 In 1829 William Goode married Sarah Maria Massie (d. 1844), who bore several children who lived to adulthood, but also died shortly after childbirth and her daughter Sarah Massie Goode died as a child.Two of her sons married, Lucy Herbert Waller Goode Baskerville (1833-1863) and Henrietta Waller Goode Boyd (1842-1876).Three of their sons became Confederate States Army officers after their father's death and Virginia's secession, of whom William Osborne Goode Jr. (1830-1865) died in battle.