Son of Ephraim Goble and Hannah Virgin.
Stephen Middleton "Mid" Goble was a slave owner in Pactolus, Carter Co., Kentucky in the 1800s. He was one of 19 children born to Ephraim who was married three times. Middleton Goble and wife Emily Bruce Duncan had eleven children, four were sons. When Mid's sons would go into town during the war and join either one side or the other Mid would throw their rifles in the Little Sandy River, to try to keep them from fighting.
A 1961 Ashland newspaper article said Middleton Goble was the biggest slave trader in the area and usually kept 100 slaves to work the farm. One winter before the war 37 slaves died of pneumonia. Two slaves, Bird (male) and Rach (female) stayed on after they were freed and were said to be part of the family but ate at a smaller table in the dining room with the family.
By Evelyn Goble Steen
Carter County court records indicate that Stephen's son William Alvin Goble fought serving the confederacy during the Civil War.
Stephen Middleton "Mid" Goble was a slave owner in Pactolus, Carter Co., Kentucky in the 1800s. He was one of 19 children born to Ephraim who was married three times. Middleton Goble and wife Emily Bruce Duncan had eleven children, four were sons. When Mid's sons would go into town during the war and join either one side or the other Mid would throw their rifles in the Little Sandy River, to try to keep them from fighting.
A 1961 Ashland newspaper article said Middleton Goble was the biggest slave trader in the area and usually kept 100 slaves to work the farm. One winter before the war 37 slaves died of pneumonia. Two slaves, Bird (male) and Rach (female) stayed on after they were freed and were said to be part of the family but ate at a smaller table in the dining room with the family.
By Evelyn Goble Steen
Carter County court records indicate that Stephen's son William Alvin Goble fought serving the confederacy during the Civil War.
Son of Ephraim Goble and Hannah Virgin.
Stephen Middleton "Mid" Goble was a slave owner in Pactolus, Carter Co., Kentucky in the 1800s. He was one of 19 children born to Ephraim who was married three times. Middleton Goble and wife Emily Bruce Duncan had eleven children, four were sons. When Mid's sons would go into town during the war and join either one side or the other Mid would throw their rifles in the Little Sandy River, to try to keep them from fighting.
A 1961 Ashland newspaper article said Middleton Goble was the biggest slave trader in the area and usually kept 100 slaves to work the farm. One winter before the war 37 slaves died of pneumonia. Two slaves, Bird (male) and Rach (female) stayed on after they were freed and were said to be part of the family but ate at a smaller table in the dining room with the family.
By Evelyn Goble Steen
Carter County court records indicate that Stephen's son William Alvin Goble fought serving the confederacy during the Civil War.
Stephen Middleton "Mid" Goble was a slave owner in Pactolus, Carter Co., Kentucky in the 1800s. He was one of 19 children born to Ephraim who was married three times. Middleton Goble and wife Emily Bruce Duncan had eleven children, four were sons. When Mid's sons would go into town during the war and join either one side or the other Mid would throw their rifles in the Little Sandy River, to try to keep them from fighting.
A 1961 Ashland newspaper article said Middleton Goble was the biggest slave trader in the area and usually kept 100 slaves to work the farm. One winter before the war 37 slaves died of pneumonia. Two slaves, Bird (male) and Rach (female) stayed on after they were freed and were said to be part of the family but ate at a smaller table in the dining room with the family.
By Evelyn Goble Steen
Carter County court records indicate that Stephen's son William Alvin Goble fought serving the confederacy during the Civil War.
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