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Joseph Terrell GOODE

  
b. 15 OCT 1853    
Danielsville, Madison Co., GA  

d. 19 APR 1941  
Granville, Hunt Co., TX  
m. 07 DEC 1873  
Susan Emma PRITCHETT  
   
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Headstones at Hico, Hamilton Co., Texas
Mary Elvira GOODE b. 01 SEP 1875 Homer, Banks Co., GA

Susan Emma PRITCHETT
Lula S. GOODE b.ca. 1876 GA

Jessie I. GOODE b. NOV 1879 GA   Possibly died young.
Eunice Cora GOODE b. 16 JAN 1884 Banks Co., GA
Luther GOODE b.31 OCT 1882 Homer, Banks Co., GA
Hollis Lumpkin GOODE b. FEB 1885 Banks Co., GA

Claude GOODE b. 1887 GA
Emma GOODE died young
Ebbie GOODE died young
William Bertha GOODE b.14 Aug 1897 Piedmonth, SC
a stillborn    
      Joseph T. & Susan Emma GOODE
 

  This is very hard to read, so I will put a transcript of it here.  This is from the Superintendent of the Wichita Halls State Hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas.  For those of you that don't know, Susan was given Laudenum (an opiate) for pain after the birth of her last child.  When the government decided to take it off of the market, they did nothing to step these women down from this horribly addictive drug. (We have an aunt in Georgia who had the same thing happen to her.)  So when these women had to go cold turkey from it, they either died or "went crazy."  Susan died eventually in the state hospital in Wichita Falls.  This is a progress report of Susan in the hospital.
It was a telegram and it reads:
August 12, 1929
Mrs. Susan Goode

Mrs. W.A. Gotcher
Novice, Texas

Dear Madam,
       In answer to your letter regarding your mother, Mrs. Susan Goode, will say that she is doing about as usual, she walks about the ward and apparently is having a good time.  She eats plenty and rests well at night.  She never mentions home or homefolks.
Yours very truly,
Chas. W. Castner, 		This may be hard to read, so I will transcribe it as well.  It is a memorial card printed at the time of her death:

In Loving Remembrance of
Susan Goode
Died Feb. 28, 1930
Age 74 years

Gone but not forgotten

A precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon His love has given,
And though the body slumbers here,
The soul is safe in Heaven.