William Flint and Mary Jane Goodridge Histories

8/14/2019 William Flint and Mary Jane Goodridge Histories

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':i". 1U8!rOl!r CII"WILLUII' :rLIllfJ.ll]) J a n JAJIlI,-GOQl)llIDGB 7.LIIIf.Pioneers to Utah 1n 1MB and 1880.B;y l i u ~ L. W. Simmerman -_ grand-d8l1ghte:r.Nestled 1n the w11d but fer t i le ' fal l e;r 1n Spafford, Onondaga County.New York. was 12>.e P1'8J1i'11roas farm h=e of Joaiah and AIm WoodwardFl in t . One of their sons waB William l ' l in t . IlI7 grandfather. lie wasborn .Tenuary 2B, IB14 to t hue sturdy pioneers from New England stock.And, as the i r lIloestors - both the Wood wards and the Flints wereamong the f i r s t to help baild up New England, so the;r too, had goneon west in a new seotion to meke their heme. At that time, 1n the 's ta te of New York, there wer" many tr ibes of Indians, Balle of thems tU l rat.her hosti le at t imes. The II'Unts, l ike their ancestors whowere 1mmierants in 1638 - they too knew the hardShips of pioneeringa new land aDd with never-fai l ing ooursee, the;r made their heme inthe o ...t r e l part of New York s ta te .,William l ' l in t was an expert farmer and loved to work in the soi l .lhen he was a young _ he waa oelled to act aa over-seer on the Garb1tfarm nsarb;,. lie had al.ght men working with him. On this farm nearthe house where the hired IDEm l ived, wss a large stone wash-dish.This was plaoed there for the men to wash in as the;, ollme in from thef ie lds . Willian Fl in t Was' the only mM who could l i f t the stone dishelone. He was known fo r men;r miles for his great strength.Later W11liam had a large farm of his own. About this tims, he heard'the Gospel message an!. in 1847 was baptised a member of 12>.e churchb;, Elder WID. lI;vde. When he told his parEmts of the mw l ight he hadreceived, he was oonfident they too, would be as exultant as he.However, he was met with great di sappointment for they were not infavor of MormoniBlll. I i . was told to f'ive up th is fooliBh idea and


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lIT IIIOUloZ' took oare of her father util Ju t few w"'" before h1eb a t h Sopt. a. lmtO. IIother 111 tlIa 1leaat2me Iud _1'1'1el l1li' father ,l!obert t i l la a connr t f1'01:l Irt'lrm4 GIl Ilee. 11. '1887 111 tM LesanTompJ.e. At ttle t1ll8 of Gra:n4pa's death tho;r ha4 two aal lda l l8htenand 41U'1ne the l&t;)r ~ a r s while lIother ha4 tbee. two 001110.. itwao rather d1fflunl t fo r JIIII1 her to 08n for h1lll aleo. ell he _ a ttime. almost holplGDO. HOlrcVCZ'. " o t h ~ r 414 tm IMBt ollo 00'114 fo rh1m IID4 WilD B1 "!17" a t lTinC to cBko h1r. ccmr.,rtablG. He ""nt to ..1II1th i . daafllter Valoria AIm Lair/! who 11vo4 111 1l0000taln el l . Pa r l . - .08lqOll 014 thar" he 414.Gna4l* J'l lnt .... BlBh Pd n t and ... Inl l14ent of tlla B18h uta.Qu._ SD tho 19th 1re1'Il for mrhll,.. He alllO att8ll484 tbD lCIhool f itthe Fopheta.Gr&III1]1a en.1 G:1Wl.t_ J'UDt raised a flll1U" ofJ't lMt ehl l4rea IDl _ftlrIIe4 a Dr. 1;1 1110 110_. !hoI' weft. Sarah _iJ1lfe_u. Valar1a AlIan ln t LaJrd llll1811I.. n ln t . 11,10118 .Lovantla n i n t , J l l o o b ~ 'Abel


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1II IA HISTORY OF

WILLIAM FLINTPIONEER OF

1848WRITTEN BY

MARY JANE FLINT JACKSON

WILSHIRE D. U. P .LOS ANGELESCALIFORNIA

William Fl in t came of pioneer stock. His emigrant ancewtarcame to American 1n1636. Two generations of the Fl ints remainedin Salem, Massachusetts. Then they wen to Windham, Connecticut,where William's grandfather, Luke Fl in t , Was born. He married andhad a large family, a l l born in Connecltuct. Soon af ter his las tchild was born there waS a migration from Connecticut to the westernpart of New York, one of the number being Luke Fling with hisnumerous family. He se t t led in Onondaga County, where Josiah, his


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he had joined the Mormons his father ordered him to leave thehouse and never return, but his mother followed him outside andwept bi t te r ly . She told him to come back anytime he could, buthe never saw them again.

He drove Joseph Smith's motherfs team from Elkhorn, eighteenmiles west of Winter Quarters, to the three forks of the sweetWater River, and Was then sent back to help other emigrants tothe val ley , arriving 1n Salt Lake with Brigham Young and Heber C.Kimball the 26th of september, 1848. .During the next two years he .shared in the labors and act ivi t iesof the pioneers, snd on December 24, 1850 he was marr1ed to MaryJane Goodrich. Following the i r marriage they moved to Farmington,Davis County, where they l ived in a dugout unt i l they procured enoughlogs to build a house. One spring after having planted his cropshe was called away to f ight the Indians. On his return he foundthat the crickets had eaten everything.In 1856 they moved back to Salt Lake and made their home in

the 19th Ward, on the corner of 2nd West and 3rd North, where theyl ived the rest of their l ives . William was a very ef f ic ient truckgardener snd cultivated the land on which the West High School nowstands . He was very success ful f inanCial ly and had acquired someproperty. One evening he and h is wife were walking along the s tree twhen a t e a ~ of horses dashed out of a gate and knooked them bothto the s idewalk. He received injuries from which he never reoovered,


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TIT L E P AG E

PIONEER NAME ~ w n L ~ ~ D M ~ ~ F L ~ T I I T ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __BIRTH DATE AND PLACE 28cJanuar,y 1814 SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NF,I,! TO'll( __ __DEATH DATE AND PLACE 21 SEPTember 1890 MOUNTAIN DELL,_SALT tAK":, UTAHFATHER JOSIAH FLINT"-"'e='-"-"''''-!.-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _MOTHER ANNA WOOIlWARDWHO MARRIeD AN/) DATE MARY JANE OOODRIDGE" " " ' - - - " " " " - - " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ~ - - - - - - - - - - --

_ $ I 2 4 . . . . ! D E C I ! ! : < E M B ~ ! J ! E " R ~ 1 ~ 8 ! . l 5 \ L Q _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ .__YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH __ I ~ 8 4 ~ 9 ~ __________________NAME Of' COMPANY Heber C, Kimball & Brip;ham Young

~ W i r i s Jacobs & Sophia L o i ~ F l i ~ tHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE D:i.delia Lovantia Fl in t ,

WHO FILED HISTORY I.ND DATE Evelyn fAr ley, Hooki ~ ~ ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - -ADORES S P ,0 , Box 151 Pa "ker, Idaho 83438


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WILLIAM flINT.lot " ~ t t J e J SCI IOU A ~ J I S ' j J : l r ~ p l d E.x"'" ~ " " ' l 1 . " R , . ~ , . r ~ 1 . ( ~ " . I ; : ' : : ~ ~ , , : ~ , ( ) : - ,. ;,_:: ' - ~ : ; ! l '~ ~ : ; l ~ , : . ' ~ ; ~ ~ , . ' . _ l \ , : - . , : . , ~ .. ,:.. , ,t ! :'".:',"_:J 'k(O- - -.-,...-- ---.-The fatnily name at n1nt i s exclusively Engl.1ah-Scandinavian in origin . Our Anglo- .

saxon ancestors had a subordinate deity who they name Fl int , and whole idol. was an aactual f l i n t s'bone of large size . Lt belonging to Flint , the stream;Eng Scatrdl,rock

The name is sometimes spelled F11ndt, F1.1nf',I. The conquest of Brita in by the AnglSaxons drove many of the Welsh. as the invaders called the Britons, in to the Western paof the I s l and . This di . s t r ic t , hencef 'orlh known as '-.'ales, was on e of the l a s t strong-holdof th e Celts.

The We1sh long r e ~ 1 s t e d a l l attempts to subjugate them. William the Conqueror ruledpart of ....Tales: Henry I I induced the local rulers to acknowledge hims as overlord: butwas Edward I who brought a l l v.Tales ulv:l.et- Enf(lish swt.y. F..dwaro fostered the buildinfS oftowns in his new possession, divided it in to count ies , sh ires , a f t e r the system that prvai led in England an d introduced the Common Law. He called his son, 'Edward I I , who wasborn in the country the 'Prince of l-J'a1es' an d th is t i t l e has ever since been borne byhei r apparent to the English throne.

Fl int , which i s a borough. market_town, seapor t an d parish, in the union of HaUywell


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FLINT___of succeeding .sobereigns of' England with earldom. of Chester, when they were createdprinces of wales.

Thomas Fl in t was the f'1rst of the F l in ts who emigrated to America. F.e came here 1n1642. His descendants at-e as follows: that 1s f'ollowing a direc t l ine to \'1111ia,m Flin twho was born 28 January I814. Thomas Flint .Born IT December I662; Nathaniel Flintborn I I December 1688: Nathaniel Flint Born 5 September I720; Luke Fl int . . . bom20 December I752 (Wife _ lIary Sla te) , Josiah Fl1nt lpm 21 August 1784 (wife _ AnnWoodward); William Fnnt born 28 February I814 (wife _ Mary Jane Goodridge bornI I ~ u n e 1825).

William Fl int was born a t Spafford. Onondaga, New York 28 January I8I4. He embracedthe Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter_Day-Saints in his native state in 1847. He was bapt ized by Elmer William ~ d e . He presided over a Branch of the Church there unti l hes ta r ted fo r the Rocky Mountains 26 May 1848. He drove Joseph F. Smith's mother's teamfrom Elk Horn eighteeen mUes west of Winter Quarters to the three forks ot: the SweetWater and was then sent back to help other immigrants to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Hea r r i v e ~ in the val ley with Heber C" Kimball and Presidentt Brigham Young Company on 26 Se

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On 24 December 1850 William Fl in t and Mary Jane;., Goodridge were married, having. ..know each other only three weeks. When he asked ~ e r to marry him, she was in doubt"ot knowing anything about him. so he referred he;:' to H e ~ r -C. Kimball, who put her

a t ease by saying that he was a very f ine man and she would do well to marry him forher husband. They were married in her mother's home, by Heber C. Kimball.

They se t t led in Farmmghall1, Davis, utah and l ived in a dugout unt i l he could glogs to bui ld a house. Mary re la tes some of her experiences while l i -png there . Shesa id . 'One day a snake dropped down over a pan of milk they had on the tab le fo r dinI t hung there by i t s t a i l in the roof of the dugout. I Another instance was when a bsnake was cur led up under her chai r . William, ger husband, asked her to come outsidand as scon as be could he went back in to the dugout and ktllled the snake. This hapjus t before one of her children was born. One day and Indian came in and wanted a gtha t was in the corner behind.the bed. She to ld him, no, he cou1dn l t have i t . Hejumped on the bed an d took i t . Jus t as he raieed the gun to shoot her a great dogthey had. ran in and grabbed him by the l e g . He cal led to her to take the dog offamd he would put the gun back, which he did in a hurry.

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both stood f a i th fu l and t rue to the Gospel a l l of the i r l ives .Their chUdren s names are:Sarah Jane FLINT Abel Josiah FLINTValeria Ann FLINT H a ~ r i e t Rosella FLINTWilliam Leonard FLINT George Martin FLINTFidelia Lovant:l.. FLINT Sophia Lol.s FLINTThis history was writ ten by wo the i r daughters: Fidel ia Lovantia and Sophia Lois.(These are jus t a few the his tor ica l highlights or the home some of our early ance

BRIEF HISTORr OF SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NEW YORKThe 1Dwn Spafford, one of the most picturesque in the COWlty of Onondago, i s about

ten m11e8 in length from north to south, and wbout four miles in width from east toe weI t s surface consists of high r idge land bounded on the west qy Skaneatelos Lake and on teas t by Otisco Lake an d Valley descending abr.uptly on e i the r side to these lakes and vaand gradually declining northerly i"rom the summit a t Ribley Hil l , s i tuated near the soutboundary o f the town begween th is and the town of Scott , Cortland County.

The 80i1 a sandy gravelly 10am and in early times was covered by a dense growth omaple, beech and l inden t rees on the uplands, in terspersed with hickory. chestnut, pineand hemlock t rees in the deep v a 1 1 ~ s .

s t a ~ f o r d boasts of no valuable mineral products within i t s borders, yet there i s a w


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FL INT_ (5)One of h e oldest churches in the County of Onondago is that of the Bal'tiat Church

a t Thorn Hil l . The f i r s t records of th i s church are dated April 19. I806, but thegeneral bel ief 1s that the organization of the church preceded that date . The incorporation of thesoolety unnder t.he name o 'First Baptist Religious Sooiety of Marcellustook place May 7. 1815 when the church bu11ding was begun.

A. publ.ic l ibrary was inst i tuted and incorporated a t Thorn Hill, February 12. IBII, thgood results f10wing from the establishment of this church and librar,y at Thorn Hill atsuch an early' date are noteworthy and can be seen and feJ.t in that rural community tothis day.

The members of the IIothodist Episcopal Church in Spafford Hollow ....re incorporatedon the 5th day of March, 18)4 under the name of ' the Spafford Hollow Methodist Epis_copal Society. I

At an early period in the history of th is town there were a number of persons residinhere who were known as Free Will Bapt is t as well as Seventh lB y Adventists and a newfai th called Mormons. The greater number of Mormon people l e f t Spafford and moved with


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ftHe l 1 v o ~ wIth his anee;stol's fUl1 he l1vea with his pos te r l ty ; to both!!oes he consider hilllS el! involved In deep re'aJ>OnJ lb l l1 ty . "

ftTI!E SONS OF THE J.!.lERICAII "M:."VOLUTrONft ' l l 'alI one lIource o f Informat ion .Family l e , and . , fal l lny Blbl"lll. and he r own memories ot p a ~ t ' Iventlhelped In writing the story

............._._ . _ H . ~ . _ ...An Fngllshman na/ll"!d Willtam 11001'1, Uncle of Thomas an" i 'U l l i n Fl in t ,cam'! to 4cerlea In toe latH 1620's . He retur-ped t o Lori1on tn tne sUl!lIIIeof 1633. :Ie wrote and !,ublhhe


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CiilLDREN Of' TdE f'IRST TIiOIlAS f'LItiT IN hl'lUCATholU.s. born 1 6 4 ~ . IN,rr1ed Hannah Uoulton 5: ~ r y Oountoo(our anc r )Sl1zabeth, born 1650, I tarrhd John LeachC'!orge , born 1 6 ~ 2 , ca r rhd EUtabEoth Putn_ 5: Susana Cardn!!l'John . born 1655 (?)Anna, born 1657 (?)toseph, born 1662, ~ a r r l p . 1 Abigail HowardThe .bov'! Thoreas the second 5: his second wife lI'ere our di rec t . nc . s to rs .H1s brother Geerge an1 h lsJ Cirst . 1 fe are the di rec t d ~ c ~ s t orFrank utC.8111 FUnt amI his brother :!otley . they were born a t R"'1I11ng,lia!!s. 8nd . e ra brought to Ca1tCornia 8 ' children. 11e are more closelyrt 'lated to thO:!l cn t ~ e Putn.m, than on the FUnt s id" . Ther! :!lotherVI.S El17.abeth lutnam, .n l l . t e r others of the Putnallls callie into thefo.lllily.Thoma!! FUnt the second, born In 1645. In S.lem, !lass . . . . .s t .rme r ,urpen te r and sk1lled mechanic . He worked for and bun t the t 1 r ' tchurch In Salec. !'!e own'!"'! .ore th.n 900 acres of lano1 In '?sscJ: IIno1":l1(!(!le!ex Counties . He "liS. c.pt ion In !Cing Ph1lUp's ",':ar 1101 a&.in!tthe ffarraganslttts in 1645. He was "ounl1ed In the "S"a.'lIp Attack". Hewas very actlVe In reUl ious and :)Iilitary lIIC'vemrntS . He "fI"RS htCh}Yr e s p e c t c ~ by hIs Mighbors a n ~ had g r u t influence a'OOng t h ~ mHe wa5AbIgail ::olW"rl,od f i r s t In l666J to Hannahborn 1668, married lIenry lialton . :Oou1ton. She hatl two ohildz:.en,George, born 1e70 carried Sarah_He !I:Iarri'!d h I ' seCOnd wlf ;:ary Douton, (l'IhO beC8l!le our anoestress)in 1677. nine chll-:lrcn ",ere born to ber . Her fath"r was WilliamDownton . He wa5 tne f l r s t k e e j J ~ r or tne housl'! ot correction ( ja1l)In S a l e ~ . Hls ':'lIte, Rebecca, was"hiS auV t an t .


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.ar;;e 3The decen"&lIt. of T h o ~ a s Fl1nt! thp. fO!,!lth, and PrJ .c l l la Portal' U.r elated th rough the Porte r fwlli ly to many pllrson. of PrOlll1nence, tnclu:'llnr;; Pre. lint Orant , an" PTesont Cl"lv{>l&lld, Gen . Horance Portal',A"m l ra l ['av!!! Po r t e r , and Qany o t h c r s ~ Tho:z:as Fl in t tho fourth, born !n' Sa l em , l !au . ln 1705 , o11ed in 1775,1'I1IS a fa r me r an" a mill ri8 ht'". He ::llarr) ,," Prlcl l la Po r t er in 1732 .Sh" was bo r n in 1712 , a daughter of Josllph I'ort l lr an1 J,I.o.ry Bayley ofTopsfieltJ, l:ass . They we r e the parents of 11 ch i l dr en.Pr1sc l l l a , born 1735 , 'mbrrlqd ~ 1 1 1 i a m SawyerJost>:2.h born 1737, marriqd Hannah Hennlck(our Ancestors)['y61a, born 1739, 11181'1'100 JeremIah EatonJonathan, born 1741 , marrlerl Rebecca Upton' :nry, born 1743, marr i ed John HlscockJesae , born 1746, ftlarr l ed. ..:ary H . 1 s c o e ~ Sa r ah , born 1750Eunice , born 1752 , a r ried ~ l l U 8 l l l Reed a m l n born 17 55 , r ! l 3 1 ' r l ~ Rebecca Uptoni!rh,'ar" , born 1758, mar r i ed Betsy SwainThe . b o ~ e Joseph the th l rd , child of Th0!:L8.s the tourtb, marr ied 1nRead!n l :tass . had three aons , bo r n' &lid baptized there, namelyPortal' Fl in t , bern 1763(Our anceator)

Jelnph Fl in t , bern 1765~ u t h e r Flin t , b o r n ~ 1 7 6 7 -hls tamlly ::lloved ln 1767 to Otter River, Ve rlllont;.. The f i r s t to leaveM4ssachuset t s , tney l ived In Danby an" Rutland : Vermont . "Family t reet"did not ! lourish hllr e as In an1 around BOlteln. helm here on the taalllyis t ra ced by legen an" fam1ly Blbles . A Blble handed down by Y.'lll1am


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.....The old . , t ,on was T h ~ 1 surgeon,45 yetl 's of aSI!.t h ~ R ~ v o l u t l D n 1n 1'11. ownto that great cause.

FUnt the r ~ t t h . He _II. " a l e l a n .nl!He a a l bd the Atl&llUc .'.board: a l l durlncPl'ivate yacht, !1ving w1th pay. 1'111 serv1celI ... } c,frolll

Ja,ep.." Flint , an" &nCIIstC'll' an" one ot the six b r o ~ t r ' , went/, ' Verllontback to : ' a ~ s a c h u s , . . t t l ' l to cnUl t . He an"! hts brpth'U ' Edward ' r 1 ~ In tl'lllBattl l l of Bunker Hill am! r:tany other e n g 8 e l ! l e n t ~ -tits brother Je!se h."!:IClved to :':81n8 . Htl. too, return,," tn ~ a l ' l : O : tCl enUst . ('i'h,15 In,se FUntb eCIl/ee the grM,l tath fl r of C h a r ~ 5 R . FUn t , thO! Boston :aUU onal r" ,,1'101'1.' knor,n as the "Father (> ( Trus ts" 11'1 tho l ibrary (If "S('flS o f th'! ul l r .Revolutl cn.") I c o u n t e ~ 1 ~ 5 Fl1nts from the . ta te cf ~ s s 8 c h u s e t t s alcnft .mo '/I'ere Revolutionary 'olAllors .I ((It :IIuch -lata tr('l:ll Nell' Ra!llpshlre and !':assachusoetts State Vita l Recordll,all wlI!ll as frOID two large books ent i t led "The Farwell P'amllyft. TheBeFarwell volumes took up the stopry of Porter Fl in t , who marr1ed Lucy IF,rwell in 1790 . I t f/811 th is SOJllC IJb.cy Farwell , (G r andfather JacoltJ..amother) "ho brought royal p l ~ t a g a n e t blood into the family. /Port'll" Fl1nt , Uk" his ( randtather Thomll!l the fourth, .nil his r . t h ! \ ~ JOleph, was a c i l l ~ T l l h t . His 10 ch11dren we re a l l born In Vermonj\In 1 8 2 ~ they moved frolll Danby io Rut\and County to WashJnlton Cou fit,.,Ohio. There Porter and his oldest son, also o&:lled ~ o r t e r , bu i l t andnaJ:led Fl int , . ;nlls , ()hl0. .. r ' TheIr youngest daughter El1zabeth, Aunt Betty FePllulon as ..e calied _her, ot te r spoke at her gr over the nioe h o m ~ ~ h ~ l e f t m b n t to pioneer in cabins ud8 ' ot logs in Ohio. She sald they calli'" to Oh Cfto get bet ter and cheaper land for: t he i r seven sons, 50111" Irollll and


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CIlILDRU; or OLLVi:Jl FRANi{Llll & R!BECCA RINARD: Ithue "fl'.fir l l t cous I ns of t.'vlll1na Ri ggs Dye . MInney (:o;JlpHect::,.th Is hhtor-y . A.O.K.) -tnav,d Portor rUnt , born 1870, u r u : : n r r l e c tRachae l !.!innoy botn 1872 , m a r r l e ~ NIcholas 1'. Rfn 'manJaceb Harr isr>n bO]Jfl lA74. um:arrledOrv1l 1e Vi c t or ia b o ~ n 1877, a 1 a r r l ~ d fl l char"! 'fl . SlIIithJa:l:ts Luther bo!'n 1680 , e:ar r l .d !':ath'!rtn't .':'c111~ ' n r g l 1 r " t El l z:. hC"rn 1086 . r.:IU'F Ied ::


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pUe 8E w Fl int BlIIrth. born 1649, 'llTote extensh 'e ly or the n in t . . StUI _.'df( l ot Or-orgc 'lOllson S!IIlth. He beC"III! the 1811' pa r t n e r . a t the Ill_ or24 (If S.r.:ue l J . Tllden, Ilrlsucces,rul candtate tor thf.l rresldency 1n l 'f7S.fle rClUined continuously :In tha t ~ r r l c e for 55 years . T11""n !Ddt ~ t . e ~ e c u t of his wtll . At his d e . t h ( S ~ l t h s ) his wIfe em=. Flint Smithl u c c c c ~ c d him In taking over T 1 1 ~ e n ' s aCfa1rs.I t 15 r c c o r ~ e d tha t they he" no chll"rf 'n . Theretore i t h not cl" .T whothe Rev . Ahren. i:llrtl"n Slalth . .ho cc;pl le1 t,he bobk "Dec .ndants of Tholll&5and IHllla:: : FUnt" 1s . Probably (I. ~ Q l a t J v e c>f Ceor,,, '111111&111 S.rr.ith.

f'LHlTS .tl :t::URCiPE., -David !!oarl!lI:an FUn t o f Boston, t !au a' s e v ~ n t h Generat10n of F l 1 n t ~ 1nAIIIerlca, ... l d t ed ~ a l e s and brOulht back the ro l lo . ln l Intormatlon;--.sr . d l a ll a picture of "the ruins of the ancient cas t le of F Un t " n i ~ h ho bave to a contemporary re la t ive , Fl in t Smith.The FUnts are o r Norlllan stock and .. i th other Welsh people, Dan be. (t raced beck to the Is land Trace in the Dardanella. Hence In migratingt&J El'Iglan". and thence to 'I i . les "here they se t t l ed , u l U n ! the placeFl1ntshlra,(l".qulvalent to a county here) of "hich the town of F Uo t i s t h .county sea t . /;oar th Is plnce on the rocks, close to the shore, s tands th&r\lJlll! of the ancIent cast l l l of F11nt The railwllY froc: Chester to Hollyhead runs ve r i close to the l 'u i i s , th ....only o n ~ of i t s klnd on t h ~ Cornish coas t . Edward 1 of England Is a a l ~ to bu l l t i t . I t lias here t ha t Rlchard 11 was del ivered by Percy toH e n r ~ o U n g b r ~ e , "ho put hilll in the Tower of London .he re he soon died.


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-HE F A R ~ T I L L F A ~ I L Y Th . t,,(. largE v o l u : l l I 1n the Leos A n g ~ Ll b r MY en t i tl e'" "The 'P'a.MIal l .FflClll.y" IJ.re t l 1 ~ wo r k of J ohn Cermls Fnrwell who finish"," .. book s ta r ted rI7y L"l"TlardO Jall',es FIIT;7ell. A cousin cof Gran

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-ale 8 The Farwell F a ~ 1 1 y ( C o n t ! n u e d ) Soth John anI! Charles Farwell a l ! l a ~ " e l 1 , r " a t wealth . JClhn was a T'l"n1am_U a l .. lec tor of Lincoln :In 1860 . Charles had a large f8:11lly, a ..one themWll5 Anna, roho becalll! tht' wnffl of Reglnal" 0,. Koven, P'ounder of tho .allh.Eymphcny OrC \lfl& t r a . She, h e r ~ e l f , war- a well - knoWn wr1t'!r. Al.o Roae,Ylhe> ... U" ' r ! l . Charfleld; layl( ' r , ?Ill!; sdd to be the :Doat vlvlr of TchnC'logy . Lynalll. Felix and a r r on Farw'!!ll ar l' the sonso f the ab'ove L;nn.m , , .ho lerved 1n FaUf . Legislature .hon Hlram Jehnlon'lias Govern(lr. The l a s t f iva Farwells are descendants of Edward FlIrwe-11wh(l lias Lucy fa rwel l ' II uncle. ")Henry F a r ~ e l l ' . oldest '(In , Ensign Joseph Farwell , was born in 1640 ,I:.IIrrled Hanah Learnll" In 1666. They were llIarrled in ChellIsford, I.:ass.,by Sa=.uel Ada=l . She .a s a daughter of Isaac Learn ed, who ca:lle fromCounty of Surrey, England. ThAy were adcl t ted to the f i r s t church DCCharlest on , ~ a s s in 1632 .nstgn Josr.;:h Farwell was a b.rge land owner, had 10 chl ldren , Of whlchtho s c c o n ~ ch1ld, Joseph, .a s "ur anCIlStCir. He .a s born July 24, 1870,and


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plU:" 9 The FARWELL F'AilILY (ccntlnu8d)' or ~ U g h


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..ge- 10 Tlll J;fLlH ~ A Z ! I L Y ( c o n t 1 n u l t ~ ) Ollvf'r frankUn f l i n t .a s a large , hand!4l)lI" 1:IL"l, blult eyes, brown cu1'Ij'hall ' , In1 f.lr cor.ple:xlon. Ho .,.as veri"-gl f. t ltns hull alr"a>iy b l ! e n ~ v h \ e d f o r , Th., snl '" of h is c:.tnte covers many pae'!!! o t county rec(>T'r!s. :le die


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-THE COi,.BURJI fULLY IN .uE1l.ICA ,T.dwln Colbur n ar r iv td 1n Boston I n 16:55 , 0,," the !'!hlp Defiance. !'fet'HfrolO fngl.ntl. . Th", \'oyag", las te1 54 lIIays. !'Ie ;iall 17 year. of age a t h . tt t ce , Lat"'r h


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1.2 TUE FARNUW fAlILY (continued) l'(lopped C!e-ad on the s t ree t tin Santa Fe, !:. j ( ~ . . l'eeomt.ly at the .sa of 75.I t , ; a ~ 51111 tha t a stronl> vein of hUt:lor 8ntl e : ~ n l u s for lII


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'.Pfrle 13 THE MNA.:.I. F'1I1iI1.'i - .Lieut. o ~ a 5 Putnam was born In England In 1614, e a m ~ o ... . 1n 1 6 4 0 ~ an I IIIIltr l e" A l t ~ Hc>lyoke In L y n n , , ~ a , s Their son, J o n . ~ h a n . born in le.Mcarrlr ' ; ' {I f ; rar t icular ly hard on hl;:o for SOI:l' ot h is r clat1v,, an'" fr iends~ e r ' ! c c n n ~ c t e ~ w1th lbat ~ l a c a l ~ o v e m e n t . H l ~ oielAT Br other ' s 12 year o l ~ daughter .a8 cn p ~ f t h ~ ~ ~ a l l g1r lsVinCI " o i thf= furor . Ha Joseph Putnam, k"pt a horse ~ a ~ , n ..


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L ThM1U FUn t b . Wales 1603 d. le83 a t SalB!l) !.!au. 1n AllIer. l e i s

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m. 1642 or 43 to Anne---eh . 6Thomas Fl in t b . r645, 6alem uu . d . Capt. 1n !tinsm. 2 wives, s'lcOlIIl al"Y Dountqn In 1677ha>! 9 childran to ~ a r y Tnoma! Flint b .16?8, 1 . 1757m. 3 wives m. Lydia Putcao in 1703to ta l of 9 childrenTholn&s F Un t b . 1705, 1 . 1775

. "Phll'1ps ?tapl . 1n 1732 Prlc1l1a Porter b . 1712eh. 11 Six S(IflS a l l served in Amer. Rev.

Joseph FUnt( t h ~ t h l r d ~

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b. 1737 d . - - - -m. Hannah Hp.nnlck In Rea11ng Uass.Fi r s t child oC three forte:!:' Fl in tr em. - - - - - - - - 6 childrenb . 1763 d. _______m. Lucy Farwell.. In 1 7 ~ O Ch . 10 a l l born In Verlllont.b . 1805 d. age 82 at Rinard JiHls -'m. El1u. ApUn ot !.:arlctta d . ase 82 Rinard lI111s",>-5 cht ldren. Fourth Child Lore t ta .

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The History of'NILLIAU FLINT

Written byFide l la Fl in t Jacobs

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, . '.' --:-;, CHAPTER IBIRTH - - - LINEAGE

I have been requested by Sis te r Susa Y. Gates# daughter ofBrigham Young, to give a history of myself and family for the benefi tof my pos te r i ty inasmuch as I a daughter of two of the very f i r s tpioneers who entered the Sal t Lake Valleye I am now 75 years of ageand an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple, which posi t ion Ihave held fo r the past njne years .My fa ther , William Fl int , was born January 28, 1814, in Spaf-ford, Onondago County, New York; his father , Josiah Fl in t , was bornAugust 21, 1784, in Windham, S h a f ~ o r d County, Conn.; his fether , I-ukeFl in t , was born December 20, 1752, Hawpton, Conn. My fa ther embracedthe Gospel of Jesus Christ of Lat ter Day Saints In his native statein 1847, and was bapt lz p d by l-""1Jliam Hydp th" t same year . He pres i ded over a branch of the church there unt i l he star ted for the RockyMountains, May 26, 1848. Joseph F. Smith's mother 's team was drivenby my fa ther from Elk Horn, 18 miles west of Winter Quarters, to thethree forks of the Sweet Water River; he, with Elder George Terry,was then sent back to help other emigrants to the lTalley; arrivinghere with companies of PrAsident Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball,v" ~ e p t e m h e r 26, 1848.My mother, Mary Jane Fl int (whose name previous to hermarriage was Goodridp;e, daughter of Penelope and Ben,1amin Goodridge)was born June 11, ]825 in L u n n i n . ~ b e r g , Mass. She, with her father ,mother, one' brother and s ix s i s te rs , l e f t for the Rocky Mountains

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. -him" she said, "VYhY . I don ' t know a n y t h ~ m z : 8.bout you. fI He asked herto see Brother Heber C. Kimball, which she did, and Brother Kimballtold her she would do well to get such a f ine man fo r a husband.

Brother Kimball performed the marriage ceremony at the homeof her mother. From th i s union, eight children were born; namely,Sarah Jane P ., born October 20, 1851, a t F a r m i n ~ t o n , Davis County, Utah,died In Sal t Lake City, January 10, 1886 of pneumGnia; Valeria Ann,born January 4, 1 8 5 ~ In Farmington, Davis County, Utah, died January 1,1930 of pneumonia; Willirun Lenard Flint , born March 24, 185' ( s t i l lli_ving); Fide l i a Lei born October 21, 1856, in Farmington, Davis County,Utah, ( s t i l l l i v i n ~ ; Abel Josiah, born January 22 , 1859, Salt LakeCIty, Utah, died December 9, 1908; Harriett Rosella, born January ?2,1861. Bountiful , Davis County, Utah, died January 16, 1923; GeorgeMartin, born January 22, 1864, Salt Lake City, ki]]ed in an accidentNovember 28, 1908; Sophia LOiS, born November 22, 1866. Sal t Lake City,Utah, ( s t i l l l iv ing) .

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CHAPTER II

CHILDHOOD - GIRLHOODAs I have mentioned before, I was born a t Farmington October

21, 1856. I was blessed by my f3ther when eight days old. My fe therwas a member of Lieutenant David H. ",,11el11 s Company of the NauvooLegion; the name by which the mil i t ia was known. Hearing that Johnson 's army was caning, they es.tabJlshed headquarters a t the Narrowsin . "Reho Canyon. This company was smal l in number . bu t through camoflouge were made to look l ike a great army_President Brigham Young, said "They say tha t the coming ofth is army is l egal , and I say i t Is not . I am not going to permit

these troops to drive us from the lands we possess. I am sworn, i fdriven to extremity, to ut te r ly lay waste th i s land in the name ofI s rae l ' s God, and our enemies shal l find i t as barren as when we camehere ." Thirty thousand people were ready to leave the i r horn!1s, so dearlearned, and t ' ravel southward with guards l e f t to burn them i f the host i l e army should invade t he i r land. The roads everywhere were f i 1 1 ~ d with wagons loaded with provisions and household furni ture. The womenand chi ldren wera often without shoes and proper clothing. My ~ o t h e r and family were runong thls number. I was then a babe o'f sixteen months.The army entered Sal t Lake Val1eYI June 26 1 1858, and true tot he i r pledge given to President Brigham Young, preserved excellent orderand marched to Cedar Valley, th i r ty-s ix miles west of Sal t Lake, wherethey founded Camp Floyd and remained there unt i l 1860. The ~ a m i n e of1856 l e f t the people about des t i tu te , but the establishment of t h ~ s camp was a f inancial blessing to the people. At that t ime, over 'four


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..:"-,. mother was s i t t ing on. Another t1me, when fa ther was away from homestanding guard aga1.nst the Indians , an Indian came to the house, and,needless to say, the Indians a t tha t time were quite hos t i l e . Fatherused to koep a l a rge gun in th e corne r back of the bed. As 8 0 0 n as theIndian saw the gun, without saying a word, he jumped across the bed andgrabbed it. He pointed the gun a t mother and was jus t about to pul lthe t r igger when our big dog came in and made a mad rush at the Indianand grabbed him by the leg . The Indian pleaded with mother to cal lhim off , Which she dId; and furthermore, bound and dressed the wound'made by the dogls teeth. When Father crume home, the Indian begged h5mto J.n:t him stay, and out of the goodness of his hear t , fa ther gave hima blanket and allowed him to cur l up in f ront of the. stove for the night .Early the next morning he l e f t and never bothered them again.

In 1859, we moved to the 19th "'fard in Sal t Lake City and l ivedin a house on the corner of Second North and Second West. Mother'ss i s te r , Harr ie t t , l ived wi th us, teaching school in one of the upstairrooms. She afterwards became the wife of Leonard W. Hardy.My father was a gardener and he cul t ivated and harvested theground w ~ i c h was known as the Public Square; the -place where the , ~ e s t High Schoo) is now standing. He l a t e r bought an acre of land a halfa block far ther north on Secnnd W,..st and bui l t a log house on i t , where

we l ived a great number of years . This l i t t l e cabin consisted of oneroom and a d i r t roof for i ta covering. I remember very clearly oneday when I was coming home from school I noticed a crowd of Deoplegathered around our house. The di r t roof had fa 1en in an r' coveredup my mother and l i t t l e s i s te r , Harr1.ett, crushing them through theflo"'lr into the ce l la r . The n1.ght before a he"vy snow had fa l len andi t s weight had caused th ' crash. Father was f rant ic on account of

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,.;: ....upon my young mind. Dishes were very scarce in those days. There WRSan old china cup that mother 'used to keep by the well fo r drinking~ u r p o s e s . One day I accidenta l ly broke i t . I was t e r r i f i ed , wonderingwhat to do about i t . Final ly , I dug a hole in the wal l of the cabinano h id the pieces . VoJhen mother m i s s ~ d the cup she asked me if Ihad seen i t . I l ied to her and I think she could t e l l I had l ied bythe gu.!l t y lo"k upon my face and she began looking around and saw thefresh d i r t in the wall and found the broken pieces of the cup where Ihad hidden them. She gave me a good spanking and sa id , "Now r e m ~ m b e r , the spanking i sn ' t for breaking the cUP .. but fo r ly ing ."

I saw the f i r s t t ra in tha t entered Salt Lake Valley. I wasabout four teen years of age, and a t the t ime, I happ"ened to be washingdishes. ~ ~ h e n I heard the toot of the engine, I le f t those dishes andran as fas t as my legs w o u , ~ d carry me down to the Nebeker Corner, justone block from our place. fhere were great crollds of people around, andI think that i t was one of the greates t th r i l l s I have ever had in myl i f e . How the pioneers had been looking forward to the advent of' th israi lroad and what i t would mean to them! When this was f i r s t talkedof' many people in the east t h o w ~ h t the Mormons and the i r leader BrighamYoune would be greatly opposed to i t , but on the contrary, PresidentYoung, as a standing and i r refutable testimony tha t i t s advent wasdesired, took a contract to corrp1ete the grading of the hlghway fromthe head of Echo Canyon to S!J.lt T"ake Valley. On the lOth day of May,1869, at Promontory on the Northern Shores of Great Salt Lake, the l as tspike was driven that we1red into one, the Unlr.n and Central PacificRailroads. Seven days l a te r , ~ r o u n d w a ~ hroken near Ogden for the con-struction of the Utah Central Railroad. The road was bui l t by the peopleand was purely a Mormon enterpr ise . Amid the rejoic1r.g of t h o u . ' ~ a n d s , the l as t spike was driven by Brigham Young, January In , J870. Anaddress was given by h:J.m reminding the people of the:f.r many bless1ngs

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-. I He hol lered to us am sa ld , "Hello, there , old women, where are yougoing?" You can l m a ~ l n e how it friuhtened us. There were no housesto be seen 80 we star ted to run as fast as 'i".'e could. I t WAS tatting'Cretty w,,11 alonp: 1n the aftern00n Rnd we hegan to f ee l t t red andhllncry ; 11'8 had aa t rn 0'11 ' l 'l,ncheon h,...urs re f - ' re . NOW, we were begInning to wory'y, w ' ~ n d e r 1 n g where we were, t r Wf:' w')uld ever getthere , or i f we would miss them and have t,-:" walk home. A short dis tanoe away we notioed a house 80 we decided to go there fo r sameinformation. A young g i r l met us at the door and ater inquir!ngwhere we were, explaining our p r e d l c ~ e n t , she invited us In and informed us that we were in l i t t l e Cottonwood. She said her mother hadgone to Salt Lake and that her two brothers had gone to the oanyonfo r some WOOd, but she fe l t sure they would be glad to take us wherewe wanted to go as so:'!n as they returned. She f'ixed us some bread andmilk, which we enjoyed very much. By th is time, the boys had returnedhome and when we told them our experience o the day they had a goodlaugh. They said our t ra in would soon be coming back and that theywould take us to Lovendahl Station to oatoh i t rom there. Had i t not.been 80 ar away and being so t i red and ootsore, we would have muohra ther walked home than catch the t ra in because we were a uitlf 'uls ight to look a t . OUr arms, neck and faces were almost 1n'a bl i s te rby the hot sun. In those days we wore l i t t l e panoake shaped hat ,without any brims. When we got on the t ra in we were so embarrassedwe didn ' t know what to do. When the conductor came for our t ickets ,he asked us how i t WflS that we had boarded the t ra in there. When wetold him, he, too, had a good laugh and said, "Well, next t1.me youhar. bet te r t ry g e t t ~ n g up a l i t t l e ear l ie r ." As the boys and thegir ls would pass through the t ra in and see us they would say, "Whywe haven' t seen you before today." And we would answer kind of sheepishly, "That is tunny." We want you to know we were surely haDov to~ e t home that n ~ ~ h t . a r r i v ' n ~ there about six o'clock. Alice and I

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.." . ';.;. ". ". 'E":.. recal l , . arid:' s'at" down. President Brigham Young arose and said torfear a l l In,'the bul'd1:ng didn't h e ~ r he w"uld reueat i t . Justthirteen days after, t h ~ s , nn S ~ n t e m b e r '7 . 1870, he was re-bantized1ntl"') the ohurch, and was o ~ n f ' l r m . e d by Edward Stevens. He had beensevered from the church for thirty-three years.I went to work a t the age or fourteen. I couldn't bear tosee Mother working so hard. I shall never rorget the place whereI r1rst worked. I received two dollars a week and gave mother one

or th. . . . The mother or the home treated me pretty nicely, but shehad a s is ter lIving with her and she and her daughter never missedtheir chance to make me ree l small and insignif icant . The daughterwould often taunt me about my shabby clothing and that I was, ar tera l l , only a servant gir l . On one occasion I remember of te l l ing herI was a t least honest and upr1ght. She was a very beautirul g i r l .In later years there was a peculiar coincidence. Fate was not askind to them in la ter years. Some thir ty-f ive years l a te r , wh1le Iwas President or the Relief Society in the 17th Ward, on one of myvis i t s carrying foodstutfs and clothing to the needy, I came acrossthis mother and daughter. The daughter had never married and hadgrown to look the picture of misery. My heart went out to the poorcreatures and at Christmas time, I would always P l ~ t in their basketsomething extra to t ry to cheer them a l i t t l e .

Arter leaving this place, I went to l ive at the home of OrsonPra t t , i n whIch nlace I l ived ro r three years. I kept company withhis son Loras for a long time. While lIving there, I was rebaptizedby Orson Pratt in Pugley. Mill Pond and the following day Loras andJ had our endowments. TbJ.s was on January 6, 1874.

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. , .PIONEER NAME Bend "" ' ; '" E =lc: . \ i" < n . o o d n ' \ ~ .. ,BIRTH DATE AND P L A C E , _ O " " - ' C , , - : t L , , ' 3 ~ 1 ...J1_7.L::oQL4:L.______________DEATH DATE AND P.LACE,-!'U"",g,!,;c,,:-'- ' 2 4 . . J l t . . . l i ' 1 L . . . S ~ O ~ ____________FATHER (1)1 i l l" r ~ " o d ; , s k ~

"'" JMOTHER J ; ) ~ .... ",Ig.e1o )-\?t; h .,WHO MARRIED AND DATE ps " ' 4 ( J ; ~ & R. a,,\" L\ ( . ocX.". ..",,4 _ Ai> r ) I [ l?:2 . 3YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH.....( Q = " ' + : J . . - : - " - ' ~ ' _ S = ! . . : D ' _ : _____________NAME OF COMPANY i.0\\-qrd. \JJ oc\C'U.-'tfWHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE \? ... u . \ \ " ' ~ /JcQ,.. ,,5, . 'V.o..\r..o-I:: 1'I'1S'"WHO SUBMITTED HIS TOR Y AND DA TE ?" \" ', ... ,lJ,.,Q"y,\s,' "- fu cb,t-.\c. b - ~ Q - 9 ~ ADDRESS I'?>7$" ) . J u t


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.. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE OF LUNENBURG1794 -1659On the 14th o f February, 1995, I sa t down at my computer tobegin a his tory o f my mother's great-grandfather. Rick McConkie',my brother, had provided me mater ia l s to use , and I had a few,which include the fol lowing:1 . OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, compiled by Kate B. Carter, DUP, 1972(OPH-KBC)2. BENJAMIN GOODRIDGE, submitted by Janet S. Champion.3. BENJAMIN AND PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNER GOODRIDGE, submittedby Evelyn Farley Hock.4. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE AND PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNERphoto family group shee t , maker unknown.5. FROM THE JOURNAL OF PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNER GOODRIDGE,

typed by Rhoda Hardy Garn.6. GEORGE ALBERT GOODRICH FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY- 1606-1976, Vol. I and I I , by Hazel Hilbig, 1976 (GAC-HH)7. HISTORY OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, D. HamiltonHurd, 1889.Thisancestor ' s

deserves .i s al i f eI t i s

labor of love ,that wi l l givemy s incere hopeto g ive a renderinghim dignity and theI have done so .

Paul ine McConkie Derhak

of th i shonor he

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.' There were hai l and hardy white men who were known to frequent.' the Worcester County area ear l ie r , but the modern history (which


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means writ ten records) of the town of Lunenburg, Worcester County,Massachusetts, began with a grant of two hundred and four acres ofland to Nathaniel Walker, June 6, 1663, which was surveyed inOctober 1666, subsequently owned by Ephraim Savage and la ter byJames Kibby. This acreage was situated near the 1889 l ine ofShirley, in neighboring Middlesex County.In 1672, one hundred and f i f ty acres were granted to Mrs.Francis Adams located in the present east par t of Lunenburg, andl a te r also owned by Mr. Kibby.There was also in that year a grant of two thousand acres fora town to be called Woburn, apparently nothing happened to i t , andthe grant was renewed in 1716. The following year the large grantwas surveyed, and another grant "next to Woburn Farm" WaS surveyed,

for a grant for "Dorchester Town."This region was known as Turkey Hills for many years, and ofthe five natural ponds in i t , three were known by their Indiannames: Unkachewalwlck, Massapauge, Cataconamog, Lane's Pond andDead Pond. On December 7, 1719, a grant for two towns was made bythe General Court. On December 22, seven men went out to survey theboundary l ines of the two townships, doing it in eight days. Whilesurveying they found Mr. Samuel Page, the f i r s t se t t le r inLunenburg, already residing on the province land. The followingApri l , the east l ine of the new towns was established.

May 11, 1720, this same committee began le t t ing out the landto grantees, in what the committee called "Horth Town" and "SouthTown." The North Town consisted of present Townsend and Ashby;South Town included present Lunenburg, Fitchburg and a par t of

together in the woods, but wee think it more for our safe ty to


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scout round the town so as to cum. in the same day for thestengthing our garisons a t night & wen our men gos out to woorkthey must have a gard or expose themselves &we must leave sume inour garisons or e lse they are exposed so tha t we canot keep a scoutalways out except we have more solders . We have made no discovreyof the enemy yet among us, but l ive in dayly expectation of them;but knowing they (Indians) are in the hands of god who i s abel tores t ra in them to whos name we desire to give the praise of ourpresarvation the year past & in whos name we desire s t i l l to t rus twith dependance on your Honour's pre tec t ion , a means under god ofpresarvat ionj i f your Honour sha l l think it needful 1 to make anyadi t ion to our number of solders we leve it to your Honour's wiseconcedrat ion & remain your Honour's most humbel servants .Turkey Hil l s , May ye 10: 1725.

JOSIAH WILLARD,PHILIP GOODRIDGE.The next year , it was reported tha t 26 houses were ra ised andten of them "se t t led and inhabi ted ." "With each year a fewfamilies arr ived and new openings were made in the fores t and inthe r i s ing smoke above the clearings they saw the assurance of anenlarged community and the promise of increasing harvests ." (P.762)When the town of Lunenburg was incorporated August 1 , 1728,

the name being changed from South Town "was suggested by one of thet i t l e s of George I I , who had recently succeeded to the Bri t i shthrone." The people in the town were happy to be ~ r e e of theproprietors who had ruled the town with the i r own in teres ts , andwith heavy contro l . The proprie tors , mostly, did not res ide there ,and only a few of the or ig ina l grantees ever did, and those soonsold the i r r igh ts to men who l ived there .

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In early town meeting records, among the res idents l i s t ed wasPhi l ip Goodridge and lithe sons of Phil ip Goodridge. 1IIn 1731 th e propos"it ion was ra i sed to d iv ide Middlesex County,and it was then tha t Worchester County was born.In 1732, Col. Josiah Willard, Capt. Edward Hartwell and Mr.Benjamin Goodridge were appointed to be Ira Committee to provideschool and school-master for to teach children and youth to readand wri te ... " The fol lowing year Nathan Heywood, BenjaminGoodridge, Hilkiah Boy ton and Josiah Willard, J r . , "were grantedseven pounds and one shi l l ing for keeping school in said town."In 1745 when a bridge was being planned, the records s ta te it

was to be over the North Branch " in the way t ha t goes to DavidGoodridge 's ."The township of Lunenburg was divided in 1764, and the westernha l f became FITCHBURG, inc luding more than ha l f of th e or i g i na ltownship. It was incorporated a t t ha t t ime."Phi l ip Goodridge, born in Newbury in 1668 or ' 69 , se t t l edhere about 1724, and died January 16, 1729. On h is tombstone i s

engraved "The f i r s t man in te r red here ." His descendants to thepresent day (1889- PMD) have been numerous in t h i s town, and a refound throughout New England. This name i s f requent ly wri t tenGoodrich. They have been dis t inguished by indus t ry , a b i l i t y andcharac te r . "

Goodridge - -"l ieutenant , but he was sick and not with the company


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" when the forgoing pay-rol l was made up." (p. 770.)The ci t izens of Lunenburg wrote the i r pet i t ions of freedomduring the Revolutionary War, as did ci t izens of the othercolonies. They "are clearly expressive of a sentiment and purposetha t animated and sustained the patr iots of Lunenburg through the

t r i a l s and sacr i f ices of the war." (p.771)"Two companies of twenty-seven men, exclusive of off icers ,were organized October 25, 1774. In the choice of off icers a l lmales over sixteen years of age were allowed to vote." Ageographical l ine was drawn to divide the town into two par t s , anda company was raised from each part . Also l i s ted among the troopswere the names BENJAMIN GOODRIDGE, WILLIAM GOODRIDGE, ABIJAHGOODRIDGE, JOSHUA GOODRIDGE from Lunenburg, and JOHN GOODRIDGE from

Fitchburg.As soon as the word came about the fighting a t Concord, a fu l lcompany marched from Lunenburg to help out there . Theypart icipated in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment in the service inBoston, and some of them were with him to the end of the war.At the annual elect ion of town off icers in 1776, they openedthe meeting "in the name of the government and the people of

Massachusetts" instead of the former "In His Majesty 's Name."( p . 7 7 2 )Joshua Goodridge was l i s ted as the husband of the s i s te r ofDavid, Abijah, Benjamin, and William Stearns.I t was mentioned in the history of Lunenburg tha t in the early

deceased 11 years , Sewall, age 10, and Zabdial , age 9. There was


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. also one s i s t e r , Elizabeth, age 1 year .The family l ived in Lunenburg. Benjamin Frankl in ' s f a the r wasa community-minded man and was also a re l ig ious man, according tothe inscr ipt ion on his headstone, which also ascribed to him manyother Christ ian vir tues .The incr ipt ion read: "An honest , upr ight , industr ious man; agenerous public spi r i ted off icer , who discharged the variousdut ie s of l i f e with punctual i ty and f i d e l i t y and was fo r manyyears a member of the Church of Chri s t . He was fo r many yearsaff l ic ted with a disorder which in a great measure deprived him ofh i s use fu lness , but which he bore with Chr is t i an pat ience andfor t i tude , and departed in peace to received the reward of ther ighteous in Heaven." (p. 19)Soon af te r l i t t l e Benjamin F. had observed his fourthbirthday, h is mother Elizabeth died. She was 45. The otherchildren were 17, 14, 13, and 5, when the i r mother l e f t them. Howthey might have gotten along, we do not know, but it must have beendevastating. There was no mention of the i r fa ther marrying again,to give them a stepmother to take care of them. Her epitaph read:"Here res t s a woman, good without pretense,Bles t with plain reason and with sober sense;So unaffected, so composed a mind,So f i rm, yet sof t , so s trong, yet so ref ined ."On October 4, 1814, the fa ther , Oliver Goodridge, passed awaythere in Lunenburg. He was aged 64 years and eleven months.

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Benjamin F 's fa ther- in- law, Abel Gardner, died in nearbyFitchburg, Apri l 29, 1840.On page 20, IBID, Is a photograph of a l a rge , two-story house,labeled ANCESTRAL HOME OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRICH, Lunenburg,Mass. Underneath i s a message as fol lows:"Old Goodridge family home in Lunenburg, Mass. This i s thehome of Benjamin and Penelope R. Gardner Goodridge . . "The house in the photograph appears large and ratherprosperous. There are five windows l ined along the f ~ o n t on thesecond f loor, and four windows and a somewhat imposing centra l dooron the ground l eve l . The house has no porch or la rge s teps in

front of the door, as was the style of the t ime. According to themessage under it, the house was s t i l l being occupied in 1869 whenthe photo was taken, for there were people in the front yard.Benjamin F . ' s daughter Lusannah wrote of her early years:" . . . I was a sickly child from my bir th up to nine years (1843-PMD). As my parents were poor, we children were obliged to go outand work for our support as soon as we were old enough. My parentsbelonged to the Methodist Church, and we were a l l raised in tha t

fai th . . . " (From OPH-KBC, 1972, p. 288.)So i t is known they were a devoted Methodist family, and thatthey were of modest means. Each of the children went out of thehome and worked for a wage, to help the family along. At what agethey began working is not s ta ted , or what kind of work they did, or

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young gi r l , Sophia studied music under the leadership of LowellMason of Boston, whose works grace many of the hymn books today.She had a very beaut i ful voice . . . " (OPH-KBC p. 271. ) Boston wasfor ty- three miles away; it i s not said i f she l ived in Boston fora time to study or how she was able to have such an opportunity.Almost five years l a te r , on September 2 ,1849 , Benjamin F. ' swife Penelope, who had previously spent 20 years actively engagedin worshipping in the Wesleyan Episcopal Methodist Church, wasbaptized, along with four more daughters - Harrie t , Lusannah,Sarah, and Esther. The Elder baptizing them was Elder Leonard W.Hardy, recently returned from a successful mission in England. He,i t turned out, was soon to move with his family west to Utah, andhe became the instrument of encouragement ( in whatever form i ttook) of get t ing Benjamin F. ' s family to leave the i r ancest ra l home

and a l l they knew, and move to Utah, too. ( Ibid, p.266.)What Benjamin F. and Penelope did to make preparations toleave Lunenburg forever and t ravel out west to the Utah Territoryis not known, but Penelope did wri te the following in her diary inJanuary 1869:"Sometime over 20 years ago my brother , George Gardner (who isnow in Arizona) came to make me a vis i t . He brought the t ru ths of

the Gospel with him to me, taught them to me. I believed andembraced the same. I came out of the Methodists, was led into thewaters of Baptism by an Elder of the Church of Jesus Chris t ofLatter-day Saints on the 2nd of September, 1849; in the spring of1850, I , with my family, s tar ted from the Eastern s t a t e s , evenMassachusetts, for the val ley of the mountains and arr ived here in

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Saints from Boston to Pit tsburg. Their leader was WilfordWoodruff, who was' "commissioned to gather the Saints in the Eastand to bring them and those remaining a t Winter Quarters to theRocky Mountains." (Ibid p. 266) Benjamin F ., a non-Mormon, was apar t of the group, with his Mormon wife, 5 Mormon daughters, and anon-Mormon daughter and son.Lusannah Goodridge wrote: "Sometime during the year 1849,Leonard W. Hardy and wife came to my fa ther ' s home and brought tous the gospel Of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris t . On the night ofSeptember 2, 1849, my mother, three s i s te rs and I were baptized inWhale Pond by L. W. Hardy. In the month of April , 1850, my fa ther ,with a l l his family, s tar ted to Utah to gather and uni te with theLatter Day Saints . My father , older s i s te r Mary Jane and mybrother , George, were baptized in the Plat te River on the way . . . . .

( I b id , p . 288 . )I t is made ra ther c lear tha t they had more than one wagon andmore than one yoke of oxen, in the passages of a diary tha t Sophiakept for part of the journey of 188 days across the country, thoughshe te l l s nothing of speci f ics concerning the i r preparations to goor how they got the i r out f i t s . But they must have had qui te a lo tof possessions to carry , with two or more wagons. I t appears theyhad more means than many l a te r families of pioneers did, who were

able to take only what one wagon (and many of them were small , ) oreven handcarts, could carry.Her older s i s t e r , Mary Jane, age 25 in 1850, " ...drove a yokeof oxen a l l the way across the pla ins , and one day when theystampeded she narrowly escaped death. . . . . (Ibid p. 286.) I t wasstated fur ther tha t lithe teams consisted of from two to five yoke

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small voice. I did not go aboard tha t steamer, but waited till thenext morning. In th i r ty minutes af te r tha t steamer l e f t , i t tookf i re . I t had ropes instead of wheel chains, and they could not goashore. I t was a dark night and not a soul was saved." If I had not obeyed the influence of tha t monitor within me,

I would have been there myself, with the res t of the company. TheThirteenth Ward would not have had an Atwood for a bishop; theChurch would not have had a Leonard W. Hardy as bishop. They wereboth with me, and the i r famil ies , including Brother Samuel Hardy,who i s in St. George now, upwards of ninety years old." (Quotedfrom pp 138-139, GAG-HH, Vol I I . )We can only wonder with the pain of the heart , how i t musthave f e l t for Benjamin F. and his family, i f they were standing on

the shore and watching tha t i l l - fa ted steamer burn, taking thel ives of three hundred and f i f ty innocent persons, knowing i t couldhave taken the i r l ives as well ; or even how they must have f e l t i fthey heard about i t l a te r .A his tory wri t ten by George Bryant Gardner, Benjamin'sbrother-in-law, contains some in te res t ing things about the i r t r ipacross the American Plains to be with the Saints in Sa l t Lake City.A few items add i n t e res t to th i s narrat ive. He s ta ted tha t he sold

his possessions and land, "a l l planted and Up" for $12.00.To continue; "While crossing the plains many incidentsoccurred, we t raveled in Brother Wilford Woodruff;s companyhundred, Edson Whipple's f i f t y . I was the captain of the f i r s t tenin Whipple's f i f ty . We t raveled the road on the south s ide of the

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, . a t ime, b u t t ru s t i ng the Lord with s tou t hear t s the Piu ta Captainreached ou t h is hand fo r a shake and peace and f r iendship soongladdened our hearts ."1 s t a r t ed from the B lu f f s with a good fit o u t , but beingdelayed in the mountains by snow, many got short and I diVided with

them, so tha t when I got to Sal t Lake, I had not a mouthful to ea tbut by the kindness of Jonathan Pugmire, J r .... took us in and gaveus something to ea t fo r which we f e l t very thankful ... " (From DUPa r t i c l e GEORGE BRYANT GARDNER, submitted by Luci l l e G. Jenkins ,1994. )The above paragraphs from Benjamin's brother-in-law's accountof the journey give more meaning to the following descriptions ofthe Goodridge family 's t r ip across the Plains.A history Written by Ruby L. W. Simmerman, a great-granddaughter, t e l l s us the following:" . . . The fa ther , Benjamin, was ill most of the way and thegi r l s had to drive the ox teams and the horse team and take care ofthings in general . . . " This causes me to th ink upon the hardshipsand sufferings tha t Benjamin most assuredly had to endure, on thislong journey. How did he fare?The diary Sophia kept of the journey, beginning a t Kanesville ,Iowa, provides an in te res t ing narrat ive of the three-month t r ip ,but scanty information (only five br ie f references) about herfather and mother. I t i s thought, never- the- less , a br ie f browsingthrough her ent r ies wi l l be enlightening to Benjamin's s tory , forhe was there , experiencing it a l l , as well as Sophia, only in his

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"in our devotions, and uni ted. A vote was taken to tha t effec t .


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They ca l led upon the Lord inpreserve us on our journey tojourney with re jo ic ing ... "prayer tha t He would bless us andthe valley. We then s tar ted on our

By July 7th, several more deaths occurred, and it was July 9thwhen Bro. Woodruff held a baptismal service, and among the twelvepersons accepting baptism were her fa ther Benjamin F, s i s te r MaryJane , and brother George, who were a l l bapt ized by Bro. Woodruff.(It i s wondered if perhaps Benjamin s bapt ism had been delayedun t i l now because of h is 111ne58- PMD.)

For a week or more, they experienced heavy thunderstorms, andon the 12th, a horse drowned in the swollen r iver , which was twofeet over i t s normal height . On the 15th, a Bro. Ridges was ki l ledby l ightening during another storm.As they t raveled along the banks of the Pla t te River, freshf ish and game added much to the i r bare food s tores . She saw manybuffalo. On July 28th a heavy ra in shower t ightened the wagonwheels and saved the "men the trouble of taking the wheels off andreset t ing them." Three wagons were smashed during a stampede whichs tar ted in the f i r s t divis ion, by a runaway horse. Where theycrossed the South Fork of the Plat te River, i t was a forth of amile wide.They descended very steep bluf fs , which she feared the teamsand wagons would be unable to do safe ly , but a l l went well .On August 4th, Bro. Woodruff suggested " that we stop with histen baggage wagons, and le t the re s t of the f i r s t and seconddivis ions, or as many as wished, to go ahead. He f e l t he had so

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. St ra t ton a r r ived from Sal t Lake City and brought greet ings andpotatoes for them to eat! How they loved tha t .Half the ca t t l e belonging to those in the i r group who stayedbehind fo r the n ight came up missing on the 29th. I t took themsevera l days to f ind them a l l . While wai t ing , the women in

Sophia's family picked 14 quar ts of choke cherr ies; August 31st aday af te r finding the los t ca t t l e , they crossed Box Elder creek.On September 1st they found a grove of Buffalo Berry bushes,and picked 33 quarts of the f ru i t , to make "excellent sauces andpies ." They crossed the Plat te River on the 3rd and saw a high andlong mountain range extending south and west.September 5 they passed 25 dead ca t t l e where they drank poison

water. They camped a t the foot of Independence Rock on the 7thwhere she hiked to the top, and tha t night the company danced onthe bank of the Sweetwater River . Close by was a Saluratus Lakeand off in the distance was Devils Gate.On the 9th another delay which was caused when Bro. Woodruffhad to f i re three of his teamsters for steal ing supplies. On the12th, they awoke to find ice in the i r water pa i l s , and September16th they crossed over the Sweetwater River again and for the l as t

time.The 17th she wrote " ...we le t Captain Hardy have a yoke ofoxen so he could t ravel on ... " (Ibid p. 262.) Bro. Woodruff andanother man were gone for two days vis i t ing a Shoshone Indian camplooking for three s tolen horses , and returned the 19th with two of

Descr ip t ions o f rugged t e r r a in abound in th e remaininge n t r i e s , as they made the i r f i n a l way to S a l t Lake V a l ~ e y . On the


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12th , t h i s i s what she wrote: "We took our teams and went down th emountain and helped the othe rs up, then t rave led down th e others ide o f th e mountain about nine miles and camped a t the foo t o fanother mountain." ( Ib id p. 264.)Her next and f i n a l ent ry was: "Mrs. Del in had a daughter bornl a s t night . Bro. Woodruff came up with us t h i s morning and we a l ldrove in to th e val ley o f S a l t Lake and camped in th e fo r t . It wasa r a t he r dreary homecoming. It was very dry and dus ty , and thewind was blowing the dus t in c louds . Only a few little log andadobe houses to be seen, fenced in with r a i l and willow fences . Afew shade t rees and f r u i t t r ee s were to be seen here and t he re . Ithought a t f i r s t : "Have I go t to spend th e r e s t o f my days here inth i s dreary looking place?" But I soon f e l t a l l r i g h t about it,

and loved my mountain home." ( Ib id p. 264)"On the i r a r r iva l in th e (Sa l t Lake) Valley they s tayed a t th eFor t fo r a few days , l a t e r moving to Wilford Woodruff ' s lo t (onWest Temple and South Temple St ree t ) . Benjamin t raded h is teamsand wagons fo r a smal l house and lo t in the 19th Ward, ( a t ) 330North 3rd West ... n (P . 253.)The f i r s t s e t t l e r s in th e Valley in 1847 erec ted as t he i r

f i r s t s t ruc t u re The Bowery, which was an open-s ided, shadeds t ruc ture 28 f e e t by 40 f e e t , l a rge enough to serve as a meetingplace fo r a l l purposes= church , community, and enter ta inment . I twas located on the newly surveyed Temple Block.Also b u i l t on th e Temple Block was The Old For t . When theyhad f e l t it was t ime to prepare fo r the i r f i r s t win te r , a l l who

'.',s i tuated outside and around the Block, and when Benjamin arrangedtrade wagons


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' f teams and for a house, it was ODe those.Their house would have been, of course, one of "the l i t t l e log oradobe houses with a r a i l o r willow fence around i t " t ha t Sophianoted, upon t he i r arr iva l in the Valley.The Nineteenth Ward, one o f the or ig ina l 19 wards t ha t had

been organized February 22, 1849, was a l a rge a rea . As thepopula t ion increased in th e c1 ty , " the boundar ies of the Nine teenthWard were spread out so tha t a l l that par t of Sal t Lake City lyingbetween 2nd North Street and the Warm Springs and from Main Streetand Arsenal Hil l to the Jordan River belonged to the ward, althoughmuch of th is t er r i tory a t the t ime, was unoccupied." (FromENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAYSAINTS, by Andrew Jenson, 1941, found in Church Histor ical Library,CL Core M 272.03 J 54e, p . 753 . )IIImmediately af t e r the organization of the (19th) ward thepeople met fo r worship in the Warm Springs Bath House, which servedun t i l a school house was erected that year on the northeast cornerof Fourth North and Second West Streets ." ( Ibid. )"In 1852 the populat ion of the Nineteenth Ward numbered 302adults and 100 children under eight years of age." ( Ibid. )The f i r s t bishop was James Hendricks, h is counselors wereAlonzo H. Raleigh and S. A. Knowlton, with Clerk A. H. Raleigh.They served un t i l 1856 and were replaced by Bishop Alonzo H.Raleigh and counselors Sylvester Ear l , Joseph Hovey, William Asper,and Henry Arnold, with Clerks Sylvester Earl , Joseph Kennedy,August W. Carlson, and Gus M. Clark. (From a 1936 Souvenier Program

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Benjamin son of Oliver and Elisabeth Goodridge born woosterCo. Mass. October 3rd 1794.Brother Beloved of the Lord, I place my hands upon thyhead in the name of Jesus Chris t and according to the order of

the Priesthood I sea l upon you a Father ' 5 Blessings. Thouhas t l e f t thy nat ive land for the Gospel ' s sake and has tpassed through many t r i a l s and af f f l i c t ions but thou has tovercome, them a l l , hast been pat ient which thing i s pleasingunto the Lord He hath given angels charge concerning thee.They wil l hold you up in the i r hands not a ha ir of your heads h a l l f a l l by th e hand of an Enemy The Lord hath blessed youwith an honorable family and they sha l l multiply l ike Jacobupon the mountains of I s rae l . Thou sha l t be blessed withhealth peace and plenty in thy habi ta t ion with every comfortwhich your hear t desires . (?THOU) Shal t be a councilor inZion f i l led with Wisdom and Intel l igence more than is commonfor man for thou a r t of the blood of Joseph and a lawful I he irto the priesthood which sha l l reveal unto you a l l the hiddenmysteries of the ( ........ ) Kingdom Thou sha l t preside overa Stake of Zion (?and) have wisdom to do everything r igh ttherefore dismiss your fears for the Lord thy God Loves theeand he wil l bring you up in the resurrec t ion with a l l yourfathers house and i nher i t a Kingdom tha t shal l never pass awayEven so Amen.In the early pages of the record book, Benjamin Goodridge i sl i s t ed as a member of the Nineteenth Ward, and the t i th ing recordswere signed by William Clayton, so Brother Clayton was l iv ing inthe Nineteenth Ward a t the time the Goodridges were, and he had

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"The o ld house was t o rn down a f t e r a few years and Leonard W.Hardy bui l t a new one of three rooms where they were verycomfortable. Father, Mother and Aunt Hatt ie died in th i s house."(unquote - almost the same informat ion appears in a pamphletsubmitted by Kate B. Carter to the DUP, dated 1972.)"Being a g i f t ed music ian (Sophia) had brought ODe o f th e f i r s tmelodians (which is a small reed organ with a suction bellows- PMD)across the plains with her, and used it for many yearsafterwards . . . " (OPH-KBC p. 271.) She sang in the OLD BOWERYsometime in 1851, following her marriage. The Old Bowery waslocated on the southeast corner of the Temple Block. Here, WilliamClayton heard her sing, and was so impressed tha t he wrote a songjus t for her . I t was THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF TRUTH, which she wasthe f i r s t one to sing i t , and it became well known thereafter(though we today do not hear t h i s song-PHD). (Ibid p. 271.)

From this i t is easy to suppose tha t Benjamin F. ' s home hadlong been f i l led with m u s i c ~ played and sang by h is daughter , andtha t the other members of the family joined in . This would havemade the i r l ives more pleasant .Just 43 days af te r the family 's ar r ival in the Valley,Benjamin F. and Penelope saw the i r daughter Sophia marry Bro.Leonard W. Hardy on November 28, 1850. She was 24, he was 44 andhad one wife already. In the wri t ings before me, i t was indicatedthere was no hin t of anything happening between them, in her diaryof the t r ip , but i t is real ly not so surpr is ing, in view of thefact she mentioned him in her diary 15 t imes, and her parents only

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husband of her dead s i s t e r Sarah, and she became "mother" to hers i s t e r ' s l i t t l e son, John.Lusannah's history gives us th i s :"In the f a l l of 1852, Father became insane and Mother had ahard time of i t . Father was so bad tha t he had to be confined ina room by himself . . . Father s t i l l continued in a very strange way( in 1854-5-PMD), though not so violent as when f i r s t taken. I wentand stayed with Mother fo r a while . . . ) (OPH-KBC p. 289.)We are to ld of the hardships of Benjamin's wife, Penelope,during his t rag ic i l lnes s , and they were undoubtedly great . Yet,i t is important to also recognize what suffer ing he must have been

going through during a l l th i s t ime. What he suffered could nothave been easy, or pleasant fo r him, and he was probably not ableto convey to others jus t how he fe l t .1854 was the year of the t e r r ib le in fes ta t ion of grasshoppersin the val ley, and also the year tha t Esther Smylinda marriedLeonard W. Hardy as his fourth wife, making three s i s te rs as wivesto the same man when Harrie t also married him in 1858.I t is doubtful i f our ancestor , Benjamin, was able to enjoyhis grandchildren or, perhaps, even be aware of them as his i l lnessadvanced. His i l lnes s , i f it was something l ike MultipleSclerosis , could have robbed him of his mental facul t ies , howeverinnocently. And Benjamin F. did not l ive to see h is son Georgemarry, or any of George's thir ty-two children born from his three

21 October, Mary had Fidel ia


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1857- 7 March Esther had Edward24 August, Lusannah had Olive30 December Sophia bad Jesse1859- 22 January, Mary had Abel4 Ju l y , Sophia bad George,22 July , eighteen days l a t e r , Lusannah had Mary21 November, Harrie t had Franklin, who died soon af ter . Hewas her only chi ld .(This information gleaned from GAG-HH, Vol I pp ....... )After Benjamin F . ' 5 death , there would be for ty- f ive moregrandchildren born, making a t o t a l of s ixty-four . His son George

Albert would end up having three wives and thirty-two children.George's thi r ty- two chi ldren was an equal number to the childrenhis s ix s i s t e r s had a l l together .The year of 1856 began in the midst of the t e r r ib ly cold , hardwinter during which thousands of ca t t le froze to death. Because ofthe grasshopper plagues the summer before, s tores of food for thewinter were very scant . People were reduced to digging roots fo rfood, since over half of them were without bread to ea t .When summer came, " ... imes s t i l l continued to be hard.Provisions were scarce , and most families were on ra t ions .... andsome days I would have a l i t t l e piece of bread and sometimes onlya I i t t l e milk and greens to ea t . At harvest t ime, I l e f t mychildren and went into the f ie lds to help pul l the wheat up by theroots , as it was so shor t on account of drought tha t it could not

strange and singular way for some years. I know not the cause , butI know he was a great suf ferer in h is mind by sp e l l s . I passed


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through so much with him I don't want to r e f l e c t upon i t . His l a s ts ickness was what we c a l l the pleurisy or lung fever . He l ivedonly nine days af ter the attack. Although he was an inval id formany years , he seemed a kind o f protector which I very much miss ,but he is gone . . . " (OPH-KBC p 275.)At l a s t Benjamin's long batt le was over. He would suf fer nomore. His mind, s ick for so long a t ime, would now be restored tof u l l facul ty in the great beyond. His body, weary and worn byyears o f weakness and ill heal th , was la id to rest in the Lord'sgood earth , and he was at peace.He was buried in the Sal t Lake City Cemetery. (GAG-HR, Vol I I ,p . 170 . )His widow also wrote: "He was 65 years and two months old ,lacking one day. I be l i eve he i s happy, for he showed himself to meimmediately af ter we started from the graveyard. looked so fa i rand pleasant and 5 0 very natural . He could not be otherwise thanhappy. I f e l t that i t was but a step between us and that I shouldsoon be with him." (OPH-KBC p. 275.)"After the funeral o f my husband, I stopped at the Bishop's

over three weeks." (Ibid p. 276.) (This was most l ikely herdaughters' husband, L. W. Hardy's home in the 12th Ward, which wasan area of nine ten-acre blocks , extending from South Temple to 3rdSouth Street and from 3rd to 6th East Streets .-PMD)I t i s a very comforting thought to end Benjamin FranklinGoodridge's l i f e his tory , by remembering him HAPPY, FAIR, PLEASANT


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