The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham
The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold
Goodliffe
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be married to Miss Elizabeth Goodliffe a distant relation, a daughter of one
of the large farmers of Belton. Her brother John called at the Lodge just
after he had passed away. They were like David and Jonathan choice friends;
his grief as well as his sister’s was very intense.
I shall never forget the emotion and sympathy manifested at the funeral almost
the entire village turned out to meet the funeral procession as it came
along the road from the Lodge to the Church yard. It was a touching scene of
sadness, the sudden death of a fine intelligent and genial young man the
eldest, the hope and stay of a feeble father and devoted mother, who
together with 9 brothers and sisters besides other dear friends formed the
funeral procession, |
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