UPSON COUNTY, GA - obits- Thomas W. Goode - 1859

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The Upson Pilot  Dec 2, 1859

OBITUARY. Died at his residence near Thomaston on the 30th ult
[Nov 30, 1859], Thomas W. Goode, aged 57 years and 19 days.

The foregoing announcement will be received with pain and
regret by a large circle of friends and acquaintances
throughout the state. The deceased was a sone of John and
Elizabeth Goode and was born in Hancock County in the year
1802. About the time he arrived at his majority, he removed to
this county when the lot of land whereon Thomaston now stands,
was an unbroken wilderness and soon thereafter entered upon the
practice of the law. Though he had for some time in a measure
withdrawn from the active exercise of his profession, in
consequence of infirm health, yet from the time he first
planted his youthful feet in Upson, down to the day he was
stricken, his course was onward and upward.  He was
emphatically a disciple of the old school, both as a man and as
a lawyer, and as such he did not believe that trickery of any
kind was an essential ingredient in the composition of either
or a necessary element of success.  As a man, he was
distinguished for sterling integrity, unflagging energy and
simplicity of manners; as a lawyer, for excellent judgment, for
honesty and candor in his intercourse with clients, for the
correctness of his pleadings and conveyances, and for his
devotion to the Common Law with the principles of which his
mind was deeply imbued.  Thus fortified and grounded, he ever
enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens, by
whom he was repeatedly returned to the State Legislature in
both branches of which he served for a series of years with
credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. One of
the earliest residents in the country, he grew up with its
growth and strengthened with its strength, always taking a
leading though never an officious part in whatever related to
the welfare of those among whom he lived and by whom he was
honored.  In addition to all this, his life was ___ off and
completed by that without which the character can be
perfect==the profession and practice of our pure and holy
religion.

The deceased has gone to rest with his fathers. To his country
he leaves an interesting and promising family; to his children
an ample estate--and what is far richer and nobler legacy--a
worth example and an distinquished name.

May 25, 1860 The Upson Pilot


Thomas W. Goode Dies.
May 11, 1860.
Bar meeting.  

His Honorable Elbridge G. Cabaniss, Chair. P.W.
Alexander, Esq asked that a committee be appointed
to report suitable resolution.  He suggest that Ob.
Gibson, Esq, the oldest surviving practitioner at
this Court, and the early friend and associate of
Mr. Goode, be made Chairman of the committee. (Ob.
Gibson, John J. Floyd, P.W. Alexander, Jas W.
Greene, and Thomas Beall - committee)

He was the first attorney who ever located himself
in this part of the State.  Son of John and
Elizabeth Goode, who for over a quarter of a century
fulfilled his mission as a first class lawyer in the
Courts of Georgia.  We will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days

NOTE: married Amanda Minor May 10, 1829 Upson County At one
time the law partner of George Carey.