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The Shockley Family From It would seem appropriate to include some information on the family of my great great great grandmother, Margaret “Peggy” Shockley. The writer has completed only a limited search
for these early records, but the information stated here is consistent with what I have been told by other researchers. The Shockley family is of English origin and came to America in early colonial times. They
were Protestant and they settled in Virginia. Margaret “Peggy” Shockley was born about 1792 in Virginia. Her parents were Mary “Polly”_______________ and William Shockley, Sr. The parents were both natives of
Virginia and were supposed to have died there about 1802. I could only speculate on the names of their other children. Margaret "Peggy" Shockley married James M. Goad on 18 October 1804 in Bedford County,
Virginia. They moved from Virginia to White County, Tennessee about 1808. Margaret and James Goad had eight children. (Their stories are elsewhere in this booklet.) After James Goad died, about 1828
in White County, Margaret then married Mr. John Franklin. Margaret and John Franklin stayed in Tennessee until about 1834 when they came to Madison County, Arkansas. Margaret and John had no children. They raised
the youngest of Margaret's children by James Goad and probably raised several of John's children. Margaret died around 1855 in Madison County, Arkansas. We do not know when John Franklin died.
A tax list for White County, Tennessee for the year 1811 shows:
In 1830 there are several Shockley families in White County. There are eleven different Shockley families in White County in 1840. I would assume they are all related
in some way. The information below is from Mrs. June Worland and is important:
“Several years ago I was writing to an elderly man in Tennessee. He was a Shockley descendant. He didn't know too much, but he told me some of the stories he'd heard or had been passed down to him. He has
since passed away. He said many Shockleys and many Goards came to Tennessee about the same time in the early 1800’s. He said the Shockleys were all related some way and he supposed the Goards were too. First
of all he told me I have the name wrong. He said it wasn't Goad. It was Goard.” “He said Peggy Shockley married Sharp Goard (a nickname for James?). Her and some of her brothers came to Tennessee after their folks
died in Virginia. He said Peggy’s oldest boy (Robert) had real hard luck, that his wife died in “child bed” leaving three little boys and that Peggy’s son went wild.” “Before that, or around that time he said
banks failed and lots of folks moved on to other states trying to get a new start. A bunch went to Arkansas Sharp Goard was among them but "the Indians got him up there.” Well, he said, the son, he joined
the militia up there to get vengeance on them Indians. The grandma raised the boys." “I paid little attention until I got to “the Indians got him.” Of course, I had heard that story before.
Now I wonder if it could be true and my people got the story attached to the wrong James Goad. Anyway, I cannot prove any of this nor have I been able to find a service record for Robert Goad.”
- from June Worland |
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