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Profiles

  • (unknown wife) Goodnight (deceased)
    Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via husband Henry Goodnight by SmartCopy : Oct 1 2015, 19:26:28 UTC
  • Anna Catherine Melton (1845 - 1884)
    Anna Catherine “Annie” Goodnight Melton BIRTH 15 Jan 1845 Van Buren County, Arkansas, USA DEATH 25 Aug 1884 (aged 39) Taney County, Missouri, USA BURIAL Meadows Cemetery Walnut Shade, Taney County, Mis...
  • Catherine Bond (1807 - bef.1850)
    Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via father Henry Goodnight by SmartCopy : Oct 1 2015, 19:26:28 UTC
  • Catherine Dunham (1792 - 1870)
    (NOTE: Fourth Great Grandmother to President Barack Obama) Catherine Goodnight Dunham BIRTH 1794 Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 1870 (aged 75–76) Tipton County, Indiana, USA BURIAL Kempton Cemetery Kempton, ...
  • Charles Goodnight (cattle rancher) ["father of the Texas Panhandle"] (1836 - 1929)
    an additional source: And most recent.. movie "Lonesome Dove" depicted his life.Charles Goodnight, Jr. was born in 1836 on the farm now owned by Willis Wolf, Jr. He grew up with three other siblings an...

About the Goodnight surname

Name originated as Gutknecht in Germany. Later was changed to Goodknight or Goodnight.