Person

Robert Spotswood Goodall (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship captain.)

b. 1815 d. 1887

Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship captain. Monroe County, Kentucky, native. Son of Peter Copeland Goodall and Adeline Butler Anderson Goodall. Married to Martha Ann Pearce Goodall in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 7, 1839. Father of Mary Goodall and Henrietta Goodall. Married to Emily Scott Goodall in Jefferson County on December 22, 1852. Father of Helen H. Goodall. Ship pilot in Jefferson County in 1850. Boat captain in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed Julia McDermin as a servant in Jefferson County in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 297A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 380.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Gillmans, p. 309B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482706, p. 72.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482707, p. 178.

"Mrs. Emily S. Goodall Dead." Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), May 18, 1912, p. 7.

"Robert Spotswood Goodall (1815-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial #83446626, accessed April 12, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83446626

Citation

Goodall, Robert Spotswood. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202873 (November 12, 2026).

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