Hello Kim,

I have been frustrated many times trying to find anything out about this line of Gossetts. I will copy what pertains to our family of Gossetts and then make some comments:

[From The Family of Gossett, page 168]
"James Anderson Gossett, brother of William Simpson Gossett, also born in Mississippi. He was probably two or three years younger than his brother. He had three sons, Lester, John, and Arthur, who live in Fort Worth, Texas. There was also a daughter, Fanny Gossett, b. April 17, 1902; d. December 1952. James Anderson Gossett died in the 1920s in Kaufman County, Texas, where his wife is still living. The only thing I remember about "Uncle Jim" is that he came to our house when I was about eight years old and surprised us all with his ability to whittle. He carved wooden chains and even made a very creditable violin."

This family is the isolated family in Texas and I am a part of it. James Anderson Gossett was my great-grandfather and his son, John Luther Gossett, was my grandfather.

James Anderson Gossett was married to Wealthy Della Plane Ballew. (Her name came from John Luther's death certificate). I'll attach a copy of the death certificate.

	Lois Madge Gossett Smith, 92, (left) and Willie Jo Gossett Seitz, 85, (right). These ladies are double cousins. Lois is the daughter of Alvia Lester Gossett and Willie Jo is the daughter of John Luther Gossett. 2007

John Luther Gossett, James Anderson's son, is my mother's father. He was married one time to Euna Blanche Brownlow. They married when my grandmother was still a teenager. They had 2 children, Garland Edward Gossett, and my mother, Willie Jo Gossett Seitz (who is now 85 years old). Garland is deceased.

John Luther Gossett and Euna Blanche Brownlow lived with her parents, Edward Isaac Brownlow and Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow in Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma. John Luther Gossett and parents and family are on the 1910 census of Cottle County.

In 1920, John Luther Gossett and Euna Blanche Brownlow Gossett were married and living with her parents at Narices, Cottle County, Texas. Their son, Garland, was less than a year old. They misspelled my grandmother's name as Enna but it is Euna. I personally knew all of the people living in the house at that time with the exception of my great-grandparents, Edward Isaac and Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow. They died before I was born. But I knew their children listed: Mairl, Guy, Erskin, Oscar, Alvis, and of course my grandmother, Euna, and my uncle, Garland who was an infant.

The couple separated before my mother was born, but Euna was pregnant with her when they separated. Apparently John Luther went back to live in Kaufman County, Texas (Terrell) with his mother. Lester (correct name: Alvia Lester) was my great-uncle and was married to my grandmother, Euna's sister, Willie Jessamine Brownlow. I was around him until I was a teenager when he died. He lived with Willie Jessamine in Eldorado, Oklahoma. One thing notable is that he was also a great carver and made little miniature animals and painted them, and once gave me a black and white dog. He also carved and made a cedar chest for my mother for her high school graduation.

Lois Madge Gossett
Lois Madge Gossett (Smith) as a toddler. My grandmother, Euna Blanche Brownlow Gossett took her to get this photo taken. It was a very uncommon event at that time of history. Circa 1913

Lester and Will (his wife went by just Will) had two children, Lois Madge Gossett Smith who is in her 90's and Willie Clinton Gossett, her brother, who is deceased. Lois is my mother's double first cousin in that their mothers were sisters and their fathers were brothers. The last time I saw Lois at Eldorado, Oklahoma, she told me that after she married she and her husband went to visit the grandmother, Wealthy Della Plane Ballew Gossett, at Terrell, Texas, and that physically she was tall and dark and wore her hair on top of her head. Her personality was very cool. And, from other family members, I have been told that Della never left the house to even go across the road. Her father took her from her mother at a young age and went by wagon train across country where they met Indians and she spent much of the trip hiding so she would not be kidnapped so that might account for that pecularity of personality.

My mother went to visit her father, John Luther Gossett, once with her brother, Garland, to Terrill for 2 weeks. My mother was very young but remembers that they traveled by train to get there. All my mother can remember about her dad at that time was that he plowed all day.

I saw him once when I was a preschooler and he came to visit us at Dalhart, Texas. My parents, who were not well off, had to buy a bed so he would have someplace to sleep. He brought me some little blue china dogs and a bird pin but those have been lost with the years. I can remember nothing about him but that.

My mother has a scrapbook and in it there is a postcard from her father, John Luther Gossett, saying that his brother Arthur had died and he wished she could have come to the funeral. Interestingly enough out of the 4 children of James Anderson Gossett, only 1 stayed married and that was my uncle, Alvia Lester Gossett. Arthur also divorced and my mother indicated that the sister Frannie or Fannie only came home when she needed money and that she took up with different men.

I am the only child of Willie Jo Gossett Seitz and I am 59. I have 3 grown children and 4 grandchildren.

My uncle, Garland, also only had one child, Sue, and she has 2 grown sons. My uncle had 2 years of high school and worked for about 30 years selling Hoover sweepers. My mom had some junior college and retired with the State of Texas.

Jo Jan Nunleyx