This Day in Goodlove History, February 7

This Day in Goodlove History, February 7

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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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

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) 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), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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

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

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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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.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com and that will take them right to it.



The Goodlove Reunion 2011 will be held Sunday, June 12 at Horseshoe Falls Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, Iowa. This is the same lodge we used for the previous reunions. Contact Linda at pedersen37@mchsi.com



Birthdays on this date: Michael N. Taylor, Patricia C. Repstein, Micheal A. Newman, Ann McKinnon, Nancy E. McAfee, Joseph S. Martin, Charles Godlove , James M. Cunningham, Mathew R. Bawden



Weddings on this date; Ella G. Jones and Perry A. McKee



I Get Email!



In a message dated 1/28/2011 2:05:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, apbowd@intellex.com writes:



This isin reference to my letter to Joe that appeared in today's daily output.

I should have referreed you to Dorothy Nordgrn.

I do know that Wendell Wilkonson had several sons. I do not

knopw their names, but Dorothy Nordgren is Wendell's sister and she

woulkd probably know the names and ages of her nephews.



Al Bowdish





Al, here is photo I got from Dorothy a while back. I hope everything is well with you. We have had our share of snow recently. My oldest daughter Jillian was home from school this weekend and Sherri and I watched the Superbowl at her boyfriends (John) parents (Jan and Alex) house. I hope to hear from you again soon. Jeff

[1]

Thomas, Cora, Thomas Sr. Neveline, Katherine, Sarah Pyle Goodlove, Dorothy Wilkinson



This Day…



February 7, 457: Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. As can be seen from this decree, Leo was no friend of the Jewish people. "Therefore We, desiring to accomplish what Our Father failed to effect, do hereby annul all the old laws enacted with reference to the Hebrews, and We order that they shall not dare to live in any other manner than in accordance with the rules established by the pure and salutary Christian Faith. And if anyone of them should be proved to, have neglected to observe the ceremonies of the Christian religion, and to have returned to his former practices, he shall pay the penalty prescribed by the law for apostates." Jews who converted in public but were found practicing “the faith of their fathers” faced a variety of punishments including loss of estates and possession, loss of the right to transfer property to their heirs and/or loss of life.[2]

In 476, Odoacer the Scirian, the commander and elected king of the German troops in the former Roman Empire, deposed Romulus Augustus, ending nearly one thousand years of Roman dominance in the Mediterranean. The defeat caused difficult times for gentile and Jew alike, sending many people north into Europe to seek a safer, more stable life.[3]

476 A.D.

After the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, causing the withdrawal of the Roman military from Britain, the gospel was spread though the efforts of Celtic missionaries sent out from the theological school founded by Columba on the little island of Iona near the coast of Scotland. [4] The fall of the Roman Empire in 476 sent Europe plunging into the darkness of the Middle Ages, a darkness made all the deeper by the absence of a Bible that was understandable to the masses. Latin eventually became a deead language to the common layman, the result being that the Bible became a closed book. Few laymken knew enough Latin to understand the verses the priests would read at Mass. Many of the priests knew just enough Latin to mumble through their liturgies.
The Bible remained a venerated book but a closed book, and would remain so for centuries to com.[5]

Great cities fell into ruins, roads became overgrown with weeds, trake collapsed, and the wide spread rule of Roman law ended. For almost a millennium the people of Europe huddled together for protection in small towns and villages in the countryside. Most barely eked out an existence from the soil, as war, disease, and famine routinely spread over the land.[6]

Abt 500

The Christian religion was introduced in Scotland about 500 A.D. and new troubles were experienced by the converts.[7]

By the 6th century, Jews have become a minority in their own land.[8]



A sixth-century mosaic map of Jerusalem and the Judean hills.[9]

February 7, 1413: In Aragon (Spain), Vincente Ferrer returned and assisted by an apostate Joshua Lorki (Geronimo de Santa Fe), known to the Jews as Hamegadef (the blasphemer) convinced Anti-Pope Benedict XIII to stage a disputation at Tortosa. It was presided over by the Pope himself and lasted for a period of twenty-one months in sixty-nine sessions. The Jews, led by Vidal Benvenisti and Joseph Albo, were faced with an opening salvo by Benedict when he made the expected outcome clear. Hamegadef attacked the Talmud as anti-Christian and urged its banning. None of the Jews' counter-arguments were officially recorded.[10]

1413-1422: The exploits of Henry V, who reigned from 1413 to 1422, also marked a turning point inh securing new respectability for the English language3. Henry became the first English king since 1066 to use English in his official documents. [11]

1414: In the year 1414 a Heinrich von Hachberg is mentioned by K. Baas, also a Master Heinrich 1425/1440, finally a physician by the same name as a houseowner before 1460.[12]

February 7, 1550: Julius III becomes Pope. Julius had mixed record where it concerned the Jewish people which made better than most of his contemporaries or others who served as Pope. Julius confirmed the rights of the Jews in Ancona. “He condemned the blood libel and forbade baptism of Jewish children without parental consent.” At the same time, he was unable to stand up against the power of the Holy Office. Under pressure from the Inquisitor General he collected copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books and burned them.[13]



1550 Jews expelled from Genoa.[14]



1551 Bishop Edmund Becke’s Bible.[15]



1551 Jews expelled from Bavaria.[16]



1553

Things changed radically when Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine, ascended the throne in 1553. Instructed by strict Catholics in her youth, Mary determined to censor Protestants and prevent the distribution of Scripture. Using threats of imprisonment and capital punishment to those who opposed her, Mary was able in part to succeed in rolling back the effects of Protestantism. She was labeled “Bloody Mary” because of the almost 300 Protestants who were burned at the stake during her reign.[17]



February 7, 1569: The Inquisition is established in South America. About a half a century after the Spanish landed in South America, the Inquisition reared its ugly head. Unlike the English colonies founded in North America in the next century and half, there was no place for religious toleration in New Spain. Rather the hunt for all manner of backsliders including Marranos, Conversos or Secret Jews became part of Spanish culture in the New World. When we study the history of Jews in the New World, hopefully we will have time to take a side trip to the little known secret Jewish communities in what later became Arizona and New Mexico.[2] The unique Cohen Modal Haplotype which the Goodlove’s have has also been found in descendants in these areas. [18]



Within three years, after the Mexican Inquisition was formalized in 1571, the first auto-da-fe was held. Judaizers were either readmitted to the church or burned. Crypto-Jews began heading north to Nuevo Leon, the sweep of land that today covers parts of northeastern Mexico, around Monterrey, and southeastern Texas.[3][19]



1572: Martin Luther’s followers continued to agitate against the Jews in Germany, they sacked the Berlin synagogue in 1572.[4][20] Adolf Hitler did not invent anti-Semitism in Germany.



February 7, 1753

Anne the 1st daughter of Daniel McKinnon and Ruth his wife Born February 7, 1753[21]

Ann McKinnon, according to Torrence, was born February 7, 1753.[22] She died

December 12, 1830. She married Thomas Rogers.[23] Among their children is probably the Daniel Rogers of Connellsville who married Mary Meason, a daughter of Isaac Meason and Catherine Harrison.[24] Anne McKinnon was born February 7, 1753 and about 1775 married Thomas Rogers born about 1747 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. No record of this marriage can be found in Anne Arundel County. Anne died December 12, 1830. They had eight children. [25]



February 7, 1774

In recent months Michael Cresap had grown disenchanted with the Redstone Creek area: it had become rowdy and congested, filled with transients tramping all over one’s property. So when a pair of brothers named Brown showed up one day and offered to buy all his claims fronting on the Monongahela just south of Redstone Creek, he sold out to them. The Brown brothers immediately began laying out a town on the land and called it Brownsville, while Cresap used the money he got to equip himself well for the claiming he meant to do down the Ohio this spring. In addition he had formed a loose association with George Rogers Clark and William Crawford, who were actively employed by the Ohio Land Company and looking to the establishment of a new colony beginning at the mouth of the Kanawhaa, Even more exciting——and dangerous, was the fact that George Washington, one of the founding members of the company. was not only intent on claiming some 200,000 acres along the Ohio but had hired John Floyd to locate lands right in the midst of the Shawnee territory in Ohio - His orders to Floyd were to claim for him some 10,000 acres of prime bottom lands in the valley of the Scioto. [26]

1775 - February 7 - Benjamin Harrison headed a party of Virginia partisans who broke open the jail at Hannastown and released the prisoners. Harrison had orders from William Crawford to "press Horses, Raise men, &c, Go to Hanna's Town, open the Gaol Doors and Set the Prisoners at Liberty."[27]

February 7th, 1775

On the 7th of February, 1775, in the morning , before the people of the town were out of bed, a party headed by Benjamin Harrison, son-in-law of William Crawford, and one Samuel Wilson, by order of Crawford, broke open the doors of the jail with a sledge, which they got out of the blacksmith-shop near by,and let out the prisoners therein confined, three in number, teling the to cler the way. On that occasion Mr. Hanna poked his head out of the cockloft window of the mansion-house, which, never to be forgotten, was also the temple of justice, and made the remark, “Boys, you are up early to-day to buy a rope to hang yourselves.” Hanna appeared on the ground, and Sheriff John Carnahan, also there, had the riot act read to the crowd, who jeered at him and made mouths, grimaces, and very disparaging remarks, intended for the Governor’s province in general, and the magistrates there present in particular. Hanna had a musket pointed at his head. On the 25th of the month Hanna and Cavet were taken into custody and confined in the guard-room at Fort Pitt, and were there detained in confinement above three months.[28]

There was by this time a distinctive line drawn between the jurisdiction and the claims of the two colonies, and each of these had its adherents. Many of the most prominent had not given up the hope that the disturbances would be settled without difficulty, attributing that the most of the present troubles came from some hot-headed and rash men. But in the state of affairs getting still more complicated, and which had called demands from the Council of the king, and advices from the Continental Congress, it was not unreasonable that men of high character in every respect should be held by the ties which bound them under every consideration to their own colony. We are, therefore, not surprised to know that a s strenuously as Penn’s settlers and his agents advocated their rights and his claims, so as strenuously on the other side and as naturally did such men as Crawford and Gibson take the side of Virginia. In January of 1775 the Executive Council of Pennsylvania having had information that William Crawford, the president judge of Westmoreland, sided with the Virginians in opposing the justices of Pennsylvania, the Council advised the Governor to supersede him in the office of judge, which was done forthwith.

But of the troubles of the settlers during the fall and winter of 1774 and 1775 these were of the least. During the preceding summer the crops had been neglected, and winter found them unprepared. At the termination of Dunmore’s war a goodly number, as was always the case on the frontier, had returned to their former homes, and this accession of inhabitants, who were consumers and not producers, had a distressful effect. They could not have come in a worse time, for the amount of provisions gathered was barely sufficient for those that had remained. The harvest of 1774 at best had been scanty; along the southern border it had not been gathered at all. This season came very near to what the preceding year had been to Western Virginia, a year which in their annals was long remembered as the “starving year.” But with that generosity which was a noble and a prominent trait among the early settlers, each assisted the other. And this was but the prelude to a long era of want and privation, necessity, and contant alarm, which was terminated only with the war which secured the independence of the colonies.

Readers of general history are well conversant with the affairs which were taking place in Massachusetts and at Philadelphia in the early part of 1775. We will pass them over with observing that they were sympathetically responded to and closely watched by our colonists. Already were some, by more ways than one, controlling the actions of all.

From noticed of foregoing statements it will be observed that the whole people, as a body, at these early times may readily be separated into two classes, between which was a prominent line of demarcation. Although we alluded incidentally to this distinction before, at no other time is it more suitable to recall it than now. And this distinction is notecable all through our early affairs, and indeed is noticeable at all times and among all people. We may call them respectively, aristocrats and plebeians, gentry and commonalty; they are, in reality, the leaders and the followers. The class of which the county justices were themost prominent representatives, together with others who, in a military station, were equally prominent, deserves more than a passing notice. These were the ones who shaped the measures which received the approval of the people. As to these justices, we can at almost all times bear testimony to their integrity, and to their good, sound common sense They reflect honor upon their lineage in the capacity of judges, the arbiters of right and wrong. But besides this knowledge, which it is certain they possessed, an accompanying and an indispensable qualification for a prominent man was that he have some knowledge of arms. Nearly every man of that day distinguished as a leader in civil affairs was also a military man. Indeed, from the incessant wars, to be a man distinguished above the others was to be one who commanded the respect of his followers by having displayed more than ordinary bravery or knowledge of warfare. Of this class of men St. Clair, Capt. James Smith, Capt. Proctor, Col. Lochry were fitting examples with us; while those at Pittsburgh, Cols. Crawford, John Neville, John Gibson may be noticed. To have acquired a seat in the Assmbly, or a nomination as a justice of the peace, or of the quorum, was about as much as to say that the one so specially favored was, or had been, a leader in the militia.

The military organization of the Province had been early attended to, and no less from necessity was it than from a desire of glory that every citizen had a tincture of the manual of arms and of camp discipline. The justices of the peace were usually officers in the militia. St. Clair, Smith, Crawford, Neville had won a sort of pre-eminence in service before they were recognized as leaders in the civil affairs. The ideas of these men at the of our county at this conjuncture had been enlarged by connection with the more prominent men of the colonies, had been improved by observation, by travel, by reading, and by experience. So they were in manners, in information, in the possession of peculiar privileges and franchises bestowed by the colonial authorities, far above the great body of the people who came higher to earn their bread by drudgery, and clear a patch and rear a thatched cabin to shelter the heads of their ragged offspring; for these people, as a class, were poor to impoverishment. They had made little advancement in refinement, they were of different and distinct nationalities. Of all the early settlers they had no special claim above the others to the boasted liberty of those born under the common law of England. But it is with a peculiar satisfaction that the Westmorelander of today contemplates the proceedings of his ancestors in 1775.[29]





No. 28.—CRAWFORD TO WASHINGT0N.



February 7, 1775.



SIR :—Your letter by Mr. Cleveland was safely delivered to me; but I did not get the letter you mentioned by Mr. Willis till yesterday. I was out surveying when Mr. Cleveland came over the mountain, and he set off for home as soon as I came home, and matters were settled. I have a memorandum of what is wanting for your people down the river, and I shall have it ready against the time they come over the mountain. I would have sent down your plats by Mr. Cleveland, but he could not wait till they could be finished. However, Valentine Crawford is coming to Williamsburg, and then you shall have them sent to you. He will be down in a few days, which will, I hope, suit you as well, as he is coming, and will call at Mount Vernon on his way down. I am at a loss how to return you thanks for your generous present. All that I can do at any time shall always be done. If I can go down the river when you come, I will. And if you will but let me know what you may want got ready, it shall be done. I have a neat canoe that will suit to run down with; or you may go by land, as there is a road cut to Hockhocking. I shall write you more fully by Valentine Crawford, as Mr. Cleveland is in great haste to go to you, as he wants to be up again as soon as possible. I wish you all happmess.: I am, etc.[30]



February 7, 1775



Even before the Revolutionary year of 1776-1783, the Harrisons, if not also Thomas Moore, were actively, violently asserting themselves with the aim of acquiring new lands. In the years leading up to the Revolutionm, a bitter confrontation had developed between Virginia and Pennsylvania over the ownership and control of a region of western Pennsylvania, which had been claimed by the French and which extended westward from the frontier English settlements to and and west from the Ohio River. The dispute arose after the French were defeated at the end of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The Ohio Company, a corporation selling land, was established to promote settlement and trade with the Shawnee and other tribes. Many of the earliest western PA settlers were from Virginia and Maryland and held “certificates” issued to them in Virginia, which warranted to them access to Ohio lands claimed by Pennsylvania. After 1780, with the passage in PA of slave emancipation legislation, numbers of settlers in western PA, migrated into Kentucky. Before they left, they worked hard to make western PA (and, by extension, the Ohio country) part of Virginia.

Jurisdiction was not settled until after the Revolutionary War, when the two states appointed a commission that surveyed the lands. This commission simply extended westward the accepted PA-MD state line (the Mason-Dixon Line) and determined (1785) that the contested lands belonged to Pennsylvania But for a decade or more, prior to the agreement, conflicting land sales, claims, occupations and disputed taxes and assessments caused fights, riots and arrests by local officiaols appointed by both PA and VA authorities.

In early 1775, Pennsylvania authorities had arrested some partisans of Virginia’s claim. On February 7, 1775, William and Benjamin Harrison, and possibly also with their sister’s husband, Thomas Moore, went with a ropwdy company of men to Pittsburgh, entered the local jail and released th prisoners, with threats to shoot anyone who interfered. This exercise was repeated (with the arrest of PA-sponsored local judges) in the nearby hamlet Hanna’s Town (Hannastown), PA. On this occasion, Ben Harrison “was pleased to announce that it was done at the command of Major William Crawford.” The popular Crawford (see Index) was a land agent for George Washington and Ben and William Harrison’s father in law. Apparently the Pittsburgh and Hanna’s Town hooligans, sponsored by Govbernor Dunmore of Virginia, were energized by the p[romise of grants of Western lands. Additional investigation might prove that the Kentucky lands Ben Harrison and Thomas Moore claimed after the 1775 foray into P{A was a reward for these violent gambits. Shortly after the Hanna’s Town incident, Benjamin Harrison led surveyors into Kentucky and laid off thousands of acres of land for himself, his brother William and also for Thomas Moore, his sister’s husband. T
homas lands included a claim on 900 Ohio acres (Pickaway County), along Mill Creekl, where he took legal possession in 1786; he supplemented this with a purchase of 1,000 additional Mill
Creek acres, as evidenced by his will. This reach north across the Ohio River was probably the earliest connection of the Moore family into Ohio, where son William would be well known and William’s son, Marmaduke Moore (1808-1883) would meet and marry Jane Baldwin (1809-1893),

Why would the Harrisons, with family ties to Pennsylvania, have been inclined to risk their lives to become enforcers of Virginia territorial claims against Pennsylvania in 1775? Why might Thomas Moore, with ancestral ties to Maryland for 120 years, have joined them? These events were part of the quest for more land. Thomas Moore had long since left Maryland and gone west. He was the youngest of four brothers; the oldest, John (1730-1812), had inherited Arcadia Plantation in MD, where he died, unmarried. By 1769, young Thomas had immigrated to the West Augusta District, Virginia Colony. He had first spent some time in nearby Fayette County, PA, which is probably where he had encountered the Harrisons, and specifically Mary, whom he married in Fayette County about 1778. By the middle of the 1780s Thomas and Mary Moore were living in that extension of Virgina known as Kentucky. A briedf look at VA and PA land policies in the 1760s and ‘70s suggest why Kentucky settlers would have been prompted to side with Virginia against Pennsylvania’s claims to lands along the eastern bank of the upper Ohio River.

Virginia’s colonial officials were much more aggressive in sponsoring western settlements than were Pennsylvania’s. Governor Dunmore of Virginia was offering outright grants of western land and was selling lands cheaper than PA was. Also, the Harrisons and Moores would have known that Pennsylvania, in October 1758, had achieved peace with some Ohio Country Indian’s by renouncing Pennsylvania’s claims to lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. They would have known that this agreement, the Treaty of Easton, had been made because Pennsylvania, with its Quaker and pacifist traditions, alsoays had been slow to raise and pay for local militia to protect European settlers in the western reaches of the coloney. The proprietary colonty of William Penn, with its political establishment divided between Quaker pacifists, PhilaDELPHIA MERCHANTS, AND IMPATIENT, LAND HUNGRY settlers, was indecisive. Pennsylvania’s political paralysis on western land issues could be worked to the advantage of Virginia, or so concluded manyt long established families in Virginia and Maryland, whose sons, like George Washington, were unable or unwilling to carve up and share the family’s traditional lands in the established colonies and were anxsious to get onto huge tracts of frontier acreage. [31] [32]





February 7, 1783



With this sale Hezekiah Lindsy declares "It being the same land I live on in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy" (SW of Greensburg* Ezekiah Lindsy to Isaac Mason, February 7, 1783. 300 acres on Mounts Creek.[33]



February 7: 1812: On this day in 1812, the most violent of a series of earthquakes near Missouri causes a so-called fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, actually making the river run backward for several hours. The series of tremors, which took place between December 1811 and March 1812, were the most powerful in the history of the United States.

The unusual seismic activity began at about 2 a.m. on December 16, 1811, when a strong tremor rocked the New Madrid region. The city of New Madrid, located near the Mississippi River in present-day Arkansas, had about 1,000 residents at the time, mostly farmers, hunters and fur trappers. At 7:15 a.m., an even more powerful quake erupted, now estimated to have had a magnitude of 8.6. This tremor literally knocked people off their feet and many people experienced nausea from the extensive rolling of the earth. Given that the area was sparsely populated and there weren't many multi-story structures, the death toll was relatively low. However, the quake did cause landslides that destroyed several communities, including Little Prairie, Missouri.

The earthquake also caused fissures--some as much as several hundred feet long--to open on the earth's surface. Large trees were snapped in two. Sulfur leaked out from underground pockets and river banks vanished, flooding thousands of acres of forests. On January 23, 1812, an estimated 8.4-magnitude quake struck in nearly the same location, causing disastrous effects. Reportedly, the president's wife, Dolley Madison, was awoken by the tremor in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the death toll was smaller, as most of the survivors of the first earthquake were now living in tents, in which they could not be crushed.

The strongest of the tremors followed on February 7. This one was estimated at an amazing 8.8-magnitude and was probably one of the strongest quakes in human history. Church bells rang in Boston, thousands of miles away, from the shaking. Brick walls were toppled in Cincinnati. In the Mississippi River, water turned brown and whirlpools developed suddenly from the depressions created in the riverbed. Waterfalls were created in an instant; in one report, 30 boats were helplessly thrown over falls, killing the people on board. Many of the small islands in the middle of the river, often used as bases by river pirates, permanently disappeared. Large lakes, such as Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee and Big Lake at the Arkansas-Missouri border, were created by the earthquake as river water poured into new depressions.

This series of large earthquakes ended in March, although there were aftershocks for a few more years. In all, it is believed that approximately 1,000 people died because of the earthquakes, though an accurate count is difficult to determine because of a lack of an accurate record of the Native American population in the area at the time.[34]

February 7, 1836

Mary Goodlove visits Mary Harrison buried at Poindexter Village, near Cynthiana, KY next to Thomas (Moore)







February 7, 1836: Tom. Moore was the Captain Moore who married Mary Harrison, born 1761; died February 7, 1836, a daughter of Lawrence and Catheren Harrison. He was born in Kent County, Maryland in 1745; died October 20, 1823, in Harrison County, Kentucky; buried next to his wife in Poindexter Village, near Cynthiana. Joseph Vance, whose connections have not been gone into, was no doubt a relative of Honore Vance who married Hugh Crawford. All goes to show these families stuck together in early times. It appears that when the exploitation of lands in the Virginia County of Augusta, later Fayette County, Pennsylvania, was over, a number of persons, including Harrisons, went down the Ohio River to Limestone, now Maysville and up the Licking River to Cynthiana and Paris, Kentucky. They are found in Louisville and south of it on the Salt Licks and Salt River. To prove this, it is noted, in looking over the will of Major William Harrison, nephew of Charles Harrison, dated May 16, 1782; proven March 1, 1784: "It is my further will that the four thousand acres of land located in my name on Licking Creek, in the State of Virginia, be divided and distributed in manner, viz: First, I do give and bequeath unto my much beloved wife, Sarah, five hundred acres during her natural life, at the expiration of which, I desire they be sold and the money equally divided amongst my children or heirs of their body lawfully begotten." (Union-town, Pennsylvania, Court House, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, Book 1, Page 6, transferred to Book, Page 3.) This will says further: 500 acres to my brother, Benjamin Harrison and the remaining three thousand be divided amongst his children. This land, described as in Virginia, eventually turned out to be located in Kentucky. [35]



February 7, 1861

The Choctaw Indian Nation declares its allegiance to the Southern states.[36].



February 1861

Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States.[37] Perhaps a McKinnon had a hand in helping Abe along the way.

Our Theopolis McKinnon said in 1880 said, “I claim to be the first man who named “Honest Old Abe” for President.”[38] This claim has some merit, but needs more research. Theopolis, was also from Kentucky, and the following story adds an interesting connection.

Abraham Lincoln, while a teenager borrowed a book from a neighbor, as he did often from anyone in the area who had a book, as there was no library in the area. When not reading it, he laid it away in a part of the cabin where he thought it would be free from harm, but it so happened that just behind the shelf on which he placed it was a great crack between the logs of the wall. One night a storm came up suddenly the rain beat in through the crevice, and soaked the borrowed book through. The book was almost utterly spoiled. Abe felt very uneasy, for a book was valuable in his eyes, as well as in the eyes of its owner.

He took the damaged volume and trudged over to the neighbors in some perplexity and mortification.

“Well, Abe, what brings you over so early? said the neighbor. “I’ve got some bad news for you,” answered Abe, with lengthened face. “Bad news! What is it?”

You know the book you lent me, the “Life of Washington?”

“Yes, yes.”

“Well, the rain last night spoiled it,” and Abe showed the book, wet to a pulp inside, at the same time explaining how it had been injured.

“It’s too bad, I vum! You’d ought to pay for it, Abe. You must have been dreadful careless!”

“I’d pay for if I had any money. ”

“I’ll do whatever you think right.”

So it was arranged that Abe should work three days for Neighbor, “pulling fodder,” the value of his labor being rated at twenty five cents a day. As the book had cost seventy five cents this would be regarded as satisfactory. So Abe worked his three days and discharged his debt.[39]

The neighbor Abe borrowed the book from was from old Josiah Crawford.[40].

Theopolis’ claim of being the originator of the saying “Honest Abe” for president is interesting because of the McKinnon/Crawford/Washington connection. It is possible that Theopolis did come up with that saying, as William Crawford and George Washington were lifelong friends. It is not surprising that an ancestor would have the book “Life of Washington.” I think I would like to find that book. I have not made the connection from Josiah Crawford to our Crawford at this point, but in time I would not be surprised if I do.



Sun. February 7, 1864

In Memphis got on steam boat Adriatic[41] left at 4 pm went 90 all all night at pelenna[42] ark small poor town[43] – 400 miles from memphis to vixburg[44]



February 7, 1907

(Pleasant Valley) Earl Goodlove and Ira Miller have been putting up ice the past week.[45]



February 7, 1979: Joseph Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death,” primarklyu for the brutal experiments he performed on live prisoners, escapd to South America where he died in 1979.[46] Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil—although his death was not verified until 1985.

Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg, Germany. His father founded Frima Karl Mengele & Sohne, a factory that produced farm machinery, in Bavaria. In college, Mengele first studied philosophy, imbibing the rascist theories of Alfred Rosenberg—who posited the innate intellectual and moral superiority of Aryans—and then took a medical degree at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Soon thereafter he enlisted in the SA, the paramilitary force of the Nazi Party. Mengele was so enthusiastic about Nazism that in 1934 he joined the research staff of the Nazi Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene.

When war erupted, Mengele was a medical officer with the SS, the elite squad of Hitler's bodyguards who later emerged as a secret police force that waged campaigns of terror in the name of Nazism. In 1943, Mengele was called to a position that would earn him his well-deserved infamy. SS head Heinrich Himmler appointed Mengele the chief doctor of the Auschwitz death camps in Poland.

Mengele, in distinctive white gloves, supervised the selection of Auschwitz' incoming prisoners for either torturous labor or immediate extermination, shouting either "Right!" or "Left!" to direct them to their fate. Eager to advance his medical career by publishing "groundbreaking" work, he then began experimenting on live Jewish prisoners. In the guise of medical "treatment," Mengele injected, or ordered others to inject, thousands of inmates with everything from petrol to chloroform to study the chemicals' effects. Among other atrocities, he plucked out the eyes of Gypsy corpses to study eye pigmentation, and conducted numerous gruesome studies of twins.

Mengele managed to escape imprisonment after the war, first by working as a farm stableman in Bavaria, then by moving to South America. He became a citizen of Paraguay in 1959. He later moved to Brazil, where he met up with another former Nazi party member, Wolfgang Gerhard. In 1985, a multinational team of forensic experts traveled to Brazil in search of Mengele. They determined that a man named Gerhard had died of a stroke while swimming in 1979. Dental records later revealed that Mengele had, at some point, assumed Gerhard's identity and was the stroke victim.

A fictional account of Josef Mengele's life after the war was depicted in the film Boys from Brazil, with Mengele portrayed by Gregory Peck.[47]





1980s

Even as new manuscripts have continued to emerge from the desert, archaeologists in modern day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan are uncovering sites that were unknown or unexcavated just a few years ago. Since the 1980’s, a number of major archaeological digs have been active in Sepphoris and Tiberias, cities built or rebuilt by Herod Antipas, the governor of the Galilee at the time of Jesus. The Galilee was one of the most densely populated regions in the entire Roman empire, and Sephhoris was the market hub for a network of agricultural villages. It was rebuilt after its near complete destruction following a Jewish uprising against the Romans in 4 B.C.[48]



None of the modern efforts, including the attempt to color code Jesus’s sayings according to their supposed authenticity, has been more productive than the attempt to recapture the Jeiwshess of Jesus and his world. Geza Vermes, a retired professor of Jewish studies at Oxford UIniversity, set the tone about 30 years ago with his Jesus the Jew, which located Jesus as a first century Galilean who exemplified “charismatic Judaism of wonder working holy men such as the first century B.C. Honi and Jusus’s younger contemporary, Hanina ben Dosa.” Other scholars have focused on the political tinderbox that was first century Palestine in order to understand how Jesus came to be viewed as such a threat.[49]







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February 7, 2010: Sherri Maxson, my beautiful and talented girlfriend explains the Silurian Period and why I should have paid attention in school.



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251 to 250 million years ago…

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Sherri Maxson and Jillian Goodlove visit The Field Museum, February 7, 2010.



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Jillian and Dad visit the Field Museum in Chicago, February 7, 2010.







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[1] Photo courtesy Dorothy Nordgren

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

[3] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine. Page 203..

[4] Trial by Fire by Harold Rawlings, page 25.

[5] Trial by Fire by Harold Rawlings, page 31.

[6] Trial by Fire by Harold Rawlings, page 59.



[7] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969 page 3

[8] http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/04.html

[9] Heritage:Civilization and the Jews by Abba Eban. 1984, page 99.

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

[11] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 23.

[12] The Gutleben Family of Physicians in Medieval Times, by Gerd Mentgen, page 6.

[13] Thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com

[14] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm

[15] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 303.

[16] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm

[17] Trial by Fire by Harold Rawllings, page 89

[18] [2]http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[19] [3] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, page 182.

[20] Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1987), 242, www.wikipedia.org

[21] The original records of All Hallows Parish on microfilm at the Maryland State Archives.

[22] (birth record Anne Arundel Co MD

[23] (Descendants of this couple are recorded in Torrence, "Rogers Chapter, beginning with Thomas Rogers, No. 3)

[24] (Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett, page 224.7)

[25] (FamilySearch Ancestral File v 4.19 (AFN-TRBQ-92) http://washburnhill.freehomepage.com/custom3.html)

[26] That Dark and Bloody River, Allan W. Eckert

[27] (Pennsylvania Archives, lst Series, V. 4, pp. 603-608) Chronology of BENJAMIN HARRISON compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giulvezan Afton, Missouri, 1973. http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[28] Depositions of Carnahan, Hanna, et al., in Archives, Vol.iv., 604 et seq. History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of its many Pioneers and Prominent Men. Edited by George Dallas Albert. Philadephia: L.H. Everts & Company 1882 pg 62..



[29] History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of its many Pioneers and Prominent Men. Edited by George Dallas Albert. Philadephia: L.H. Everts & Company 1882 pgs. 71-72.

[30] The Washington- Crawford Letters, C. W. Butterfield

[31] John Moreland book 265

[32] John Moreland book pages 262-263.

[33] http://doclindsay.com/spread_sheets/2_davids_spreadsheet.html

[34] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-causes-fluvial-tsunami-in-mississippi

[35] Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume III, 1981

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

[37]Civil War Journal, Woman at War, HIST, 1994

[38] Theopolis McKinnon, August 6, 1880, History of Clark County, page 384.

[39] Cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/

[40] (statement of Mr. Lamon).

[41] August 12, 1864 C.S.S. Tallahassee, Commander Wood, sized six more prizes while continuing her devastating cruise off the New York coast. Wood burned ships Atlantic, Adriatic, and Spokane, cargo of lumber; attempted to scuttle brig Billow, cargo of lumber, and released bark Suliote and schooner Robert E. Packer, cargo of lumber, on bond. (Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865, compiled by Naval History Division. Navy Department, 1971.



John Kirby left for America, March 28, 1848, he sailed on the Adriatic, landing at New York the following May, stopping at Oneida, New York, and working in the railroad service

[42]Helena, Arkansas.The Battle of Helena is represented by four Union battery sites, which are in various states of preservation (and are all on private property). The July 4 1863 battle was a major defensive victory for the Union forces and provided a third crushing defeat within 48 hours (Lee began his retreat from Gettysburg, and Vicksburg surrendered on this same day) for the confederacy. (Helena, Arkansas Civil War sites Driving Tour, 226 Perry St., Helena, AR 72342, (870) 338-9831

http://www.civilwarbuff.org/helena.html)

[43] weather fine landed at Helena at 11 o’clock this morning stoped until 10 and left some sick one boy died last night of a fit I did not go ashore at Helena (Rollins Diary) http://ipserv2.aea14.k12.ia.us/iacivilwar/Resources/rollins diary.htm

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

[45] Winton Goodlove papers.

[46] Daily Herald, November 1, 2010, Section 1 page 3.

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[48] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 8.

[49] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 17.

[50] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff +Goodlove.

[51] The Field Museum, Chicago, February 7, 2010.

[52] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove February 7, 2010.

[53] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove February 7, 2010.

[54] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[55] The Field Museum, Chicago February 7, 2010

[56] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, February 7, 2010.

[57] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, February 7, 2010.