When I first started working on our family history, I asked dad (Arnold A. Armstrong, Sr....Georgia's grandson) what his grandmother's maiden name (On his mother's side) was and without hesitation he said GOODSON. That was what I recorded at that time. On the 1860, Spalding Co., GA census I had even found a GOODSON family with a Georgia A. listed three families above (just down the road from) the Nancy Bethune family which included Daniel M. However, sometime later, my wife Nancy and I were researching the archives in Atlanta, GA. and we discovered that Daniel McDuffie Bethune had married Georgia Ann GIBSON. (MARRIAGE LICENSE, RICHMOND CO., GA., FOUND AT GA. DEPT. OF ARCHIVES & HISTORY, DR. 163, BOX 76, BOOK A, PAGE 472) When I told dad what we had found, he insisted that he had always been told that it was GOODSON. As much as I hated to, I changed it to what was reflected on the license. As I continued my research I could not find any connection to any GIBSONS. I kept going back to that 1860 census and thinking that had to be "our" Georgia A. I could never find them on the 1870, but they all show up on the 1880 census. Again, the GOODSON family is just down the road from the Bethune family. However, this time Georgia is not with the Goodsons and Daniel is not with the Bethunes. Instead, they are now married and living between their respective families with a family of their own. Daniel and Georgia have named their second son Furney, after her father. Another "coincidence" is that listed on that same 1860 census and right next door to Furney Goodson is Furney's first child, Sarah who is listed with her husband, Thomas A. Bates and their family. Sarah and Thomas' son (not shown on that census since he wasn't born until 1866) James Bailey Bates later marries Rozenna Annibel Bethune who was the daughter of Robert J. Bethune and Cordelia A. Jones. Robert just happened to be Duffie's brother. It is also interesting to point out that Sarah named her son James "Bailey" Bates after her brother Bailey GOODSON who was killed in the Civil War. Therefore, without reservation, it is my belief that since GOODSON and GIBSON sound so much alike that a mistake was made when the names were recorded on their marriage license.

-Strain Armstrong