Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 8-B, 1887
Floyd County

JAMES GOBLE was born in Floyd County, Ky., April 22, 1846, and is a son of
William and Martha (Harris) Goble, natives respectively of Washington
County, Va., and of Kentucky.  William Goble, about 1825, when a small boy,
came to Kentucky with his father, Jacob Goble, who was of German extraction.
William was a soldier in the Fifth Kentucky Regiment, under Col. John S.
Williams, served one year, and died in 1883, at the age of sixty-two.  Mrs.
Martha (Harris) Goble was a third cousin of Henry Clay, her mother, whose
maiden name was Clay, being a second cousin of the great statesman.  James
Goble is a member of a family of six boys and five girls.  September 18,
1862, he enlisted in the Fifth Kentucky, Confederate service, which was soon
disbanded, when he joined the Tenth, and served until the surrender of Lee.
He was in the Cynthiana fight, and was with Gen. Morgan when the latter was
killed.  He reached home in 1865, taught school until 1874, then read law
without a tutor, and in October, 1874, was admitted to the bar, and has now
a very good practice in Floyd County.  In 1879 he married Miss Lizzie C.
Clay, of Johnson County, a daughter of Matthew Clay (deceased).  To this
union have been born three children, Willie Clay, Lucinda J. and Belva L.
In politics Mr. Goble is a Democrat.

Goble Harris Williams Clay Morgan
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Washington-VA Johnson-KY 

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