This Day in Goodlove History, November 17, 2014
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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), 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, Theodore 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:
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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
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• • 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
Relatives with birthdays on November 17…
Martha L. Adams
Muriel D. Brittain Estes
Harold Godlove
Mark M. Sackett
Mark M. Sackett
James L. Soupene
Dora J. Trefz Schonaman
Roger L. Wolf
November 17, 1558: Mary I
Mary has a high forehead, thin lips and hair parted in the middle
Portrait by Antonis Mor, 1554
Queen of England and Ireland (more...)
Reign
July 19, 1553[1] – November 17, 1558
Coronation
October 1, 1553
Predecessor
Jane (disputed) or Edward VI
Successor
Elizabeth I
Co-monarch
Philip
Queen consort of Spain
Tenure
January 16, 1556 – November 17, 1558
Spouse
Philip II of Spain
House
House of Tudor
Father
Henry VIII of England
Mother
Catherine of Aragon
Born
(1516-02-18)February 18, 1516
Palace of Placentia, Greenwich
Died
November 17, 1558(1558-11-17) (aged 42)
St James's Palace, London
Mary I (February 18, 1516 – November 17, 1558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her brutal persecution of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary".
Mary was weak and ill from May 1558,[147] and died aged 42 at St. James's Palace during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day, November 17, 1558. She was in pain, possibly from ovarian cysts or uterine cancer.[148] She was succeeded by her half-sister. Philip, who was in Brussels, wrote to his sister Joan: "I felt a reasonable regret for her death."[149] [1]
November 17, 1611: Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans
April 16, 1607
November 17, 1611.
[2]
November 1753
November, (GW) leads Virginia expedition to challenge French claims to the Allegheny River[3] Valley. [4]
Saturday November 17, 1753:—We encamped and rested our horses, and then we set out early in the morning.[5]
November 1759: The Late War is the French and Indian War which ended c1763. This is the form of the fort begun c1759 and the foundations and a surviving blockhouse can be seen today at Point State Park in Pittsburgh. Brown shows a sequence of plans dating from a manuscript sketch of Fort Duquesne in 1754 up to the 'Plan of the New Fort at Pittsburgh', November 1759, which is almost identical to this image. The history of the forts at Pittsburgh is complex. The first fort was a rudimentary one built by Virginians in 1754 and called Fort Prince George. It was destroyed the same year by the French who built Fort Duquesne (see 1761). On December 1, 1758, the ruins of Fort Duquesne were officially renamed and from then on the Forks of the Ohio was called Pittsburgh. A temporary fort was built c1758-59 near the Monongahela River to house troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Mercer, and was called Mercer's Fort, see Brown, No. 35. This was followed by Fort Pitt begun c1759, which took several years to build. It was abandoned by the British in 1772, taken over by Virginians in 1774 and renamed Fort Dunmore. It was again abandoned when the new Fort Fayette was constructed in 1791-92. This newer fort was used by General Anthony Wayne during the Indian wars in the Northwest Territory.[6]
November 17, 1760: Nancy Wyatt (b. November 17, 1760). [7]
November l7th, 1760: —By this morning the river had fallen in time whole, twenty-two or twenty-three feet, and was still lowering. About eight o’clock we set out, and passing the lower Cross creek, we came to a pretty long and tolerably wide and good bottom, on time east side of the river: then came in the hills, just above which is Buffalo creek. About three o’clock we came to the Mingo town, without seeing our horses, the Indian who was sent express for them, having passed through only the morning before ; being detained by the creeks, which were too high to ford.
Here we resolved to wait their arrival, which was expected tomorrow; and here then will end our water voyage along a river, the general course of which from Beaver creek to the Kenhawa is about southwest, or near as I could determine ; but, in its windings through a narrow vale, extremely serpentine; forming on bottom sides of the river alternately necks of very good bottoms, some exceedingly fine, lying for the most part in the shape of a half moon, and of various sizes.
There is very little difference in the general width of the river from Fort Pitt to Ken hawa; Out in the depth I believe the odds are considerably in favor of the lower parts, as we found no shallows below the Mingo town, except in one or two places where the river was broad, and there, I do not know but there might have been a deep channel in some parts of it. Every here and there are islands, some larger and some smaller, which, operating in the nature of locks or steps, occasions pretty still water above, but for the most part strong and rapid water alongside of them. However, none of these so swift but that a vessel may he rowed or sent up with poles.
When the river is in its natural state, large canoes, that will carry five or six thousand weight or more, may be worked against the stream by four hands, twenty or twenty-five miles a day; and down a good deal more, The Indians who are very dexterous, even their women, in the management of canoes, have their hunting camps and cabins all along the river, for the conveninence of transporting their skins to market. In the fall, so soon as the hunting season comes on, they set out with their families for this purpose; and in hunting will move their camps from place to place, till by the spring they get two or three hundred or more miles from their towns; then catch beaver on their way up, which frequently brings them into the month of May, when the women are employed in planting. The men are at market, and in idleness, till the autumn again, when they pursue the same course. During the summer months they live a poor and perishing life.
The Indians who reside upon the Ohio, the upper parts of it at least, are composed of Shawanese, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little part of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlements of the people upon their river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say, that they must be compensated for their right if the people settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations. On the other hand, the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable, not only on the Redstone and other waters on the Monongahela, but along the Ohio as low as the Little Kenhawa; and by next summer I suppose they will get to the Great Kenhawa, at least.
How difficult it may be to contend with these people afterwards, is easy to be judged, from every day’s experience of lands actually settled, supposing these settlements to be made; than which nothing is more probable, if the Indians permit them, from the disposition of the people at present. A few settlements in the midst of some of the large bottoms, would render it impracticable to get any large quantity of hand together; as the hills all the way down the river, as low as I went, come pretty close, are steep and broken, and incapable of settlement, though some of them are rich, and only fit to support the bottoms with timber and wood. The land back of the bottoms, as far as I have been able to judge, either from my own observations or from information, is nearly the same, that is, exceedingly uneven and hilly ; and I presume there are no bodies of flat, rich land to be found, till one gets far enough from the river to head the little runs and drains that come through the hills, and the sources of the creeks and their branches. ‘This, it seems, is the case with the lands upon the Monongahela and Youhiogheny, and I fancy holds good upon this river, till you get into the flat lands, below the falls. The bottom land differs a good deal in quality. That highest up the river in general, is richest, though the bottoms are neither so wide nor so long, as those below. Walnut, cherry, and some other kind of wood, neither tall nor large, but covered with grape-vines, with the fruit of which this country at this instant abounds, are the growth of the richest bottoms; but on the other hand, these bottoms appear to me to be the lowest and most subject to floods. The soil of this is good, but inferior to either of the other kinds; and beech bottoms are objectionable on account of the difficulty of clearing them, as their roots spread over a large surface of ground, and are hard to kill. [8]
November 1765: Enacted in November 1765, the controversial “Stamp” act forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained. The stamp itself displayed an image of a Tudor rose framed by the word "America" and the French phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense--"Shame to him who thinks evil of it." [9]
Crawford to Washington[10]
November 17th 1770 letter. “Indians will not run any farther until they are paid for their land. The Indians who lived upon the Ohio (the upper parts of it, at least) are composed of Shawnees, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little paid of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlement of the people on the river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say that they must be compensated for their right of the people to settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations thereto. On the other hand the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable not only on the Redstone and other waters of the Monongahela, but along down the Ohio, as low as Little Kanawha.”[11]
November 17, 1770: (GW) Reachd the Mingo Town about 13 Miles more. [12]
November 17, 1772
Attended a marriage, where the guests were all Virginians. It was a scene of wild and confused merriment. The log house which was large, was filled. They were dancing to the music of a fiddle. They took little or no notice of me, on my entrance. After setting a while at the fire, I arose and desired the music and dancing to cease, I requested the Bride and Bridegroom to come forward. They came snickering and very merry. I desired the company who still appeared to be mirthful & noisy, to attend with becoming seriousness, the solemnity.
As soon as the ceremony was over, the music struck up, and the dancing was renewed. While I sat wondering at their wild merriment. The Lady of a Mr. Stevenson, sent her husband to me, with her compliments requesting me to dance a minuit with her. My declining the honor. On the principle that I was unacquainted with it, was scarcely accepted. He still politely urged, until I totally refused. After supper I rode about 3 miles to the house of a friend. The manners of the people of Virginia, who have removed into these parts, are different from those of the Presbyterians and germans. They are much addicted to drinking parties, gambling, horse race & fighting. They are hospitable & prodigal. Several of them, have run through their property in the old settlements, & have sought asylum in this wilderness.[13]
November 1775 - the world's first emancipation proclamation
November 1775: Lord Dunmore
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore had been the British Governor of New York from 1770 until 1771. In September of 1771 he served as governor of the
Virginia colony until just before the Revolutionary War began in June
of 1775.1
In April 1775, Dunmore had threatened to free Virginia's slaves in order to utilize them in the royal forces. There were scores of them that had already joined the Loyalist cause. Many in the colonies believed that Dunmore had formed some sort of secret alliance with the enslaved population and were enraged. Eventually Dunmore felt threatened by the growing resentment and civil unrest in the colonies and fled to safety in Williamsburg where he took refuge on the HMS Fowey on June 8, 1775.2
In November 1775, Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation which officially offered freedom to the colonists' slaves. Those that were able to cross British lines would be liberated in return for military service in the royal army. Most of the colonists were troubled by the announcement. In many communities the whites were outnumbered by the slaves and there was fear of an insurrection. Dunmore not only planned for civil unrest, but anticipated that many colonists would abandon the Continental Army and return home to protect their property.3 [14]
Portrait of Lord Dunmore.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation in November 1775 prompted over 800 runaway slaves to join the British in the fight against the Americans. Dunmore formed the group into the Ethiopian Regiment. The regiment participated in conflicts at Kemp's Landing and the Battle of Great Bridge. 4
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation promised freedom for slaves in return for British military service.
Text of Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
By His Excellency the Right Honorable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, His Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION
As I have ever entertained Hopes, that an Accommodation might have taken Place between GREAT-BRITAIN and this Colony, without being compelled by my Duty to this most disagreeable but now absolutely necessary Step, rendered so by a Body of armed Men unlawfully assembled, firing on His MAJESTY'S Tenders, and the formation of an Army, and that Army now on their March to attack his MAJESTY'S Troops and destroy the well disposed subjects of the Colony. To defeat such treasonable Purposes, and that all such Traitors, and their Abettors, may be brought to Justice, and that the Peace, and good Order of this Colony may be again restored, which the ordinary Course of the Civil Law is unable to effect; I have thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, hereby declaring, that until the aforesaid good Purpose can be obtained, I do in Virtue of the Power and Authority to ME given, by His MAJESTY, determine to execute Martial Law, and cause the same to be executed throughout this Colony: and to end that
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Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
the Peace and good Order may the sooner be restored, I do require every Person capable of bearing Arms, to resort to His MAJESTY'S STANDARD, or be looked upon as Traitors to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Government, and thereby become liable to the Penalty the Law inflicts upon such Offenses; such as forfeiture of Life, confiscation of Lands, &. &. And I do hereby further declare all indented Servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels,) free that are able and willing to bear Arms, they joining His MAJESTY'S Troops as soon as may be, foe the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper Sense of their Duty, to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Dignity. I do further order, and require, all His MAJESTY'S Liege Subjects, to retain their Quitrents, or any other Taxes due or that may become due, in their own Custody, till such a Time as Peace may be again restored to this at present most unhappy Country, or demanded of them for their former salutary Purposes, by Officers properly authorized to receive the same.
GIVEN under my Hand on board the Ship WILLIAM by Norfolk, the 7th Day of November in the SIXTEENTH Year of His MAJESTY'S Reign.
DUNMORE
(GOD save the KING.)[15]
November 17, 1775: Brigadier-General Richard Prescott had been captured November 17, 1775, and exchanged September 4, 1776, for General Sullivan.
General Prescott was again captured near Newport, Rhode Island, July
10, 1777, and exchanged April 21, 1778, for Major-General Charles Lee. [16]
November 1776
With the ratification, by the people, of the Maryland Bill of Rights, in November, 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland became radically and permanently changed. The Anglican Establishment and all supremacy were swept away and the Church was left without organization, authority or support. The natural prejudice, then existing against all things English, bore with particular wight upon the clergy of the English Church, whether of English or American birth, for all had taken as a part of their ordination vows the oath of allegiance to the British Government and by their real or supposed adherence to this oath were classed as "Tories", so that a number of them were subjected to proscription or persecution. The result of this was an exodus of those of English birth and, while the departure of Mr. Allen can not be considered a deprivation, it left the parish of All Saints' without a nominal rector. Mr. McKennon, the curate in charge of the Frederick congregation, of English birth, left the parish at some time during the Revolution and, after a short period of service as curate at Annapolis sailed for England but was lost at sea, leaving his family in Maryland. [17]
November 1776
With the ratification of the Bill of Rights in November 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland, became radically changed. The natural prejudices then existing against all English-born, especially, caused an exodus of such. The Governor, Sir Robert Eden was forced to return to England. The Reverend Allen left All Saints' Church without a nominal recotr, the Reverend McKinnon having been sent to preach at St. Margaret's.
"Daniel McKinnon living in Maryland counties and parishes...list of Clergy, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, St. Margaret's, Westminster." [18]
Ernest Helfenstein recites practically the same version as heretofore quoted, and stated to the compiler that his information was from the manuscript "History" by the Rev. Ethan Allen, in 1872. He added, "Mr McKinnon remained here until 1774, when Governor Eden presented him to Westminster Parish; about the beginning of, or during, the Revolution, he sailed for England, and was lost at sea. The Reverend McKinnon has now (1872) five descendants in the ministry, among whom are the Rev. Joseph Rogers Walker, of South Carolina, and his brother E. Tabb Walker, of Virginia."[19]
Educational facilities in earlier days were very meager, hence, the Reverend Daniel McKinnon had to rely upon his own ingenuity to supply milling needs. Mrs George Rogers, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has a valued relic, much faded and worn, a text book, prepared by the Reverend Daniel McKinnon, containing arithmetic tables, trammar rules, humns, prayers, and quotations in his own writing, for use in teaching his children. A page from this book is reproduced here. (Add copy from Torrence.)
November 1780: 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.[20]
November 1780: Pendleton, Nathaniel. Captain Nathaniel Pendleton joined Captain Stephenson's riflemen in 1775 as a private. He was an intimate friend of H. Bedinger, who frequently mentions him in his journal of the campaign. January 1st, 1776, he wrote: "Nat Pendleton Returned from on Board a Privateer." In 1776 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Captain Gabriel Long's riflemen, which was Company 6 of the eight companies of riflemen raised in Virginia and Maryland for the Rifle Regiment. At the battle around Fort Washington Lieutenant Pendleton was taken prisoner, and, with the other officers, first billetted in empty houses in New York. Afterwards all the officers were quartered on Long Island, where most of them remained until November 1780, when they were exchanged. After his exchange Nat. Pendleton was a captain in Colonel Rawlings Regiment. After the Revolution he moved to New York, and practiced law. He was Alexander Hamilton's second in the duel with Aaron Burr. His descendants lived in Cincinnati. Mr. Edmund Pendleton, his great-grandson, now lives in Maryland.[21]
November 1788: He returned to Vienna with ruined health, and during 1789, was a dying man. The concentration of his troops in the east gave the discontented Belgians an opportunity to revolt. In Hungary, the nobles were in all but open rebellion, and in his other states, there were peasant risings and a revival of particularistic sentiments. Joseph was left entirely alone. His minister Kaunitz refused to visit his sick-room and did not see him for two years. His brother Leopold remained at Florence. At last, Joseph, worn out and broken-hearted, recognized that his servants could not, or would not, carry out his plans. [22]
November 1792: The Armoire de fer (French: 'iron chest') incident took place at the Tuileries Palace. This was believed to have been a hiding place at the Royal apartments, where some secret documents were kept. The existence of this iron cabinet was publicly revealed to Jean-Marie Roland, Girondinist Minister of the Interior. The resulting scandal served to discredit the King. [23]
November 17, 1793: Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye, that by virtue and in consideration of Land Office Military Warrant No. 906, there is granted by the Commonwealth unto Vallentine Crawford heirs, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one thousand acres by survey bearing the 20th day of July 1791, (July 20) lying and being in the County of Bourbon adjoining James Craig’s Survey on Indian Creek on the east and recorded as followeth to wit: Begining at a buckeye hickory and elm corner to said Craig’s land thence south seventy degrees east two hundred and eighty three poles to a blue ash hackberry and sugar tree on the north side of a ridge thence north twenty degrees east 565 1/2 poles, to a white oak and two sugartree saplings thence north seventy degrees west,two hundred and eighty poles to two white oaks and blue ash trees, corner to Craig’s Survey, thence south 20 degrees west 565 1/2 poles to the begining with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Vallentine Crawford heirs and their heirs forever, in witness whereof the said Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hath hereunto set his hand and caused the feat of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Lexington on the 18th day of February in the year of our Lord 1793 and of the Commonwealth the first.
Isaac Shelby
L. S. By the Governor, James Brown
On the other side of the Ledger— Examined and delivered to Benjamin Harrison, November 17, 1793.[24]
November 1794: Jay Treaty, also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, the Treaty of London of 1794, and officially the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America,[1][2] was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war,[3] resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution,[4], and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792.
The terms of the treaty were designed primarily by Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, strongly supported by the chief negotiator John Jay; and support from President George Washington. The treaty gained the primary American goals, which included the withdrawal of units of the British Army from pre-Revolutionary forts that it had failed to relinquish in the Northwest Territory of the United States (the area west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River). (The British had recognized this area as American territory in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.) The parties agree that disputes over wartime debts and the American-Canadian boundary were to be sent to arbitration—one of the first major uses of arbitration in diplomatic history. The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with British possessions in India and colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on the American export of cotton.
The treaty was hotly contested by the Jeffersonians in each state. They feared that closer economic ties with Britain would strengthen Hamilton's Federalist Party, promote aristocracy and undercut republicanism. Washington's announced support proved decisive and the treaty was ratified by a 2/3 majority of the Senate in November 1794. The treaty became a central issue of contention—leading to the formation of the "First Party System" in the United States, with the Federalists favoring Britain and the Jeffersonian republicans favoring France. The treaty was for ten years' duration. Efforts to agree on a replacement treaty failed (in 1806) when Jefferson rejected the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty as tensions escalated toward the War of 1812.[5] [25][26]
November 1795
Theophilus McKinnon born November 1795, in Harrison County, Kentucky.[27]
November 1799: Napoleon was in Paris leading the coup d'etat from which he became Consul. Christmas 1799 he became 1st Consul. [28]
1801
c November 17
Rachel Stockley Donelson, Rachel Jackson's mother, died [29]
November 17, 1803:
Lady Augusta Gordon
November 17,1803
December 8, 1865
Married two times, had issue.
[30]
November 17, 1818: Princess Sophia Charlotte (b. May 19, 1744, m. September 8, 1761, d. November 17, 1818),[31]
November 17, 1803: Lady Augusta Fitz-Clarence+6 b. November 17, 1803, d. December 8, 1865. [32]
November 17, 1822: Andrew Jackson left Florence to return to Tennessee. [33]
November 17, 1823: Andrew Jackson attended public dinner in Knoxville. [34]
November 17, 1834 – The Treaty Party holds its own council at Running Waters, the plantation of John Ridge nor far from Oothcaloga (now Calhoun, Georgia).[35]
1835
In 1835, Jackson managed to reduce the federal debt to only $33,733.05, the lowest it had been since the first fiscal year of 1791.[20] President Jackson is the only president in United States history to have paid off the national debt. However, this accomplishment was short lived. A severe depression from 1837 to 1844 caused a ten-fold increase in national debt within its first year.[[36]
1835:
William PLUM
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Father: Walter Scott PLUM
Mother: Myrta BUNKER
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HOME[37]
The 1835 Census of the Cherokee Nation, East (not including the Oconaluftee Cherokee under Yonaguska in Haywood County, North Carolina, who were considered citizens of that state) showed—Georgia: 8946 "Indians", 776 slaves, 68 whites; North Carolina: 3644 "Indians", 37 slaves, 22 whites; Tennessee: 2528 "Indians", 480 slaves, 79 whites; and Alabama: 1424 "Indians", 299 slaves, 32 whites. This made a total of 16,542 "Indians", 1592 slaves, and 201 whites living in the Cherokee Nation East, for a grand total of 18,335 persons overall. This total includes 376 Muscogee living in the Cherokee Nation East, since the Creek War. The estimated number of Cherokee in the West was about 5000.[38]
1835
David Friedrich Strauss published ‘The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, in which he treated the gospels as “mytho-poetic” writings. Soon after, Bruno Bauer, a German theologian , maintained that Jesus never existed at all in his Critiq ue of the Gospels and History of Their Origin.[39]
1835 - The first Colt revolver.
Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms. Various revolving designs had been around for centuries, but precision parts couldn't be made with available technologies. Colt was the first to apply Industrial Age machining tools to the idea. Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen.[40]
1835: Francis Godlove, Sr
Birth:
1744, Germany
Death:
1835
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Age Estimated
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Cemetery notes and/or description:
(N39º 06.471' & W078º 36.610') – At Wardensville on CR 55, turn left onto WV 259, go 0.7 miles, turn left onto CR23/13 (Moores
Run Road), go 0.9 miles to a "Y", turn left at the "Y", go 1.4 miles to Mailbox 2305 and turn left into the driveway. The cemetery is
in the trees 75 yards to the left of the residence. (15 Apr 2011 JH)
name recorded as Godlove, Gutlove, Godlof, Godlop, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutliff, Cutlow, and Cutlove.
Grave markers are not inscribed.
From family records, the following two people are buried in Godlove Cemetery
Son Francis Godlove Jr administator of father's estate.Posted his bond on 21 April 1835
Married more than once
Known Children of Francis Godlove Sr:
1.John F Godlove(1777-1864)
Sp:Sarah Godlove (1813 - 1867)
Sp:Nancy Ann Thrap Godlove (1783 - 1845)
2.Joseph Godlove(1797-1859)
3.Francis Godlove(1797-1890)
Sp:Elizabeth Snapp
4.Sarah Godlove b: AFT 1790 Va
Sp:Samuel Cheshire
5.Saville Godlove Baker(1798-1879)
(Sp:Isaac Baker(1787-1861)
groom's name: Isaac Baker
bride's name:Senla Godlove
marriage date:15 Apr 1818
marriage place:Shenandoah,Va
bride's father's name:Frances)
6.Adam Godlove b: abt 1800 Va
Sp:Susannah Zartman
7.Catherine Godlove Younkin(1803-1896)
8.Mary Ann Godlove b: 1805 Va
Sp:Henry J Brill(1798-1884)
9.Nancy Godlove Bedinger(1814-1884)
Sp:John Bedinger(1814-1900)
10.Barbara Godlove b: ABT 1815 Va
(Unmarried)
Family links:
Spouse:
Maria Ann Godlove (1750 - ____)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Godlove Cemetery
Wardensville
Hardy County
West Virginia, USA
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1835–1842 – The Second Seminole War between the U.S. Army and the St. Augustine Militia versus the Seminoles under Osceola.[42]
November 17, 1818: Seeing little prospect of the Queen giving in and receiving her daughter-in-law, the Cumberlands moved to Germany in 1818. They had difficulty living within their means in Britain, and the cost of living was much lower in Germany.[47] Queen Charlotte died on November 17, 1818, but the Cumberlands remained in Germany, living principally in Berlin, where the Duchess had relatives.[48] In 1817, the Duchess had a stillborn daughter; in 1819 she gave birth to a boy, Prince George of Cumberland. The Duke occasionally visited England, where he stayed with his eldest brother, who in 1820 succeeded to the British and Hanoverian Thrones as George IV.[49] George III's fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent, died six days before his father, but left a daughter, Princess Victoria of Kent.[50] With the death of George III, Ernest became fourth in line to the British Throne, following the Duke of York (who would die without legitimate issue in 1827), the Duke of Clarence, and Princess Victoria.[51]
Politics and unpopularity
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Ernest Augustus I wearing the robes of a Knight Commander of the Order of St Patrick
In 1826, Parliament finally voted to increase Ernest's allowance. The Liverpool Government argued that the Duke needed an increased allowance to pay for Prince George's education; even so, it was opposed by many Whigs.[52] The bill, which passed the House of Commons 120–97, required Prince George to live in England if the Duke was to receive the money.[53] [43]
November 17, 1844: WYLET CRAWFORD, b. November 17, 1844, Cartoogechaye Township, Macon County; d. November 13, 1884, Shooting Creek, Clay County, North Carolina. [44]
November 17, 1853: Nancy Ann Elizabeth Cavender (b. November 17, 1853).[45]
November 17, 1862: On the 17th of November an expedition was sent out under
command of Brig. Gen. A. P. Hovey, of which the 24th Iowa formed a part. After being out three days and going to the mouth of White River, it returned without having been disembarked or having seen the enemy. [46]
November 17, 1863
President Lincoln meets with the Gettysburg architecht William Saunders at the White house. The cemetery was only for the Northern Army who fought for freedom. The Southern army was buried where they fell.[47]
Thurs. November 17, 1864:
In camp got orders to fix up camp
All quiet to day
(William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary) [48]
November 17, 1907: John Edward Burch (b. November 17, 1907 / d. February 19, 1986 in TX).[49]
November 17, 1922:
Lucy L. August 5, 1858 November 17, 1922[50]
"Wife of J.H. Godlove"
SATURDAY NOVember 17, 1928
"Our loving Master, thou art the God of love. May we love thee supremely that we may show thy loving-kindness to others. May we become like thee in thy love, so that day by day and hour by hour we may speak with our lives as well as with our lips."
Amen.
I had planned to stay at home this year with the folks - to help Dad with his church work and to be with Mother.[. . .] While I was in Milwaukee [. . .] I got a letter from home concerning expenses and I decided immediately to look for a position. Just two days later a letter from Mr. [William] Munson - secretary of Mountain Work (Synod) in this state of W. Va. asked if I would consider being placed as a home missionary in a coal mining district near Morgantown - with a salary of $100.00 besides a $25.00 extra from the Morgantown Presby church for travelling expenses and small project beginnings. Providential!!![. . .] [51]
November 17, 1938
Racial legislation introduced in Italy. Anti Jewish economic legislation in Hungary.[52]
November 17, 1944: USS Morrison under repair at Hunters Point November 17,1944– February 9 1945. [53]
November 17, 1963 (Sunday) FBI overnight code clerk William S. Walter, in New
Orleans, maintains that he receives an Airtel alert from FBI headquarters in Washington about “a
threat to assassinate President Kennedy November 22-23” in Dallas “by a militant revolutionary group.”
Instructions in the Teletype include contacting infiltrators in local racists hate groups. The original
airtel and all copies will disappear shortly after the assassination. Word of the Teletype will not leak out
until five years after the assassination. Upon receiving the Teletype (Walter said under oath), “I
immediately contacted the special agent-in-charge who had the category of threats against the
president and read him the teletype. He instructed me to call the agents that had responsibility
and informants, and as I called them, I noted the time and the names of the agents that I called.
That all took place in the early morning hours of the 17th of November.” Ray & Mary La Fontaine
maintain that this Airtel is the result of LHO’s preassassination interview with the Dallas FBI. OT
Jack Ruby is seen in Las Vegas, Nevada. Without a doubt, he meets with McWillie at
the Thunderbird. AOT
Dallas civic leaders publicly ask for no demonstrations during JFK’s upcoming visit. One
hundred extra police will be on duty on the 22nd to ensure cooperation. AOT
FBI (SOG) has by now learned of LHO’s Nov. 12th letter to the Soviet embassy
requesting a return visa to Russia. AOT
JFK spends the last weekend of his life in Palm Beach, feeling that the only threat in
Dallas is potentially from the ultra-right - particularly from men like General Edwin Walker.
Harold Reynolds, a citizen of Abilene, Texas, two hundred miles west of Dallas, picks
up a note left for one of his neighbors. It is an urgent request to call one of two Dallas telephone
numbers, and the signature reads “Lee Oswald.” The neighbor the note is addressed to is Pedro
Gonzalez, president of a local anti-Castro group called the Cuban Liberation Committee.
Gonzalez becomes noticeably nervous when he is handed the note and minutes later is seen
phoning from a public telephone. Reynolds says he had previously seen a man who closely
resembled Oswald attending a meeting at Gonzalez’ apartment along with a second and older
American from New Orleans. Gonzalez is remembered for extreme anti-Kennedy statements
and is known as a friend of Antonio de Varona, leader of the CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary
Council. He leaves Abilene soon after the assassination and, at this date of entry, is in Venezuela.
Gilberto Policarpo Lopez attends a Tampa chapter meeting of the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee. (HSCA) [54]
(November 17-21, 1963) Norman Similas of Toronto attends a bottlers' convention at the
Dallas Trade Mart, reporting for a Canadian Beverage Industry publication. [55]
November 17, 1967:
The Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon
May 6 1890
November 17, 1967
77 years
She married William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville in 1916, and had issue
[56]
On November 17, 2007 I was on my way to my niece Lauren Goodlove’s basketball tournament in Rock Island, Illinois when I remembered that William Harrison Goodlove mentioned something about Rock Island in his diary. I had about 30 minutes of light left in the day so I went to the Rock Island Historical Society, (another reason to have GPS, which directed me to the address listed) where they directed me to the Rock Island Arsenal. The last thing she said was “Do not go over the speed limit at the Arsenal! After waiting 10 minutes for a train to passed I was crossing the bridge to the Arsenal and saw a white car coming my way. I looked at my speed, 35, I looked at the speed limit, 15!! I hit the breaks, look at the officer in the car, he looks at me, he drives on. Check point at Arsenal, heavily guarded. Drivers License out, purpose of visit, “family history, confederate cemetery”, as official as I can sound. “Up and and to your left, he smiles. I wonder, to myself, how many people even know about this place.
The Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island Illinois.
The only tangible remains of the Rock Island Barracks is the Confederate Cemetery. The Rock Island Barracks was one of 21 prison camps operated by the Union. From December 1863 to July 1865, 12,192 Confederate prisoners were held at the prison camp. A total of 1,960 prisoners died. Each gravestone identifies the individual soldier, his company, and his unit.
The National Cemetery Administration maintains the Confederate Cemetery. [57]
Among the Confederates who were imprisoned at Rock Island were Anthony Baker (23rd Va. Cavalry) and Lemuel Brill (18th Va. Cavalry), grandsons of Francis Godlove (Franz Gottlob).[58]
The entrance to the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island
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In a small box, at the entrance of the cemetery I find a book that list those who are buried at the cemetery, and their location. I find an R B Vance listed as #1440.
I do not know the relationship of R. B. Vance, Co. A, 18 Tenn. Reg. C.S.A. I hope to find out in the future. Zebulon Vance, my third cousin, 6 times removed was the Governor of North Carolina during the Civil War.
VANCE, R.B.
PVT
A
TENN
Died, August 23, 1864
#1440
Flag of the St. John Guards, captured at Fort Donelson. It was made by the ladies of Woodbury and presented to a group of local volunteers, commanded by H. J. St. John in May 1861.[59] I saw the original flag at the Tennessee State Museum in 2010.
18th Tennessee Flag[60]
Captains Milton R. Rushing, John G. McCabe, Co. "A". Men from Cannon County.
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R. B. Vance, 3rd from the bottom row, 8th from the left, a small ribbon I carried that day is barely visible.
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A History of the Badge of the Seven Confederate Knights
The order of the Seven Knights of the Confederacy was created in 1863 at Rock Island Union Prison by seven Confederate soldiers as one means of combating desertions among their fellow prisoners. Its members took an oath to stand by each other under all circumstances and to die in prison rather than give in to pressure by their captors to take oath of allegiance to the Union and join the armed forces of the United States. This oath was to be binding so long as the Confederate government was in existence. The oath spoke to the behavior of these prisoners of war in the absence of a formal code of conduct for POW's such as we have today.
The badges were made of pearl, bone, or rubber highly polished. The device was a star with seven points, and our motto was "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," which means, "It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country." The initial letter of one of these Latin words in each point of the star. In the center of the star was a shield on which were the emblematic letters "C.K."[63]
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[2] Wikipedia
[3] La Belle Rivière. French name given to Allegheny River and other times to combination of Ohio and Allegheny Rivers (considered one river). “The beautiful river.” (la bel ree-vee-AIR.)
http://www.thelittlelist.net/bactoblu.htm
[4] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwtime.html
[5] Christopher Gist’s Journal: In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 68.
[6] Unknown source.
[7] Proposed Descendants of William Smith
[8] (From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 113.)
[9] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-repeals-the-stamp-act
[10] This letter was not in the Washington-Crawford Letters by C. W. Butterfield.
[11] Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, Vol. I , pg. 357.
[12] (From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 113.)
[13] Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity 1748-1820 with notes by Franklin B. Dexter, M.A. 1899. pg.105-106.
[14] http://www.studythepast.com/history571/pam/LordDunmore.html
[15] http://www.studythepast.com/history571/pam/LordDunmoreProclamation.html
[16]
[17] (History of All Saints' Parish, b Ernest Helfenstein 1991)
[18] (William Stevens Perry, D.D. Historical Collections of American Colonial Churches, p. 345).
[19] (Ernest Helfenstein, The History of All Saints' Parish in Frederick Co., Maryland, 1742-1932, pp. 21-25.) Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett, pp. 224.5-224.6
[20] http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/revwar_bios.html
[21] http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/revwar_bios.html
[22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
[23] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI_of_France
[24] In the Kentucky Land Office at Frankfort, Book 1, page 107; Surveyed July 20th, 1791. The number of acres were 1,000, listed for Valentine Crawford’s heirs. County, Military and watercourse on Indian Creek. From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser. 1969. pp. 98-99.
1. [25] ^ James S. Olsen, ed. (1991). Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism. Greenwood Press. pp. 332. ISBN 0-313-26257-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=uyqepNdgUWkC&dq=isbn=0313262578. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
2. ^ 8 Stat. 116
3. ^ Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (1998) p. 177
4. ^ Todd Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (2006) p. 15
5. ^ Marshall Smelser, The Democratic Republic: 1801–1815 (1968) pp. 139, 145, 155–56.
6. ^ George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (2008) p. 80
7. ^ Gouverneur Morris quoted in Perkins (1955) p. 22; the British foreign minister felt, "this Country is anxious to keep the Americans in good humour." ibid.
8. ^ Wayne S. Cole, An Interpretive History of American Foreign Relations, (1974) p. 55.
9. ^ The Treaty also allowed people to pass freely across the US-Canadian border to carry on trade and commerce.
10. ^ INA, Cornell.
11. ^ "First Nations and Native Americans". United States Embassy, Consular Services Canada. http://www.consular.canada.usembassy.gov/first_nations_canada.asp. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
12. ^ Karl S. Hele, Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands (2008) p. 127
13. ^ Varg, 1963 p. 95.
14. ^ William Weeks, Building the Continental Empire, p. 23.
15. ^ Elkins and McKitrick, p. 405.
16. ^ William Nisbet Chambers. Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776–1809 (1963), p. 80.
17. ^ Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy (2006) 67–68.
18. ^ Estes 2001.
19. ^ Estes pp. 398–99.
20. ^ "Jay’s Treaty", American Foreign Relations.
21. ^ Rakove, pp 355-365
22. ^ Elkins and McKitrick
23. ^ Elkins and McKitrick, p. 410.
24. ^ "Soft" means matters important in principle or symbolism; "hard" meant matters of immediate material importance
25. ^ Elkins and McKitrick, p. 412.
26. ^ Marshall Smelser, The Democratic Republic, 1801–1815 (1968).
27. ^ Perkins p. vii
28. ^ Perkins p. 1.
29. ^ Perkins: The First Rapprochement p. 3.
30. ^ Perkins, Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations I: The Creation of a Republican Empire,(1995) pp. 99, 100, 124.
31. ^ Elkins and McKitrick, pp. 396–402.
32. ^ George Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (2008) p 73, 78
33. ^ Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000) pp. 136–7.
[edit] References
•Bemis, Samuel Flagg. Jay's Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy (1923) remains the standard narrative of how treaty was written
•Charles, Joseph. "The Jay Treaty: The Origins of the American Party System," in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 12, No. 4. (Oct., 1955), pp. 581–630. in JSTOR
•Combs, Jerald. A. The Jay Treaty: Political Background of Founding Fathers (1970) (ISBN 0-520-01573-8) Focusing on the domestic and ideological aspects, Combs dislikes Hamilton's quest for national power and a "heroic state" dominating the Western Hemisphere, but concludes the Federalists "followed the proper policy" because the treaty preserved peace with Britain.
•Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. (1994), ch. 9
•Estes, Todd, "The Art of Presidential Leadership: George Washington and the Jay Treaty," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2001, vol 109, no. 2 pp 127-58 in JSTOR
•Estes, Todd, "Shaping the Politics of Public Opinion: Federalists and the Jay Treaty Debate." Journal of the Early Republic (2000) 20(3): 393-422. ISSN in JSTOR
•Estes, Todd. The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, And the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (2006)
•Farrell, James M. "Fisher Ames and Political Judgment: Reason, Passion, and Vehement Style in the Jay Treaty Speech," Quarterly Journal of Speech 1990 76(4): 415-434.
•Fewster, Joseph M. "The Jay Treaty and British Ship Seizures: the Martinique Cases." William and Mary Quarterly 1988 45(3): 426-452. in JSTOR
•Perkins, Bradford. The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805 1955.
•Perkins, Bradford. "Lord Hawkesbury and the Jay-Grenville Negotiations," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 2. (Sep., 1953), pp. 291–304. in JSTOR
•Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1997. ISBN 0-394-57858-9
•Varg, Paul A; Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers. 1963.
[26] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Treaty
[27] Theohilus McKinnon, August 6, 1880. Letter to the Members of the Pioneer Association, History of Clark County, Ohio, 1881, page 382.
[28] http://genforum.genealogy.com/napoleonicwars/messages/104.html
[29] http://www.wnpt.org/productions/rachel/timeline/1791_1811.html
[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom
[31] http://www.nndb.com/people/948/000068744/
[32] http://www.thepeerage.com/p10508.htm#i105072
[33] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824
[34] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824
[35] Timeline of Cherokee Removal.
[36] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
[37] http://jonathanpaul.org/silvey/graham/d0000/g0000144.html#I3839
[38] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[39] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 6.
[40] http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline/
[41] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Godlove&GSiman=1&GScnty=3079&GRid=89655213&
[42] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[43] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover
[44] Crawford Coat of Arms.
[45] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe.
[46] http://www.mobile96.com/cw1/Vicksburg/TFA/24Iowa-1.html
[47] Gettysburg: Speech, Military, 12/06/2008
[48] Annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove
[49] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe.
[50] http://www.wvgenweb.org/hardy/cemeteries/wardensvillecem.htm
[51] http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh53-5.html
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[56] wikipedia
[57] Rock Island, Arsenal, National Historic Landmark brochure, Rock Island Historical Society, Rock Island, Illinois
[58] Jim Funkhouser email,
[59] Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
[60] http://www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/military/flags.htm
[61] Photo By Jeff Goodlove
[62] http://heritagespec.com/page7.html
[63] http://heritagespec.com/page7.html
[64][64] Civil War prison camp on Arsenal
The camp wasn't operating long before a cemetery was needed. The winter of 1863 was exceptionally cold, something Southern soldiers weren't accustomed to.
To make matters worse, prisoners on the first train were infected with smallpox, pneumonia and dysentery. Ninety-eight died within the month. Before spring, the Confederate cemetery held more than 900 graves. Nearly 30 Union guards also died.
The first prisoners to die were quickly buried adjacent to the prison grounds. Not long after, in February 1864, the bodies were moved to the present site to improve sanitary conditions and end the plague. The prisoner death rate then dropped considerably.
In June, the Secretary of War ordered prisoner rations cut in response to conditions Union soldiers faced in the infamous prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Malnutrition contributed to the scurvy deaths of at least 12 prisoners, and while it remained a problem, the subsequent drop in the death rate belied rumors of starvation.
After the war, prison buildings were razed. Ornate stone officers' quarters were erected along what is now Terrace Drive.
In following years, the camp gained an allegedly unearned reputation as a place of suffering, torture and death. Many referred to it as the ``Andersonville of the North.'' The myth was fed by articles written by Confederate veterans and published in Confederate magazines.
In her epic Civil War novel, ``Gone with the Wind,'' author Margaret Mitchell noted these accounts in a paragraph which claims ``at no place were conditions worse than at Rock Island.'' The fictional character Ashley Wilkes was said to have been held at Rock Island, in the ``hellhole of the north.''
Over the years, families of about a dozen of the dead Confederates moved their relatives' bodies from the cemetery to family plots. Most however, remain in the cemetery. On Memorial Day, a Confederate flag is placed at every grave and ``Taps'' is played.
Through it all, the American flag flies. For the Confederates, it's perhaps an insult to forever lie in the shadow of the flag they defied. However, Mr. Whiteman said it is there to claim them as our own, although they died swearing allegiance to another banner.
He said the men are honored as Americans who gave their lives for a cause they deemed sacred.
n By Marcy Norton (January 22, 1998)
n http://www.qconline.com/progress98/places/prfedcem.html#top
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n Photo of the Rock Island Prison
http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_rock_island.html
Watercolor of Rock Island Arsenal Prison Barracks by John Gisch, Confederate prisoner
n http://riamwr.com/museum.htm
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