James Good

1912 Obituary for James Good of Scarriff House, Bandon - found online & original source unknown

In the death of Mr. James Good, Scarriff House, Bandon, which occurred on last Sunday afternoon, at the unusually advanced age of 91 years, an interesting link with the past has been severed. Born so far back as the year 1821, Mr. Good had lived in the reign of five Sovereigns, and during the course of his long life had witnessed many remarkable social changes, especially in connection with the tenure of land in his native country. Universally respected for his worth, intelligence, industry, and high personal character, Mr. Good was prosperous in everything to which he set his hand. Exempt for long from many of the troubles and privations that generally befall men, throughout his great length of days he enjoyed the most robust health, and his wife, who predeceased him over seven years ago, at the age of 89 years, was equally fortunate in this respect. Seven children—four sons and three daughters—were the offspring of their singularly happy union, all of whom, except the second son, a gentleman who filled a distinguished position in the Indian Civil Service, and whose death last December was a great blow to his aged father, survive. There are 45 direct descendants of the marriage. A member of the Church of Ireland, to which he was much attached, for over 60 years, Mr. Good had been a most devoted and acceptable teacher in the Sunday School, and it is only two months ago that the infirmities of age obliged him to give up taking his loved class in Moviddy Church. To an intimate knowledge of the text of the Bible he united a lovely gift of interpretation and a power of practical application which never failed to interest and impress the young people he delighted to teach in things Divine. Up to the very last his mind and memory still retained all their grasp; only a few days before his death he repeated, without missing a word, the immortal words of the twenty-third Psalm:—“The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can I lack nothing. Yea, though I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff comfort me.” The respect and regard in which the deceased was held was strikingly evidenced by the immense proportions, almost a mile in length, of the funeral procession, which started from Scarriff House on last Tuesday morning for the family burial vault in Kilcrea (Ovensward), a distance of some twelve miles or more.

The chief mourners following the bier were:—James Good, John Good (sons), Major Good, R.A.M.S.; John Good, William Good, James Good, Tom Good, Stanley Good, Richard Clarke (grandsons); James Young (son-in-law); William A. Stokes, John Stokes, Fred Stokes, James Good (nephews); J. Tresilian Acton, W. H. Frost.

Exquisite wreaths of lilies and other white flowers covered the coffin, and these were sent—“In loving memory from his son, Tom,” who owing to physical disability was unable to follow the funeral; “In loving memory from Coolnafowla;” “In loving remembrance from Rosemount;” “In loving memory from James Noel;” “To dear great grandfather from Billy and Larry;” “In fond remembrance from Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarke.”

The officiating clergy were the Revs. R. C. M. Harbord, T. R. Matthews, and R. W. Talbot, who in the course of a short address made feeling and apt reference to the virtues and the faith of the deceased. In the death of their departed brother, Mr. Talbot said, he and all who knew him had lost a true and sincere friend; one whose counsel was always invaluable, and who had borne throughout an unusually prolonged life, faithful and unfaltering witness in his daily life to the truth and realities of the Christian religion. He felt in a practical and exemplary way that the words, the prayer for the whole state of Christ’s Church militant on earth would best express their thoughts and his own on that solemn occasion:—“And we also bless Thy Holy Name for all Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith; beseeching Thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples that, with them, we may be partakers of Thy Heavenly Kingdom.” Such an example was afforded by the life and walks of their father, whose mortal remains lay before them; they like him should so endeavour daily to live in the faith of Christ, that hereafter they too might awake from the graves of earth to the joyful Resurrection.

The general attendance included:—Captain J. D. Herrick (Belmont), W. P. Hosford, J. P. Rees, J. C. Lord, A. J. Brady, J. Armstrong, J. H. McConnell, P. O’Connell, C. C. (Cloghuff), Joseph Bradley, Thomas Bradley (Kilnagardy), Chris Hosford, J. Craig, Wm. Ryan (Bank of Ireland, Bandon), Wm. Martin (Provincial Bank), Charles Cox, J. Burke, Coroner Neville, solicitor; J. B. Deane, solicitor; T. Scanlon, solicitor; W. Cuppage, J. Appleby, H. Desmond, J. Nagle (Ballymountain), Rev. Good, R. A. Penrose, Richard Good, T. Good (Innishannon), J. Murphy (Bishops), R. Good, J. Good (Ardila), W. Good (Kilnagardy), T. B. Good, W. Shorten, R. H. Seymour, W. Seymour, P. Murray, John Coughlan, T. B. Matthews, P. W. Cahill, Paul Good (Kilbrown), D. McCarthy, M. Good (Ballinacurra), James Good, J. W. Good (Kilbride), J. Horgan, J. Parker, James Shorten, A. Webster, J. Burke, T. Clarke, J. Clarke, J. Matthews, Henry Reid, T. Reid, P. O’Connell, J. P. Horace Hosford, J. Good (Ballysallagh), T. Good, T. Bradfield (Desert), W. Hosford (Firgrove), John Hosford, James Hosford, W. Daunt, H. Daunt (Enniskanen), Richard Spaine, T. Crowley, B. Bradfield, P. Bradfield, James Good (Curragh), T. J. Hosford, M. Forsyth, J. Robinson, W. Buckley, M. Brangan, Ben Shorten, J. Shorten (Mount Pleasant), Murphy, P. Halloran, J. O’Connell, P. Henty, K. Farrell, D. Hyde, J. Collins, W. Butler, J. Shorten (Mossgrove), A. Butler, C. J. Lynch, W. Hosford (Edenville), J. Hosford, G. Giles, J. Collins, W. Wood, James Wood, J. Wood, Michael O’Neill, Edwin Pope, G. Lovell, T. N. Seymour (Brinny), J. W. Dawson, W. Nagle, ex-Sergeant Nagle, W. O’Driscoll (Kilmore), P. Halloran, J. Mahony, R. D. Jerome, D. Murphy (Rathole), J. Crowley (Curteen), Eugene Donoghue, H. Bradfield, T. Smyth (Millstreet), T. Hosford (Cappa), B. Hosford (Roughgrove), M. Buckley, P. Halloran, J. Corcoran, T. Hurley (Canway understood), J. O’Connell, J. Foley, John Wilson, Samuel Rensley, G. O’Donohue, Maurice McCarthy, P. Howard, R. Walsh, J. Hickey (Muskerry), J. Sullivan (Scarriffmore), W. Hickey, Jas. Daly, J. P. Brennan, W. Bryan, C. Wright, R. Bright, D. T. Jeffers, Jasper Jeffers, W. Boyle (Mayfield), P. Jerome, J. Warren (Castle), P. Jerome, ex-Sergeant Butler, J. McCarthy, M. Albers, G. Miller, S. Tanner, S. Lee, W. Stancer, M. Cahill, J. Hornibrook, R. Shorten (Carhue), L. Bradfield (Tullylands), George Webster (Desert), J. Hosford, J. Mahony (Goggins), M. Hurley, R. Harold, F. Sheehan, Walter Hosford (Castle­town), R. Good (Knocknahard), J. T. Welply (Cloonlara), T. Bradfield (Crosses), J. Counon, etc. Employees—Scarriff, Coolnafowla, Bandon, Glenbrooke, Riverview, Rosemount, Moneness, Toovrake.

Dr. J. Welply, who was unable to attend personally, sent his carriage, while apologies regretting their inability to be present were received from Mr. F. H. Harte and Mr. P. W. McCarthy, solicitor.