Goff, Dean, Norris, Pepper Families from MA and VA to CA

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GEDCOM Trees (viewing trees requires 4.0 or later)

• Ancestors of Francis Marion Coyle (7 KB)
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• Ancestors of Nancy Candis White (3 KB)
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• Ancestors of Georgia Elah Norris (17 KB)
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• Ancestors of Charles Roy Goff (3 KB)
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Family Photos

• Coyle Sisters and Brothers (142 KB)
  Are the sisters and brothers together to attend a funeral? Their father,Francis Marion Coyle died Dec. 29,1899. Their mother, Telitha Pearson Coyle died June 2, 1907 in Huston,Texas County,MO
• Pepper House Entry Way, Close Up (107 KB)
  There is a plaque on the wall of the house to the right of the door. The white on the plaque in the shape of the State of Texas indicates a State Historical Landmark. Photo by Alexa Robinson,1983.
• Charles Henry Goff Family,Cedar Vale,KS, 1911 (129 KB)
  The traveling photographer arrived at the farm. It was lunch time and the men had come in from the fields. The women took time to dress up.Walter, who was sick with TB,put on his suit and got his violin. The photographer took the picture.
• Mary Salsbury and Jonathan Goff.jpg (202 KB)
  The original images are ambrotypes. The image is on glass and placed in a case. These were made in 1862 in LeRoy, Genesee County, or Covington, Wyoming,County NY. Jonathan has on his Union Army uniform. Mary,perhaps, has on her best dress. Jonathan gave his age as 44,when inducted into the Army.
• Nancy and Solomon Norris, 1866, Grayson Co.TX (39 KB)
  Nancy White and Solomon Norris were married Feb.20,1866.Married only thirteen and a half years they had six children. A seventh child was born July 9,1879 and died the same day. Nancy died two days later.
• Thomas Jones Norris Family Group (69 KB)
  Telitha and Thomas married young. She was 15 and he was 21. Ten years later in 1898 they had this picture taken at a San Antonio studio. They lived in Kimble County, a distance of four counties away. One more son, Thomas Edgar, was born in 1903 in San Diego County,CA. Standing: Ollie, Georgia, Thomas, Rosa. Seated: William, Telitha (Pepper), and Mike.
• Joshua Alfred Dean (54 KB)
  Joshua Alfred Dean, born February 9, 1821, died February 11, 1887. He married Nancy Davenport, October 25,1857. Each had been married previously and had children. The photo I have is a copy of the original image which was on glass. This copy was probably made in the 1880s.
• Rebecca Baker and Benjamin Franklin Pepper (102 KB)
  Benjamin and Rebecca were married June 2, 1842 in Hampshire County,VA. They had 24 years together until Rebecca's death December 7, 1866. The original picture was probably made in 1866.
• Benjamin Franklin Pepper, His Sons and Daughters (178 KB)
  Standing(left to right): Stonewall Jackson Pepper. Benjamin Francis Pepper,John Lonas Pepper,Jacob Sebron Pepper, and Andrew Pepper.Seated(l-r): Effa Pepper Baldwin, Telitha Pepper Norris, Benjamin Franklin Pepper, Lucy Pepper Riley, Fanny Pepper Harbert. The wife and mother Sally Ann Coyle Pepper died June 21, 1914. Her sons and daughters are here for her funeral. They are on the porch of Sally and Ben's home in Ramona, California.
• Benjamin Franklin Pepper House, Junction, Texas (100 KB)
  The first two story house built in Kimble County, Texas. Built 1877-1879 by Ben Pepper. See the Pepper Genealogy Report, page 1, for more on this house. Photo by Alexa Robinson taken in 1983.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of George Washington NORRIS


• User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Jonathan Goff


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Benjamin Franklin Pepper