Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 303

DAVID H. GOSS, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in what is now Davie 
County, N. C., May 28, 1819, and is the sixth in a family of nine children
born to Daniel and Martha (Ingram) Goss, the former of whom was a 
native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of North Carolina.  They were of 
German and Welsh descent respectively.  When a lad, Daniel Goss removed
with his parents to North Carolina, where he received a fair German ecuca-
tion, and where he was afterward married, and engaged in agricultural pursuits
for a time.  In the spring of 1821, he emigrated with his wife and family to
Owen County, Ind., and settled near Gosport, where he entered some 700
acres of wild land, erected a log house and improved a farm, to which he
added some 200 acres, and upon which he resided until his death, which
occurred February 14, 1834, in about his fiftieth year.  Both himself and 
wife were members of the Christian Church.  Mrs. Martha Goss departed
this life in February, 1835.  David H. Goss, the subject, received his educa-
tion at the subscription schools of the Indiana frontier.  After the death of
his parents, he lived with his guardian, Abner Alexander, until he was married,
which was in his twentiety year.  He then farmed on shares for one year,
after which he moved on to 160 acres of the old homestead in Owen County,
Ind., which had been willed to him by his father.  To this he afterward added
other lands, and here he resided until January, 1880, when he sold the farm
and bought another in Adams Township, where he now resides.  He was
first married, August 20, 1838, to Miss Marietta Johns, a native of Morgan
County, Ind.  To this union were born three children, two of whom, both  sons,
are yet living.  Mrs. Goss died May 17, 1843.  She was a member of the 
Christian Church.  Mr. Goss was next married, May 3, 1844, to Miss Zerilda
E. Littell, a native of Clarke County, Ind.  Eight children blessed their union,
five of whom, three sons and two daughters, are yet living.  Both himself and
wife are members of the Christian Church.  He is also a member of Eminence
Lodge, No. 440, A. F. & A. M.;  Gosport Chapter, R. A. M., and of the
Council at Gosport of R. & S. M.  Mrs. Goss is a member of the Order of
the Eastern Star, and of the W. C. T. A.  In politics, Mr. Goss is identified
with the National or Greenback party.  He is also an earnest advocate of the
temperance cause, having been from early manhood a member of the old
Washington society.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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