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Nestled 1n the w11d but fertile 'fall e;r 1n Spafford, Onondaga County. New York. was 12>.e P1'8J1i'11roas farm h=e of Joaiah and AIm Woodward Flint. One of their sons waB William l'lint. IlI7 grandfather. lie was born .Tenuary 2B, IB14 to thue sturdy pioneers from New England stock. And, as their lIloestors - both the Wood wards and the Flints were among the first to help baild up New England, so the;r too, had gone on west in a new seotion to meke their heme. At that time, 1n the ' state of New York, there wer" many tribes of Indians, Balle of them stUl rat.her hostile at times. The II'Unts, like their ancestors who were 1mmierants in 1638 - they too knew the hardShips of pioneering a new land aDd with never-failing ooursee, the;r made their heme in the o.... trel part of New York state. ,

William l'lint was an expert farmer and loved to work in the soil. lhen he was a young _ he waa oelled to act aa over-seer on the Garb1t farm nsarb;,. lie had al.ght men working with him. On this farm near the house where the hired IDEm lived, wss a large stone wash-dish. This was plaoed there for the men to wash in as the;, ollme in from the fields. Willian Flint Was' the only mM who could lift the stone dish elone. He was known for 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 church b;, Elder WID. lI;vde. When he told his parEmts of the mw light he had received, he was oonfident they too, would be as exultant as he. However, he was met with great di sappointment for they were not in favor of MormoniBlll. Ii.. was told to f'ive up this fooliBh idea and 1f so, all would be fOrgiven. If not he was never to return home agB1n. William Flint had heard the glorious gospel messaee and had the fai til aDd assurance that this waS the true churoh and he saorif10ed a great deel to remain true to his oonviotions. l'or several months he was I?resldi,., Elder DYer a group of members In that vlo1n1t;,. IIIId later went with the main body of the Saints. On lIBy 26. 1848, he began the 10nl< journey aoross the plains from Winter Quarters. lie was tell, handsome and unman-iad an!. no doubt many of the young girle would have llked to have him notice them, but he ....a8 intent on the work to be done. lie drove an ox team for Joseph F. Smi th's mother from Winter Quarters to three forks of the Sweetwat~r in Wyoming, and than was sent baak to help other immigrants. George Terry was sent baak w1th him~ (It might be interesting to state hel'e that Joseph 11'. Smith was onl;, 10 years old at this time, and his :father was dead, 80 1t was a rather diffiOlllt trip for his widowed mother, aDd my erand:father was happy that he oould assist them on thls long trip.) On the nEQ[t trip from Winter Quarters, he drove a tellD for lIeb8:r C. Clnbell and thi8 oomp~ along with Beber C. Ximball and Br1gham Young an-ived In the valls;r September 16, 1848, so 1I'1111am J'lint had been tr....llng constantly for almost four months. Th!s copy. rnmte ava.'!.1brtt ~'!;~~T'~~~ .. t '~"~I,~,":"'~~"I t:'''',,:,J: .. 'I, C.• th"",1.',, , ••. ,V .... v~ ·r"},,r· .. ,-.-,- ,,,.-.,.,-

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&1. 1860 ........IJl And iellolope Gardrulr Goo4Z'14go lltarted boll theu IIGIIe ill LlIIIeDb&Z'8. ~ao"l18ett8 for the 10118 tl'1p oor_ 1ll00000ta1a nlld plalll, tJlroaiOItios and 1'1T8rtJ to Utah for tile l181ce of tile Gospel., BeIl.JlJfJlll1. lJoodr14go _ born in LUlI.enbol'£:. IlfU1oaeh118ette. october 3. 17114, and ienOlop" liMde1l. Cardner Goodr14go ....s born 1Il HOpk:I.Aton. 1Iiorcoator Counts'. :ZSSSBGhn""Us. ftlq like thoir e~eeto:ra ~ had ,ear8 beforo fQQBht for tbodr religions ,freedom had nOB reeolTod _ Inspiration aII4 hope 1Il the ~o8pal sad "8l1.tad to be whenl tba, coold lbe thelr rel1g1on to tm fullest. 011. _

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.t JulI'. l8ISO. the, reached the Platte HlTer wheN l!aQ' IDe, CIoo4rUgeI lIel' :fatlWir BenJ_lIl. aDd 'brotber Geo1'£ll .t.~ wore bapUsea 1>7 i'1 ford QllClnft. _ the otIIer members . f the r"",l1, baYing a1rea47 baan beptl&ed • OIl tbe Hh

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1rU11e aeree4 With ball bIlt qlll~ adde" that she ooal4 . . . J.paet'le 1Ieball O. QPba11. wtIo oeal.il tall her 110ft a1laat Ia1Ja., !bat aaeme4 Nr anoaeh to "'27 l!lnG, so "he !lent to 880 Sab;ve whltn the7 Jls4 oourto4 only t2Ine nem, 1.1&1'7 Jnna Coodridge and william .runt were msn'1ail. ~ =lllGe WilD pnrlOl'mad b7 RGber If,; lUmball at her mother's heroe. T!ttl;; lotar wGnt to tl10 t""'pla Md wora Goole4 fol' time 9ZId <) temit;y.

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ha:tiJldI1pa of piOlleer lU" bora but thalr wor~ trouble was rsttl .... imokes~ (lran4ms told IIf l'IOD;v Intnrest10r 10oidOllts of their llfe in B'.rmlngtont One d...,. -'110 sIIa SDII Grandpa, ru>4 her brother George A. Goo4rldge were sestod at the table oating dlDBor,_ a €1'B8t rattlesnalto drsPIlGa h1mseU' en
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CIfl8I! telA of the IIIaI\V 1I1eea1ne1J uhe reOGivod b., 401ng 0111_. She edd aha f!8'9ft :nelll' to their !l81".bors when tbl>7 would haTe been 1mft£17 othernlse WI4 1 t se_l to hoI' sf to nraz« that _e Jla4 nell' been tM:en Ollt of ~o Bilek. She add it sean4d as thoneh Ule&'e wae more 1n 1t than bofore. Sho "out tllrou: h all the oonBhipa of all pionesr women Md rrmsln04. tr.~e rod :!:a1thfuJ. in her Tal1e1on. She 1'/811 Tery 4noted to hoI' husband. (l,......'IIOtbv

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III allout 1869. Ulcy moved bolok to Balt .Lelte 01 t3. whore the., spent tile rllDA1ader of their UTes. 5.!hoy Wne amiOWl that thdl' cth1l4ren aboold !JeTe &Tory adTantae'e of e4"ontieli which wee cft~l'nd at that time. The7 11",,4 in tho 19th '1'01'4 on the corner of 2nd woo t and SZ« ItIl'th Boroee fran tho ptthl10 equlIl''', \Thich 1s now the block oovered 117 the \7eet Bleh Scheel. Part of the tillle. l!r¥ erarllifcthor rented tIlle land where the RiCh Sohool no" SUo.ndD. Wld had a eaN.., there. Peopls I'lW a11l admired 111111m: :rUnt's llordollS. _ tho ron were alWB7S St! straight. tha7 loeb.: 1111:e th07 had been placed thora with A ruler. !'or 8 t1llle U1"8 11180. HnrrlOt Goodridge. Crandma '8 o1s1:er 11TB4 W1 th them and taught school ln their home.

:rater thq attaDied lIIIhool ln the 014 19th liard .e.tiDe lieuae. In 1I:I08e dBlB,. 8YlJrlb hal te p8¥ for the1r sehoclixlg and 80 GraMme in t1'uo ~oneer fashion "entad to ~o her port tC'/I'ard pq1~ fer her Chlldren a schooling. She made 11n88$ for dresses nnd beautiflll \fool oar~tB and alsO mil 08l'P8tO. . GRudsa l'Unt hill lI84 tl T<Sr7 bad laqlD'7 and he DSTer :ful~ raollVered :from 1t. Oaptain RoopeI" 8 horse ran in to hlm. trB/IPell on him and OZ'Illlled his he"". Re ""B Tel'7 III 1'01' a 1008 tiIne. an4 was neTol' able to ao tm7 hard work aftar that.

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BIa DI8D. Dere oonV111Oe4 ..he ""B right, BO the7 took their 8pade8 IIll4 11110"1'.18 0J24 :tiZl8l17 :round her. She "88 ..looot deMo end ber back aevl,. broltol1. The7 took har to aronA.... Goodridte's neld: 40(>1' II!Id amt :ror Dr. Ormab7 8Jl4 the7 811 "ork;,oI; M th her :ror B0II8 t1me be:rare thGF 001114 brill8 har to. M8 o:r:roctrd her th1"OU{'hottt hsr 11f.. !!he al~ ha4 11 nell: lltomach. lto1rovor. ebe lJV<4 to bo 60 7C1IZ'II old and 1'01004 n flu fan-.il7 o:r 9 chlldrell.

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the ~f; 1n tho :taclq. 8DG her t1rat echeal. tHolIIII' w. . ha:r eldost ·1I1st&r, 8nrah Jane ft1nt. ireI' tI8%t teaohera 1I\P'e Bl1:a Sleda, E11snbeth PngBle7,· lIenrJ' D08l:, and II Ill'. IIa:rrison. a rrellb.-torlan r.l1nls::'~1 "he Inahd o"ly thrr.o l700kn. Bor lru!lt teacher rone 1!0rnca C nee. ;·:otllor d14n't co to scheel a:ttor aho wall 14 ;;OnrB tIld •

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ldtllSng tc help Ill!;; ftr th"lr 80hoo11l1g. '!'hey ha4 to neep IIDd bat three large 1'OOIOB ever .. nieht a:ttor aohool. Brother Goerrs end. the tins and " ..rri04 1n tho WOod for th"co roallil 0l'1I Iml't th" fir" eo1ng 1n sChoal hoars during the Winter, )~!l.cb Baturd., the rotlll18 had to be Borubbe4 (nd the stevon Shined. ~eree holped ..., oother lIorch D.Dd nho holpod him 1!Ih1r.o the sto'\"On~

G:ran4I:o '1!811 eltl!qB road7 to halp out with tl:o alok. One time, 4iPttIu1a 'IIIUI fagtDg 8......ra17 in the 01 V. A ledy IhlDg aorOSB the :rta4 1Iame4 "sthe. . bed three eh1ldro'" deftdnt the 13t1l11O tiID" ond three others Hell: 't'1th Hi ~ryono "OB eo afraid 01: this terri ble dlseua that C1'M.o wonU 'co ever to IIalp her. She. boll'o4 prol"'''o tho boUee :ror btu·tal :-",4 01 tho'leh She h:l4 bor omliltloll ohUlron ot homn obI> "'IlC !lot ofrn1d, nlld none of thCl!l too!:: tho 41pthar1n. Sho 'I'M" ~e Lord "'oulll prot.,ct her 8lld Be 414.

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in hi. <:ho'.r nntl Bert I1Ild AIla Dlolmon, sone of hO'~B" I ft1'S pl8J1l1e near. 'BlaT Ifotlld o:tten bring Crnndpa a l"",p of brown au.ear. muCh the samo ae W8 wotlld oat candy tals,. Soon tMJ' thought thOJ' would plOJ' a triO!:: 011 Gr&Il4ps. ThoI' get a apponr'll of Mustard 1t11oh lootad very IlIUCh 11k.e th.. br01'7l DlI£!l1' .4t1eh thoy had bellJ1 e1T1!@ him. Grlllldpa eagarl¥ took it. IlhUo he "De CheJd.ne on it, tholr lIIOtllar eaft them beth 0 coed sound Uck1.n;;. 111.... GrllDdpa eotlld IlpeaIt, he . . . . la\l£he4 lind eSd, "Boys \7111 be boJ'sl" ~ AUnt

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l.atter-.la.y Salnte UD.tll tile &fld. !he;r tonth t their ahl14ren and r"veJII tile GOIlp"l above a'V1ll""tll1l1r,! elBa in tbJ world.

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A HISTORY OF WILLIAM FLINT PIONEER OF

1848 WRITTEN BY MARY JANE FLINT JACKSON WILSHIRE D. U. P. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

William Flint came of pioneer stock. His emigrant ancewtar came to American 1n1636. Two generations of the Flints remained in Salem, Massachusetts. Then they wen to Windham, Connecticut, where William's grandfather, Luke Flint, Was born. He married and had a large family, all born in Connecltuct. Soon after his last child was born there waS a migration from Connecticut to the western part of New York, one of the number being Luke Fling with his numerous family. He settled in Onondaga County, where Josiah, his youngest son, married Ann Woodard-; From this union V1111iam, the subject of this sketch, was born. William's people were deeply religious, his mother being very strict in the observance of the Sabbath. She always prepared the food for Sunday the day be~ore and never would allow any work to be done on that day. The family read the Bible daily and believed L~plicitly in its teachings.

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William worked hard on his father's farm and suffered many hardships due to the difficulty of clearing the land of trees and rooks. As their home was poorly oonstructod and their clothing inadequate, they suffered greatly from the rigors of the cold winters. iut William grew into a strollp, and vigorous man six feet tall. When just a young man he was working on a farm for a man named Garbet with about forty others. All used a large stone basin at a well to wash in. One evening they staged an impromptu contant to see who could lift it. All failed except William, who, when his turn came, lifted it with esse • Through his thrift and industry he

acquir~d

early in life a

farm of forty acres some d:tstance from his father's home.

lIe waS

just beginning to become ~~osporous when he heard the Gospel and gave up everything to go to Utah. He was baptized in 1847 by Elder William Hyde and presided over a branch of the Church there until he started West on the 26th of May, 1848. Before leaving he walked forty miles to bid his f.o ther and mot9-er_Jl.o..o.dbye ._!!:en he told them r!~:s. CfJi:)f, (";,: c-:: ;I.V-":', '.:, ';~ \',", '«'<~ ~';~ t('.; '," '-"I t::! tt~~ !;".:·:<'F:<::~O:~:;J 8;:;Y'~1 CA;"'i~:ETl~;'l:l c: fJ!"£\:i (>1''')J,~J:fIS m.::.y nct bJ r~;J;:;-i..!;;~-(c" i':"T

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he had joined the Mormons his father ordered him to leave the house and never return, but his mother followed him outside and

wept bitterly.

She told him to come back anytime he could, but

he never saw them again. He drove Joseph miles west of Winter Water River, and Was the valley, arriving

Smith's motherfs team from Elkhorn, eighteen Quarters, to the three forks of the sweet then sent back to help other emigrants to 1n Salt Lake with Brigham Young and Heber C.

Kimball the 26th of september, 1848.

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During the next two years he .shared in the labors and activities of the pioneers, snd on December 24, 1850 he was marr1ed to Mary

Jane Goodrich. Following their marriage they moved to Farmington, Davis County, where they lived in a dugout until they procured enough logs to build a house. One spring after having planted his crops he was called away to fight the Indians. On his return he found that 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 they lived the rest of their lives. William was a very efficient truck gardener snd cultivated the land on which the West High School now stands. He was very successful finanCially and had acquired some property. One evening he and his wife were walking along the street when a tea~ of horses dashed out of a gate and knooked them both to the sidewalk. He received injuries from which he never reoovered, although he lived many years. He Was never able to work agan, and so the property he had accumul~tad dwindled away on the maintenanoe

of hi. eight children, five girl. and three boys. The las years of his 11fe were spent with his daughter Valeria, and it was at her home that he died on the 21st of September., 1890 at the age of 76.

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PIONEER NAME

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BIRTH DATE AND PLACE

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28cJanuar,y 1814

DEATH DATE AND PLACE FATHER

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SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NF,I,! TO'll( __ ._ _

21 SEPTember 1890

MOUNTAIN DELL,_SALT tAK":, UTAH

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MOTHER

WHO MARRIeD AN/) DATE

YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH

NAME Of' COMPANY

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Heber C, Kimball & Brip;ham Young

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CAMP NAME

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Pa "ker, Idaho 83438

SYRINGA CAMP

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CAMP HISTORIAN

CHERYL BEAN

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WILLIAM flINT

The fatnily name at n1nt is exclusively Engl.1ah-Scandinavian in origin.

-Our -.-,...-- ---.- -.. Anglo- . -

saxon ancestors had a subordinate deity who they name Flint, and whole idol. was an a actual flint 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 Britain by the Anglo

Saxons drove many of the Welsh. as the invaders called the Britons, into the Western part of the Island. This di.strict, hencef'orlh known as '-.'ales, was one of the last strong-holds

of the Celts. The We1sh long

part of ....Tales:

re~1sted

all attempts to subjugate them.

William the Conqueror ruled

Henry II induced the local rulers to acknowledge hims as overlord: but it

was Edward I who brought all v.Tales ulv:l.et- Enf(lish swt.y.

F..dwaro fostered the buildinfS of

towns in his new possession, divided it into counties, shires, after the system that prevailed in England and introduced the Common Law.

He called his son, 'Edward II, who was

born in the country I the 'Prince of l-J'a1es' and this title has ever since been borne by heir apparent to the English throne. Flint, which is a borough. market_town, seaport and parish, in the union of HaUywell. hundred of Coleshill, county of Flint, (of which it is the ancient capital). Nodth WB1es. The name of this place is supposed to be a corruption of the word Fluemt, an abbreviation of the latin Fluentum, lour castle above the tide or flood', three sides of the castle bein washed by the sea at high spring tides. Flint and its immediate vicinity have at different periods been the scenes of important and interesting historical events.

Much doubt prevails as to the period of' the first

erection of' the castle of Flint, which, from the thirteenth distinguished place in the Welsh annals. The castle and town

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Flint appear almost always, when in the possession of the English

, to have belonged to the earldoIfll of Chester, with which they were granted by Edward TIl, in in the seventh year of his reigh. to his son Edward, surnamed the Black Prince. to whom

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hs issued an order two years afterwards, to take the castles of Flint and Rhuddlan into his custody to furnish them with provisions and to place them in sufficient garrisons as had been done in the same prince's castles of Beeton and Chester. Flint has in like manner. been always enumerated in the charters

The castle of

investin~

the eldest sons

FLINT__ _ of succeeding .sobereigns of' England with earldom. of Chester, when they were created

princes of wales. Thomas Flint was the f'1rst of the Flints who emigrated to America. 1642.

His descendants at-e as follows:

who was born 28 January I814.

F.e came here 1n

that 1s f'ollowing a direct line to \'1111ia,m Flint

Thomas Flint •• , .Born IT December I662; Nathaniel Flint

born II December 1688: Nathaniel Flint • • • Born 5 September I720; Luke Flint ... bom 20 December I752 (Wife _ lIary Slate), Josiah Fl1nt •••• ilpm 21 August 1784 (wife _ Ann Woodward);

William Fnnt ••• born 28 February I814 (wife _ Mary Jane Goodridge born

II ~une 1825). William Flint was born at Spafford. Onondaga, New York 28 January I8I4.

the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter_Day-Saints in his native state in 1847. tized by Elmer William

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He embraced

He was bap-

He presided over a Branch of the Church there until he

started for the Rocky Mountains 26 May 1848.

He drove Joseph F. Smith's mother's team

from Elk Horn eighteeen mUes west of Winter Quarters to the three forks ot: the Sweet Water and was then sent back to help other immigrants to the Great Salt Lake Valley.

He

arrive~ in the valley with Heber C" Kimball and Presidentt Brigham Young Company on 26 Sep.-

tember I~8" immigrants.

Elder George Terry was sent back with him when he went back to help the He endured many trials and hardships along with the other pioneers in their

perilous journey across the plains.

He married Mary Jane Goodridge1 who was born II June I825 in Lunen, Worcester, Mass_ achusetts.

She 1 with her father Benjamin Goodridge

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her mother Penelope Randall Gardner c

and one b!"other and six sisters started 2I May 1850 for the Rocky Mountains in the lo!Uford Woodruff Company, driving an ox_team all the way across the plains. in the valley 14 October 1850. with a Captain over each.

Their Company all'rived

The company was organized into hundreds, fifties, and tens

Leonard Hardy was the Captain over the Company she traveled with.

On the 10 of July 1850 't-l1lford Woodruff baptized Mary Jane and her father and her brother

in the Platte River.

The other members of her family had been baptized previously.

She

witnessed one of' the harrowing experiences, not uncommon to the people of the 'plains, emigrating by ox team; a buffalo stampede where several people were killed.

They endured

breakdowns and hardships but they finally arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake on

14 October 1850.

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On 24 December 1850 William Flint and Mary Jane;., Goodridge were married, having know each other only three weeks.

When he asked ~er ·to marry him, she was in doubt

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not knowing anything about him. so he referred he;:' to He~r -C. Kimball, who put her at ease by saying that he was a very fine man and she would do well to marry him for

her husband.

They were married in her mother's home, by Heber C. Kimball.

They settled in Farmmghall1, Davis, utah and lived in a dugout until he could logs to build a house.

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Mary relates some of her experiences while li-png there. She

said. 'One day a snake dropped down over a pan of milk they had on the table for dinner. It hung there by its tail in the roof of the dugout. snake was curled up under her chair.

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Another instance was when a big

William, ger husband, asked her to come outside

and as scon as be could he went back into the dugout and ktllled the snake. just before one of her children was born. that was in the corner behind.the bed. jumped on the bed and took it.

This happene'

One day and Indian came in and wanted a gun

She told him, no, he cou1dn l t have it.

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Just as he raieed the gun to shoot her a great dog

they had. ran in and grabbed him by the leg.

He called to her to take the dog off

amd he would put the gun back, which he did in a hurry. ThF.Y moved from there down to the 19th wardin Salt Lake City about 1859 to a house on the corner of 2nd North and 2nd West.

Harriet Goodridge, her sister, lived with them

and taught school in a little room upstairs in the same house. Bishop Leonard W.

She afterward married

Harqy.

William Flint was a gardener of the square whefe now stands the west High School, which was cultivated by him, raising all kinds of vegetables.

He built a log house a

half block north of the square, whicb was at that time called, the Public Square. Mary Jane was a weaver.

She made linens that dresses were made of I also beau-

t1ful wool carpets anrJ. rag carpets.

One day in November there came a big snow storm

and i t fell so deep on the dirt roof that one of her children was born.

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in bur,v1.ng hE'!r just two weeks before

Two of the other children were also under the debris.

Two week after the roof caved in, her yotmgest child was born.

They didn tt have time

to get the roof back on and the train came down through the boards in torrents.

They

had to hold umbrellas over the bed to keep the rain off from mother and child. She had and raised her family of eight children without ever having a doctor. They

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both stood faithful and true to the Gospel all of their lives. Their chUdren I s names are: Sarah Jane FLINT Abel Josiah FLINT Valeria Ann FLINT Ha~riet Rosella FLINT William Leonard FLINT George Martin FLINT Fidelia Lovant:l.. FLINT Sophia Lol.s FLINT This history was written by wo o~ their daughters: Fidelia Lovantia and Sophia Lois. (These are just a few o~ the historical highlights

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the home o~ some of our early ancestor

BRIEF HISTORr OF SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NEW YORK

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Spafford, one of the most picturesque in the COWlty of Onondago, is about

ten m11e8 in length from north to south, and wbout four miles in width from east toe west. Its surface consists of high ridge land bounded on the west qy Skaneatelos Lake and on the east by Otisco Lake and Valley I descending abr.uptly on either side to these lakes and valley and gradually declining northerly i"rom the summit at Ribley Hill, situated near the southerr: boundary of the town begween this and the town of Scott, Cortland County. The 80i1

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a sandy gravelly 10am and in early times was covered by a dense growth of

maple, beech and linden trees on the uplands, interspersed with hickory. chestnut, pine and hemlock trees in the deep

va11~s.

sta~ford boasts of no valuable mineral products within its borders, yet there is a weak

spring of salt water and indications of the presence of natural gas along the western shore of Otisco Lake. Like other communities settled b,y New England people, the first settlers in town had hardly put their things to right in their log cabins before they churches.

The first

~chool

taught in a log cabin.

or~nized

schools and

at Spafi"ord ICorners I was the beginning of District 2, and was

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organized schools and churches with a building specially

designed for school purposes was erected on 'The Hill' a quarter of a mile or more east of the 'Corners t on a a-ossroad leading from oneto the other of two leading highaays. Teaching school in those times was very much like driving oxen; it was attended with much talking and a dexterous use of a beech gad.

We doubt if there is any boy living or

dead, who attended school on 'The HUI' who has not a score of vows registered in High Heavebsto 'lick' some teacher who taught in that old house, las soon as he got big enough to do the job.'

There was something in the very air of that old school_house to make a

school master 'whale I a boy; and safar as heard i"rom there were no exceptions to the rule in teachers.

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One of he oldest churches in the County of Onondago is that of the Bal'tiat Church The first records of this church are dated April 19. I806, but the

at Thorn Hill.

general belief 1s that the organization of the church preceded that date.

The incor-

poration of thesoolety unnder t.he name o£ 'First Baptist Religious Sooiety of Marcellus,

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took place May 7. 1815 when the church bu11ding was begun. A. publ.ic library was instituted and incorporated at Thorn Hill, February 12. IBII, the

good results f10wing from the establishment of this church and librar,y at Thorn Hill at such an early' date are noteworthy and can be seen and feJ.t in that rural community to

this day. The members of the IIothodist Episcopal Church in Spafford Hollow .... re incorporated on the 5th day of March, 18)4 under the name of 'the Spafford Hollow Methodist Epis_ copal Society.

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At an early period in the history of this town there were a number of persons residing here who were known as Free Will Baptist as well as Seventh lBy Adventists and a new

faith called Mormons. the Nauvoo ExodUS;:

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The greater number of Mormon people left Spafford and moved with the great Salt Lake Basin.

The first necessity of the early settler was a grist m:1ll to grind his wheat and corn a saw-mill to saw his lumber and a carding and pulJ.ing mill to card his wool and prepare his cloth for domestics use.

There never was but one resident tailor at the Corners, v

William 4uick, who was born in L ndon, England.

Another lucrative business in olden

times was that of curier and tanner and shoemaker.

There are those still living who

can remember when a shoemaker, carryinl?; his kit of tools with him, from house to house, shoeing the familY from skins taken from the domestic herds and prepared qy a neighboring tanner and currier. The making of' maple sugar. in

t~s

locality. is growing l.ess and-less every year and

will soon be a lost art; there are even now very few maple groves worth the tapping. A cake of maple sugar will soon be a curiosity and maple syrup on pancakes a lUxury

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that the wealthy only can indulge in.

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ftHe l1vo~ wIth his anee;stol's fUl1 he l1vea with his posterlty; to both !!oes he consider hilllS el! involved In deep re'aJ>O nJlbll1ty."

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ftTI!E SONS OF THE J.!.lERICAII "M:."VOLUTrONft 'll'alI one lIource of Information. Family le,and., falllny Blbl"lll. and he r own memories ot pa~t 'Iventl

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An Fngllshman na/ll"!d Willtam 11001'1, Uncle of Thomas an" i'Ullin Flint, cam'! to 4cerlea In toe latH 1620's . He retur-ped t o Lori1on tn tne sUl!lIIIer of 1633. :Ie wrote and !,ublhhe<1 • book caUell"!jE"4' ElIGLAlID'S rROSPECTS.-

Flv'! y~.rl later be r eturned to ~erlc •• bringing with hlQ his WIt., his sm and hts son ' . 1I1fe, hi!; WI doriC,," Sister, and her two sons, Thomas and ""1l1hlll Flint, and the latte r"

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Cur "'lrect anc~stor, ThOlllas, .a, bOFn In t1alas in 1603, CUI" to America In l6z,e, ",a, unmarried at that t1me, but In 1642 or 43 he married Anne, Whose mai1en name seems 10,t In antiquity. H~ died In 1663 In 5ale:ll, .'~aSll ., leaving !:il; children r~gln& In age hOIll I to 18 years. He anr! his brothAr fuunded an'" helped to i>loneer lhe colony of 5a1.em. He spent thousands of poun~1 of hts own ~oney to help insure the 'ueees, ot that colony. Fl Jnt Str eet tn Salem wa, naae~ tor them . ft Is on lan1 they once owned. Tho~a' Fl1nt oms called "Han. Thomas Flint" In reco,nltl on of his lIervlces as magistrate tor the colony, for year s without pay: ' . Atter htl deeth hi; wld~w and chUdren .er~ given Aoo ecres Of iend' beceuse of his "grea t le~c., to the colony. !lls "coat of ar/all" in 1642 was Vart Chevron, bet.een thr ~ ~ Flint Stones. Artant r.rest~ a~d _______ eltoil" and motto "Sine lo!acula" _1:1100 tral'lllllatltd t:rom the La~_ans ~W1thout Bl&:;dah ." . ~

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Th0A:8s )l'11nt"4; wildernell hOllle .as on th" Sa1e:ll and Reading Road," six !1111e, frOlll thO'! 8el'l1ll Ccaurt Rouse and ttve .11"'s trolll Rea"!nS. !Uss. Thts first h~ of t ile Fllnts In AIII~rtca is IS b"auty llpot In a beautlt'u.l r egion . It r"lIIal ned In .thOl taml1y over 200 ~al'$ . It was oocupled in 1860 by Elijah F11nt. Se Is bur1t''' in th", fully burylnl sroUftd half a =l1e frgcD the house on a beautitul pi.ne shaded knoll. •

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rar~ bul 1~lngs stan~ on rislnl groundll, ter!lllnat~s with a ~ilkhouse, the door atep

a lar,e rambllnl house

ot whlch 1. an old mill

.tone. (The ~111stonos in our old mill In Ohio wara lerle circular stoMs of a spedal make , and had to be ll11port.Jd n-~ Franoa).loI.r.H.

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CiilLDREN Of' TdE f'IRST TIiOIlAS f'LItiT IN hl'lUCA TholU.s. born 164~. IN,rr1ed Hannah Uoulton 5: ~ry Oountoo(our anc •• tr ••• ). " Sl1zabeth, born 1650, Itarrhd John Leach ' C'!orge , born 16~2, carrhd EUtabEoth Putn_ 5: Susana Cardn!!l' John . born 1655 (?) ~ Anna, born 1657 (?) toseph, born 1662, ~arrlp.1 Abigail Howard The .bov'! Thoreas the second 5: his second wife lI'ere our direct .nc.stors.

H1s brother Geerge an1 hlsJ Cirst .1fe are the direct d~c~st o rs or Frank utC.8111 FUnt amI his brother :!otley . they were born at R"'1I11ng, lia!!s. 8nd .era brought to Ca1tCornia 8' children. 11e are more closely rt'lated to thO:!l cn t~e Putn.m, than on the FUnt sid". Ther! :!lother VI.S El17.abeth lutnam, .nl l.ter others of the Putnallls callie into the fo.lllily. Thoma!! FUnt the second, born In 1645. In S.lem, !lass ..... s • t.rme r, urpenter and sk1lled mechanic . He worked for and bunt the t1r't church In Salec. !'!e own'!"'! .ore th.n 900 acres of lano1 In '?sscJ: IIno1" :l1(!(!le!ex Counties . He "liS. c.ption In !Cing Ph1lUp's ",':ar 1101 a&.in!t the ffarraganslttts in 1645. He was "ounl1ed In the "S"a.'lIp Attack". He was very actlVe In reUlious and :)Iilitary lIIC'vemrntS . He "fI"RS htCh}Y respectc~ by hIs Mighbors an~ had grut influence a'OOng th~m . He wa5 ::olW"rl,od first In l666J to Hannah :Oou1ton. She hatl two ohildz:.en, AbIgail born 1668, married lIenry lialton . George, born 1e70 carried Sarah_ He !I:Iarri'!d hI' seCOnd wlf •• ;:ary Douton, (l'IhO beC8l!le our anoestress) in 1677. nine chll-:lrcn ",ere born to ber. Her fath"r was William Downton . He wa5 tne flrst keejJ~r or tne housl'! ot correction (ja1l) In Sale~. Hls ':'lIte, Rebecca, was" hiS auVtant .

oC Thomas F1int . and ~ary Dounton were: Capt. Thomas Fllnt, born 1678, married Lyda Tutnam, ~ry Futn8lll, and Abigail Leacb born 1680, marrIed Jonathan Ha~d r.:ary born 1683, ~arried Certrude Po~ ">on William born 1685, marrle~ AbIgaIl Nloh"ls born 1687, married Thomas !fioiols F.Uub '!lth Jonathan born 1689 _rr1'1d llary l!.art born 1691 Married Ebcnelez:. tiiohols Ann Sar,;uel born 1693 marrIed Ruth Putnal'll born 1695, lIIa~rl'1d Joseph Putn.~ . Lydia rutnL~s and three NiChols this raoily marrIed) (n ote the tour

The nIne children

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The decen"&lIt. of Tho~as Fl1nt! thp. fO!,!l·th, and PrJ.cllla Portal' U. r elated through the Porter fwlli ly to many pllrs on. of PrOlll1nence, tn clu:'llnr;; Pre. lint Orant, an" PTesont Cl"lv{>l&lld , Gen . Horance Portal', A"ml ral ['av!!! Po rt e r, and Qany othcrs~ Tho:z:as Flint tho fourth, born !n' Sal em , l!au . ln 1705, o11ed in 1775, 1'I1IS a fa r mer an" a mill ri8 ht'". He ::llarr) ,," Prlcllla Po rt er in 1732 . Sh" was bor n in 1712 , a daughter of Josllph I'ortllr an1 J,I.o.ry Bayley of TopsfieltJ, l:ass . They we r e the parents of 11 ch ildr en. Pr1sc llla, born 1735 , 'mbrrlqd ~111iam Sawyer Jost>:2.h born 1737, marriqd Hannah Hennlck(our Ancestors) ['y61a, born 1739, 11181'1'100 JeremIah Eaton Jonathan, born 1741 , marrlerl Rebecca Upton ' :nry, born 1743, marr i ed John Hlscock Jesae , born 1746, ftlarr l ed. ..:ary H.1scoe~ Sar ah , born 1750 Eunice , born 1752 , a r ried ~llU8lll Reed • B~nj amln , born 17 55 , r!l31'rl~ Rebecca Upton i!rh,'ar" , born 1758, marri ed Betsy Swain The .bo~e Joseph the thlrd, child of Th0!:L8.s the tourtb, marr ied 1n Read !nl :tass . had three aons , bor n' &lid baptized there, namely Portal' Flint, bern 1763(Our anceator) Jelnph Flint, bern 1765 ~uther Flint, born~1767

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John Portp.r came tr OCl iHnehlUll, Fneland, ln 1635 . He became the larlest l anl\ oWJIp r in Sa~"!II , lI:a~s . He helr! every im por tant position within the gilt of. hts towtrsall~n. He was a close frlend throughout hls Ute of Gove rnor End l c01t, established the first tannery in America, sh l pred t!le tanned leather to the Barba.doas :uv! grew very 'ealthY. Iu~thorne . She .a~ of the same .hlch t"o or three leneration!l later rroiluced. Nathaniel ___ Hawthorn e . He .as thO firat of~h~ :athornea to .pell hi. n.~e · .1th ~ a 'II . !Ie expl a i ned that 1t should be spelled as rronounced , as so many n ever l~rned to pronounce it ri ah t.

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Th'l chtl~ r en o f the f ourth Tno~s Flint .er~ ~~sttned to help w(th the AmqrJean Revo l ut10n . Thelr six sons , ranglng in age trem 21 to 45 years, all ser ved in that war .

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Ja,ep.." Flint, an" &nCIIstC'll' an" one ot the six bro~tr', went/,' Verllont back to :':a~sachus,..ttl'l to cnUlt. He an"! hts brpth'U' Edward 'r1~ r . In tl'lll

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I ((It :IIuch -lata tr('l:ll Nell' Ra!llpshlre and !':assachusoetts State Vital Recordll, all wlI!ll as frOID two large books entitled "The Farwell P'amllyft. TheBe Farwell volumes took up the stopry of Porter Flint, who marr1ed Lucy F,rwell in 1790 . It f/811 this SOJllC IJb.cy Farwell, (G r andfather JacoltJ..a mother) "ho brought royal pl~taganet blood into the family. /

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Port'll" Fl1nt, Uk" his (randtather Thomll!l the fourth, .nil his r.th!\~ .~ JOleph, was a cill~Tllht. His 10 ch11dren were all born In Vermonj\ I In 182~ they moved frolll Danby io Rut\and County to WashJnlton Cou fit,., Ohio. There Porter and his oldest son, also o&:lled ~orter, built and naJ:led Flint ,.;nlls, ( ) h l 0 . · .. r ' • TheIr youngest daughter El1zabeth, Aunt Betty FePllulon as ..e calied _ her, otter spoke at her gr •• t over the nioe hom~ ~h~ left i~ ~e rmbnt to pioneer in cabins ud8' ot logs in Ohio. She sald they calli'" to Oh Cf to get better and cheaper land for: their seven sons, 50111" Irollll and others half-g ro~ at the ti: e .

THE TEN CIlILDRW OF PORTER FLINT .lim LUCY YARIIl~LL married Jan'" no ch1l1ren Porter • married ?relhl.(Ridgwey) ldwardl ch11dren Anreline 6: IlIa.c not carri ed F.li~. JOJeph :&8.rriod '~flhitab<:!l 1'1115 6: l;ary E1Us f('Our children Oan1al married ~:l1za Applen . ftve children Jacob ~arrle1 three tlm~ feurteen chil~rfln Davia. ~arried ~ary Edwarlfs, one son. lIeveral daughters Luther lIIarr1ed Groove., no children Lucy marrloe1 J(lhn Reed, one daughter (~rrled Dr. Cox) Hannah ~rrled James f~rguson, t~n Chl1dren. Her (randch11dren • EUr.abeth liora, The odore, Harry, &< Ernelt Uve in iluntinston f'uk, Cal. . ~ Jacob Flint and !ll%a Aplin were marr1ed In 1831. Her homa ... , 1D lI!arletta, Ohle • . She"as born 1n Va. Iln-l he ..as born in Vt. In the sprins or 1835 they movp.d to Rinards Uill. whleh was then. den.e Corest. Both died in their 82nd year at Rlryardll lUlls. Ohio .

CIIILDRt.H OF JACOB FLUI'l' oWD t.:LlZA APL.ltl AS roLLO."S: Lucy Eliub'3th , born 1832 d1ed at 15 ltonths Evaline b~rn 1835 died .'/heellng T.VA. 81 yl"S .ur1ed Th&la. R. Uorrell, ee .. .,n children \ Oliver Franklin bern 1839 d1ed 1890, Las vaSa!!, R.Y. _rr1ed Rebecca R1n8'l"d.. 6 chUdran . New !latalllOra!l O. Of. yr
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WllUa:D FUnt, brother of the first Thomas who came to America, but unU~ Tholl:as , his descendan • "ella not nuce r ous. iUs daughter Alice, who came, as a chIld to A!:)ericll, barr led one John .ckering~ ranri became the mother "f eight ehil"ren . John Pickering "as onO!! of those who built ships an<\ fr ei,htet! bet1'1o:en E:ngland and the colonie.-;- All a.:assed wealth and built 1I:8n5ion, In Sale:!! , ~:a"!I . ' , The PicK"! r inl! l:IanS on standi'! to'.lay ant'! !S tlccupled by th'" nInth John PlcK ertng,in Q stra i cht l i e of descent. At the age of 26 , he "as a

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David !!oarl!lI:an FUnt of Boston, t!au a' sev~nth Generat10n of Fl1nt~ 1n AIIIerlca, ... ldted ~ales and brOulht back the rollo.lnl Intormatlon;--.s r.dl all a picture of "the ruins of the ancient castle of FUnt "ni~h ho bave to a contemporary relative, ~ Flint Smith.

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The FUnts are or Norlllan stock and ·... ith other Welsh people, Dan be. ( traced beck to the Island ~f Trace in the Dardanella. Hence In migrating t&J El'Iglan". and thence to 'Ii.les "here they settled, ulUn! the place Fl1ntshlra,(l".qulvalent to a county here) of "hich the town of FUot is th. county seat. /;oar thIs plnce on the rocks, close to the shore, stands th&, r\lJlll! of the ancIent castlll of F11nt •

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The railwllY froc: Chester to Hollyhead runs veri close to the l'uiis, th ..... only on~ of its klnd on th~ Cornish coast. Edward 1 of England Is aal~ to h~ bullt it. It lias here that Rlchard 11 was delivered by Percy to Henr~oUngbr~e, "ho put hilll in the Tower of London .here he soon died. ~fter Richards death Bollngbrake was crowned Henry lV In the year 1399. The castll' was dllldntlled by order of rarUalCent dur1na the civil war In England against the crown, and ilcre ;tuch InclIned to "free tra!le~. also having no very marked respect for revenue l.ws.

,!he FUnt coat of arcs .a, \'ery beautiful, having a crest, ono which In h~81~ry means' a spur and ~ e 51gnates thalli as a warri or on th~ shlel~ of the coat of ar~s arlO thrp~ F11nt Stenes whIch 1
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Th .. t,,(. largE volu:llI: ~ 1n the Leos Ang~ l es Ll b r MY entitl e'" "The 'P'a.MIal l . FflClll.y" IJ.re tl1~ wor k of J ohn Cermls Fnrwell who finish"," .. book star ted I7y L"l"TlardO Jall',es FIIT;7ell. A cousin cof Granngre~:ll!!nn and U.S. senator fro;ll '.'i1s cons1 * { has Fnr",,,,ll • COT Ave . 1n ~8 1'!1s "n name l'! for h 1m. It .... as Grnn"father Flint's D T , lucy Farw""']'l, .. ho .:r.arrlnd Pc> r t~ r Pl1nt of the sh: g"n~rati (ln , t lJa t bn.ught r (~81 rlantagonct l:>lot'd l ~t o the f 8:1111y .

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en page l5~ . Vol 1 of llass . Gen ealogy 1 s the r ecor d of one RIchard Fa~ "ell , wh("l married in 1260 , the daughte r of hei r ess of Elias 'be Rallstone. , Fr om th e r a on it f oll{"lws the Farwell s down thr"ough Si r s & Kniehts 8< lipeake r !'! of Par li ament . etc . t("l Sir Geor ge Farwell. a knight lI'ilo lIIarried Lacy :.w.ry 5ey~(\ur of royal P~a.nt:agenet blood . Eir George ...'as born in 1~33 . Le~ i.:a ry was the daughter of 51r &lltard 5eYlllout'>, of the same fumlly as Le ey Jan e S~I!;O~ who bf.;ca~c the third "lth of Henry sevO!nth. S1l" Geo r ge en;! Lady ;':ary"llhad 20 children . They boy-s were Tho!DS.s, John, George. Natllanlel, Edwa rd, and Ja:;es . Thp-re v,"ere many rlaughteTs . John Far l';'cll , a son of Sir Gl!oTge !t La"y !lary, maTrl ..., {loh.thy Flouth, daughter ("If S1 r J{"Ihn Routh , and their son , Henry Farwell, ~aTrled Oli vl! ,\'O!lby in 9("1s ton . l!ngland . They cace t o aml!Tica in 1637 an" s"ttled 1n Conc(lrd, ;,jass .• and founded one of the colonial fI'l.1II11.,,! who w"rfl thO! makeTs of OUT countTY. • We !!t"<'od ;'Ial""\0 r House, (me of the medieval buildings at Bra'Hor~ o n Av on '11M built in thl: flftE:cnth century by Thooas Ha rte-n. Five GeneraU ("I:l f latcr h11'1 ~escemlan t. Tobias Hart{"ln, C1aTr1f'~ Barbary F~rwell In 1690"".'f They turn ed t he c ~s lle QVllr te. Jehn Fafl1e ll, nephew, wh o r ebullt ant'! r es t or p(! it . t!e was the fathe r o f HenJ:"Y Far .... ell. th(' f:ll" ~t Far wf'll in Ac;e rica. He nry!5 Yl i f"" ClIve O"ielb:r, we!. thr; daughh'r ,{"If R:lchard We lby an~ Frllnces -8uckley. They wer e related te thl' '!i:ltting' houses. Inr.a1dsbys . qullrlcs , and oth"r fto.::l111es of knightly decent. . ..... :-!E' r ol~p.at b r othe r , Thomas 'Nelby, was mayor ot Boston, England, 1n 1645. he j'ol n"d with' the Eng11.sn ·Parl1a.mcnt agaInst Cha;les thc first who was lat"T beheaced • • •

The Farwnlls furn i !hed ~y statesmen to our country . Nathan Alle~ FarWillI an':! Jos e ph Farwell Ylere U1S . sima tOTS frelll A:a1no . L"("Inal"d James farw e ll . 1819, elected t o >£enate 1859. d lE'd I n 1889, "II.!! gevernor of \\"15 . e.n" ap pointed e:X"'r.l1n~w ("If r""nslons, l1ver1 I n V'ash l ngton, O. C. faT ~any 2' y~a T s . He was r, lr~ ct .. r1 :o;"nat(>r many. ·ti mes . / '-. !!JII . CharI,,!! BpnJ . F"anrell , the Ch i cago multi-millionaI r e ',"as elected to thl: S ... nat., many th,'!:;, t!.) anrl hIs brothEJr :John VllUnr!! "'arwel l left th 'l lT fath ~r ' s farll) in southorn Ill1n01s ant! "'''llt tn Chicago in 1&44. ChaTles go t a J~b In th(> Coo k Cty . Court Heu~ and J("Ihn In a rlcpartGent stor~ . In t tl n y .. ars Jehn Nlncd the rlepartmt'nt. st
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Soth John anI! Charles Farwell al!la~"el1 ,r"at wealth . JClhn was a T'l"n1am_ Ual .. lector of Lincoln :In 1860 . Charles had a large f8:11lly, a ..one them Wll5 Anna, roho becalll€! tht' wnffl of Reglnal" 0,. Koven, P'ounder of tho .allh. Eymphcny OrC \lfl& tra. She, her~elf, war- a well- knoWn wr1t'!r. Al.o Roae, Ylhe rel="nofollow"> ...IU" '~ r!l. Charfleld; layl('r, ?Ill!; sdd to be the :Doat vlvl<1 an" 1nt!!rcsUng J:C'rscnlll1ty 1e Chicago s(lcl"ty. She later me':!" her ho,,'! 1n ranto. Slirbara, Calif. 01 "

T\~o bretherJ , Art hur and ~nQl Farwell , Ihed 1n Lo, Angeles. 1;.. man .all lin arc hitect , ane b.c8J;;e stat .. &enatcr of (,ali f. lI8ny tlJ:cs. Arthur ",as Profe,se>r of T£chnC'logy . Lynalll. Felix and arr on Farw'!!ll ar l' the sons o f the ab'ove L;nn.m , , .. ho lerved 1n FaUf. Legislature .hon Hlram Jehnlon 'lias Govern(lr. The last fiva Farwells are descendants of Edward FlIrwe-11 wh(l lias Lucy farwell' II uncle. ")

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.£nstgn Josr.;:h Farwell was a b.rge land owner, had 10 chlldren, Of whlch tho sccon~ ch1ld, Joseph, .as "ur anCIlStCir. He .as born July 24, 1870, and <1let:! In 174(.0, a ccordlng to his t(l\I,,~batone 1n Groton., ~8.ss. Poe carred in 1695, lIannah Colburn, daughter of Thoma!! Colburn , and Hannah RolCe. This sec(lnd chlld of :insign Joseph .a, also nCled Joseph) ant:! Will our dlrtlct ancestor. He also ha':! 10 chll!!ren, the ninth was ran leI born In 1717, ... ho was our ancestor . He married:.:ary :Joor, a rclattve (If Victoria ;':oor, Vlho was Calvin CCllli!!ge ' l mothor. ~ho(~r,.ry) wn a daughter Clf Tla;othy ;':OClr and /.nne Blanchard of An"'ov e r, !!ass. They hall 8.children , 11x Ions and two daughte r s . The1.r "Ix IIClns r:"r", <'lp:otln ..... to bflcotl:o solt!lcrll of thE AlI:rrlco.n Rpvc-lutic-n . Their '!lcc-nd S(I!'I, haac, ... as born In 1744, and W.li.S our ancestor .

CilILDRDl: Cf 1)orn 1740, DsniP.l: bor n 1742, Anoo lliaac born 1744, :':lIry bC'rn 1745, born 1750 , ~t:! lI:on" , Zachr.uI, b"rn 1753, BenJacln . born 1756,

DUlEL Fo\R~H".:.LL ArID i.iARY ;.wOR lIIarrled Sybil Pagt' warried S ilas Snoll (!'I(bll &= Lucy Page ;aarrll;!d Lu", Page were sistp.rs, and :':ollt'a Melo Serah Page wal their :tarried carr1t:!!:! !:nry Rusllel1 first coudn) a:arrlce! 1&-"1& Gehon mo.rrle
Isaac Farwell marrled Lucy Page ln 1770. She was the daughter of John page and .lIU,- Parker. Luter the:1 =ovc':! to Ilcw Ip:u,ltch. llew Ha=pshlra . He an" hiS broth"r 11~othy ,tOre :In tho '8ml! reglll:tnt II! Revolutionary Ul1fji~rs. Isaac o1le'" in 1786, at ~hc ast' of 43 years leaving a 'fite and 9 chil-:!r!!n. !!Js brother Daniel "ho bal! married his dCe ' s si,ter, tool!: hls .-101(>1'1 and chU"'ren back to Groton, ;':as~ . Ho .... ever. they soon returned t('l 1;"111 Ips~ltch, 1i . 1l ., where the wldow llIarried navi' Cavis in 1790. She dlco1 In 1614.

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Isaac ano:! Edmunr! Farnell, brothers. later duriing the Revolution were among the 6~ ::en 11ho went on hors meet an off6n!j1ve of To ri es who wcr ~ coming I n from Canada. All hts otny1:n-o'(flers, as well as many othf'r Farwella, gave great serv1ce to the Revolution. ~Icounted 40 Fi.rwells 1n "Sons ot thO'! Revolut1on" library. Fenrose FarYiell had , a large ~n~ent erecte~ 1n Poultney, N.H. tb memory of hiS Revolutionarr ·ane e~t('rs. Jay Gould balonged to the lloor family. HeVm Goul" tl"aeed thee baCk to Richard :.loor , who as a boy of 12 came over 1n the :!ae'flower .

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Altho I search6\! long and d ili gently, I found no trace of tho Aplin Family For this reason I concluded they. came to America after the "Revolution. The na~e 1s spelled various .... ays . Loretta 'Dye Burt..,s opinion was ApUn v'as mls-sp'lll1ng Q.f name J.ppl'lton . ) A.r-.K • •*-Not" bott~ of page 6 at spelling ann birth locations . Our grannncthnr, :!:117a lAEl1n 'II'&,s,born 1n ;.tass . 1n 1803. Later the family'" movef] to vi cinity of :!D.~"tta , CAr' Hf:'r ps rpnt:: "'I'!rl" ('liver an~ F'U7abRth ApUn. Th£,y har! fIve chl1rl r en. Th(' bC!Jf& wert' G
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Ollvf'r frankUn flint .as 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 lt QJle CGu11 be OIl'!cte!l ..,ithout his SUFPol't . !lo ",as called upun fCo I' ~ubl1c I'Il'caking tn support ~C ccmgrcss:::cn froll! th~ 16th Ghl0 District . His "'lff', R"bl!cca Hinal'r:!, was r:I&r r ier:! 'I:tlpn not quite :.:1 years of atf' . ,She hll." blacoe hal l' anrl t.r..,.. "yt.'s. S?\e ha'l taught s ix terms o f school befor '" hfl r marr! ag" , anrl shc ha" a pleusing aM graciC1.ls'canner , (the abov~ paragra~h 1s II. daacr ipti(.n of ~lnnie Flint r.erman~ fath.::r also ~e ~ILS our Cralldl!.Other Ri ggs(Loret.ta Flint) brdhcr) A. D. ': .

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Aroun~ 1640 or ear1 1er , tive Parker brothers arrived in ~er1ca rl'o~ Eng . "'Ihl)' \'I';re Jam'lS, Joim, Joseph, Jerilliah anI!. Abraham, ot these, Jame~ , 1:ho :lIarr1cr! I:l1zabct;, Lone. ::.ay 23. 1643 , becWJ.e one ot our ancestors . She iras th" t!aUS'ltf! 1' o f Robert Long ot Cha rl estmm, !Lass .

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Thlr. Capt . Jam"s Parker 1!:(O\'cr! to (i roton, '!asll ., Where 1'1 .. became the to~!I tor"r.:o!t citizen, a large Ian" O'ol/Jl~r a1'\o1 S~hll:!tman. A man of grent IIIllslt:'l 1'1" na'" 11 cql1ljr~n . H.. l'!f.t hill m"nny tq" his daullht'!rs anr'l ~O tl'l1n,lchl1r1r'!n, QXl'lll ininc thllt his seven se>ns hull alr"a>iy bl!en~vh\ed , f o r, Th., snl'" of his c:.tnte covers many pae'!!! ot county rec(>T'r!s. :le diea in 1700. !Hs elr:! .. st son, al!!o James , lII!lr rl ..1 his cousin iwrv, "auYhtfl'r ot t.bl'aham Par :.ter , HI! , t~oo, was Il J.roJ:lncnt citl?'''n of Groton. He was city ~l'!r1( of Groton for a 1:cl'iOO of 20 year,!; . ....

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{)n Julv 27 , 16~, thp.rc cir..c: a bie; In''!lan assault on Croton , '!~r'ol than half tho:- ]Jnl'~lon was sla10 . ..\'l:ong th'ls" wer£ the tqe> cousins , James an" :.:ar1> Par"or. Thetr sJx c:hJI1r':!n 1'I'''l'fl c:al'l'ip.r! nV/ay cart1v"s. ih .. y ranga1 1n at .. troll! 2 te, 14 yc:al's . ,At tho end cot 4 y'!ars , t"e ol"f' r oC thfl chllo:lrcn , JaI:l6S, now 16 yuars old, am hls brother, Phinlas, 17 y~ar!! e11(oour ancestor) so~.how Qanag .. rI te> nseap~ an1 brought the other ,thrt!ot chJldren slt.fely haCk to Gr~ton . In the lIIeantic" young, Abrahalll ?ark'n, 4 years ~o ld &.t the time of toe oassacre har! o1i"'!~ 1n ea;." tlvi'ty. •

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Tho:nas Blanchar " lIIaHu::! rrOOl &I&1an" on the Jonathan in lA89; !lettl~d Ih 3 ra!ntr o)p. , .~a~s . HII till r 'J scm Sa:,ufll , ma rrl l')., :.lary SWAl;ltror. 7he1r ol1'\est sen JonHtnnn II'.8.rr1ed Anne Lc>vJoy . ' They hs" slx c1l1ldren . The f eu r th ch:l1 Ann ea.rr1~d 71mothy :':001' In 1712; He was a I::eober of the Scuth Churcll anI'. asstJssor of the rllriSh . Their t;'llr1 cillld ..:..aT)' Cl& r rled Daftlel Far~ell In Andover , ~ss . ThiS last couple's th1 r d child was Isatlc Far:illll who wai'\ Gran"fathcr Jacob.Flints gnnt!father. This -':'ry ~(lor, ;';;cther of rsaac Farwell , wa!} a rlescemlant of Richar"l :.!oor who as a boy 12 ylters 010:1 , was a pass"'nger on the Jayflower . So pa"Pllnts Cllt(' , .. lth hie , Ee lI'as thouiht to have been a flr.phew of one of the couples, perhaps of the flrst govcrnol: of the Cl)lOllY . ,CalvIn CooUI'\II't'S r;other an1 Jay Goul1 are a~ong his descent!ants . Jay Could ' s mother ~as anyther .'.iary :.:oor . 'iJl6 :~oo r fs ::.lly mee'tlngs are he-1", In the Gould Church, !\exbury, :':'ss., bun! by Halen GOUld~~ ' !Uc ar1 :';001' spell"!'(\. hiS n6.me "~orI'tM and 50::;9 of the ralally s~e11. it ~,.;o(: I Icha:r.1 bunt ships anrl ~1tI'., t:t ed and l cporte!!. bat'litlen.the co"l.on"~s an
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Ralph Farnum was a tltl'lt! P.ngll"'~'''":'ln, bor n 1n London In 1603. ~ls 'ilIff! Allce WU born 1607 , Thf>y sellttl [rOll S('Uthhaepton In 16~ !I In thl! '3r1g "J~es" , Afte r a v(\Yl:Ige of ~6 days the:-- 1an1eo1 In Bcoston, :;au . Thl"1r ,daught('rJ':ls born 1n 1525, ant! :larr1"~ 'a..,le1 Poere, "ho as a youth ha" sail'!" "'ltn a brotner ano:l slater rr,;n S(.uthhal:pt(.n , Eng . , an" settle'! In !Ie<'lbury, ~a~s . In lSla h'" acqulrel1 a 1are" estate. He an" his .. l h ...... l1ary Farnum hll" a child r en . TheIr I'lghth chUd , rrlsce1la 1'o(\re urr1ed i
• Charles Fbrr.ell 'F'H~ ",~orn 1n San FrancIsco . He wa!l 1:1 ;:oet and musical eocpospr an~ t~Gh opera stars. 7hree bookS of h1J ~mJ _ere publ1sIH.-:: n franc1sco ty of the Golden Cate" .M'Los Angeles , trOll thO' Elr.r.rns to tht! ::(a~ , "The Strbngers" . Dr ?h!ltp F.d lson of Puatj'm&. 15 hl~ , spn , He Uvod 1n CuUfo rnl a !DO~t of h1s Ute. l+e '

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dl'(lopped C!e-ad on the street tin Santa Fe, !:. j(~. . , l'eeomt.ly at the .sa of 75. It ,;a~ 51111 that a stronl> vein of hUt:lor 8ntl e:~nlus for lII<'!rrhU'mt "'8S • . ma r ker charactllristlc of the l.loo~FalllllY . The fact comes to remembranee ........ t:.,at ::1 r Tiwmu .:ore joked 0(1 the scn Crold as he 'lfas about to be beheaded' \ nC8Tl,' 500 ),"8 1'5 ago . •

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(I saying that oC her chIldren, DwIght had the and gen'!ral color Ing oC tne Flint branch DC tho facily . "The strong sense' oC humer an
WilUam "1latnorne (or" ila;, thor ne ca;:lc to Americ. In 1630, on th", l'Ihlp ". rrabF:lla~. 1111 ca::ll "'lth Gov. ,\"1nthro~ anr! 51r RIchard Saltonstall. Ae lIta:; cCIl)<':lls~lon~d speaier oC the aCCiliated counsel 1n court. He "a!' a Judge ant! a IIcldler. Johnson, In his bOOk , n·.\'onder Working Provlc'1ence M sdd of hllll : M'!'MI !.or'.! l ~ue" hi/ll wIth quick COl!lpr flh",:,-s10n, a !'trons alefllory , an" volubility of speech, wh1ch c.used people to rcake use of him ('ICter 1n publIc Sf:rvice . He .... s th~ first Aoerican ancestor of r!athan1 .. 1 Hawthorne, .1so of :.i.3ry Hathe rn, who beca=e tht ~1fe of the seccond Joseph Porter , who beca:t>e our ance.t or ll cm the FUnt sl'.le DC the house .

They, too, wer~ a~ong the early .~tt 1ers who c~e fro~ Englend. They settle'.:! In Lynn, :'::a55 . Later tho to"n oC Holyoke was plC'neerec'l by an<:l. n~ed for thum . Lieutenant Tho~s ?\Itmac carrIed Ann Holyoke. They bec.~e thn gre.n~p&rentl of Lydia ;"Utnu, wh" !l!lI.rr hrl the thlrC"! Th(l:llas Flint . The COr~i(. lng Ann Holyoke. was co C the same Camily that prCH!uced E:!"ard·Bc·ly,,:.o;&, a pres "'nt ClC Harvard College . His son "'-dward Augu~tus I!olyo'..(" ...as tn .. first gra"uatc oC~ve.rd ColleGe . !le graduated In beth law an" ~c1 Ictn~, but preC~Ered-the pract~e of me<:l.lcane . He av"rae"<:! 11 sick calls a day Cor a pe rI od of 7~ ye. r a . He arOSe on h Is lOOth birtMp.y , shaved, \"lashed and dressed h,i.mselC to attend II. calebr a tion ,lv!:n In n ls hClnor. !:ie 11~d as he was nearlnt: hIs 102nd birthday . •

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CHAPTER I BIRTH --- LINEAGE I have been requested by Sister Susa Y. Gates# daughter of Brigham Young, to give a history of myself and family for the benefit of my posterity inasmuch as I ~ a daughter of two of the very first pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valleye I am now 75 years of age and an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple, which position I have held for the past njne years.

My father, William Flint, was born January 28, 1814, in Spafford, Onondago County, New York; his father, Josiah Flint, was born August 21, 1784, in Windham, Shaf~ord County, Conn.; his fether, I-uke Flint, was born December 20, 1752, Hawpton, Conn. My father embraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints In his native state in 1847, and was baptlz p d by l-""1Jliam Hydp th"t same year.

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ded over a branch of the church there until he started for the Rocky Mountains, May 26, 1848. Joseph F. Smith's mother's team was driven by my father from Elk Horn, 18 miles west of Winter Quarters, to the three forks of the Sweet Water River; he, with Elder George Terry, was then sent back to help other emigrants to the lTalley; arriving here with companies of PrAsident Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, v" ~eptemher 26, 1848.

My mother, Mary Jane Flint (whose name previous to her marriage was Goodridp;e, daughter of Penelope and Ben,1amin Goodridge) was born June 11, ]825 in Lunnin.~berg, Mass. She, with her father, mother, one' brother and six sisters, left for the Rocky Mountains May 21, 1850. They left with the Wilford Woodruff Company, which was divided into smaller co~panies of tens, fifties, and hundreds, with a captain over each. Their company was under the co~and of Leonard W. Hardy, who later married three of mother's sisters. On July 10, 1850, they reached the Platt River where my mother, her father and brother George were baptized by Wilford Woodruff. The other members of ~he family had previously been baptized. I have often heard my mother tell of the many trials and hardships they went through while crossing the plaino ~nd of her experiences while driving an ox team across the plains. There were quite a numbp,r of deaths. On the 9th of July, four women died; namely, Lucy Johnson, Matilda Hardy, a Sister Snow, and Emily Huntington. On the 15th of July, a severe storm arose and a Brother Ridge and h-' s oxen were ',ill"'d by lightning. Stampedes of oxen teams was very common. The tE'!ams consisted of from two to five yoke of oxen to one w.8gon, and in a stampede, there would often be from thirty to forty teams runninf!; in aJI directions; knowing that ev"rything thnt happened to be in their way would be lmocked down. Wilford Woodrurf ran in the midst of one of th~se stampedes and rescued his wife, Emma, and others who happened to be causht in it. At another time, Prescott Hardy was injured in the arm and thigh, and many others were also injured at th1s time. After many other hardships, breakdowns, and delays, their company arriv<:od in the 'ralley October 14, 1850. On December 24 of the same year, my mother married ·William Flint, having known him only three weeks. When he asked her to marry -1-

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Brother Kimball performed the marriage ceremony at the home of her mother. From this union, eight children were born; namely, Sarah Jane P., born October 20, 1851, at Farmin~ton, Davis County, Utah, died In Salt Lake City, January 10, 1886 of pneumGnia; Valeria Ann, born January 4, 185~ In Farmington, Davis County, Utah, died January 1, 1930 of pneumonia; Willirun Lenard Flint, born March 24, 185' (still li_ving); Fidelia

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Utah, (still livin~ ; Abel Josiah, born January 22, 1859, Salt Lake CIty, Utah, died December 9, 1908; Harriett Rosella, born January ?2, 1861. Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, died January 16, 1923; George Martin, born January 22, 1864, Salt Lake City, ki]]ed in an accident November 28, 1908; Sophia LOiS, born November 22, 1866. Salt Lake City, Utah, (still living).

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As I have mentioned before, I was born at Farmington October I was blessed by my f3ther when eight days old. My fether

was a member of Lieutenant David H. ",,11el11 s Company of the Nauvoo

Legion; the name by which the militia was known. Hearing that Johnson's army was caning, they es.tabJlshed headquarters at the Narrows in. "Reho Canyon.

This company was small in number .. but through camo-

flouge were made to look like a great army_ President Brigham Young, said "They say that the coming of this army is legal, 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, if driven to extremity, to utterly lay waste this land in the name of Israel's God, and our enemies shall find it as barren as when we came here." Thirty thousand people were ready to leave their horn!1s, so dearly earned, and t'ravel southward with guards left to burn them if the hostile army should invade their land. The roads everywhere were fi11~d with wagons loaded with provisions and household furniture. The women and children wera often without shoes and proper clothing. My ~other and family were runong thls number. I was then a babe o'f sixteen months. The army entered Salt Lake Val1eYI June 26 1 1858, and true to their pledge given to President Brigham Young, preserved excellent order and marched to Cedar Valley, thirty-six miles west of Salt Lake, where they founded Camp Floyd and remained there until 1860. The ~amine of 1856 left the people about destitute, but the establishment of th~s camp was a financial blessing to the people. At that time, over 'four milJ ion dollars '·''-orth of merchandise was solo to dealers for about one hundred thousand dOllars. Early 1n July, 1858. President Young and Mormon leaders returned to their homes and were later followed by the whole communitYI who came back to re-inhabit their homes. Father and Mother went back to Farmington and continued to live in their old dugout until they could get enough logs to build a cabin. I was baptized by Brother Redfi.eld when eight years of '., ge. It was in the winter of 1864 1 at a place near the Hot Springs, and I had to walk a half a mile in my wet clothtng before I could dress to go home. I was confirmed in the 19th Ward in the same year, by Brother Luther Twitchell. I remember well the day this occurren. After reRching home, my father took me on h:i.s knee and said, "Now you are baptized, He~lvenly Father wants you to re a good girl." It made quite an impression on my mind and I always tried to be a good girl. I often heard my mother relate some of her experience~ while living in Farmington; most of them were very trying. The rattlesnakes were very pre~Talent at that tlme and one day just as they were about to partake of their noon-day meal, a snake dropped down over a pan of milk and hung there by its tail wound around the r00f of the dugout, and there was a similar instance of a snake curled up under a chair -3-

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mother was sitting on. Another t1me, when father was away from home standing guard aga1.nst the Indians, an Indian came to the house, and, needless to say, the Indians at that time were quite hostile. Father used to koep a large gun in the corner back of the bed. As 800n as the Indian saw the gun, without saying a word, he jumped across the bed and grabbed i t . He pointed the gun at mother and was just about to pull the trigger when our big dog came in and made a mad rush at the Indian and grabbed him by the leg. The Indian pleaded with mother to call him off, Which she dId; and furthermore, bound and dressed the wound 'made by the dogls teeth. When Father crume home, the Indian begged h5m to J.n:t him stay, and out of the goodness of his heart, father gave him a blanket and allowed him to curl up in front of the. stove for the night. Early the next morning he left and never bothered them again. In 1859, we moved to the 19th "'fard in Salt Lake City and lived in a house on the corner of Second North and Second West. Mother's sister, Harriett, lived wi th us, teaching school in one of the upstair rooms. She afterwards became the wife of Leonard W. Hardy. My father was a gardener and he cultivated and harvested the ground w~ich was known as the Public Square; the -place where the ,~·est High Schoo) is now standing. He later bought an acre of land a half a block farther north on Secnnd W,..st and built a log house on it, where we lived a great number of years. This little cabin consisted of one room and a dirt roof for ita covering. I remember very clearly one day when I was coming home from school I noticed a crowd of Deople gathered around our house. The di rt roof had fa ~ 1 en in an r ' covered up my mother and little sister, Harr1.ett, crushing them through the flo"'lr into the cellar. The n1.ght before a he"vy snow had fallen and its weight had caused th' crash. Father was frantic on account of mother's condltlon. Tt was just a ahort time before my sister Sophia was horn. He and some neighbors lost no time in try:'l.ng to extr'tcl'lte them. After s'"'me worl{ they finally rescued mother, who received no fleriolls in.iury from the fall, but they couldn't f~.nd anythjnp,: of sister Harriett. After working and digg:i.ng for some time they finally noticed a piece of her yellow dre·ss. v.b.en they got her out, they thought she was dead. A doctor was called and after working over her for quite awh11e, he finally got her rAsnir~tory or~ans working again, but her little chest had been injured and she felt the effects all her life. The roof hadn't been fixed at the time of mother1s confinement and one day a a~vere storm came up and umbrellas had to be put over her head to keep the rain off. In those days, people were very poor and the scant living we had was made by my mother. My f'lther W' a hurt in a runaway accident which left him in poor health the rest of h5s life and was n~v""r able to do very much for his family thereafter. Tl-lis made it doubly t1ard for mother. She w~s a weav~r and made linsey from which dresses were made. She also made beautiful carpets and rugs. Although mother's· time was pretty well taken up in the making of a llving, she w'?.s always greatly concerned about the proper rearing of her children; inst111ing into our hearts the true princ~ples of the Gospel and never losing sight of' an opportunity to correct us when necessary. When I was about seven years of age an incident occurred that mnde a deep impression . -4-lIft COPY. tr.m;!, ~..~~ ~~ ~_~;1l;;~ cf t~l':1' r:::~~11~·:"·~":'.: ':'~.~:~.o: ' .. .. " . •

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upon my young mind. Dishes were very scarce in those days. There WRS an old china cup that mother'used to keep by the well for drinking ~urposes. One day I accidentally broke it. I was terrified, wondering what to do about it. Finally, I dug a hole in the wall of the cabin ano hid the pieces. VoJhen mother miss~d the cup she asked me if I had seen it. I lied to her and I think she could tell I had lied by the gu.!l ty lo"k upon my face and she began looking around and saw the fresh dirt in the wall and found the broken pieces of the cup where I had hidden them. She gave me a good spanking and said, "Now rem~mber, the spanking isn't for breaking the cUP .. but for lying."

I saw the first train that entered Salt Lake Valley.

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about fourteen years of age, and at the time, I happ"ened to be washing

dishes. ~~hen I heard the toot of the engine, I left those dishes and ran as fast as my legs wou,~d carry me down to the Nebeker Corner, just one block from our place. fhere were great cro·llds of people around, and I think that it was one of the greatest thrills I have ever had in my life. How ·the pioneers had been looking forward to the advent of' this railroad and what it would mean to them! When this was first talked of' many people in the east thow~ht the Mormons and their leader Brigham Youne would be greatly opposed to it, but on the contrary, President Young, as a standing and irrefutable testimony that its advent was desired, took a contract to corrp1ete the grading of the hlghway from the 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 last spike was driven that we1red into one, the Unlr.n and Central Pacific Railroads. Seven days later, ~round wa~ hroken near Ogden for the construction of the Utah Central Railroad. The road was built by the people and was purely a Mormon enterprise. Amid the rejoic1r.g of thou.'~ands, the last spike was driven by Brigham Young, January In, J870. An address was given by h:J.m reminding the people of the:f.r many bless1ngs and cal] ing at!-.ent:ton to the povey·ty of the Saints on their arrivaJ in the valJey with no friend save God, and yet, how they had been able to build homes, cities, cuJ.tivate farms, oip; canaJs, water ditches, subdued the country, fed the stranger, Clothed the naked, e~jgr~te0 the ~oor, fed and clothed the Indians, and now built 8 railroad. "Who has helped us to do all th1s?", said Brigham Yeung. "I \,!ill answer, God Almighty. What are the causes of our success? Union and -nene.<1S of purpose in God." Some of the neople who Jived around us on Second INest were: Orson Pratt's four families; Henry Grow, the architect of our Great Tab~rnacle, lived just across the street. His daughter wns a very dear friend of mine; Joseph Ridges, a very close friend of my father's, lived just around the corner. H~ was the man who built the great noted organ in the Tabernacle; and the famil~ of Heber C. Kimball also lived nearby. Their daughter, Alice, and I were very close fripnds. I mU.''Jt -rause here to tell of a little incident that happene·'? to Alice and myself. We were just a little over 14 years of' age. When the rallroad reached as far as Draper, the· Sunday School of the 19th ':?ard gave an excursion. Alice and I had a misunderstanding about the time the tyain would leave and when we arrlv(~d at the ("'epot the train had gone. 1'7e had looked forward to this trjp with a greot deal of anticipation, sO we decided to go anyway and walk. We followed the railroad track so we would he sure to find the way. It was a beautiful sunshiny day an~ T suppose we had gone about ten miles laughin~ and talking and enjoying our trip when suddenly we heard a man who was working in a field nearby. -5-

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He hollered to us am sald, "Hello, there, old women, where are you

going?" You can lma~lne how it friuhtened us. There were no houses to be seen 80 we started to run as fast as 'i".'e could. It WAS €tatting 'Cretty w,,11 alonp: 1n the aftern00n Rnd we hegan to feel ttred and hlln c ry; 11'8 had aatrn 0'11' l'l,ncheon h,...urs ref-'re. NOW, we were be-

gInning to wory'y, w'~nder1ng where we were, tr Wf:' w')uld ever get there, or if we would miss them and have t,-:" walk home. A short distanoe away we notioed a house 80 we decided to go there for same

information. A young girl met us at the door and a£ter inquir!ng where we were, explaining our predlc~ent, she invited us In and informed us that we were in little Cottonwood. She said her mother had gone to Salt Lake and that her two brothers had gone to the oanyon for some WOOd, but she felt sure they would be glad to take us where we wanted to go as so·:'!n as they returned. She f'ixed us some bread and milk, which we enjoyed very much. By this time, the boys had returned home and when we told them our experience o£ the day they had a good laugh. They said our train would soon be coming back and that they would take us to Lovendahl Station to oatoh it £rom there. Had it not .been 80 £ar away and being so tired and £ootsore, we would have muoh rather walked home than catch the train because we were a uitlf'ul sight to look at. OUr arms, neck and faces were almost 1n'a blister by the hot sun. In those days we wore little panoake shaped hat, without any brims. When we got on the train we were so embarrassed we didn't know what to do. When the conductor came for our tickets, he asked us how it WflS that we had boarded the train there. When we told him, he, too, had a good laugh and said, "Well, next t1.me you har. better try gett~ng up a little earlier." As the boys and the girls would pass through the train and see us they would say, "Why we 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 ~et home that n~~ht. arriv'n~ there about six o'clock. Alice and I were p:rsat pills ann were seat-mates in school over sl'.xty years ago. Her family, also, were q~11 te poor. For B chani0t:' we wOl11d often. exchanpe dresses. She later married Prrs~dent Joseph F. Smith. When he died, she was left with £iv. ohlldren.- She !s now getting quite feeble, having very'poQr health. I visit her occastonally, and we enjoy going over and reoalling our youth£ul days. I well remember, as a ohild, how I loved to go to church. I nearly always went with my Grandmother Goodridge. One Sunday, I was unable to go and upon grandmother's return home, she related a very remarkable experience. It was in the winter time and it was very slippery and to get to the church it'was necessary to cross City Creek, which had only a small plank to cross onto the other side. She said she stood there heSitating and looked up and down the street and could see no one to help her across the plank. However,as she stood there hesitating, a man stepped up and said, "I'll help you across." Upon reach1ng the other side, sbe turned to thank him and there was no one there. While 1n the Tabernacle on Sunday when I was fourteen years of' age another remarkable thing hapnened. It still stands out very viVidly in my mind as though it had hap,'ened only yesterday. It was on September 4, 1870. Martin Harris, an old man o£ eighty-eight years o£ age at that time,. £eebly made hIs way to the stand and gave this testimony, "These hands (holding up his two hands) have handled the golden plates; these eyes hAve seen the Angel o£ the Lord; and I-testl£y to-you that they were translated by the gUt and power o£ God," and a few other things that I do'l,~,~.~

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I went to work at the age or fourteen. I couldn't bear to see Mother working so hard. I shall never rorget the place where I r1rst worked.

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th.... The mother or the home treated me pretty nicely, but she had a sister lIving with her and she and her daughter never missed their chance to make me reel small and insignificant. The daughter would often taunt me about my shabby clothing and that I was, arter all, only a servant girl.

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She was a very beautirul girl.

In later years there was a peculiar coincidence.

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kind to them in later years. Some thirty-five years later, wh1le I was President or the Relief Society in the 17th Ward, on one of my

visits carrying foodstutfs and clothing to the needy, I came across

this mother and daughter.

The daughter had never married and had

grown to look the picture of misery. My heart went out to the poor creatures and at Christmas time, I would always Pl~t in their basket

something extra to try to cheer them a little.

Arter leaving this place, I went to live at the home of Orson Pratt,in whIch nlace I lived ror three years. I kept company with his son Loras for a long time. While lIving there, I was rebaptized by Orson Pratt in Pugley. Mill Pond and the following day Loras and J

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After lee.vin~ the Pratt famlly, I went as nursemaid in another bome. My" wa~es, also .. were two dollars a weate 'at this "11&oe.

When I had been there about a year, the lady became 111 with typhoid fever, and in waiting upon her I contracted the disease and was sick

a long time. While convalescing, I spent the time with a friend out in Cottonwood. The change or air did me a wonderrul lot or good and I daily grew stronger.

My school day. were limited. The cost or tuition and books were more than mother could arford, but the little time that I did go were happy days always to be remembered; although, some of our teachers were very strict and sometimes cruel. My first recollections

of school days was in a private home, paying my tuition by keeping the room elean.

My teacher was Lona Pratt, one of Parley P. Pratt's daugh-

ters. Another school I went to was in the 19th Ward. My teachers were Paul Litchenburg and Lucious Peck. Many happy hours were spent in dancing on the back porch or the school house.

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On the 14th of February, 1995, I sat down at my computer to begin a history of my mother's great-grandfather. Rick McConkie', my brother, had provided me materials to use, and I had a few, which include the following: 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, submitted by Evelyn Farley Hock.

4. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE AND PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNER photo family group sheet, maker unknown.

FROM THE JOURNAL OF PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNER GOODRIDGE, typed by Rhoda Hardy Garn. 6. GEORGE ALBERT GOODRICH FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY- 16061976, Vol. I and II, by Hazel Hilbig, 1976 (GAC-HH) 7. HISTORY OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, D. Hamilton

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This is a labor of love, to give a rendering of this ancestor's life that will give him dignity and the honor he deserves. It is my sincere hope I have done so. Pauline McConkie Derhak *****************************************************************

PART ONE It is fitting and helpful to give a brief summary of the particulars of the little town of Lunenburg, as it was the "ancestral home" of our ancestor, Benjamin Franklin Goodridge. The information included here was found in HISTORY OF WORCESTER COUNTY,

MASSACHUSETTS, With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men,

Compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1889.

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LDS FHL #974.43 W2 H2R 2 Vol.) Lunenburg is located in the northeast part of the county of Worchester, in northern Massachusetts, with the center of the town being twenty-four miles north of the County seat of Worchester, and forty-three miles north and west of Boston. For countless generations, the native Indian tribes of the Massachusett, Mohican, Nauset, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Pocomtuc, and Wampanoag had called the region later called "Massachusetts" home, before white men from Europe came. Disease killed manJ of these natives in 1616 and 1617, so that by the time the PilgriJms came in 1620, a native population of 30,000 was shrunk to about 7,000. The Wampanoag, led by their sachem Massasoit, were the ones who met the Pilgrims and taught them to survive in the new land.

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slowly. These settlers were Indians, who were anything but Only nine families were situated as evidenced by the following

To the Honorable Lut. Governor: Sir, -- We desire with thanks to acknowledg your Honours care of us as well in time past as this present spring in sending Colo. Buckmaster to se what postur of defence we war in & in fUrder desiring to know our Afayers which we should be glad to enform your Hounour ofterner of had we opertunity. we have here this spring 9 families posted in 5 garisons which are all willing to stand their ground if they cani they have the liberty if 2 garisons will come together to have the solders belonging to each garisop with them for ther suport. Our manner of emproving the solders has been by scouting & sumtimes garding men at ther woork, sumtimes 2 or 3 days

together in the woods, but wee think it more for our safety to scout round the town so as to cum. in the same day for the stengthing our garisons at night & wen our men gos out to woork they must have a gard or expose themselves & we must leave sume in our garisons or else they are exposed so that we canot keep a scout always out except we have more solders. We have made no discovrey of the enemy yet among us, but live in dayly expectation of them; but knowing they (Indians) are in the hands of god who is abel to restrain them to whos name we desire to give the praise of our presarvation the year past & in whos name we desire still to trust with dependance on your Honour's pretection, a means under god of presarvationj if your Honour shall think it needful 1 to make any adition to our number of solders we leve it to your Honour's wise concedration & remain your Honour's most humbel servants. JOSIAH WILLARD, PHILIP GOODRIDGE. Turkey Hills, May ye 10: 1725. The next year, it was reported that 26 houses were raised and ten of them "settled and inhabited." "With each year a few families arrived and new openings were made in the forest and in the rising smoke above the clearings they saw the assurance of an enlarged 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 the titles of George II, who had recently succeeded to the British throne." The people in the town were happy to be ~ree of the proprietors who had ruled the town with their own interests, and with heavy control. The proprietors, mostly, did not reside there, and only a few of the original grantees ever did, and those soon sold their rights to men who lived there. When it came to being told to erect a town church and how big and what to put in it and all of that, they resisted strongly. After the incorporation, the church was built freely and gladly. The Mr. James Kibby who gained ownership of the two early grants in the area, was said to have become insane, and nothing was known of him for some years. The committee granting lands had "overrun the obscure boundaries" of Mr. Kibby's lands, and Zachariah Fitch, the guardian of Mr. Kibby, demanded to be given possession of those lands belonging to his ward. The new owners' rights were kept safe by the committee, with a payment of one hundred and two pounds and three hundred acres in southwest Lunenburg. The Lunenburg Township was surveyed again November 1729 and it was found the township contained much more acreage than the six miles square granted. "Not that acres then were larger than now, but that the practice of the time was liberal, and the methods of measurement not as exact. In the early surveys there was also an intentional allowance for uneven ground and generally one rod in fifty for what the early surveyors styled "swag of ye chain." (P.

... 763.)

In early town meeting records, among the residents listed was Philip Goodridge and lithe sons of Philip Goodridge. 1I In 1731 the propos"ition was raised to divide Middlesex County,

and it was then that Worchester County was born. In 1732, Col. Josiah Willard, Capt. Edward Hartwell and Mr. Benjamin Goodridge were appointed to be Ira Committee to provide

school and school-master for to teach children and youth to read and write ... " The following year I Nathan Heywood, Benjamin Goodridge, Hilkiah Boy ton and Josiah Willard, Jr., "were granted seven pounds and one shilling for keeping school in said town."

In 1745 when a bridge was being planned, the records state it was to be over the North Branch "in the way that goes to David Goodridge's." The township of Lunenburg was divided in 1764, and the western half became FITCHBURG, including more than half of the original township. It was incorporated at that time. "Philip Goodridge, born in Newbury in 1668 or '69, settled here about 1724, and died January 16, 1729. On his tombstone is engraved "The first man interred here." His descendants to the present day (1889- PMD) have been numerous in this town, and are found throughout New England. This name is frequently written Goodrich. They have been distinguished by industry, ability and character." "Benjamin Goodridge, eldest son of Philip, was born in Newbury February 3, 1701. He lived in the southwest part of the town, and was a most active and influential man, and prominent in both proprietary and town affairs. The number of his elections to office is without a parallel in the history of the town. He was a selectman thirty years, town clerk twenty-two years, and constable, collector, member of School Committee and a magistrate several years, and a captain in the French and Indian War. He died April 19,1773." (Both quotes p. 767.) He was otherwise mentioned as BENJAMIN GOODRIDGE, ESQ. one of the "worthies" of the town. Mentioned in the company under Captain Jonathan Willard that was ordered to scout through the "upper towns It following the capture of John Fitch, was David Goodridge. lilt was David Goodridge who was the hero of this exploit, and the scene was within the limits of Fitchburg. Mr. Goodridge subsequently was a lieutenant in one of the Crown Point expeditions." (p. 769.) Also listed in Captain Willard's men at Crown Point was Eliphalet Goodridge, during the Revolution. And among the rolls of the following year in Captain James Reed I s company was Philip .

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fighting at Concord, a full help out there. They regiment in the service in to the end of the war.

At the annual election of town officers in 1776, they opened the meeting "in the name of the government and the people of Massachusetts" instead of the former "In His Majesty's Name." (p.772)

Joshua Goodridge was listed as the husband of the sister of David, Abijah, Benjamin, and William Stearns. It was mentioned in the history of Lunenburg that in the early 1800' s there was a religious dispute throughout New England. "The Trinitarians and the Unitarians were engaged in a hot dispute and many churches were divided." (p. 777) " ... From an historical standpoint, Lunenburg, the mother of towns and the ancestral home of many families, occupies an important position among the towns older of Northern Massachusetts...... (p. 780.) Thus we come to the end of our brief look at Lunenburg, Worchester County, Massachusetts, ancestral home of Benjamin Franklin Goodridge.

PART TWO He was born on October 3, 1794, the youngest of six children born to Oliver Goodridge and his wife, Elizabeth Hastings Goodridge. Benjamin Franklin had four brothers, one of whom had died right after birth; they were Oliver, age 13, Benjamin,

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deceased 11 years, Sewall, age 10, and Zabdial, age 9. also one sister, Elizabeth, age 1 year . The family lived in Lunenburg.

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a community-minded man and was also a religious man, according to the inscription on his headstone, which also ascribed to him many other Christian virtues. The incription read: "An honest, upright, industrious man; a generous I public spirited officer, who discharged the various duties of life with punctuality and fidelity I and was for many years a member of the Church of Christ. He was for many years afflicted with a disorder which in a great measure deprived him of his usefulness, but which he bore with Christian patience and fortitude, and departed in peace to received the reward of the righteous in Heaven." (p. 19) Soon after little Benjamin F. had observed his fourth birthday, his mother Elizabeth died. She was 45. The other children were 17, 14, 13, and 5, when their mother left them. How they might have gotten along, we do not know, but it must have been devastating. There was no mention of their father marrying again, to give them a stepmother to take care of them. Her epitaph read: "Here rests a woman, good without pretense, Blest with plain reason and with sober sense; So unaffected, so composed a mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refined." On October 4, 1814, the father, Oliver Goodridge, passed away there in Lunenburg. He was aged 64 years and eleven months. Benjamin F. had just observed his 20th birthday the day before his father's passing. Nothing more is known of his life until April 1, 1823, nine years later, when he got married. He was 29 and his new bride, Penelope Randall Gardner, was 30. She was from Hopkinton, Mass. They settled down, as far as is known, in Lunenburg, and raised a family there. Two years after their wedding, they had a daughter, Mary Jane, on June 11, 1825. On July 2 of the following year, Sophia Lois was born. Harriet Ann joined the family March 9, 1828, and a son they named Leonard Burrage was born May 4, 1830. One year later, Leonard died on May 10, 1831. Sarah Louisa (Lovisa) was born June 5, 1832 and Lusannah Emiline came along March 24, 1834. A sixth and last daughter, Esther Smylinda, blessed their home on March 16, 1836. Benjamin F.' s wife Penelope became with child again, and there, on March 3, 1839, they had their second and only living son, whom they named George Albert. This was their last child. Above information taken from GEORGE ALBERT GOODRICH FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY -1608 - 1974 by Hazel Manwaring Hilbig, 1974,

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On page 20, IBID, Is a photograph of a large, two-story house, labeled ANCESTRAL HOME OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRICH, Lunenburg, Mass. Underneath is a message as follows: "Old Goodridge family home in Lunenburg, Mass.

This is the

home of Benjamin and Penelope R. Gardner Goodridge ..• " The house in the photograph appears large and rather prosperous. There are five windows lined along the f~ont on the second floor, and four windows and a somewhat imposing central door on the ground level. The house has no porch or large steps in front of the door, as was the style of the time. According to the message under it, the house was still being occupied in 1869 when the 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 birth up to nine years (1843PMD). As my parents were poor, we children were obliged to go out and work for our support as soon as we were old enough. My parents belonged to the Methodist Church, and we were all raised in that faith ... " (From OPH-KBC, 1972, p. 288.) So it is known they were a devoted Methodist family, and that they were of modest means. Each of the children went out of the home and worked for a wage, to help the family along. At what age they began working is not stated, or what kind of work they did, or any particulars about their "poor" status. It is not known what Benjamin F. did for a living. After his death his widow Penelope wrote of him: " ... he was an invalid for many years ... " but nothing more specific as to number of years or type of illness that debilitated him, or if the reason for their poverty was because he could not work. However, after consideration of what others wrote about his later illnesses, it can be surmised that some disease came upon him during the children's growing up years, which became worse as the years passed, and finally affected his mind. A disease like Multiple Sclerosis is such a disease, though of course, we do not know if what he suffered from WAS M.S. In the year of 1844, something happened that changed the lives of Benjamin Franklin's family forever. His brother-in-law, George Gardner, came to them with the message of a new religion, which he bore testimony to them of its truthfulness. Benjamin F.'s second daughter, Sophia, who was 18 years old, was baptized December 16, 1844, and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. ( Ibid p. 271.) This was six months after the Church's prophet-leader, Joseph Smith, was murdered.

Of this daughter Sophia, it was written of her " ••• When a young girl, Sophia studied music under the leadership of Lowell Mason of Boston, whose works grace many of the hymn books today. She had a very beautiful voice ... " (OPH-KBC p. 271. ) Boston was forty-three miles away; it is not said if she lived in Boston for a time to study or how she was able to have such an opportunity. Almost five years later, on September 2,1849, Benjamin F.'s wife Penelope, who had previously spent 20 years actively engaged in worshipping in the Wesleyan Episcopal Methodist Church, was baptized, along with four more daughters - Harriet, Lusannah, Sarah, and Esther. The Elder baptizing them was Elder Leonard W. Hardy, recently returned from a successful mission in England. He, it turned out, was soon to move with his family west to Utah, and he became the instrument of encouragement (in whatever form it took) of getting Benjamin F. 's family to leave their ancestral home and all they knew, and move to Utah, too. (Ibid, p.266.) What Benjamin F. and Penelope did to make preparations to leave Lunenburg forever and travel out west to the Utah Territory is not known, but Penelope did write the following in her diary in January 1869: "Sometime over 20 years ago my brother, George Gardner (who is now in Arizona) came to make me a visit. He brought the truths of the Gospel with him to me, taught them to me. I believed and embraced the same. I came out of the Methodists, was led into the waters of Baptism by an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the 2nd of September, 1849; in the spring of 1850, I, with my family, started from the Eastern states, even Massachusetts, for the valley of the mountains and arrived here in the October following. "Did I make any sacrifices'? Not in my feelings, but as the saying goes "our property went for a song." I did not care for that if I only could get to the Valley ... (i)t was through (L. W. Hardy's) instrumentality that I and my family were gathered to the Valley of the mountains ... " (Ibid, pp. 280 - 281.) Did they trade their house and property for wagons and teams'? Probably not, but sold it for what they could get in a hurry, and used the money to pay their passage, and to buy wagons and teams and supplies at the edge of the Plains. On April 8th, 1875 she wrote: "Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, it was the 9th of April 1850, that I, with my family consisting of my husband, myself, and six unmarried daughters, my youngest child a son of eleven years, one month and 6 days, we started from Massachusetts for the Great Salt Lake ... " (Ibid p. 285.) GAG-HH says on page 169 of Vol II that on April 9 the family left Lunenburg to join Wilford Woodruff's company in Philadelphia. The move west as a group of Mormon pioneers began, it was also said, in BostOD, which was forty three miles away. Thi~ seems more

plausible, because Brother Woodruff said of this trip, he took Saints from Boston to Pittsburg. Their leader was Wilford Woodruff, who was' "commissioned to gather the Saints in the East and to bring them and those remaining at Winter Quarters to the Rocky Mountains." (Ibid p. 266) Benjamin F., a non-Mormon, was a part of the group, with his Mormon wife, 5 Mormon daughters, and a non-Mormon daughter and son. Lusannah Goodridge wrote: "Sometime during the year 1849, Leonard W. Hardy and wife came to my father's home and brought to us the gospel Of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On the night of September 2, 1849, my mother, three sisters and I were baptized in Whale Pond by L. W. Hardy. In the month of April, 1850, my father, with all his family, started to Utah to gather and unite with the Latter Day Saints. My father, older sister Mary Jane and my brother, George, were baptized in the Platte River on the way ..... (Ibid, p. 288.)

It is made rather clear that they had more than one wagon and more than one yoke of oxen, in the passages of a diary that Sophia kept for part of the journey of 188 days across the country, though she tells nothing of specifics concerning their preparations to go or how they got their outfits. But they must have had quite a lot of possessions to carry, with two or more wagons. It appears they had more means than many later families of pioneers did, who were able to take only what one wagon (and many of them were small,) or even handcarts, could carry. Her older sister, Mary Jane, age 25 in 1850, " ... drove a yoke of oxen all the way across the plains, and one day when they stampeded she narrowly escaped death..... (Ibid p. 286.) It was stated further that lithe teams consisted of from two to five yoke of oxen to one wagon." President Wilford Woodruff related the following story about this trip, when he brought this company of Saints from the East and Canada to Utah: "After spending two years and a half in New England and Canada, getting the Saints out, I started back with the last lot, about a hundred, from Boston. We landed in Pittsburg at dusk. We were anxious not to stay there, but to go on to St. Louis. I saw a steamer making steam ready to go out. I went to the captain and asked how many passengers he had. ''''Three hundred and fifty." IIIICouid you take another hundred?" ullyes." II I was just about to tell him we wanted to go aboard when the Spirit said to me: "Don't take that steamer, you nor your company."

"Alright, said I. I had learned something about that still small voice. I did not go aboard that steamer, but waited till the next morning. In thirty minutes after that steamer left, it took fire. It had ropes instead of wheel chains, and they could not go ashore. It was a dark night and not a soul was saved. "If I had not obeyed the influence of that monitor within me, I would have been there myself, with the rest of the company. The Thirteenth Ward would not have had an Atwood for a bishop; the Church would not have had a Leonard W. Hardy as bishop. They were both with me, and their families, including Brother Samuel Hardy, who is in St. George now, upwards of ninety years old." (Quoted from pp 138-139, GAG-HH, Vol II.) We can only wonder with the pain of the heart, how it must have felt for Benjamin F. and his family, if they were standing on the shore and watching that ill-fated steamer burn, taking the lives of three hundred and fifty innocent persons, knowing it could have taken their lives as well; or even how they must have felt if they heard about it later. A history written by George Bryant Gardner, Benjamin's brother-in-law, contains some interesting things about their trip across the American Plains to be with the Saints in Salt Lake City. A few items add interest to this narrative. He stated that he sold his possessions and land, "all planted and Up" for $12.00. To continue; "While crossing the plains many incidents occurred, we traveled in Brother Wilford Woodruff;s company hundred, Edson Whipple's fifty. I was the captain of the first ten in Whipple's fifty. We traveled the road on the south side of the Platte River. "After being out a few days the cholera made its appearance in our train. There had been a train preceded us of gold hunters bound for California, which had the cholera bad. We could count from 20 to 100 graves in a days travel. Many graves were robbed by the wolves ... We lost by the cholera in our train 16 grown persons and one child before we got to the old Fort Kearney. "Had two severe stampedes, but not much damage. The day we passed the fort ODe man was killed by lightening, and one child dead. That night while we was mourning and weeping, there was a family a little distance from our camp ... gambling, swearing and drinking, that then belonged to the church and traveled with us, was turned out of the company next morning ... It seemed that all the power of hell combined to stop our progress -- cholera, stampedes, thunder and lightening, storms and rain, and tempest of wind and false brethren, etc. "When the man it was the last of to my friends. We of buffalo and one

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killed by lightening it came to troubles on our journey, which no more incidents worth naming we were surrounded with about

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a time, but trusting the Lord with stout hearts the Piuta Captain

reached out his hand for a shake and peace and friendship soon gladdened our hearts. "1 started from the Bluffs with a good fit out,

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delayed in the mountains by snow, many got short and I diVided with them, so that when I got to Salt Lake, I had not a mouthful to eat but by the kindness of Jonathan Pugmire, Jr .... took us in and gave us something to eat for which we felt very thankful ... " (From DUP article GEORGE BRYANT GARDNER, submitted by Lucille G. Jenkins, 1994. )

The above paragraphs from Benjamin's brother-in-law's account of the journey give more meaning to the following descriptions of the Goodridge family's trip across the Plains. A history Written by Ruby L. W. Simmerman, a great-granddaughter, tells us the following: " ... The father, Benjamin, was ill most of the way and the girls had to drive the ox teams and the horse team and take care of things in general ... " This causes me to think upon the hardships and sufferings that Benjamin most assuredly had to endure, on this long journey. How did he fare? The diary Sophia kept of the journey, beginning at Kanesville, Iowa, provides an interesting narrative of the three-month trip, but scanty information (only five brief references) about her father and mother. It is thought, never-the-less, a brief browsing through her entries will be enlightening to Benjamin's story, for he was there, experiencing it all, as well as Sophia, only in his own way, as an invalid. On June 7, the first entry, they left Kanesville, Iowa, one hour after noon. She heard wolves howl in the night for the first time. June 18th, Bro. Woodruff had divided the group into two companies, and their company was organized. Captain Petty (was)put over a Hundred, L. W. Hardy (her future husband) put over 50, and Uncle George Gardner put over ten, her family's company. Left out of her account was the appointment of Bro. Whipple over 50, mentioned in Bro. Hardy's account of the event. (OPH-KBC p. ) June 25, they passed five new graves on the way. The next day, three more graves were seen. They approached what she called a Government Company, who had people who were sick and dying with cholera. Soon, cholera broke out in Bro. Hardy's group of fifty. June 29 " ... There is nothing to see but one endless sea of grass, waving and rolling like the waves of the sea, and now and then a tree ... " On July 1st, after another death from cholera, she wrote " ... we felt like humbling ourselves before the Lord, and pray that He might tUrn from us the sickness and distress among us. We therefore met together, the speakers exhorting us to be diligent

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They called upon the Lord in prayer that He would bless us and

preserve us on our journey to the valley.

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journey with rejoicing ... "

By July 7th, several more deaths occurred, and it was July 9th when Bro. Woodruff held a baptismal service, and among the twelve persons accepting baptism were her father Benjamin F, sister Mary Jane, and brother George, who were all baptized by Bro. Woodruff. (It is wondered if perhaps Benjamin I s

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until now because of his 111ne58- PMD.)

For a week or more, they on the 12th, a horse drowned feet over its normal height. by lightening during another

experienced heavy thunderstorms, and in the swollen river, which was two On the 15th, a Bro. Ridges was killed storm.

As they traveled along the banks of the Platte River, fresh fish and game added much to their bare food stores. She saw many buffalo. On July 28th a heavy rain shower tightened the wagon wheels and saved the "men the trouble of taking the wheels off and resetting them." Three wagons were smashed during a stampede which started in the first division, by a runaway horse. Where they crossed the South Fork of the Platte River, it was a forth of a mile wide. They descended very steep bluffs, which she feared the teams and wagons would be unable to do safely, but all went well. On August 4th, Bro. Woodruff suggested "that we stop with his ten baggage wagons, and let the rest of the first and second divisions, or as many as wished, to go ahead. He felt he had so much care on his shoulders. Bro. Whipple said he would take the burden of the ten baggage wagons on his shoulders. Bro. Gardner (her uncle) the Blacksmith, worked all day and had a number of men to help him repair the wagons, but did not get all done." (Ibid p. 258.) " August 7th, "Bro. Woodruff came with us this morning. We had a meeting this afternoon, had a new organization: Bros. Whipple, Gardner, Goodridge and Rawson were transferred into Bro. Woodruff's division ... " The next day wolves killed one of the calves. Three days later they saw in the distance a prairie fire. When they passed Chimney Rock in Nebraska, she observed it appeared to be formed of clay and sand of two colors, and also had the appearance of cement between the two columns. "It is supposed by some to be the work of the Nephites." (IBID p.259.) On the 14th of August they saw their first Indians, who were Sioux, and who were very neat and clean. The next day camp was broken late as they met to settle problems among members of the company. The 18th they passed Fort Laramie I and they saw a hunting party of Cheyenne. A few days later Bro. Woodruff's fine carriage horse started and ran off. On the 20th she wrote they were in the I "lIS cery!, made a'/a!l:sble through th9 courtes~ c·j' fi"S :"ierr2:icnt.! Society DAUGHTER~) OF L':/,_!-! ~iCHE=RS. may not be reprcd~cad to!

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midst of the Black Hills. That same day Bro. Banks and Bro . Stratton arrived from Salt Lake City and brought greetings and potatoes for them to eat! How they loved that.

Half the cattle belonging to those in their group who stayed behind for the night came up missing on the 29th. It took them several days to find them all. While waiting, the women in Sophia's family picked 14 quarts of choke cherries; August 31st a day after finding the lost cattle, they crossed Box Elder creek.

On September 1st they found a grove of Buffalo Berry bushes, and picked 33 quarts of the fruit, to make "excellent sauces and pies." They crossed the Platte River on the 3rd and saw a high and long mountain range extending south and west. September 5 they passed 25 dead cattle where they drank poison water. They camped at the foot of Independence Rock on the 7th where she hiked to the top, and that night the company danced on the bank of the Sweetwater River. Close by was a Saluratus Lake and off in the distance was Devils Gate. On the 9th another delay which was caused when Bro. Woodruff had to fire three of his teamsters for stealing supplies. On the 12th, they awoke to find ice in their water pails, and September 16th they crossed over the Sweetwater River again and for the last time. The 17th she wrote " ... we let Captain Hardy have a yoke of oxen so he could travel on ... " (Ibid p. 262.) Bro. Woodruff and another man were gone for two days visiting a Shoshone Indian camp looking for three stolen horses, and returned the 19th with two of them. More trouble with oxen on the 21st. "Bro. Woodruff's OX died this morning. He was at a dead standi he could not go another rod without help. We concluded to let him take my father's oxen and Bro. Hardy's team, and Bro. Hardy take a yoke of Bro. Barrows, so as to have all the borrowed cattle in their division ... " That same day they met Brigham Young coming on the trail, who told them there was no feed for the animals along the Green River. They, therefore, went to the Big Sandy River that night and camped. On the banks of the Green RiVer on the 23rd of September, eleven year old George caught a 12-inch long catfish. The next day they met two men from salt Lake Ci ty who told them the Snake Indians were hostile to all Mormons and had killed some, so be careful. we had a very bad hill to descend. One of Bro. Woodruff's wagons had the axle broken; one of our wagons had a wheel broken," she wrote on the 29th. Two days later she noted they "passed the highest summit of the journey today." The 3rd of October they picked 12 quarts of Hawberries, to make into vinegar. A wagon tipped over and they stopped for the day. It • • •

Descriptions of rugged terrain abound in the remaining entries, as they made their final way to Salt Lake Val~ey. On the 12th, this is what she wrote: "We took our teams and went down the mountain and helped the others up, then traveled down the other side of the mountain about nine miles and camped at the foot of another mountain." (Ibid p. 264.) Her next and final entry was: "Mrs. Delin had a daughter born last night. Bro. Woodruff came up with us this morning and we all drove into the valley of Salt Lake and camped in the fort. It was a rather dreary homecoming. It was very dry and dusty, and the wind was blowing the dust in clouds. Only a few little log and adobe houses to be seen, fenced in with rail and willow fences. A few shade trees and fruit trees were to be seen here and there. I thought at first: "Have I got to spend the rest of my days here in this dreary looking place?" But I soon felt all right about it, and loved my mountain home." (Ibid p. 264) "On their arrival in the (Salt Lake) Valley they stayed at the Fort for a few days, later moving to Wilford Woodruff's lot (on West Temple and South Temple Street). Benjamin traded his teams and wagons for a small house and lot in the 19th Ward, (at) 330 North 3rd West ... n (P. 253.) The first settlers in the Valley in 1847 erected as their first structure The Bowery, which was an open-sided, shaded structure 28 feet by 40 feet, large enough to serve as a meeting place for all purposes= church, community, and entertainment. It was located on the newly surveyed Temple Block. Also built on the Temple Block was The Old Fort. When they had felt it was time to prepare for their first winter, all who were in the Valley by then came into one central camp on the Block, and there they had built a stockade or fort to protect themselves. Inside the walls, which were 27 inches thick and 8 or 9 feet high, they had built rows of adobe or log houses, with doors facing the inner square. By that first September, 1847, over 1500 more Mormon pioneers had arrived, and the fort had to be extended, making more small homes to protect more people. They had built three more stockades on Temple Block, making four in all. The Great Salt Lake City as originally laid out in the summer of 1847 by Orson Pratt and H. G. Sherwood, was composed of 135 blocks, each containing ten acres which were divided into eight lots, each of one and one-half acres. These lots were big enough to provide ground for a house, a place for animals, and a garden and fruit trees. (Above information taken from UTAH'S HERITAGE by S. George Ellsworth, 1972, pp. 153-154.) When Benjamin and Penelope arrived with their family in October of 1850, they stayed in The Fort on Temple Block their first few days. There were quite a number of little houses

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situated outside and around the Block, and when Benjamin arranged to trade his teams and wagons for a house, it was ODe of those. Their house would have been, of course, one of "the little log or adobe houses with a rail or willow fence around it" that Sophia noted, upon their arrival in the Valley. The Nineteenth Ward, one of the original 19 wards that had been organized February 22, 1849, was a large area. As the population increased in the c1 ty, "the boundaries of the Nineteenth Ward were spread out so that all that part of Salt Lake City lying

between 2nd North Street and the Warm Springs and from Main Street and Arsenal Hill to the Jordan River belonged to the ward, although much of this territory I at the time, was unoccupied." (From ENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, by Andrew Jenson, 1941, found in Church Historical Library, CL Core M 272.03 J 54e, p. 753.)

IIImmediately after the organization of the (19th) ward the people met for worship in the Warm Springs Bath House, which served until a school house was erected that year on the northeast corner of Fourth North and Second West Streets." (Ibid.) "In 1852 the population of the Nineteenth Ward numbered 302 adults and 100 children under eight years of age." (Ibid.) The first bishop was James Hendricks, his counselors were Alonzo H. Raleigh and S. A. Knowlton, with Clerk A. H. Raleigh. They served until 1856 and were replaced by Bishop Alonzo H. Raleigh and counselors Sylvester Earl, 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 of the 19th Ward Dedication Festival, found in the Church History Library, P m255.84

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On February 21, 1995, when looking through records of the Old Nineteenth Ward -1850-1876, the following items were found, and they belong here. Patriarchal blessings were given to members of Benjamin I s family, in the following order: November 17, 1850 - Sophia, Sarah November 18, 1850 - Harriet November 20, 1850 - Penelope, Mary January 18, 1851 - LUsannah January 20, 1851 - Benjamin April 15, 1853 - Esther Blessing date for George A. was missing. The record showing Benjamin's blessing states he is of the Tribe of Joseph. A COpy of Benjamin's Patriarchal Blessing was ordered, February 12, 1995, and on April 13, it was returned to me. Following is the complete document.

G.S.L. City, Jan 20th 1851 A blessing by John Smith Patriarch upon the head of

Benjamin son of Oliver and Elisabeth Goodridge born wooster Co. Mass. October 3rd 1794. Brother Beloved of the Lord, I place my hands upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ and according to the order of the Priesthood I seal upon you a Father' 5 Blessings. Thou hast left thy native land for the Gospel's sake and hast passed through many trials and affflictions but thou hast

overcome, them all, hast been patient which thing is pleasing unto the Lord He hath given angels charge concerning thee. They will hold you up in their hands not a hair of your head shall fall by the hand of an Enemy

The Lord hath blessed you

with an honorable family and they shall multiply like Jacob upon the mountains of Israel. Thou shalt be blessed with health peace and plenty in thy habitation with every comfort which your heart desires. (?THOU) Shalt be a councilor in Zion filled with Wisdom and Intelligence more than is common for man for thou art of the blood of Joseph and a lawful I heir to the priesthood which shall reveal unto you all the hidden mysteries of the ( ........ ) Kingdom Thou shalt preside over a Stake of Zion (?and) have wisdom to do everything right therefore dismiss your fears for the Lord thy God Loves thee and he will bring you up in the resurrection with all your fathers house and inherit a Kingdom that shall never pass away Even so Amen. In the early pages of the record book, Benjamin Goodridge is listed as a member of the Nineteenth Ward, and the tithing records were signed by William Clayton, so Brother Clayton was living in the Nineteenth Ward at the time the Goodridges were, and he had posterity there several generations later. The following are direct quotes from the Record Book of the Nineteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, Book 1. "This certifies that Benj. Goodridge has paid his Property Tithing in full agreeable to vote of Conference Sept. 10th, 1851. Great Salt Lake City Nov. 10th 1851

Wm Clayton Recorder ? H. B. Clawson II

George B. Gardner's certificate was just below'Benjamin's. On page 78-

REPORT OF MEMBERS, October 23, 1854

IIBenj. Goodridge, Farmer, 1 wife, 1 child, 1 team. Remarks: Partial insanity" Again, George B. Gardner, Blacksmith, 2 wives, 1 child, listed just below Benjamin. In an old mimeographed paper labeled only that it was the copy

'. of Sophia' s diary and was typed by Rhoda Hardy Garn, at the end appears this: "The old house was torn down after a few years and Leonard W.

Hardy built a new one of three rooms where they were very comfortable. Father, Mother and Aunt Hattie died in this house." (unquote

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submitted by Kate B. Carter to the DUP, dated 1972.) "Being a gifted musician (Sophia) had brought ODe of the first

melodians (which is a small reed organ with a suction bellows- PMD) across the plains with her, and used it for many years afterwards ... " (OPH-KBC p. 271.) She sang in the OLD BOWERY sometime in 1851, following her marriage. The Old Bowery was located on the southeast corner of the Temple Block. Here, William Clayton heard her sing, and was so impressed that he wrote a song just for her. It was THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF TRUTH, which she was the first one to sing it, and it became well known thereafter (though we today do not hear this song-PHD). (Ibid p. 271.) From this it is easy to suppose that Benjamin F.'s home had long been filled with music~ played and sang by his daughter, and that the other members of the family joined in. This would have made their lives more pleasant. Just 43 days after the family's arrival in the Valley, Benjamin F. and Penelope saw their daughter Sophia marry Bro. Leonard W. Hardy on November 28, 1850. She was 24, he was 44 and had one wife already. In the writings before me, it was indicated there was no hint of anything happening between them, in her diary of the trip, but it is really not so surprising, in view of the fact she mentioned him in her diary 15 times, and her parents only 5 times! The wedding was held together with her sister Sarah Louisa's wedding to Joseph Grafton Hovey, at Joseph Hovey's home in the 19th Ward. Sarah had a child the following year, and then she died a week after. Mary Jane married William Flint on the 24th of December of that year, and moved north about seventeen miles to Farmington, Davis County, to live. Benjamin and Penelope received choice blessings in their new religion when they were sealed by President Brigham Young on the 28th of July, 1851. (From Ruby L. W. Simmerman.) Where this sacred ordinance was performed was not stated. Later that year, Harriet Ann became the wife of Seth M. Blair on October 5th. The marriage didn't last, and she later became Leonard W. Hardy's third wife in 1858. (Her one and only child was born and died in November of 1859, just days before her father's last illness.)

On the 19th of January, 1852, just four months after Harriet married Seth, Lusannah Emeline got married to Joseph Grafton Hovey, husband of her dead sister Sarah, and she became "mother" to her sister's little son, John. Lusannah's history gives us this: "In the fall of 1852, Father became insane and Mother had a hard time of it. Father was so bad that he had to be confined in a room by himself ...• Father still continued in a very strange way (in 1854-5-PMD), though not so violent as when first taken. I went and stayed with Mother for a while ... ) (OPH-KBC p. 289.) We are told of the hardships of Benjamin's wife, Penelope, during his tragic illness, and they were undoubtedly great. Yet, it is important to also recognize what suffering he must have been going through during all this time. What he suffered could not have been easy, or pleasant for him, and he was probably not able to convey to others just how he felt. 1854 was the year of the terrible infestation of grasshoppers in the valley, and also the year that Esther Smylinda married Leonard W. Hardy as his fourth wife, making three sisters as wives to the same man when Harriet also married him in 1858. It is doubtful if our ancestor, Benjamin, was able to enjoy his grandchildren or, perhaps, even be aware of them as his illness advanced. His illness, if it was something like Multiple Sclerosis, could have robbed him of his mental faculties, however innocently. And Benjamin F. did not live to see his son George marry, or any of George's thirty-two children born from his three wives. Following is a list of the grandchildren of Benjamin F. and Penelope that were born in the eight years before his death. 1851- 16 September, Sarah had John, and seven days later, she passed away. John also died, in 1856. 20 October, one month later, Mary had Sarah Jane. 1852- 24 June, Sophia had Leonard. 1853- 14 January, Mary had Valeria 29 April, Lusannah had Penelope In September, Sophia had Oscar 1854- 24 March, Mary had William 19 December Sophia had William 1855- 13 June, Lusannah had James 2 December, Esther had Esther. 1856- 21 April, Sophia had Sophia

21 October, Mary had Fidelia 1857- 7 March Esther had Edward 24 August, Lusannah had Olive 30 December Sophia bad Jesse 1859- 22 January, Mary had Abel 4 July, Sophia bad George,

22 July, eighteen days later, Lusannah had Mary 21 November, Harriet had Franklin, who died soon after. was her only child.

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(This information gleaned from GAG-HH, Vol I pp . . . . . . . ) After Benjamin grandchildren born, Albert would end up George's thirty-two his six sisters had

F.' 5 death, there would be forty-five more making a total of sixty-four. His son George having three wives and thirty-two children. children was an equal number to the children all together.

The year of 1856 began in the midst of the terribly cold, hard winter during which thousands of cattle froze to death. Because of the grasshopper plagues the summer before, stores of food for the winter were very scant. People were reduced to digging roots for food, since over half of them were without bread to eat.

When summer came, " ... times still continued to be hard. Provisions were scarce, and most families were on rations .... and some days I would have a little piece of bread and sometimes only a Ii ttle milk and greens to eat. At harvest time, I left my children and went into the fields to help pull the wheat up by the roots, as it was so short on account of drought that it could not be cut. Our whole crop had to be harvested that way. A great many suffered this summer for food to eat ... " (Lusannah G. Hovey, OPHKBC, p. 289.) Then there was the Utah War. Johnston's Army was coming, and all the inhabitants of the Valley were evacuated south to safety. How were they able to go, with Benjamin so sick, and where did Benjamin and Penelope go? It is very probable that their son-inlaw, Bishop L W Hardy, took care of them and saw to their needs. Their son George had been called to go with the "army" into Echo Canyon to deter Johnston's Army, and so was not there to help his parents. Everyone suffered untold hardships during that troublesome time. They finally were able to return to their homes by the next year. On the 24th of November in 1859, Benjamin F. became very ill with some kind of lung distress, probably-pneumonia, which resulted ultimately in his death about ten days later. His wife, Penelope, wrote of him: "My husband, Benjamin Goodridge, died on the 2nd day of last December about 9 o'clock in the forenoon. He had been in a very

strange and singular way for some years. I know not the cause, but I know he was a great sufferer in his mind by spells. I passed through so much with him I don't want to reflect upon it. His last sickness was what we call the pleurisy or lung fever. He lived only nine days after the attack. Although he was an invalid for many years, he seemed a kind of protector which I very much miss,

but he is gone ... " (OPH-KBC p 275.) At last Benjamin's long battle was over. more. His mind, sick for so long a time, would full faculty in the great beyond. His body, years of weakness and ill health, was laid to good earth, and he was at peace.

He would suffer no now be restored to weary and worn by rest in the Lord's

He was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. (GAG-HR, Vol II, p. 170.)

His widow also wrote: "He was 65 years and two months old, lacking one day. I believe he is happy, for he showed himself to me immediately after we started from the graveyard. ~e looked so fair and pleasant and 50 very natural. He could not be otherwise than happy. I felt that it was but a step between us and that I should

soon be with him." (OPH-KBC p. 275.)

"After the funeral of my husband, I stopped at the Bishop's

over three weeks."

(Ibid p. 276.)

(This was most likely her

daughters' husband, L. W. Hardy's home in the 12th Ward, which was an area of nine ten-acre blocks, extending from South Temple to 3rd South Street and from 3rd to 6th East Streets.-PMD) It is a very comforting thought to end Benjamin Franklin Goodridge's life history, by remembering him HAPPY, FAIR, PLEASANT AND SO VERY NATURAL. And cradled in the arms of his Savior' 5 love.

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