Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

HENRY G. GOODNIGHT was born in Smith's Grove District, Warren Co., Ky., on
the farm adjoining that on which he now resides, on the banks of the
Barren River, April 2, 1834.  He is fourth child of a family of four boys
and one girl born to Isaac and Mary (Ground) Goodnight, respectively born
in Harlan Station, in Mercer County, Ky., near Harrodsburgh, and Warren
County, in 1782 and 1800; the mother died in 1845, and the father in
Warren County, in 1869; he was a saddler and tanner by trade, also a
farmer, and was four times married.  Isaac Goodnight's father was a
German; Mrs. Mary Goodnight was a daughter of Robert and Rhoda (Long)
Ground.  Henry G. Goodnight, in the spring of 1855, went to Texas, where
he was engaged for two or more years in prospecting.  After his return to
Warren County he married, October 3, 1860, Pamley Nash Whitley, a daughter
of Robert and Cassey (Duff) Whitley, and to this union has been born one
son, Thomas B.  Mr. Goodnight's farm comprises 200 acres, the most of
which has been acquired by his own industry.  In politics he was formerly
a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan, but
for the last four or five years he has been connected with the Greenback
party.  During the days that the Grange was in existence he was a member
of that organization.  He joined the Church of Christ in July, 1862, and
has since adhered to that faith; his parents were members of the Baptist
Church.  The grandfather of Mr. Goodnight, in December, 1781, while on his
way from Virginia, was killed by the Indians on Kentucky River, and his
son John was badly wounded.  It will thus be seen that the Goodnight
family were among the very early settlers of Kentucky, as were also the
Ground family.

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