Thomas Goodlett
I'm seeking information about the parents of Thomas Goodlett, born 1844-45 and died 1881 in Mercer Co/KY. He's listed in the 1880 KY census in Mercer Co., with wife Martha E. (Gritton) & six children: Ida, William H., Lueller, James, Joseph and Nannie. He's listed as serving in the Mercer Co. KY State Guard between 1864-65, and he enlisted at the same time/place as a David Goodlett, but I can't find a definitive link between the two, nor a link between Thomas to any of the other Goodletts in KY at that time.
The 1860 KY census for Anderson Co. lists a David Goodlett (m. Mary Neal) with a son, John Thomas, who would be the right age but I can't prove that John Thomas is my Thomas.
Does anyone know if "John Thomas" went by the name Thomas?
I have found a Thomas b. around 1844 in SC, to David & Margaret, and another Thomas b. around 1842 in SC, to Alexander ... but I can't connect either of them to KY.
I'm related to the Thomas I'm looking for through his son, William Harve who is my gtgrdad, through his son Thomas Gilbert (1903), and my dad William Clarence (1929).