The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
$ Joseph Bryan Goode Passes
 Away.
He Was an Aged CitIsen Who Lived Here All sf HI. Life-- wrote Secession
 ordinance.

Joseph Bryan Goode, who enrolled the original ordinance of secession Of Alabama. which Is now in the keeping of the State Department of Archives and History. died at $40 o'clock yes terday morning at the residence of Mrs JB. Collier, 4Os South Hull Street where he had apartments.
 The sturdy constitution of Mir. Goode and the fact tltRt he had rarely been sick Tn his life taap to the time of his last illness. made his death a shock and a surprise to scores of his friends and acquaintances. He was taken i'll two weeks ago with la grippe. His condition did not, however. grow alarm ing until three days ago when the fam fly was Informed that there was no hope for his recovery.
 Unaccustomed to sickness and at an advanced age, 1t became evident that fl would be impossible for him to recover He died surrounded by his three sons.
 With the death of MT. Goode, Mont gomery again loses one of its survivors of the war between the States. native and lifelong resident of this city, and one of that group of men who have seen Montgomery grow from a village to a large city.
 Tn him there passed away one of the most skilled penmen in Alabama. It was in the stormy days of 1861 that the services of Mir. Goode as an expert scribe proved of historical value. Af- ter the famous Alabama Convention of War, composing delegates from all the counties of tho State, had assembled, and. with due deliberation, decided that the State should secede from the Union, Mir. Goode was called upon to write the document, he being then regarded as the most expert pennian in the State.
 For his services he was voted $100 in gold.
 Mir. Goode. at the beginning of the war between the States, went out with Semple's Battery, and served in this command for three years, at the end of which time he was transferred, in a cler- ical capacity. to the Treasury Depart ment of Alabama at the State Capitol in Montgomery He held this position when the Union Army invaded the South. and. when the invaders reached Montgomery, he gathered up the most valuable State documents and fled with them to Eufaula.
 Mir. Goode was 74 years old. He was horn May II. 1881, in the part of South ern Montgomery now known as Oak ley. He was one of the first three infants to be baptized in Montgomery church. The First Presbyterian church, the first house of worship to be erect cd in Montgomery, had just been com pteted when the three children were christened. Mr. Goode remained asmem- her Of this church until he married. He then joined the Court Street Metho- dist Church of which he was a mem ber at the time of his death.
 He was a son of Judge Samuel Goedas a prominent Jurist of other days.
 Soon after the war, Mir. Goode mar rled Miss Caledonia Edwards of Lownies county. She died five years ago
 With the exception of his service during the war, he devoted his entire life to mercantile pursuits, He bore the confidence, respect and esteem of the community.
 He is survived by three sons of this city, Bryan Goode, Douglas Goode and Edwards Goode, and one sister. Mrs. M. D. Montgomery of Birmingham.
 The funeral of Mfr 0oode will take place at o'clock this afternoon from the residence. 406 South Hull street, Rev. John A. Rice, D. D., pastor of the Court Street Methodist Church. will oflciate. Interment will be made in oakwood cemetery.