Preston Goforth (son of John Lewis Goforth and Mary) was born Abt. 1778 in North Carolina, and died Abt. 1810 in Washington Co. Tennessee.
Notes for Preston Goforth: Fact: A Preston Goforth married Henrietta Gibson on February 23, 1801 in Knox Co. Tennessee.
Fact: Absolom Goforth, born 1804 in Eastern Tennessee, named one of his daughters Hattie Gibson Goforth (born 1863 in Washington Co. Tennessee). Absolom Goforth and his siblings John R. Goforth (b. 1804) and Nancy (b. 1797) were deserted when young and bound out in Washington Co. Tennessee in 1810.
SPECULATION?: Could this Preston Goforth, who died in 1810, be the husband of Henrietta Gibson, and the father of orphaned Absolom Goforth (plus John R. & Nancy), and grandfather of Hattie Gibson Goforth?
Preston Goforth (b. Abt. 1778, d. Abt. 1810)
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