Samuel Escridge Goree

Samuel Escridge Goree

• Father: Langston James Goree b. 19 September 1793, d. 5 July 1853
• Mother: Susan Kenner b. circa 1798, d. circa 1833

• Samuel Escridge Goree was born circa 1823 in South Carolina.
• Langston James Goree and Susan Kenner appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1830 in Perry County, Alabama. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included Samuel Escridge Goree, Mary Frances Goree. Also in the household were three children aged 0-4 who apparently did not survive, and a female aged 20-29, whose identity is unknown, who may also have been in the household in 1840.
• Langston James Goree and Sarah Williams Kittrell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1840 in Perry County, Alabama. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included Samuel Escridge Goree, Mary Frances Goree, Anna Goree, Thomas Jewett Goree and Robert Daniel Goree. Also in the household was a second female aged 30-39, whose identity is unknown, and may have been in the household in 1830.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
• He married Sarah Elizabeth Wiley on 24 June 1852 in Walker County, Texas, with F. A. McShan, M.G., officiating.
• On Tuesday, 2 October 1855, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Doctor and J. Campbell and Mr. Goree came this evening," and on Monday, the 8th, "Doctor & J. Campbell and Mr. Goree left for home."
       Likely Mr. Goree was Samuel Eskridge Goree, living in Walker County, whose younger brother Robert Daniel will marry Ann Campbell's daughter Fannie, and younger brother Langston James will marry Green Mark's daughter Fannie.
• Samuel Escridge Goree and Sarah Elizabeth Wiley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Waverly PO, Walker (later San Jacinto) County, Texas. Other members of the household included Georgia Goree, William L. Goree and Owen B. Goree. Also in the household was overseer James Bass.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
• S. E. Goree entered CSA service at age 41 on 28 August 1863 at Camp San Jacinto in as a private in Company E, 4th Infantry, Texas State Troops, for a period of six months, and was discharged on 8 February 1864. He re-enrolled on 30 January 1964 in Company E at a camp near Cedar Lake, and appears on a regimental return for March 1865 as a sergeant in Company K, Terry's Cavalry Regiment (Dismounted).
• Samuel Escridge Goree and Sarah Elizabeth Wiley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Georgia Goree, William L. Goree and Nannie Goree.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
• Samuel Escridge Goree died circa 1873.
• His wife Sarah Elizabeth Wiley became a widow at his death.

• Last Edited: 3 Oct 2013