Franklin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Goode, Rev. John Fleming February 20, 1931
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Carnesville Herald - Feb. 26, 1931
GRAND OLD MAN PASSES AWAY AT RIPE OLD AGE

The largest concourse of people ever assembled at a funeral in Franklin 
County, gathered at Cross Roads Bapt. Church Sunday afternoon Feb. 22, 1931 to 
pay their last tribute of respect to Rev. John Fleming Goode, who died Friday 
evening at his home with Mr. J. A. Singleton, near Carnesville, after an 
illness of some three months.
Brother Goode, as he has been familiarly known for many years, was born in 
Franklin County on December 17, 1851.  He father was George W. Goode and his 
mother was Martha Baker Goode.
He united with the church at Nails Creek in 1870 under the ministry of David 
H. Payne.  In 1873, he was ordained to the ministry and since that date until 
July 1930, he was actively engaged in his calling.
In 1882, he married Miss Palmyra Pratt Caarson, of an old Franklin County 
family, who preceded him 17 years ago.  He is survived by 2 sons, George L. 
Goode of Carnesville and James M. Goode of East Point.
The funeral services were conducted by Dr. A. T. Cline of First Bapt. Church 
of Toccoa.  Tribute was paid by Rev. T. W. Holcomb, Moderator of the Tugalo 
Association to the contribution made by Bro. Goode to the cause of religion in 
the association, and the speaker also revealed how information was gathered 
for the publication of the History of the Tugalo Association of which Bro. 
Goode was the author and which is really a history of the Baptist denomination 
in Northeast Georgia since colonial days.
A most eloquent and touching tribute was paid by Chief Justice Russell of the 
Supreme Court of Georgia who told how he met him when he walked from Athens to 
Carnesville as a young lawyer 50 years ago, and how the friendship had grown 
and ripened through the intervening years.  Judge Russell said, "An honest man 
is the noblest work of God, and my life long friend whose remains lie before 
me was an honest man in every analysis that can be placed on the word honesty."
Rev. C. T. Burgess conducted the service with a beautiful and touching account 
of his relationship and association with his "Comrade of the Cross".  For 
almost 50 years, he said, they have worked together, prayed together and 
rejoiced together.  Nothing I might say could add to or take from his record, 
said the speaker.
In addition to other appropriate music, the congregation joined in 
singing, "How Firm a Foundation" and "Amazing Grace", his favorite hymns.
We could write at length of the life and labors of the Grand Old Man whose 
life has just closed; however, we content ourselves in closing this story to 
say:  As a power for the good of this section, Georgia has not known his 
superior, and his influence in the cause of Christianity cannot be measured by 
finite standards. 



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