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father he was tender, gentle and considerate, fulfilling at all times those duties which such a relation demanded.

And, without which, with all the honors which had been heaped upon him, his life had been a failure, Mr. Goode was a Christian. Trained at the knees of a devotedly pious mother he became in early life a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and while he possessed unbounded charity for all who professed to be followers of the Christ, he still loved his own Church, her liturgy, her sweet communion and her hymns of praise. For many years, during his residence in Norfolk, he was a member of the vestry of Christ Church. "Humble as a little child, by no subtleties beguiled," his faith was simple, but it was fixed and unwavering. In all his bereavements, and through all the storms of life through which he passed, he cried out, "The eternal God is my refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms."

On the 16th day of July, 1909, he was laid to rest in Bedford City, in his native county, which had honored him, and to which in life, his heart untrammelled always turned, and under the shadows of the Peaks of Otter and the beautiful blue mountains which he always loved. Here he was known and will long be remembered as "Jack Goode," as he was proudly called by the friends of his earlier days.

"Earth has its own, and Heaven will have the rest."

Standing, as it were, by his bier, with his noble record before us, we may say, as a king once said of a prince struck down, "Taller he seems in death."

WM. W. OLD.

WILLIAM PATRICK.

William Patrick was born July 23, 1852, on the farm north of and near Waynesboro, in Augusta county, Virginia, upon which his emigrant ancestor, Robert Patrick, had settled with his wife, Rachel Campbell, at the end of their long journey from County Tyrone, Ireland, to the wilderness of America, in 1744; and where the succeeding generations of the Patricks of his line have continued to abide down to the present time. The immigrant, Robert, was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and came into the Shenandoah Valley with the emigration out of Ulster that poured itself through the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania, and thence southward, in the earlier decades of the eighteenth century, and which made from that time forth the sections that it settled as characteristically Scotch-Irish and Presbyterian as is Ulster itself.

Robert Patrick's grandson, William by name, served as a soldier in the War of the American Revolution; and the grandson of the Revolutionary soldier, likewise William, was also a soldier, and went into the service of the Confederate States in 1861 as captain of Company F, First Virginia Cavalry, from which office he was promoted to that of major of the Seventeenth Cavalry Battalion. He became distinguished for his stern and inflexible discipline, and for his gallant bearing and conduct as soldier and officer; and was killed in action at the Second Manassas, with the record of having received special mention in dispatches by Generals "Stonewall" Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart.

Major William Patrick's wife was Hettie Caruthers Massie, and their second son, William Patrick, is the subject of this sketch.

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