This CDV is of Walker Goins, husband of Mary Jane Middlebrooks Goins.  Mary Jane was
the sister of Jesse Goins. Jesse was my maternal grandmother Lula Cook Wilder’s great-grandfather. Mary Jane’s maiden name was also Goins. Walker and Mary Jane, and Jesse and Evaline Goins (my third-great-grandparents) migrated from the growing pressure against free persons of color in Virginia in 1854 and went to the counties of Southeastern Ohio where many free and enslaved blacks and “colored” persons had escaped, some via the Underground Railroad. [Thanks to Troy (Goins)-Stevens for this early photograph.]