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Notes for Christian Good

1779 Christian Good was born on January 28 or 31. [1] [2]

1813 A deed named Joseph Horst and wife Magdalena (late Good); David Martin and wife Mary (late Good) of Salisbury Twp, Lancaster County; Peter Burket and wife Barbara (late Good) of Caernarvon Twp; John Burket and wife Elizabeth (late Good); Hesther Good and Catharine Good of Brecknock Twp; being the children and heirs named in the will of Christian Good late of Brecknoch Twp, Lancaster County. Dated March 6. They acknowledged payment from the estate and released Christian Good and John Burket, executors, from further claims. [3]

1838 Christian Good, of Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, wrote his will, dated June 7. Named current wife Maria. Son-in-law received the 120 acre plantation in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County. Children of first wife had already received share from mother's side, so the children of his second wife should receive a similar share: daughter Esther and daughter Susanna. Son Daniel and son-in-law Samuel Good named executors. Witnessed by Joseph Good and Jacob Burkhard. [4]

1838 Esther Good, single woman, dated her will in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on August 5, 1838. The will was proved on February 25, 1939. The will named widow Nancy Good, late Nancy Zerbe, and sister Catharine Good. Several parcels of land, owned as tenants in common by Esther Good and Catharine Good, purchased from brother Christian Good, were bequeathed to Catharine Good. After the decease of Catharine, the land was to be bequeathed to brother Christian Good; sister Magdalena Hurst, wife of Joseph Hurst; and Elizabeth Burkhart, wife of John Burkhart. Christian Burkhart (son of John) and Samuel Good (son-in-law of brother Christian) were named executors. On February 25, 1839, letters of administration were granted to Christian Burkhart, and Samuel Good had renounced executorship. [5] [6]

"Christian Good, a great-grandson of the first settler, Christian Good, was ordained as minister of the district soon after Joseph Bowman moved to Canada. He lived in the extreme southern end of his field of labor, several miles southeast from their meetinghouse in Brecknock township. J.B. Good in Evans' History, says of him: "He was a man of considerable 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 lingering illness of consumption. In his delivery, he was slow, calm, and deliberate, wholly unimpassionate. In person he was rather slim and tall. In his dress he was scrupulously plain". He died at age of 59 years, Aug 30, 1838, and was buried at the Pine Grove cemetery, near the vilage." [7]

"The other pioneer settler son, Christian, purchased a tract of land one half mile east of his brother Jacob, and built a grist-mill on Muddy Creek, which was the first of the kind erected in that part of the country. He became the father of seventeen children, six sons and eleven daughters, and one of his sons, Christian, became the father of one son and six daughters. This son's name was Christian, and he was married twice, his first wife bearing him two sons and one daughter: David, Daniel and Elizabeth, and his second wife three: Joseph, Esther and Susanna." [8]

Research Notes:

Pennsylvania Mennonite Vital Records include notes for this family. [9]

"GC344 Christian Good, born Jan. 28,1779; died Aug. 30, 1838, buried Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery; minister. Married (1) Apr. 24, 1804, Maria Bauman, born May 10, 1783; died June 22, 1808; daughter of Christian Bauman and Elizabeth Huber; 2 children; married (2) Maria Horst, born Nov. 1,1775; died Jan. 6,1843; daughter of Jacob Horst (died 1789) and Magdalena. 3 children" [10]


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 24, GC344, reports January 28.

[2] Romaine Stauffer, "The Children of Christian Good," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 39.2 (2016), 58-61, at 60, reports January 31.

[3] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book 7, 427-428, [427], [428], [FHLCatalog].

[4] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will S-47, [FamilySearchImage].

[5] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 145.

[8] Goodspeed Brothers, publishers, Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties (1893), 746, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[9] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 24, GC344.