Jona W. Good was born in Campobello in Spartanburg County, South Carolina on November 16, 1917. His parents were Samuel Mc Duffy Good and Annie Good. Annie Good raised her 8 children alone after her husband was killed two weeks before Jona Good was born. Mr. Good attended school in South Carolina but dropped out in the seventh grade to join the army. He served for more than 10 years. At one point, Mr. Good was stationed at Fort Bragg, where he married his wife, Martha Ellen Good (1923-2010). The couple would eventually have several children together, including James Avery Good (birth date 1943), Debra Elaine Good (1958-2015), and Billie Jean Good (birth date 1947). However, Mr. Good was critically injured while stationed in the Phillipines near the end of WWII. He spent the next 2 years in hospitals. Afterwards, the army discharged Mr. Good with a pension, classifing him as "totally disabled." Rather than returning home to Spartanburg, Mr. Good and his family moved to Princeton, North Carolina because it was his wife's hometown. During the height of the Cold War around 1956, Mr. Good volunteered his time in Civil Defence activities. He took over Princeton's Ground Observer Corps as its Post Supervisor. Mr. Good oversaw other Civil Defense members watching the skies for a Russian invasion. Princeton, like much of the South, was strongly influenced by the Klu Klux Klan (hereafter referred to by their common abbreviation, the KKK.) The KKK erected in 1969 a sign near Princeton's city limits which read "Welcome to Princeton. This is Klan country." The sign angered Mr. Good, who responded in June by erecting his own sign in his front yard which read "This is not Kooks Krooks Kowards Country No Hate Here." The KKK and many townspeople were enraged by Mr. Good and his sign. Mr. Good's sign was shot at as well as his home. His family began receiving threatning phone calls. Both the mayor of the town, W. E. Ormond, and Johnston County Commissioner Freddie Harris criticized Mr. Goods sign. Mr. Goods continued doing anti-KKK activities, such as defacing KKK posters and erecting a second sign reading "Run + Hide KKK Indians coming." The latter sign was in reference to when the Klan held a rally on January 18, 1958 in a field in Maxton, N.C., and were chased off by armed Native Americans. However, continued harrassements towards his family finally caused Mr. Goods to remove his sign. However, news of Mr. Good's torments was released by the county newspaper, the Smithfield Herald. Enough public support was stirred up against the KKK that they agreed to remove their own sign. Mr. Good would die in Princeton on December 25, 1989.