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| Two Pioneering Women; Friends and Neighbors. Strawberry Point, Alaska. |
An early, rare photo of Mrs.Ursula B.Good and her 4 sons who homesteaded across from A. L. Parkers on the east side of the Taggart river, later called "Good" River. Click on title for identifications and more....
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Ursula Good in dark dress with Kennie Good sitting on the grass, her youngest son Freddie directly behind Kennie, and John (the oldest) standing. Edith Parker in white dress with another Good boy Harold in front of her to the right, and son Glen Parker directly behind him. Bert Parker is the tallest standing in the rear.
Freddie and Glen became best of buddies and hunted (quite successfully) and played together. After the Goods moved to Killisnoo, they corresponded back and forth, and GHAA has some of Freddie's hand written letters where he gives an account of his new school, fishing & hunting in Killisnoo, and makes it clear he is homesick for his Strawberry Point friends.
Rev. Good was a Presbyterian missionary pastor and traveled not only from Hoonah to Strawberry Point to conduct infrequent services (before moving there), but also traveled to other Southeast villages and married A. L. & Edith Parkers oldest daughter Eunice (Cliff) in Skagway, Alaska in 1913. GHAA has a wonderful portrait of Rev. Good given to the A. L. Parker family at that time as a keepsake.
The Goods left Strawberry Point in late fall 1919 but their namesake "Good River" will forever remind us they were there.
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| Two Pioneering Women; Friends and Neighbors. Strawberry Point, Alaska. |
An early, rare photo of Mrs.Ursula B.Good and her 4 sons who homesteaded across from A. L. Parkers on the east side of the Taggart river, later called "Good" River. Click on title for identifications and more....
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Ursula Good in dark dress with Kennie Good sitting on the grass, her youngest son Freddie directly behind Kennie, and John (the oldest) standing. Edith Parker in white dress with another Good boy Harold in front of her to the right, and son Glen Parker directly behind him. Bert Parker is the tallest standing in the rear.
Freddie and Glen became best of buddies and hunted (quite successfully) and played together. After the Goods moved to Killisnoo, they corresponded back and forth, and GHAA has some of Freddie's hand written letters where he gives an account of his new school, fishing & hunting in Killisnoo, and makes it clear he is homesick for his Strawberry Point friends.
Rev. Good was a Presbyterian missionary pastor and traveled not only from Hoonah to Strawberry Point to conduct infrequent services (before moving there), but also traveled to other Southeast villages and married A. L. & Edith Parkers oldest daughter Eunice (Cliff) in Skagway, Alaska in 1913. GHAA has a wonderful portrait of Rev. Good given to the A. L. Parker family at that time as a keepsake.
The Goods left Strawberry Point in late fall 1919 but their namesake "Good River" will forever remind us they were there.
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