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Roland Gooch (Hopkins County, Ky, blacksmith and farmer )

b. 1822-08-26 d. 1873-09-11

Hopkins County, Kentucky, blacksmith and farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Louisa F. Gooch. Father of Jemima Florence Gooch, Genoa Gooch, Willis Gooch, Joseph W. Gooch, and Bartlett Gooch. Blacksmith in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned one other enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1860. Held seven enslaved persons in trust for Josie Payne in Hopkins County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 128B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 716.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 815-16.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 219B-220A.

"Rev Rowland Gooch (1822-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67722252, accessed October 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67722252.

Citation

Gooch, Roland. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202461 (November 12, 2026).

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