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Stephen Elisha Goss

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Stephen Elisha Goss

Birth
Webster County, Georgia, USA
Death
15 Mar 1908 (aged 63)
Webster County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Preston, Webster County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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"Stephen Elisha Goss served in Co. K, 17th Ga Infantry, but while working in a foundry in South Carolina, invented a cannon that was used during the civil war. He was on combat duty, went on a spy mission and was hit by a bullet that severed his right thumb. He married his first cousin, Elvinnie Goss- daughter of Zachariah Goss and Susannah Scott Goss". - from " History of Webster County, Georgia", Weston Woman's Club, Wolfe Associates, Roswell, Ga, 1980 ed. page 261 and the Goss Family history submitted by Annie Mae Goss Burns and Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Goss .
Contributor: C Bozeman (46985035) • [email protected]

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"Stephen Elisha Goss served in Co. K, 17th Ga Infantry, but while working in a foundry in South Carolina, invented a cannon that was used during the civil war. He was on combat duty, went on a spy mission and was hit by a bullet that severed his right thumb. He married his first cousin, Elvinnie Goss- daughter of Zachariah Goss and Susannah Scott Goss". - from " History of Webster County, Georgia", Weston Woman's Club, Wolfe Associates, Roswell, Ga, 1980 ed. page 261 and the Goss Family history submitted by Annie Mae Goss Burns and Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Goss .
Contributor: C Bozeman (46985035) • [email protected]

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