Mary Goode was a daughter of Robert Goode and his wife, Mary (Turpin) Goode. She married, as her first husband, Seth Ward IV, of Sheffield, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Following his death, she married Micajah Cayce.

Her daughter, Lucy Ward (b.ca 1763; died 12 Jun 1848) married Henry Randolph (b: 1758 in Woodmancote, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England; died 9 Feb 1804 in Chesterfield Co., VA), the son of Brett Randolph and Mary (Scott) Randolph.∼=======
Benja. Branch m. Mazy Branch, Aug 1773, Chesterfield, Virginia, p. 2

"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HV39-5BZM : 6 August 2020), Benja. Branch, 1773.
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Number: 1966-03
Style: Ward & ux v. Goodes
Date: 1966

Plaintiffs: Seth Ward the younger and wife Mary, daughter of Robert Goode dec. by wife Mary, dec. who was Mary Turpin

Defendants: Thomas, Samuel, Martha Goode, infants Elizabeth and Obedience Goode, children of Robert and Mary Goode, Robert Goode, Francis Goode

Subject: Mary Turpin widow [grandmother of oratix] of Cumberland possessed a considerable estate, including slaves Patt, nan, Sarah, Hannah, Lucy. She died testate and gave her daughter Mary Turpin the slave Patt [when 21 or married] then to her issue; her will also mentions son Thomas Turpin, daughter Obedience Turpin. Her [Mary Goode's] father outlived her mother and left 4 sons and 4 daughters: Robert, Francis [of age], Thomas, Samuel, Elizabeth, Obedience [both insane], Martha [infant], and your oratrix. Division of slaves: Robert Goode - Pope; Francis Goode - Pat, James

Source Information: Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 33, No. 3, p. 189
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Mary was pregnant when Seth Ward died.
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Tradition asserts that Captain Benjamin Branch of "Willow Hill " married a member of the well-known Goode family of Chesterfield County, in which event her maiden name would have been Mary Goode; but no authoritative record exists as to who were her parents. p. 43

Yet, in passing, the tradition is substantially supported by the fact that one of the executors of Captain Benjamin Branch's will is a Francis Goode of Chesterfield, whom the testator explicitly calls "my kinsman," and that this kinship cannot be accounted for except by supposing this Francis Goode to have been a relative of Captain Benjamin Branch's wife. p. 43

It should be borne in mind, also, that a Robert Goode is one of the executors of the will of Captain Benjamin Branch's father, Benjamin Branch of Chesterfield, and is in that document coupled with the testator's sons, Thomas Branch and Edward Branch - which circumstance hints at a close alliance already existent in 1760 between the families of Branch and Goode; and the obvious hypothesis is that this Robert Goode was the father of the Mary Goode who married Captain Benjamin Branch of "Willow Hill," as well as the father of that Francis Goode who, in 1760, was "a kinsman" of Captain Benjamin Branch and one of his executors. p. 43

The assumption is a hypothesis that undoubtedly explains a nebulous point in the family line, but it is a hypothesis and nothing more. p. 43

All that is positively known concerning the wife of Captain Benjamin Branch of " Willow Hill " is : that her Christian name was Mary ; that he married her prior to the year 1762, at the very latest, - since she had borne him four children by 1767, - and presumably about 1755 ; that she bore him five children, if not more than five, and that in all likelihood she survived her husband, or, in any event, did not die before the year 1782. p. 43

Captain Benjamin Branch "of Willow Hill" had married, about 1755, Mary (Goode?), who probably survived him, or, at least, died later than 1782. By Mary (Goode?), Captain Benjamin Branch of "Willow Hill" had issue: I. Benjamin Branch of Chesterfield, who married Elizabeth Osborne, the daughter of Edward Osborne of Chesterfield, and by her had issue. p. 46

Source Information: Branchiana
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