James Langston Goree

b. 1819, d. 1866
  • James Langston Goree was born in 1819 in South Carolina.
  • James Lyles Goree and Martha Rabb appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1830 in Perry County, Alabama. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included James Langston Goree, Mary Ann Goree, John Rabb Goree, Robert Thomas Goree and Lucy Caroline Goree.
  • James Lyles Goree and Martha Rabb appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1840 in Perry County, Alabama, enumerated as son "John R. Gorre," although John is enumerated separately with his family elsewhere in Perry County.. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included James Langston Goree, Robert Thomas Goree and Lucy Caroline Goree. There are more males than can be accounted for amongst known children, perhaps an overseer and/or laborers.
  • He married Mary Dixon circa 1843.
  • James Langston Goree and Mary Dixon appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Barrons, Perry County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Lucie Goree, Don Dix Goree, Jane Goree and John Hugh Hopper.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
  • James Langston Goree and Mary Dixon appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Duncan & Douglass Townships, Arkansas County, Arkansas, and also overseer N. M. Story, schoolteacher Annie Kirkland, and Charles Dickens (age 7, born in Tennessee) and Emma Goree (age 6, born in Indiana).. Other members of the household included Lucie Goree, Don Dix Goree, Mary Goree and James L. Goree.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
  • James Langston Goree died in 1866.
  • His wife Mary Dixon became a widow at his death.
  • Last Edited: 17 Aug 2009

Family: Mary Dixon b. circa 1825