This Day in Goodlove History, August 10
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Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove
The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), Jefferson, LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/index.html
The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
• • 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.
Birthdays on August 13…
Samuel Chesire
Margaret Godlove Spaid
Harold D. Goodlove (3rd cousin)
Lawrence L. Mitchell (4th great granduncle of the wife of the 3rd great granduncle)
Flora Nunemaker Wilman (wife of the 4th cousin 3x removed)
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (wife of the 13th cousin 5x removed)
Dawn L. Ummel Goodlove (wife of the 1st cousin 1x removed)
August 13, 3114 B.C.: The Mayan calendar begins on August 13, 3114 B.C..
August 13, 1548: Mary Queen of Scots lands at the harbour of Brest :
she is immediately conducted to St. Germain- en-Lay e, and betrothed to the Dauphin. From that moment, she was educated with the children of Henry II and
Catherine of Medicis, and remained in France until her first widowhood. [1]
August 13, 1718
Samuel Winch Dies in Framingham, Massachusetts
1719-
1721
First Fort de Chartres was built of palisades and center of French colonial government in Illinois was established there.
[2]
1719-1765
Arrow Straightener With engraved Bison
[3]
Guebert Site, Illinois
August 13, 1776: Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, but had previously served as a lieutenant under George Washington in western Virginia during the French and Indian War. As the revolution began, Weedon was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Third Virginia Regiment under Hugh Mercer in 1775. On August 13, 1776, he acceded to Mercer's command as colonel of the 3rd Virginia Regiment.
Weedon's orderly book--his record of orders and battle plans--from Valley Forge remains in the holdings of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.[4]
August 13, 1776: Fifth Regiment General Stevens Brigade, William Crawford was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He served until August 14, 1776. He was promoted to colonel at Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776, of the Seventh Regiment which he headed 1776-1778. It was raised largely by William Crawford in the district of West Augusta. It was accepted by Congress February 29, 1776 and was taken on the Continental Establishment June 17, 1776. It seems to have been attached to General Woodford’s Brigade during its entire term of service. The Regiment was nearly cut to pieces in the defeat at Brandywine. Evidently it was largely recruited after that date, as the rearrangement in September 1776. The Seventh Regiment alone of the first nine regiments maintained its separate existence, not being combined with any other. It was renumbered the Fifth Regiment under the following commands. Colonel William Dangerfleld, February 19, 1776 - August 13, 1776, resigned. Colonel William Crawford, August 14, 1776 - March 4, 1777, resigned. Colonel Alexander McClenhan, October 7, 1776 - May 13, 1778, resigned. Thirteenth Regiment 1776-1778. This was the fourth of the six regiments of October 1776. It was raised in West Augusta District, largely through the efforts of Colonel William Crawford of the Seventh Regiment. It formed part of Muhlenberg’s Brigade in September 1778, it was renumbered the Ninth Regiment.[5]\
* August 13, 1776
* Thomas Jefferson raises the idea of a general removal of the Indian tribes in a letter to the Virginia politician Edmund Pendleton.[6]
* Thomas Jefferson
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August 13, 1782: The 1782 replacement recruits included detactments from all six of the German states supplying troops (Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau, Brunswick, Anspach-Bayreuth, Waldeck, and Anhalt-Zerbst). The detachment comprised 2018 officers and men, 112 women, and 33 children. They embarked at Bremerlehe on June 1, 1781 and sailed on June 9 I do not have a copy of the embarkation list but the citation is: "Liste von der Einschiffung der nach Amerika bestimmten Troupen zu BremerLehe den 31ten May 1782," Bestand 13, A. 6. (accession 1930/5), Nr. 198, 9. 108, Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg. Also "Return of the German Recruits, destin'd for America, after their Embarkation, Bremer Lehe, June 1, 1782" signed by Major General William Fawcett, UK/TNA/PRO, SP 81/195. The fleet comprising two frigates and 14 transports arrived at Halifax on August 13, 14 1782. The Frigates were HMS Emerald, 32-guns, Captain William Knell, and HMS Cyclops, 28-guns, Captain Brabazon Christian. The transports were the Rebecca, Ocean, Littledale, Chudleigh, Hesperus, Berwick, Diana, Elizabeth & Molly, Montagu, Enterprise, Soverign, Neptune, Apollo, and Jupiter."[8]
August 13, 1792: During the American War of Independence troops from various German territories fought on the British side,
including one unit from Waldeck called the Third English-
Waldeck Mercenary Regiment. All these auxiliary troops
are known under the name "Hessians" because the Land-
gravate of Hesse-Kassel provided the largest contingent
of mercenary units.
1875 DOTTLIEB GEORD 0/ 0 GE WLD5 62 June 1782 942,118
1876 GOTTLIEB GEOR~ 0/ 6 GE WLD5 01 June 1783 942/132
3877 GOTTLIEB GEORD 0/ 6 WLD 12 August 1783 978/25
Ge Private (Gemeiner)
WLD 5 Fifth Company (Captain Georg von Haacke,
after August 1778 Major Konrad von Horn)
62?
01 appointed, especially in the unit rolls
12 deserted; deserted to the enemy
• Also, George Gottlieb the elder had a daughter , Margaret (Peggy”) Godlove, born August 13, 1792 in Hampshire Cnty WVA or Pennsylvania?, died August 30, 1873 in Buffalo, Guernsey County, OH Married 1816 to Michael Spaid.
Is this Conrad’s father and is there a descendant out there that would do a DNA test?
More to come.[9]
Michael Spaid, born October 1, 1795, Married Margaret Godlove (Gottlieb )(born August 13, 1792) in 1816, daughter of George Godlove, (Gottlieb) German lineage, born in Hampshire county [10]
Michael Spaid, born October 1, 1795, Married Margaret Godlove (Gottlieb), 1816, daughter of George Godlove, German lineage, born in Hampshire county August 13, 1792.
Geneology.com genealogy records Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s to 1900s
In 1816 he married Margaret Godlove (Gottlieb, in German) who was born in the same county as himself, August 13, 1792. She was a daughter of George Godlove and wife, [11]
"The Spaid Family in America", author Abraham
Thompson Secrest. Published privately November 1920, Columbus, Ohio.
Michael Spaid, born October 1, 1795, Married Margaret Godlove (Gottlieb), 1816, daughter of George Godlove, German lineage, born in Hampshire county August 13, 1792;migrated to Guernsey County Ohio, 1819. [12]
Christine Spaid, the oldest child of Michael and Margaret Spaid was two years old when she was brought by her parents to the wilderness of Ohio. [13]
The writer's Grandmother, Christina Spaid Dyson, said her parents, Michael and Margaret Spaid, remembered their German as long as they lived, used it in talking to travelers and once in a while to each other when they desired to make a remark and did not want the children to know what they were saying, for they did not teach their children the language. [14]
In 1819 the Spaids moved from Hampshire County to Guernsey County; in 1819 Francis son Joseph left Hardy County and the next record I have found for him was in Guernsey County. I think that Secrest or his source, researching the descendants of George Spaid,
mistakenly gave Michaels father-in-law the same first name as his father.] [15]
John Cale, private soldier, Va. Militia, 1777 Capt. Wm. Croghan’s Co., 8th Va. Reg’t, Col. Abraham Bowmans, from 1st day of March to last of April.
John Cale, born April 19, 1726, died July 26, 1797; married July 25 1751 to Elizabeth Pugh, born December 13, 1730 in Frederick Co., Va., died September 14, 1796.
Daughter, Elizabeth Cale, born 1759, died 1821. Was married, 1782, to George Nicholas Spaid, born December 22, 1759, died June 15, 1833.
Their son, Michael Spaid, born October 1, 1795, in Hampshire County, Virginia, died March 26, 1872, in Buffalo, Ohio. Was married to Margaret ("Peggy") Godlove (Gottlieb), daughter of George Godlove, German lineage, born August 13, 1792, Hampshire County WV, died August 30, 1873 in Buffalo, Guernsey County, Ohio.[16] They were Lutherans and Democrats. Eight children. She had to the last the Virginia accent and kindly ways. [17]
George Gottlieb was a Hessian Soldier. So was George Nicholas Spaid, and of course, Francis Gotlop (Godlove). What they have in common was that they were Hessians, they deserted and stayed in America, and their children got married together. In the case of George Gottlieb and Francis Gotlop, they both had similar last names and I suspect that George had the Cohen Model Haplotype, as we know Francis Gotlop did. Perhaps they were among a small group of “Jewish Hessians” or “Hessians with Jewish ancestry” that came to America during the American Revolution and stayed afterwards. I do not have time to go into this today. I have created a study called “The Goodlove DNA: Coming to America. The story of Franz Gottlob, a Hessian Mercenary Soldier’s Journey to America and his Battle for Freedom”.
August 13, 1793
Samuel Chesire, Born Hampshire County, VA
Samuel Chesire, born August 13, 1793
August 13, 1813:
LOGAN, Mack-A-Cheek Town, Rts.47 & 245, Monroe Twp. *Simon Kenton ran gauntlet 1778,Squaw Rock is 100 yds. north (historical marker)
Zachariah Connell came here a few years later. (Connellsville, after 1770) For a time he lived with the Crawfords on the New Haven side but in 1778 moved over to the Connellsville side, taking up a tract embracing the old borough limits and designated in the survey as "Mud Island." His first cabin stood a short distance from the river banks but he later built a stone house in West Fairview Avenue and reside there until his death in August 13, 1813. His body is buried just east of the city limits, surrounded by graves of a few relatives.[18]
August 13, 1862: Twenty-Fourth Infantry.
Wagoner Jas. A. Rollins, enlisted August 13, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.
August 13, 1863: General Thomas Ewing, who was commander of the District of the Border, as this area was known and whose headquarters were at Kansas City, without notification, took possession of this building, proclaiming it a women's prison in late July 1863. This was not acknowledged by him until much later when he wrote in a letter: "This certifies that a certain house in McGee's Addition to Kansas City, Mo., known as 'No. 13 Metropolitan Block,' was occupied as a prison, by my order, from some day in the latter part of July 1863 , until the 13th day of August (August 13) last, when it fell." [19]
August 13, 1863: ough the Civil War was raging throughout the land, August 13, 1863 began in Kansas City as it was typically expected, hot and humid with the essence for survival making the necessity to provide for oneself the usual priority. But by days end an event was to unfold that was to become one of the most fascinating and mysterious events of the Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas border. On that August day, a building being used as a temporary prison to house female prisoners who were relatives of Confederate guerrillas and imprisoned on suspicion of aiding and abetting the Confederate cause, had collapsed into a heap of brick, mortar and bodies. Of those killed, one was my great great grandmother, Susan Crawford Vandever. Thought to be a deliberate act of murder, it sealed the fate of many Union soldiers and sympathizers. Coming at a most opportune time in his career, it was most certainly the spark that beckoned the revenge which set forth Quantrell's rampage through the streets of Lawrence, Kansas just eight days later. [20]
At the time of its collapse, this building housing the women prisoners was owned by the estate of Robert Thomas who had died June 12, 1859. Thomas' daughter was married to the Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham. Being an artist and in need of a studio, Bingham, after conferring with a competent architect, had the building remodeled, adding a third floor some twenty feet high to the structure at a cost of $1800.00. After Bingham was selected treasure for the state of Missouri, a position which became vacant after the flight of Governor Claiborne Jackson and his cabinet to Southern Missouri, he moved with his family to Jefferson City. The building then remained unoccupied for a year and a half until taken over for use as a prison.
Though most of the women were Quantrell's trusted spies, friendships developed over time between the woman and their guard, enough so that the Captain of the guard eventually allowed the personal belonging of many of the women to be retrieved from their homes and delivered to the prison. Pledging their word not to escape, the girls were often allowed to shop at various stores while their guard remained out of earshot of their conversations. Without a doubt, the women were respected and treated kindly.
Signs that the building was in peril of falling appeared before the collapse. A store merchant on the first floor began removing his goods after noticing cracks appearing in the ceiling and walls. Earlier that day, Lieutenant John M. Singer of Company H, Ninth Kansas, Captain of the Provost Guard, upon receiving a request from Frank Parker, Company C, 11th Kansas, Captain of the Guard at the prison, stating that he was becoming increasingly uneasy about it's safety, hastily preceded to the prison and upon arrival, immediately noticed the cracked walls and ceilings, with mortar dust having painted the floor white. Reporting to General Ewing, he immediately expressed his concern about the condition of the building. Ewing sent Major Harrison Hannah, adjutant general on Ewing's staff, to investigate Singer's findings. Upon his return, Hannah reported that he believed the building was safe. Later that day, as the women were served their dinner, Parker requested that Thomas Barber, a soldier in his company, to again inspect the building. Enlisting the help of Barber, together they began their query. By the time they had reached the third floor the walls commenced there tardent separation from the ceiling; incipiently, the entire building began its fall. Scarcely escaping injury themselves, the most that they could do was warn the the women of the havoc which was about to take place.
As the building began to fall, all the prisoners, which estimates place at about seventeen women, one boy and a guard, were on the second and third floors. Charity Kerr, who was sick and in bed, was attended by Mollie Grindstaff and several other girls who sat on the floor watching. Just then, the ceiling began to crack sending debris upon the women and sensing immanent danger, most either ran to a back balcony or climbed out windows in their attempt to escape. Among the killed and injured in the collapse were women who were close relatives of prominent Confederate guerrillas. At age fourteen, sixteen and ten, sisters Josephine, Mollie and Janie Anderson were the sisters of Bill Anderson, who soon was to earn the nickname "Bloody Bill" while avenging Josephine's death. Arrested along with the Anderson girls were the orphaned sisters Susan Munday, Mattie (Martha) Munday and Mrs. Lou Munday Gray, their brother serving in Price's army and Mrs. Gray's husband probably a guerrilla . Also imprisoned were sisters Susan (Crawford) Vandever, having a brother, Riley Crawford, serving as Quantrell's youngest recruit and Susan's sister, Armenia (Mina Crawford) Selvey, their husbands away with Jo Shelby's Cavalry and who were cousins of Cole Younger; Armenia's ten year old son Jeptha, Charity McCorkle Kerr, wife of Quantrillian Nathan Kerr and sister of guerrilla John McCorkle, Nannie Harris McCorkle, whose husband, Jabez, had rode with Quantrell before his death and whose future husband, James Lilley, was also a Quantrell man, a Miss Hall, Alice Fay Ness, whose grand daughter was to become actress Fay Templeton, Josie, Caroline and Sally Younger, sisters of guerrillas Coleman and James Younger, a Mrs. Wilson, and Mollie Grindstaff, she being with the Mundays at the time of their arrest. Four of the women, Susan Vandever, Armenia Selvey, Josephine Anderson and Charity McCorkle Kerr were killed immediately, one fatally injured, Mrs. Wilson, the others injured, both physically and emotionally, their scars a reminder of the evil known as James Lane, the 'Grim Chieftain'. Ultimately, the trauma of the collapse would soon claim another life, that of Caroline Younger, who would die in 1865. [21]
In a newspaper article, dated November 11, 1911, the sister of Nannie Harris, Eliza Harris states: "I was a girl of eleven at the time as I remember that the Union men sent three caskets containing my cousins to Little Blue. With the caskets was the satchel of trinkets and dry goods that my sister and Charity had gone to town to buy.
The dead were buried in the old Smith Cemetery near Raytown. We didn't have much time for funerals in those days and the three were buried in one grave...A little after the guard house fell, Order No. 11 was issued and our house at Little Blue was burned. We went down near Glascow and my sister Nannie walked thereafter she got away from the Union guard house-almost 100 miles. After the guard house fell, the remaining women were taken to some hotel and kept for a period of time."
(It is possible that the imprisoned Mrs. Wilson was serving as a Union spy, planted by General Ewing to gather information on the guerrillas and their supporters. This is possibly the same Mrs. Wilson that informed Lt. Col. J. T. Buel that an attack on Independence was imminent, having seen Colonel Upton Hayes and his men marching past her farm.)
"We could stand no more"
news of the collapse reached the families of the dead and injured, they went wild. Crowds gathered around the ruins as the dead and wounded were carried off. Soldiers fixed bayonets as shouts of "Murder!" intensified. [22]
August 13, 1863: BUILDING COLLAPSE, KANSAS CITY, MO
Several female relatives were held in confinement in a delapidated
building in Kansas City, MO. There is no proof that the foundations
were diliberately weakened, despite the claims of Quantrill's men.
The death and injuries to the women are often cited as the
justification for the continued activity and acts of the guerrillas.
both during the Civil War and afterward. Note that several of the
Jesse James family were involved in this incident or similar ones. I
have not included members of the James family other than Frank and
Jesse in order to reduce the confusion of trying to keep Quantrill's
career separate from the James'.
Note: The building was located on the site of 1409 Grand Avenue,
Kansas Cit, Missouri.
These women were:
1. Mrs. Charity Kerr, sister of John McCorkle--killed.
2. Mrs. Nannie McCorkle, sister-in-law of John McCorkle--uninjured.
3. Susan Vandiver, cousin of Cole Younger--uninjured.
4. Armenia Gilvey, cousin of Cole Younger--killed.
5. Josephine Anderson, sister of Bill Anderson--killed.
6. Mary Anderson, sister of Bill Anderson--crippled (age 16).
(both legs broken)
7. Jennie Anderson, sister of Bill Anderson--uninjuried (age 10).[23]
August 13, 1863:
Harper’s Weekly’s 1861 version of Federal soldiers searching the home of rebellious Southern women for incriminating weapons and letters. Courtesy of the Missouri Valley Room, Kansas City Public Library
Mystery still surrounds 1863 jail collapse, deaths
By Darryl Levings
Oct. 3
The Kansas City Star
Related
§ Southern discomfort
The screams of frightened women carried up and down Grand Avenue.
Then, as passers-by turned and stared, two buildings collapsed in a crunch of brick and a cloud of plaster dust.
Minutes later, soldiers and civilians, some swearing, all sweating in the August heat, tore at broken beams, trying to extract the prisoners from the rubble.
*Teenage girls, weeping from broken limbs and dangerous cuts, were pulled out. *
A crowd gathered, many angrily gesturing at the four bodies laid nearby.
*No accident, some muttered. The Yankees did it. *
As conspiracy theories go, this one had legs. The victims were Southern women, kin to notorious bushwhackers.
Josephine, 15, little sister to William Anderson — a man whom it was unwise to anger — perished in the Aug. 13, 1863, collapse. Another victim was Charity Kerr, whose brother, John McCorkle, would say:
“We could stand no more.”
Days later, they and hundreds more galloped through the streets of Lawrence, getting their revenge on the male citizens of that unlucky town, although historians agree William Clarke Quantrill had been planning his raid well before the jail disaster.
But the mystery lingers: Why did No. 13 on Grand fall?
One clue leads to the cellar.
Federal authorities had been arresting Southern women to eliminate the material and moral support they offered to bushwhackers.
Some got released; more often they were shipped off to the large Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis and banished from the state with little more than the clothes on their backs.
A dozen or so ended up lodging on the second floor of the No. 13, better known as the Thomas Building. It was just south of what today is the Sprint Center.
The first floor was a Jewish grocery. The third level apparently was empty. That floor had been added for a studio by artist George Caleb Bingham, who possessed the property.
That cellar? Be patient.
Paul Petersen, author of three books on Quantrill, agrees with the old talk that vengeful Yankees “premeditated their designs” of sabotage.
While few go that far, it appears that Gen. Thomas Ewing, headquartered in Kansas City, had been made aware of the deterioration at No. 13, but did not act on it.
Bingham, a strong Union man but one who hated Ewing’s guts, vainly sought federal reimbursement, claiming his building was “destroyed while thus occupied, by the act of soldiers in removing columns.”
While Southerners saw a dastardly plot, Federals groped for other theories. Many histories contend the structure was dilapidated — although it was built in the late 1850s — and victim to a gust of wind. Other folks blamed hogs rooting around the foundation.
As late as 1910, Kansas historian William E. Connelley was still writing how the women brought their fate down upon themselves by digging through the foundation. How they would dig out from a second floor was not explained.
What is obvious is the key role of the smaller Cockrell Building used as a guardhouse next door. It likely collapsed first, bringing down the Thomas Building with it.
That the Thomas Building was stressed is clear. Cracks appeared in walls and ceilings. The worried merchant had removed much of his stock.
Now, it’s time to descend into that cellar.
Eleven years after the disaster, Dr. Joshua Thorne, the Union surgeon responsible for the medical needs of the prisoners, came forward.
While the second floor housed gentile Southern ladies, he testified, the cellar held women “of bad character and diseased.”
To soldiers barracksed next door, however, it was a harem only a few bricks away. Thorne said they tore out large holes in the common cellar wall, weakening the buildings above.
Edward Leslie, in his 1996 book about Quantrill — “The Devil Knows How to Ride” — slyly called the theory of the prostitutes “as natural as a sudden gust of wind.” Bruce Nichols, finishing his third volume of “Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri,” finds that theory more likely than any plot to kill the women.
Petersen, however, contends that Thorne had changed his story. His book, “Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerrilla Warrior,” refers to Mattie Lykins, wife of a former mayor, who quoted the doctor at the scene that day as saying:
“Not a blue coat will be found (in the debris); every man who has been detailed to stand guard at this prison for the last few days and weeks knew the house to be unsafe and have kept themselves at a safe distance from the trembling walls. I knew the building to be unsafe and notified the military authorities of the fact, and suggested the removal of the women prisoners, but my suggestion was not heeded and before you is the result.”
If true, that hardly proves murder. Lykins, an outspoken cousin of Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, soon was banished herself.
While the soldiers did chop away at the cellar’s supporting brickwork, Petersen said, no women were down there.
Charlie Harris, who researched all of this for the Missouri Historical Review, also discounts the hookers-below theory. Too dark and dank, reasoned the Wichita lawyer, related to three women in the collapse.
“You couldn’t keep people down there for any length of time.” Besides, he argued, why would the soldiers go to the trouble of digging through? “They’d just walk around.”
The soldiers removed structural supports in the Cockrell Building simply to enlarge a first-floor common area, he believes.
No dastardly plot at all.
“If you were going to kill these girls,” Harris asked, “wouldn’t you do it in a little more efficient manner rather to bring down a building and hope it causes the other building to fall, too?”
While the conflict in the Kansas City region was exceedingly personal and violent, physical harm to women was rare. The war occurred during the Victorian era, and many combatants adopted a chivalric code of sorts. Only one black woman may have died in the Lawrence raid, Cole Younger said, shot by accident.
To that, Petersen notes the rising fury of Kansas soldiers that summer. Just in June, George Todd’s band killed 16 troopers of the 9th Kansas Cavalry in an ambush on the Fort Scott Road (today’s Wornall Road) south of Westport.
“They wanted retaliation,” he said in an interview, “but the Kansans couldn’t take it out on the guerrillas because they couldn’t catch them.”
But the jailed women, bushwhacker family, were handy.
Not all were girls, as many say: Charity McCorkle Kerr was 32.
Armenia Crawford Selvey and Susan Crawford Whitsett Vandever were both married and in their late 20s. They were not twins, as some histories report.
Their brother was Riley Crawford, one of the youngest members of Quantrill’s band in 1863. Cole Younger was a cousin. The sisters had been arrested on a trip to Kansas City to buy flour and cloth, allegedly destined for guerrillas.
Anderson’s sisters were young: Mary, known as Molly, was 18; Josephine, probably 15; and Martha, called Mattie or Jenny, just 13.
Harris found one report that alleged they were caught with percussion caps for firearms.
Seeming determined to spoil all the good tales, Harris also does not believe reports that irritated Union jailers had chained a 12-pound ball to Martha’s ankle. She suffered two broken legs in the disaster, but it was Mary who was “crippled for life.”
Charity Kerr’s widowed sister-in-law, “Nannie” Harris McCorkle, either 19 or 20, managed to leap out a window.
The bodies of the Crawford women and McCorkle’s sister were taken to the small Davis-Smith Cemetery beyond the village of Raytown.
“I was a girl of eleven at the time as I remember that the Union men sent three caskets containing my cousins to Little Blue,” Eliza Harris later would write. “With the caskets was the satchel of trinkets and dry goods that my sister and Charity had gone to town to buy.”
Their resting place, now on private property between the lanes of Missouri 350 east of Westridge Road, is overgrown with weeds. Local historians hope to mark it in some way.
Josephine Anderson is buried in Union Cemetery, not far south of the grave of Bingham.
Yet there’s another mystery. Who was the fifth victim, a “Mrs. Wilson,” who lingered a spell before dying?
A Union spy, some think, placed to eavesdrop on the women; a Mrs. Wilson had tried to warn Federals before they were surprised in the 1862 Battle of Independence.
Women spies were not unheard of in the West. One was Elizabeth W. Stiles, whose husband reportedly was killed Oct. 15, 1862, in Todd’s raid on Shawneetown. Afterward, Federal records showed her employed “as a Spy & Secret Agent on this border.”
Todd had his own spy, but she wasn’t as effective as Stiles. Arrested trying to get a pass to leave Independence, a Miss Eliza Brown confessed, “that she was sent in by Capt. Todd to ascertain if possible the number of our forces then in town with the promise if she did so, he would make her a present of some fine dresses.”
Connelley wrote of another young woman, Alice Van Ness, who escaped injury in the collapse.
She was a favorite among her Union captors for her singing voice. Lt. Cyrus Leland Jr. was such a friend that he arranged to have her banished — so she could join a passing theatrical company and start a fine career away from the war.
The surviving Anderson sisters? Less popular, a year later, they were arrested again, sent to St. Louis, placed on a steamboat and dumped in Arkansas.[24]
Sat. August 13, 1864
Quite warm in camp out of tobacco
Feel lonesome[25][26]
August 13, 1891
Linn County Old Settlers Association One of Oldest County Groups; Was Formed In Marion on August 13, 1891. The Beginning:
To The Old Settlers of Linn County:
A meeting is called to convene at the Couirt House in Marion on Thursday, August 13, 1891, at 1’ o’clock p.m. for the purpose of organizing an Old Settlers organization of Linn county. Let all who can attend this meeting to enroll their names, place, and period of residence at this meeting, and give such information as you may be in possession of. In order to complete a permanent organization, bring with you some other old settler who is omitted for want of address. J.C. Davis, Acting Secretary. [27]
August 13, 1914
Miss Ruth Gray of San Antonio, Texas is spending the week in Central City with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs W. H. Goodlove.[28]
Winton Goodlove’s note: The house built by W. H. Goodlove is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rogers at 53, 5th Street. Pictures are elsewhere in this folder. (W.D.G.)
Early Fall 1914: By early fall 1914, the activities and membership of the Buck Creek Church had so expanded that Chalice thought the time propitious to investigate the possibility of securing a resident pastor. He argued that his duties in the two churches, Hopkinton and Buck Creek had become very heavy and quite divergent. For progress to continue, he argued, it was necessary for each to have its own pastor. This also was an explicit recognition of what moswt of his parishioners already knew, that the two churches, despite sharing a single pastor, served two quite different communities. Although it served rural residents along with those from town, the aHopkinton church was still atown church whose community building effors would nee to be different from those of a church located in the open country. This had the result of pulling the single pastor in two directions. Although Chalice attempted to maintain a façade of neutrality, it was clear to all that his greater sympathies lay in the project he had begun in Buck Creek Church doubted whether they would be able to raise the necessary revenue to go it alone. Nonetheless, Chalice was able to convince church leaders that a complete canvassing of families in the Buck ‘Creek area would provide a relatively quick and effective way of determining the feasibility of the plan. To accomplish this, Chlice organized five teams, made up of ten men each, and carefully trained them in the art of canvassing. Considering the survey conducted earlier, the canvassers already knew that approximately 520 persons composing 130 families lived within the area served by the Buck Creek Church. These figures are roughly consistent with the populations of Union Township reported in the U.S. Censuses of 1910 and 1920. Of these, roughly 160 persons were under and 360 over the age of twenty one. Fourhundred and ten were Protestants of various denominations (including 100 who were already members of the Buck Creek Church), and 110 were Roman Catholics. The 4:1 ratio of Protestant to Catholic appears high, perhaps indicating that the survey excluded the almost completely Catholic southernmost tier of sections in Union Township and included the several sections in Hazel Green Township nearest to the Buck Creek neighborhood. Families were asked how much they were willing to pledge yearly for retaining a resident pastor. Existying church members pledged $1,040 and “outsiders and constituents” pledged $247. A similar canvass was conducted in Hopkinton with less beneficent results, but they were able to obtain pledges sufficient to increase the Hopkinton salary to $1,000. [29]
Provided a way could be found to build a parsonage, the Buck Creek Church would have its own pastor and was prepared to pay a salary of almost $300 more than that offered in Hopkinton. Having accomplished thisw feat, raising the money to buy the sixteen acre plot of land admjoining the church from the “old bachelor” who lived there was relatively easy. Chalice had already organized a small group of men into an adult Bible class that met each Sunday and again for a “social time” once each month. The men in this group functioned as deacons in the church. Included were several of the wealthier farmers in the area. They agreed to advance the $5,000 needed to by the land and to build a new parsonage, with the understanding that the church membership would repay the debt. Within a year the debt had been retired.[30] [31]
Fall 1914: CREEK CALLS A RESIDENT PASTOR
By this time the duties of Buck Creek Church were becoming very heavy for the pastor, who was still performing all the duties of the Hopkinton charge. It was becoming a physical impossibility to give the people of Buck Creek Church adequate pastoral attention, because there were constantly greater demands upon hisa time in the town.
He distributed among the congregation some literature which told of the achievements of rural pastors of distinction in Iowa and MJichigan. In a campaign of education, he emphasized the need for a pastor to live among his people. The BUCK CREEK MESSENGER, a little papert which the pastor published, became his chief assistant. For it not only kept before the people of the community the activities of the church, but also made it possible for the pastor yto keep in touch with the non church going people of his parish, and created sentiment in favor of a resident pastor.
This publicity campaign had been kept up for some time, when the matter of a non-resident pastor was brought to an issue be the young folks ofv rhe church, who came to the pasytor with the request that he give thrm an evening service. This was impossible, and the pastor took up the matter with his District Superintendent, who, in turnb, laid the situation before the Offical Board of the Church, with the suggestion that they secure a resident pastor.
The difficulties, however, were great.
“We had better leave will enough alone.” The conservative element said “for we could never finhane a proposition like that.”
Even the pastor thought that there might be some truth in this, for up to this time there had always been a financial deficit at the end of the year. Apparently it hid been difficult to raise $400 a year. Those who were doubtful rechoned with out the young people of Buck Creek, for they remained persistent in their demands for an evening service, and finally offered to finance it themselves.
The pastor suggested that the whole community be canvassed in order to determine whether it would support such an undertaking. For this purpose five teams, made up of ten men each, were organized and carefully trained in the art of canvassing. The one hundred and thirty families among whom were one hundred and sixty persons under trwentyu one years of age, and three hundred and sixty persons under twenty one, represented fourhundred and ten Protestants of several denominations, and one hundred and ten Roman Catholics. They were carefully divided into groups of members, constituents and non-church attendants. Some objection was raised in regard to calling upon everybody in the community, but the pastor contended that all of these people were deriving benbefits from the church and should, therefore, be prepared to support it. Each of the teams was given a list headed in theis fashion:
NUMBER WHO WILL PAY FOR
TWO SERVICES ON SUNDAY
WITH RESIDENT PASTOR
NUMBER WHO WILL PAY FOR EVENING SERVICE ONLY
The canvassers themselves were the first to sign the lists. Three signed for $75 a year; for for $50; and three for $25, This was the result of the canvass:
Before Canvassing
4 members $100.00
96 members $100.00
Ladies’ Aid $100.00
Young People $50.00
Total $350.00
After Canvassing
100 members $1,040.00
Outsiders and Consituents 247.00
Total $1,287.00
The salary of the janitor and the expense for fuel were usually provided for out of the loose collections.
The same method was adopted in the town appointment. There an increase was secured from $800 to $1200. Before the canvass the circuit paid $1,200 and house in the country; making a total of $2,200.
Buck Creek Church was to have its own pastor! The officials of the church met and decided upon whom they should “call”. Imagine the surprise of their own pastor when they called upon himn and asked him to come on over to Buck Creek to live.[32]
At first he was tempted to shun the task, because of his inefficiency, for much of his trime had been spent in city work, with the exception of a few months on the Canadian prairies for the Home Mission Board of Canada. But here came a call from the country! The pastor had always been impressed with the idea that the country people generally have been a bit neglected and needed men who would consecrate themselves to that partivular work.
In spite of much effort to persuade him against accepting, and so depriving his family of the advantages of town life, the pastor and his wife decided together to accept the call. It took some time for them to adjust themselves to the new surroundings and the new work; but it did not take the people of Buck Creek long to become accustomed to the new order of things.[33]
August 13, 1915: Within days of the consolidation issue failing in Hopkinton, Lenox College agreed to take over responsibility for providing instruction in agriculture and domestic science to high school students in the Hopkinton Independent School District.[34]
The threat of a Hopkinton consolidate destrict encroaching upon the territory of any prospective Buck Creek district was gone. The strength of opposition in the town of Hopkinton itself assured that Mrs. Reeve was right: school consolidation in Hopkinton was “put to death.” The issue of consolidation in the Buck Creek area, however, was not. Woodruff’s address enjoyed a much more favoragble reception by the significant number of the Buck Creekers in attendance. The idea of consolidation had been firmly planted among them; it simply needed time and some tending to grow.[35]
Summer 1915: Chalice wanted his parishioners to realize that they were involved in something mor significant than simply reinvigorating a small country church. Rural leasders across the state and nation were watching their efforts with interest. While education could not be neglected, in Chalic’s vision of a reconstituted rural life, the church, noyt the school, was the central local institution in the reform process. His experience in the Buck Creek Parish seemed to corroborate this. Once the church built the community, the advantages of consolidating the schools serving that community would be obvious to all of its members, or so he hoped.[36]
Also attracting attention in southern Delaware County during h the summer of 1915 was the possibility that Ryan might discontinue its public high school and reduce the number of grade school teashers because of the remarkable growth of the parochial school affiliated with Saint John’s Catholic Church. In only its second full year of operation, St. John’s had become the largest parochial school in the county in 1914-1915, drawing Catholic high students from all over southern Delaware County, especially in the Castle Grove area. Prospective enrollments in Ryan’s public school were so uncertain for 1915=1916 that the secretary of the Ryan school board wrote to the DPI inquiring whether the closure of the public high school and the other retrenchment measures were within ght board’s prerogative. The DPI replied that they were. As matters turned out, the enrollments for 1916-1916 were not as low as anticipated and Ryan maintained its public school teaching staff at the 1915-1916 levels.[37]
August 13, 1933: Joseph Abel Warren (b. January 2, 1870 in GA / d, August 13, 1933)[38]
August 13, 1936: HARRISON, Benjamin Rodgers b: March 08, 1869 in Range
Township, Madison County, Ohio d: August 13, 1936 in
Columbus, Ohio.[39]
August 13, 1941
A German regulation orders the confiscation of all radio sets possessed or owned by Jews. The radios are to be turned in at police stations.[40]
August 13, 1942
An assistant to Eichmann, Rolf Gunther, answers Ahnert’s August 11 telex. As to the meaning of “adequate proportions” of children to be deported, Gunjhther specifies that the children “can be distributed little by little on the anticipated convoyus in the direction of Auschwitz. However, in no case must a transport made up exclusively of children be sent off.”
Soon afterward, a Franco-German meeting is held in the Paris offices of the Gestapo’s Jewish Affairs Department at 31 bis Avenue Foch. Taiking part in this working session are Dannecker; Rothke, who keeps the minutes of the meeting; and Leguay and his staff chief, Thomas Sautsx. (This will be Dannecker’s last official action in the Jewish Affairs Department; he being transferred and will continue his work in Bulgaria, Hungary, and norther Italy.)
Leguay describes the plan for the arrival of trains from the Vichy Zone on August 17, 26, and 29. (In fact they will arrive on August 25,29, and 30.) The Gestapo officers and Leguay agree on details of the children’s deportations; they will be mingles with adults on the trtansports in a maximum proportion of one child for each adult. The reason is doubtless simple, the SS wants French and German railway workers and any others who may see the trains to believe that the children are being dep;orted with their parents.
Dannecker and Rothke remind Leguay that 13 convoys should leave Drancy in August and 13 in September. No doubt they have been informed by Drancy that there were only three children among the 2,791 Jews who arrved from the Vichy Zone on August 7, 9, and 12; they suggest to Leguay that Jewish children now be delivered for deportation with adults. Anxious to receive trainloads from the Unoccupied Zpone as quickly as possible to fulfill the conoy schedule for September they ask Leguay to send those due for that monyth’s deprtations as early as the end of August. Leguay promises to do all that he can and to raise the matter immediately with Vichy. Further the
Germans suss to Leguay that Frnch authorities in the Ocupied Zone could turn over Jews found guilty of crimes or misdemeanortrs and that in the Vichy Zone thay could begin arresting and delivering Belgian and Dutch Jews.[41]
August 13-14, 1942: Jews lacking Belgian nationality are seized in Antwerp and sent to the Malines camp.[42]
August 13-20, 1942: The majority of Croatian Jews are deported to Auschwitz.[43]
August 13, 1946 – February 1989
Harold D Goodlove
Birth:
Aug. 13, 1946
Central City
Linn County
Iowa, USA
Death:
Feb., 1989
Linn County
Iowa, USA
Obituary dated Feb 18, 1989:
Harold D "Harry" Goodlove, 42, of Central City, died Saturday from injuries in a tractor accident near Paris, Iowa. He was born Aug 13, 1946 in Central City, and married Peggy Jordan Sept 18, 1865, in Central City. Mr Goodlove was owner and operator of H Goodlove Building and Repair for the past 12 years and operated a hog roasting service. He was presently serving as president of the Central City school board and was a member of St Stephen's Catholic Church in Central [44]City. Survivors include his wife; a son, Cpl. H James Goodlove, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; two daughters, Tina Hurt and Laura Goodlove, both of Central City; parents, Winton and Berniece Goodlove of Central City; and a sister, Charlotte Fietek of Stanchfield, Minn. Services: 10am Tuesday, St Stephen;s Catholic Church, Central City, by the Rev Matthew Beelner. Burial: Jordan's Grove Cemetery, Central City.
Jordans Grove Cemetery
Central City
Linn County
Iowa, USA
Created by: J Wright
Record added: Aug 10, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6679306
Added by: AK Gray
Cemetery Photo
Added by: Jackie L. Wolfe
Photos may be scaled.
Click on image for full size.
August 13, 1950:
Lyle L. Winch
August 23, 1926 to February 27, 2006
Lyle Winch age 79, of Buck Creek died Monday morning, February 27, 2006 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa following an extended illness. Funeral Services will be held 10:30 Wednesday morning, March 1, 2006 at the Buck Creek United Methodist Church with interment in the Buck Creek Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 until 8 Tuesday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Rev. Edwin Moreano will officiate at the services. Thoughts, Memories and Condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com. Surviving is his wife, Elizabeth, 3 children, Rev. Marilyn Winch, Monticello, Diane Winch, Buck Creek, Timothy Winch, Mount Vernon, a granddaughter, Heather Winch, Mount Vernon, 3 sisters, Imogene (Norman) Snell, Cedar Rapids, Novella (Jim) Cunninghan, Marion, Mary (Gary) Goodlove, Palo, 2 brothers, Martin (Martha) Winch, Marion, Merle (Lois) Winch, Buck Creek. He was preceded in death by his Parents. Lyle LeClere Winch was born August 23, 1926 at Buck Creek, Iowa. He was the son of Henry Salem and Theresa LeClere, Winch. Lyle graduated from the Buck Creek High School in 1945. Lyle Winch and Elizabeth Ward were married August 13, 1950 at the Mondamin Christian Church in Des Moines. The couple farmed near Buck Creek in Union Township, Delaware, County, Iowa. They also operated a farm in Lucas County near Russell for several years. From 1950 until 1989 Lyle was employed at Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids. [45]
August 13, 1964: Lee Olie STEPHENSON. Born on July 12, 1882 in Chariton County, Missouri. Lee Olie died in Dean Lake, Chariton County, Missouri on August 13, 1964; she was 82. Buried in McCullough Cemetery, Triplett, Missouri.
On November 1, 1899 when Lee Olie was 17, she married Frank Tipton KING, son of John Wesley KING & Mary Elizabeth FERRELL. Born on April 4, 1875. Frank Tipton died on December 11, 1954; he was 79. Buried in McCullough Cemetery, Triplett, Missouri.
They had the following children:
i. Norma Elsworth (1914-1932)
ii. Lucy May (1899-1918)
iii. Emory Everett (1908-1960)
iv. William Earl (1912-1994)
v. Elizabeth (1905-1905)
vi. Charles William (1911-1911)
vii. Augusta Pear (1917-)[46]
August 13, 1978: Martial law was extended to the towns of Jajafabad, Shareza, and Homayunshahr in Isfahan province.[47]
August 13, 1980: Democratic Convention nominates Jimmy Carter.[48]
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[1] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[2] http://exhibits.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1700/timeline/index.html
[3] Nature Center, Moraine Hills State Park, McHenry, IL
[4] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-weedon-is-promoted-to-brigadier-general
[5] The Brothers Crawford
[6] http://www.milestonedocuments.com/document_detail.php?id=49&more=timeline
[7] Photo by Jeff Goodlove, at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Charleston, MA
[8] http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ts/ships.htm
[9] Posted by: Daniel Robinson (ID *****7243)
Date: June 02, 2008 at 16:17:28
http://genforum.genealogy.com/g/goodlove/messages/4.html
[10] Jim Funkhauser
[11] "The Spaid Family in America", author Abraham Thompson Secrest. Published privately November 1920, Columbus, Ohio.
[12] Geneology.com genealogy records Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s to 1900s
[13] (Spaid Genealogy by A. T. Secrest)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosemarypro/spaid/booksurn/notes.html#NI4229
[14] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosemarypro/spaid/beginning.htm
[15] JF
[16] Capon Valley, It’s Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940 by Maud Pugh Volume I page 259.
[17] Capon Valley, It’s Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940 by Maud Pugh Volume I page 190.
[18] Article taken from the Sesquicentennial Souvenir Program published in 1956.
First White Settlers By Willard L. Lewis
[19] http://www.members.tripod.com/~penningtons/scv1.htm
[20] http://www.members.tripod.com/~penningtons/scv1.htm
[21] http://www.members.tripod.com/~penningtons/scv1.htm
[22] http://www.members.tripod.com/~penningtons/scv1.htm
[23] http://www.kansasheritage.org/research/quantrill.html
[24] Read more here: http://civilwar150.kansascity.com/articles/darryls-jail-story-612/#storylink=cpy
[25] His wife, Esther J. Winans Goodlove had just passed away August 7. I wonder if he even knew. She is buried at Springville Cemetery, Linn County, Iowa.
[26] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War diary annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove
[27] The Marion Sentinel, Marion, Iowa, Thursday, August 26, 1937.
[28] Winton Goodlove papers.
[29] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidatipon at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds 142-143.
[30] Accortding to the Buck Creek Parish pamphlet distributed by the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the $5,000 was raised in thirty minutes after a sermon dealing with church finances given by Charles W. Flint, the president of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. Cornell was one of four college in Iowa supported in part through conbtributions from the Methodist Epicsopal Church.
[31] There Goes the Neighborhoo, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 144
[32] Buck Creek Parish, The Department of Rural Work of The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1919, pages 8-10.
[33] Buck Creek Parish, The Department of Rural Work of The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1919, pages 10-11.
[34] There Goes the Neighborhoo, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 163.
[35] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 163.
[36] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 164.
[37] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 164.
[38] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe
[39]
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The Harrison Genealogy Repository http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep
[40] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial, by Serge Klarsfeld, page 25.
[41] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 46 and 47.
[42] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1773.
[43] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1773.
[44] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Goodlove&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=6679306&
[45] http://www.goettschonline.com/current.php?id=670
[46] www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/families/Stephenson.rtf
[47] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 500.
[48] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 499.
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