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1779 Jan 28: Born to Christian Good (GC34) and
Barbara Brandt.
This son Christian is GC344. (1, p24)
1804 Apr 24: Christian Good (GC344) marries
Maria Bauman. (1, p24)
1805 Mar 22: David
1807 Sep 8: Daniel
Christian is a minister. (1, p24)
1808 Jun 22: Maria dies. (1, p24)
Christian Good (GC344) marries
Maria Horst. (1, p24)
1810 Nov 9: Esther
1814 Feb 21: Joseph
1817 May 14: Susanna
1838 Aug 30: Christian (GC344) dies, buried in Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery. (1, p24)
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About Christian
From Romaine Stauffer, 2008 May 12
"Christian Good was ordained as minister of the district soon after
Joseph Bowman moved to Canada [in 1816]. He lived in the extreme
southern end of his field of labor, several miles southeast from their
meetinghouse in Brecknock Township." (3 p145)
[Christian] "resided a short distance southeast of Good's mill. He
was a man of considerable natural parts, and, for his time and
opportunities, of respectable information. He had read some books, and
had an intelligent comprehension of their contents. He was the author
of a German hymn, in the form of an acrostic, which he composed during
his last illness, while confined to his room of lingering consumption.
Its execution shows that he had some knowledge of metrical
composition. He was for all that, however, a strict constructionist
of the strict conditions of his faith. When by reason of careless
and unskillful cultivation the farms of the whole neighborhood had
become exhausted, and many of his neighbors began to use lime as a
fertilizer, he opposed the innovation on principles of morality,
contending that it was the spirit of discontent and an inordinate
desire after worldly riches that prompted them in the endeavors to
improve the productiveness of their farms. In his delivery, he was
slow, calm, and deliberate, wholly unimpassioned. In person he was
rather tall and slim. In dress, of course, scrupulously plain." (2
p678)
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