This Day in Goodlove History, April 2
• 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; Joni K. Winch, Stella M. Wheeler, Richard T. Martens, William W. Hammond, Verlan F. Goodlove, Telena Fritzer, Mathew Cunningham, Oakley Crawford, Cyntia C. Craig, Robert T. Cornell, Charlemagne C., Gabriel Banes.
Weddings on this date; Sarah A. McKinnon and Jonathan Plum, Mary Worthington and Absolom Cornell, Juanita Gates and Dale D. Brenner.
Quote of the day: April 2d, 1768.
“…One Lawrence Harrison[1] treated the law and our Government with too much disrespect.” (Lawrence Harrison is the compilers 6th great grandfather).
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In a message dated 3/23/2011 8:16:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
Hi Jeff, A couple of attachments regarding the Gottlieb's of LeHigh County PA. From the Schlosser's list I interpret that Catherine was the child baptized in 1781 and that Conrad's wife was Anna Margaret (nee Wannamacher).
What do you think?
Catherine Gottleab born 1784 married Henry Keck. Might this be the same Catherine? The Keck history says she didn't like to talk about her family but that she had one sister & one brother.
Of note is that LeHigh County adjoins Berks Co.
As ever,
Linda
I went to googlebooks and retrieved additional text because it is so dang interesting. Note the name Conrad in this copy. JG.
We will now proceed to take up the children of George
Keck and Catharine H. Shaub in the order they were born.
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,
HISTORY OF THE KECK FAMILY. 7
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.
Peter Keck, second son of George Keck and his wife Cath-
erine, was born in Northampton county, Pa., Dec. 10, 1771,
and was married to Christina Smith in Westmoreland county.
He came with his family to Westmoreland about 1789, and re-
8 HISTORY OF THE KECK FAMILY.
moved to Mercer county, Pa., in 1797, and setlled on a farm
on the outskirts of Greenville, now known as the Benninghoff
farm, on which is located the rolling mills. They had a family
of eight children, four sons and four daughters, namely, Benja-
min, Amos, David, Joseph, Catherine, Hannah, Mary Ann and
Eliza. The boys never married. Benjamin went to Missouri
and died there ; David lives in Illinois ; Eliza married Peter
Seiple and Mary Ann married Vincent Draper, and lives near
Greenville. They have no children. All are dead but David,
Eliza and Mary. Peter Keck reached the age of 76 and died
April 5, 1843, a t his home near Greenville. His wife was
born in 1776, and died May 22, 1872. Their son Joseph died
Dec. 22, 1 85 1, at the age of 33. Amos died Oct. 1, 1869, was
born in 1833.
Philip Keck, third son of George and Catherine Keck,
was born May, 1773, in Northampton county. Pa., and in 1780.
with his parents, removed to Westmoreland county, Pa. where
he married Ann Catherine Klingensmith, Oct. 31, 1797, and
settled on a farm near Gree,nsburg,*Pa., where he continued to
live until his death which occurred May 2y, 1808. She was
born in Westmoreland county in 1776, and died in Clarion
county, Pa., in 1854. Unto them were born six sons and a
daughter, towit : Elizabeth, Joseph, Philip, Solomon, George.
David and Conrad. Mrs. Keck when a child was in the
blockhouse fort in Hannastown, three miles from Greensburg,
during the destruction of the town by fire by the Indians. July
13, 1782, often rehearsing the terrible times to her children and
grandchildren. It was the county seat at the time and was
afterwards moved to Greensburg. After the death of her hus-
band she continued to live on the homestead and care for her
children. In 1818 she moved to Clarion county, Pa., with her
three youngest children, George, David and Conrad, first
camping in the woods until she could procure a better home.
She could make a hand at reaping, weaving, etc. This was the
beginning of the Keck tribe in Clarion county, who endured
many privations and hardships, and she showed a strong
Christian spirit in keeping her children together and having
them all brought up in the Lutheran church at an early age.
She died at the home of her son Conrad at the age of 78 years
and is interred in the Shannondale cemetery. The eldest child.
Elizabeth, remained in Westmoreland county and was mar-
ried to Peter Wanamaker, and had four sons and a daughter.
HISTORY OF THE KECK FAMILY. 9
namely, Solomon, Lewis, Jeremiah, Elias and Flora. Joseph
Keck, the eldest son of Philip Keck, married in Westmoreland
and had two sons, William and Solomon. He went to Clarion
county about 1822. His wife died and he married Rachel
Vandeer. Philip Keck, Jr., married and had six sons and six
daughters. He lived on a farm near Shannondale. The fol-
lowing are the names of the children : Mary, Caroline, Luan-
da, Catherine, Agnes, Royal, Lewis, Henry, Peter, George,
Uriah and Gideon. Mary married David Klingensmith, lived
on a farm four miles north of Greensburg. Solomon Keck,
fhird son of Philip Keck, died in Westmoreland county at the
age of 17 years.
Linda, I love this! Thanks for the research and sharing it with us. I believe this Church was closed when we visited it a few years ago. We looked at the library in the town but I couldn’t find out much there except in the stories of Hessian prisoners being used by farmers and something about “bundling”. I hope I am not confusing the facts but I really believe that there is something important about all of this. Jeff
This Day…
April 2, 742: Birthdate of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was both King of the Franks and the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Despite pressure from the Catholic Church and the mighty Pope Gregory, Charlemagne treated his Jewish subjects and they played a prominent part in his realm. Unfortunately, after his death in 814, his successors were unable to continue to his policies towards the Jews of Christian Europe. [2]
April 2, 1279(Nisan, 5039): A number of London Jews were martyred following ritual charges. You will note that during the Easter Season there is a significant increase in these reports for several centuries in different parts of Europe.[3]
1282
War broke out again in 1282 when Llywelyn joined his brother David in rebellion.
Edward's determination, military experience and skilful use of ships brought from England for deployment along the North Welsh coast, drove Llywelyn back into the mountains of North Wales.[4]
April 2, 1453: Mehmed II began his siege of Constantinople. The siege would lead to the downfall of the Byzantine capitol which would improve the lot of the Jews living in the city as well as opening it up to settlement by Jews living Crete, Transylvania and Slovakia.[5]
April 2nd, 1754
On Tuesday, the 2d of April, at noon, the force marched out of Alexandrea with two wagon, and camped that night sic miles form the town. From that time nothing of note occurred in fifteen day’s marching, except that the detachment was joined by a small company under Capt. Stephen,[6] bringing the total strength of the command up to about one hundred and fifty men.
Washington kept no regular journal on the expedition, but he made hast notes of many occurrences; which notes were captured by the French at the battle of the Monongahela in 1755, and were by them preserved and published, though Washington said afterwards that they had distorted parts of them.[7]
Tuesday April 2 , 1754
George Washington leaves Alexandria VA with two companies of Virginians totaling 132 men. They are bound for the Forks of the Ohio to defend a fort being constructed there by other members of the Virginia Regiment under Captain Trent. [8]
April 2, 1768. George Washington’s Journal: Rid to Muddy hole—Doeg Run & the Mill. Mr. Crawford went to Alexandria.(Mr. Crawford is the compilers 6th great grandfather) [9]
“April 2d, 1768.
“We arrived at the settlement on Redstone on the 23rd day of March. The people having heard of our coming, had appointed a meeting among themselves on the 24th, to consult what measures to take. We took advantage of this meeting, read the Act of Assembly and Proclamation—explaining the law and giving the reasons of it as well as we could, and used our endeavors to persuade them to comply; alleging to them that it was the most probable method to entitle them to favor with the Honorable Proprietors when the land was purchased.
“After lamenting their distressed condition, they told us the people were not fully collected; but they expected all would attend on the Sabbath following, and then they would give us an answer. They, however, affirmed that the Indians were very peaceable, and seemed sorry that they were to be removed, and said they apprehended the English intended to make war upon the Indians, as they were moving off their people from the neighborhood.
“We labored to persuade them that they were imposed upon by a few straggling Indians; that Sir William Johnston, who had informed our Government, must be better acquainted with the mind of the Six Nations, and that they were displeased with the white people’s settling on their unpurchased lands.
“On Sabbath, the 27th, of March, a considerable number attended (their names are subjoined,) and most of them told us they were resolved to move off and would petition your Honor for a preference in obtaining their improvements when a purchase was made. While we were conversing we were informed that a number of Indians were to come to Indian Peter’s. We, judging it might be subservient to our main design that the Indians should be present, while we were advising the people to obey the law, sent for them. They came, and, after sermon, delivered a speech, with a string of wampum, to be transmitted to your Honor. Their speech was— ‘Ye are come, sent by your great men, to tell these people to go away from the land, which ye say is our’s; and we are sent by our great men, and are glad we have met here this day. We tell you, the white people must stop, and we stop them till the treaty, and when George Croghan and our great men talk together, we will tell them what to do.’ The Indians were from Mingo town, about eighty miles from Redstone (a little below Steubenville).
“After this the people were more confirmed that there was no danger of war. They dropped the design of petitioning, and said they would wait the issue of the treaty. Some, however, declared they would move off. We had sent a messenger to Cheat River and to Stewart’s Crossings of Youghiogheny with several proclamations, requesting them to meet us at Gist’s place as most central for both settlement:. On the 3oth of March, about thirty or forty met us there. We proceeded, as at Redstone, reading the Act of Assembly and a Proclamation, and endeavored to convince them of the necessity and reasonableness of quitting the unpurchased land; but to no purpose. They had heard what the Indians had said at Redstone, and they reasoned in the same manner, declaring they had no apprehensions of a war, that they would attend the treaty, and take their measures accordingly. Many severe things were said of Mr. Croghan; and one Lawrence Harrison treated the law and our Government with too much disrespect. (Lawrence Harrison is the compilers 6th great grandfather).
“On the 31st of March we came to the Great Crossings of Youghiogheny, and being informed by one Speer that eight or ten families lived in a place called the Turkey Foot, we sent some proclamations thither by said Speer, as we did to some families nigh the Crossings of Little Yough, judging it unnecessary to go amongst them.
“It is our opinion that some will move off in obedience to the law; that the greatest part will await the treaty, and if they find the Indians are indeed dissatisfied, we think the whole will be persuaded to remove. The Indians coming to Redstone, and delivering their speech, greatly obstructed our design.
“We are, &c.
John Steel,
John Allison,
Christopher Lemes,
James Potter.
“To the Honorable John Penn, Esquire,
Lieutenant-Governor, &c., &c’~
“The Indians names who came to Redstone, viz:
Captains Haven, Hornets, Mygog Wigo, Nogawach, Strikebelt, Pouch, Gilly and Slewbells.
The names of the inhabitants near Redstone:
John Wiseman, Henry Prisser, William Linn, William Colvin,
John Vervalson, Abraham Tygard (Teagarden), Thomas Brown,
Richard Rodgers, John Delong, Peter Young, George Martin,
Thomas Downs, Andrew Gudgeon (Gudgel), Philip Sute (Shute),
James Crawford, John Peters, Henry Swats, James McClean, Jesse
Martin, Adam Hatton, John Verval, Jr., James Wailer, Thomas Douter (Douthitt), Captain Cohurn, Michael I-looter, Andrew Linn,
Gabriel Conn’~ John Martin, Hans Cack (Cook), Daniel McKay, Josias Crawford, one Provence (William Yard, or John William), (j).
Names of some who met us at Guesse’s (Gist’s) place.
One Bloomfieid, (Thomas or Empson Brownfieid), James Lyne, (Lynn or Lyon), Ezekiel Johnson, Thomas Guesse (Gist), Charles Lindsay, James Wallace (Wailer), Richard Harrison, Phil. Sute (Shute), Jet. (Jediah) Johnson, Henry Burkon (Burkham), Lawrence Harrison, Ralph Higgenbottom.[10]~
Names of the people at Turkey Foot:
Henry Abrams,(k) Ezekiel Dewitt, James Spencer, Benjamin Jennings, John Cooper, Ezekiel Hickman, John Ensiow, Henry Enslow, Benjamin Pursley.”
In a supplemental report to the Governor by Mr. Steel, he says:
“The people at Redstone alleged that the removing of them from the unpurchased lands was a contrivance of the gentlemen and merchants of Philadelphia, that they might take rights for their improvements when a purchase was made. In confirmation of this they said that a gentleman of the name of Harris, and another called ‘Wallace, with one Friggs, a pilot, spent a considerable time last August in viewing the lands and creeks thereabouts. I am of opinion, from the appearance the people made, and the best intelligence we could obtain, that there are but about an hundred and fifty families in the different settlements of Redstone, Youghiogheny and Cheat.” We suppose this estimate included all the settlers in what is now Fayette county and Turkey Foot. The names of Harris, Wallace and Frigg do not appear in our early land titles, so far as we know. They were perhaps agents for others.[11]
The treaty referred to so often in the foregoing report was to be held at Fort Pitt in the ensuing April and May, by George Croghan,
April 2, 1769
WILLIAM CRAWFORD made application to the proper office for an order to have this tract of land surveyed, April 2, 1769. The order was issued and the survey made and returned to the land office, where it was described as “A certain tract of land called Stewart’s Crossing” situated on the south side of the Youghioghemy River. This home tract of Crawford included nearly all of what subsequently became the village of New Haven, and a considerable quantity of land outside the borough.[12]
April 2, 1778: Winch, Joseph.Private, (The compilers sixth great granduncle) Capt. John Homes's co., Col. Jonathan Reed's (1st) regt. of guards; muster roll dated June 1, 1778; enlistment, 3 months from April 2, 1778;[13]
April 2, 1782
The following is confirmatory of the fact of the early visitations of the savages:
“The intelligence which has been received from the frontiers of the state respecting the ravages of the Indians, and the murders which they have committed at this early season, leaves no room to doubt of their determination to exert their utmost power to distress us during the year, and confirms the accounts we had received from Fort Pitt, Washington [county], etc., of the combinations formed by them for that purpose[14]1 It will be observed that, in the above letter, the declaration of General Irvine that Colonel Marshel “ordered out the militia [of Washington county] to go to Muskingum” is unequivocal; and that, for that reason, he wrote to him for his official “report of the matter,” nnd for that of Colonel Williamson, who commanded the party. But why “go to Muskingum” (that is, to that branch of the river now known as the Tuscarawas)? Leinbach [15] answers the question: “In order to destroy three Indian settlements of which they [the militia] seemed to be sure of being the towns of7 some enemy Indians [that is, warriors — Marauding Indians].”[16]
April 2, 1790: On April 2, 1790, a Francis Cutliff was in Augusta County. Sarah, daughter of Franz and Maria Gottlob, was born November 5, 1789 and baptized March 14, 1790 at Altalaha Lutheran Church, Rehrersburg, Tulpehocken Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.[17]
April 2, 1790 “Francis Cutliff” was in Augusta County, Va. This is less than three weeks after Sarah’s baptism. If this is a reference to Francis Godlove, perhaps he was scouting the Shenandoah Valley as a potential home.[18]
April 2, 1805: Ancestor and future President William Henry Harrison informs the Secretary of War about the possible travel of Indian chiefs to Washington. Harrison also relays that Clark has sent him a letter [April 2, 1805] saying that all is well.
April 2, 1835: Sally Ann McKinnon (compilers 1st cousin 4 times removed) married Jonathan Plum.[19]
April 2, 1863
During the Civil War, food shortages cause hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies, in what became known as the Richmond Bread Riots. In her honor's thesis entitled The Richmond Bread Riot of 1863: Class, Race, and Gender in the Urban Confederacy, MIDN 1/C Katherine R. Titus wrote that while the rioters targeted speculators and government offices "Richmond citizens also targeted foreigners and Jews. The city had a tradition of blatant anti-Semitism. Once the War erupted, many Richmond citizens openly blamed the Jews and foreigners in the city for speculation and charged them with disloyalty. Sallie A. Putnam, for instance, believed that the Jews in Richmond profited from the war. She exhorted, "They were not found, as the more interested of the people, without the means to purchase food when the Confederate money became useless to us from the failure of our cause." Major John W. Daniel contended that local stereotypes allowed the rioters to target Richmond Jews. After the War, he reminisced, "certain people down there were credited with great wealth. It was said that they had made barrels of money out of the Confederacy, and the female Communists went at them without a qualm of conscience."[20]
How did Confederate President Jefferson Davis end the “bread riot,” which occurred in Richmond on April 2, 1863? When an unruly mob demanding bread began looting Richmond stores, Davis dramatically mounted a wagon, delivered a patriotic speech, threw the mob all the money from his pockets, then gave them five minutes to disperse before Confederate troops opened fire. They dispersed.[21]
Sat. April 2[22], 1864 (William Harrison[23] Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove)
Frost this morning
Co on picket gard cavalry started out[24]
Brought in 12 rebs killed a beef on picket[25] had a good time[26]
March 10-April 2, 1865
On the evening of March 10 moved to New Berne, North Carolina.[27] Remained at New Berne, North Carolina until April 2.[28]
April 2, 1906: Mr and Mrs. Earl Goodlove have the sympathy of many friends in the death of their baby daughter, Verlan Floy, born April 2, died August 12, 1906.[29]
April 2, 1917: On April 2, President Wilson, who had initially sought a peaceful resolution to World War I, urged immediate U.S. entrance into the war. [30] This was the first official step towards America's entry into World War I as a combatant on the side of the Allies.[31]
Four days later, Congress formally declared war against Germany.[32]
Spring 1917: In the spring of 1917, there was still insufficient support for consolidation in the Buck Creek Parish for it to carry in the entire town ship. The most frequent objection to consolidation voiced was that the increased cost of building and maintaining a consolidated school of the size and with the equipment necessary to receive state aid would be prohibitive. Lacking an urban center and consisting entirely of the territory of country school districts, consolidation would necessitate confiscatory taxes. As many of the older farmers in the area put it, the chances were great that building such a school would “bust’em.” [33]
April 2, 1921: Professor Albert Einstein held a press conference aboard the steamship Rotterdam today in New York Harbor. During the conference Einstein talked about his Theory of Relativity and his support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.[34]
April 2, 1930: Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. Part of his title included the honorific "Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah" which is tied to the contention that the Ethiopian rulers traced their origin to a relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. During World War II, Orde Wingate would aid the king in his fight against the Italians. This is the same Orde Wingate who was stationed in Palestine before World War II. He was one of the few British officers who was supportive of the efforts of the Jews to defend themselves against the Arab who were attacking them. Wingate reportedly provided training for the Zionists in basic military tactics and weapons usage.[35]
1930’s Catholic families began leaving the Buck Creek district in increasing numbers and as they did their places were taken by Protestants, most of whom became affiliated with the Buck Creek Church. With the onset of the Great Depression, and the decreased ability of farmers to make their mortgage payments, the departure of Catholic families was hastened still further. The residue of bad feelings between Catholics and Protestants caused by the zealotry of the Buck Creekers in their drive to consolidate the rural schools in the area rendered Buck Creek an undesirable place for Catholic farm families. The neighborhood system of family farming was predicated on unequivocal trust and sharing between neighbors. The school controversy had shattered this trust. In so doing it excluded most Catholic families from easy access to the neighborhood like system of family farming that was still available to most Methodists in the area.[36]
1930s: Interest in the Buck Creek School heightened considerably in 1930; when the Buck Creek boy’s basketball team won the Class B district tournament in Manchester and went on to earn two victories over larger schools in the regional tournament before losing in the championship game. As recorded in the local press, it was “truly remarkable showing the Buck Creek Team made and one to be proud of. The feat has never been duplicated, the nearest to accomplish it was the high school team of Hopkinton a few years back who were defeated after playing in the first game at Iowa City. People who had never heard of Buck Creek will remember for a long time to come the fine team put out by the School and the country lads who almost annexed the title. The refereeing was of high class and a large percent of the crowd pulled for Buck Creek to win. Three carloads of fans from the neighborhood made the trip to Waterloo Saturday.” This article was from a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on Buck Creek from the early 1920’s through the 1980s kept by the late Dora Winch, available in the Delaware County Historical Museum, Hopkinton, Iowa. The clipping appears to be from the Manchester Press. It is simply dated “1930. Dora Winch was th daughter of frequently mentioned, Warren Winch. She is the Compilers cousin as my great grandfather was Warren Winch’s brother. My mother, Mary Winch Goodlove graduated from Buck Creek High School. This year 2011, Buck Creek School was torn down. I hope to get pictures of the school someday while in its heyday.
Buck Creek was no longer a place whose identity derived principally from its past successes in creating a vibrant rural Methodist community and the controversy it spawned over the formation of one of the few purely rural consolidated school districts in the state. Buck Creek was now recognized in the record books of the Boys State Athletic Association, and hence, in a larger popular sense, Buck Creek had arrived historically; it had become a real place. Buck Creekers had shown that new purely rural communities could be forged in the countryside and that their farm boys could compete on even terms with those of the towns. No longer did Buck Creekers have to send their children to Hopkinton for high school.[37]
If ever a place was created by following the social policy prescriptions and ideology of the Country Life movement, it was Buck Creek. Indeed, for a time it was held up as an exemplar to be followed by those willing to conjoin the activities of the local churches and the state in building new rural communities capable of transforming the rural Midwest into a more modern agrarian landscape devoid of class conflict. Much was achieved along these lines in the social construction of Buck Creek, but at what cost? Gone was the rural neighborhood as a place where, irrespective of religion, neighbor was linked to neighbor by bonds of reciprocity, mutuality, and propinquity. A modified neighborhood system of family farming continues to operate for the Methodists in the area, as the Buck Creek Church assumed institutional responsibility for fulfilling needs that had previously rested with the rural neighborhood. Catholics, however, now found the traditional system undermined severely, if not fatally. Many went broke during the depression and left farming altogether. Others moved into Catholic neighborhoods in the Castle Grove area in northern Jones County and close to Ryan in Delaware County and to Monticello in Buchanan County. Of course, the demise of traditional rural neighborhood in this case cannot simply be attributed to the eventually successful effort of Buck Creekers in linking rural school consolidation with their efforts to build a larger, more Methodist rural community. There were plenty of other forces at work during this period to undermine it as well.[38]
The lesson that Buick Creek teaches is that rural school consolidation was not really about achieving educational equality between town and country or about enhancing the educational opportunities of farm children. It was seen to be an effective means of creating a new kind of place, a place where farmers were better, more modern, richer, and even more moral than their town cousins, certainly not merely their equals. Namely, it played to creating social superiority and difference, exploiting whatever implicit differences were already at hand. Perhaps, this was the only way that family farmers would embrace the educational changes that reformers thought necessary for the survival of a family based system of agricultural production. In Buck Creek, rural school consolidation became a means of creating a Methodist place. Elsewhere in the state, the same laws were coupled with a similar community building logic to help create Catholic places. The rural school consolidation movement in Iowa was not in principle anti-Catholic. Whatever the case locally, the rural school consolidation movement in Iowa quickly degenerated into a class movement at the state level. The movement attempted to exploit alternative visions if community and place that were as reactionary as they appeared progressive. Unlike in Buck Creek, most farm people in Iowa rejected rural school consolidation, not because they thought it was necessarily poor educational policy but because it was “a provoker of neighborhood contention” and a “disturber of community harmony.” They had a point.[39]
If the quality of education in the Buck Creek School was little better than that provided in the country schools it replaced, at least it was offered on the model similar to that recommended by leading educators of the era and hence was modern. It was controlled by a progressive farm community that had been built through the efforts of a rural Methodist church. For most of its patrons, the school itself was the center of community life and community pride, displacing even the Buck Creek Church after World War II, until it forced to close as a high school in 1959. Ironically, the Buck Creek district was consolidated with those of Earlville, Delhi, Oneida, Delaware, and Hopkinton, and all of the then remaining country school subdistricts in between to form the Maquoketa Valley Community School District. There was also a battle associated with that consolidation, but now the people of Buck Creek fought to retain their “neighborhood” school; this time they lost. The Buck Creek school was retained as an elementary “attendance center” in the Maquoketa Valley district until it was finally closed altogether in 1976. Today the Buck Creek Consolidated School stands abandoned, a derelict mausoleum providing mute testimony to the struggles over its creation, operation and demise.[40]
1930
Winifred (Goodlove) Gardner graduates from Central City High School.
April 2, 1941: Hungarian Premier Count Pál Telecki committed suicide rather than collaborate with Germany. This is only one small chapter in the complex story of Hungary's involvement in World War II. For much of the war, Hungary's Jewish population would remain comparatively untouched by the raging Holocaust. Only in the final year of the war would the final solution come to this eastern European state.[41] Our closest DNA connection with the last name of Schlenker, says that Hungary was the location of his earliest known ancestry.
April 2, 2005: On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be the biggest funeral in history.
John Paul II was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, 35 miles southwest of Krakow, in 1920. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow's Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group. During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.
Although Wojtyla had been involved in the church his whole life, it was not until 1942 that he began seminary training. When the war ended, he returned to school at Jagiellonian to study theology, becoming an ordained priest in 1946. He went on to complete two doctorates and became a professor of moral theology and social ethics. On July 4, 1958, at the age of 38, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow by Pope Pius XII. He later became the city s archbishop, where he spoke out for religious freedom while the church began the Second Vatican Council, which would revolutionize Catholicism. He was made a cardinal in 1967, taking on the challenges of living and working as a Catholic priest in communist Eastern Europe. Once asked if he feared retribution from communist leaders, he replied, "I m not afraid of them. They are afraid of me."
Wojtyla was quietly and slowly building a reputation as a powerful preacher and a man of both great intellect and charisma. Still, when Pope John Paul I died in 1978 after only a 34-day reign, few suspected Wojtyla would be chosen to replace him. But, after seven rounds of balloting, the Sacred College of Cardinals chose the 58-year-old, and he became the first-ever Slavic pope and the youngest to be chosen in 132 years.
A conservative pontiff, John Paul II s papacy was marked by his firm and unwavering opposition to communism and war, as well as abortion, contraception, capital punishment, and homosexual sex. He later came out against euthanasia, human cloning, and stem cell research. He traveled widely as pope, using the eight languages he spoke (Polish, Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin) and his well-known personal charm, to connect with the Catholic faithful, as well as many outside the fold.
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter s Square by a Turkish political extremist, Mehmet Ali Agca. After his release from the hospital, the pope famously visited his would-be assassin in prison, where he had begun serving a life sentence, and personally forgave him for his actions. The next year, another unsuccessful attempt was made on the pope s life, this time by a fanatical priest who opposed the reforms of Vatican II.
Although it was not confirmed by the Vatican until 2003, many believe Pope John Paul II began suffering from Parkinson s disease in the early 1990s. He began to develop slurred speech and had difficulty walking, though he continued to keep up a physically demanding travel schedule. In his final years, he was forced to delegate many of his official duties, but still found the strength to speak to the faithful from a window at the Vatican. In February 2005, the pope was hospitalized with complications from the flu. He died two months later.
Pope John Paul II is remembered for his successful efforts to end communism, as well as for building bridges with peoples of other faiths, and issuing the Catholic Church s first apology for its actions during World War II. He was succeeded by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict XVI began the process to beatify John Paul II in May 2005.
April 2, 2010
Sherri Maxson and Jeff Goodlove celebrate a Seder dinner at Baker Methodist last year.
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[1] LAWRENCE 3 HARRISON (Andrew 2 Andrew' ) was a constable in Orange County, Virginia in 1754. Later that year he sold his Orange County land. For a time after that he lived in Frederick County, Virginia. Pontiac's War disrupted frontier settlement in 1763. When Pontiac's War ended in 1765 Virginian settlers began to cross the mountains. At that time Virginia claimed what is now southwest Pennsylvania. John Stephenson and his half-brother William Crawford, and the brothers Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison were said to have crossed the mountains at the same time. (Wisconsin Historical Society, Draper mss. 3S53 and 5S1.) William Crawford later deposed that he made homestead improvements on Youghiogheny in 1765 and that he brought his family there in the spring of the following year. In 1767 John Stephenson was a batteau man at the Fort Pitt trading post of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan. In 1768 Lawrence Harrison was one of the Youghiogheny settlers who met with representatives of the colonial government of Pennsylvania at Christopher Gist's home. In 1769 Pennsylvania opened the Youghiogheny to white settlement.
Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison lived near Stewart's Crossings in a
frontier community that Virginia originally said was in Augusta County, then
West Augusta District and finally Yohogania County. Pennsylvania claimed
Stewart's Crossings was in Cumberland County, then Bedford County, Westmoreland
County and Fayette County as those jurisdictions evolved. Pennsylvania land
patents were obtained by Lawrence Harrison and his sons William, Benjamin,
Lawrence and Battle. The senior Lawrence Harrison called his home Mount
Pleasant. It was located on both sides of Braddock's Road near Youghiogheny
River. The land surveyed as Mount Pleasant is now within the City of
Connellsville in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[4] http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/ThePlantagenets/EdwardILongshanks.aspx
[5] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[6] The same person who, in the preceding autumn, had accompanied Washington to Fort Le Boeuf as French interpreter.
[7] History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Edited by Franklin Ellis Vol. 1 Philadelphia; L. H. Everts & Co. 1882
[8] http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/1754.htm
[9] George Washington’s Diaries, an Abridgement, Dorothy Twohig, Ed. 1999
[10] Several of these persons resided at considerable distances from the mouth of Redstone, or from Gist’s—as Philip Shute and James McClean, who lived in N. Union township, near the base of Laurel Hill; Thomas Douthitt on the tract where Uniontown now is; Captain Coburn some ten miles southeast of New Geneva; Gabriel Conn probably on Georges creek, near Woodbridgetown. The Provanees settled on Provance’s Bottom, near Masontown, and on the other side of the river, at the mouth of Big Whiteley. The Brownfields located south and southeast Of Uniontown. Ralph Higgenbottom resided on the Waynesburg road, In Menallen township, a little west of the Sandy Hill Quaker graveyard. The others, so far as we know, resided near the places to which they came. lt is singular that the Commissioners did not visit the upper Monongahela, or Georges creek and Cheat settlements. We infer that they were discouraged by their ill success at Redstone.
(k)Grandfather of Ex-Judge Abrams, of Brownsville.
[11]The MONONGAHELA OF OLD Or HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TO THE YEAR 1800 By JAMES VEECH Reprinted with a New Index GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC. BALTIMORE 1975 pp. 92-94.
[12] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995
[13] Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.
[14] .” —Pres’t Sup. Ex. Coun. to Gem. Assem., April 2, 1782. (See also, p. 99, note 2, and p. 155 and note thereto.)
Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield, 1882.
[15] (ante, p. 235, note)
[16] Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield, 1882.
[17] Jim Funkhouser
[18] Augusta County, Virginia, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782-1795, Library of Virginia microfilm, reel 23, exposure 0318. I have found no other references to Francis Cutliff in southwestern Virginia, and he is unknown to researchers of the Cutlip family of that area with whom I have corresponded. JF
[19] Vol. 15, page 108. Typescript Record of Marriages in Clark County 1816-1865, compiled under a DAR-WPA project. (MIcrofilm copy available through LDS). Volume and page numbers from Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 112.47 Record Books provided by Mrs. G. W. (Sylvia Olson), 1268 Kenwood Ave., Springfield, OH 45505, 28 June 1979.
[20] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[21] Civil War 2010 Calendar
[22] April 2, 1864; Piney Woods, LA
U.S.A. 0 Killed, 20 Wounded.
C.S.A. 10 Killed, 25 Wounded.
(Civil War Battles of 1864) http://users.aol.com/dlharvey/1864bat.htm
[23] William Harrison Goodlove is the compilers 2nd great grandfather)
[24] Leaving Grover’s division at Alexandria, Banks reached Natchitoches April 2-3. There was a minor cavalry skirmish at Crump’s Hill (Piney Woods), April 2.
http:www.civilwarhome.com/redrivercampaign.htm
[25] Despite orders to the contrary, some of the federals “foraged considerably” in the area. Perhaps as an example, the provost marshal picked up six of the offenders, punished them “severely,” and “turned them over to Col. Beal for court martial, which was done.”
However, on at least one occasion, it was the local citizenry who disciplined the bluecoats. On Saturday, April 2nd, three men of Co. I, 24th Iowa Infantry went out foraging at a nearby plantation. Three armed men (no uniforms mentioned) demanded that they surrender. The federals were taken two miles away and tied up. One escaped, the second was shot and killed, and the third was knocked in the head with the butt of a gun but later made it back into camp and reported the incident. General Thomas I. G. Ransom sent the rest of Co. I out the next day with order to burn everything at the plantation which was of no use to the quartermaster department, and those orders were carried out “with exceeding cheerfulness.” http://www.rootsweb.com/~ladesoto/cireac.htm
[26] The only misfortune to befall the 24th was the capture and execution of a member of Company F by a band of rebel guerrillas near Natchitoches, Louisiana. The plantation were the killing occurred was razed by the regiment in retaliation. (A History of the 24th Iowa Infantry 1862-1865 by Harvey H. Kimble Jr. August 1974.)
[27] (Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part II Record of Events Volume 20 Serial no. 32. Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmington, NC 1995.)
[28] (Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part II Record of Events Volume 20 Serial no. 32. Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmington, NC 1995.)
[29] Winton Goodlove papers.
[30] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-wilson-learns-of-zimmermann-telegram
[31] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[32] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-wilson-learns-of-zimmermann-telegram
[33] There Goes the Neighborhood, by David R. Reynolds, page 169.
[34] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[35] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[36] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 220.
[37] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 221.
[38] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 221-222.
[39] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 222.
[40] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 222-223.
[41] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
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