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Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson and George Washington.

The Goodlove Family History Website:

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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

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Remembrances: Sarah Denny McKinnon, Berley McKee

March 21, 1014

Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge



Was the Ocmulgee earth lodge an astronomical observatory and sophisticated scientific apparatus designed to forewarn its designers of impending catastrophe coming from the heavens?

Introduction

The earth lodge at the Ocmulgee Mounds site in Macon, Georgia is a unique building among Native American archaeological sites in the Southeast. It is a round building completely covered with earth except for a smoke hole in the center of the roof to allow smoke to escape from the central fire pit below. Entry into the earth lodge was from the east through a low, long, tunnel-like, earth-covered corridor. One would have to crouch or crawl until he reached the central, round chamber before he could stand fully erect again. According to the Creek Migration Legend this structure was where the tribe’s warriors would gather “to fast and purify their bodies,”[1] thus entry was likely limited to males exclusively.




The low doorway into the Ocmulgee earth lodge, a “mound with a central chamber.” (Photo © 2004, Gary C. Daniels)

The main chamber was bounded by a low wall upon which rested the lower ends of the roof timbers. There were four large upright posts in the middle of this circular chamber that supported four horizontal posts that formed a large square. The middle of the roof timbers rested on these horizontal timbers and on top of these timbers earth was piled thereby creating the earth-covered roof of this structure. The roof timbers did not all meet in the center instead leaving a large hole through which smoke could escape.

In the center of the floor between these four upright posts was a large fire pit molded into the clay floor. Along the floor against the circular low wall were a series of 47 seats molded into the clay floor. Each had a small cubbyhole molded into the front of the seat, the exact purpose of which is unknown although it was likely a place to store personal items.

On the western end of this round chamber was a large, elevated platform or altar in the shape of a bird. The bird likely represented a raptor, either an eagle or falcon, both highly revered among Creek Indians. Surrounding the eye of the raptor was a design known as the ‘forked eye motif.’ It had the appearance of a two-tailed comet. (More on this later.) This is the earliest known instance of this symbol, which eventually became widespread throughout much of Southeastern and Midwestern America. One researcher noted that mythological beings represented with the forked-eye surround were associated with the celestial realm[2]which is consistent with a comet interpretation. Finally, three more seats were located on this platform bringing the total number of seats in this great chamber to fifty. Clearly these three elevated seats were reserved for very important persons.



The only artifact excavated from the interior of the chamber was a large conch shell. These shells were reserved for serving a ritual tea known as both the “black drink” because of its color and the “white drink” because of its use in purification rituals. The tea was made from the leaves of the yaupon holly plant. The leaves of this plant had high concentrations of caffeine, many times more than a similar amount of coffee, and was drunk piping hot thus increasing the absorption of caffeine into the bloodstream.

Origins of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge

Creek Indian tradition maintains that the Ocmulgee Mounds site in Macon, Georgia was the site where they “first sat down” after their long migration from the west.[3] One version of the Creek Migration Legend states that one of the first structures the tribe built when they arrived at their final destination in the east was a “mound [with a] great chamber in the center.”[4]



The earth lodge was unearthed at Ocmulgee Mounds during excavations in 1938.[5] The earth lodge had been burned and archaeologists were able to date this charcoal to around 1015 AD[6]. Whether the structure was burned by its own inhabitants or by an attacking enemy is unknown.What is known is that the structure is unique in the Southeast. Archaeologist Lewis Larson noted that the 19th century researcher Swanton

“provided the most detailed and exhaustive survey of the ethnohistorical literature covering the domestic and public architecture of the southeastern Indians. A review of his survey reveals that there are no structures comparable to the Macon Plateau earth lodge as it has been described by Kelly….”[7]

In other words, during the time period that the migration legends were recorded, no known structure similar to an earth lodge was in existence thus: 1) how could a Native American informant at this time describe such a structure while recounting his tribe’s migration legend and 2) how could the description of this structure match perfectly with the archaeological data from excavations conducted nearly 200 years afterthe legend was recorded? Either the informant in question was psychic or the legend is an accurate recounting of real historical events.

This very uniqueness caused Larson to call into question Kelly’s “earth lodge” interpretation of his findings and Larson even went so far as to refute the very existence of earth lodges in the Southeast even at Ocmulgee Mounds. Yet the migration legend seems to support Kelly’s interpretation of the data as, indeed, a “mound with a central chamber,” i.e., earth lodge.

Archaeaoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge

The Pawnee were a Midwestern Caddoan tribe that also constructed earth lodges similar to the one at Ocmulgee Mounds. Some of these earth lodges were used as astronomical observatories.[8]The Pawnee earth lodge observatories had entranceways facing east just like Ocmulgee’s earth lodge. They also had an altar on the western end of the interior chamber just like Ocmulgee’s earth lodge except the Pawnee altars were not bird-shaped. (Although lots of bird remains including a bluejay, owls, woodpeckers, eagles, quails and others were found in some Pawnee earth lodge observatories suggesting birds were an important part of the activities that took place inside.)




Model of Pawnee earth lodge


Layout of Pawnee earth lodge

Researchers have listed five characteristics of Pawnee earth lodges that indicated they had been used as a priestly observatory:


1.unobstructed view of the eastern sky
2.east-west orientation so that at the vernal equinox the sun’s first light would strike the altar
3.the size parameters of the lodge’s smoke hole and door (height and width) would be designed to view the sky
4.the lodge’s smoke hole would be constructed to view certain parts of the heavens-such as the Pleiades
5.the presence of four main interior support posts correctly aligned to the semicardinal points.

How well does the Ocmulgee earth lodge match up with these five conditions? The Ocmulgee earth lodge was constructed on top of a bluff or plateau thus it would have had an unobstructed view of the eastern sky. It also had four main interior support posts aligned to the semicardinal directions. The structure also had an east-west orientation yet, according to researchers, its doorway aligned to the sunrise on February 22nd and October 22nd instead of the vernal equinox (March 21.) (Using software called The Photographer’s Ephemeris I was able to confirm this alignment.) [1]

1015: MASAWIAH AL-MARDINI
Mesue the Younger. Masawaih al-Mardini, from Mardin in Upper Mesopotamia. Flourished in Bagdad, later at the court of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim in Egypt, where he died in 1015 at the age of ninety. Physician. Jacobite Christian. He wrote book on purgatives and emetics (De medicins laxativis) and on the complete pharmacopoeia in 12 parts called the Antidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum, based on Muslim knowledge. The last-named work was immensely popular. It remained for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West, and Mesue was called "pharmacopoeorum evabgelista". Distillation of empyreumatic oils.
There is still a third Mesue (q. v., first half of thirteenth century), author of a treatise on surgery.
Neuburger: Geschichte der Medizin (vol. 2, 226-227, 1911).[2]

1015: Death of St. Vladimir prince of Kiev, Wessex submits to Canute the Dane, Atabs conquer Sardinia, Jaroslav becomes prince of Kiev, King Olaf II the Saint restores Norwegian independence and Christianity, Strasbourg Cathedral started, Pomposa Monastery introduces sight singing, first mention of Leipzig, , first “Communitas” or self government in Benevento, Canute again invades England – war between Danes and Saxons, Canute invades again, war between Danes and Saxons, [3]



1016: Jews from Crimea [to Turkey {Ottoman Empire} and Egypt][4] 1016 Jews move from Crimea near the Black Sea to Kharkov and Chemigov[5] and [to Turkey {Ottoman Empire} and Egypt][1][6] Interestingly both Bysantine Jews from this area as well as the Judaic Khazars who lived there might have gone to Kharkov going from southeast to the north in Russia.[4] [7] The Jewish community of Kairouan, Tunisia is forced to choose between conversion and expulsion. [3][8]

QA [9]

1116: Death of Aethelred II, Reign of Canute, Viking king of England, begins, Norman knights in southern Italy, St. Paul’s at Worms, Japanese baroness Shikibu Murasake publishes “The Take of Genji”, Danes rule England to 1042, end of Ethelred II the Redeless – Edmund Ironside son of Ethelred II and Canute divide kingdom – Edmund assassinated and Canute rules as King of England and Olaf II as King of Norway, Aethelred dies, Son Edmund Ironside fights with Canute Saxons vs Danes, Battle of Ashingdon - Canute wins, they divide kingdom, Edmund assassinated, Eadulf I becomes king of Bamburgh, Cnut reigns in England, Denmark and Norway.[10]

1017: anute (Knut) divides England into four earldoms, Eshin the Japanese Buddhist priest dies, Canute divides England into four earldoms, Canute, a Dane, recognized king of England. [11]

1018: End of King Henry’s War against Boleslav (Germany and Poland), Union of southern and northern Scotland, Byzantium regains Macedonia, Bulgarians submit, Council of Oxford – Canute confirms laws of Edfar, Sacred Indian city of Muttra pillaged by Mahmud of Ghanzi, Brihadisva Rasvamin Temple in Tangore India. [12]

1019: Yaroslav the Wise, ruler of Kiev begins to rule, unifies Russian areas, Jaroslav the Wize unifies and rules Russia, Canute marries Emma of Normandy the widow of Ethelred II, Ealdred II King of Bamburgh. I[13]

IBN AL-HUSAIN
Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn al-Husain. Flourished not long after al-Khujandi (q. v., second half of the tenth century). Mathematician. He wrote a memoir on rational right angled triangles and another on the determination of two mean proportionals between two lines by a geometrical method (vs. kinematic method), i. e., by the use of what the Muslims called "fixed geometry", al-handasa al-thabit. Solution of the equation x2 + a = y2.

Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (80, 1900; Nachtrage, 168, 1902).

ABU-L-JUD
Abu-l-Jud Mohammed ibn al-Lith, contemporary of al-Biruni. Mathematician. Solution of al-Birunic problems by means of intersecting conics. Regular heptagon and enneagon. Classification of equations and their reduction to conic sections.
Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (79, 1900).

1019-1029: AL-KARKHI
Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn al-Hassan (or Husain) al-Hasib (the calculator) al-Karkhi, meaning of Karkh, a suburb of Bagdad. Flourished in Bagdad during the vizierate of Abu Ghakib Mohammed ibn Khalaf Fakhr al-mulk (glory of the realm), who died in 1016; he died himself c. 1019 to 1029. One of the greatest Muslim mathematicians. His book on arithmetic (the sufficient on calculation, alkafi fi-l-hisab) is based chiefly of the Greek and Hellenistic knowledge. No numerals of any kind are used, the names of the numbers being written in full. Casting out of the nines and elevens.

If r < (2a + 1), [(a2 + r)] ~ a + r/(2a + 1). His algebra called (al-fakhri) in honor of the vizier is largely based on Diophantos. Complete solutions of quadratic equations (with proofs; two roots considered if positive and if not null). Reduction of equations of the type ax2p + bxp = c to quadratic equations. Addition and subtraction of radicals. Summation of series. Solution of Diophantine equations (including 25 problems not found in Diophantos). Al-Karkhi's neglect Hindu mathematics was such that it must have been systematic. H. Suter: Encyclopaedia of Islam (vol. 2, 764, 1925. Very little).[14] 1020 That Finleach, son of Rory, King of Alban, was slain A.D. 1020; and that Cormac, son of Faelan, successor of the sons of Iona, died A.D. 1033;[15] 1020: Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikibu finishes writing Take of Genji, Boleslav I of Poland creates unified state, death of Firdausi the Persian poet, death of Aelfric the English Benedictine abbot and author, Jaroslav the Wise of Kiev codifies Russian law and builds cities, schools and churches, Pisa annexes Corsica, Faroes, Shetlands, and Orkneys recognize Olaf Haraldsson as king, Rebellion of Bernard II Duke of Saxony, death of Firdausi the Persian poet, Bamberg Cathedral consecrated by pope, death of Aelfric the English author and historian, crypt of Chartres Cathedral created, Persian poet Firdasi dies, Rise of Italian city-states, ibn Sina (Avicenna) compiles Canon of Medicine and also writes work on erosion. [16]

1021: Reign of Fatmid caliph al-Zahir begins, Henry’s third Italian campaign, Basil’s campaign against Armenia, St. Vitus dance epidemics in Europe, Caliph al-Hakim founds Druse sect after proclaiming self divine. [17]

1022: Emperor Henry II defeats Greeks in southern Italy, death of Eric the Saint – King of Sweden, Synod of Pavia insists on celibacy of higher clergy, Notker Teutonicus – monk of St. Gallen and translator of Boethius, Atistotle and the Psalter dies, Pope Benedict VIII institutes laws on celibacy. [18]

1024: Death of HRE Henry the Saint – succeeded as German king by Conrad II the Salic – first of Franconian line, Death of Pope Benedict VIII – Pope John XIX, Mahmud storms Somnath in Gujarat, India, End of Ghaznavid Empire expansion, Death of Swedish king Olaf Skutkonung, Conrad II becomes German King and HRE to 1039, Death of Henry II of Germany Conrad II rules, 9 Apr Pope Benedict VIII dies, Pope John XIX (Ioannes Undevicesimus, Conti di Tusculum) appointed Apr/May. [19]

1025: Death of Basil II of Byzantine empire, Boleslav I accepts title of King of Poland death of Boleslav I the duke of Poland, beginning decline of Byzanti\[20]

March 21, 1349: ERFURT (Germany)

After a mob marched into the Jewish quarter carrying a flag with a cross, the Jews tried to defend themselves. Over a hundred Jews were killed and much of the ghetto burned. [21]

March 21st, 1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus[22]

March 21, 1765:
Father Richard Stephenson:
Richard Stephenson Jr received a large tract of land, the other sons and daughter Elenor, as well as wife Honor and stepsons, William and Valentine Crawford, are provided for in the father's will. He made 3 wills one on March 21, 1765, Frederick County, Colony of Virginia.[23]

Richard Stephenson of the foregoing will, may have discovered the inevitable death knell as he began making his final arrangements, before March 21st, 1765. Three days after Christmas, in December of 1764, he deeded to his son, Richard Stephenson, Jr., a tract of land, which is recorded in Frederick County Court of Virginia. The witnesses were: John Slayton, William Crawford, Joseph Beeler, William McCormick and Hugh Stephenson. The will of Richard Stephenson, Jr., is recorded in present Berkely County, West Virginia, therefore the land deed to him by his father, may be located in that area. (Berkeley County was once a part of old Frederick County, Virginia).[24]

Richard Stephenson (son of John? Stephenson)49, 50, 51 was born 1716 in Virginia52, and died 1765 in Jefferson County, WV. He married Honoria Grimes Crawford.

Notes for Richard Stephenson:
From "The Frontiersman" by A Allen Eckhers (Richard Stephenson) was an indentured servant bought by my GGrandfather (your G Uncle) Valentine Crawford on the docks of Philadelphia and raised in the family home etc. until he worked out his obligation. !Son of Honora Grimes 2nd mar to Richard STEPHENSON (1st mar. to Col. Wm. Crawford)

All sons were leaders in the Rev. War except Marcus who ended as a private.

BEERS: WASHINGTON COUNTY: Page 791
Richard Stevenson was married in early manhood to Mrs Honora Crawford (widow of Hugh Crawford, an old Indian trader, by whom she had two sons, William and Valentine). William Crawford was colonel of the Fifth Virginia Regulars, commissioned in 1781. The circumstances of his death, which occurred June 11, 1782, in Sandusky, Ohio, are recorded in nearly every U. S. history. He was burned at the stake by Indians (who had captured him) for the evident purpose of wreaking vengeance on their victim in return for the historic massacre at Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, many Indians having been there slaughtered by the whites. At the time of his capture Col. Crawford was conducting a campaign against the Wyandotts and Moravian tribes. To the union of Richard and Honora (Crawford) Stevenson children were born as follows: John, Hugh, Richard, James, Marcus and one daughter. Mrs. Stevenson possessed great physical strength, and was a kind and affectionate mother; she died in 1776. Gen. George Washington was a frequent visitor at this home, often taking part in athletic contests with the sons. The early friendship ripened with the passing years, and when Gen. Washington rose to prominence in military life, James Stevenson was yet his dearest friend and constant companion.

History of Berkeley County, West Virginia
Welcome to historic Berkeley County,WV, one of the first settled areas of the State of West Virginia. Many Quakers and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, along with the English and Dutch, became residents here in the early 1700s. They were followed by the Germans who built many present farm complexes. The
County has a wealth of historic, architecturally important buildings dating from the 1740s into the 20th century. Many of these buildings, including several districts and villages, have been researched and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Berkeley County was formed from Frederick County, Virginia, in 1772 and named for Lord Norborne Berkeley. The County seat was established in the
colonial village of Martinsburg, named for Thomas Bryan Martin, Lord Fairfax's nephew, and was incorporated in 1778. The arrival of the B&O Railroad in the 1840s gave Martinsburg and Berkeley County a big boost. During the Civil War, Martinsburg and Berkeley County, still a part of Virginia, experienced conflict and much destruction. Many families had divided allegiances. In June1861 Stonewall Jackson destroyed the railroad cars at the Martinsburg B&O Railroad complex and commandeered the engines, dragging them through Winchester to Strasburg. The Roundhouse and machine shops were completely stripped. The first major conflict in the area occurred on July 2, 1861, when the North's General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River at Williamsport and defeated the South's General Joseph E. Johnston and General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. On October 18 and 19,
1862 the Martinsburg B&O Railroad complex and Roundhouses were burned. After November 1863, Berkeley County became a part of the new state of West Virginia that supported the North. In 1872 the Pennsylvania Railroad came to the area, and it, along with the B&O Railroad, gave the area an excellent transportation base. In early times, a major source of the area's income came from selling flour produced by the area's water-powered mills to the Alexandria and Baltimore markets. Electricity, replacing water power, soon followed and the area became a large textile milling center. Martinsburg continues to be the focus of the business area of Berkeley County. Many of Martinsburg's historic and architecturally important buildings were included in seven historic districts placed on the National
Register of Historic Places in December 1980. Two more districts were placed on the National Register in December 2002.

Jefferson County, West Virginia
Jefferson County was established on October 26, 1801, from a portion of Berkeley County by an act of the Virginia General Assembly. It was named after Thomas Jefferson, vice-president of the United States and president elect. Years earlier, Jefferson had stood on a rock high above the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers at Harpers Ferry. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, he remarked that this view was "worth a trip across the Atlantic." The view is still breathtaking, and Jefferson County is still worth the trip. Located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Jefferson is the easternmost county in the state, being bounded by the Potomac River and Maryland on the north, the Blue Ridge Mountains and Loudoun County, Virginia, on the east, Clarke County, Virginia, on the south, and Opecquon Creek and Berkeley County, West Virginia, on the West. The county occupies 212.41 square miles, being 24 miles from north to south and 12 miles from east to west. Municipalities include Charles Town, the county seat (established in 1789 by George Washington's brother, Charles), Ranson (1910), Harpers Ferry (1851), Bolivar (1825), and Shepherdstown (1762). Two other municipalities, Virginius (1827) and Smithfield or Middleway (1798), were not rechartered after the Civil War.

September 2002, I was fortunate to make a trip to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, with my mom, Sara Stephenson Varner and my aunt, Mid Stephenson Maize. Several years ago, I had gotten in contact with an elderly lady, Mrs. John Porter Burns, as I was told by the local Jefferson County Museum that they owned the original Stephenson house. I never made it there. This summer, I contacted her again, but was replied by her daughter, Patricia Dicks. Her mother was still living in the home, but she was 87 years old now. Patricia, as did her mother several years ago, graciously invited us to see the home. We made reservations in the Antiquated Hilltop Inn at Harper’s Ferry. It is situated on a cliff overlooking the merge of the Shenandoah and the Potomac Rivers.
Patricia Dicks, who is a local school teacher in Shepherdstown, came to let us follow her to the farm the next day which is located off of Rt. 340 between Charles Town, WV and Ripon, WV. They showed us around inside and out, describing stories of their childhood, family, and the land.

The original home had been made of a cobblestone, (found all around), as the base of the mansion is still standing, but it is now a brick mansion. It is flanked on each side with a smaller cobblestone buildings, assumed to be a school and a kitchen. These 2 smaller buildings are the original Stephenson buildings, and the base of the mansion also. Richard Stephenson willed this property and houses to his youngest son, Richard Stephenson Jr in 1765. It was later owned by the Dr. John Bull, Beverly Whiting (where the current name of the estate came from, the prior name being Kalorama), Matthew Frame, and the current owners of over a century, the John Burns family.

I am attaching pictures of this beautiful farm, which is dunned a historical site, for preservation, and it is still farmed by the Burns family. They continue to restore the home as close as possible to the original condition.

Happy Holidays
Tawna Lee Varner Brown

More About Richard Stephenson:
Died 2: 176553
Died 3: 1765, Frederick County, Virginia.54

Children of Richard Stephenson and Honoria Grimes Crawford are:

i.+Richard Stephenson, b. 1738, Berkley Co, W.V..[25]

ii. March 21, 1765

iii. In The Name of God Amen, the 21st day of March, 1765, I Richard Stephenson[26] of Frederick C

iv. ounty and Colony of Virginia being very sick and weak of Body[27] but of Perfect mind and Memory thanks be to God for the same and Calling to mind the Transitory Estate of this life and that all Flesh Must Yield unto Death when it shall Please God do make and Declare this my last will and testament in a Maner following that is to say first I recommend my soul unto the hands of God who gave it me and my Body I recommend unto the Earth from whence it came to be Buried in a Decent and Christian like manner at the Descretion of my Executors not Doubting but at the General Resurrection to Receive it again.

v. Imprimis — my Will and Desire is that all my Funeral Expenses and Debts be paid out of my Personal Estate by my Executors. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Honor Stephenson one Third part of all my Land and Personal Estate During her life and after her Death to be Equally Divided between my five sons John Stephenson Hugh Stephenson Richard Stephenson James Stephenson and Marquis Stephenson and their Heirs and assigns forever and the other two thirds to be Equally Divided Between my five sons before mentioned Except Forty Pounds Current Money which is to be taken out of my Estate first and formost and Twenty Pounds thereof to be given to William Crawford and the other Twenty Pounds to be given Valentine Crawford as their part of my Estate and a Negro Woman called Jean which shall be left for my Wife for to Tend and Nurse my daughter Elenor and after the Death of my wife for John Stephenson to take the said Negro woman and my daughter Elenor and keep them both during both their lives and if the said Negro woman should die the said John Stephenson shall keep and mentain the said Elenor during her life on his own Costs and Expenses but if Elenor should die and the Negro woman live then she shall be and Remain the Property of the said John Stephenson and his Heirs and assigns forever provided always that if the said Elenor should die during my wife’s lifetime then the said Negro Woman to be sold and the Money be Equally Divided between my five sons John Hugh Richard James and Marquis.


vi. I give and bequeath unto Eldest son John Stephenson an Equal part of my land on the lower end of the tract where he now lives to be laid off so that he shall have the spring right against his house where he now lives and an Equal Part of the Medewing or Med— ew Ground to him and his Heirs and assigns forever.

vii. I give and bequeath unto my son Hugh Stephenson an Equall part of my land to be laid off joining to John Stephenson with an equal part of Medewing or Meadow Ground to him and his Heirs and assigns forever.

viii. I give and bequeath unto my son James Stephenson an Equal part of my land to be laid off at the upper part of the land on the South side of the Marsh with no more than an equal part of Medewing to him and his heirs and assigns forever.

ix. I give and bequeath unto my youngest son Marquis Stephenson the House and Plantation where I now live with an equal Land and Medewing to him and his Heirs and assigns forever.


x. Provided always that if my sons John Hugh James and Marquis should disagree in laying off or Dividing of the land between them that then Captain Robert Rutherford and Captain Thomas Rutherford lay off and divide the lands between them in the best manner they can according to this my last will and Testament.

xi. And Lastly I make and ordain my wife Honor Stephenson and my two oldest sons John Stephenson and Hugh Stephenson my Sole Executors of this my last will and Testament Revoking and Disanulling all former and other Wills and Testaments by me or Suffered to be made

xii. In witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal the Day and year above written.


xiii.


xiv. Richard (Seal) Stephenson

xv. Witnesses:

xvi. John Maccormick, Jr.

xvii. George McCormick

xviii. Joseph Beeler[28]

March 21, 1769, Went and laid off 4 lots at the head of Bullskin for several tenants.[29]

Bullskin is where the Richard Stephenson’s and the Crawfords home was when George Washington first stayed with them.

March 21, 1770:



[30]

Chicago, 1770

1770: The Balkans battle the Plague for two years.[31]

1770: Bengal Famine of 1770

Killing one-third of the population of Bengal over a five-year period, the Bengal Famine of 1770 took place between 1969 and 1773 in what is now parts of Bangladesh. An estimated 15 million perished in the famine, which was blamed on greedy ‘’principles from the British East India Company's rule.[32]

March 21, 1776: The President of Congress, John Hancock, arranged to send George Washington $250,000 cash to be used to maintain the siege of Boston. Hancock wrote in the letter that accompanied the funds sent that he had selected three "gentlemen of character whom I am confident will meet your notice." One of these men was the Jewish patriot, Moses Franks of Philadelphia.[33]

George Washington is the Grand Nephew of the 1st cousin 10x removed of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.

March 21, 1781: Conrad Goodlove, the compilers 3rd great grandfather is born in Germany or Berks County, Pennsylvania. The oral tradition of the family is that our name was originally Gottlieb. Is it possible that the Conrad Gottlieb, who was the father of Anna Gottlieb born March 21, 1781 was also the father of our Conrad Goodlove? BAPTISMS[1][34]

Parents Child Sponsors

21 Conrad Gottlieb wf Catharine Peter Mufly,

Anna Margaret b —— Mar 1781, Regina

Wannemacher bp 22 Mar 1782[2][35]

March 21, 1781: Washington County was erected, the first new County out of old Westmoreland.[36]

March 21, 1782

Irvine to Major Scott:

“Sir:— Four companies of militia are called out for the purpose of defending the frontier of Washington county. You are to take command of two companies, who are to be kept constantly in motion from Montour’s Bottom to Decker’s or Mingo Bottom [a station on the east side of the Ohio]. As the whole of this frontier is entrusted to your charge, I have no doubt you make such arrangements and dispose of these two companies so as best to answer the purpose.

‘It will therefore be incumbent on you to visit the companies frequently and see that the men are alert and attentive to duty; but above all, you will dispose of them in such a manner as that very short intervals will take place between the different parties marching and counter-marching. You will direct the officers commanding companies or parties, should they discover signs of an enemy, to alarm not only tho other companies and parties, but they are to inform the neighboring settlements, and to be extremely cautious at the same time to guard against false alarms or reports. Yon will also direct them to send me notice of any material occurrence by express (one of their men), the lower company to that next this way, the officer commanding there to send one of his men — the first to return to his company.

“You will make weekly returns to me of the number of men and officers had attacked some friendly Indians on the island in the Ohio (Killbuck’s Island), under the protection of the garrison, and had killed several, and amongst them some that had been of essential service to the whites, in expeditions against Indian towns, and on scouting parties in case of attacks upon the settlements. One to whom the whites had given the name of Wilson (Captain Wilson) was much regretted by the garrison.’.[37]


March 21, 1786

In 1836 Robert Lucas was succeeded as governor of Ohio by Joseph Vance, who became the state’s thirteenth executive. Vance was born in Catfish, now Washington, Pennsylvania, on March 21, 1786.[38]

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Joseph Vance, half-length portrait, slightly to the left . Democratic Congressman from Ohio, 1822-1835; Governor, 1836-1838; Whig Congressman, 1843-1847.

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Daguerreotype collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10076

Date: between 1844 and 1852

Author: Mathew Brady

1836: Joseph Colville Vance was one of the early Governors of State of Ohio in 1836.[39] Joseph Coleville Vance is the compilers 2nd cousin, 7 times removed.

In 1836 Robert Lucas was succeeded as governor of Ohio by Joseph Vance, who became the state’s thirteenth executive. Vance was born in Catfish, now Washington, Pennsylvania, on March 21, 1786.

In 1836 Vance accepted the nomination for governor and was elected in the first Whig victory in the state. As governor, Vance gave substantial support to the public school system, advocating that federal surplus funds be used for the schools, and he urged the completion of the canals then under construction. He favored the recharter of the United States Bank, and he urged the abolition of capital punishment. Governor Vance was a forceful and capable executive, but he lost his popularity with the antislavery people of the state by the extradition of John B. Mahan, wanted in Kentucky for aiding the escape of two slaves. This action probably contributed more than any other one cause to his defeat for reelection in 1838, when he lost to the Democratic candidate, Wilson Shannon.

During Vances administration there occurred an abortive rebellion in Canada in which a number of Ohioans, gathered in so-called Hunters’, or Patrots’, Lodges, attempted to take part. Though severely critical of their actions, Vance did not believe that he had any authority to interfere, though he promised the secretary of state and the army commander at Detroit to do all in his power to prevent the removal of arms belonging to the state militia.[40]

March 21, 1793: March Connell. Zachariah Connell[41]. (1741-1813). Born near Winchester, VA to James and Ann Williams Connell. When he came to what is now the Fayette County area around 1770, the area was claimed by both VA and PA. He worked as a surveyor and land agent for VA, MD, and PA. He was a captain in the militia during the Revolutionary War and served in William Perry’s frontier ranger unit 1778-1783. After the war, he returned to surveying and laid-out 180 quarter-acre lots for which he obtained a charter leading to the founding of Connellsville on March 21, 1793.



Zachariah Connell. Grave stone and marker. East Francis Avenue near East Crawford Avenue (marker is on East Francis - grave is 100 feet up the hill). Connellsville, Fayette County. Photo by compiler with Joyce Chandler.



Enlarged photo - grave Enlarged photo -stone.

As an indication of his widely known benevolence, Connell made available for public use his stone quarry, wood lots, coal bank, and other assets. The town has come a long way from when Connell first surveyed the area and referred to it as “Mud Island.”[42]

March 21, 1793

In 1793 the town of Connellsville was laid out and chartered by Mr. Connell, who perceived that though there were but very few inhabitants in the place, it was destined to become a point of importance, because it was here that emigrants and travelers to the West (of whom there were already great numbers in transit, coming over the road from Bedford by way of Turkey Foot)[43] reached a boatable point on the Youghiogheny River. Here, for several years, boats had been built by emigrants and others to take their merchandise and other movables down by water carriage, and here he thought was a place where a thriving village would naturally spring up. Succeeding years bore witness to the soundness of his calculations, though for more than a decade after the laying out of the town its growth was slow.

The charter, executed by Mr. Connell, March 21, 1793, and recorded with the town plot in Book C, page 329, of the Fayette County records, is as follows:

Zachariah Connell, proprietor of the tract of land situate on the East side of Youghiogheni River, where the State Road from the north fork of Turkey foot intersects said river, To all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting, Whereas it is necessary that some provision be made at the place aforesaid for the reception and entertainment of Travelers, and as well to accommodate such Tradesmen and others inclinig to settle at or near said place, for their encouragement and better regulation, Has laid out a small Town at the aforesaid place by the name of Connellsville, agreeably to the plan hereunto annexed. And the said Zachariah Connell, for himself, his heirs, and assigns, doth grant that the streets and alleys of the said town shall forever continue as they are now laid out and regulated by the plan aforesaid, viz.:Spring Street or State Road, Sixty feet wide, and all the other streets forty feet wide, and Alleys twenty feet wide, and that the space left opposite the ferry and fronting on said River, as represented in the plan, and sitinguished by Public Ground, and Water Street, ashall be and continue free for the use of the Inhabitants of said Town, and for Travelers who may erect thereon temporary goar yards, or may from time to time oxcupy the same or any part thereof for making any vessels or other Conveniences for the purpose of conveying their property to or from said Town. And the said Zachariah Connell doth further promise and Conenant with the Inhabitaants of said Town and others who choose to frequent the same. That aall landings harbours, or other conveniences and advantages of said River opposite said twon or adjoining Water Street aforesaid shall be free to them at all times for the purpose of landing Timber, Stone, or other materials for building, or for the use of lading Vessels for removal of ther persons or property to any place whaterer. But the said Zachariah Connell reserves to himself, his heirs, and Assigtis all that piesce of Land situate between Water Street and the river, and extendingt form Roger’s Mill down to Spring Street or State Road, Provided always that noneof said Town or others shall at anytime erect a ferryboat for public use, or keep and maintain a Canor or other Vessel for the purpose of conveying any person or persons, thing or things, across said River other than their own families or their own property. And Provideing also as the privilege is joint than no person or persons, Company or Companies shall at any time or times hereafter occupy more of the margin of said River for the purpose aforesaid thann is absolutely necessary, accorking to the various changes and circumstances of the case, to the end that all foreigners as will as Citizens may be equally or proportionaltely advantaged thereby as their necessity require. And, whereas, there is near said Town, n the verge of said river an excellent Sone Coal Bank from which Coal may be conveniently conveyed by water along all the front of said Town, and also a Stone qualrry, where stone may be got for building, and the said Sachariah Connell being desirous of ginving all the encouragement and advantages that the nature of the dcase will admit of, consistanent with his own interest and safety, doth hereby grant unto the inhabitants of said town, their herrs, and assigns for ever, the free and full privilege of digging and removing form said Stone Coal Bank and Stone quarry to their habitation or p;lace of abode within said town only o any quantity of Coal and Stone necessary for their own particular use. And the said Zachariah Connel doth hereby grant to be surveyed and laid out for the se of the Inhabitants of said Town the timber and stone on one hundered acres of land adjacent thereto for buildintg, &c…And whereas there are sundry springs within the limits aforesaid, and the said Zachariah Connell being desirous that sas many of thei Inhabitants of said Town as possible may receive mutual advantange therefrom, doth give and grant unto the inhavitants of said town, and others traveling through said town, the common use and bendfit of said springs to be by them conveyed or conducted through all and every part of said town at their pleasure for their mutual convenience and advantage, reserving, nevertheless, to the owner of lots out of which the fountain issues the full privilege of erecting any house or other inhabitants for free access thereto at all tiemes. Ane provided the said house or other convenience will and shall not have a tendency to disturb aor affect the water flowing form said spring so as to render it disagreeable to the other inhabitants, and provided also that by said building or other convenience the inhabitants shall not be prevented form having access to the fountain for sinking pipes or conduits for the conveying of the water aforesaid and screening or secuing the same from filth or other injury, and whereas it is the desire of the said Zacharieh Connell that the inhabitants of said stown should be accommodeated with a commodious seat whereon to erect a house or houses for public worxhoip and school or schools, he for that purpose alone appropriates the lots Nos. 88, and 96 on said plan for said purpose,, free and clear of purchase money or ground rent, for e ver to the inhabitants of said twon, their heirs, and successors, to be held in common for the purpose aforesaid, or jointly, as the inhabitants may choose, and also a sufficient quantitiy of suitable ground convenient thereto, and not included in said town or in the one hundered acres aforesaid, no t exceeding an acre, for the purpose of a grave yard. And to preveint a misunderstanding of the grant made of the timber and stone on the hundred aces faforesaid, the said achariah Connell hereby declares that the said Timber and Stone shall be removed or prepared for removal before the sale of the land whereon it may be. Provided always that the said Zachariah Connell

Hereby reserves to himself, his heirs, or assigns the purchse money for each and ecery lot so laid off for sale, and an annual ground rent of half a dollar for each lot, The ground rent to be paid ft the said Zachariah Connell, his heirs, and assigns, at the town aforesaid, on the first day of May in easch and every year forever, and the said Zachariah doth hereby convenant with the inhabitants of said town that all moneys that shall become due and owningt unto him for ground rents for the space fo four years frin the date hereof ot be applied to raising a meeting house or meeting houses, and School or School houses on the aforesaid lots appropriated to thqat use. And whereas in lengh of time it may be convenitent for some of the inhaamitnqts of said town to have3 outlots for pasture, qand the asaid Zachariah Connell doth herevby grant to be surveyed and laid out for the use of the inhabitnants of said town the one hundred acres of land above mentioned adjacent to said town, in lots ofr not less than one adre nore exceedingt four acres each, subject to such purchase money as the parties may agree upon.

In winess wherof the said Zachariah Connell has hereunto set his hand and affixed his Seal, the twenty first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three Zachariah Connell.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of Jonathan Rowland, Alexander McClean.[44]

March 21, 1804: After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the "Napoleonic Code." The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.

In 1800, General Napoleon Bonaparte, as the new dictator of France, began the arduous task of revising France's outdated and muddled legal system. He established a special commission, led by J.J. Cambaceres, which met more than 80 times to discuss the revolutionary legal revisions, and Napoleon presided over nearly half of these sessions. In March 1804, the Napoleonic Code was finally approved.

It codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced. The laws were applied to all territories under Napoleon's control and were influential in several other European countries and in South America.[45]



Chicago in 1840.[46]

Mon. March 21[47], 1864

Went foraging – 30 loads of corn hogs
Turkeys and chickens
Had a good time rained in evening
Got plenty of sugar and molasses[48]

William Harrison Goodlove is the 2nd Great grandfather of Jeffery Lee Goodlove

March 21, 1864: Hodgkins, Anson R. Age 24, Residence Springville, nativity Wisconsin, Enlisted Aug. 8, 1862, as Fifth Sergeant. Mustered Sept. 3, 1862. Wounded May 16, 1863, Champions’s Hill, Miss. Promoted First Sergeant Sept. 10, 1863; Second Lieutenant March 21, 1864. Mustered out July 17, 1865, Savannah, Ga.[49]

March 21, 1864: the Iowans camped on Cane River at Monett's Ferry, having marched fourteen miles. Rigby recorded that the column moved "slowly & halted so often that it tired me more than the march the day before it was after 4 o'clock when we went into camp." A detail from the regiment was sent to help bridge the river which was completed by noon the following day. [40] [50]

March 21, 1865:

Sherman’s army, on its march from Savannah, entered Goldsboro, its chief objective, March 21, 1865.” [51]

March 21, 1872: Hildebrand, Sam ++ Quantrill Sirvived war
Killed March 21, 1872 at Pinckneyville, IL. [52]

March 21, 1878: Ransom Smith (b. March 21, 1878 in GA / d. July 27, 1963 in GA)[53]

Ransom Smith is the 6th cousin 5x removed of Jeffery Lee Goodlove

March 21, 1907

W. H. Goodlove was in Central City last Friday and made us a pleasant visit. He and Mrs. Goodlove recently arrived home from San Antonio, Texas where they had been spending the winter, and he had many interesting things to tell of that winter and health resort. He told us that his son-in-law, Dr. Gray, who with his family moved there several months ago on account of the Drs. health, is recovering rapidly and has great hopes of fully recovering. [54]

March 21, 1920: President Harding pushed Congress to limit immigration. Passage of this legislation would have a direct negative effect on Jewish immigration prior to and during World War II.[55]

Late March, 1920: Chalice returned to Buck Creek for several days in late March to visit with Grant and lend his support the consolidation effort. During the visit he delivered a “splendid sermon on service” before “a large crowd gathered at the church to hear their old pastor.” That same weekend the Castle Grove Council for Irish Independence held a mass meeting in the hall behind the Castle Grove Church launching a drive to raise funds to aid Ireland in its war of independence fromn Britain. The irony of this conjunction of events seems to have escaped observers at the time. While Buck Creek Methodists were busily attemting to oust Irish Catholic influent from the community, the Catholics in the area were mustering support to oust British Protestant influence from Ireland.[56]

March 21, 1924: Anne Avaline Smith (b. February 10, 1846 in GA / d. October 18, 1942 in GA)

More about Anne Smith
Anne married Henry D. Brock (b. March 8, 1835 in GA / d. March 21, 1924 in Carroll Co. GA) on January 7, 1892 in Carroll Co. GA.[57]

Anne Avaline Smith is the 5th cousin 6x removed of Jeffery Lee Goodlove

March 21, 1935: Max Gottlieb, born March 21, 1935 in Berlichingen. Resided Berlichingen. Deportation: from Westerbork, July 20, 1943, Sobibor. Date of Death: July 20, 1943, Sobibor.[58]

March 21, 1937: Pope Pius XI issues the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, a statement against racism and nationalism. [59]

March 21, 1939: A 24 hour strike protesting Great Britain’s latest plan to deal with the situation in Palestine was scheduled to come to and at 5 A.M. today. According to The National Council Of Palestine Jews, the plan would lead to the “liquidation of the Newish national home” and strangle Jewish settlement in Palestine.[60]

March 21, 1940: Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France. Reynaud would be the Prime Minister when the Germans would end the Phony War and come crashing through the Ardennes in May of 1940. Within six weeks, France would suffer a crushing military defeat. Reynaud was one of the leaders who wanted to continue the fight against the Nazis from France’s overseas colonies. He was overruled. To his credit, Reynaud refused to sign an Armistice with the Germans, a role that fell to the willing hands of Marshall Petain. Petain’s shameful behavior led to the active betrayal of the Jews of France by their non-Jewish countrymen.[61]

March 21, 1943: At Radom, Poland, Jewish physicians were removed from the ghetto and executed at nearby Szydlowiec.[62]

March 21, 1943: Eight members of the Jewish intelligentsia were taken from Piotrków, Poland, to a Jewish cemetery and shot, along with the cemetery's caretaker and his wife. The Germans engineer these killings to total ten, in a macabre reference to the biblical story of the hanged ten sons of the Jew-hating Haman--a crucial character in the Purim story.[63]

March 21, 1943: During the Jewish festival of Purim, 2300 Jews from Skopje, Yugoslavia, were deported to Auschwitz.[64]

March 21, 1944: Eichmann went to Hungary to oversee German interests in a country that was still hesitant about deporting its Jews. The Hungarians would soon capitulate to German demands. The Hungarian Arrow Cross would be an enthusiastic participant in the Nazis roundups.[65]

March 21, 1945: At the end of the “Flossenberg March,” the remaining survivors of the march were crammed into cattle cars over a three day period and awaited further transport. Many died of thirst. They were sent to Belsen. Only 200 of the original 1000 women survived the entire trip.[66]

March 21, 1945: Dozens of small concentration camps in Germany were liberated by the Red Army.[67]

March 21, 1945: Under repair at Hunters Point November 17,1944– February 9 1945 and in training off Hawaii February 15,– March 3, Morrison missed the Iwo Jima invasion with her squadron but on March 21, returned to Ulithi. [68]

Uncle Howard Snell was on board the Morrison.

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[7] ]4] Tracing Your Jewish DNA for Family History and Ancestry, by Anne Hart, pg 19.


[8] [3] www.wikipedia.com




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[14] http://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam17.html


[15] M E M O I R S OF C LAN F I N G O N BY REV. DONALD D. MACKINNON, M.A. Circa 1888


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[21] http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1340&endyear=1349


[22] http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1492


[23] PIONEERS ON THE BULLSKIN, THE STEPHENSON STORY by Mignon Larche, 1960 R929.2 S837- Times-Echo Publishing Co., Eureka Springs ,Arkansas'--


[24] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 72-73.


[25] http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Tawna-L-Brown-TX/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0001.html


[26] The will of Richard Stephenson, Sr., in 1765, put into effect, an old southern and very interesting custom. When an aged parent, of a family dies, the youngest son (or child), falls heir to the home place; and there continues to live with the custody and care of the aged mother or father. Here, we understand the youngest son, Marquis, inherited the home place, under these conditions; where his mother, Honor (widow Crawford) Stephenson lived until her death.

From River Clyde to Tmochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969 page 73.


[27] The statement that Richard Stephenson was very sick and weak in body, coupled with the dates herein is proof enough that he was suffering from failing health. His will may have been made at his home on the Bullskin, as of March 21st 1765 and certainly his passing was not too far distant.

From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 58.




[28] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969. pp. 70-72. Frederick County, Virginia. Will Book 3, 1761 — 1770. page 288.


[29] Washington’s Journal, From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 108.


[30] The Field Museum, March 21, 1770, Photo by Jeff Goodlove.


[31] http://www.twoop.com/medicine/archives/2005/10/bubonic_plague.html


[32] http://www.timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=521&title=Drought


[33] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


[34] [1] MARRIAGES & MARRIAGE EVIDENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CHURCHES

SCHLOSSER’S REFORMED CHURCH 1765-1846 Also called Union Reformed Church. Unionville North Whitehall twn., Lehigh Co. Part 8, Roll 136—137. Second item on film. Copied 1938.


[35] [2] Pennsylvania German Marriages compiled by Donna R. Irish pg 328


[36] http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924017918735/cu31924017918735_djvu.txt


[37] London’s Indian Wars, Vol. 1, pp. 54, 55 Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield


[38] The Ohio Historical Society, S. Winifred Smith, ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment….


[39] The Vance Family of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Tennessee, The Brank Family of North Carolina and Kentucky Pg 23.\


[40] The Ohio Historical Society, S. Winifred Smith, ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment….


[41] Zachariah Connell, the founder of the town of Connellsville, came here a few years later than the settlement of William McCormick, whose brother-in-law he was, having married Mrs. McCormick’s sister, Ann Crawford. He came to this section of country soon after 1770, and stopped at the house of his future father-in-law, Capt. (afterwards Colonel) William Crawford. After his marriage, which was probably in 1773, he lived for some time on the west side of the river, but afterwards, at a time which cannot be exactly fixed (between 1773 and 1778), moved to the east side of the stream and located on a tract of land which was designated in his warrant of survey as “Mud Island,” which included the present site of the borough of Connellsville. He built his log cabin facing the river, on or very near the spot where the Trans-Allegheny House now stands, on Water Street. There he lived for many years, until he removed to the stone house which he had built at the corner of Grave Street and Hill Alley. After the death of his wife, Ann Crawford, he married a Miss Wallace, a sister of “Aunt Jenny” Wallace, who was long and well known in later years as the keeper of the toll-bridge across the Youghiogheny River. The later years of Mr. Connell’s life were devoted to the care of his real estate. He became an ardent Methodist, and donated the lot on which the church of that denomination was built. He died in his stone house on Grave Street, Aug. 26, 1813, aged seventy-two years, and was buried near the residence of John Freeman, where his remains still rest near those of his two wives, and where a broken slab marks the last resting-place of the founder of Connellsville. By his first wife Mr. Connell was the father of four children, of whom two were sons,—Hiram and John. The former lived and died in Connellsville, the latter removed to the West. Of the two daughters, one married William Page, who became a Methodist preacher, and removed with his wife to Adams County, Ohio, about 1810. The other married Greensbury Jones, an exhorter, and emigrated with him to the West. The second wife of Mr. Connell became the mother of two daughters, who respectively became the wives of Joseph and Wesley Phillips, sons of John Phillips, of Uniontown.

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[42] http://www.thelittlelist.net/coatocus.htm


[43] In its post-Revolutionary War heyday, the Turkey Foot Road was important enough to be depicted as a principal route on state maps. As such, it facilitated settlement in what was then considered the west, and served the transportation needs of those living near it. Portions became nineteenth century stage and toll roads. The route also facilitated early industrial and mining development in Mount Savage and Barrelville, Maryland in the days before the Mount Savage Railroad.

[44] History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, by Franklin Ellis, 1882.


[45] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleonic-code-approved-in-france


[46] The Field Museum, Chicago, March 21, 2010.


[47] The night of March 21, which was cold and rainy, A. J. Mower led the brigades of Hubbard and Hill with Lucas’ cavalry brigade and the 9th Ind. Btry. In an envelopment that surprised ad captured abut 250 men and Edgar’s four guns. This action is known as Henderson’s Hill or Bayou Rapides. At Natchitodoches, Taylor halted to await the reinforcemtns Kirby Smith had ordered from Texas (a cavalry division) and Arkansas (two infantry divisions). http:www.civilwarhome.com/redrivercampaign.htm


[48] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove


[49] http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil508.htm


[50] Letter, WTR to father April 2, 1864.


[51] Street sign, 581 West Ash Street, in Goldsboro


[52] http://penningtons.tripod.com/roster.htm


[53] Proposed Descendants of William Smith.


[54] Winton Goodlove papers.


[55] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


[56] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 182-183’.


[57] Proposed Descendants of William Smith


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[59] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page1760.


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