This Day in Goodlove History, April 15

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This Day in Goodlove History, April 15

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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.

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April 15, 69: - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy. [1]

April 15, 1191: Coronation of Henry VI as Holy Roman Emperor during whose reign anti-Semitic riots took place stretching from the districts along the Rhine all the way to Vienna. Ephraim Ben Jacob of Bonn was one of the leading Talmudist during this period.[2]

April 15, 1250: Pope Innocent III refused the Jews of Cordova permission to build a synagogue.[3]



1251: Ottokar Margrave of Moravia son of King Wenceslas I elected Duke of Austria, Portugal seizes Algarve, Kublai Khan becomes Governor of China, farmer and shepherd revolt in France and England. [4]

April 15, 1402: Pope Boniface IX granted "liberal privileges" to the Jews of Rome.[5]

April 15, 1452: Birthdate of Leonardo Di Vinci. Di Vinci painted what, according to some, was the most famous Seder ever held - The Last Supper.[6]

April 15, 1715: The Yamassee Indians attack and kill several hundred Carolina settlers.[7] The Yamasee War, a two year conflict in which Native Americans tried to drive the colonial settlers out of South Carolina, began today. [8] 1715–1717 – The time of the Yamasee War, in which the Cherokee began as allies of the various Indian groups (primarily the Yamasee, Catawba, and Lower Muscogee), in attacking South Carolina colonists. They switched sides and contributed to the defeat of their former allies.[9] At the outbreak of the war Jews had already begun settling in the colony. The original constitution of South Carolina which had been written by John Locke in 1669 granted liberty to “Jews, Heathens and Dissenters.” Simon Valentine is the first Jewish settler whose presence can be officially confirmed. A resident of Charleston, he served as an interpreter for Governor Archdale. There must have been more Jews living there since “as early as 1703 protest was raised against "Jew strangers" voting in the election of members to the Common House of Assembly.”[10]

April 15, 1746

In the following year, after the disastrous retreat in the depths of winter, the victory of Falkirk, and the rout of the Scoto-English of winter, the victory of Falkirk, and the rout of the Scoto-English army at Moy, Lord George Murray assembled the principal officers of the army, amongst whom is mentioned the chief of MacKinnon, at Tain, on 15th of April, in presence of the Prince, and decided upon those operations which terminated in the fatal field of Culloden. ‘

After the battle, some 1,200 fugitives, amongst whom were the Mackinnons directed the the talen and animated b the spirit, of Lord George Murray, retreated in fair order to Ruthven.

We now come to the most interesting feature of the whose campaign, the wanderings of Prince Charlie for five months amidst the wilds of the Highlands, until he finally effected his escape to France to the eternal credit of those faithful adherents of the Stuart cause be it said that although a reward of 30,000 pounds was set upon the head of the Prince, and although his places of concealment were known to between two hundred and three hundred poor peasants during the vicissitudes of his wanderings, not one was found base enough to betray his trust. The MacKinnons, I am proud to record, bore a prominent part in the arrangements for his escape as soon as he reached the confines of their country.

Malcolm Macleod took the Prince, at his own request, Ellagol, near Kilmaree, in MacKinnon’s country. As day dawned they met two of the MacKinnon clan who had been engaged in the insurrection.

Malcolm now conducted the Prince to the house of his brother in law, John MacKinnon, who had served as a captain in the Highland army. MacKinnon, who had served as a cap[tain in the Highland army. MacKinnon happened not to be at home, but the travelers were warmly received by his wife, Charles being passed off as a certain Lewie Caw, the son of a surgeon in Crieff who had been engaged in the Rising, and was now known to be lying perdu among his relations in Skye. Mrs MacKinnon expressed much concern at the condition of her brother Malcom’s companion, and observed that she saw something very uncommon ahout him (as Lewie Caw). “Poor man,” she said, “I pity him; at the same time my heart warms to a man of his appearance.” That night, while Mrs Mackinnon (who had now been taken into confidence) kept watch on the top of a neighbouring hill, Charles, instead of resting, was found by Malcolm, on awaking, seated in the next room dandling and singing to Mrs Mackinnon;s infant, with an old woman looking on. “Who knows,” said Charles, “but the little fellow may be a captain in my service yet?” “You mean,” indignantly replied the old woman, who was not in the secret, “that you may possibly be an old sergeant in his company!”

Both Malcolm and the Prince were anxious that the Laird of MacKinnon should not know the secret, because, “though he be a mighty, honesty, stout, good man,” yet through his old age and the infirmities attending it, they thought he was not so well cut out for the difficulties of the Prince’s present situation. Malcolm, however soon yielded to the contrary opinion expressed by John MacKinnon, who, in the meantime, had returned home; but the Prince, ever suspicious of his best friends as he was ever confident in his worst, took a great deal of persuasion, both from John and Malcolm, before he would yield himself entirely to old MacKinnon, who, Malcolm said, would be very careful of him and exceeding true and firm to his trust.

In the course of the day, however, the old chief of MacKinnon was informed that the Prine was in his neighbourhood. At once he hastened to pay his respect. Mackinnon recommended Charles to proceed to the mainland under his guidance that very night, as the militia scouts were especially active in his country of Strath, and every moment was of importance. Charles and his companions landed at 4 a.m. near a place called Little Mallack, o the southern side of Loch Nevis. But the change was not for the better. The militia were quartered in the immediate neighbourhood, and it thus became most dangerous for the Prince and his friends to attempt to penetrate into the interior. For three days they remained at the spot where they had first landed, without fire or shelter, not daring to move. On the fourth day, they entered their boat, and coasted along the broken shores of Loch Nevis, in the hope of finding some cave which would protect them from the inclemency of the weather.

Steering round one of the petty promontories of the Lock, they against a boat moored to a rock, and the next moment saw five men standing on the shore whose

Bonnets, marked with a red cross, proclaimed them to belong to the militia. Charles was fortunately lying at the bottom of the boat taking his rest, with the plaid of MacKinnon thrown over him. They hesitated for a moment on their oars, and were almost immediately perceived. “Where do you come from?” Cried the militia men. “From Sleat,” answered MacKinnon; and no sooner was the word given than the watermen settled down to their work, and rowed rapidly along the Loch. But the militia men were not to be thus cheated. Like lightning they leaped into their boat, cast loose the painter, and in another minute were in full chase. For the first fifteen minutes the pursuit was keen and they perceptibly gained on the fugitives; but, nothing daunted, the oarsmen of the Prince bent bravely to their oars, and their superior skill began at length to tell, so that before another fifteen minutes had elapsed, they had the satisfaction of finding themselves draw gradually and then rapidly away, and coming to a part of the Loch where the firs and underwood grew thick down to the water’s edge, they shot their boat into the covert and hid themselves from the foe. Charles landed and ran up a hill from whence he perceived the discomfited milita men returning from their fruitless pursuit.

Escorted by the MacKinnons, Charles now made his way towards Borrodaile, the seat of Angus MacDonald. Here, as the aid of his two faithful friends was now superfluous, and as it was unwise to accumulate in large numbers lest the attention of the enemy be attracted, the Prince bade them farewell, and placed himself unreservedly in the hands of his new protector. On the very next day, July 18th, however, the news of the capture of MacKinnon reached him, and Donald Cameron of Glenpean removed him from Borrodaile for greater secutity and took him to the braes of Glenmoriston and Strathglass, a few miles further eastward, where the famous “Seven men of Glenoriston,” Patrick Grant, John and Alexander Macdonell, Alexander, Donald and Hugh Chisholm, and Grigor Macgregor, preserved him in an inaccessible cave for three weeks till he joined Cameron of Lochiel and MacPherson of Clunyu at the “Cage” on Mount Benalder in the wilds of Badenoch; and with them, young Clanranald, John Roy Stuart, other chieftains, and one hundred and seven common men, embarked in Loch Nanuagh on board a French man-of-war which, with another, was sent expressly for his deliverance.

The chief of MacKinnon was taken prisoner in MacKonald of Morar’s house the day after parting with Charles. For a year he was a prisoner at Tilbury Fort and in the Tower of London, and was one among eighty principal Highlanders who had been attainted and were excepted from the act of indemnity passed in June 1747. On being tried for his life, however, at the close of that year, he obtained a pardon, in consideration of his advanced years and of the spirit of chivalry rather than of rebellion which he evinced, and Sir Dudley Ryder, the Attorney General, pronounced his release. As he was about to leave the court the Judge called him back, saying, “Tell me, if Prince Charles were again in your power, what would you do?” The stout old Highlander replied, with very marked emphasis, “I would do to the Prince as you have done this day to me. I would send him back to his own country.”

The death of the old chief was thus noticed in the journals of the time: “May 7, 1756. Died at his house of Kilmorie, in the Isle of Skye, John MacKinnon of that ilk, i.e. the old Laird of MacKinnon, in 75th year of his age, leaving issue two sons and a daughter, all born after 71st year of his age.”

For the remainder of the century, few events in connection with the family are chronicled; the little property left to them in Skye was purchased in 1765 by the Trustees of the great and good Sir James MacDonald then a minor, from the Trustees of MacKinnon of MacKinnon when a minor also.[11]

John MacKinnon is the 6th great grandfather of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.

April 15, 1752: Finley, Samuel. General Samuel Finley had a varied career. He was born April 15, 1752. He was educated by his uncle, Dr. Samuel Finley, who was a Presbyterian minister, born in Ireland. He taught an academy at Nottingham, Maryland, until 1765, when he was elected President of Princeton College. He died in 1766, when his nephew, Samuel, was only fourteen. At the time of the Revolution Samuel Finley was a clerk in a store in Martinsburg kept by Capt. Charles Morrow. In 1775 Finley enlisted as a sergeant in Capt. H. Stephenson's company. In 1776 he re-enlisted as first lieutenant in Captain Shepherd's company. On the fatal day of the battle around Fort Washington, often called the battle of King's Bridge, Finley commanded Captain Shepherd's company. He was taken prisoner and confined on Long Island for four years. He was exchanged in November 1780, with Capt. Henry Bedinger, Capt. Nat. Pendleton and others. These three young officers purchased a horse on which they rode, alternately, back to Virginia. Afterwards he served in a cavalry regiment, and rose to the rank of major. After the war he moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he had a great deal of property. He was paid for his services by land in Ohio. In the war of 1812 he commanded a troop of horse against the Indians of the border. He died in Philadelphia, April 2, 1829.[12]

Hugh Stephenson is the half 6th great grand uncle of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.

April 15, 1756: Capt John Ashby wrote from his fort (April 15) that 400 Indians had demanded full surrender of his fort; 1500 had gone to Fort Cumberland and 2000 to the Juniata. The letter, an extract of which is printed in Hamilton’s Letters to Washington, vol. 1. p. 221, was written to Col. Henry Van Meter.[13]



No. 7.—William CRAWFORD TO George Washington.

SPRING GARDEN, April 15, 1771.

SIR :—I received yours of March 11th, and I am much surprised at Mr. Brooks’ behavior in regard to that land.

He never had the least claim or pretensions to the Meadows that I ever heard of. Mr. Harrison made use of the name Of “Wm. Brooks,” expecting that Wm. Brooks, his son-in-law, would do him the favor to give him an assignment at any time; but, as Mr. Harrison has got a permit, there was no occasion for an assignment, or for an or­der of survey; for any surveyor would have surveyed the land on the permit and returned it into the office, which would have been accepted, while any order of survey that he could have got would not do. Inclosed you have a bond from Mr. Harrison for settling the matter and making good the title. He says if you want it done, it shall be returned in your own name as soon as the survey is completed. He will settle all disputes in regard to it.

There is one William Brooks here who has agreed to sign the bill of sale, which is sufficient; as any man of that name will do as well as he, he having no claim or right more than any other man of that name. Mr. Harrison says it is all he can do at present. Anything more that is requested he will do if required; and if not, the bargain niust be void, and he have his papers again; as he can sell it immediately to several people who will pay no regard to Brooks’ claim—looking upon it as worth nothing.

As the bearer, Moses Crawford,[14] is obliged to go off immediately, I shall refrain from giving a full account of my proceedings here for a few days longer; as I shall have another opportunity soon, and then will give you as full an account as I am able. I am, etc.[15]

published in The Public Advertiser, a British newspaper, on April 15, 1774.

Franklin's tongue-in-cheek letter suggested that the British impose martial law upon the colonies and appoint a "King's Viceroy of all North America." Franklin satirically went on to suggest that such centralized power over "Yankee Doodles," who had "degenerated to such a Degree" from their British ancestors, "that one born in Britain is equal to twenty Americans," would allow the crown to collect its taxes, then sell their impoverished colonies and colonists to Spain.

Smyrna Coffee House on St. James Street in London had been a meeting place of Whigs, or political liberals, since the 17th century. For Franklin to sign a letter drafted at Smyrna's "A Friend of Military Government" was an obvious use of irony. The details of his purported plan for a military government, including the exclusive use of military courts in colonies known for their commitment to trial by jury, and "One Hundred to a Thousand Lashes in a frosty Morning" for offenders made Franklin s disdain for Lord North and his heavy-handed tactics clear.

In fact, Franklin's letter proved prophetic when Lord North imposed martial law on Massachusetts the next month with the passage of the Massachusetts Government Act. General Thomas Gage received the appointment to institute the military government as the colony's royal governor. Franklin had snidely suggested in his treatise, "that great Commander G-----l G----e" could take but a few men and "so intimidate the Americans that the General might march through the whole Continent of North America, and would have little else to do but to accept of the Submission of several Towns as he passed."

Franklin, of course, found his own suggestions laughable. North, however, seemed to find such a scheme practicable, and pursued it at the cost of many lives and, eventually, Britain's 13 colonies.[16]

April 15th, 1775

Left Mr. Crawford’s in company with Captn. Douglas. Crossed Jacob’s Creek and Saweekly Creek. Got to Mr. John De Camp’s. Land very rich and level. [17]



Fort Henry, April 15, 1781



Friday, April 01, 2005 (3)[18]

William Crawford is the 6th great grandfather of Jeffery Lee Goodlove

April 15, 1783: On this day in 1783, the Continental Congress of the United States officially ratifies the preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain that was signed in November 1782. The congressional move brings the nascent nation one step closer to the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.

Five months later, on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France, officially bringing an end to the Revolutionary War. It also formalized Great Britain's recognition of America's independence.

The treaty established the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the new United States; allowed U.S. fishermen to troll the waters off Newfoundland, Canada; recognized the legitimacy of pre-war debts owed by Americans and Britons; and promised to reunite American Loyalists with property seized from them during the war. The American and Britons were satisfied with the agreement. However, western Indians who had allied themselves to Britain discovered that their land had been handed over by the British to the Americans without consultation or compensation. As they had neither lost their battles nor negotiated a treaty with the Americans, they continued to fight until 1795. Spain assisted southern Indians as they fought to protect their land from encroaching Georgians.

North of the Ohio Valley, the British maintained their forts at Niagara and Detroit, despite their promise to withdraw in the Treaty of Paris. They argued that Americans had breached the treaty by failing to return Loyalist property and pay British creditors as promised. American willingness to trade with revolutionary France further angered the British, and increased their promises of British aid to aggrieved Indians. The British only retreated from the Northwest Territory following the negotiation of the controversial Jay treat with Britain, which was ratified in 1795.[19]

April 15, 1861: Declaring a state of “insurrection,” President Lincoln issues a call for 75,000 volunteers for three months service.[20]

Fri. April 15, 1864

Wrote letter home. In camp drawn up in line of battle at noon false alarm.

Fell very lazy received a letter from home no 7 at 10 oclock at night[21]

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

April 15, 1864: On 24 of March Banks arrived at Alexandria in person, and two days later the contingent from the Dept. of the Gulf reached that area. His column was composed of Ransom’s XIII Corps (3d Div. of R. A. Cameron, and 4th Div. of W. J. Landram(; W. B. Franklin’s XIX Corps (1st and 2d divisions W. W. Emory and Cuvier Grover); Albert Lee’s cavalry division; and four infantry regiments of Negro troops (75rd?, 75th, 84th, and 92nd U.S. U.S.C.T.) There were 13 batteries of artillery with the Gulf troops, and none with A. J Smith’s corps. All of the infantry divisions had only two brigads, with the exception of Lynch’s and Emory’s, which had three each. Banks found his further passage endangered by low water that made it only barely possible for the fleet to pass the double rapids just above Alexandria. He also learned that A. J. Smith’s contigent would have to be returned no later than April 15th to participate in the Atlanta campaign. Despite these restrictions and his slow start, Banks ordered an advance on Shreveport.



April 15, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from an assassin’s bullet. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington the night before, Lincoln lived for nine hours before succumbing to the severe head wound he sustained.

Lincoln’s death came just after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lincoln had just served the most difficult presidency in history, successfully leading the country through civil war. His job was exhausting and overwhelming at times. He had to manage a tremendous military effort, deal with diverse opinions in his own Republican party, counter his Democratic critics, maintain morale on the northern home front, and keep foreign countries such as France and Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy. He did all of this, and changed American history when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, converting the war goal from reunion of the nation to a crusade to end slavery.

Now, the great man was dead. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said, “Now, he belongs to the ages.” Word spread quickly across the nation, stunning a people who were still celebrating the Union victory. Troops in the field wept, as did General Ulysses S. Grant, the overall Union commander. Perhaps no group was more grief stricken than the freed slaves. Although abolitionists considered Lincoln slow in moving against slavery, many freedmen saw “Father Abraham” as their savior. They faced an uncertain world, and now had lost their most powerful proponent.

Lincoln’s funeral was held on April 19, before a funeral train carried his body back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. During the two-week journey, hundreds of thousands gathered along the railroad tracks to pay their respects, and the casket was unloaded for public viewing at several stops. He and his son, Willie, who died in the White House of typhoid fever in 1862, were interred on May 4.[22]

April 15, 1872 – The Going Snake Massacre takes place in Tahlequah, Cherokee nation.[23]

April 15, 1881: On board Convoy 48 was Fernande Gottlieb born June 25, 1909 from Paris, France, Meyer Gottlieb born April 15, 1881 from Paris, France, and Rosa Gottlieb, born April 20, 1881, from Paris, France.

The routine telex to Eichmann and to Auschwitz was sent on February 13 by Rothke, informing its recipients that on the same day, at 10:10 AM, a convoy of 1,000 Jews left the station at Le Bourget/Drancy for Auschwitz, with Lieutenant Nowak at the helm of the escort. A note by Rothke dated February 16 (XXVc-207) indicated that the convoy had to leave with German forces, but that in spite of their hyesitations, the French police did cooperate in the end when the train was embarking.

There were eight successful escapes from this convoy before the border; and official reports were made on the subject (XXVc-206, 208, 219, 237, and 238. They were also the subject of studies by A. Rutkowski (“Le Mond Juif”: No. 73; January/March 1974; pp. 10-29; and La lute des Juifs en France: pp. 150-59).

Convoy 48 arrived in Auschwitz on February 15. One hundred forty four men were selected and received numbers 102350 through 102492. One hundred sixty seven women received numbers 35357 through 35523. The rest of the convoy was immediately gassed.

In 1945 there were 17 survivors from among the 311 selected. One was a woman.[24]





April 15, 1893: The gold reserve falls below $100 million, causing runs on the Federal Treasury.[25]



April 15, 1897: Carter Harrison Jr terms as Mayor of Chicago Inauguration: 1st term: April 15, 1897.



Carter Harrison Jr. is the 9th cousin 4x removed of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.



April 15, 1900: From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Saturday, October 7, 2000.

"ANAMOSA

Ruth G. Johnson, 100, of San Antonio, Texas, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000. Memorial services were held on Sept. 25 in San Pedro Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, with private burial at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio.

Survivors include four daughters, Marie Helen Sargent, Margaret S. Barnes, Sylvia S. "Susie" Moore and Norma S. Benson; a son, C. G. "Pat" Sargent; two stepdaughters, Lucille J Whiteturkey and Helen J. Woltersdorf; a stepson, Louis E. "Sonny" Johnson; 26 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Richard Hardy Gray and Dr. Nettie I. Goodlove Gray; a brother, Richard Harrison Gray; her husband, Louis J. Johnson; and a stepdaughter, Ruth J. Daffin.

Ruth was born on April 15, 1900, in Anamosa.

Memorial contributions may be made to the San Antonio Garden Center, 3310 N. New Braunfels, San Antonio, Texas 78209, or to The American Heart Association, San Antonio Division, PO Box 29306, San Antonio, Texas, 78229, or to a charity of your choice."



Regarding Ruth's brother, Richard Harrison Gray. Clippings in Myrtie Andrews Goodlove's scapbook shows he died as a child of a sudden illness while the family was visiting Central City. He is buried at Jordan's Grove Cemetery.



I have a very poor copy of Ruth's parents' business card. Richard is listed in the upper left corner as "R. H. Gray, M. D."; Nettie is listed in the upper right corner as "Nettie O. Gray, M. D."



The center of the card in an arched script read "DOCTORS GRAY", and beneath that in a smaller type "HOMOEOPATHISTS".



The bottom right corner reads "Anamosa, Ia., .............................. 189 "



As ever,



Linda



Ruth Gray Johnson is the 1st cousin 2x removed of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.



April 15, 1902: William T. Rigby;
Born in Red Oak Grove, Iowa, on November 3, 1841. He was appointed 2d Lieutenant in Company B, 24th Iowa Infantry on September 18, 1862 and was promoted to captain on October 2, 1863. He was mustered out as a captain on July 17, 1865. After the war he entered Cornell College (Iowa). He was a farmer for a number of years and in 1895 was appointed Secretary of the Vicksburg National Military Park Commission on March 1 1899 and was subsequently elected Chairman on April 15, 1902. Rigby served in that capacity as the 1st resident commissioner of Vicksburg National Military Park until his death in Vicksburg on May 10, 1929. Captain Rigby and his wife are intererred in the Vicksburg National Cemetery.[26]

April 15, 1913: The lantern slide lectures were their salvation. They were called “A Trip Around the World,” and were emphasized foreign missions. The lectures were well advertised, and tickets were printed. The sale of these, at fifty cents apiece, made it possible for the League to pay for the rental of the slides. Additional small fees and collections helped the Department of World Evangelism to make good.



ITALY

to

The BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR

See Gettysburg; Capture of Jeff Davis, etc.

April 15, 1913.



The League’s early efforts were not well rewarded: only twelve persons attended the first meeting. But the League kept faith and put on the finest programs it could, intil gradually there came a response. The effort did not reach those who were known as “outsiders,” however, for Buck Creek Church itself was not yet wide awake.[27]



April 15, 1917: Buck Creek in the National Spotlight: The lack of progress in getting a local consolidation movement under way in the Buck Creek area was surely a source of disappointment for Chalice and his more ardent followers. Professor Paul L. Vogt, Ph.D., National Superintendent of Rural Work in the Methodist Episcopal Church, had scheduled a visit to Buck Creek on April 15, 1917, as part of his effort to see fist hand “the best results of rural and village church work in all parts of the country.” Vogt had been informed of Chalice’s work and was collectiong information on this church’s successful efforts at revitalizing rural churches. A successful rural school consolidation movement lead by the Buck Creek Church would have bgee3n the crowning achievement in Chalice’s rural-revitalization project at Buck Creek.

Vogt arrived and spent several days visiting with Chalice, collecting some of the materials he wanted to include in a publication chronicling Chalic’s community building success in Buck Creek. Vogt did not appear disappointed, and when he spoke at the Sunday morning service in the Buck Creek Church, he congratulated the congregation for its ouitstanding work in solving the rural church problem. He also offered some suggestions for continued success, which givien his perspectives on rural sociology published in the same year, surely included rural school consolidation. [28]





April 15, 1941: In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people. During World War II, a number of Jewish children escaping from the Nazis, via the Kindertransport, reached and were housed in Millisle. The Millisle Refugee Farm (Magill’s farm, on the Woburn Road) and was founded by teenage pioneers from the Bachad movement. It took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.[29]



April 15, 1942:

1. Of interest is the weather broadcasting vessel fixed by shore RDF on April 15 in Latitude 44° 00' North, Longitude 162° 00' East - 500 miles from the Kurils,750 miles from the Aleutians and 1200 miles from Tokyo.

2. The Japanese surface patrol is particularly suited to their eastern sea frontier and is unquestionably effective. Were it equipped with radar, it would be made almost impenetrable with fewer units. In certain areas, a radar equipped small boat patrol would seem to have some advantage over long distance air patrols as we maintain them; primarily in that it is on station at the critical distance, night and day. Such a patrol might detect an attempted afternoon and night run in by a raiding force when an air patrol would not pick it up. Favorable areas in which we might use such a patrol are: Costa Rica - Galapagos - Ecuador, off southern California, off Cape Mendocino and off Vancouver Island. A combination of surface craft and aircraft patrol should reduce the number of aircraft now maintained in specific areas and thus make possible a wider distribution of the aircraft now available.

3. Although specific information is lacking, it is believed that the Japanese patrol craft are not armed with anything larger than machine guns. Therefore, if future bombing raids on Honshu, similar to this one, are planned it might be advantageous to send one or more of our submarines in advance of the raiding force to "soften", by destruction and dispersal, the enemy patrol in the 600 - 800 mile belt across its line of advance. At this distance it seems unlikely that the enemy would take strong anti-submarine measures.

4. A further suggestion is that two submarines, equipped with radio apparatus similar to that installed in aircraft and in carriers, might be disposed in a selected area and by conducting lost plane procedure effectively draw enemy forces away from the area from which an aircraft raiding attack might be launched. As a means of harassing the enemy, even though no actual aircraft raiding attack were planned by our forces, this employment of submarines seems to offer many possibilities.

5. All personnel, both ship and air group performed their duties in a highly creditable manner. No outstandingly meritorious, and on censurable conduct on the part of any individual was observed.

6. The efficiency of the ship and all munitions of war are satisfactory except for the performance of the F4F4's and the limited range of the TBS's, reported in separate correspondence.



G. D. MURRAY.

My uncle Howard Snell was on the Enterprise during the “Doolittle Raid”.

• April 15, 1944: Seventy Jews and ten Russians attempted to escape from the forests surrounding the two of Ponary. Lithuania. From July 1941 until July 1944, approximately 100,000 people (mainly Jews) were murdered in the forests surrounding Ponary a resort town in Lithuania. As the Red Army approached a group of 70 Jews and 10 Russians were given the task of burning all the bodies to cover up the mass murder. Realizing that at the end of their work they too would be killed they (over a period of three months) dug a tunnel 30 meters long with spoons. On the night of April 15 they escaped. Only 13 reached safety alive.[30] During an escape attempt from Poary, where they had been employed burning corpses, fifteen prisoners succeed in escaping and sixty-five others are killed.[31]

April 15, 1945



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Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Dwight D. Eisenhower.



April 15, 1945

President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt is buried. He led the country for 13 years. President Harry S. Truman had been Vice President for 82 days. [32]



April 15, 1945: British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp. The British soldiers were horror-stricken at the spectacle that greeted them. They found some 60,000 human beings alive under appalling conditions. Most of them were seriously ill. Alongside them were thousands of unburied corpses, strewn in every direction, and vast numbers of emaciated bodies in mass graves and piles. Because the British Army was not geared to treat everyone who needed assistance, 14,000 additional prisoners died in the first few days and a similar number perished in the following weeks. The British forces began to treat and rehabilitate the rest of the survivors.[33]



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April 15, 1971: Following post-overhaul sea trials in Puget Sound, Scamp was reassigned back to San Diego, as home port on February 12, 1971, but did not enter that port until April 15after a voyage to Pearl Harbor. [35] On board the Scamp is James Kirby who is the father in law of Jeffery Lee Goodlove.



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[1] http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/69


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


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


[4] mike@abcomputers.com


[5] This Day in Jewish History


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


[7] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


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


[9] Timeline of Cherokee Removal


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


[11] Clan MacKinnon compiled by Alan McNie, 1986, page 29.


[12] http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/revwar_bios.html


[13] The Writings of George Washington form the Original Manuscripts Sources, 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.


[14] Moses Crawford was a son of Valentine Crawford.


[15] The Washington-Crawford Letters, by C. W. Butterfield, 1877


[16] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/benjamin-franklin-publishes-an-open-letter-to-lord-north


[17] The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 pg. 64


[18] George Rogers Clark papers [microform] Microfilem 1070 reel 12 #387


[19] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-ratifies-peace-with-great-britain


[20] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


[21] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove


[22] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-dies-from-an-assassins-bullet


[23] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.


[24] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 377.


[25] On This Day In America by John Wagman.


[26] (Photo Album: First Commissioners, Vicksburg NMP.) http://www.nps.gov/vick/scenic/h people/pa 3comm.htm


[27] Buck Creek Parish, The Department of Rural Work of The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1919, page 3-4.


[28] There Goes the Neighborhood, by David R. Reynolds, page 170.


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


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


[31] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1778.


[32]WWII in HD 11/19/2009 History Channel


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


• [34] Hitler and the Occult, HISTI




[35] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.Skipjack-class submarine:


•Skipjack
•Scamp
•Scorpion
•Sculpin
•Shark
•Snook