Benjamin Franklin Goolsby is the son of Pleasant and Susan Goolsby. The family settled in Georgia when they immigrated from Ireland some years before. The Goolsby family moved from Georgia to Mississippi, and Ben settled at Lafayette Springs in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
He married Amanda Malvina Harmon on December 24, 1845 at Oxford, Mississippi. They had eleven children. Their children are James Fred., Joseph F (Joe)., Madison W.(Matt), William N. (Nute), Andrew Thomas (Tom), Columbus Jones (Toad), George L., John Benjamin, Alonzo, Larra Joanna, and Fannie Goolsby.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Ben was the owner of 320 acres of land and a gin near Lafayette Springs. In 1869, he began to move his family to Texas. He took bedding and extra clothes to the gin and baled them so that they would take up as little room as possible. He sent teams of loaded wagons on to Texas. Then in 1870, he and part of his family arrived at Horseshoe Bend on the Little River, about two miles south of Reed's Lake. There he build and ran the first sawmill in Bell County.
He bought 1500 acres of land and cut timber to improve his homes both at Horseshoe Bend and on the prairie. He spent his spare time hunting and fishing. He made the largest cash donation to build the original Academy school.
He later moved to a home two miles south of Heidenheimer where he later died of a carbuncle on his heel. His widow, Amanda, continued to live at the old home until her death of paralysis on March 26, 1907.
He married Amanda Malvina Harmon on December 24, 1845 at Oxford, Mississippi. They had eleven children. Their children are James Fred., Joseph F (Joe)., Madison W.(Matt), William N. (Nute), Andrew Thomas (Tom), Columbus Jones (Toad), George L., John Benjamin, Alonzo, Larra Joanna, and Fannie Goolsby.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Ben was the owner of 320 acres of land and a gin near Lafayette Springs. In 1869, he began to move his family to Texas. He took bedding and extra clothes to the gin and baled them so that they would take up as little room as possible. He sent teams of loaded wagons on to Texas. Then in 1870, he and part of his family arrived at Horseshoe Bend on the Little River, about two miles south of Reed's Lake. There he build and ran the first sawmill in Bell County.
He bought 1500 acres of land and cut timber to improve his homes both at Horseshoe Bend and on the prairie. He spent his spare time hunting and fishing. He made the largest cash donation to build the original Academy school.
He later moved to a home two miles south of Heidenheimer where he later died of a carbuncle on his heel. His widow, Amanda, continued to live at the old home until her death of paralysis on March 26, 1907.
Benjamin Franklin Goolsby is the son of Pleasant and Susan Goolsby. The family settled in Georgia when they immigrated from Ireland some years before. The Goolsby family moved from Georgia to Mississippi, and Ben settled at Lafayette Springs in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
He married Amanda Malvina Harmon on December 24, 1845 at Oxford, Mississippi. They had eleven children. Their children are James Fred., Joseph F (Joe)., Madison W.(Matt), William N. (Nute), Andrew Thomas (Tom), Columbus Jones (Toad), George L., John Benjamin, Alonzo, Larra Joanna, and Fannie Goolsby.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Ben was the owner of 320 acres of land and a gin near Lafayette Springs. In 1869, he began to move his family to Texas. He took bedding and extra clothes to the gin and baled them so that they would take up as little room as possible. He sent teams of loaded wagons on to Texas. Then in 1870, he and part of his family arrived at Horseshoe Bend on the Little River, about two miles south of Reed's Lake. There he build and ran the first sawmill in Bell County.
He bought 1500 acres of land and cut timber to improve his homes both at Horseshoe Bend and on the prairie. He spent his spare time hunting and fishing. He made the largest cash donation to build the original Academy school.
He later moved to a home two miles south of Heidenheimer where he later died of a carbuncle on his heel. His widow, Amanda, continued to live at the old home until her death of paralysis on March 26, 1907.
He married Amanda Malvina Harmon on December 24, 1845 at Oxford, Mississippi. They had eleven children. Their children are James Fred., Joseph F (Joe)., Madison W.(Matt), William N. (Nute), Andrew Thomas (Tom), Columbus Jones (Toad), George L., John Benjamin, Alonzo, Larra Joanna, and Fannie Goolsby.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Ben was the owner of 320 acres of land and a gin near Lafayette Springs. In 1869, he began to move his family to Texas. He took bedding and extra clothes to the gin and baled them so that they would take up as little room as possible. He sent teams of loaded wagons on to Texas. Then in 1870, he and part of his family arrived at Horseshoe Bend on the Little River, about two miles south of Reed's Lake. There he build and ran the first sawmill in Bell County.
He bought 1500 acres of land and cut timber to improve his homes both at Horseshoe Bend and on the prairie. He spent his spare time hunting and fishing. He made the largest cash donation to build the original Academy school.
He later moved to a home two miles south of Heidenheimer where he later died of a carbuncle on his heel. His widow, Amanda, continued to live at the old home until her death of paralysis on March 26, 1907.
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