I would really love to figure out this family. Elizabeth Jones in Franklin Co., TENNESSEE was former wife/widow of Jesse Goodwin, per his will:
{Partlow, Thomas E., 1991, Franklin County, Tennessee wills 1808-1876 and deeds 1801-1840: Southern Historical Press, Greenville [SC], pages 6 and 182.}
Jesse Goodwin will. 17 October 1825. Heirs: wife Elizabeth Goodwin; sons Allen F. James R., and Joseph C. Goodwin; my daughters. Executors: Benjamin Holingsworth and Solomon Goodwin. (P. 60)
Deed. 4 Feb 1833. Jesse Goodwin left his property to his wife during her lifetime and then to his children. Elizabeth Goodwin, the widow, several years ago married John Jones. She is settling with her children, to wit,
Polly Miller, the wife of Isaac Miller
Sarah Muckleroy, the wife of David Muckleroy
Nancy Graham, the wife of John F. Graham,
John Goodwin
Allen T. Goodwin
Patsy Goodwin
James Goodwin
Joseph Callaway Goodwin
(cites Deed Book N, pp 100-101)
Jesse Goodwin [Gooden] of 1820 Franklin Co. TN was aged 26-45 and the eldest woman in his home was of similar age. A Jesse Goodwin [and a John and a Henry Goodwin] are on the 1812 Franklin Co., TN tax list.
This Jesse Goodwin formerly had lived in Franklin County, GEORGIA, per these deeds:
{Acker, Martha Walters, 1976, Deeds of Franklin County, Georgia 1784-1826: the author [2504 Watkins Circle] Birmingham, AL [35223], pages 309 and 291}==
Book TTT, Pages 122/123 Deed dated 10 Aug 1813, rec. 16 Oct 1813, from Jesse Goodwin of Franklin County, Tenn. [sic, not Georgia] to James Staritt of Franklin Co., GA. In consideration of $200, conveys 113 acres in Franklin Co., GA on waters of Tugalo River, granted to said Goodwin, adj. formerly Yowell's land, now Eddins' land. Wit: Joel Yowel, Easter Starrett (x). Sworn to by Joel Yowell before Edmund Henley, J.I.C., 4 Oct 1813.
page 291
Book TT, page 73. F. County, GA. 14 Oct 1809, recorded 18 Mar 1812, from Jesse Goodwin of aforedsaid to James Starritt of Pendleton Dist. S.C. In consideration of $600, conveys 100 acres in Franklin Co., on Tugalo River, granted to John Clark. Wit: James Blair, Joel Yowell, J.P., Elizabeth Goodwin (x) released dower same date.
These two deeds definitively show that Jesse Goodwin of 1812 Franklin County, TN, was identical with the Jesse Goodwin (with wife Elizabeth in 1809) in Franklin County, Georgia. The will shows she later became Mrs. Elizabeth Jones and is the identical woman who traveled with the Muckelroys to TX.
As early as 1791, there was a Jesse Goodwin witnessing deeds in Franklin Co., GA, though I can in no way say he was identical with the man of that name who migrated to TN. I believe this early Jesse Goodwin in Franklin Co., GA [which then lay adjacent to Pendleton District, SC] could be identical to the man named Jesse Goodwin living in Pendleton District, SC in 1790 whose household included 3 females and 3 males under age 16. He is listed next to a Robert Goodwin who, besides himself, had 3 females in his home.
On 1 March 1791, this Robert Goodwin gave his house to his son Micajah Goodwin. There's a 1795 deed indicating that Robert and Jesse Goodwin either held land together or else owned adjacent land. I find the name Micajah Goodwin most interesting, because Jane (Goodwin) Box is supposed to have had a child name Micajah Box. But I don't know whether this Jesse Goodwin in northwestern SC is identical to the one who sold land in Franklin Co., GA and who died 1825 in Franklin Co., TN