LABAN GOINS was the son of Shadrach and Hannah Gowen/Going/Goin. According to his father's 1805 Patrick County, Virginia Will, Laban Goins' brothers and sisters were: David Smith Goins/Going (1757-1840), Jerusha Going (1760-Unknown), Keziah Going, Hannah Going Beasley, John Going (abt. 1760-Unknown), James Going (abt. 1758-Unknown), Caleb Going, Fanny Going Bowlin, Claibourne Going, Shadrach Going, Jr. (1772-Unknown), and Obediah Going (1777-Unknown). A mistranslation of this will has incorrectly identified a "Solomon" as one of Shadrach's children, but the name is actually Laban. Paul Heinegg, author of "Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware", Genealogical Publishing, 2005, chapter called "Gowen/Going Family", has also identified another son as Nathaniel Going (1766-1793), who died when he was "struck in the head with a weeding hoe by Robert Hall" in Patrick County, Virginia.
The Goins Burial Ground in which Laban and his brother, David Smith Goins, and most certainly Laban Goins' wife and children are buried, is a theoretical location based on the migratory patterns of the Goins/Going family into Tennessee out of Virginia in the early 1800's. The cemetery is in Hamilton County, Tennessee, not far from Graysville in neighboring Rhea County, which would later become the home of a cluster of other Goins family members. Hamilton County is where Laban Goins put down his roots and established his "homestead". By the time he died in 1850, Laban Goins, as a "free person of color", would have not been buried in any organized cemetery, (if one even existed at that time for non-whites), but rather where he dropped--at home.
The Goins Burial Ground in which Laban and his brother, David Smith Goins, and most certainly Laban Goins' wife and children are buried, is a theoretical location based on the migratory patterns of the Goins/Going family into Tennessee out of Virginia in the early 1800's. The cemetery is in Hamilton County, Tennessee, not far from Graysville in neighboring Rhea County, which would later become the home of a cluster of other Goins family members. Hamilton County is where Laban Goins put down his roots and established his "homestead". By the time he died in 1850, Laban Goins, as a "free person of color", would have not been buried in any organized cemetery, (if one even existed at that time for non-whites), but rather where he dropped--at home.
LABAN GOINS was the son of Shadrach and Hannah Gowen/Going/Goin. According to his father's 1805 Patrick County, Virginia Will, Laban Goins' brothers and sisters were: David Smith Goins/Going (1757-1840), Jerusha Going (1760-Unknown), Keziah Going, Hannah Going Beasley, John Going (abt. 1760-Unknown), James Going (abt. 1758-Unknown), Caleb Going, Fanny Going Bowlin, Claibourne Going, Shadrach Going, Jr. (1772-Unknown), and Obediah Going (1777-Unknown). A mistranslation of this will has incorrectly identified a "Solomon" as one of Shadrach's children, but the name is actually Laban. Paul Heinegg, author of "Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware", Genealogical Publishing, 2005, chapter called "Gowen/Going Family", has also identified another son as Nathaniel Going (1766-1793), who died when he was "struck in the head with a weeding hoe by Robert Hall" in Patrick County, Virginia.
The Goins Burial Ground in which Laban and his brother, David Smith Goins, and most certainly Laban Goins' wife and children are buried, is a theoretical location based on the migratory patterns of the Goins/Going family into Tennessee out of Virginia in the early 1800's. The cemetery is in Hamilton County, Tennessee, not far from Graysville in neighboring Rhea County, which would later become the home of a cluster of other Goins family members. Hamilton County is where Laban Goins put down his roots and established his "homestead". By the time he died in 1850, Laban Goins, as a "free person of color", would have not been buried in any organized cemetery, (if one even existed at that time for non-whites), but rather where he dropped--at home.
The Goins Burial Ground in which Laban and his brother, David Smith Goins, and most certainly Laban Goins' wife and children are buried, is a theoretical location based on the migratory patterns of the Goins/Going family into Tennessee out of Virginia in the early 1800's. The cemetery is in Hamilton County, Tennessee, not far from Graysville in neighboring Rhea County, which would later become the home of a cluster of other Goins family members. Hamilton County is where Laban Goins put down his roots and established his "homestead". By the time he died in 1850, Laban Goins, as a "free person of color", would have not been buried in any organized cemetery, (if one even existed at that time for non-whites), but rather where he dropped--at home.
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