1781 Daniel Good was born on November 16. [1]
1805 Daniel Good and Magdalene Whitmore were married on May 28. [2]
1850 Daniel Good died on February 16. [3]
A biosketch of Preacher Daniel Good reports [4]:
He was born in 1781 and came to Virginia with his father and mother, Jacob and Frances Good, in 1795. The Goods settled five miles south of Harrisonburg in the Middle District area where Daniel was ordained to the ministry in 1820. Here he served until 1826 at which time he moved about fifteen miles to the Northwest to a farm near Singers Glen and became a leader in the Northern District. Quoting from the Church Book religiously kept by L. J. Heatwole from 1890-1932 one notes: "Daniel Good appears to have succeeded Henry Shank as bishop in the lower or 'Brush' District in the year 1837. It is related that during his bishopric there was a time when steps were taken for the ordination of a minister in the congregation at Trissels Church where there was a particular brother (Abraham Funk) whom he seemed especially desirous to have ordained. When the meeting was held for naming candidates the votes near about all fell to Abraham Funk. At least it was given out that Brother Funk was the choice of the church, and a day was set for his ordination. But before that day had arrived it became noised around among the brotherhood that there had another brother been put in nomination at the meeting when candidates were chosen, but either the name had again been withdrawn by the one who presented it or it was withheld by the Bishop and other officers who sat in the council. When this reached Abraham Funk's ears he brought matters to a crisis by not suffering himself to be ordained and hence the whole proceeding from beginning to end proved a failure." Abraham Funk was no doubt the son of Christian Funk. Bishop Good wrote a minister's manual which has been preserved and is now in custody of the Mennonite Church Archives at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
Research Notes:
"… the will of Bishop Daniel Good, which has been partially preserved. The following is a quotation from it." "I give unto my son Henry Good all this my land and tenement, whereon I now live to him and to his heirs forever. But as the said Henry Good will have more by this devise, than an equal share with his other brothers and sisters, I will that he pay to his sister Mary Good fifty dollars within six months after my death as a bequest of me to her. He shall also pay unto my granddaughter Susanna Good, daughter of my deceased son Daniel of the state of Ohio, fifty dollars as soon as she becomes of the age of eighteen years, and in case she should not live to that age then it shall be equally divided between him and his two brothers and sister, namely Jacob Good, David Good, and Mary Good" … Moreover, I will that what is left after my death in money and moveable shall be equally divided among my four above named children. "In the year of our Lord 1849. Witnesses—Joseph Funk, Sr., Jonathan Funk, and Christian Burkholder. Signed—Daniel Good." [5]
A family summary reports [6]:
Daniel Good, born Nov. 16, 1781; died Feb. 16, 1850, Rockingham Co., Va., buried Singers Glen Cemetery; bishop; 7 children, married May 28, 1805, Magdalene Whitmore, born Oct. 1779; died Jan. 1845; daughter of David Whitmore.
"Mary Good was a sister to Bishop Daniel Good, of Rockingham county, Virginia, who was a well-known minister in the Mennonite church in that county." [7]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 21, GC228.
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 21, GC227.
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 21, GC227.
[4] Harry Anthony Brunk, History of Mennonites in Virginia, Vol. 1, 58, [HathiTrust].
[5] Harry Anthony Brunk, History of Mennonites in Virginia, Vol. 1, 59, [HathiTrust].
[6] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 21, GC228.
[7] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718 (1905), 15, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].