Goodnight/Goodknight by Mike Goodnight 27 July 1990 ------------------------------------------------ Looking for anyone looking into Goodnight or Goodknight family lines. Can send message or call me or write.... . Mike Goodnight 1406 Fieldstone Court Neenah, WI 54956-1319 (414) 729-9553 Home (414) 721-3669 Work 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � This file appears on The Source of Magic BBS, Ridgefield CT � � 203-431-4687, specializing in genealogy, radio, and writing. � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 Date: Wed Oct 16 1991 22:33:00 From: Drusilla Sheldon To: Laurie Nelson Subj: Sarah jane goodnight Attr: genealogy ------------------------------- LN> JF> Your Sarah Jane Goodnight might be the daughter or maybe sister LN> JF> of Charles Goodnight the famous cattleman who started the LN> JF> Goodnight trail to the north. LN> Tell me more. I've never heard of him. Does he have a daughter or LN> sister named Mary Jane? What sources did you get your information LN> from? May I butt in? I quote from the dust jacket of "Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman" by J. Evetts Haley: "Charlie Goodnight rode bareback from Illinois to Texas when he was nine years of age. He was hunting with the Caddo Indians beyond the frontier at 13, launching into the cattle business at 20, guiding Texas Rangers at 24, blazing cattle trails nearly 2,000 miles beyond the frontier at 40, and at 45 dominating nearly 20 million acres of range country in the interests of order. At 60 he was recognized as possibly the greatest scientific breeder of range cattle in the West, and at 90 he was an international authority on the range industry." It has been a number of years since I read this book. I did a quick check and found his sisters listed as Elizabeth and Cynthia but did not see anything about his daughters. If I do later I will get back to you. There are several pages about the early Goodnights with this footnote on Page 3: "The genealogy...has been carefully prepared by Dean S. H. Goodnight, Madison, Wisconsin, in "The Goodnight Family in America," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, October, 1935. This is just in case you do find a connection. Good hunting! * SLMR 2.0 * On a clear disk you can seek forever --- QM v1.00 * Origin: Fort Worth MailBag - Ft. Worth,TX (1:130/71.1407)