Person:Getty Goodman (1)

Form Dave Bodine's web site as told by Mary Jane Goodman (Some of the accounts differ with military records): Alan Garfield Goodman's parents and grandparents are also buried in the Rock Spring Cemetery. His father, Gibby Goodman, was born May 3, 1841ł in Kentucky and died on October 16, 1917ł in Logan County. Gibby's wife, Mary Jane Southerland, was born April 15, 1851ł in Kentucky and died April 23, 1901.ł Gibby and his two brothers, Ben and Wesley, fought on the Union side in the Civil War. (Grandma was pretty sure of the name Ben, but she wasn't so sure Gibby's second brother was named Wesley.) Gibby saw both of them die in that conflict. He saw Wesley fall in battle. And the other, Ben, was shot by a firing squad. Ben had found an old friend in a cave where this friend had hidden after being wounded on the battlefield. However, his friend was a Confederate rather not a Union soldier. Ben had grown up with him. They had done everything together as kids. So Ben tried to help him by bringing him some food, but he got caught. Gibby was then forced to be in his own brother's firing squad of 20 to 25 men. Only one or two men had a real bullet, but Gibby was worried all his life that he may have been the one to shoot his own brother

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Gena Lee Theiss, SysOp. 1850 BUTLER CO, KY Census Part 2 - The Genealogy Project For The FAMILY TreeHouse BBS..
2. ↑ Pioneers South of the Green River.
3. ↑ David Bodine. Dave's Bodine Genealogy Web Site.
4. ↑ David Bodine. Dave's Bodine Genealogy Web Site.
5. ↑ Walt Cross. 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment.
6. ↑ 1850 census lists "Getty" but as Gibby in 1860 census.