• This Day in Goodlove History, April 15
• 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 date: Ruth Staples, Sara Reinhart, Tamara A. Rayman, Milton Plum, Francis M. Mcatee, Willard C. Lage, Angela D. Holfeltz, Ruth E. Gray, Robert E. Godlove, Elias Godlove, Delilah Crawford.
Weddings on this date; Amy W. Dennis and John Thompson, Matilda Darstldorst and Bartholomew McKee
This Day…
Friday, April 15, 1:30 pm Saturday, April 16, 8:00 pm Sunday, April 17, 3:30 pm
Gershwin in Blue including Porgy and Bess
Stephen Squires, Conductor
Ollie Watts Davis, soprano
Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Elgin Choral Union
This will be a great concert. It has been a good experience singing with this group. JG.
I Get Email!
In a message dated 4/4/2011 6:50:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
Thanks for the photos of the fun memories of last year. We had a very active Easter:)
love you!
Sherri
Thank you! JG
In a message dated 4/3/2011 2:26:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, action@honestreporting.com writes:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dramatic Reunion Ten Years After The Photo That Started It All
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On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man — bloodied and battered — crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality – with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier was the one who beat him.
That young man was, in fact, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago, who was beaten within inches of his life before being rescued by the Israeli border policeman in the photo.
The resulting outrage generated by the gross distortion of the photo “launched” HonestReporting.
[Click on the image to the right to see the original communique.]
Now, ten years later, we caught up with Tuvia in an exclusive interview.
In a message dated 4/4/2011 12:30:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, press@chicago.mfa.gov.il writes:
Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Renie Schreiber
Phone: 312.297.4818
E-mail:
press@chicago.mfa.gov.il
April 4, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Goldstone Recants, Israel Responds
In an article published in the Washington Post, Richard Goldstone painted a different picture from the original report.The most important sentence in Goldstone's article is the statement that, in hindsight, his report to the UN should not have reached the conclusions it did as far as Israel is concerned. Goldstone wrote, "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."
Goldstone said that all of the things that Israel has said all along are correct - that Israel never intentionally fired at civilians and that our inquiries operated according to the highest international standards. Goldstone stated that the crimes "committed by Hamas were intentional goes without saying - its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets." He continued, "Israel, like any other sovereign nation, has the right and obligation to defend itself and its citizens against attacks from abroad and within."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
In response to Goldstone's article, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called upon the UN to immediately cancel the Goldstone Report
At yesterday's weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, April 3, 2011, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks:
"Everything we said has proven to be true: Israel did not intentionally harm civilians, its institutions and investigative bodies are worthy, while Hamas intentionally fired upon innocent civilians and did not examine anything. The fact that Goldstone backtracked must lead to the shelving of this report once and for all."
Ambassador Michael Oren
Israel's ambassador to the US Michael Oren stressed that Judge Goldstone's Washington Post article reconfirms Israel's right of self defense against Hamas terror out from Gaza.
The recent spate of terror attacks, including the massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar, must, even as Judge Goldstone now insists, be condemned in the strongest of terms by all international organizations. These include the UN Human Right Council which, as Judge Goldstone only belatedly admits, is deeply biased against Israel. As Israel and the democratic world continue to face terrorist
threats from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, the Goldstone Report must be utterly discredited.
Renie Schreiber
press@chicago.mfa.gov.il
312.297.4818
This Day…
April 15, 1191: Coronation of Henry VI as Holy Roman Emperor during whose reign anti-Semitic riots took place stretching from the districts along the Rhine all the way to Vienna. Ephraim Ben Jacob of Bonn was one of the leading Talmudist during this period.[1]
April 15, 1250: Pope Innocent III refused the Jews of Cordova permission to build a synagogue.[2]
1401 and 1402 The three Spirit Pond rume stones date to this period. They include the Enscryption Stone, the Map Stone and the Norway Stone. The Enscryption Stone appears to be a ships log and has been difficult to decipher. They contain the hooked X. In runes carved on the rock is enscribed “Vinland, takes two days and is pointing toward the Cape Cod, Narragansit Bay area where another stone is found with a hooked X.
The Narragansit Stone is thought to describe the surrounding landscape. The Sinclair’s and Templars are thought to have created all these rock enscription.[3]
April 15, 1402: Pope Boniface IX granted "liberal privileges" to the Jews of Rome.[4]
1403
Now let us examine the claim that Gutleben also had the Jewish name Jechiel. Accordingly, Gutleben/Vivelin was certainly not originally called Chajjim at all, for he would hardly go by two Jewish first names! So here we are again dealing with a thesis of Moses Ginsburrger who was led to this assumption at one time through the discovery of a Jewish gravestone dated 1403, the deceased Joseph Gutleben and the one called Gutleben, should be in this case: Jechiel’s son, named for Gutleben’s father Josset (Joseph). Aside from the fact that “Gutleben,” according to Ginsburger’s own assertion, stands afdter all for “Vivelin/Chajjim,” it still needs to be remarked that the gravesite in question must not necessarily have stemmed from Basel’
S Jewish cemetery. But above all, one cannot avoid asking whether foreign Israelites, after the flight of Jews from Basel, were allowed to continue to bury their dead in the necropolis there, or to do so only case of an exception. We will not make Ginsburger’s presumption about the identity of the father of the dead Joseph our own.[5]
April 15, 1452: Birthdate of Leonardo Di Vinci. Di Vinci painted what, according to some, was the most famous Seder ever held - The Last Supper.[6]
April 1598: Henry IV was a friend of the Huguenots and in April 1598 he issued the Edict of Nantes which gave more religious freedom to the Huguenots and ended the religious wars for a time. Henry IV was assassinated and his young son Louis XIII ascended the throne. [7]
April 15, 1677: Today The City Council of Lubeck, Germany decreed that no Jew should be permitted to stay in the city overṇight without the express permission of the senate, which was rarely given.[8]
1678 and 1688
Donald, the chief’s second son, at that time an infant, after the Restoration and between the years of 1678 and 1688, emigrated to Antigua, where, by a common corruption, he was called Daniel, and having perhaps received grants of lands from Charles II, amongst which were the estates of Dropes, Golden Grove, Dickenson’s Bay, and MacKinnon’s, all in the neighborhood of St. John’s, the capital of the island, he married Alice, daughter of William Thomas, Lieutenant-Governor of Antigua, whose nephew, Sir George Thomas, created a baronet, was Governor of the Leeward Islands. Historical accounts of the island describe Donald as Dr. Daniel MacKinnon and founder of the MacKinnon family in Antigua.[9]
April 15, 1715: The Yamassee Indians attack and kill several hundred Carolina settlers.[10] The Yamasee War, a two year conflict in which Native Americans tried to drive the colonial settlers out of South Carolina, began today. At the outbreak of the war Jews had already begun settling in the colony. The original constitution of South Carolina which had been written by John Locke in 1669 granted liberty to “Jews, Heathens and Dissenters.” Simon Valentine is the first Jewish settler whose presence can be officially confirmed. A resident of Charleston, he served as an interpreter for Governor Archdale. There must have been more Jews living there since “as early as 1703 protest was raised against "Jew strangers" voting in the election of members to the Common House of Assembly.”[11]
April 15, 1746
In the following year, after the disastrous retreat in the depths of winter, the victory of Falkirk, and the rout of the Scoto-English of winter, the victory of Falkirk, and the rout of the Scoto-English army at Moy, Lord George Murray assembled the principal officers of the army, amongst whom is mentioned the chief of MacKinnon, at Tain, on 15th of April, in presence of the Prince, and decided upon those operations which terminated in the fatal field of Culloden. ‘
After the battle, some 1,200 fugitives, amongst whom were the Mackinnons directed the the talen and animated b the spirit, of Lord George Murray, retreated in fair order to Ruthven.
We now come to the most interesting feature of the whose campaign, the wanderings of Prince Charlie for five months amidst the wilds of the Highlands, until he finally effected his escape to France to the eternal credit of those faithful adherents of the Stuart cause be it said that although a reward of 30,000 pounds was set upon the head of the Prince, and although his places of concealment were known to between two hundred and three hundred poor peasants during the vicissitudes of his wanderings, not one was found base enough to betray his trust. The MacKinnons, I am proud to record, bore a prominent part in the arrangements for his escape as soon as he reached the confines of their country.
Malcolm Macleod took the Prince, at his own request, Ellagol, near Kilmaree, in MacKinnon’s country. As day dawned they met two of the MacKinnon clan who had been engaged in the insurrection.
Malcolm now conducted the Prince to the house of his brother in law, John MacKinnon, who had served as a captain in the Highland army. MacKinnon, who had served as a cap[tain in the Highland army. MacKinnon happened not to be at home, but the travelers were warmly received by his wife, Charles being passed off as a certain Lewie Caw, the son of a surgeon in Crieff who had been engaged in the Rising, and was now known to be lying perdu among his relations in Skye. Mrs MacKinnon expressed much concern at the condition of her brother Malcom’s companion, and observed that she saw something very uncommon ahout him (as Lewie Caw). “Poor man,” she said, “I pity him; at the same time my heart warms to a man of his appearance.” That night, while Mrs Mackinnon (who had now been taken into confidence) kept watch on the top of a neighbouring hill, Charles, instead of resting, was found by Malcolm, on awaking, seated in the next room dandling and singing to Mrs Mackinnon;s infant, with an old woman looking on. “Who knows,” said Charles, “but the little fellow may be a captain in my service yet?” “You mean,” indignantly replied the old woman, who was not in the secret, “that you may possibly be an old sergeant in his company!”
Both Malcolm and the Prince were anxious that the Laird of MacKinnon should not know the secret, because, “though he be a mighty, honesty, stout, good man,” yet through his old age and the infirmities attending it, they thought he was not so well cut out for the difficulties of the Prince’s present situation. Malcolm, however soon yielded to the contrary opinion expressed by John MacKinnon, who, in the meantime, had returned home; but the Prince, ever suspicious of his best friends as he was ever confident in his worst, took a great deal of persuasion, both from John and Malcolm, before he would yield himself entirely to old MacKinnon, who, Malcolm said, would be very careful of him and exceeding true and firm to his trust.
In the course of the day, however, the old chief of MacKinnon was informed that the Prine was in his neighbourhood. At once he hastened to pay his respect. Mackinnon recommended Charles to proceed to the mainland under his guidance that very night, as the militia scouts were especially active in his country of Strath, and every moment was of importance. Charles and his companions landed at 4 a.m. near a place called Little Mallack, o the southern side of Loch Nevis. But the change was not for the better. The militia were quartered in the immediate neighbourhood, and it thus became most dangerous for the Prince and his friends to attempt to penetrate into the interior. For three days they remained at the spot where they had first landed, without fire or shelter, not daring to move. On the fourth day, they entered their boat, and coasted along the broken shores of Loch Nevis, in the hope of finding some cave which would protect them from the inclemency of the weather.
Steering round one of the petty promontories of the Lock, they against a boat moored to a rock, and the next moment saw five men standing on the shore whose
Bonnets, marked with a red cross, proclaimed them to belong to the militia. Charles was fortunately lying at the bottom of the boat taking his rest, with the plaid of MacKinnon thrown over him. They hesitated for a moment on their oars, and were almost immediately perceived. “Where do you come from?” Cried the militia men. “From Sleat,” answered MacKinnon; and no sooner was the word given than the watermen settled down to their work, and rowed rapidly along the Loch. But the militia men were not to be thus cheated. Like lightning they leaped into their boat, cast loose the painter, and in another minute were in full chase. For the first fifteen minutes the pursuit was keen and they perceptibly gained on the fugitives; but, nothing daunted, the oarsmen of the Prince bent bravely to their oars, and their superior skill began at length to tell, so that before another fifteen minutes had elapsed, they had the satisfaction of finding themselves draw gradually and then rapidly away, and coming to a part of the Loch where the firs and underwood grew thick down to the water’s edge, they shot their boat into the covert and hid themselves from the foe. Charles landed and ran up a hill from whence he perceived the discomfited milita men returning from their fruitless pursuit.
Escorted by the MacKinnons, Charles now made his way towards Borrodaile, the seat of Angus MacDonald. Here, as the aid of his two faithful friends was now superfluous, and as it was unwise to accumulate in large numbers lest the attention of the enemy be attracted, the Prince bade them farewell, and placed himself unreservedly in the hands of his new protector. On the very next day, July 18th, however, the news of the capture of MacKinnon reached him, and Donald Cameron of Glenpean removed him from Borrodaile for greater secutity and took him to the braes of Glenmoriston and Strathglass, a few miles further eastward, where the famous “Seven men of Glenoriston,” Patrick Grant, John and Alexander Macdonell, Alexander, Donald and Hugh Chisholm, and Grigor Macgregor, preserved him in an inaccessible cave for three weeks till he joined Cameron of Lochiel and MacPherson of Clunyu at the “Cage” on Mount Benalder in the wilds of Badenoch; and with them, young Clanranald, John Roy Stuart, other chieftains, and one hundred and seven common men, embarked in Loch Nanuagh on board a French man-of-war which, with another, was sent expressly for his deliverance.
The chief of MacKinnon was taken prisoner in MacKonald of Morar’s house the day after parting with Charles. For a year he was a prisoner at Tilbury Fort and in the Tower of London, and was one among eighty principal Highlanders who had been attainted and were excepted from the act of indemnity passed in June 1747. On being tried for his life, however, at the close of that year, he obtained a pardon, in consideration of his advanced years and of the spirit of chivalry rather than of rebellion which he evinced, and Sir Dudley Ryder, the Attorney General, pronounced his release. As he was about to leave the court the Judge called him back, saying, “Tell me, if Prince Charles were again in your power, what would you do?” The stout old Highlander replied, with very marked emphasis, “I would do to the Prince as you have done this day to me. I would send him back to his own country.”
The death of the old chief was thus noticed in the journals of the time: “May 7, 1756. Died at his house of Kilmorie, in the Isle of Skye, John MacKinnon of that ilk, i.e. the old Laird of MacKinnon, in 75th year of his age, leaving issue two sons and a daughter, all born after 71st year of his age.”
For the remainder of the century, few events in connection with the family are chronicled; the little property left to them in Skye was purchased in 1765 by the Trustees of the great and good Sir James MacDonald then a minor, from the Trustees of MacKinnon of MacKinnon when a minor also.[12]
1746
Many Scot Highlanders left Scotland for America after the battle at Culloden and the the defeat of Bonny Prince Charlie in 1746.[13] Defeat of Jacobites. McKinons in disfavor[14]
1747
A Donald McKinnon, age 40, deported from Scotland to West Indies, born to Daniel and Ruth McKinnon in Queen Anne Parish, MD.[15]
No. 7.—CRAWFORD TO Washington.
SPRING GARDEN, April 15, 1771.
SIR :—I received yours of March 11th, and I am much surprised at Mr. Brooks’ behavior in regard to that land.
He never had the least claim or pretensions to the Meadows that I ever heard of. Mr. Harrison made use of the name Of “Wm. Brooks,” expecting that Wm. Brooks, his son-in-law, would do him the favor to give him an assignment at any time; but, as Mr. Harrison has got a permit, there was no occasion for an assignment, or for an order of survey; for any surveyor would have surveyed the land on the permit and returned it into the office, which would have been accepted, while any order of survey that he could have got would not do. Inclosed you have a bond from Mr. Harrison for settling the matter and making good the title. He says if you want it done, it shall be returned in your own name as soon as the survey is completed. He will settle all disputes in regard to it.
There is one William Brooks here who has agreed to sign the bill of sale, which is sufficient; as any man of that name will do as well as he, he having no claim or right more than any other man of that name. Mr. Harrison says it is all he can do at present. Anything more that is requested he will do if required; and if not, the bargain niust be void, and he have his papers again; as he can sell it immediately to several people who will pay no regard to Brooks’ claim—looking upon it as worth nothing.
As the bearer, Moses Crawford,[16] is obliged to go off immediately, I shall refrain from giving a full account of my proceedings here for a few days longer; as I shall have another opportunity soon, and then will give you as full an account as I am able. I am, etc.[17]
April 15th, 1775
Left Mr. Crawford’s in company with Captn. Douglas. Crossed Jacob’s Creek and Saweekly Creek. Got to Mr. John De Camp’s. Land very rich and level. [18]
Fort Henry, April 15, 1781
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April 15, 1783: On this day in 1783, the Continental Congress of the United States officially ratifies the preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain that was signed in November 1782. The congressional move brings the nascent nation one step closer to the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.
Five months later, on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France, officially bringing an end to the Revolutionary War. It also formalized Great Britain's recognition of America's independence.
The treaty established the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the new United States; allowed U.S. fishermen to troll the waters off Newfoundland, Canada; recognized the legitimacy of pre-war debts owed by Americans and Britons; and promised to reunite American Loyalists with property seized from them during the war. The American and Britons were satisfied with the agreement. However, western Indians who had allied themselves to Britain discovered that their land had been handed over by the British to the Americans without consultation or compensation. As they had neither lost their battles nor negotiated a treaty with the Americans, they continued to fight until 1795. Spain assisted southern Indians as they fought to protect their land from encroaching Georgians.
North of the Ohio Valley, the British maintained their forts at Niagara and Detroit, despite their promise to withdraw in the Treaty of Paris. They argued that Americans had breached the treaty by failing to return Loyalist property and pay British creditors as promised. American willingness to trade with revolutionary France further angered the British, and increased their promises of British aid to aggrieved Indians. The British only retreated from the Northwest Territory following the negotiation of the controversial Jay treat with Britain, which was ratified in 1795.[20]
April 15, 1861: Declaring a state of “insurrection,” President Lincoln issues a call for 75,000 volunteers for three months service.[21]
Fri. April 15, 1864
Wrote letter home. In camp drawn up in line of battle at noon false alarm.
Fell very lazy received a letter from home no 7 at 10 oclock at night[22]
April 15, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from an assassin’s bullet. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington the night before, Lincoln lived for nine hours before succumbing to the severe head wound he sustained.
Lincoln’s death came just after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lincoln had just served the most difficult presidency in history, successfully leading the country through civil war. His job was exhausting and overwhelming at times. He had to manage a tremendous military effort, deal with diverse opinions in his own Republican party, counter his Democratic critics, maintain morale on the northern home front, and keep foreign countries such as France and Great Britain from recognizing the Confederacy. He did all of this, and changed American history when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, converting the war goal from reunion of the nation to a crusade to end slavery.
Now, the great man was dead. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton said, “Now, he belongs to the ages.” Word spread quickly across the nation, stunning a people who were still celebrating the Union victory. Troops in the field wept, as did General Ulysses S. Grant, the overall Union commander. Perhaps no group was more grief stricken than the freed slaves. Although abolitionists considered Lincoln slow in moving against slavery, many freedmen saw “Father Abraham” as their savior. They faced an uncertain world, and now had lost their most powerful proponent.
Lincoln’s funeral was held on April 19, before a funeral train carried his body back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. During the two-week journey, hundreds of thousands gathered along the railroad tracks to pay their respects, and the casket was unloaded for public viewing at several stops. He and his son, Willie, who died in the White House of typhoid fever in 1862, were interred on May 4.[23]
April 15, 1881:
On board Convoy 48 was Fernande Gottlieb born June 25, 1909 from Paris, France, Meyer Gottlieb born April 15, 1881 from Paris, France, and Rosa Gottlieb, born April 20, 1881, from Paris, France.
The routine telex to Eichmann and to Auschwitz was sent on February 13 by Rothke, informing its recipients that on the same day, at 10:10 AM, a convoy of 1,000 Jews left the station at Le Bourget/Drancy for Auschwitz, with Lieutenant Nowak at the helm of the escort. A note by Rothke dated February 16 (XXVc-207) indicated that the convoy had to leave with German forces, but that in spite of their hyesitations, the French police did cooperate in the end when the train was embarking.
There were eight successful escapes from this convoy before the border; and official reports were made on the subject (XXVc-206, 208, 219, 237, and 238. They were also the subject of studies by A. Rutkowski (“Le Mond Juif”: No. 73; January/March 1974; pp. 10-29; and La lute des Juifs en France: pp. 150-59).
Convoy 48 arrived in Auschwitz on February 15. One hundred forty four men were selected and received numbers 102350 through 102492. One hundred sixty seven women received numbers 35357 through 35523. The rest of the convoy was immediately gassed.
In 1945 there were 17 survivors from among the 311 selected. One was a woman.[24]
April 15, 1893: The gold reserve falls below $100 million, causing runs on the Federal Treasury.[25]
April 15, 1900:
To: JEFFERYGOODLOVE@aol.com, apbowd@intellex.com
Sent: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:45:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Goodlove History - Ruth Gray Johnson
From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Saturday, October 7, 2000.
"ANAMOSA
Ruth G. Johnson, 100, of San Antonio, Texas, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000. Memorial services were held on Sept. 25 in San Pedro Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, with private burial at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio.
Survivors include four daughters, Marie Helen Sargent, Margaret S. Barnes, Sylvia S. "Susie" Moore and Norma S. Benson; a son, C. G. "Pat" Sargent; two stepdaughters, Lucille J Whiteturkey and Helen J. Woltersdorf; a stepson, Louis E. "Sonny" Johnson; 26 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Richard Hardy Gray and Dr. Nettie I. Goodlove Gray; a brother, Richard Harrison Gray; her husband, Louis J. Johnson; and a stepdaughter, Ruth J. Daffin.
Ruth was born on April 15, 1900, in Anamosa.
Memorial contributions may be made to the San Antonio Garden Center, 3310 N. New Braunfels, San Antonio, Texas 78209, or to The American Heart Association, San Antonio Division, PO Box 29306, San Antonio, Texas, 78229, or to a charity of your choice."
Regarding Ruth's brother, Richard Harrison Gray. Clippings in Myrtie Andrews Goodlove's scapbook shows he died as a child of a sudden illness while the family was visiting Central City. He is buried at Jordan's Grove Cemetery.
I have a very poor copy of Ruth's parents' business card. Richard is listed in the upper left corner as "R. H. Gray, M. D."; Nettie is listed in the upper right corner as "Nettie O. Gray, M. D."
The center of the card in an arched script read "DOCTORS GRAY", and beneath that in a smaller type "HOMOEOPATHISTS".
The bottom right corner reads "Anamosa, Ia., .............................. 189 "
As ever,
Linda
April 15, 1902: William T. Rigby;
Born in Red Oak Grove, Iowa, on November 3, 1841. He was appointed 2d Lieutenant in Company B, 24th Iowa Infantry on September 18, 1862 and was promoted to captain on October 2, 1863. He was mustered out as a captain on July 17, 1865. After the war he entered Cornell College (Iowa). He was a farmer for a number of years and in 1895 was appointed Secretary of the Vicksburg National Military Park Commission on March 1 1899 and was subsequently elected Chairman on April 15, 1902. Rigby served in that capacity as the 1st resident commissioner of Vicksburg National Military Park until his death in Vicksburg on May 10, 1929. Captain Rigby and his wife are intererred in the Vicksburg National Cemetery.[26]
April 15, 1913: The lantern slide lectures were their salvation. They were called “A Trip Around the World,” and were emphasized foreign missions. The lectures were well advertised, and tickets were printed. The sale of these, at fifty cents apiece, made it possible for the League to pay for the rental of the slides. Additional small fees and collections helped the Department of World Evangelism to make good.
ITALY
to
The BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR
See Gettysburg; Capture of Jeff Davis, etc.
April 15, 1913.
The League’s early efforts were not well rewarded: only twelve persons attended the first meeting. But the League kept faith and put on the finest programs it could, until gradually there came a response. The effort did not reach those who were known as “outsiders,” however, for Buck Creek Church itself was not yet wide awake.[27]
April 15, 1917: Buck Creek in the National Spotlight: The lack of progress in getting a local consolidation movement under way in the Buck Creek area was surely a source of disappointment for Chalice and his more ardent followers. Professor Paul L. Vogt, Ph.D., National Superintendent of Rural Work in the Methodist Episcopal Church, had scheduled a visit to Buck Creek on April 15, 1917, as part of his effort to see fist hand “the best results of rural and village church work in all parts of the country.” Vogt had been informed of Chalice’s work and was collecting information on this church’s successful efforts at revitalizing rural churches. A successful rural school consolidation movement lead by the Buck Creek Church would have bgee3n the crowning achievement in Chalice’s rural-revitalization project at Buck Creek.
Vogt arrived and spent several days visiting with Chalice, collecting some of the materials he wanted to include in a publication chronicling Chalice’s community building success in Buck Creek. Vogt did not appear disappointed, and when he spoke at the Sunday morning service in the Buck Creek Church, he congratulated the congregation for its outstanding work in solving the rural church problem. He also offered some suggestions for continued success, which given his perspectives on rural sociology published in the same year, surely included rural school consolidation. [28]
April 15, 1941: In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people. During World War II, a number of Jewish children escaping from the Nazis, via the Kindertransport, reached and were housed in Millisle. The Millisle Refugee Farm (Magill’s farm, on the Woburn Road) and was founded by teenage pioneers from the Bachad movement. It took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.[29]
April 15, 1944: During an escape attempt from Ponary, where Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba had been employed burning corpses, fifteen prisoners succeed in escaping and sixty-five others are killed.[30] Their report, which reaches the free would in June, becomes known as the Auschwitz Protocols. Seventy Jews and ten Russians attempted to escape from the forests surrounding the two of Ponary. Lithuania. From July 1941 until July 1944, approximately 100,000 people (mainly Jews) were murdered in the forests surrounding Ponary a resort town in Lithuania. As the Red Army approached a group of 70 Jews and 10 Russians were given the task of burning all the bodies to cover up the mass murder. Realizing that at the end of their work they too would be killed they (over a period of three months) dug a tunnel 30 meters long with spoons. On the night of April 15 they escaped. Only 13 reached safety alive.[31]
April 15, 1945
President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt is buried. He led the country for 13 years. President Harry S. Truman had been Vice President for 82 days. [32]
April 15, 1945
[33]
“The things I saw beggar description… The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering… I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations to propaganda.” Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme commander of the Allied Forces, Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, April 15, 1945.
Outside the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. Photo by Jeff Goodlove
April 15, 2010
Thoughts on this day:
One day out of the blue, it hit me like a bolt of lightning, that all of our ancestors, our direct line ancestors, being from Germany, and of Jewish ancestry, may not have made it out alive. My third great grandfather may have been the only one to leave Germany. It hit me all at once that we may never know any more than we already do because everything may have been lost or destroyed. How lucky to have had this shred of DNA evidence that connects our family to the priestly family that goes back to Jerusalem. All the way back to the time of Moses and Aaron. The Cohen DNA. The Cohen Modal Haplotype. Do we really need to know more than this? This discovery is a life altering event. It should be. Not many can lay claim to this unique ancestry. Jeff Goodlove
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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] Holy Grail in America, 9/20/2009.
[4] This Day in Jewish History
[5] The Gutleben Family of Physicians in Medieval Times, by Gerd Mentgen, page 5.
[6] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[7] History of Early LeFeveres by Mary Ellen (Miller) Boller, page 1, 1994
[8] This Day in Jewish History
[9] M E M O I R S OF C LAN F I N G O N BY REV. DONALD D. MACKINNON, M.A. Circa 1888
[10] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[11] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[12] Clan MacKinnon compiled by Alan McNie, 1986, page 29.
[13] Recording from the Gail Borden Library Early American Music Collection.
[14] JoAnn Naugle, January 24, 1985
[15] JoAnn Naugle, January 24, 1985
[16] Moses Crawford was a son of Valentine Crawford.
[17] The Washington-Crawford Letters, by C. W. Butterfield, 1877
[18] The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 pg. 64
[19] George Rogers Clark papers [microform] Microfilem 1070 reel 12 #387
[20] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-ratifies-peace-with-great-britain
[21] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[22] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove
[23] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-dies-from-an-assassins-bullet
[24] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 377.
[25] On This Day In America by John Wagman.
[26] (Photo Album: First Commissioners, Vicksburg NMP.) http://www.nps.gov/vick/scenic/h people/pa 3comm.htm
[27] Buck Creek Parish, The Department of Rural Work of The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1919, page 3-4.
[28] There Goes the Neighborhood, by David R. Reynolds, page 170.
[29] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[30] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1778.
[31] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[32]WWII in HD 11/19/2009 History Channel
[33] Photo by Jeff Goodlove
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