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REFERENCE: 897 Va Cous
Judge Flavillus Sidney Goode, No. 897 in Va Cousins, and great-granduncle
of Paul Byrne Haring and John Goode Haring, was educated at Oakland
College, and the University of Noth Carolina. In 1852 he was admitted to
the Bar, and settled at Houma, La., where he practiced his profession and
carried on a sugar plantation until the opening of the war. In March,
1861, he entered the Confederate service as 1st Lieutenant in the Grivot
Guards, of which company he soon became Captain, and which he commanded
at Yorktown, and during the peninsular campaign. In 1862, he was
appointed Attorney General of Louisiana, in which capacity he served
until the end of the war. Subsequently, he retired to the quiet of
professional practice in Terre Bonne Parish. From 1874 to 1878 he served
in the State Senate, a position which he had previously held in 1857 and
1858. From 1879 to his death (in 1886), he served as Judge of the 19th
Judicial District of Louisiana. His plantation was eight miles from
Houma, and he kept up also a town-house in New Orleans.for nearly thirty
years prominent in Louisiana politics, and was a man of irreproachable
public and private character.