Johannes (Guth) Good (1823 - 1910)

Born 18 Jan 1823 in Frankenthal, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Deutscher Bund

Died 15 Jun 1910 at age 87 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Johannes Guth was born in 1823 to a cloth maker named Leonhard Guth in Frankenthal, Circle of the Rhine, Bavaria.^{[1] [2]}

Johannes, back then being a dayworker, illegaly immigrated to America in 1848/49.^[3] In 1850 John was living in the house of Abraham Mees.^[4] In 1851, John's parents and his brother Leonhard Guth, also immigrated to the US. Leonhard lived in Pomeroy as well.

Until 1870 John and his wife Elizabeth, who have been living in Pomeroy, Ohio, at least since 1860,^[5] had at least seven children:^[6]

• John (* around 1850, only in 1860 census^[5])
• Elizabeth (* around 1854)
• Leonard (* around 1855)
• Rahena (* around 1858, only in 1860 census^[5])
• Andrew (* around 1862)
• Mary (* around 1864)
• Catherine (* around 1866)

In 1899 John's wife Elizabeth died.^[7] The next year he was living together with the family of his daughter Catherine, also with his son Andrew.^[8] In April 1910, shortly after the death of Catherine's husband John Whipple,^[9] John was living with the family of his daughter Mary.^[10]

John Sr. died in June 1910 – death record says he died of "senility" – aged 86 and half a year.^[11]

Research notes

The claim that the person born in Frankenthal is identical to the person dying in Columbus, Ohio, is backed up by John's death record, that states his father as "Lenhard Good". ^[11] Additonally the death record of his daughter Mary states "Frankenthal, Germany" as birthplace of her father.^[12]

The 1910 census record claims that John only entered the country in 1860,^[10] which is unlikely due to his son John being born in 1850 in Ohio already.^[5]

Also there is a marriage record of John Guth marrying Elizabeth Eisenhauer on 25 September 1853.^[13] which would be just in time for having their daughter Elizabeth, but definitely too early for John born around 1850. The death records of all children still being alive at the time of the 1870 census, state their mother's surname as Reeser, Reiser, Rieser, Griesen, Grieser or Greuser,^[14] while the her gravestone has "Reiser" on it.^[15] This implies that John, the first son, either was born illegitimately or was from a previous marriage of either John Guth or Elizabeth. In the later case she might have been married to an Eisenhauer before and John was his son. There is a John Eisenhauer born around 1849 in Ohio living in Pomeroy at the time of the 1880 census.^[16]

The church marriage record of John Guth and Elizabeth Eisenhauer also reveals the two witnesses Georgius Ulrich and Joannes Grieser. The first was also a witness at Leonhard's wedding in autmn 1856.^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ "Auszug aus dem Zivil-Register der Stadt Frankenthal, vom 15. bis 31. Januar 1823" im Frankenthaler Wochenblatt, 8 February 1823, Scan
2. ↑ birth record in city archive of Frankenthal (Straub-620 has photographs, but is currently lacking the signature):

   Im Jahr eintausend achthundert drei und zwanzig, den zwanzigsten

   Jänner um neun? Uhr des morgens erschiene vor

   mir Adam Graupel, 2. adjunct und Delegate Beamten

   Beamten des Civilstandes der Gemeinde Frankenhtal Kanton

   und Landkommisariat Frankenhtal, Königlich Baierischer Rhein=Kreis;

   Leonhard Guth, Tuchmacher sechs und dreysig Jahre alt,

   dahier wohnhaft, welcher nun erklärte das ihm

   Deklaranten am achtzehnten dieses Nachmittags

   um vier Uhr von seiner Ehefrau Henriette?

   Huhn ein Kind männlichen Geschlechts geboren

   wurde, welchem er den Vornamen Johannes

   geben wolle.

   Obige Erklärung geschahe in Gegenwart von Karl Wendel, Commis .... ein und

   zwanzig Jahre alt, und Sebastian Mezler, Schneider

   zwey und zwanzig Jahre alt, beyde hier wohnhaft,

   welche nach Vorlesung des gegenwärtigen Aktes mit dem Anzeiger und mir unterschrieben haben.

   [Signatures]
3. ↑ List of emigrants in the city archive of Frankenthal (Straub-620 has photographs, but is currently lacking the signature)
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQP-W3B : 26 June 2018), John Good in entry for Abraham Mees, 1850.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCLP-WZP : 11 November 2020), John Good, 1860.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6L7-7BQ : 19 March 2020), John Good, 1870.
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #34315574
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMZ5-NQW : accessed 18 November 2020), John Good in household of John Wippel, Montgomery Township, Precinct E Columbus City Ward 3, Franklin, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 52, sheet 14A, family 286, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,267.
9. ↑ "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X68T-5TY : 15 August 2019), John Whipple, 12 Oct 1909; citing Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, reference fn 50879; FHL microfilm 1,927,187.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLZB-RKF : accessed 18 November 2020), John Good in household of Peter Glockner, Columbus Ward 7, Franklin, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 112, sheet 7B, family 162, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1181; FHL microfilm 1,375,194.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6KZ-TTY : 10 March 2018), John Good, 15 Jun 1910; citing Death, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, source ID 1910 v 3 fn 1488, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,032,524.
12. ↑ "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6V1-NHR : 10 March 2018), John Guth in entry for Mary Gloeckner, 22 Apr 1914; citing Death, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, source ID 1914 fn 1175, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,032,530.
13. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ2K-H5S : 26 August 2019), John Guth and Elizabeth Eisenhauer, 25 Sep 1853; citing Marriage, Meigs, Ohio, United States, PG 55, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
14. ↑ all linked to her profile at familysearch
15. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #34315574
16. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M89B-4MX : 12 August 2017), John Eisenhour, Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 109, sheet 32B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,047.
17. ↑ Wedding records at Sacred Heart Church in Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio (Leonhard: 22 November 1856; John: 25 September 1853)

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