Early
Family Tree of the Goodykoontz Family
The connection to the German family is somewhat
uncertain. The Individual claimed in many genealogies to be the
imigrating ancestor never left home. Hans Jerg (= Johann Georg)
was born on 6. Feb. 1732 in Haiterbach (Württemberg,
Germany), married twice in that town and
had several children there. He died in Haiterbach on 18. December
1781 of fever.
Taking the headstone of Margaret Goodykoontz in
the Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Floyd, VA as proof of origin
of this line does not help. I believe it is only a commemoration
stone set up much later, and the data on it gathered by a genealogist.
But if not the fellow born 1732 in Haiterbach
(there is no birth in 1731 in the church records) is the forefather
of this family line, then who is.
The Haiterbach church books list another "Hans
Jerg Gutekunst" born Feb 14, 1715. His parents are
Hans Georg Gutekunst born April 19, 1680 and Anna Maria
Scheerer. We did not die in Haiterbach, nothing is know
on his fate. If this were him, this would of course make him 17
years older. He would then have had children only at the age of
52. His last child would be born when he was 66 years of age.
Possible of course, but not likely.
George Goodykoontz could also originate from one
of the other lines, from Schietingen and Oberschwandorf.
I however came accross this entry in the English
translation of:
Adolf Gerber, Neue Beiträge zur Auswanderung
nach Amerika im 18. Jahrhundert aus Altwürttembergischen Kirchenbüchern
unter Hinzuziehung anderer Quellen. (Stuttgart: J. F. Steinkopf,
[1928]).
This is certainly the ancestor of the Goodykoontz
family. He is said to be from Niefern (see red flag on
map below). However, Niefern is quite far away from the villages
of origin of the Gutekunst family and I have never come accross
any other Gutekunsts in Niefern. But there is another village
in Württemberg - Nuifra, very similar in spelling,
and a Gutekunst line lived there. It is a suburb of Haiterbach.
Could this have been mixed up?
The village of Niefern near Pforzheim, Württemberg
The town of Neu-Nuifra in the Black forest. The
postcard shows the "Cafe Gutekunst"
Since the established early genealogy of this
family is certainly wrong, I thus leave this in red .
1 Hans Jerg Gutekunst, born................
in Haiterbach, Württemberg, Germany,
... + Maria UNKNOWN
..... 2 Hans Georg Gutekunst (=
George Goodykoontz), born 6.
Feb 1732 (others say 1731) in Haiterbach,
........ died 3 May 1784 in Frederick,
CO, VA, burried at Floyd Courthouse, Va.
.... .... + Anna
Margaretha (=Margaret)
UNKNOWN, born 25. Dec 1737
in Germany, died March
1819
............. in Floyd Co. Va.
..............3
Maria Magdalena
Goodykoontz, born 17 Aug. 1769 in Northampton County, PA,
d: 7 Jul 1850.
................ + George Frederick
Phlegar, born 3 Jul. 1762, d: 29 Jul 1839.
..............3
Jacob Goodykoontz, born 1771
in Northampton County, PA, d: 1835
................ + Margaret (Peggy)
Beaver, b: 1795 d: 1867
.................... 4 Drucilla
Goodykoontz
....................... + John Vineyard
.................... 4 Daniel
Goodykoontz
.................... 4 Eli Beaver
Goodykoontz
....................... + Emma Hazlett
........................... 5 Story
Goodykoontz,
b: Abt 1830
........................... 5 Margaret
Elizabeth (Bess) Goodykoontz,
b: Abt 1838 d: Aft 1936
................ + (2nd marriage
of Jacob G.) Anna Margaretha UNKNOWN b: 25 DEC 1737 d: MAR 1819
..............3
Hans Georg (George W.)
Goodykoontz, born 23 Mar. 1773 (also 23. Apr. 1773)
in
................ Northampton County,
PA, died 13 Sep 1824.
................ + Mary S. Beaver,
b: 16 Jul 1784, d: 14 Jun 1847
.................... 4 Catharine
Goodykoontz, b: 19 Sep 1801,
married 2 Feb. 1819 in ,Montgomery,Va.
....................... + Mosbey
LeSueur, b: 2 Oct. 1795 in Virginia
........................... 5 Martel
LeSueur, 16 May 1821
........................... 5 George
LeSueur, b: 3 Apr. 1823 (twin)
........................... 5 James
LeSueur, b: 3 Apr. 1823 (twin)
........................... 5 Elizabeth
LeSueur, b: 26 Apr. 1825
................... 4 Rebecca
Goodykoontz,
b: 5 May 1803 d: 17 Jun 1818, married 16 Mar. 1826 in
...................... Montgomery,Virginia
....................... +
James Washington LeSueur, 15 Oct 1798 in Virginia
...........................
5 Mary LeSueur,
b: 1828
...........................
5 Elizabeth LeSueur,
b: 1827
...........................
5 John G. LeSueur,
b: 1834
...........................
5 George LeSueur,
b: 1836
...........................
5 Ann E. LeSueur,
b: 1838
...........................
5 Nancy A. LeSueur,
b: 1841
...........................
5 Catharine S. LeSueur,
b: 1845
...........................
5 Dorothy B. LeSueur,
b: 1845
................... 4
David Goodykoontz, b: 8 Dec
1805 d: 15 Apr 1871
................... 4
Hans Goodykoontz, b: Abt 1805
................... 4
Archibald Goodykoontz, b:
26 Sep 1807
................... 4
Isaac Goodykoontz, b: 30 Sep
1809
................... 4
George Goodykoontz,
b: 30 Jan 1812 d: 1888
................... 4
Alfred Goodykoontz, b: 3 Nov
1813
................... 4
Rachel Goodykoontz, b: 14
Oct 1815
................... 4
Nancy Goodykoontz,
b: 27 Jul 1817
................... 4
Adaline Goodykoontz, b: 24
Dec 1820
................... 4
Washington Goodykoontz, b:
22 Feb 1822
................... 4
Polly Goodykoontz, b: 13 Mar
1824
..............3
Anna Margareta Goodykoontz, born
25 Dec. 1775 (or 25 Jan. 1775) in Northampton Co.,
................ PA, d: 8 Sep 1851
in Floyd Co., buried Zion Lutheran Church Cemetary, Floyd Co.,
Va.
................ married 12 DEC 1797
in Frederick County, Va.
................
+ Abraham T. Phlegar, born 25 Jan. 1776
d: 14 Sep 1865
................... 4 Eliza Phlegar,
b: 29 Mar. 1801 in Va.
..............3
Elizabeth W. Goodykoontz, born
1776, d: 6 Oct 1858
..............3
Maria (Polly) Goodykoontz, born 1779,
d: Abt 1867
................
+ William Gilliam, born 1775, d: 1831
..............3
Eva Goodykoontz, born 1781,
d: 1867
..............3
Daniel Goodykoontz, born 1783/84
in Frederick County, Va. (or Franklin, Pa.?),
................ died 17 Sep. 1843
in West Maplewood, Anderson, Indiana.
................ +
Hannah Beaver, born 13 Jul 1788 in Upper Strasburg, Franklin,
Pa.
...................
4 Jacob Goodykoontz,
b: 19 May 1809 in Frederick County, VA. d: 21 Jun 1888
.......................
+ Mary D. Ward b: 1 Nov 1813
...........................
5 Bakley Goodykoontz
...........................
5 Rebecca Goodykoontz,
b: 8 Oct 1831
...........................
5 Thomas Jacob Goodykoontz,
b: 8 Oct 1834 d: 6 DEC 1895
..............................
+ Lucretia M. Bean, b: 27 Apr 1841
...........................
5 Daniel Franklin Goodykoontz,b:
5 Jan 1837
...........................
5 Caroline Beaver Goodykoontz,
b: 23 Sep 1838
...........................
5 Naomi McClure Goodykoontz,
b: 11 Sep 1841
...........................
5 Elizabeth Ward Goodykoontz,
b: 28 Dec 1843
...........................
5 Ansel Espa
Goodykoontz, b: 15 May 1846
...........................
5 Flo
Goodykoontz (is this the same as
Floyd Madison below?).
........................... 5 Floyd
Madison Goodykoontz, b: 26 Feb
1849
...........................
5 Noble Jacob Goodykoontz,
b: 24 Apr 1851
...........................
5 Emma Goodykoontz,
b: 17 Feb 1854
...........................
5 Sarah Goodykoontz,
b: 3 Mar 1856
...........................
5 Dora Virginia Goodykoontz,
b: 4 Apr 1859
.......................
+ (2nd wife of Jacob G.) Sarah Reynolds ,
b: 13 Dec 1828
...........................
5 Delia May Goodykoontz,
b: 5 May 1868
...........................
5 Lola Frances Goodykoontz,
b: 4 Apr 1870
Birthplaces
of the following children a likely to be wrong, the older children
are probably born in Virginia, and the younger ones in Indiana
(the 1850 Census lists Jacob, Simon, Harvey, Abraham and a Eli
(born ca. 1824) all as still born in Virginia. The Family thus
only went East after 1824).
...................
4 Simon Goodykoontz,
b: 1810 in Fort Wayne, Allen, IN
................... 4 Leath
Goodykoontz, b: 25 AUG 1812 in
IN
................... 4 Harvey
Goodykoontz, b: 6 JAN 1813 in Anderson,
Madison, IN
................... 4 Oma
Goodykoontz, b: 17 AUG 1815 in Montgomery,
Co., VA
................... 4 John
Goodykoontz, b: 9 APR 1816 in Montgomery,
Co., VA
................... 4 Hannah
Goodykoontz, b: 1818 in Fort Wayne,
Allen, IN
................... 4 Sanford
Goodykoontz, b: 1820
................... 4 Abraham
Beaver Goodykoontz, b: 9
DEC 1822 in Grayson Co., VA
The above Abraham Beaver
Goodykoontz seems to be identical with the one listed
at www.rootsweb.com at:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dixonsmith&id=I18091
However here he is listed born on
20 DEC 1811 in Grayson Co., Virgina.
At rootsweb.com
3 marriages and 5 children are listed.
................... 4 Joanna Goodykoontz,
b: 1824 in Fort Wayne, Allen, IN
................... 4 Margaret
Goodykoontz, b: 1826 in IN
................... 4 William
Goodykoontz, b: 26 APR 1829 in Anderson, IN
................... 4 Jonathan
Goodykoontz, b: 1830 in Anderson,
Madison, IN
..............3
Catherine Goodykoontz, born 1783 in Frederick County,
VA
................ + Christian Stipe
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