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I'm working on my 1st cousins wife's family line and it ties back to the Lucas and Goodall families of GA. It is said that Elizabeth Rebecca Lucas married 1. Samuel Goodall (2 sons and 4 daughters) 2. unknown Thorne (2 daughters) and 3. a Dr. C.F. Worcester (0 children). Elizabeth died along with one of her Thorne daughters at Galveston, TX in 1839. Samuel Goodall died at Columbus, GA in 1833. Prior to that they had lived in Milledgeville, GA. Their oldest child, a son, was born in 1818 in the area of Milledgeville, GA. Samuel Goodall was a merchant and at one point went into partnership with Walter B. and John Lucas in operating one of his stores, I believe it was at Milledgeville, GA. After Samuel died, Elizabeth moved with her children to Montgomery Co, Ala., but apparently she owned a "packet" boat, home based at Mobile, Ala. and traveled up and down the southern rivers and coast, that is how she ended up in the Republic of Texas (pre-statehood).
From what I have found on the internet, she seems to tie into the family of James Lucas and Mary Lucas, I am assuming under the name of their child "Rebecca". I don't have a copy of James Lucas will (died 1814 time period in GA), but I understand he named his wife and all his children in it.
Elizabeth R. (Lucas) Goodall moving to Montgomery Co, Ala following the death of her husband, Samuel Goodall, seems to tie into the fact that (her mother) the widow of James Lucas lived in that same area along with many of her other Lucas family members. I have read where Henry Lucas, of Montgomery County Ala., signed a statement on behalf of his sister, Mary Lucas, supporting her application for a Revolutionary War pension (from her dead husband James Lucas war service). The Goodall children all seem to have done very well for themselves and the two boys, James Pleasant and Albert G. Goodall both are well documented on the internet. James Pleasant Goodall and his brother, Albert, are known for serving in the military of the Republic of Texas. James continued with this same kind of military service in northern California and southern Oregon during the Indian wars there. Albert went on to be President of the American Bank Note Company. One daughter married a Doctor, two married Ministers and one moved to Montgomery Co, VA and owned a girls school there. The "Thorne" daughter who was left an orphan in Texas was taken in by Vernal Lee/Lea and his mother Margaret Lee/Lea (mother in-law to Sam Houston and with Montgomery Co, Ala connections). Susan Virginia Thorne ended up living in the home of Sam Houston for several years where she apparently had some well documented disagreements with Sam Houston's wife. She ended up running away in 1850 with Sam Houston's overseer, Tom Gott, and ended up married him. Susan Virginia Thorne's two half brother's did provide her with a degree of support after 1850.
My question here is, do you know of anything that would help me tie Elizabeth Rebecca Lucas to the family of James and Mary Lucas? So far I have been unable to uncover a marriage document for Elizabeth and Samuel Goodall even though we know they were in the area of Milledgeville, GA as early as the 1820 census there. Elizabeth apparently married Samuel Goodall after the death of James Lucas (1814) and before the birth of her first son (1818). I believe she named her first son after both of the grandfathers, James for Lucas and Pleasant for Goodall. I would appreciate any help in making/proving the Lucas family connection for Elizabeth Rebecca Lucas?
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