Ancestry of
Catherine Goodnight

(1792–p1870)

Catherine Goodnight

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Goodknight 
  • Mother:
  • Magdalena Berkheimer   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 18 Nov 1792 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Peter's Lutheran Church, North Wales, Montgomery, Pennsylvania 
  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1870 
  • Death Location:
  • Tipton County, Indiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Kempton Cemetery, Kempton, Tipton, Indiana 
  • Notes: 
  • Some sources list Catherine's marriage date as 28 SEP 1819, but that is the date of the marriage bond.

• Marriages for Catherine Goodnight

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  • Spouse:
  • Jacob Dunham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Oct 1819
  • Marriage Location:
  • Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia (now West Virginia)

• Sources for Catherine Goodnight

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, DAR Ancestor #A046426, (accessed 03/17/2012).
  • ² Federal Census, IN, Tipton County, 1860, Prairie Township, Image 31 of 31.
  • ³ Federal Census, OH, Warren County, 1870, Lebanon, Image 3 of 75.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/16/2012).
  • ⁵ New England Ancestors Magazine, Fall 2008, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 45-46.
  • ⁶ West Virginia, Marriages, 1780-1970, Marriage record for Jacob Dunham and Catharine Goodnight.
  • ⁷ Bachelor, Rosemary E., "President Obama Descends from 14 Revolutionary War Soldiers (suite101.com Website)", (accessed 03/16/2012).
  • ⁸ Reitwiesner, William Addams, "Ancestry of Barack Obama", (accessed 06/20/2012).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 511, 512, 588.