The Goggans Family Annals of Newberry, Part Two by John A. Chapman, page 614-16 About twenty-five years before the Revolutionary wat two brothers named Goggans came to Newberry from Virginia. One of these, Daniel Goggans, settled on a place which is now known as Goggans Old Field, not far from Mount Zion church. These brothers, with their families, were Whigs, and fought for independence under Marion, Sumter, Pickens, and others. Daniel Goggans was in Marion's command, and once when he was at home on furlough his house was surrounded by a body of Tories commanded by the celebrated and notorious Ned Turner. He knew that his life would be taken in any case, unless he could make his escape, which was impossible; and so he fought them from the house until it was set on fire. He then came out with his arms in his hands, and was instantly shot down. After he was killed the flames were extinguished, and the house stood there for many years, with its scorched and blackened timbers, a monument of the horrors of that war. All the sons of Daniel Goggans, who were old enough to bear arms in defence of their country, perished in that struggle. His son-in-law, Towles, ancestor of the Colonel Towles who was so long and so favorably known to the people of Edgefield County, was home from t.he army to see his family - was sick with smallpox - was in hiding in the woods on Saluda, when Ned Turner with a party of Tories went to his house, took two of Towles' little boys up behind them on their horses and compelled them to go with them and show them where their father was hiding. Having found him they killed him at once. It seems that the feud between the Towlses and the Turners was exceedingly and unusually bitter. In an appendix to Curwin's Journal, published not long before the war of Secession, there are some interesting circumstances related about the feud told from the other point of view. Daniel Goggans, of the Revolution, who was killed by Turner as related, left three sons, who were children at the time of his death. These grew up to manhood. One of them, Jerry Goggans, married Elizabeth Peterson, sister of Rev. Jas. F. Peterson, late of Edgefield County, and also sister of Rev. David Peterson, of Newberry, who was the father of John T. Peterson, David Peterson (the father of Warren G. Peterson), and of Captain William Spencer Peterson, who was killed at Atlanta, in one of Hoods great fights, during the war of Secession, in 1864. Hon. John W. Ferguson is a grandson of Rev. David Peterson. After his marriage to Elizabeth Peterson, Jerry Goggans moved to Ohio, where he soon afterwards died, and was buried at Waynesville in that State. His widow returned to Newberry, bringing with her their only child, Daniel, who was three years old at the time of his father's death, and who had been born in Newberry before the removal of his parents to Ohio. He was named Daniel after hia grandfather. He was a man of strong and decided character - of weight and influence. His children were: E. Jerry Goggans, mentioned in connection with the trouble in Kansas, in 1856 and 1857; Wm. Davidson Goggans, who was Adjutant of the Thirteenth South Carolina Regiment and was killed at. the Second Manassas ­ his name appears on the monument; Mrs. E. S. Herbert, once postmaster at Newberry, S. C.; Mrs. Fannie Dantzler, wife of Rev. D. D. Dantzler, of the South Carolina Conference; James K. P. Goggans and John C. Goggans, now of Newberry. Capt. E. Jerry Goggans served intbe Confederate army through the war of Secession; was at the battle of Fort Sumter as a private; entered the regular service as Third Lieutenant in Capt. David Denny's company, which formed part of the Seventh Regiment; was elected Captain of Company M in 1862; took command of the regiment at Chickamauga after the death of Col. Bland and continued in command until the close of the war in 1865. Daniel Goggans, of the Revolution, had two other sons. They both removed to Alabama. One of them married a Peterson, a sister to the wife of his brother Jerry. These brothers did well in Alabama and left a numerous progeny; among them may be mentioned Dr. Peterson Goggans, who was surgeon of an Alabama regiment in the Confederate service. Some of the descendants of these two brothers now live in Tennessee. The descendants of the brother of Daniel who came from Virginia to South Carolina before the Revolution, are now represented by Captain Pickens Coggans, Hogan Goggans and Mrs. Lucy Denny, of Laurens, children of William Goggans, and by Burr F. Goggans, J Gibbes Goggans; Kate, the wife of T. E. Leitzsey; Mollie, wife of A. J. S. Langford; Nora, wife of S. S. Langford, and Lula G , wife of Thos. E. Epting, children of Joseph Goggans, who lived and died in Newberry County. It may be of interest to note the change that has taken place in the spelling of this name - others have undergone a similar change. This name was originally spelled Goggin. In fact, it is so spelled yet in Virginia. It so appears in the memoirs of William L. and James O. Goggin, of Virginia; and James Goggins, of Gen. McLane's staff, used the same form. In the old family Bible it appears Goggins, and now in Newberry and elsewhere down South it is Goggans, and so let it be. Daniel Goggans, tbe father of Jas. K. P. and Jerry, who now lives in Edgefield, and John C., was a man of great force of character and sterling integrity. His opportunities to acquire an education in early life were not great, and yet he made himself a good English scholar; a first rate accountant, and of large and extensive general information. Elsewhere in this history it is mentioned that he was a very good and successful teacher. Starting out in life a poor man he accumulated a handsome fortune, in the use of which he was liberal for aU good and proper purposes. He gave his children all the education they would receive, not counting the cost to himself.