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Topics People Places Events Sources Familes Good Gaiser Huguenin Lauck Peabody, KS Feedback www.dgatx.com 2011 Oct 15 |
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1835 Nov 22: Born near Bremen, OH in Fairfield Co., OH to David Good and Susanah Beery (1 p68) (17) Joel tells his grandson Floyd that, as a boy, there were deer and bear in the woods around where they lived. Joel's father, David, once shot a bear that had mauled a sow that was running loose in the woods. (10) Joel and his older brother Aaron once cornered a deer in the barn lot and killed it with an axe. Their father gave them a good scolding because a deer often fights with its front feet, and they can be deadly. (10) 1855 Jan 15: Joel's mother Susanah dies. 1856 Oct 23: Joel's father remarries Lydia Beery Engle Stemen. 1861 Apr 12: The US Civil War begins with the Confederate army taking Ft. Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina. Joel grew up on his father's farm in the valley of Rush Creek about six miles south and a bit west of Bremen. In 1861, he was 26, and eligible for conscription into the Union Army, yet, so far as we know, he did not serve. ?? How did he handle this? It was legal to buy his way out or to pay someone to serve for him, or ...? -- dg 2009 Apr 22 For more about the war and the Good family, see the pages for Joel's father David. |
1863 Dec 28: Susanna's mother Elisabeth dies. 1864 Mar 3: Joel Good
and Susanna Huber
are married by Samuel Tussing
in Perry Co., OH. (17)
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