sought to be prohibited has been done and cannot be undone by order of court." As of the 1904 election, fifty percent fewer white and ninety percent fewer black men voted in Virginia. Yorktown Centennial & Jamestown Ter-Centennial Goode served as president of the Yorktown Centennial Commission. As a member of Congress, he authored a bill for a monument at Yorktown that celebrated the surrender of Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. In 1876, he spoke at the unveiling of the monument at Yorktown; his oration there will "probably remain as his masterpiece of forensic eloquence." He introduced a bill to hold a celebration on May 13, 1907, as well as for funding and national recognition of the Ter-Centennial of the founding of Jamestown. His oration to Congress on this matter is transcribed in his book, Recollections of a Lifetime. Personal On July 10, 1855, Goode married Sarah Sally Urquhart (1832-1890), daughter of wealthy planter, Dr. Richard Alexander Urquhart of Strawberry Plains plantation in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Their children were Mary Urquhart Goode (1856-1926), Richard Urquhart Goode (1858-1903), John Breckinridge Goode (1864-1917), Annie Walton Goode (1869-1871), and James Urquhart Goode (1873-1944). According to the 1860 census, the Goode family enslaved seven individuals. Goode was the primary speaker at the 1875 dedication of a monument for Confederate war dead at Piedmont Hill in Bedford; the monument was eventually moved to Longwood Cemetery in Bedford. In 1887, he published Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby. He also published his memoir, Recollections of a Lifetime, in 1906. Goode was described as, "A man of splendid stature, large head crowned with snowy hair, ruddy complexion and eyes that sparkled with fun and twinkled with the kindly humor he invariably injected into his always bright and interesting conversation." In 1909, Goode had a stroke which resulted in paralysis. He died several weeks later on July 14, 1909 at the age of 80 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Norfolk. He was buried in Longwood Cemetery in Bedford, Virginia. Goode, a community in Bedford County, Virginia, is named in his honor. References Retrieved on 2009-04-21 1829 births 1909 deaths Virginia lawyers Confederate States Army officers Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia Lawyers from Washington, D.C. United States Solicitors General Emory and Henry College alumni Delegates to Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901 20th-century American politicians Washington