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died in 1815. He was a resident of Char- lotte county, Virginia. He married Sarah Iiacon and had issue : Edward Parks, l:>orn i<So4. died 1863; Martha Ann, married Mar- shall L. Harris; llillery Mackarness Lang- stun, of further mention.

(VII) Hillery Mackarness Langston Goode, youngest son of Hillery and Sarah (Bacon) Goode. was horn October 16, 1815. He was a prosperous planter of Charlotte county, Mrginia, served many terms in the \'irginia house of burgesses and was a man of influence. I le married Sally M., daughter of Richard and Lucy A. (Goode) Boyd; children : William, who settled in Browns- ville. Texas ; Richard Bennett, of further mention.

(\'III) Richard Bennett Cioode, son of Hillery Mackarness Langston and Sally M. (Boyd) Goode, was born in Charlotte coun- ty, Virginia, on the old plantation "Forest Home." March 19. 1845. He was reared on the old homestead, attending school at Tom T. Boden's Academy in Charlotte, which he left before completing his education to join the Confederate army. He was only seven- teen years of age when he enlisted in the First Richmond Howitzers, served through- out the entire war and surrendered at Appo- mattox Court House, where he received his parole, then returned to Charlotte to com- plete his interrupted education. Among the many engagements and battles in which he participated were the first and second Ma- nassas, Gettysburg, and Orange Court House. As soon as his course at Boden's Academy was completed he went to Ken- tucky and later to Tennessee and taught school in those states for a number of years. He then returned to \Trginia and engaged in the mercantile business in Charlotte county for a few years, then made an advan- tageous arrangement with C. W. Thorne & Company, of Richmond, to travel for that firm, removing with his family to Lynch- burg. This ])sition he resigned in a few vears to run for high constable of Lynch- burg, an office to which he was elected by a large majority. lie held this position until his death. December 5. t<;i,v ])erformed his duties faithfully, in a kindly spirit, and to the entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens. Mr. Goode was a member of and an active worker for the Garland Road Camp United Confederate \'eterans and was commander of the camp for a number of years.

He married. August 17. 1869, Panthea Burwell Goode. daughter of Dr. Thomas Claiborne and Martha Goode (Read) Goode (see (ioode). Children: i. William Clai- borne, born July 31. 1871 ;■ married Belle Victor, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Tilden) Victor ; children : Evelyn. Burwell, Robert. W' illiam. 2. Maury Read, born May 29. 1873 ; married Myrtle Strange ; they have one son, Maury Read. 3. Ellie Bolden. 4. Thea, married \\'illiam Miller Dabney ; chil- dren : Florence Spottswood, Mary Burwell. Thea Goode.

Mrs. Panthea Burwell (Goode) Goode de- scends from Thomas Goode. son of Mackar- ness (2) Goode and brother of Hillery Goode; he married Mary Barksdale, and among other children had a son. Dr. Thomas Claiborne, of further mention.

Dr. Thomas Claiborne Goode, son of Thomas and Mary ( Barksdale) Goode, was born in Charlotte county. Mrginia, in 1819, and was killed in the battle of the Wilder- ness, May 5-8, 1864, having entered the Con- federate army as surgeon at the beginning of the war. He was a graduate physician, practicing in Charlotte county until enlist- ing in the army. He married Martha Goode Read, of distinguished \Trginia ancestry, daughter of Dr. Isaac and Panthea (Bur- well ) Read, and granddaughter of Colonel Lewis and Ann (Spottswood) Burwell, of "Stoneland." Mecklenburg county. Virginia. Colonel Lewis Burwell was the commander of a regiment during the revolution, and for fourteen years a member of the Virginia house of burgesses. His wife. Ann (Spotts- wood) Ijurwell. was a daughter of Governor Alexander Spottswood. who, in commemora- tion of his effecting a passage across the Blue Ridge Mountains received from his King the honor of knighthood and a minia- ture portrait of his majesty framed in a golden horseshoe. Dr. Isaac Read was a son of Rev. Clement Read, who married ]\Iiss Edmunds, a descendant of the Indian Princess Pocahontas. Rev. Clement Read is believed to have been the patentee of that fine tract known as the "Clement Survey" in the territory now the state of Ohio. This tract was granted by the state of Virginia to a descendant of this descendant of a dis- tinguished revolutionary officer and in 1804 was purchased by Philip Goode and his brothers and is still owned in part by Goode descendants. Rev. Clement Read was a son