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Thomas Goodbread

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Thomas Samuel Goodbread (April 22, 1836–February 13, 1905) was a state legislator in Florida.[1] His post office was in Esteinhatchee (now Steinhatchee) and he represented Lafayette County, Florida.[2] He served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1881, 1883, and 1887.[3]

He was born in Glynn County, Georgia. He married Louisiana Annie "Lucy" Peacock in 1852. He served in the American Civil War.[4] He donated $1 to the Suwannee Baptist Association.[5] Goodbread owned 20 enslaved people in Glynn County, GA, according to the 1860 slave census.[6]

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  1. ^ "General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida". Office of the Floridian and Journal. November 3, 1881 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida". Office of the Floridian and Journal. November 3, 1883 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "The People of Lawmaking in Florida" (PDF). floridamemory.com. February 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
  4. ^ Hartman, David W.; Coles, David (November 3, 1995). "Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861-1865". Broadfoot Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Suwannee 1885" (PDF). floridabaptisthistory.org. September 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
  6. ^ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBD-9SX7?cc=3161105&wc=DM9J-6TL%3A1610432301%2C1610478601%2C1610472301 : 16 October 2019), Georgia > Glynn > 26th > image 1 of 11; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).