GOODMAN.
The first of the Goodman family was Charles. He is
noticed as early as 1761 as having married Elizabeth, daughter
of Roland Horsley. He began the purchase of land where
he continued to live until his death, on the south fork of the
Rivanna, west of the mouth of Ivy Creek. In the course of
years he acquired considerably more than a thousand acres.
His dwelling stood where Edward Wingfield now lives.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1794, but apparently
averse to the publicity of office soon resigned. He seems to
have been a quiet, industrious man, notably upright in all
his dealings. When in his will he made bequests of negroes
to his children, he required a certain proportion of the value
of their labor to be paid them year by year; and it is probable
he did himself what he enjoined upon others. He died
in 1827. His children were William, Joseph, Nathan, John,
Susan, the wife of John Rogers, Roland Horsley, Jeremiah
A., and Elizabeth, the wife of an Anderson. William married
Elizabeth Gentry, Joseph married Nancy, daughter of Patrick
Michie, Nathan married Mildred, daughter of Manoah
Clarkson, and emigrated to Kentucky. John was one of the
early Methodist preachers, and his wife was Frances, daughter
of Thomas Dickerson. Jeremiah A. married Mary Clarkson,
sister of Nathan's wife, and lived until his death in 1857
four or five miles south of Charlottesville.
Horsley Goodman married Elizabeth, daughter of David
Rodes, and his children were D. Rodes, who was a deputy
Surveyor of the county, Nathan C., who married Sarah,
daughter of Joel Terrell, William, Horsley, who married
Sarah, daughter of James Durrett, of the Batesville neighborhood,
Susan, the wife of James Durrett, brother of Horsley's
wife, Ann, the wife of Seth Burnley, and Lucy, the second
wife of Thomas H. Brown. Horsley Sr., died the same year
as his father.
