Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Adam Gold GOODLETT
In the passing of A. G. Goodlett, Clarksville lost a representative and honored citizen. A scion of an old American family, he was descended from German and Scotch ancestors, the identity of the blood line being traced back as far as the fifteenth century. The progenitor of the family in this country was Adam Goodlett of Edinburgh, who came to America on a tour of pleasure after graduating from one of the most famous schools of that period. While in Virginia he married Rebecca Balderson and they were the parents of eleven children. Shortly after the Revolutionary war he and his family removed to Bardstown, Kentucky, and a few years later to Nashville, Tennessee, where his demise occurred in 1822. E. E. Goodlett, the third son, married Eliza Hammond and located at Princeton, Kentucky. They had eight children, the eldest son, Adam G., being born on the 1st of January, 1810. He married Eliza Turner in 1846 and moved to Goodlettsville, near Nashville, where he assumed charge of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. His demise occurred on September 14, 1866. His second son, A. G. Goodlett, who was born on June 22, 1842, at Nashville and educated in the schools there, became a farmer, lawyer and stockman of repute. From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Western Military Institute, under supervision of General Bushrod Johnson, and in 1863 he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie D. Hooper. After her death in March, 1865, he moved to Charlotte, Tennessee, and began the practice of law. On the 10th of June, 1866, he married Florence Gold, a daughter of Dan Gold, whose father, Hugh Gold, was a native of Virginia and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. To the second union five children were born. In 1870 Mr. Goodlett and his family came to Clarksville and he continued the practice of law until 1883, in which year he purchased a stock farm of over one thousand acres near the city and then divided his time between his legal interests and the cultivation of his land. He was one of the most public-spirited men of his day and was a prime factor in the promotion of every public enterprise. His religious faith was that of the Episcopal church and fraternally he was a Mason, Knight of Pythias and Knight of Honor. He was a strong advocate of paying dollar for dollar of the state debt.
A. G. Goodlett, whose name introduces this review, was born in Montgomery county, on the 31st of October, 1870. On the 5th of November, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Garrett and to their union six children were born: Collier W., who read law under the preceptorship of Austin Peay, was admitted to practice in June, 1917, and is still associated with Mr. Peay. On the 1st of September, 1919, he was married to Miss Lizzy Tandy Trabue of Kentucky and they have one child, Collier, Jr. C. W. Goodlett is a veteran of the World war. For some time he was attached to the One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division but was transferred to the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ammunition force in France. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, being a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He is one of the prominent young attorneys of the Montgomery county bar. Frank S., the second son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Goodlett, is cashier of the Security Trust Company of Clarksville; Baxter G., who in June, 1922, graduated from the law school of Cumberland University at Lebanon, is now practicing law at Clarksville; Clifton V., who graduated from the Clarksville high school, is preparing to enter the University of Tennessee in the fall of 1923; and Florence G. and Martha M. are attending the local schools. Mr. [p.903] A. G. Goodlett's demise occurred on the 30th of October, 1913, and was a great bereavement to his family and many friends. He was one of Clarksville's most highly esteemed and beloved citizens and during the years of his residence here had wielded a great influence for the good of the community.
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