Samuel Good and Julia Stover-Stober, family.

This is Andrew Jackson Good’s Grandparents.

Julia Christened on March 13, 1825 in Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Samuel was baptized on October 10, 1845 in the same church. The three oldest children Jacob, William and Susanna were also christened in the Bergstrasse Evangelical Lutheran Church and were sponsored by their Uncle William Stober-Stover. In 1850 the Good Family was living in Washington Township, Decatur County, Indiana. They had 4 children by this time and were listed in the 1850 Census as such. A fifth child was born here. In 1854 the family moved to Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri where they purchased 40 acres of land. The family being Anti-Slavery left Missouri sometime in 1860. They did not appear in the 1860 Census in Missouri, nor where they lived in Wapello County, near Kirksville, Iowa. By now the family had 7 sons and 1 daughter, Jacob, William, Susanna, Samuel, Joseph Mills, John Wesley, James Monroe and Alfred. Samuel joined the Iowa Volunteers as a Private in Captain Winslow’s Company “F”, 4^th Cavalry at Wapello County on October 14, 1861. He was listed as 5 feet 10 inches tall, fair complexion, brown eyes, brown hair and a farmer. His two older sons joined the same unit when they reached the proper age. He was discharged March 13, 1863 with Acute Chronic Dysentery. Upon his return from service, Samuel moved his family to Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa. In April, 1866, he purchased property in Section 35, Township 79, Range 17, containing five acres. Here he operated a small coalmine. Julia Ann died February 19, 1873, and was buried in Swan Cemetery, near Lynnville, Iowa. In 1882 Samuel moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where on July 20, 1881, he married Widow Margaret Goodknight Gutrie, a former Jasper County resident. Because of age and recurring health problems, Samuel went to the Iowa Soldier’s Home in Marshall Town, Iowa. He died there on February 20, 1909. His remains rest in the East Section of the Soldier’s Plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.