1844 May 14: Born in Page Co., IA to Noah Good and Franses Culp. (1)

1868 Feb 2: Benjamin W. Bare marries Magdalena Good in Clarinda, IA. (1,2)

  1868 Dec 17: Alice Jane
  1870 May 29: Lydia Rebecca
  1871 Dec 10: Fannie Esther
  1873 Mar 27: Mahlon George
  1876 Oct 25: Nancy Ann
  1876 Oct 25: Orpha M.
  1878 Jun 19: Joseph Harlin
  1882 Mar  2: Katherine Susan
  1885 Sep 18: Martha Elizabeth

?? Does Orpha really belong here? See her page. -- dg 2009 Apr 17

Benjamin and Magdalena stay with her parents, Noah and Frances Good, until spring. (16)

1869: In the spring, Benjamin and Magdalena move to Clarinda, IA. (16)

1869: In the fall, they move to Elkhart, IN. (16)

1872: In the fall, Benjamin and Magdalena move to Marion Co., KS to join her parents. (16)

1874: In the spring, Benjamin and Magdalena move onto their own claim. (16)

____: Grasshoppers cause wide spread crop destruction. (16)

"The young couple [Benjamin and Magdalena] built their home in the side of a hill. It later became known as the "Bare Den." (11 p129) Similar story in (12 p183).

1896: Benjamin and Magdalena move to Jasper Co., MO. (16)

1907: Benjamin and Magdalena move to Oklahoma. They buy 40 acres, go broke, and move to Harper, KS. (16)

1919 Apr 30: Magdalena Good Bare dies in Harper, KS. (1,2)

Family Material

o B. W. Bare, "Reminiscences of B. W. Bare" (Onfile, Archives of the Mennonite Church, 1924 Sep). Benjamin W. Bare.

Notes

1. Teresa Ashcraft, "Teresa" (Family Tree Maker File: Teresa.GED, 1999 Sep).

2. Ruth Hershberger, "Good Descendants" (Family Tree Maker File: Good.des.GED, 2001 May 26).

3-10. Skipped.

11. Gideon G. Yoder, The Oldest Living American Mennonite Congregations of Central Kansas (Enid, OK: Masters Thesis, Dept. of Church History, Phillips University, 1948 May). Content outline www.dgatx.com/family...pubs/1948/MC/hs.html. The library of the Phillips Theological Seminary has this thesis.

12. Paul Erb, South Central Frontiers (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1974). Paperback (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004).

13. Sondra Van Meter, Marion County Kansas: Past and Present (Hillsboro, KS: M. B. Publishing House, 1972).

14. "Obituaries" in Gospel Herald, Vol. XII, No. 7 (Mennonite Church of North America, 1919 May 15), 126. Also www.mcusa-archives.o...ts/1919/may1919.html (MennObits; accessed 2009 Apr 1). Magdalena Good Bare.

15. "Obituaries" in Gospel Herald, Vol. XVII, No. 37 (Mennonite Church of North America, 1924 Dec 18), 750-751. Also www.mcusa-archives.o...bits/24/dec1924.html (MennObits; accessed 2009 Apr 1). Benjamin W. Bare.

16. B. W. Bare, "Reminiscences of B. W. Bare" (Onfile, Archives of the Mennonite Church, 1924 Sep). Benjamin W. Bare.

17. "Re: Homestead Application, Final Receipt from Benjamin W. Bare" in Deed Book S (Register of Deeds, Marion Co., KS, 1881 Feb 21), p489. Also www.dgatx.com/family...s/1881/02-21/hs.html (2009 Jun 21). S/2 SW/4 Sec. 18-20S-4E, $3.97. Benjamin W. Bare.

18. "Re: Benjamin W. Bare Land Patent" in Deed Book 15 (Register of Deeds, Marion Co., KS, 1881 Jun 23), p96. Also www.dgatx.com/family...s/1881/06-23/hs.html (2009 Jun 21). S/2 SW/4 Sec. 18-20S-4E. Benjamin W. Bare.