“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

NOAH GOOD, a resident of Farmers’ Branch, Dallas county, Texas, was born in 
Page county, Virginia.  He was reared on a farm and received an ordinary 
English education.  Being of a mechanical turn, he took up the carpenter’s trade 
and worked at it in Virginia, and also to some extent after he came to Texas.  In 
1839 he moved to Kentucky, and from there, the following year, to Tennessee.  
In the latter State he was employed in overseeing negroes.  While in Tennessee 
he was married, and when he arrived in Texas, in 1846, his family consisted of a 
wife and three children.  He took a headright in Dallas county, under the Peters 
Colony, thus acquiring 640 acres of land.  He subsequently bought an acre and a 
half adjoining the town site of Farmers’ Branch.  He also has twenty-four and 
one-half acres within a mile of the town, a part of his headright.  He worked at his 
trade in the summer and made rails for his farm in the winter.

In 1863 Mr. Good was conscripted into the Confederate army, and served eight 
months, his services being confined to this State.  He was a member of Captain 
McCamsy’s company, Colonel Smith’s regiment; received his discharge near 
Bonham.  

Mrs. Good’s parents, Elisha and Sarah Fyke, natives of Alabama, came to Texas 
in 1846.  Her father was a mechanic by trade, but after coming to Texas was 
engaged in farming.  He was in the Florida war, and received wounds there that 
finally ended his days, his death occurring in July, 1860.  His wife died the winter 
after their arrival in Texas.

Mr. Good is of German extraction, but of his ancestors he knows little.  To him 
and his wife eleven children have been born, namely: George W., Sarah A., 
William L., Mary E., Martha A., Virginia, Helena, Francis M., Ruth E., and James 
A. and John A. (twins).

Mr. Good has a nice residence in Farmers’ Branch, where he is comfortably 
situated.  Of late years he has sold some of his land and divided some among his 
children, retaining a farm of 176 acres and 102 acres of timber land.  For four 
years he served as Justice of the Peace.  He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity and of the Missionary Baptist Church.

Submitted by: L. Pingel