Marie,
I was away from home computer picking up e-mails in a distant location and must have "dumped" this return message along with 149 others to me, so I apologize for the delay in responding. The Edgar McDavitt who delivered the $1,600 to Marcellus McDavitt was perhaps the business "partner" of Job Hammond Goodlett in Memphis - have to check the files for the city directory listings. I remember a name like that when I copied the listings. As I said before, Job was never a business partner of his more successful brother, William Hume, at least not according to the city directory lists I found. Could these children have been born before the 1850 census? The reason I ask is that in that census, Job is listed in Shelby Co TN with 3 children (boys ages 2,4, & 6 I think) with no mother. Then in 1858 he marries (can't tell you the name without going to files), has a child (female I think) and must divorce this woman because he marries again. The mother of the female child is later listed in the city directory as the "former wife of Job H Goodlett." After Job's death, his last wife is listed as his "widow." I have been searching high and low for the mother of those 3 boys who were listed as being born in MS in the census while Job was born in KY. The female child was living with her mother in a boarding house in Memphis. Can you figure any of this out or add to it?
Again, sorry to be delayed in responding - and that only because I was "surfing" the messages!!

All the best,
Julia