This Day in Goodlove History, April 12, 2014

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Jeffery Lee Goodlove email address: Jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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), Jefferson, 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, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/index.html
The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

• • Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.

Birthdays on April 12…..
Samuel E. Crawford
May Godlove
Mary E. Harrison Brown
William P. HARRISON
Reginald E. Jenkins
James O. Kruse
Seward H. Smith
Chester F. Wesley
April 12, 70(15th of Nissan, 3830): According to some, the date on the civil calendar when Pesach is observed for the last time before the destruction of the Second Temple. The Roman siege of Jerusalem lasted for 134 days.

70 CE: Synagogue for the Followers of Jesus, Jerusalem.
April 12, 1533: The King's gratitude to Cromwell was expressed in a grant of the lordship of Romney in Newport in Wales and appointment to three relatively minor offices: Master of the Jewels on April 14, 1532, Clerk of the Hanaper on July 16, and Chancellor of the Exchequer on April 12, 1533. None of these offices afforded much income, but the grants were an indication of royal favour and gave Cromwell a position in three major institutions of government: the royal household, the Chancery, and the Exchequer.[1]
April 12, 1541: James and Mary had two sons. James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, was born 22 May 1540 at St Andrews. Robert was born and baptised on April 12, 1541, but both died on April 21, 1541, when James was nearly one year old and Robert was eight days old. Mary's mother Antoinette de Bourbon wrote that the couple was still young and should hope for more children. She thought a change of wet-nurse and over-feeding may not have helped.[18] The third and last child of the union was a daughter Mary, who was born on December 8, 1542. King James died six days later, making the infant Mary queen regnant of Scotland.
April 12, 1550: As part of the treaty, Mary's brother Claude, Marquis de Mayenne, was one of six French hostages sent to England.[31] After their father died on April 12, 1550, Claude was allowed to come to Scotland with a passport from Edward VI dated May 11.[32] Claude wrote from Edinburgh on May 18 that he would survey the fortifications of the realm.[33] After the Treaty was signed, Mary was able to travel to France to see her family.
April 12, 1554:— Mary of Guise is proclaimed Regent of Scotland. She then granted a general amnesty to the Protestants who had been banished, desiring to avail herself of the support of the leaders of that faction, in order to counterbalance the power of the Catholics, the sole support of Hamilton, whom she still feared. This toleration so increased the weight of the reformed party, that, in a very short time, it acquired a great power.

April 12, 1567: The Earl of Lennox, Darnley's father, formally accuses Bothwell of the murder of his son, and the April 12 is fixed for the trial of the accused.
April 12, 1567: The Court of Justiciary, whereof the Earl of Argyll is president, refuses to admit the protest of the Earl of Lennox, and rejects the proposal of adjournment, which had been made by one of the
judges. Nobody appearing to accuse Bothwell^ the jury returns a verdict in his favour.

Murray had left Edinburgh some days previously, to go to France.

By the end of February, Bothwell was generally believed to be guilty of Darnley's assassination.[125] Lennox, Darnley's father, demanded that Bothwell be tried before the Estates of Parliament, to which Mary agreed, but Lennox's request for a delay to gather evidence was denied. In the absence of Lennox, and with no evidence presented, Bothwell was acquitted after a seven-hour trial on April 12.[126] A week later, Bothwell managed to get more than two dozen lords and bishops to sign the Ainslie Tavern Bond, in which they agreed to support his aim to marry the queen.[127]
April 12, 1577: Birthdate of King Christian IV of Denmark. Christian reversed a prohibition against Jews living in Denmark that dated back to 1536. He gave permission to a Jewish merchant named Albert Dionis to settle in the newly founded city of Glückstadt. More Jews followed and in 1628 their rights were formally recognized. By the time Christian passed away in 1648, Jews could have their own cemeteries, hold religious services and enjoyed the protection of the civil law.
April 12, 1764: Former supporters of Chief Pontiac sign the Treaty of Presque Isle with the English.

April 12, 1769: William St. Clair obtained warrant for 100 acre tract in Elk Lick (then Cumberland
County84) April 12, 1769. He sold this tract to Peter Livengood in 1773. The site of the
Livengood homestead, is between Salisbury and St. Paul, and nearby is the old Indian
Trail and packers path, known as the Turkeyfoot Road. St. Clair had six acres of the tract
cleared in 1772 according to record in tax assessment file. The Commonwealth land
office records show that Peter Livengood obtained warrant for said tract under date
February 6, 1775, the date of survey is March 30, 1785, date of patent January 13, 1797, named―Liverpool,‖ area 156 acres.

April 12, 1776

The following bill of sale from Valentine Crawford to John Mintor will show how the business was usually done:
“Know all men by these presents, That I, Valentine Crawford, of the County of West Augusta, in Virginia, for and in consideration of the sum of fifty pounds, lawful money of Virginia, to me in hand paid by John Mintor, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, and myself therewith fully satisfied, have bargained and sold unto the said John Mintor a certain negro woman named Sall, which said negro woman I, the said Valentie Crawford, will forever warrant and defend to the said John Mintor, his heirs and assigns together with increase. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of April, 1776.

Then follow the signature of Crawford, the seal, and the acknowledgment.

April 12, 1776: North Carolina becomes the first Colony to propose independence from England.

April 12, 1777
During the night it rained heavily and in the darkness two ships, Stag and Lively, ran into
one another, which damaged them somewhat, but not seriously…
April 12, 1779: Spain entered the fight against England as France's ally, after the signing of the Treaty of Aranjuez on April 12, 1779.
Battle of Providien - April 12, 1782.

MOORE TO IRVINE.
“FORT PITT, April 12, 1782.

“At a board of officers of which Colonel Gibson is president,— to inquire and report their Opinion whether John Eels, an Indian, is guilty of an intention of making his escape to and joining the enemy, and trying to prevail on others to do the same, and also to report their Opinion whether it was not evrdently his intention to discover to the enemy the design of the party under Captain Springer, of which he was to have been one; the board reports to General Irvine as their opinion that John Eels, an Indian, is guilty of an intention of making his escape to and joining the enemy, and also trying to prevail on others to do the same. The board further reports it is their opinion that if he had gone off, Captain Springer and the party under his command must have been discovered and the desigu of the party. The board is of opinion that John Eels ought to suffer death as a traitor. The general confirms the opinion of the board, and directs that John Eels, an Indian, shall be shot to death this day at one o’clock at the foot of the gallows on the bank of the Alleghany river. The major of brigade will see this order executed. A party consisting of one subaltern, one sergeant, one corporal, one drum, one fife, and twenty rank and file, properly armed and accoutred will attend at the execution, to parade at half past twelve.”

“FORT PITT, April 12, 1782.
“Sir:— The nature of the service you go on is such that confining you by particular instructions might defeat the purpose intended.
“In general, however, I wish you to consider yonr command (on account of the smallness of your number) more in the light of an reconnoitering party than èalculated for offensive operations against the enemy. You will, therefore, proceed with great caution; your route first, for thirty or forty miles, inclining up the Alleghany river. Should you not discover any traces of an enemy on that route, you will proceed toward Sandosky, where you will use every prudent means in your power to gain intellegence of the strength and intentions of the enemy; whether any white men are among them; and whether they are regular British troops or refugees, or as they call themselves — “raiders?; “ who now commands at Detroit; what the strength of the garrison, or whether they have received, this spring, reenforcements of men, provisions, etc. The best mode, I think, of obtaining this end would, if practicable, be by capturing one or more white men.
“If you should discover such symptoms of bodies of the enemy being on their march, so large as to endanger any of our posts, or the settlements on the frontier of’ this country, you will either return or send me notice by one of your party o hum? you can confide in, as in your judgment the case may merit. Should you meet a smaller party than your own, I make no doubt you will give a good account of them, provided you can effect it without risk of frustrating your principal object. Given under my hand at Fort Pitt, this 12th day of April, 1782. “Wir. IRVINE, B. Gen’l.
“Captain URIAH SPRINGER.”



April 12, 1800
John Crawford’s records in the Ohio State Auditor’s office are as follows: Warrant No. 21, John Crawford (heir), 3666 acres. April 12, 1800, No. 664, 800 acres to Lucas Sullvant. Vol. 2. page 135.
April 12, 1825

Hon. Joseph Vance, Urbanna, Ohio, (2nd cousin, 7 times removed.
April 12, 1855: Carter Harrison III’s second wife who he married April 12, 1855 was his cousin Sophonisba Grayson Preston, the daughter of William Preston and Hebe Carter Grayson and 7th great granddaughter of Pocahontas.
April 12, 1861: Following the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Thomas Green Clemson left Maryland for South Carolina.
April 12, 1861: Civil War came on April 12, 1861 and for a short time, Quantrill joined General Sterling Price’s Army.

April 12-13, 1861
The newly formed confederacy commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard fires on Federal troops at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor. The Civil War had begun.

A request was made for provisions from the commander of Ft. Sumter, S.C. and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the seccessionists as an act of war.[122] On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on the Union troops at Fort Sumter, forced them to surrender and thus the war began.[123]
Historian Allan Nevins argued that Lincoln miscalculated in believing that he could preserve the Union[124],and future general William Tecumseh Sherman, then a civilian, visited Lincoln in the White House during inauguration week and was "sadly disappointed" at Lincoln's seeming failure to realize that "the country was sleeping on a volcano" and the South was "'preparing for war.'"[125] Donald concluded Lincoln fairly estimated the events leading to the initiation of war. "His repeated efforts to avoid collision in the months between inauguration and the firing on Ft. Sumter showed he adhered to his vow not to be the first to shed fraternal blood. But he also vowed not to surrender the forts. The only resolution of these contradictory positions was for the confederates to fire the first shot; they did just that."[126]

April 12, 1861: Some historians consider the Battle of Black Jack to be the first true battle of the American Civil War. The “official” event that is cited as the beginning of the war is the attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861.


The Robert Hall Pearson house near the battle site.
The site of the battle is located near U.S. Highway 56, about three miles (5 km) east of Baldwin City, and is near the designated area of the Robert Hall Pearson Memorial Park[1] by the state of Kansas in honor of one of Brown and Shore's fighters who gave a handwritten account of the battle. Signs are placed throughout the battlesite pointed out where the battle started and ended. Efforts are underway to preserve both the Pearson Memorial Park and the Ivan Boyd Prairie Preserve across the road.
In 1970, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Baldwin City, Baker University professor and playwright Don Mueller (not to be confused with the baseball player of the same name) and Phyllis E. Braun, Business Manager, produced a musical play entitled The Ballad Of Black Jack to tell the story of the events that led up to the battle. The Ballad Of Black Jack played as part of the city's Maple Leaf Festival from 1970-83 and again from 2001-05. It also played in nearby Lawrence in 1986 and in 2006 and 2007 as a part of Lawrence's Civil War On The Western Frontier program.
In 2012 the National Park Service decided to designate the battlefield a National Historic Landmark.[2][3]
April 12, 1863: The fleet joined that of General Quimby on the next day about five miles below Helena. There was great difficulty in obtaining serviceable vessels to convey the troops. Four companies under command of Capt. Henderson, of Company A, were put on board of a vessel which had had its smokestacks, wheelhouses and guards raked off in the
Pass. The pilot declared the craft unsafe and refused to go with her. After having been delayed several hours after the departure of the fleet, it was determined to man the boat from the troops on board. Accordingly Willis Vance, a private of Company G,volunteered as pilot, and the boat joined us on the morning of the 14th, having made the trip as soon as any of the fleet.
Tues. April 12, 1864:
Laid in camp all day cannonading from
Gun boats up the river 1000 more men came up the river quite hot

Rear Admiral David Porter
“The U.S. Civil War Out West” The History Channel

“The U.S. Civil War Out West” The History Channel

April 12, 1865: Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee Military offices
Preceded by
Henry Brewerton
Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
1852–55 Succeeded by
John Gross Barnard

Preceded by
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Commander, Army of Northern Virginia
June 1, 1862 – April 12, 1865 End of War
Preceded by
None, position was created with Lee's appointment General-in-Chief of the Confederate States Army
January 31, 1865 – April 12, 1865

Peil 12, 1865: In February 1865 a new exchange program was finally approved. Men at the Salisbury Prison were divided into two groups in order to be liberated. The largest group consisted of 3729 of the more able-bodied prisoners who were marched to Greensboro, North Carolina and then taken by train to Wilmington, North Carolina to be received by Confederate Major Robert F. Hoke. The second group, containing 1420 of the sickest prisoners was sent to Richmond. The Prison then became a supply depot, but it had no prisoners when on April 12, 1865 (3 days after Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox) Union General George Stoneman arrived in Salisbury to free the Federals. The Prison was burned, the only one recorded as having been destroyed in this manner. A confederate Government flag that once flew over the gates is now housed at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.

April 12, 1865
When the South surrendered, Ulysses S. Grant decided that there should be a formal laying down of arms. After three days of preparation, the ceremony took place at Appomattox Court House on April 12, 1865. One Federal soldier recounted a few of the “very witty things” that Lee’s men said as they gave up their guns. “If you kill as many Rebels as you killed Yanks, you will do very well,” remarked one to his weapon. Said another, “Good-bye gun; I am darned glad to get rid of you. I have been trying to for two years.”

April 12, 1865: Union forces commanded by Gerneral George Stonemen capture Salisbury, North Carolina, and take over 1700 Confederate priosoners.

April 12-13, 1865:
11,700 unknown Union soldiers are thought to be buried in 18 trenches, each 240 feet long, dug in an abandoned corn field outside the Confederate Prison stockades. Government records indicate about half that many. Salisbury National Cemetery encompassed this mass grave site, now a grassy expanse marked by a head and foot stone for each trench.
In the upper end of the stockade was a spring that supplied the water for the prison. The lower end of the stream was the latrine area. There were also trips made outside the prison to a nearby stream for fresh water. Unaware that bacteria could travel upstream, the rest is history.
General George Stoneman burned the prison buildings April 12-13, 1865

April 12, 1869
Hellen F. Goodlove


Birth: unknown
Death: Apr. 12, 1869


Note: aged 15y 28d

Burial:
Cost Cemetery
Quincy
Logan County
Ohio, USA

Created by: Robert "Rob" Weller
Record added: Jan 29, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 17735983



Cemetery Photo
Added by: Amber N






April 12, 1869: William Preston Harrison was born April 12, 1869.
April 12, 1879: Richard Taylor (general)
Lieutenant-General
Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor
photo taken between 1860 and 1870
Born January 27, 1826
present-day St. Matthews, Kentucky

Died April 12, 1879 (aged 53)
New York City, New York

Place of burial Metairie Cemetery
New Orleans, Louisiana

Allegiance United States of America
Confederate States of America


Richard Taylor (January 27, 1826 – April 12, 1879) was an American plantation owner, politician, military historian and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He was the son of Zachary Taylor, a general in the United States Army and later President of the United States, and his wife Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Taylor joined the Confederate States Army, serving first as a brigade commander in Virginia, and later as an army commander in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.
April 12, 1899: Abraham Baer Gottlober was a Russian-Hebrew poet and author; born at Starokonstantinov, Volhynia, January 14, 1811; died at Byelostok April 12, 1899. His father was a cantor who sympathized with the progressive movement, and young Gottlober was educated in that spirit to the extent of receiving instruction in Biblical and modern Hebrew as an addition to the usual Talmudical studies.
April 12, 1899
Abraham Baer Gottlober then settled in Dubno with his son-in-law, Bornstein, who was the official rabbi of that town. Thence he removed to Kovno, and subsequently to Byelostok, where the aged poet, who in later years had become blind, ended his days in poverty and neglect. He died April 12, 1899. Avrom Ber Gotlober (January 14, 1811, Starokonstantinov, Volhynia - April 12, 1899, Białystok) was a Jewish writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator. He mostly wrote in Hebrew, but also wrote poetry and dramas in Yiddish. His first collection was published in 1835.
Gotlober's last name is often transliterated as Gottlober. He was widely known by his initials, ABG, which in Hebrew and Yiddish are the first three letters, alef-bet-giml.
ABG was a maskil, a leader in the haskalah, the nineteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment in Russia and Eastern Europe. While his literary output is no longer widely known, he was important for several reasons:
• As a teacher in the state-sponsored schools for Jews, where he taught and influenced two founders of Yiddish literature: Mendele Mocher Sforim, whom Sholom Aleichem called "the zeyde (grandfather) of us all", and Abraham Goldfaden, the founder of the professional Yiddish theater.
• As a historian who wrote histories of the Karaites (Bikoret le-toldot ha-Karaim) and of the Hasidism and Kabbalah (Toldot ha-Kabalah veha-Hasidut) that are still cited by scholars.
• As a social observer and memoirist, who had the fortune to live long enough to describe the social and political conditions of the 1820s and 1830s for audiences of the 1880s. Scholars widely cite his memoirs (Zikhronot u-masaot, or Memoirs and Travels), his contribution to Sholom Aleichem's Yudishe Folks-Bibliothek, and his articles in his own periodical Ha-Boker Or (The Morning Light) and in other periodicals.
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• Mizmor le-todah
• Tiferet li-vene binah
• Igeret tsaar baale hayim
• Der seim
• Toldot ha-Kabalah veha-Hasidut
• Kol rinah vi-yeshuah be-ohole tsadikim
• Der Dektukh
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• Orot me-ofel
• Zikronot mi-Yeme Ne'urai
• Khetem Shadai
• Kol shire Mahalalel
• Der gilgl
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Abram Ber Gotlober (January 14, 1811, Starokonstantinov, Volhynia - April 12, 1899, Białystok) was a Jewish writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator. He mostly wrote in Hebrew, but also wrote poetry and dramas in Yiddish....


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(April 12, 1903)
Frank L. Baum published "The Ryl of the Lilies".
April 12, 1921: On April 12, 1921, a new petition was filed with the county superintendent. Except for excluding 160 acres that had been ceded to the now formally delimited Union No. 1 subdistrict, the boundaries of the proposed district were identical to those in the original proposal. This small tract of land was highly dissected, of low value, and belonged to Catholic families; hence Buck Creekers were glad to be rid of it. They also argued that it gave Union No. 1 enough territory to continue as a subdistrict in what was left of Union School Township (just over seven section), if consolidation passed. The petition contained 88 signatures and was accompanied by an affidavit signed by Harry B. Sill maintaining that the proposed district contained 240 qualified voters, twice as many as had been claimed in the first affidavit because women were now counted as “qualified” to vote. Eighty eight signatures was only ten more than the minimum one third required by law, indicating that proponents were anxious to get the issue back on the ballot as soon as possible.
April 12, 1925: SUSAN MARIA WINANS b November 29, 1845 near Sidney, Ohio d November 5, 1926 at Altadena, Calif, (or Pasadena) md June 28, 1866 Oliver D. Heald b September 13, 1839 near Salem, Ohio d April 12, 1925 at Altadena, Calif, buried in the Mt. View Cemetery in Gardena, Calif, and he was the son of John and Eliza Ann (McClun) Heald.
April 12, 1929: Mexican rebel General, F.R. Manzo, and his staff are interened after crossing into Arizona.

April 12, 1935: Germany prohibited publishing "not-Arian" writers.
April 12, 1938: The Polish steamer Polonia lands 250 passengers at Tel Aviv, making it the second ship to use the world’s first “Jewish port.”
April 12, 1939:

Aerial view of carrier Enterprise underway, April 12, 1939


April 12, 1940: Hans Frank declares that Krakow must be judenfrei (“free of Jews”) by November. By March 1941, 40,000 out of 60,000 Jews have been deported from Krakow.

April 12, 1941(15th of Nisan, 5701): As German troops entered Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a Jewish tailor who spit on the arriving troops was shot dead. Jewish shops and homes in Belgrade were ransacked by both German soldiers and resident Germans.

April 12, 1941: The Germans announced publicly that anyone caught leaving the Lodz Ghetto would be shot.

April 12, 1942: To maintain the deception that all was well and to better control the population, 115,000 of the Jews remaining in Lodz ghetto were told that the 100,000 Jews already deported (and in actuality gassed in Chelmno), were safe and staying in a camp near Warthburcken. Kolo was actually the town near Chelmno.

April 12, 1942: The Germans announce the discovery of a mass grave in The Katyn Forest in Poland, where over 4,000 Polish officers were killed by ythe Soviets.
April 12, 1943: An Anglo-American Conference opens in Bermuda. The conference was supposed to come up with ways of saving European refugees (in reality the Jews of Europe). During the 12 days of meetings it became obvious that the Foreign Office and the State Department would do nothing including relaxing immigration quotas or opening Palestine to Jewish immigrants.
April 12, 1944: ‘Who has made us Jews different to all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. . ." From the daily entry of the Diary of Anne Frank
April 12, 1945:

April 12, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty second President of the United States dies in office, in Warm Springs, Georgia

April 12, 1945: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit Ohrdruf Concentration camp with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:

. . .the most interesting--although horrible--sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'


Ohrdruf made a powerful impression on General George S. Patton as well. He described it as "one of the most appalling sights that I have ever seen." He recounted in his diary that

In a shed . . . was a pile of about 40 completely naked human bodies in the last stages of emaciation. These bodies were lightly sprinkled with lime, not for the purposes of destroying them, but for the purpose of removing the stench. When the shed was full--I presume its capacity to be about 200, the bodies were taken to a pit a mile from the camp where they were buried. The inmates claimed that 3,000 men, who had been either shot in the head or who had died of starvation, had been so buried since the 1st of January. When we began to approach with our troops, the Germans thought it expedient to remove the evidence of their crime. Therefore, they had some of the slaves exhume the bodies and place them on a mammoth griddle composed of 60-centimeter railway tracks laid on brick foundations. They poured pitch on the bodies and then built a fire of pinewood and coal under them. They were not very successful in their operations because there was a pile of human bones, skulls, charred torsos on or under the griddle which must have accounted for many hundreds.

April 12, 1945: Vice President Harry Truman was sworn in as President of the United following the death of Franklin Roosevelt. No matter what, Truman will always be a hero among Jews for supporting the U.N. resolution that in effect created the state of Israel and for recognizing the state of Israel at the moment of its birth. He did this in spite of strong opposition from advisors in the Defense and State departments.

April 12, 1945: Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands.
April 12, 1950: Susan Dea Cavender (b. November 23, 1866 in GA / d. April 12, 1950).

Susan Dea Cavander13 [Emily H. Smith12, Gideon Smith11, Gabriel Smith10, John “LR” Smith9, Ambrose J. Smith8, Christopher Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. November 23, 1866 in GA / d. April 12, 1950) married Lafayette Pickelsimer (b. May 28, 1868 in Fannin Co. GA / d. April 17, 1926), son of Adolphus Pickelsimer and Mary Jane Barnes.

April 12, 1961 To the slow moving strains of the Russian patriotic anthem,
“How Spacious Is My Country,” Russian radio announces: “The world’s first spaceship, Vostok,
with a man on board, has been launched on April 12 in the Soviet Union on a round-the-world orbit.”
Russia’s first cosmonaut is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a twenty-seven -year-old Soviet major.

April 12, 1963 George de Mohrenschildt casually asks Oswald how he happened to
miss General Walker.

April 12, 1978: The USSR and Iran agreed to build a 488 km section of the 1,420 km gas pipeline from Kangan to Astara.
April 12, 2008: A stone was unveiled in Skara Brae on 12 April 2008 marking the anniversary of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961.[42][43]