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1900 Elizabeth Good (born in Pennsylvania in Sep 1830, single), sister, lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Benjamin Good (age 68). Elizabeth Good's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. [1]

1915 Elizabeth Good, daughter of Abraham Good and Barbara Good, died, at age 84 on August 27, 1915, in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Good was born on September 4, 1830, in Pennsylvania. [2]

1915 An obituary for Elizabeth Good reported [3]:

On 27 August, Elizabeth Good died and was buried at Bowmansville Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [4] "Elizabeth Good was born in Lancaster Co., Pa., Sept. 30, 1830 [sic]; died in Bowmansville, Pa., Aug. 27, 1915; aged 84y. 11m. 23d. Buried at the old Mennonite Church, where services were conducted by Bros. M.G. Gehman and Noah B. Bowman. She was a faithful member of the Mennonite Church since her youth. She was never married, and she and her unmarried brothers kept house. One of them died 22 years ago and other one 4 years ago. She was cared for by a nephew the last days of her life. She had lived a life worth patterning after. Peace to her ashes. Text, II Tim. 4:6,7.

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Footnotes:

[1] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[2] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, Certificate 72939, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Mennonite Obituary Archives, Gospel Herald, Volume VIII, Number 24 - September 9, 1915, [MennObits].

[4] Find A Grave Memorial 87443473, [FindAGrave].

[5] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3693.