Mrs. Elizabeth Gooch, nee Delcinia Doyle, born October 18, 1857 in Boone County, Missouri, died Tuesday (5 March 1946) at her late residence in Abbeville, Louisiana.
Funeral rites were conducted from the residence by Rev. M.G. Fall, pastor of the Abbeville Baptist Church Thursday morning, and burial was in the Graceland Cemetery. Rev. Dan E. Goldsmith, pastor of the Abbeville Presbyterian Church, assisted in the rites.
Surviving are five sons, John E. Gooch of Kaplan, Claude Gooch of Abbeville, Claire Gooch of Gueydan, Steoppe Gooch of Houston, Texas, and Dee Gooch of Cut Off. Also two daughters, Mrs. Charles Evans of Gueydan, and Mrs. John LeBlanc of Port Arthur, Texas; 24 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.
She and her late husband, James Elijah Gooch, who died fifty years ago, moved to Vermillion from the Indian Territory in 1886, in the covered wagon days.
== This obituary was found among papers held by the Board of Confederate Pensions in Baton Rouge, LA. It was a small clipping and no mention was made of the newspaper that published it. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
