SOURCE: FREDERICK GOSS OF ROWAN COUNTY NC AND HIS DESCENDANTS EPHRAIM GOSS, the eighth and youngest son born to Frederick the first and Betsy, was born in the year 1770 and died August 3,1833 at the age of sixty two years.He married Ann Workman in North Carolina. She was born in 1776 and died in 1854 at the age of 78.They were the parents of nine children, three sons and six daughters, five of whom were born in North Carolina and came when very small with their parents to their new home in Indiana. It is one of the saddest and most lamentable facts that there is so little written of these valuable histories.This family of children of Ephraim and Ann were said to all be of the first type sturdy,stalwart men and women, all of whom married and reared large families, endured the hardships of toil and drudgery,fought all the battles and left to the world a large number of descendants. When Ephraim and Anne Workman Goss came from their home in Wasington county IN where they lived only a few years to take possession of a section of land that Mr. Goss had purchased from a settler by the name of Jonathan Lindley, while he was on an observaton tour through White River Valley land in the fall of 1817. Mr Lindley had previously bought this land from the government for a few small amount of money.After Mr Goss became owner of this vast scope of dense forest his plans for bringing his wife and little children to a home in the wilderness were being made and Mr Goss had then returned to Washington county and the meager preparations were soon made for the long journey. The family and their scant household effects were conveyed by two six-horse primitive wagons. One of them the very same that they had used in the hills of North Carolina.In 1928 one of the sons of Ephraim had vivid rememberance of the hardships they were compelled to endure and the difficulties they met while on this long journey to the new country which meant to them distress,privation and want, because much of this journey was made in the season of the year when the narrow trails were next to impassable. Yet they were compelled to press on and face these daily storms of the long winter and spring and at last reaching their destination in March of 1818.After reaching this wilderness they spent many months in felling the timber of this dense forest to make for themselves and little ones a mere place of shelter, not only a protection from the storms and snow, but from the ravenous wild animals that were so numerous. Their first habitation was a covering made over one side of a large hollow log which served as a shelter and a place of safety for the father,mother and children and often for those who might be out seeking a like shelter from the storms of winter. Very soon materials for a rude pole cabin was under construction but when ready for their occupancy was very little superior to the hollow log that had met their needs.The cabin had no windows or doors and the covering was only pieces of wood, cut from large pieces of wood with a large chopping ax. But this did afford protection not only for the family but for 2 young men who had left their families in North Carolina. The first winter this family spent in the wilderness went by slowly.They endured days and nights of distress hovering around a log fire.The first spring 10 acres of this land were cleared and planted with corn.But it was planted too late and didn't mature properly and could only be used for feeding the stock. Mr Goss was considered to be a man of great forethought and had means to be amply prepared with sufficient provisions of food and other items to tide them over to the next crop in 1819-1820. Mr Goss through hard and conservative labor and economic living soon became the owner of a large portion of this land; hundreds of acres, for miles around the little town of Gosport and became the sole proprietor of the town which has for a centuryand a half borne his name. His body with the other two of his father family and a number of their children, was laid to rest in the quiet little family burial yard near the west side of the town of Gosport. BIOGRAPHY SUBMITTER: Debbie Jennings