This Day in Goodlove History, April 14

• This Day in Goodlove History, April 14

• 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.



“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.

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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 day: Mary J. Truax, Freeman T. Sr., Pernina A. Hoglan, Remina Godlove, Joseph H. Godlove, Mary Crawford

Weddings on this day: Mary A. Graham and William C. Pierce, Sarah E. Collins and John D. McKinnon,

I like to Sing!…

This weekend I will be performing With the Elgin Choral Union at:



GERSHWIN IN BLUE

April 15 (1:30pm), 16 (8:00pm) & 17 (3:30pm), 2011 – Hemmens Theatre, Elgin

Stephen Squires, conductor | Jodie De Salvo,piano | Ollie Watts Davis, soprano |
Leon Williams, baritone | Elgin Choral Union

From the iconic Rhapsody in Blue to the popular and controversial Porgy and Bess, Gershwin was a champion “mixmaster,” bringing the sounds and vibrancy of American cultures to the concert stage. Stephen Squires, celebrating his 20th Season as the ESO’s Associate Conductor, presents some of the most loved Gershwin moments!

Also…



The Medinah Shriners Mens Choir!



MEDINAH SHRINERS, A.A.O.N.M.S. AND CHICAGO MEDINAH

TEMPLE ASSOCIATION WILL BE HELD AT 7:00 P.M. ON FRIDAY,

April 15, 2011 AT MEDINAH SHRINE CENTER,

550 N.SHRINERS DRIVE, ADDISON, ILLINOIS.

And…

Baker Methodist Choir, St Charles

Sunday April 17, 9 AM

I Get Email!

In a message dated 4/1/2011 11:36:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, cultural@chicago.mfa.gov.il writes:

April 1, 2011


Hezbollah Bunkers Revealed



Israel Releases Map of Hezbollah Bunkers in Lebanon



An Israeli security official provided the Washington Post with a map detailing no less than 550 bunkers, 300 surveillance sites and 100 other facilities the Jewish state believes belong to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.






Ten arms caches are marked on another map featuring an aerial view of the Al Khiyam village in south Lebanon. The weapons storage facilities are located in close proximity to medical centers and schools:



Close-up map of Lebanese village El Khiam, with Israeli intelligence assessment of various installations




And…



In a message dated 4/1/2011 5:49:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, JPT@donationnet.net writes:



The Warning of Jesus for the End of the Age



Dear Jeff,

Jesus warned that as the end of the age approached, "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name." (Matthew 24:9) Today that prophetic warning is being fulfilled.

As I stated in my book, The American Prophecies, the greatest century to date of Christian persecution was not the first century, but the twentieth. In the history of the world and of the nearly 69.6 million Christians martyred for their faith, over sixty-five percent of them were killed in the twentieth century. That is not even mentioning what happened to Jews in the Holocaust. It is estimated that the first ten years of the twenty-first century saw another million Christians murdered for their faith. Though this shows a significant decrease in martyrdom worldwide as compared to the twentieth century, it is still an alarming number. The truth of the matter is that while some of the most severe persecutors of Christians in recent history have eased their "cultural revolutions"—namely Communist governments—those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, still place their lives on the line virtually every day throughout the Islamic world.

Though I could present numerous examples of this, one that has most recently come to my attention is the predicament of Aasia Noreen (also called Aasiya Bibi, Asia, or other transliterations in the world press), a forty-five-year-old mother of five. In 2009, Aasia got into a disagreement with fellow field workers in her village of Ittan Wali in Pakistan near the Indian border. The other workers were trying to pressure her into renouncing Christianity and becoming a Muslim. Aasia's family was the only Christian household in the village. Aasia however, stood her ground, much to the chagrin of at least one of the other women who also held a grudge against her for a past land dispute. To end the bickering, the wife of a village elder demanded Aasia go to fetch them water from a well in the Nankana Sahib district, several miles away. Aasia complied, but when she returned, the disgruntled Muslim woman said it was sacrilegious to drink water collected by a non-Muslim. Aasia replied, "Are we not all humans?" The response brought another strong rebuke and another altercation arose.


Shortly after, the disgruntled women went to a local Muslim cleric and told him about the incident. The cleric filed a report with the police about it on June 19, 2009, and on that same day, the disgruntled woman confronted Aasia in front of her home accusing her of having defamed the name of Muhammad, saying she had denied that he was a prophet. Men working in the fields nearby overheard the altercation, left what they were doing, and forced their way into Aasia's house. There they began torturing Aasia and her children, demanding she admit to the blasphemy and repent. As things escalated, they tried to put a noose around Aasia's neck ready to hang her. However, the police soon arrived and took Aasia into custody, supposedly for her own protection. As more allegations were made, instead of being released, Aasia was charged with blasphemy under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code, a crime punishable by death. While awaiting trial, Aasia would have to remain in the horrible conditions of a Pakistani prison, separated from her family except for when they could visit.

Aasia spent more than a year incarcerated before her trial. Then finally in November 2010, the accusations were heard before a judge. While the family hoped they might finally put this matter behind them, instead of dismissing the charges because of a lack of evidence, the judge sentenced Aasia to death by hanging and fined her 100,000 rupees ($1,100). Because many convicted in lower courts of blasphemy are threatened or even killed in prison, Aasia was put into solitary confinement and all visiting rights were revoked.

The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) has said that up to eighty percent of such blasphemy charges are filed to settle old grievances, which seems to be the case with Aasia as well. In recent years, most such convictions get overturned in higher courts. It is believed that local courts are usually pressured into convictions by local clerics and Islamic groups. The word of such cases travels fast, and generally angry mobs surrounding the courthouse chant slogans and demand the death sentence as trials take place.

In Aasia's area, the local imam said he cried with joy when Aasia was sentenced to hang. He told reporters, "She'll be made to pay, one way or the other. . . If the law punishes someone for blasphemy, and that person is pardoned or released, then we will take the law into our own hands." Despite the fact that no one has ever been executed by the government under this law, many have been murdered after their release. Several Islamic groups have already taken to the streets of Pakistan to let the government know there will be anarchy if Aasia's sentence is not carried out. Since her sentencing, Aasia's family has had to go into hiding. At the end of that November, a hard-line Islamic imam promised to pay anyone who killed Aasia $6,000 if she were set free by the courts.

While the sentencing has brought international protests, Aasia still remains in prison as of this writing. Even Pakistani government officials have been among those who have spoken out against the sentencing and called for Aasia's pardoning and protection by the president of Pakistan. Doing so has placed anyone who speaks out into the crosshairs of Islamic fundamentalists as well.

One who spoke out for Aasia was Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. Because of this, Taseer was assassinated by one of his bodyguards on January 4, 2011—shot down in cold blood in broad daylight. Several clerics and imams in Pakistan had called for Taseer's execution after his defense of Aasia. Different religious leaders offered a total of 50 million rupees ($579,300) for the assassination of Aasia and any who spoke out on her behalf. The call apparently worked. The bodyguard made no attempt at escape after gunning down Taseer, turning himself in to the police and telling them he had killed Taseer "because of the governor's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws."

Roughly two months later, the Pakistani minister for religious minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti who had also called for Aasia's pardoning and opposed the blasphemy laws, was gunned down in the streets. Radical Islamists will stop at nothing to spread their hatred—a hatred that is aimed particularly at Israel.

Dr. Michael Evans




69 A.D.

April 14, 69: Vitellius defeated Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seized the throne and becomes the third Emperor in what is known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Vitellius’ rise to power made the Roman populace very uneasy because it seemed as if the Empire was tottering on the brink of a destructive Civil War. Following the death of Nero in 68, four men served as Emperor during 69 including. First came Galba, who was followed by Galba who was followed by Vitellius who was followed by Vespasian, the general who had been sent to Judea to put an end to the Jewish Revolt. Vespasian was the first of the Flavian Emperors. When Vespasian replaced Vitellius it was with the understanding that he and his son Titus would bring stability to the Empire. Jerusalem was destroyed as a demonstration of the Flavian’s ability to end civil strife in the Empire and bring a return to the Pax Rommana. [Editor’s Note: According to this, the leaders who had seized control in Jerusalem completely failed to understand the new reality of Roman power, even as they had confused their victory of Roman Cohorts as being the same as victory over a Roman Legion. If they had spent more time considering the realities of the situation and less time killing their Jewish “enemies” they might have been able to negotiate some kind of settlement that would have avoided the destruction of the Temple and the massive deportation of the Jewish population that marked the beginning of the Diaspora.][1]

April 14, 73(3833): According to the Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada on this last night before the walls were breached by the attacking Roman Tenth Legion. (Two women and five children survived by hiding in a cistern, and were later released unharmed by the Romans. Technically it was not a mass suicide. According to the story a group of the leaders killed most the population who had agreed to die this way rather than become prisoners of the Romans. The leaders committed suicide. This way of dealing with the Romans contrast with Yochanan Ben Zakai who negotiated with the Romans. He ended up saving many scholars and establishing the Academy at Yavneh. While the Legend of Masada has taken on a life of its own, the cold reality is that if the rest of the Jewish population had followed their example, the Jews of Israel would have disappeared.[2]

75-85 C.E.

Matthew. Most scholars now think Matthew was written after the destruction of Jerusalem. His gospel depicts Jesus in a Jewish, messianic context, and includes a full account of his life and ministry, from birth to Resurrection, including the parables, the Sermon on the Mount, the miracles and the sayings.[3]

April 14, 1205: Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, soundly defeated the Crusaders under Baldwin I at the Battle of Adrianople. The victory cemented the rule of Kaloyan and his family. This would prove to be beneficial for Jews since Kaloyan’s nephew opened the kingdom to Jewish traders from Italy. This also would have proved beneficial to Jewish community already living in Bulgaria which probably dated back to the second century of the common era.[4]



April 14, 1341: In the Piedmont Region, Italian-Angevine troops sack the city of Saluzzo. Although Jews have been living in the Piedmont since the middle ages, the first synagogue was not built until the 16th century. A synagogue was built in Saluzzo in the early 18th century. For more see http://synagogues360.net/synagogues.php?ident=italy_014[5]



1342

Eobhan or Ewen Chief of the MacKinnon clan; After the death of John, Lord of the Isles, circa 1350, MacKinnon took part in the rebellion against the heir to the Lordship, and was hanged for his trouble.[6]



1342

Priests were generally uneducated with little interest in their parishioners. Immorality was common among them. A priest could easily purchase from diocesan authority qa licese to keep a concubine. Erasmus speaks of priests “who by fraud or intimidation have been thrust into a life of celibacy in which they are allowed to fornicate but not to marry, so that if they openly keep a concubine they are Christian priests, but if they take a wife they are burned. Money could buy almost any kind of dispensation, one of the more popular being to legitimize children born illegitimately, the majority of whom were children of priests and prelates. Out of the 614 grants of legitimacy in the year 1342-43, 484 were to members of the clergy.



The pardoners, commissioned by the Church, sold absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, canceled any vow of chastity, remitted any penance for money, most of which they pocketed. Their mission was to peddle salvation, but in reality they took advantage of the people’s need and credulity. [7]



1345: By the time Prince Henry Sinclair was born in 1345, the Sinclair/Templar ties were tightly woven. [8]



• 1347

• The Bubonic Plague arrived in Europe in 1347, carried aboard trading ships arriving from Asia. During the “Little Ice Age” what came to be called the “black death” found the ideal breeding environment. The bubonic plague was made much worse because people were already weakened because of lack of food.[9]



• Agamut, a Jew, prepares for a dangerous journey. Jews had to have the kinds express permission to be in a town. They were in a way that no other medieval person was, owned and directly depended upon the King or a great noble like bishop. [10]

• At his lord’s bidding, Agumut will venture hundreds of mountainous miles to Venice, where he can purchase luxuries that are unavailable to the common market stalls at his home, but his expedition will also take him into the darkest events in history. [11]

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• At the end of the Mongul trade route lies the port city of Caffa. Starting point for merchant ships on route to Italy. In 1347 the Monguls attack the Christian city of Caffa hoping to take this vital trade route for themselves. During the siege the monguls got the plague and had to call off the siege. Before the monguls left they decided to catapult their dead bodies of the victims into the town in hopes of extinguishing everyone inside by giving the plague to their enemies and apparently this is how the plague was communicated from the Monguls to the Europeans. [12]

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• The plague hitches a ride on ships bound for Sicily. Below decks the Italians find a shipload of corpses. The few survivors are reported to have “sickness clinging to their very bones. In Sicily, the dying begins.[13]

April 14, 1484: The Cortes at Tarazona approved the formation of Inquisitional Tribunals at Valencia and Saragossa. The Inquisitors wasted no time in beginning their investigations for signs of Jewishness in the communities of the New Christians.[14]

April 14, 1762: On June 5, 1764 David Vance and wife Janet sold 288 acres in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virgina) to Bryan Bruin. Apparently the deed was never recorded. However, on September 14, 1767 in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia) Bryan Bruin sold a large tract of land on Green Spring Run to John Mitchel. The tract consisted of seven parcels that Bryan Bruin had purchased from different people. One of those seven parcels had been purchased from David and Janet Vance. The deed stated described that parcel as: "288 acres which was granted to David Vance by Deed from the Proprietor of the Northern Neck bearing the date of April 14, 1762, and the said David Vance and Janet, his wife, conveyed to the said Bryan Bruin by Deeds of Lease and Release bearing date the days of June 4 and 5, 1764." [15]

Friday, April 14th1775



This morning, Rice another man begun to cut down a tree to make a Canoe. Have left it entirely to his management. Captn. Douglas and Captn.. Stephenson to the Steward’s Crossings to Major Crawford’s. Returned to V. Crawford’s in the evening. Agreed to go with Captn. Douglas to Fort Pitt tomorrow.[16]



April 14, 1775: The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes in Philadelphia becomes the first abolition society in America.[17]

April 14, 1775: Massachusetts Governor Gage is secretly ordered by the British to enforce the Coercive Acts and suppress "open rebellion" among colonists by using all necessary force. From this simple statement flowed all of the events that would lead to the battles of Lexington & Concord and the American Revolution. During the American Revolution the Jewish population was so small that it could only support five synagogues which were located in, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Savannah. All five followed the Sephardic Minchag. Most of the Jews supported the Revolutionaries.[18]

April 14, 1789: The Secretary of the new Congress informs George Washington of his election as first President of the United States.[19]

April 14, 1791

Vol. 1 No. 99. Wm. & Joh. McCormick, 173 a. Fayette Co. Kentucky R. 4-14-1791. Bk. 1 p. 62. Cavieated May 7, 1793.[20]

April 14, 1799: Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem as city for the Jews. [21]

April 14, 1800

John Crawford’s records in the Ohio State Auditor’s office are as follows: April 14, 1800, No. 2680, 955 acres to Noble Grimes, Vol. 2, page 140.[22]

April 14, 1801

Letter received from the commissioners of Westmoreland, requesting a meeting of the two boards, with ancestor Col. Isaac Meason, on the bank of Jacob’s Creek, on the next following Tuesday, to “consult and complete contract relative to James Finley, Esp., undertaking to erect an Iron Bridge over Jacob’s Creek, and it its agreed that John Fulton and Andrew Oliphant proceed to business.”[23]

James Finley had traveled with his family to the Ohio Frontier in the late 1790’s. In his later life he would become a leading figure on the countries religious landscape. But as a young man Finley, like thousands of other Americans struggled alone with his faith. “What’s the point in praying? If I am one of the elect, I will be saved in God’s good time. If I am one of the non-elect, praying will do me no good, because Christ did not die for them.” He had been brought up as a Presbyterian but now with the opportunity to choose came anxiety. People are starting to ask, “What religion should I have?” Finley asks “Sometime my faith wavers in spite of all my efforts I cannot bolster enough and my conscience stings me with remorse. Perhaps my soul will be lost. This is the most intense emotion.” We are shifting away from the old Calvinist ideas, where God has made these choices. Whereby before you are even born God had decided whether you are going to heaven or hell. Now it is totally different, now we have the choice. In 1801 James Finley left Ohio, heading toward Kentucky. Thousands had been drawn to a religious gathering, in the town of Kane Ridge. He had heard about this meeting that was supposed to take place, because it was publicized well in advance. He had been hearing that at these revivals that men would fall flat on the floor, and would start crying or weeping or that that they would be struck by the word and maybe fall to their knees. He told his two companions that they should go and check this out this phenomenon.

Revivals or camp meetings were springing up across the frontier. Hundreds sometimes thousands of ordinary people would gather, drawn by the message of new charismatic preachers seeking to save souls. There is a perception that this country while just a baby, is in morale danger. Ministers proclaimed that fewer people were going to church than had been before the revolution. America they feared had reached spiritual crises. They have a sense of urgency in trying to get people to come to Christ because they are not just saving them, they are saving the nation.

Somehow we have lost our moral underpinnings. As Finley grew closer to Kane Ridge he grew nervous about what he was walking into.[24]

April 14, 1804: Henry Keck the eldest son was born near Allentown, Pa.,

3 January 17, 1770, and died February 1, 18 13 on the home-

stead. He married Catharine Gottleab in Westmoreland

county. Pa., in 1798. She was born in 1784, and died Dec.

12, 1863. She was but 14 years of age when she married. To

them were born five sons and two daughters, namely : Esther

Keck, born Jan. 31, 1799, died February 16, 1859; John, born

May 4, 1801, died July 31, 1880; Henry, born April 14, 1804, died June 10, 1863; Samuel, born August 12, 1806, died Dec.

19, 1 88 1 ; Peter, born Sept. 10, 1808, died July 1, 1832 ; George

born June 9, 1810, died Dec. 14, 1864; Elizabeth, born Nov.

15. 1812, died Feb. 4, 1833.



The children were all born in Hempfield township.



Henry Keck, after marriage, settled on the homestead and

afterwards became the owner of the farm, and his parents also

lived there till death. His father outlived his son Henry some

three years. Henry was taken from his family in the prime

of life, and was interred in the Brush Creek Cemetery. A few

years after his death she was married to Frederick Shaffer, a

widower with seven children, living one-half mile east of

Greensburg. After her marriage, the children that were old

enough, were put out to learn trades, and some were taken by

the brothers, as it was not thought prudent to put the two famil-

ies together. F. Shaffer owned a good farm, but the buildings

were old. John was put in Mr. Carr's store in Greensburg;

George learned tihe tanner's trade with Samuel Kuhns, in

Greensburg; Peter the hatter's trade and Henry the tailor's

trade with Peter Rummel. Elizabeth was taken into the home

of her uncle, George Keck, while Henry found a home with

his uncle Isaac Keck until old enough to learn a trade, while

Esther married Samuel Allshouse a few years after her father's

death. Of the early life of Catherine Gottleab Keck very little

is known, as she never cared to talk about it. She had a sister

and a brother. She had three children by Shaffer, Sallie, Wil-

liam and Catherine, when she separated from him on account of

his drink habit. She returned to the Keck homestead, taking

her children with her. She lived there until her daughter

Catherine was married to John Fry, when she went with them

to Harrison City, a short distance away, and when they moved

to Ohio in 1856, she accompanied them there. She made her

home with them until her death. She died at her stepson's,

Jacob Shaffer, while there on a visit and is interred in Green-

wood cemetery. She was industrious, frugal and a good

woman. We always enjoyed a visit with her as she was so

kind and attentive. She was of German descent. Her child-

ren all did well and were an honor to her. [25]

April 14, 1834: The “Whig” party is established by opponents of ancestor and President Andrew Jackson.[26]

April 14, 1849: Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. Kossuth was sympathetic to Jewish hopes for emancipation and the right to become full-fledged citizens of the newly independent Hungry. Based on Kossuth’s commitment to these values Jews contributed 80,000 florins to the cause. Thirty thousand Jews enlisted in Kossuth’s army, making them 11% of the force. Unfortunately, the Magyar leadership and the rural peasants did not share Kossuth’s values. Anti-Semitic outbreaks in the countryside combined with the efforts of these political leaders blocked attempts to grant the Jews full rights of citizenship. All this would become a mute point, since Kossuth and the independent Hungarian movement would be defeated by the imperial forces and Kossuth would be forced to flee for his life. Ironically, the returning Imperial government saved their harshest punishment for the Jews.[27]

April 14, 1860: Mormons establish the first permanent settlement in Idaho.[28]

Thurs. April 14, 1864

Laid in camp many rumors about an attack

Got 25 cts in tobacco of capt

Gen Smith captured 200 rebs up river[29]

Drawn up in line of battle at daylight[30]

April 14, 1865: Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove a Freemason (1st cousin, 3 times removed) and the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Occupation of Raleigh, April 14, 1865.[31]

Good Friday,[32] April 14, 1865, proved to be such an opportunity for Booth. However, several eyewitnesses claim that there was a gentleman posted outside the Presidential box who allowed Booth to enter. Samuel Koontz on April 24, 1865, wrote in a letter that Booth went through the door of the box, told the man who was Lincoln’s servant at the door, that Lincoln had sent for him. [33]“On May 15, 1865, Captain Theodore McGowan, who had been seated on the south side of the Dress Circle testified during the Conspiracy Trial that “He [Booth} took a small pack of visiting cards from his pocket, selecting one and replacing the others, stood a second, perhaps, with it in his hand, and then showed it to the President’s messenger, who was sitting just below him. Whether the messenger took the card into the box, or , after looking at it, allowed him to go in, I do not know, but in a moment or two more, I saw him go through the door of the lobby leading to the box, and closed the door.[34] Two years later Dr. Charles Leale, who was also seated on the south side of the Dress Circle, wrote that “I saw a man speaking with another near the door [to the Presidential box] and endeavoring to enter which he at last succeeded in doing after which the door was closed.”[35] [36]



April 14, 1907



Convoy 57, July 18, 1943



There was no Convoy 56, on Jun 24, 1943, contrary to the Rutkowski story. The file, containing 450 names, is only a projected convoy. Examination of the names shows that they left for Auschwitz in later convoys or were not deported. Once again, the Auschwitz calendar believed that the deportees of this phantom convoy were all gassed, since no trace of them could be found. The report on Brunner’s inspection of Drancy (CCXXI-19; quoted in Convoy 55) probably would have indicated a convoy of June 24 had there been one, since it specifically mentioned the convoy of June 23.



Document CCXXI-19 describes Convoy 57 as “deportation to the East of 1,000 internees, among them many French in origin, and a large number of women and children.” A note of July 17 (DLXII-26) describes the organization of the departure of the convoy.



This was the first routine telex to Eichmann and Auschwitz signed by Brunner, the great master of Drancy beginning at that time. It indicated that the convoy left on July 18 at 9:30 AM for Auschwitz, not from Le Bourget/Drancy, but from Paris/Bobigny, with 1,000 Jews. On July 11, it was Brunner, not Rothke, who telexed Eichmann to ask his agreement for the departure of the convoy. The deportation list took on the appearance that would be maintained until the last convoys: neither place of birth nor nationality was recorded. Brunner knew what Auschwitz was. And while Rothke and Dannecker knew, too, Brunner was more cynical and wished to avoid extra work. So for him it was sufficient to indicate only the i9ndispensable items, first name, family name, date of birth, and profession k that would trick the deportees into believing that they were going to work.



The convoy carried 522 males, 430 females, and 18 undetermined. Of the total, 126 were under 18. The order is more or less alphabetical, but nationality, of course, is not indicated. However, we were able to establish the place of birth for most of the deportees by comparing the list with those obtained in the Ministry for War Veterans.



Henri Bulawko, who was later to be president of the Organization of Jewish Deportees of France, was part of thei convoy. This passage is from his book, Les Jeux la Mort et de L’Espoir (The Games of Death and Hope; pp. 51-3.):L



“Two nights and three days in the sealed freight cars. We were loaded 60 people where 30 would have had difficulty fitting… The train stopped. The door opened suddenly and all the questions were answered, an unexpected answer, unimaginable, inhuman. Brutally the door is pushed open and nightmarish moments followed. Strange people, in striped clothes, jump on the train, like gnomes who have escaped from hell. Behind them, the SS, rifles pointing at us and crying: ‘Los, raus, alles raus, Los’ (Fast, outside, everyone outside, fast).”



Sim Kessel, in Pendu a Auschwitz (Hanged in Auschwitz), also describes this arrival in Auschwitz (p.66):



“Schneller, Schneller.” Faster! How can we go faster? We are falling all over one another, caught in this unexpected ferocity. The women cry under the blows trying to protect their children.”



Upon their arrival, 369 men were selected and assigned numbers 130466 through 130834; 191 women were selected and given numbers 50204 through 50394. The rest of the convoy was immediately gassed.



There were 52 survivors in 1945, 22 of them women.[37]



On Convoy 57 was Wolf Gotliber, born April 14, 1907 in Mlatta. [38]



April 14, 1921: April 14, the Hopkinton Leader carried a notice of the county superintendant’s receipt of the petition to form the Buck Creek Consolidated Independent District. The same issue also contained a legal description of the proposed district and a notice that any objections to its boundaries needed to be filed with the county superintendent by April 20.[39]





April 14, 1939: In what came to be known as "Black Sunday," one of the most devastating storms of the 1930s Dust Bowl era swept across the region on this day. High winds kicked up clouds of millions of tons of dirt and dust so dense and dark that some eyewitnesses believed the world was coming to an end.

The term "dust bowl" was reportedly coined by a reporter in the mid-1930s and referred to the plains of western Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. By the early 1930s, the grassy plains of this region had been over-plowed by farmers and overgrazed by cattle and sheep. The resulting soil erosion, combined with an eight-year drought which began in 1931, created a dire situation for farmers and ranchers. Crops and businesses failed and an increasing number of dust storms made people and animals sick. Many residents fled the region in search of work in other states such as California (as chronicled in books including John Steinbeck s The Grapes of Wrath), and those who remained behind struggled to support themselves.

By the mid-1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt s administration introduced programs to help alleviate the farming crisis. Among these initiatives was the establishment of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in the Department of Agriculture. The SCS promoted improved farming and land management techniques and farmers were paid to utilize these safer practices. For many Dust Bowl farmers, this federal aid was their only source of income at the time.

The Dust Bowl era finally came to a close when the rains arrived and the drought ended in 1939. Although drought would continue to be an inevitable part of life in the region, improved farming techniques significantly reduced the problem of soil erosion and prevented a repeat of the 1930 s Dust Bowl devastation.[40]

April 14, 1941: More anti-Jewish riots break out in Antwerp.[41]



April 14, 1941: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers. The Ustashe would be responsible for the murder of at least 30,000 Croatian Jews.[42]



April 14, 1941: Hungarian troops occupied portions of northern Yugoslavia. About 500 Jews and Serbs were shot.[43]

April 14, 1944: The first transport of Athenian Jews left Greece for Auschwitz.[44]

Morning, April 14, 1945: Japan’s Uranium processor was working. They saw that success was within their grasp. Then disaster struck. The U.S. unleashed a series of devastating fire bomb attacks on the Japanese mainland dropped from hundreds of B=29 bombers. It hit Japanese cities with enough force to eclipse even the eventual atomic bombs. The Japanese Uranium processor was in the path of one such bombing attack. The crucial component in Uranium processing was gone. [45]



April 14, 1945: Soldiers of the United States Army reached Gardelegen Camp. They found smoldering logs strewn with the bodies of the recently cremated victims.[46]





April 14, 1960: A Polaris missile becomes the first to be fired from under water, in a test near San Clemente Island, California.[47]



April 14, 2010: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit China. At least 400 were killed and 10,000 injured.[48]





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[3] U.S. News and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, page 36.

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

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

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacKinnon

[7] Trial by Fire by Harold Rawlings, page 38.

[8] Holy Grail in America, 9/20/2009.

[9] HISTI, Little Ice Age: Big Chill, 11-20-05

[10] The Plague, HISTI, 10-30-05

[11] The Plague, HISTI, 10-30-05.

[12] The Plague, HISTI, 10-30-05.

[13] The Plague, HISTI, 10-30-05.

[14] Thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com

[15] Ancestry.com

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

[17] This Day in America by John Wagman

[18] This Day in Jewish History

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

[20] Index for Old Kentucky Surveys and Grants in Old State House, Fkt. KY. (Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 454.50)

[21] This Day in Jewish History

[22] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, p. 186.

[23] History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 1882 by Franklin Ellis, pg 250.

[24] God in America, How Religious Liberty Shaped America, PBS.

[25] HISTORY OF THE KECK FAMILY

[26] On This Day in America by John Wagman

[27] This Day in Jewish History

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

[29] Rear Admiral Porter’s position in the Red River became increasingly critical as the water level stubbornly refused to rise, threatening to strand the gunboats. Porter wrote Welles: “I found the fleet at Grand Ecore somewhat in an unpleasant situation…. The rebels are cutting off the supply by diverting different sources of water into other channels, all of which would have been stopped had our Army arrived as far as Shreveport…Had we not heard of the retreat of the Army, I should still have gone on to the end.” (Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865 Compiled by Naval History Division, Navy Department, Washington: 1971. pg IV 42)

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

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

[32] April 1865, HISTI 4/14/2003

[33] Timothy S. Good, We saw Lincoln Shot:One Hundred Evewiotness Accounts, Jackson, MS: Univ. Press of Miss., 1995 p. 65-65.

[34] Conspiracy Trial Testimony , Major Theodore McGowan National Archioves, Washington, D.C. M-600.

[35] Dr. Charles Lewale letter, July 1867, Library of Congress, 39th Congress, 39th Congressional Record, 2nd Session, Washington, D.C.

[36] Http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/linsecur.htm

[37] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 434-435.

[38] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 438.

[39] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 203.

[40] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-major-dust-bowl-storm-strikes

• [41] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1765.

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

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

[45] Japans Atomic Bomb: 8/16/2005

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

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

[48] Jerusalem Prayer Team email, March 30, 2011