Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

THOMAS J. GOODRUM was born July 26, 1844, in Warren County, Ky., and in 
1850 removed with his parents to Allen County, where he has since 
resided.  His father, John J. Goodrum, Jr., a native of West Virginia, 
removed with his parents in childhood to Sumner County, Tenn.; removed 
to Kentucky, where he remained four years, and then located in Warren 
County, Ky.; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in 1865, aged 
seventy-one years.  He was the son of John J., Sr.  John J., Jr., was 
thrice married; first to Margery Carruthers, and their children are 
James R., Sarah (Pearson), Martha A. (Johnson), Eliza (Cooksey) and John 
I.  His second wife was Eliza Ragsdale, and their children are Benjamin 
R., Nancy (Goodrum), Susan (Moore and Ayres), Margaret (Tabor), Mary 
(Harmon), Andrew J. and Elizabeth.  His third wife is Mary A., daughter 
of Peter and Nancy (Harmon) Cornwell, of Allen County - now living, at 
the age of sixty-four years - and from their union sprang Patsey A. 
(Deering), Cinderella, Thomas J., Joseph R., Beverly L. and Briggs.  
Thomas J. obtained a common English education in the schools of the 
country, and is a reading man.  He married, September 12, 1869, 
Drusilla, daughter of Willis P. and Martha (Burton) Buckhannon, of Allen 
County - born July 20, 1850 - and to their union were born Etta F., Anna 
L., Burton, John J., Lepoteta and Willis H.  Mr. Goodrum is a farmer, 
owning 126 acres of productive land in a high state of cultivation.  He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity; also of the Missionary Baptist 
Church and in politics a Democrat.

Goodrum Carruthers Pearson Johnson Cooksey Ragsdale Moore Ayres Tabor 
Harmon Deering Harmon Cornwell Burton Buckhannon
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Warren-KY WV Sumner-TN 

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