Earnest was a native of Princeton, Missouri.
Earnest served in WWI in France, where he was an ambulance driver, later becoming a medic. He lost both legs due to the effects of Mustard Gas. After the war he was a salesman and bookkeeper for the Bull Funiture Co. in Tulsa, for more than 20 years before retiring in 1940. Earnest was a member, later becoming Adjutant and Service Officer of the Carson-Wilson Legion Post, and Tulsa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post from 1942 until 1945. In Mr. Goin's childhood, he moved into a farm near Nardin, Okla. in Kay County, where his father perticipated in the Sept. 16, 1893, Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma land rush. His father Nelson Watson Goin staked a land claim there.
Earnest served in WWI in France, where he was an ambulance driver, later becoming a medic. He lost both legs due to the effects of Mustard Gas. After the war he was a salesman and bookkeeper for the Bull Funiture Co. in Tulsa, for more than 20 years before retiring in 1940. Earnest was a member, later becoming Adjutant and Service Officer of the Carson-Wilson Legion Post, and Tulsa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post from 1942 until 1945. In Mr. Goin's childhood, he moved into a farm near Nardin, Okla. in Kay County, where his father perticipated in the Sept. 16, 1893, Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma land rush. His father Nelson Watson Goin staked a land claim there.
Earnest was a native of Princeton, Missouri.
Earnest served in WWI in France, where he was an ambulance driver, later becoming a medic. He lost both legs due to the effects of Mustard Gas. After the war he was a salesman and bookkeeper for the Bull Funiture Co. in Tulsa, for more than 20 years before retiring in 1940. Earnest was a member, later becoming Adjutant and Service Officer of the Carson-Wilson Legion Post, and Tulsa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post from 1942 until 1945. In Mr. Goin's childhood, he moved into a farm near Nardin, Okla. in Kay County, where his father perticipated in the Sept. 16, 1893, Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma land rush. His father Nelson Watson Goin staked a land claim there.
Earnest served in WWI in France, where he was an ambulance driver, later becoming a medic. He lost both legs due to the effects of Mustard Gas. After the war he was a salesman and bookkeeper for the Bull Funiture Co. in Tulsa, for more than 20 years before retiring in 1940. Earnest was a member, later becoming Adjutant and Service Officer of the Carson-Wilson Legion Post, and Tulsa Veterans of Foreign Wars Post from 1942 until 1945. In Mr. Goin's childhood, he moved into a farm near Nardin, Okla. in Kay County, where his father perticipated in the Sept. 16, 1893, Cherokee Outlet, Oklahoma land rush. His father Nelson Watson Goin staked a land claim there.
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