History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A.
Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 274.   [Cerulean Springs Precinct]

B. F. GOODWIN was born September 8, 1850, in Trigg County; he is a son of
Robert S. and Nancy (Blakely) Goodwin.  The father was born March 29,
1811, in Christian, now Trigg County, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah
(Brown) Goodwin.  They emigrated from North Carolina to Nashville, Tenn.,
in 1782; then soon after removed to what is now Trigg County, and were the
earliest settlers of the county.  Samuel Goodwin died here, July 26, 1844,
in his seventy-eighth year; his wife died in February, 1842, aged
sixty-seven.  Robert S. Goodwin now resides on and owns part of the land
which was entered by his father, and for which he holds a patent from the
United States.  Our subject received his early education at the
subscription schools of this locality, after which he went to Cadiz and
continued his studies under Prof. Wayland; he then secured a position as
clerk for G. W. Lindsey, where he remained six years; and later with G. T.
McCain, with whom he clerked two years.  In 1882, he, with J. T. Harper,
opened a general store at Cerulean Springs, and is doing a business of
about $10,000 a year.  Mr. Goodwin is Postmaster at this point, having
been appointed in January 1882.

Goodwin Blakely Brown Wayland Lindsey McCain Harper
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Christian-KY Nashville-Davidson-TN NC

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