Goss Family History, 3rd Generation
(James A. Goss Children)

Back Row:
Judith (Goss) Stewart
Gayle (Goss) Steele
Loralee Ruth (Goss Baccelli) Couture
Clabe Wicker Lemons
Eloise “Bussie” (Goss) Lemons
Hazel (Malugani) Goss
Wilma (Andrews) Goss
William Albert Goss

Front Row:
Gary Goss⁴
Benjamin Roland Goss²
James Albert Goss

Estella Evangeline (Goss) Tiscornia (1892-1978)

112. Estella “Stella” Evangeline Goss was born on November 30, 1892, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married George Victor Tiscornia, a grandson of Italian immigrants, on April 3, 1915, in Merced, Merced County, California and raised four children:

Estella “Stella” Evangeline (Goss) Tiscornia died on March 21, 1978, at the age of 85. At the time she lived in Merced, Merced County, California.

George Victor Tiscornia died seven months later on October 24, 1978, in Merced.

James Albert Goss, Jr. (1897-1899)

113. James Albert Goss, Jr. was born on June 1, 1897, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He died on April 20, 1899, a month and 10 days shy of his second birthday. He is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Zelda Kathryn (Goss) Hudson (1903-1984)

114. Zelda Kathryn Goss was born on November 10, 1903, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Joseph Bruce Hudson around 1925 but had no children.

After their marriage, Zelda and Joseph lived through 1930 with Zelda's parents on Stockton Street in Coulterville. Joe worked as a machinist at a garage.^{[Cen 1930]}

By 1935, the Goss and Hudson family moved to Main Street where James operated a gas station and Joe worked an equipment operator on county roads.^{[Cen 1940]}

Joseph Bruce Hudson died on April 10, 1981, while they resided in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California. He was 77 years old.

Zelda Kathryn (Goss) Hudson died three and a half years later on October 20, 1984, at the age of 80. Both are buried at the Coulterville Cemetery in Coulterville, Mariposa County.

Ila Anna Goss-Barrett (1905-2006)

115. Ila Anna Goss was born on May 14, 1905, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Frank Harry Barrett, a grandson of Irish, Scottish, and Italian immigrants, on July 2, 1924, in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. Together they tended to old Coulterville and kept up the museum and post office. Their deep ties to and knowledge of the old town made them the town historians. They had four daughters:

Ila Anna Goss and Frank Harry Barrett were married by Rev. Marcus P. McClure on July 2, 1924, at the home of Asa and Mabel Procily at 127 Sierra Drive, Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.

The Barretts moved to Merced, Merced County, where their first daughter was born. Next they moved to the Barrett family homestead in Merced Falls with Frank's widowed father, Harry Barrett. Frank opened a garage and service station there and their three younger daughters were all born there.

In 1936 they sold the Merced Falls homestead and moved up to Ferry Street in Coulterville where Frank was a cattle rancher and served as justice of the peace for four years. Ila worked as a storekeeper and homemaker.

During World War II the family lived near Merced where Frank worked at the Del Monte Orchards as a blacksmith, welder and horse shoer. When the war was over they returned to Coulterville where Frank and Ila operated Barrett's Garage and Service Station. They added a grocery store and museum of early day curios, his lifelong hobby, operating it until retirement in 1963.^{[Obit 1977]}

Frank loved mechanics and especially blacksmithing, and both he and Ila loved collecting antiques and traveling.^{[Obit 1977]}

Frank Harry Barrett died on January 12, 1977, following a short illness. Services were held at the Franklin and Down Colonial Chapel in Modesto on the 15th he was laid to rest at the Coulterville Cemetery.^{[Obit 1977]}

Ila Anna Goss-Barrett died 29 years later on July 29, 2006. She was 101 years old! Ila is buried along side Frank at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Eloise “Bussie” Irene (Goss) Lemons (1908-2002)

116. Eloise “Bussie” Irene Goss was born on May 31, 1908, in California and married Clayborn “Clabe” Wicker Lemons about 1928. They had four sons, including twins:

After their marriage, the young family resided with Clabe's parents at 849 Fourth Avenue in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California, at least through the 1930 census.

Clayborn Wicker Lemons died on November 20, 1984, in Stanislaus County, California at the age of 83. He is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Eloise “Bussie” Irene (Goss) Lemons died on October 20, 2002, in Stanislaus County. She was 94 years old.