The "GOODRUM PAPERS"
Written by Mildred Ackerman Jent - 1968
CHAPTER THREE
The third child of Nancy Mason (Goodrum)
Cooksey and Thomas was Benjamin J. Cooksey, born March 25, 18?0, in Virginia.
He died February 8, 1883. In 1835, he married Mary Willoughby (nickname Polly),
born July 20, 1814-died November 13, 1883. Benjamin J. and Polly are buried
side by side in a little iron pen on the old Benjamin J. Cooksey Farm 3 1/2
miles N.E. of Halfway In Allen County. The farm was on the south side of Bays
Fork Creek. Benjamin and Polly had six children: Thomas J. (the 3rd Thomas),
John W., Nancy J., Elizabeth A., Patsy Ann, and Susan L.. Thomas J.
Cooksey married Drucilla A. Casey and lived near Whites Chapel Church. They are
buried there. They had 7 children: Benjamin J., Abner Casey, Sarah Wainscott,
William, Georgianna, James L., and Nancy (Nannie) Holcomb. James L. was the
father of Sidney Cooksey who married Ogilvia Smith. Their son, James Garnett
Cooksey was born July 30, 1939. He married Lois Bryson. They have a son,
Garnet!
t LaMarr Cooksey. Case Cooksey's children were: Charles, Fred, and Alma
Cooksey Carlock. Alma married Cecil Carlock. Their sons are J.C. and Dorris
Dixon Carlock. Nancy married Wilburn Holcomb. Their children were: Pearlie
(Mrs. Lum Kitchens), Georgia (Mrs. A.L. Kitchens), whose son, Curtis married
Margaret Cantrell, Jay Clinton Holcomb married Mildred Cooper. Their children
are James David and Eddie May, (Mrs. James Alford), Lucian Holcomb married
Earline Henson. Their child was DeLois. Following the death of his first wife,
Lucian married Mayzelle Cooper, the youngest son Carl lived in Oklahoma.
(4) Sarah Goodrum was the old maid daughter of Bennett and wife. She is buried
in Allen Co.
(3) Patsy Goodrum married Robert Johnson in Tennessee and lived on an adjoining
farm to her sister Nancy Mason Goodrum Cooksey near Allen Springs.
(2) Elizabeth Goodrum was born in Virginia in 1788. She was the third child and
next to Nancy Mason. The Greensville Co., Virginia records give her marriage to
Jesse Adams on January 29, 1811. Jesse's mother was Elizabeth Cooksey, daughter
of John Baptist Cooksey. Jesse Adams and wife Elizabeth (Goodrum) Adams first
got land in 1817 in Warren County on Trammel Fork of Drakes Creek. They sold
this land warrant of 50 acres in 1825 to Micajah Harmon for $225. Their
daughter, Liza, was born there in 1818. In 1825, the family moved nearer
Bowling Green. In 1836, Jesse Adams sold out and with two other families formed
a wagon train and went to McLean Co., Illinois. Here Jesse died and Elizabeth
and her twelve children and grandchildren came to Iowa. But not before the
pretty eighteen year old Liza had met young James Starr Rhodes who was studying
for the medical profession. However, he always wanted to be like his dad, Rev.
Ebenezer Rhodes who founded Bloomington, Illi!
nois in 1823. So in middle life he became a minister. He and Liza married in
1837 and moved to Winterfest, Iowa. They had a daughter who married Nils
Soderland, born in Sweden and came to America at the age of two years. The
Soderland's daughter, Fae (Mrs. DeForrest C. Parrott), lives in Des Moines,
Iowa. She has been a wonderful help to me in compiling these historical facts.
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