Alfred Gooldy was born at Frederick, Maryland, in 1810. He was a farmer, 
tailor (made all his boys' clothes) and wagon maker. In 1871 he went to 
Missouri. He died in 1887. (Kate Gooldy Hays saw him when she was three 
years old.

Sophia Pollard Gooldy was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and died there 
in 1851. Her brother, F Pollard married Betsy who was a sister to Mark Twain's 
mother. Governor Pollard of Virginia was a cousin of Sophia.

 Their children were:
John Frederick, born in Bedford County, Virginia, and killed in the Second 
Battle of the Wilderness. He was a tinner.

William Jesse, born in Bedford County, Virginia, December 28, 1837. He was 
Captain of Company D, 28th Virginia Infantry. He moved to Calloway County, 
Missouri, and was a farmer, carpenter, and served one term as County Collector. 
At his death in 1934 he was buried in Auxvasse, Missouri.

Catherine was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and died at the age of 11.

Mary Frances, born in Bedford County, Virginia, married John Yates, farmer 
in Callaway County. They had twin girls: Altha married Carter, a state super
intendent and Alice married Maupin, a professor.

Robert, born in Bedford County, Virginia, April 7, 1843, married Letitia Frances 
Shelton at Fulton, Missouri, December 18, 1873. He had served in the 58th Virginia 
Infantry and was wounded in the shoulder at the Second Battle of Manassas. He 
settled in the Little Snake River in 1888 and died January 10, 1910. He is buried 
at Reader Cemetery at Savery, Wyoming. His children were Walter Gooldy, a lawyer 
in New York City, Kate Hays, Aurelia Gillespie, Nellie Gooldy, a teacher, John 
Gooldy, member of the Wyoming legislature and a county commissioner, and William 
Gooldy who died at 18.

Martha Ann was born in Bedford County, Virginia and married Green Huddleston there, 
then moved to Auxvasse, Missouri.

James born in Bedford County, Virginia, served in the 64th Virginia regiment. He 
cowboyed from Texas to Dodge City for three years, and in 1885 shipped cattle 
by train to Denver, then drove them over Berthoud Pass to the Little Snake. He 
homesteaded near Savery, then did gold placer mining with the Timberlake Mining 
Company. He died in Missouri in 1936 at the age of 90.

Sarah, was born in Virginia in 1850. Her mother, probably already ill at the time, 
gave her to a sister. Sarah was a teacher and married Taylor Ridgeway, a professor 
in Fulton, Missouri.

After Sophia's death in 1851, Alfred married Mary Elliott who had been born in 
Bedford County. She died in Missouri. They had four children.

Milton Henry who later owned and lived in the Jim Baker cabin near Savery. He 
died in 1931, had one son, Milton who died in service in Scotland in 1945.

Betty Alexandra who later cared for Alfred Gooldy and Jim's children. She died 
in Fulton in 1933.
Emma died at three and an unnamed boy.