Michael Housworth was born in South Carolina on April 27, 1798 to Philip and Hannah Housworth. By the time the family moved to Georgia, Michael, the eldest, would have been a young man of 21 or 22. His brothers, Abraham and John J., were about 18 and 15. His sisters, Jemiah, Susannah, and Mahalia, would have been about 20, 9, and 4. It could not have been an easy trip by wagon but Michael, at least, had found a permanent home.
In Georgia, Michael would court and marry Lucy Christian Oglesby, herself a Georgia girl born on Christmas Day in 1807. They would have three children: Sarah, born in 1835, John Milton, born in 1836, and Philip, born in 1839.
Of the Housworth brothers, only Michael would stay on what is now South Goddard Road.
By 1850, John had moved his family 65 miles west to Carroll County, Georgia. His parents, Philip and Hannah, would eventually join him there.
In 1852, Abraham would pack his own growing family into yet another wagon. After selling the farm he had built to his older brother, Michael, Abraham and Mary would move their seven children some 700 miles west to Upshur, Texas.
Michael and Lucy, though, would remain on the farm. Lucy passed in 1872 and Michael followed her in 1880. Their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren would continue to occupy the house and farm the land, generations of the same - the only - family to do so until today.
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