mangum,   b. 17 Jun 1804, , Newberry, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 28 Feb 1877  (Age < 72 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F841  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1790 US: The following Mangum, Richey, Goggins, and Murdock names occur in Newberry Counties, South Carolina - none with that surname appear in neighboring Laurens County where the Adairs were located:
      P. 57, William Murdock: males over 16: 1; males under 16: 1; females: 1; slaves: 0.
      P. 74, Ambrose Hudgins, 1-1-5-0 (Possible father to Austen Hudgens who married Elizabeth Mangum? On the previous p. 72 [73 is blank], there is a Sam'l Hugghen who could also be a possibility but probably not. In neighboring Laurens Co., there are also two other "Ambros" Hudgins: pp. 433 and 443 with most Adairs in that county occurring on pp. 440-442. There are various Huggins, Hudgens, Hudggens, Huggans in South Carolina - but with none in Newberry or Laurens except as noted above.)
      P. 74, James Goggin, 2-4-5-2. (Separated from Ambrose above by 10 names.)
      P. 74, Geo. Goggens, 2-3-2-0. (Separated from James above by 26 names.)
      P. 74, William Goggins, 1-3-3-0. (Separated from Geo. above by 6 names.)
      P. 76 (note page 75 is blank), John Mangum, 1-0-1-0. (Separated from William Goggins above by 58 names.)
      P. 76 (note page 75 is blank), Wm. Goggins, 2-2-1-0. (Separated from John Mangum above by 0 names.)
      P. 76 (note page 75 is blank), Wm. Mangum, 2-2-2-0. (Separated from Wm. Goggins by 2 names.)
      P. 76 (note page 75 is blank), Robert Richey, 1-1-6-1. (Separated from Wm. Mangum by 39 names.)

      2. Biographical info per the book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, p. 7-16, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale:
      "Shortly after the Rev. War, John married Mary Murdock. Mary was known by the nickname of Polly to the family. Her father was Hamilton Murdock. The date of their marriage is not known. Three children were born to John and Mary. The oldest, James Mangum, was born Dec. 6, 1791 at Newberry, So. Carolina. The next Child, Nancy, was born Nov. 11, 1794, and the third Child, Elizabeth, was born on Christmas Eve in 1798. Both Nancy and Elizabeth were born in South Carolina, but the town is not known. John's first wife, Mary, died, and after a time he remarried, this time to Gemima Goggins. John's brother William, was married to Gemima's sister, Anna. These two couples were apparently quite close, as John was the administrator of William's estate following William's death. Copies of the wills of both William and Anna are in the possession of the author. Two children were born to John and Gemima. The oldest, Cyrus, was born Jan. 5, 1805 [typo for 1803?] at Newberry. He went by the nickname of Russ. After he grew up he married and moved to Texas where he left a large posterity. The other child was born June 17, 1804. John's second wife died, and he was again left a widower."
      [KP note: See notes below for a discussion as to the order of wives which may vary with Delta's note above.]

      3. The book "South Carolina Baptists 1670-1805," by Leah Townsend (1935, Florence, S.C.), FHL microfiche 6101031, pp. 163-167, gives a descriptions and history of early back-country churces including a short account of the ministerial administration of Bush River Church from 1771 to 1804. The author provides some statistics showing membership as 8 (1771), 58 (1772), 70 (1790), 80 (1791), 105 (1793), and so forth until the largest congregation of 252 (1804). There was poor record keeping if any during the Rev. War. It is noted that "Bush River was under the influence of the Sandy Creek Separates and entered Congaree Association in 1771, in which it remained until that body dissolved. In 1791 it became an active and important member of the Bethel Association."
      The author provides an alphabetized list of Bush River members (spelling as in church book) per the following sources: "Edwards, Crozer MS, pp. 31, 42; Bethel Assoc. Min., 1791; Bush River CB, 1792; List of Bush River members in 1792-1804." It includes "John Mangum" and "Lewis Mangum." I don't recognize any other family names among the other members except several Goggins including John's soon-to-be wife Jemima: "Daniel Goggans, Elizabeth Goggans, James Goggans, Jeremiah Goggans (mistake for Jemima?), Naomi Goggans, Rachel Goggans, William Goggans." [Note on mistake of Jemima is author's note and not mine. KP.]

      4. Location of John Mangum's land in Newberry County is at longitude -81.78675 lat. 34.30267 at the last upper wye in headwaters of Sandy Run Creek just southwest of the town of Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina. Sandy Run drains into the Little River. The town Bush River can be found due east of Newberry and due south of Kinards per copies of aerial photos and topo maps on file with me. Source of information for this is from the book "Laurens and Newberry Counties South Carolina: Saluda and Little River Settlements 1749-1775," by Jesse Hogan Motes, 1994, Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, p. 99: "Chain of title for Elizabeth Johnston [Johnson]; Lease and release 5 and 6 Aug 1779: Joseph Hays, blacksmith, of the District of Ninety Six, to John Mnagum, planter, of the aforesaid place, for ₤200, 100 acres in Berkley [old name for Newberry Co.] on the waters of Little River, in the fork between Broad and Saludy Rivers and is one-half of 200 acres of land granted to Elizabeth Johnston granted 19 Jun 1772 and conveyed by her unto sd. Joseph Hays by lease and release 24 Feb 1773 and lies on the southside of the main county road that leads from Rebourn's Creek to Charleston, which sd. road is the dividing line through the sd. aforesaid tract of 200 acres; bounded S by land of John Pitts, Timothy Griffin, and David Richardson. Signed Joseph Hays. Wit: Daniel Williams, Samuel Goodman, James Goodman. Proved by James Goodman before William Caldwell, J.P. 4 Oct 1790. Recorded 27 Nov 1790, W. Malone, Clk. Ct. (Newberry Deed Book A; 1060-3. WPA; 79) [Note: this land is probably the land of her father-in-law considering the time of the original purchase in 1779.]
      Note that on page 94 and 108 are reconstructed plat maps showing nearby neighbors of John Mangum: James Gogans (1771/100 acres)/James Goggans (1778/150 acres from Robert Johnston 1765 conv.), Hamilton Murdock (1768/350 acres), and Robert Brown (1768/100 acres).

      5. Probable sisters Gemima and Anna Goggins married brothers William and John Mangum. Some say the Goggins father was Hamilton Goggins; however, I see no mention of that name in censuses. FHL Film 1697868 and book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Ph.D. Santa Rosa, CA 95409, 1993, 3rd ed., p. 11 postulates a father by the name of Daniel Goggins: "Gemima Goggins, b. 20 May 1775, Craven Co., SC, now Newberry Co., believed to be the daughter of Daniel Goggans ("Fighting Dan" of the Revolution, b. ca 1730 and killed by the Tories) of Newberry... SC." He also notes: "Some descendants of Daniel Goggans contend that he is the progenitor of the Goggans family in America. Daniel Goggans and wife Nancy are buried in the Daniel Goggans Family Cemetery, Newberry Co., SC on the southside of the Little River on Goggans Branch near the old house site. His fieldstone marker notes that Daniel, b. 1730, VA, was shot and killed by the Tories November 1781." [Note: some undocumented sources indicate two underaged sons of Daniel may have also been killed at the same time.]

      6. Email dated 7 Aug 2013 from Guy Perry :
      "I am not an expert on these families. They just came up in the course of my work on the Towles family.
      I have been consolidating the information that I found in Family Tree Maker file. It helps to aggregate and cross-check the information. From what I've gathered, the Goggans family (who came from Virginia to SC) was as follows: Daniel "Fighting Dan" Goggans (1730-1781) married Nancy Williams (1732-1782) and had at least the following children:
      1. Jane Goggans (1748-1826) who married Oliver Towles (1736-1781). I have identified 4 children for them: John Towles (1763-1812), Daniel Towles (1765-1829), Elizabeth Towles (1770-?) who m. Rutherford Boulware, and David Towles (1781-1810).
      2. George Goggans (1750-1781)
      3. Elizabeth Frances Sarah Goggans (1754-1823) m. William Davenport.
      4. Anna Goggans (1765-?) m. William Mangum (1756-1827).
      5. Jemima Goggans (1775-1812) m. (1) John Towles (1772-1804), nephew of Oliver Towles, and (2) John Mangum, Jr., brother of William Mangum. I can't find any record that she had any children by either husband.
      6. Jeremiah Goggans (1776-1807)
      7. James Goggans (1782-1854).
      This family group is consistent with what I could find between the family histories and the available records. There were probably other children.
      This family was impacted severely by the well documented Tory rampage that occurred in Nov-Dec 1781. Fighting Dan, his son George, and two younger sons (not named) were killed in the onslaught. Son-in-law Oliver Towles, his brother Stokeley Towles, and their father John Towles were also killed. The soldiers, led by the Turner brothers and their commander "Bloody Bill" Cunningham, burned the Goggans house and the Towles blacksmith shop. The soldiers had been part of the SC militia, but for some reason revolted and joiined the British in fighting the American patriots. One reason put forward later was that the Cunningham forces had been been marauding the area foraging and killing and the Towles brothers killed the youngest Turner brother. The rest was a bloody revenge by the Turners that ended up taking perhaps as many as 60 lives over a 2 week period. They took no prisoners, murdering at least one group of 20 soldiers they captured, in addition to the others they found along the way. The episode is described in this broader way in an article that appeared in "The American Magazine" in July 1884, p. 46, under the title of "The Avengers of Blood." The magazine can be downloaded from www.archive.org.
      My information on the Goggans families assembles what I could find in various family histories, but is supported circumstantially by local histories, land records, and available public records (not much). There is a Daniel Goggans Cemetery (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2353810) and although it is said there are no markers left, someone has left memorials on findagrave for some of the older family members."

      7. Online South Carolina Department of Archives and History Online accessed 25 Apr 2013 which shows two records of Goggans associated with John Mangums. The first Mangum is most likely John the Patriot and the second is the nephew of Patriot. The exact relationship of the named Goggans with the two Goggans who married brothers John and William Mangum is currently unclear in my mind:
      1799: John Mangum's name is spelled "Mangram" in a plat surveyed for Charles Williamson in 1799. [SCDAH Plat Series: S213192, Volume 37, Page 359, Item 2, Date: 9/2/1799. Description: Williamson, Charles, plat for 185 acres between Saluda and Little River, Newberry County, Ninety Six District, surveyed by John Abney on August 20, 1798. Names indexed: Abney, John; Eastland, Thomas; Goggins, Daniel; Goodman, Joseph; Mangram, John; Spencer; Williamson, Charles. (Note: A copy of Daniel Goggans' father George Goggans' 1803 Newberry Co. will is included in Appendix #1.)]
      Appendix #1: Will of George Goggans; Newberry, South Carolina. [KP note: full text available online from which I make the following abstract:] George Goggans of Newberry District, "being sick of body but in sound & perfect memory"disposes as follows: "my children that has not received as much of my Estate as those that have married & left me that their parts shall be made up out of my Estate; "son James Goggans shall have all that part of my land lying Over the Branch where his field is Joining Daniel Butler"; "Remaining part of my Estate both Real & Personal be sold & divided among my nine children allowing Bettey Anderson & Jefiah Goggans one equal part with the rest of my children"; appoints "my Loving son James Goggans & my loving son Daniel Goggans to be my lawful executors." Dated 15 Jan. 1803. Signed by George Goggans. Witnesses: Wm. Satterwaite, David Johnston, Joseph Davenport. Recorded 10 Dec 1815; proved 11 Dec 1815; Will Book "F", pg. 1. Box No. 28, Pkg. No. 59; Est. No. 663.
      1840: John Mangum's name was mentioned in an 1840 petition of citizens in Newberry Co. against William Harmon's petition to open a road and bridge the Little River. [SCDAH Series: 8165015, Year: 1840, Item: 69, Date: 9/15/1840. Description: Citizens of Newberry District, counter-petition against William Harmon's petition to open a road and bridge the Little River. (4 pages) Names indexed: Alwin, Elisha; Anderson, William; Brooks, John J.; Dalrymple, Wade; Davenport, Jonathan; Floyd, Charles Sr.; Goggans, James H.; Goggans, William; Harmon, William; Jonson, Joab; Lewis, John; Mangum, Daniel; Mangum, John; Motes, David; Payne, John W.; Peterson, James E.; Peterson, Wilford; Spearman, Edmund; Stephens, David; Workman, Corneleus.]

      BIRTH:
      1. Estimated from information with her sister Anna Goggan in this database. Also St. George temple work as noted below shows a birth in Virginia.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Per "California DAR Ancestry Guide" by the California State Society of the National Society of the DAR, 1976: John Mangum, Revolutionary War private from South Carolina: "b. Jan 19, 1763, Mecklenburg Co. VA; m (1) Betsy Murdock (2) Gurnine Coughlin (3) Rebecca Knowles." children listed as "Infant (1st wife) b. ca 1801; d. infant," "Cyrus (2nd wife), b. Jan 5, 1803; d. young," and from 3rd wife: Jemima, William, Rebecca, James Mitchell, Joseph, Jennie, and Lucinda. [Note problems with names and order of wives.]

      2. An interesting dilemma is to in which order Mary (aka Polly) Murdock and Gemima Goggins were wives to John Mangum prior to his third and documented wife Rebecca Canida. I looked at my notes and can find no documented proof either way. Delta Hales, in her Mangum book, of course places Mary first and then Gemima second. She also lists John's first three children with Mary, then the next two with Gemima. I have similarly used Mary first and Gemima second. Here are some thoughts:
      Delta seemed to have struggled a bit with this too. She lists Cyrus Mangum, who is generally supposed to be the first of two children born of the second marriage to Gemima, as having a birthdate of 5 Jan 1805. I have always thought she had a typo and it was meant to be 1803, but perhaps she did it deliberately. In either case it goes against two things, his stepbrother William Mangum when he did both Cyrus' baptism for the dead in early 1877 and then the endowment later mid-1877 at the St. George LDS temple gave the birthdate of 5 Jan 1803 consistently. William and his sister Rebecca Mangum Adair, both of the third marriage, did LDS temple work for all the known siblings from the first two marriages of their father John Mangum. In each case, they had detailed birth dates for each of the siblings, which were then recorded into the temple record. Of course, William may have been in error; however, the second thing going for an 1803 date would be the 1850 Pickens Co., AL census and the 1860 Lavaca Co., TX censuses wherein he states his age respectively as 47 then 57. I am inclined to accept an 1803 date unless better documentation is later found. The deed below for Aug 1803, clearly shows Mary as the wife. Even Delta Hale shows the same deed information in her book - hence her moving Cyrus to an 1805 birthdate. She does not dwell further on Cyrus except to note he moved to Texas and had a large posterity. I think my subsequent research into Cyrus is more detailed than what Delta perhaps pursued. This leaves us with two logical scenarios:
      1. Mary was the second wife, not the first. She would then be mother to Cyrus b. 5 Jan 1803 and to his sister Mary, b. 17 Jun 1804, instead of Gemima. In that case, Gemima would have then most likely been mother to the first three children generally ascribed to Mary: James, b. 6 Dec 1791; Nancy, b. 11 Nov 1794; and Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec 1798; (and possibly an undocumented infant b. and d. circa 1801). Of course whose children are whose depends when wife no. 1 died and John married wife no. 2.
      2. Mary was indeed the first wife and Cyrus was her son (and possibly Mary also as a dau.) and Gemima was the second wife with either one dau. (Mary) or no children.
      I do not know which is correct without further data input. I also note that for whatever reason, when doing the baptisms for the dead, Rebecca Mangum Adair, did "Gemima Gogins" first than "Mary Murdock". She then did stepsiblings Nancy, Elizabeth, and Mary in that order which was by age.
      I also previously found a 1976 California DAR Ancestry Guide listing John's three wives as Betsy Murdock, Gurnine Coughlin, and Rebecca Knowles. And that Cyrus was from the second wife and born 5 Jan 1803. I am not sure who originally gave them that info, but it certainly does not help.
      Currently I am going to only show the dilemma as a note in my database notes until further light and knowledge is obtained.

      3. The book "Our Folks," by Maron Summer Eve, Columbia, South Carolina, 1987, copy in FHL library in Salt Lake City, is a good source of information on William Mangum and Anna Goggans; however, the information given for her presumed sister Jemima Goggans is suspect and sloppy. The only reason I quote this is because of the potential first marriage to a Towles. The dates in regard to Mangum and number of children are wrong and if you read the book, she has children from the wrong wives assigned to other wives. I am also not convinced that John had 4 wives and not just 3. If indeed the Jemima who married Towles was a Goggans and my right Jemima, than the land transaction poses some problems as far of timing - however, the land may have been sold as part of an earlier death of John Towles since at one part it notes he is deceased.
      She states: "Mrs. Jemima (Goggans) Towles, widow of John Towles, who married on Jan. 19, 1809, John Mangum, Jr., RW Sol. and widower previously m. (1) Mary Murdock, b. in America ca. 1775 chn.-2, dau. of William and Mary Murdock (b. in England); m. (2) Elizabeth Murdock, b. 1756 in Eng. chn. - 4, she was sister to first wife. m. (3) Jemima (Goggans) Towles, Chn. - 2, op. cit. She died 1812 in Maurey Co., Tenn.; m. (4) Mrs. Rebecca Canida Knowles, Chn. - 6.
      South Carolina, Edgefield District (Cons. $500 paid.) John Towles sold 255 acres of land on Tarpin Creek to Moses Walton Sept. 20, 1803. Dower: Jemima Towles wife Apr. 6, 1804. John Towles, Dec'd.
      Much of the history has been lost to the ages, however, the little settlement on Tarpin (Terrapin) has a fascinating history. Be it remembered that Tarpin Creek and Mill Creek flowed into Big Saluda on the south side in Colleton County. George Goggans, RW Sol. (son of Daniel and Nancy Williams and sister [brother?] to Jemima) lived on Tarpin Creek. He was one of the sons of Daniel Goggans who perished in RW (Whig) mentioned by Annals of Newberry."
      Elsewhere she states: Jemima Goggans, b. ca. 1775 Craven Co., SC (now Newberry Co.), d. 1812 in Maurey Co., Tenn. Married (1) John Towles, b. 1772 in Colleton Co., SC on Tarpin Creek (Terrapin), d. after 1804, eld. son of Stockley Towles and Martha Gilley. No. issue."

      4. Further perspective but not resolution on the quote above from "Our Folks" is given as follows from Guy Perry, someguy@prismnet.com, 6 Aug 2013: "I am doing research for the Jay Family Association (of which I am a member and descendant) into the Towles family of South Carolina. This links to the Goggans family because two of the Goggans sisters (Jane and Jemima) married men named Towles: Daniel and John (nephew of Daniel), respectively. There is a deed in Edgefield Co., SC from John Towles to Moses Walton dated 20 Sep 1803. It was confirmed by Jemima Towles on Apr. 6 1804, when she signed for her dower rights, with the notation that John Towles was by this time deceased. That would seem to make the marriage between Jemima and John Mangum at some point after Apr. 6, 1804. If the birthdates you have for Cyrus and his sibling are correct, Jemima could not have been their mother."
      This is the same information already presented in "Our Folks" and does not resolve the issue as to whether or not we are talking of the same Jemima Goggans or not. Cyrus' birthdate of 1803 or 1805 and his exact mother is still unresolved.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Info on family with Gemima and Mary per family group sheets submitted by Delta I.M. Hale, Rt. 1 Blackfoot, Idaho. She states source of Family records gathered from grand son Arnold Mangum, Gen. Soc. archives, index bureau, and Grace Knowles and J.P. Davidson of Richmond, Va., Genealogists. For Mary's family, letters and books are mentioned belonging to him (John Magnum?) at McGill, Nevada.