From: "Kelley Gilbert-Bailey" Subject: Gooches and Gilberts, Kings Mountain, Lincoln County Kentucky Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 7:18 PM Hello, my name is Kelley Gilbert(born in Hamilton Co., OH in 1966) and I'm searching for more information on Gooch family members as my dad's mother is the late Bessie Gooch, born 1898 in Kings Mountain, Lincoln County Kentucky and her father's family(Nelson Gooch) seems to have inhabited the area since it was created out of Virginia. I believe they came from Louisa County, Virginia as well. My dad's father was Walter Gilbert and said to have died in Longview State Mental Hospital in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH. He was also a wounded WWI veteran. Bessie Gooch and Walter Gilbert were married, though I heard that they met in Danville, KY. and later divorced, possibly in Ohio. Reason for divorce may have been to Walter's alcoholism and what we now know about today as Post Trauma Stress Disorder along with some other skeletons. Also, my father, Floyd Gilbert was inducted in the National Late Model Hall of Fame for his stock car racing achievements. Dad raced tracks in Kentucky like Clay City, Ponderosa, Nothern Kentucky Speedway and said the people in Kentucky were good to him. Maybe this information might jar some folks memories. I would like to know as much as possible about Gilberts, for that side of the family is kind of a mystery to me. I'm wanting to build up the family tree for my daughter as well, for her paternal great grandmother is 3/4 Eastern Cherokee, who grew up in Hazard, KY and was married to a Lamar Cook, so she would be Maragret Sue Cook at age 17 and later became Riley after re-marrying due to divorcing Lamar Cook. Sincerely, Kelley Gilbert