Charles "Ches" McCartney on Highway 19 in southern Georgia (October 1958). Charles "Ches" McCartney (1901–1998), also known as the Goat Man, was an American itinerant wanderer who …

Aug 5, 2007 · A traveling preacher, Charles “Ches” McCartney was a significant folk and religious figure in Georgia for more than four decades, and a likely influence on the works of the writer Flannery …

Domestic life eventually became too dull for the Goat Man, and he became a common sight limping along Highway 80 between Jeffersonville and Macon, Georgia, decorating himself with various …

Dec 3, 2025 · Charles “Ches” McCartney (circa 1901-1998), better known as “the Goat Man,” roamed America, including Middle and North Georgia in his goat propelled wooden wagon between the late …

Jan 15, 2018 · Charles ‘Ches’ McCartney–known by many as The Goat Man–came to mind. McCartney earned folk hero status before he died in a Macon, Georgia, nursing home at ninety-two in 1998.

McCartney eventually settled in Jeffersonville, Georgia, where he started the Free Thinking Christian Mission, and traveled the countryside preaching salvation.

Sep 1, 2019 · McCartney was known throughout the South as the Goat Man after he traded the life of a carnival worker for that of an entrepreneurial wanderer in the 1930s.

Oct 7, 2010 · Adults and children alike would drop whatever they were doing and dash over for a visit with the Goat Man. An article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia says Charles (“Ches”) McCartney …

Charles McCartney, also known as the "Goat Man," was a traveling preacher who roamed central Georgia in a goat-pulled wagon in the mid-twentieth century. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and …

Aug 17, 2024 · Perhaps no legend of Floyd County, and maybe all of Northwest Georgia, produces as many vivid memories as “The Goat Man,” a deeply pungent man who rode around Georgia in an old …