':i". 1U8!rOl!r CII"WILLUII' :rLIllfJ.ll]) Jan JAJIlI,-GOQl)llIDGB 7.LIIIf.

Pioneers to Utah 1n 1MB and 1880.

B;y liu~ L. W. Simmerman -_ grand-d8l1ghte:r.
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.
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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.
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h8DA wbeZ'8'W8Z' 11.884.&. 8114 . . . alwq8 Jr1Il4 8DI tJooae;h~ of cthlln.
He DtlT»r 4U 1ID7th1tle epeotecll1u, bot hia "r.ttraeo lUll faith ana
~ea411ne80 mado other. ballW anti he hn4 ...., frl&n4a. Beoanee of
hie llfta :tal th. lie . . calle d oft"" all thrOll8h hie Ufe to a&!dn1e-
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'IIq lie _ wel t1na
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tor' tiia gal of 1110 boaaa for _ of thtl g1Z'la
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110 tar IIe4 appealed to h1IIl o. for ae matrSmozq ... ooDOarlla4, 8114 ao
tor two 7e8l'8 be 414 all 11.0 could to bel.p bolld llP Sal t LIIlm and 41d
hie part 1Il the ohveh ae well.

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-Oot lloYea Sa a IIntenoaa :e,y. hi. 1000ere _ lIerfOD,· for 4urtDg
this tSlDe 1IQ 1IaoIt ill lo1uIanberg. ""Deatar C_t7, llaaellehuetta. a
tan~ '7 tile of Goodrtc1ge bed hc.ar4 the
&1. 1860 ........IJl And iellolope Gardrulr Goo4Z'14go lltarted boll
gospol' IlI'/I!I88£o.

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.
JD the Goo4r148_ tam1l.1'••ore laogJI.t.... alii 088 _ ~ 1188 the
n:"f:::: !he olleat of
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tllees laaeht.n - liIU7 Jau. IIora I!UIe

JD _0" to llelp OIlt !Ill the to04 badget. the, took alaiif!' their lint
OOtr.One 0848110 thea lIW1Ilf!'illf!'aloDg 111 two WIII!!_ nth 1dIat:
'aloaglDfl:s tile, ooold take and the pUell.t 0"" trIllsSlle alang
IIoh1ll4. tled to the 1I8g'0Il drawn 117 the o:r; toam. ft.el .. era witb
iUfo;l Wcodraff'. COlll(>ll!l7. with Lecmard ii. Bar47 811 thelr oaptalll.
from WlIlter lluartera OIl w.s t.
OIl tbe Hh .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 •
...., ~ trwe . . _ t._ all. the ...,. alii ller elater Burtet .Aml,.
'Iroft. hor. . ~. !!!Ie trip pzvI'ed to be allDoat
:fathar. lIGnfM1D... he waa i l l moat of the 1IB7'
IIIlah tor tbe _0
8t.pa4aa Of tile ann t e _ GIl the plaina ware T81"7 o_n. !lie
t _ _ dated of f1'CD tID to fin Job of oxell. aa4 tllera wore ottea
tIdr V or forll' 1I880D8 trnelllnc tOE'etbar, !he stampedell U811&11I'
atarte4 without a m_et"a wern1ne. the cattle I'UIl1l1ne 1Il all 41reo-
tlO11.8, 1'IlDn1ne 0\'81' 8II¥OII.O WhO happened to be 111. tile sq. Darlng
_ a_pede. Wilford WOodruff. ran 1Il tho midst of lt ""are8oued
hia ,,11'0 and oth81'11. 1JruI7 wore 1113UZ'ed. but nOlle kUled.,
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op.a'De a .. tJuooaIIl
ea4 117 ao ·401!lu. IIIie "11&]184 wUllod 111Jft7. lIAl7 lane ee14 illat
tlleae lIbo ha4 Wltne._ .. atampede. ooal4l>'t lIIeI;1De the te~
bl .. oantuslon _ 48.Z!f!ar there ......
&ftQ' ..... JIezIleh1pe. WeeJa-4_ ea4 4~ tile 0...,..." anmA
at 8A1t lieb CUI'. 00U1Ier U. l.IIU"'_ alIIoa' fl.,. _aut .JDoe tbt7
l1li4 10ft tlletr JaGiIe 111 /ltle88CMB'tIfts. '
80eIl ~ter itieJz 8ft1val 111 tile . .Ue7. Mar7 leu JIOf;l0e4 a t.U UoaI
- wtIo .~ to 100II: 11_ hIr wOIIld be pratt¥ lIloa" aD& tileD _ 411iJ'
thaI' met. It a_4 a OMII of lOVel at first 81ght rol' both of them.
:tor he t11U'ell' l1kad tho pl eBll8llt 1lIIl1l·a lmd tile fieahln.. blaolt OE08
o:r ;z"..., "11"_ '!ho 701lllg man in qll'-"stlon >108 th'l 811me i111111111
who ha4 been In Salt l.ako 81m 0 Ootober 1848 tmd "88 noif gotUllS
runt
1IIIX10ua to settlo 401lD and baTo a hCl:lo of. bls GWn.. 11»...., lflZllt prClYed
to be tho girl of h1~ droama, e.nIl one well "orth WRiting for_ One
fte7 he cathGred up all hie COl\! a!le and jlopped the 4aoeUOD.
Ifar7 lane
WQa - 7 IIBiIOh eurprlllOd III!d 40III:I 4eep 111 her heert _ TeZ7
hep" too fn aile ~_ she U.b4 hbI ,..,..., well. lIaoreTer. ~81' e
_ent's houehtfal J'8aaa. BbI! aald, "lIhlr. I 001'417 kilO1\' 7Ca.. Ve'Ta
0BlT Just III<It: ..
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<l1' I. l'Jdlall.
He tol4 her thet 111111... PUnt WIlB 1m erceedlll1.'17 11M IiVIl'l and ahe
'801114 40 lrnll to mlT,Y Id",_ Ar.l4 sa OIl Chrlstmu:>;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.
!!Iq s.mad flIIIIt 111 Pnm1ngtoD, Utah.. and 11TS4 in a 41IpIlt atil
uq ooul4 get aOll8h loge to 1111114 a BOIlee. '!!llI7 eD41Ua4 III8IQ'
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'
the 4~O'<lt. On 8JIOth9r ooooslon th.;ro ms a enatm OIlrl'ad liP Imder
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en<n: the tabl.e from the ranars o~
iIlo ehaU' apOll "Ilhlo11 Gr1.mir.1other uoa a tttln!'. ShB WS8 not well 8Ild
Grandpa 1 not 'i1nDtlne to fneh teo har " ..bd -her to Bome !lQhUa for
a "'cman't. lIhFo aha we" out.. frnndpn sl1pl'04 in and klllnd the
maID:! wlthottt her know1,,!: BlVthl"" s.bout It •
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when. the InU8Il8 were ao hostUs ta the 1Ih1ta
. . " atall41.og glUm! &£ainat the ImU._ SO iIla:r
... ald not ateal. hore .... and oattle. He .... often e ... 1M apOll to tab
Ida tll1'D at atandlllf! suard. llh1lo he ..S8 !lone. 8D Inlllan 8mab4
into too hOUB" anlt l7au·tod B CUD that "",0 atnD.Unc ooek o:r thl! bed.
Gran4mothel' told him hoJ coaldn't bave tile gun er.d then he Jlllllpe4
801'08S the bed tad iDelt i t md a_4 th& eM. whlGh was 108184 at
all tillles on aOCOlUlt ot the In41ans, at m7 r;rsn4mother. Bel' big
40e. SHep. cemo to tho rescue &lid erabbel the Indian b;r the lee:.
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' . JiIIl_ Il'tJD8l tha 8IIIl ..Ill MEPIl .e&' te ..u tile . .& flU. IUut
4t4. bat tOl1ll4 Ul" 40e It.IIIl bltteR h1a qatte bad. Gru4aoUlell' felt
IIO~ tor the IndieD. bothe4 his woWl4s fel him .mil »ami tted him
t. atq IIIII1UD. \Theu Gl'&ll~'fath"r cum.. 'oma p ha telA 111m lw could
I'aaau all night. ... la;r aU night 111 fl'ClD1: of the t1re»laoo-
tile log l71ne oloso b7 ....tah1ne 1118 eTory lAOVClOlem.
All. the l1/!ht tha7 had at nie-llt was u. 118h ted rag 1Il a tin of g1'e6880
!lila was ealle4 a ald. ~ on 12&07 began ..lIIt1as CBIIdlos out ot
tallow obt,,1I1ed :tram tho axen whon kllled. rue Ifaa a urad 1raprOTe-
mant over th" slut. lI'hon tlla coll 011 lomptl 0""'0, thaT tol t thaT
bad A parten 11{lht.
CIfl8I! telA of the IIIaI\V 1I1eea1ne1J uhe reOGivod b., 401ng
(l,......'IIOtbv
t. 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.
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.
ilauU<Il8. hCllrllTer. he Mol buUt a log hou08 at 344 liorth • Sri reet.
tlbel'e 11:1-.11' ;romI!!el' Ch1141'''' waft borDo Ono Ilq esr17 1Il lI .... el41lar
1Il 1866 a blfl' ...'" atorm o... e tbloh praTed to be too much for the 411't
roof ... th9 lug houae. ru" nas 3ust 2 wcoke before my ..other was
bClnl. !'he roof eaTed in cat"e1'lne Granamll and two of her ah1l41'Gn.
Die n-.1e;hbol'B Olllle to halp 4ig thom OIlt. llarriet Rooalla. IfhOl!l we
al1l&J'8 bft as Annt Ilatt18 'Ita. anl,. f. ,.eara 014 Md 1mB sltting 117
the ateTe nen the oaTe-in occurred. '!!he stoTe tipped errol' baolmards.
brealdDg thr01l£h to the oellar below. ;"'1 a1Ji1t 1'e11 through ti.la
bols acm into the oe11ar <1I>IIre She was bent double cOTe"4 with
dirt 0DIl straw. Craaamt. eDt down on bel' Iuulds III1d lmoe8 tr,vlng to
d18 her ou~. !he men that were halpln" around the house getting
tho f ... i17 to eatet7 wouldn't beUon ehe WB8 down there. 'l!he7 ss14
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... Jla4 ~... • pieo. ~ l.r:rellow ~a •• 1Ihloh she was WBe.r1De.
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.
GndIM aDA the Clhll~8D went to 8~
at IIfJ' Creat-GrsndJ:Icther Good-
:r14£e's IUltll CralIApa Cl()tllI1 Eot the • roo:r repEt1red.
Be eot the
boal'll8 GIl the reaf bat not Ulo Urt 1Ihen IIfJ' mothor _ born. Grandma
had come hOl!le to steJ' fill aho \'tented her bo.b, born in her own hOtlS8.
8Il4 "8 Crm:4mn Goodridge war. tllklnC oare ct Annt lWtt!o, who h,'4 been
bunad m:4cr the hou",., CrBll/l:>'B ttoueht she bad hal' hande :rtlll w1thout
t&Jr1ne ollre o:r hor alllO. rlh11e Gralldm" nnd n:y maUlor. tl:.. ttllJ' babe,
ware atl11 in bed, n bad min atom. c"",o, "hleh la<:tcCi three or :roar
4a7s, BO the7 la1d there torotho" "lth "",trollo" OTer th"", to koep
tho rain ~ •
.., aotIIft _ 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 •
... teo 1881'S, Ifotll.Gr 8D4 hal' Bnthe:r Ceorg" took caro of thIt aohoo1
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, 4iP-
ttIu1a '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<Ima ftlnt MDry 3Me I "fte tho only one wI>.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.
!lui HoIloe:ra d14 DOt have tllo 111. I'hl te raf1m4 cagQ thd we pve
teaq. 1lIzt ba4 brcrm BIIl'or "hlob otten was quita llllllPY. ene day
(I_Apa "110 ,,1tt~
in hi. <:ho'.r nntl Bert I1Ild AIla Dlolmon, sone of
~ AUnt IIatti8 Dickson, (toe one Ilho was burlol\ under thohO'~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"
lIT IIIOUloZ' took oare of her father util Jut • few
bath Sopt. a. w"'" before h1e
lmtO. IIother 111 tlIa 1leaat2me Iud _1'1'1el l1li' father,
l!obert tilla a connrt f1'01:l Irt'lrm4 GIl Ilee. 11. '1887 111 tM Lesan
TompJ.e. At ttle t1ll8 of Gra:n4pa's death tho;r ha4 two aalldall8hten
and 41U'1ne the l&t;)r ~ars while lIother ha4 tbee. two 001110.. it
wao rather d1fflunlt for JIIII1 her to 08n for h1lll aleo. ell he _ at
time. almost holplGDO. HOlrcVCZ'. "oth~r 414 tm IMBt ollo 00'114 for
h1m IID4 WilD B1 "!17" atl TinC to cBko h1r. ccmr.,rtablG. He ""nt
to ..1II1t
hi. daafllter Valoria AIm Lair/! who 11vo4 111 1l0000taln »ell. Parl.-.
08lqOll 014 thar" he 41<>4.
Gna4l* J'llnt . . . . BlBh Pdnt and ... Inll14ent of tlla B18h u t a .
Qu._ SD tho 19th 1re1'Il for mrhll,.. He alllO att8ll484 tbD lCIhool fit
the Fopheta.
Gr&III1]1a en.1 G:1Wl.t_ J'UDt raised a flll1U" ofJ'tlMt ehll4rea IDl _ftlr
IIe4 a Dr. 1;1 1110 110_. !hoI' weft. Sarah _iJ1lfe_u. Valar1a AlIa
nlnt LaJrd t llll1811I.. nlnt. 11,10118 .Lovantla nint ,Jlloob~ 'Abel

, nut nus. ' ' 7 ..

Josiah .UI1S. Barriet Rosalla J'l11lt lllalalon. George !iartln nut.
and Sophia Le1s othor.}
lIZ g1'1lZl4pazenta un not bJ.801l-l4 wi th "cr14~ llOada. bu thq loft
a woDdftflll reovl of p04 l..as • .oUftl!o 11114 faith eh10h 18 greater
than all tbe debes 11l thll wozold. DIG;r "0" :fa1 th1Ul IS!I4 tl'!lO
l.atter-.la.y Salnte UD.tll tile &fld. !he;r tonth t their ahl14ren to lOTa
and r"veJII tile GOIlp"l above a'V1ll""tll1l1r,! elBa in tbJ world.
!heir dosoandaa4a now DUm~or OYQr four banlre4.
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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.

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
,,'1',):1," "V 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 Smith's motherfs team from Elkhorn, eighteen
miles west of Winter Quarters, to the three forks of the sweet
Water River, and Was then sent back to help other emigrants to
the valley, arriving 1n Salt Lake with Brigham Young and Heber C.
Kimball the 26th of september, 1848. .
During the next two years he .shared in the labors and 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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TIT L E P AGE

PIONEER NAME ~wnL~~DM~~FL~TIIT~ ____________________________

BIRTH DATE AND PLACE 28cJanuar,y 1814 SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NF,I,! TO'll( __ ._ _

DEATH DATE AND PLACE 21 SEPTember 1890 MOUNTAIN DELL,_SALT tAK":, UTAH

FATHER -"-"'e='-"-"''''-!.-_
JOSIAH FLINT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ._ _ _ __

MOTHER ANNA WOOIlWARD

WHO MARRIeD AN/) DATE MARY JANE OOODRIDGE

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YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH __ I~84~9~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

NAME Of' COMPANY Heber C, Kimball & Brip;ham Young

~Wiris
WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE D:i.delia Lovantia Flint, Jacobs & Sophia Loi~ Fli~t

WHO FILED HISTORY I.ND DATE Evelyn fArley, Hook

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ADORES S P ,0, Box 151 Pa "ker, Idaho 83438

CAMP NAME SYRINGA CAMP

COUNTY NAME FREMONT COUNTY CAMP

CAMP HISTORIAN CHERYL BEAN

ADDRESS RT,I/2 Box 46_b

ST ,ANTHONY, IDAHO 83445

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COUNTY HISTORIAN Mabel Andrasen .
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317 N 1st East
ADDRESS
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ST ,ANTHONY, IDAHO 83445
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND PAGE NUMBERS:
Family Pioneer History
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Gazetteer of England
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Brief History of SPAFFORD~ ONondage, New York

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

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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 re~1sted all attempts to subjugate them. William the Conqueror ruled

part of ....Tales: 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 pre-

vailed 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 ot 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. The castle of

Flint has in like manner. been always enumerated in the charters investin~ the eldest sons
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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. F.e came here 1n

1642. His descendants at-e as follows: that 1s f'ollowing a direct line to \'1111ia,m Flint
who was born 28 January I814. 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. He embraced

the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter_Day-Saints in his native state in 1847. He was bap-
tized by Elmer William ~de. 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" Elder George Terry was sent back with him when he went back to help the

immigrants. 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 ~md 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. Their Company all'rived

in the valley 14 October 1850. The company was organized into hundreds, fifties, and tens

with a Captain over each. 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, emig-

rating 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

"
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 ge~

logs to build a house. 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. I Another instance was when a big

snake was curled up under her chair. William, ger husband, asked her to come outside

and as scon as be could he went back into the dugout and ktllled the snake. This happene'

just before one of her children was born. One day and Indian came in and wanted a gun

that was in the corner behind.the bed. She told him, no, he cou1dn l t have it. He

jumped on the bed and took it. 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. She afterward married

Bishop Leonard W. 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 it~ll in bur,v1.ng hE'!r just two weeks before

one of her children was born. 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 or the home o~ some of our early ancestor

BRIEF HISTORr OF SPAFFORD, ONONDAOO, NEW YORK

The 1Dwn o~ 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 i~ 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 or~nized schools and

churches. The first ~chool at Spafi"ord ICorners I was the beginning of District 2, and was

taught in a log cabin. Later t~ 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

at Thorn Hill. The first records of this church are dated April 19. I806, but the

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, I

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. I

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 greater number of Mormon people left Spafford and moved with

the Nauvoo ExodUS;: to 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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. IKE fLIt/I P'UIty IK A"fiBICA

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
helped In writing the story • _._H.~._

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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" t~o ch1l1rEln, AUee anrl ·/Hll1a~ . Jr.
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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Tho rar~ bul 1~lngs stan~ on rislnl groundll, a lar,e rambllnl house
ter!lllnat~s with a ~ilkhouse, the door atep 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 .
The nIne children oC Thomas F1int . and ~ary Dounton were:
Capt. Thomas Fllnt, born 1678, married Lyda Tutnam, ~ry Futn8lll,
and Abigail Leacb
r.:ary born 1680, marrIed Jonathan Ha~d
">on born 1683, ~arried Certrude Po~
William born 1685, marrle~ AbIgaIl Nloh"ls
F.Uub '!lth born 1687, married Thomas !fioiols
Jonathan born 1689 _rr1'1d llary l!.art
Ann born 1691 Married Ebcnelez:. tiiohols
Sar,;uel born 1693 marrIed Ruth Putnal'll
. Lydia born 1695, lIIa~rl'1d Joseph Putn.~
(n ote the tour rutnL~s and three NiChols this raoily marrIed)
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The thl rd Tholllas FUnt, born 1678, di ed In 17~7, rna,r1 ad ~ree tillles :~__
First Ly<11a rutn811, 1703, ","81 c"ur ancestrelS. !lhe h'&" rout children. ..........
!!ary Putnn had Che chllclran. AblbaU Lf!ach had no \ eh]ldren.
a., was a yeasan, tllrn:er, 'and carpenter .
CHILDRj'll OF TdO.l1A6 FL(!IT THI:.. THpm; Aim LYDU "U'l'''A.M:
Th~85 Flint thn fourth. born 170~ marrIed Pr 15c111a Portor. 1732
Jonathan FUnt bern 1707 " ~___
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~<1Ja Fl1nt b(>rn 1709, lIIarrie':! Jos<>ph Porter-
:.:ery Flint born 1711, ~.rrl~ ElaaF.el' Portor .

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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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Thls tamlly ::lloved ln 1767 to Otter River, Ve rlllont;.. The first to leave
M4ssachusett s , tney lived In Danby an" Rutland : Vermont . "Family treet"
did not !lourish hllr e as I n an1 around BOlteln. helm here on the taallly
is tra ced by legen an" fam1ly Blbles . A Blble handed down by Y.'lll1am
Flint, and Son of Joseph the second, b r otfer lhted above , gave this
information: '
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Soon eftl'r going to Vcralont, Hanne llennlck dted and Joseph alarried
again an1 had sh: othflr children . AS the above Porter Fl1nt 'Ras

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Grandfathp.r Jacob Flint·s Father, the ta~ l ly can be traced wIthout
r ecords of .any kind. flowever, one ,,"ould like Il)Ore detail.
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.
Hla Ion J osoph :Oortcr IlII>rr t od Hary Iu~thorne . She .a~ of the same
f&.!:li ~ .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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Their son , also nnllled JO!l9ph Porter , .he mueled J.!ary Bai l ey, beclllDe
t he paren t ~ of Priscilla Porter, who marr1 ed the ~ourth Thomas Tl'nt .
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Th'l chtl~ r en o f the f ourth Tno~s Flint .er~ ~~sttned to help w(th the
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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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The old.,t ,on was Th~1 FUnt the r~tth. He _II..'.board:
"alelan .nl!
surgeon,45 yetl's of aSI!. He aalbd the Atl&llUc all durlnc
th~ R~volutlDn 1n 1'11. own Pl'ivate yacht, !1ving w1th pay. 1'111 serv1cel
to that great cause.
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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
Battlll of Bunker Hill am! r:tany other eng8£el!lent~ . -tits brother Je!se h." .
!:IClved to :':81n8 . Htl. too, return,," tn ~~al'l:O: . tCl enUst. ('i'h,1 5 In,se FUnt
b e CIl/ee the grM,ltathfl r of Char~5 R . FUnt, thO! Boston :aUU onalr" ,,1'10
1'1.' knor,n as the "Father (>( Trusts" 11'1 tho library (If "S('flS o f th'! ullr .
Revolutl cn.") I counte~ 1~5 Fl1nts from the .tate cf ~ss8chusetts
alcnft .mo '/I'ere Revolutionary 'olAllors .
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
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mother) "ho brought royal pl~taganet blood into the family. /
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\
In 182~ they moved frolll Danby io Rut\and County to WashJnlton Cou fit,., I
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
Porter married Jan'" no ch1l1ren
IlIa.c • married ?relhl.(Ridgwey) ldwardl ch11dren Anreline 6:
JOJeph not carri ed F.li~.
Oan1al :&8.rriod '~flhitab<:!l 1'1115 6: l;ary E1Us f('Our children
Jacob married ~:l1za Applen . ftve children
Davia. ~arrle1 three tlm~ feurteen chil~rfln
Luther ~arried ~ary Edwarlfs, one son. lIeveral daughters
Lucy lIIarr1ed Groove., no children
Hannah marrloe1 J(lhn Reed, one daughter (~rrled Dr. Cox)
• EUr.abeth ~rrled James f~rguson, t~n Chl1dren. Her (randch11dren
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
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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 .
born 184$. died Of.
Loretta
Joseph Porte~645 ,.died
New
1914
!latalllOra!l O. yr<l. sarrifld
navld La. R1W, IIfIven children
L!,-s Vagas. N. t!. unmarr.hll
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 CIlILDRU; or OLLVi:Jl FRANi{Llll & R!BECCA RINARD: Ithue "fl'.
firllt cous I ns of t.'vlll1na Ri ggs Dye . MInney (:o;JlpHect::,.
thIs hhtor-y . A.O.K.) -t
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nav,d Portor rUnt , born 1870, uru::nrrlect ~ ~ ,
Rachael !.!innoy botn 1 872 , marrle~ NIcholas 1'. Rfn'ma n
Jaceb Harr isr>n bO]Jfl lA74. um:arrled
Orv1l 1e Victo ria bo~n 1877, a1arrl~d fll char"! 'fl . SlIIith
Ja:l:ts Luther bo!'n 1 680 , e:a rrl ..d !':ath'!rtn't .':'c 111 ~
~'nrgl1r"t Ellz:. hC"rn 1 086 . r.:IU'F I ed ::<1.1n R. Coll ins
The abrva were" all b"rn at RInard '.11113 , OhIo , ~ed to
Pratt, Kansas , In 1887, t()g~th<!r wIth t b"lr UncII': JCllIcph Porter FLInt.
eight :nonths I.tOT, Ol1vtll\.-Fr ankl1n fl I nt & familv IllClve" t o [.as Vega!'. N.
;.;exleo, where thflY .T"':'GIline"d until 1'J20. All cxcP.pt :':argar'l,t "po l1vc" In
Bosten, l:a:<5 . fro:Q 190('-11Hl, thrn to Los Ion881('s, Callf. at." .hr.:f!S "ho
n:ovr.d t o Lc>s Angeles 11'1 1912 and later to Gl"n<tal"" CaUf . (Practtcln~
his pr('lfesslon as a :.t . !r.- in N. !:cx ., Gl~nllale , 1.1'11 L<>s Angeles.) ~

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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

1n ",old . " 11. -' t

PlcK ertng,in Q stra i cht l i e of descent. At the age of 26 , he "as a
'01""
I r<,un" thfl first paracraph above In thfl ~P'l1nt Relfll1ter~. I oroaticn
In the last paragraph, I lparned froc a broa"cast by P'ult('ln pwl!!, Jr . _
during ~;orld Wa r 11. He ha" spent a nleht In the Plck~rlng h<>:e as a
guest, an1 was ~uch impressed . The "Flint Register" makes ~uch of ~.
raet that no flInt was ever haIled tnto court, flxeept thIs snme Atice,
daughter of ~:ill1e.l:I. Th& che:rgf' aga1!'lst her we!! that sh" wor e a
~sI 1k"n Hood , " -!:hen she gave pro('lf that She' wa!l! worth In exc4jlss ('If 1000
poun1s tbe char,e was dls~lssed .
It 15 also recorlded 1n the "Flint R-.gist"r" that "'m"
cof :':r. Fl1nt'lt
descendants were loyal subjects of !<tng Ge('lrge 111 ~urlnlf th" Revolution
an" kno~n to the coloplsts as Torle, . There were many th('lusan~s of them,
who, -ilsg:runtlcd settled In Cana da , Newfound lanoi, and tlova Scotia aftar
the war ~as over. \
It wa. Tholllas FUnt of tho seventh genaratlon and aho • "octor .. ho cam&
with Nathan Bl~'y around Capo Horn In 1853 and to,ether bought land and
r"un<!ed Long Bea,ch, Calif. It. 5!Stllr of the sixth Thomas FUnt, Debodh
Fllnt. har! Irdlrriel'! SIQeon Bixby . The last Thol:lu PUnt, th" • • ht of
thet na:DO that [ foun d knowledge of, was a !Lembflr of tl\e Callf ~te.
L'!gi1l1atur" 'then 1l1ram Johnson was GO\'ernor . He wal kUled In an
&cclr!cnt cocing frQ~Sacra~ento to his home In ~ng Beach. --1
It' .was also our rl'!laU ona _who rQun~ed the city of Pl1nt, lIlehiClln, at
ir.n carlit'Jr date.
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or tho PI ~nt' '!tho rcmalnt:d In New Englln<1, 'fhose whO 1'O!le to IIJ'000lnanee
were ::I(.st!y doeLDrl, IIlInlsters . Judges, anl'l coll"'g'" profellora. The •
r~~~d doc Dr, AustIn FlInt and son Austin were d"lcendant. of ~~.
P:l1~_t . <J c('lul:l nnt -l('lcate what brallch) . _ _
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Ew Flint BlIIrth. born 1649, 'llTote extensh'ely or the nint.. StUI _ . t~
'df(l ot Or-orgc 'lOllson S!IIlth. He beC"III! the 1811' partner. at the Ill_ or
24 (If S.r.:ue l J. Tllden, Ilrlsucces,rul candtate tor thf.l rresldency 1n l'f7S.
fle rClUine d continuously :In that ~rrlce for 55 years. T11""n !Ddt ~t.
e~ecut o r of his wtll. At his de.th(S~lth·s) his wIfe em=. Flint Smith
lucccc~cd him In taking over T11~en's aCfa1rs.
It 15 rccor~ed that they he" no chll"rf'n. Theretore i t h not cl".T who
the Rev . Ahren. i:llrtl"n Slalth .. ho cc;plle1 t,he bobk "Dec .. ndants of Tholll&5
and IHllla::: FUnt" 1s. Probably (I. ~QlatJve c>f Ceor,,, '111111&111 S.rr.ith.
T~ f'LHlTS .tl :t::URCiPE
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David !!oarl!lI:an FUnt of Boston, t!au a' sev~nth Generat10n of Fl1nt~ 1n
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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.
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 •
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 star
which In h~81~ry means' a spur and ~ e 51gnates thalli as a warri or r eople.
on th~ shlel~ of the coat of ar~s arlO thrp~ F11nt Stenes whIch are
1<!p.ntlcal wah th .. coat of arlllS of rhlUp the GOM of France. , Their
motto was "SIne I.:acula trudated " 'd thout Ble:;1:Ih".
It was the discontent in [niland that caused such a. outpourIng of
eliligrantz frc.1II Enll18.nd to J.mp.rlca ju~t prlor to their clvll war 1n 16415.
The Flint' cabe In 1538 and lIIafly 0lth~r of~c.ur ancestor' ~n or around
that dQttl,
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'A?PLlJl. R~becca
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FAR~TILL FA~ILY •
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 r ..,
I7y L"l"TlardO Jall',es FIIT;7ell. A cousin cof Gran<!t'ath"r Jaccb Flint c.l'ld Gover - ,...-
nor of '}jl~. 0, e mfllly t1m"s a c (>ngre~: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~r-
ati (ln , t lJa t bn.ught r (~81 rlantagonct l:>lot'd l ~t o the f 8:1111y .
Gt'o r rr'!!Y PIMtagt:mct, son ( ·f the <ting of 'Palestine , lllarrlo;d '..:at1 1 ~a.
r.aught~'r co f Hu:ry first (,r England . This ('(lupl" Rave t (l [ngl a."!" that
gnat rac(' 'tIt r kings froro Henry first tl.- iienr y 5cvp.nth who r e lgn~ for
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296 yea r s , #?nger than
. any other race of k1ngs • .
tl'm ry th e Fl r :;t su r nar.l e was Beauclerp-, Henry seventh was ru~er, al l be _
tm:cn v:ere Plentagencts , of which Richar <'l the Li en- har ted WIlS rerhaps the
g r eatest . •
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.a1ds-
bys . 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 • •
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The Farwnlls furn i !hed ~y statesmen to our country . Nathan Alle~ Far-
WillI 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<lTe an-'- C"harv_ .al&
the political 1t<ad~r of Ch I cago , wetl on his ",ay to tpe U.S . Sanate.
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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> ...IU" '~ r!l. Charfleld; layl('r, ?Ill!; sdd to be the :Doat vlvl<1 an" 1nt!!r-
csUng 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. ")
Henry Far~ell'. oldest '(In , Ensign Joseph Farwell, was born in 1640 ,
I:.IIrrled Hanah Learnll" In 1666. They were llIarrled in ChellIsford, I.:ass.,
by Sa=.uel Ada=l . She .as a daughter of Isaac Learn ed, who ca:lle from
County of Surrey, England. ThAy were adcltted to the first church DC
Charleston , ~ass ., in 1632 •
.£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 DUlEL Fo\R~H".:.LL ArID i.iARY ;.wOR
DsniP.l: 1)orn 1740, lIIarrled Sybil Pagt'
Anoo bor n 1742, warried S ilas Snoll (!'I(bll &= Lucy Page
lliaac born 1744, ;aarrll;!d Lu", Page were sistp.rs, and
:':lIry bC'rn 1745, :tarried :':ollt'a Melo Serah Page wal their
~t:! lI:on" , born 1750 , carr1t:!!:! !:nry Rusllel1 first coudn)
Zachr.uI, b"rn 1753, a:arrlce! 1&-"1& Gehon
BenJacln . born 1756, mo.rrle<! Lucy C('Il1e r
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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Hearing th8t the colonlsts had bAfln f1retl up(ln at Lexlngt(ln. -:sfas'"
98 lII'!n o f Ipswltch, !l . ll., "roI'P"d evrrything they were engo.god ln and Ie
l",rt on hors .. back before <:layU.:ht on A)r:ll"":ZO, 177"';. raaac anfj Tlraothy _
rar"o1p.l1 w.. re o f thlli cOlllpany . They all took with them r.hatever wearons •
of .,;arfare t.h"':)" ho.,"pcned to hDv~. To Ii ~an they ell .oro "small clothes"
whlch r:eant kn<:!<:! brit.ches, fastened Just below the knee 'l:'lth • ))ucltle,
l«nl st(,cklng~. snd c(lI'Ihl<'lp. shof"s orna::l"nt"'" with larg .. bucklel. '!here
Y.'D.S not a ralr Of bO(lt~ In t.h e CCCJ:8ny' . ThA coats anll walstc(l;lt. were

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plU:" 9 The FARWELL F'AilILY (ccntlnu8d)
' or ~Ugh
<lllten.lons, w!th colors aCVur1ec!. ., the bal'ks of o~
BUlD.e. and
othe r trees could :r.akr th"'lIl~ Thel r !lhlrts , wcre o[ Flax, an" like eve~
. o th~rtlrt of their dre"5, were hC'llles"un . On their hea!!, were larga ....
t ound , to~ brosd-rl~ed hats . Their arms n~ro as varied .~ their 005-
tU!:les, but all \?orll a p"·..."e1"horn c lung unilAt'n"ath th!! arll!.

Th~ wornen of Ip'~lt~h ~pent the nIght or Apri l nlnltpcnth making cloth!"
baking b tr ~a" , and molding bullets for fathers, hus9.l1s, brothflrs , an"
sons . Bidding t he e gC'lc;,d-by at dayb r eak , they r ClJla~!fe<l home to .i'lf'ln
"cavo , ar.'! till the soil. Those ::Ion forced thOl nutieus of Start and
Reed's CO:llpany. which d i d 8<1mirable work at Bunker '!lUI, T.ilelr
costu~es were by no ~eans unique for that time. The Rovolutionary
solo:!il'!r s J'I'a<rlKi"unlfor ms. Only thfl! officers , an!! Dot all of them had
• unlfc:.rms. .
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Isaac ano:! Edmunr! Farnell, brothers. later duriing the Revolution were
among the 6~ ::en 11ho went on hors<!back t;<> 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 .
Tnt: APLllI FA.IilLY ~
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<roffr ey anrl G~th . The
gi r ls wer", R<!becca, ~Uta and Annl< . He r fat her .... le,1 at age 40 of Cholra
du ring lin epioier.llc alo~g the Ohio Rive r. EU7abr.th Uvecl to be 78 year'.
01-1. After their ehllrlri!;n were all marripd Rxcept lIebbcca, thfly solel
their ho'!tl1ngs ~n :.:ar1ett\ and came to Rinarrls l'111 s , 0 to live.
EUta ApUn "Flint was of fair. complexion, amber colored !!lye, and IItraight
silky hall' of the sar.le color. She hali the dignified and aloof mannel'!!
ot the English. She had a very remarkable mind and memory. Hal' husband
Jaccb FlInt was of a very pleasing personality. blue eyes and br ol/on curly
hai r. Ho was very ",·1tty, also a devout :Jethodist , a class leader 1n cnurar.,
f or many y~ar~ . Also a magi,trate of JustleA of the PebcA ancl farmar.
fffialhlng hill health was falUn g, he IIQught to be reliev ed from off'jce.
iUIi neighborfj prevalJ. ed upon h im to stay em. saying, "There is no one 1n
thn corm;unlty ::0 "ell Qualiflecl ." Ha r epl1erl , "ther e ls Frank j he ':oullt-
make Il. butter one that 1 ." ,'/hereu pon his 23 rear old 'on Frank "as elect'
ad and ro-eltlet"'l for ~4 ytl8r S, or until htl, r es i gnerl to move west .
Shortly Io.f~er locating in' tha ·,~es t. he was electerl ot the ~ame oftiee
Which ho held until his death .
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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<l apd eJjt r emel." verNittle.
He was sj~ultanaously a toblCco mp-rchant , a ~ustlcf' 9t the Pea.e, boulht
an" Sillp'f'? livutock: to '''''heeling an1 111.t!!burgh earkets; h" hao:l a '"
general n .. rchandlse st~ra, owned a flour Ino:l ~ar. ~111, a blScK!lmlth shop ,
and a fl::rt::. He rr31ltlced Ia.. t~ so!!;e extent , ..as .. len!lt~n al!:ent, ano:l an
auctl~n«'r. (fe centracte" Cor ano1 bunt. gra"flt:! roel!.s 1n his cO:Muntty ,
loll!! .. ,.:a!'cn , an1 an Cd" fello., and t(.ok .. grEat Intl!rest in politics .
B'!;Ccre 11(, "ill!! 30 y .. ar!! ('11 It was sat., 11(> 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. ': .
TIlE p~ FA.aiuY ' I N A.Ji::RICA
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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,!; . ....
{)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;."
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In 1706 1'I11n08' Parker ml:l rr1 1Jd Abigail Scri'PtUlle, daughter of 6a:::uol
anll El17.~'~eth Sc r1p~ur q . !'hinea'!;I....!&1"ker's daughter !.:aryo married John
rntP.. ;heir daughter Lucy Pag~ married I.lac Pa~ll . and th~1r
o1augh ter Lucy FarwlIll oal'r1erl Porter FUnt In 1790.
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!!any uf tho ral'ker!': bec&lII'l rt'C>lDln'!nt . There was Th('(ldore Fauer, the
great I="1'<>ach"r , There WtlS Jar.l'J:; Parker tl'om the ol'lglnal "Jmr:e.- branch
of Park' I'~ .,,'ho was a Car tntn . ,',e !lilY, btl statue on LflxtnRton Gre.n. !'Ie
&bt:'l'JP :r:! tnt:: m"n (>f L"l(!nr,ton tn<::r.., on A,.l'l1 l~. l774 , aCtel" Paul Revere
hil.,l ~',ulI'l',.., tn', til .. rr:l, "Thfl tl rltis.h. Ilrll <:o:lllng" . S('noath his IItatue
&Irq t h,.!,., fa~",us "",rds ~St"n1 yoUt gru\ltU.i . · .. <>nl Don 't rtr .. udlC's. CIred
uroo, but Jf tn''Y tO'can teo r.ILV"t Tou r, 1<::..10. Jt bcgtn h('re". Th.. r . . .a8 aillo
th .. rar"" r "ho foun1cd tnt' Camout hotela, Itno1 !!Iapy othprl .
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T.dwln Colbur n arrivtd 1n Boston I n 16:55 , 0,," the !'!hlp Defiance. !'fet'H ,
frolO fngl.ntl. . Th", \'oyag", laste1 54 lIIays. !'Ie ;iall 17 year. of age a th.t
ttce, Lat"'r h<'l cc>ve':l to Droo cut. ~a;s : 5tHl later he bec.aclI!l the first
settl""r on tile north !lid" -of the ~Ilrrl:z;ac Rh".r. !fa took lJ!th hi= hill
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7 lItur dy IOn!! , his a son-in- Ia.s an1 ti'l'llr (-.zille,. ,
It .. as necessary for loam to build a g;Il'ri son ilous" f o r pr ote¢tlon
againllt toe lndi.ns . A large two-."!tory hru,"I c>f logs, the top s t or y
Flttf'no1lng ('ut • fo-.: feet wider than t!'l't 10."1" story was er ected . !'Ill
[c.urt" sCln, T:1.('O.1I8S Colburn, marrt-' !!annah R"lpht' . Thf'Y b"CIIIII"I th ..
parc!'lt!l rf !lanna!'! Colburn , b(,1'n 1n 1673 , .!'Io Illarri'!1 Joseph Far."l!.
All of the Ilbovo w"re (lur 11 r <:lc t ancesto r !! ,
Tlii:. SIJ.rlCriAil.O F".!LLY IN A.ll:.RICA
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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<l 1 . !'!l5 t(\mbston'l Is the only
onc o f tho. 'Pllgr1o:::s stUl . standlng. .
THE FARtIU!! FA.uLY IN ~JHCA

Ralph Farnum was a tltl'lt! P.ngll"'~'''":'ln, bor n 1n London In 1603. ~ls 'ilIff!
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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<llrllha.::: :':(\01' anr. bcca:!!" the paroots cof that 11a:oUU' ':001' "hose rlau€htE'r
::ary ~~()(Ir I&lI rr1e" tSll.ie-l Fa r\lleU.• J~til"r o f I ~aae ant! h is 011'11' brother,
ran!,::l, iino1 ~ otn'1r ci1Udr~n . Chtlrlull :;(;nJu1I1n fauell an" brothel'
Jchn VJlll.l e rs , of "nom I hl:lv~ '71"14 .·n , "£:rtl ilescenilanh or fl.:m1&1 Far'llell ,
lin 0 1<11)1' ~ r9th£:r of our ancestor, "Isaac". ),:arle Louise Far~elt, thelr
.:!llst£:r w&!vtn<1 :l:otn'lr of CIJur1 .. s F."r ... <lll Edson , Sr . The above Farwells
ff"l'llI ChB.{l'O'! , BcnJarll1n , en ",- r e of th,a sl1mc gene ratIon as our fathe r,
'thlch .."tIut~ :::ai<e thr,.'D hIS sccend d01,;ble second t;C\uslns, as Daniel ilnd
Isaac F~u',;~ll l:arrJt,,\ sistus, S)'b11 and Lucy Pag~ . ~

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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.-:: ·:f...
n franc1sco
thO' Elr.r.rns to tht! ::(a~ ,
ty of the Golden Cate" .M'Los Angeles , trOll
"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 . •
(Sir Tr.c:as =ore, 1478-1535 , ~~Gl lsh author an~ at.taman. born at'
Chea:Olit!e, London . In 16~\ bec: • .:;e a a:emer of Pa:r118I:1ent . In 16.29
he beea!!:. Lord Chancellor. He r115pllqed virtu"! and sli'1pl1ctt".' la."h-
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charging hiS dutiu d chancellor, but he opposed tho klns' on qu~t1onl
o r r oyal 5upr~=acy an!'! tnl" divorce, 8n<1 whp-n th" Annut .. s Act lOa' paned
1632 dt:rrJvlng toOl pope o f the fir st yaa r'-s Inc Olllfl (1'01:1 b-ll''1flces,
• -~oro r. 51gn .. <1 tn" Oreat Seal. FalUng In 5ev"ral atte:lpts to \'TIn back
·:(:r" '5 !up:(\rt. Ronry th'!! eIghth .,l';clc!l';<I on hi! tlestruct.lC'n an" f(\un':!
his o~p(\rlun lty In 1&34 ~hrn th,.. ~x-chanc~llC'r reCus-<I to rAcognl7.~
th .. kIng as ?lead DC tne !':ngUsh church . Arter a year Imprll'l~_nt In
th~l> .. r or [,ondon, !!or e was tr.l ~c! on • charge DC hIgh tr"allon . The
, pe rJur e<l t es tir:;rrrv DC the solicItor Kenllral, beCore a plcke" Jury
brcught a verdIct of " Ouilty~. ~~C're was behea<1'lt! July 6, 1035. He h
Cenous as the autnor pC"Utopla", a :at1rlcal sketch , flr:;t r-uol1she-i In
LatIn In 1516 . It descrlbas as Ideal cocoonwealth where r e11Eion Is
• purll tho!s:!! , tlher o toleratIon Is Ill&Ost absolute, and where socIal lICe
15 r cgulatotl·accordln& to thc dIctates oC natural reason. L!ore 11as
canonlted by the R(>It8ll CatnoUc ChUrch In 1935; !"l.11 feast day 15 July
9) • • ·A::er. People~·Enc . 1H> A. X.
(I re~lIob"r ~ot~er
saying that oC her chIldren, DwIght had the 1al~skln
and gen'!ral color Ing oC tne Flint branch DC tho facily . "The strong sense'
oC humer an<l genIus Cor m~rrlm~tna1so fIt in here . A.r..)
THE IIATH(iRJ FA..aLY

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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Lieut. Th o~a5 Putnam was born In England In 1614, eam~o ... t. 1n 1640~
an I IIIIlt rl e" Alt~ Hc>lyoke In Lynn,,~a,s . Their son, Jon.~han. born in le.M.
carrlr<1 llrrlla Porl e r . They bec&:ao the parents of Iqdla rutna~ who 111'85
be-Tn In'l€S4, 6n:1-U;llfrt~1. th e thir d 'holll&8 FUnt and bf!!car.l'! the pa rents ot
~rf'\lrth 1ho:::85 F11n . '--
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Ly~lll F'!rt nllo 's brothl'Jr when cnry 22 ~r.!O 01" announce" hl:21!1el.r~!I
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uncqulyoc;'jll~ 'orrosed to the ·... hole .1t.."lcTeft procoeding!! th<>ft ta k ing . ....~
place In Eal"!!! , ~ass . • "harc ·he Uve':!'" lie f''lfusecl to hov", his Infant
baptl;:;"'~ tn thf' S8!!:" church that burn,,1j '/'Iltch~s . C'T fUPf<>'''· ... witch"!!! .
Tnl!'> ';'{If; rarticularly hard on hl;:o for SOI:l' ot his r clat1v,,§ an'" friends
~er'! ccnn~cte~ w1th lbat ~lacal ~ovement.

Hl~ oielAT Br other's 12 year

ol~ daughter .a8 cn p ~f th~ ~~all g1rls
VinCI thf= furor . Ha J oseph Putnam, k"pt a horse ~a~,n .. <1 for :r.any
~tD rt "oi
~onths tnat he ~l&nt fle o the wrath of the wItch hunt ers If It b~came
necessary.
Tn,ts sa~~ Joseph Putnam became the fath!!r of General Israel Putnam, ..
Gc('rgll ¥'ashlng ton's favorite general. Another RevolutIonary General
Rufus Iutnam , VIas said to be a brother of Joseph an~ Lydia. Figuring thilr
a,""" it see.::;, a brother of theIrs would have been too old for.
Genef'al at. that tl.:::e . Any7IGJ.", he, ~oo was a close relative. Thls~e
Genr.ral Ru!u~ PutnaCll i~ the CIne who 1JIrevalled upon "a5hlngton (after
the Revolution) to allocate an1 appropriate ~ney to foun d . colony for
th!! sC'loilers ,:ho were lcpoverished b~ the war. He, RIC1lself, led the
ncY:' celony.
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• They "'mt by horseback anll wagon to t.ne !lonongahela River . There they
built bo~ts end float cd down the rIvers. They landed at Marietta, or
wha'; bp.ca:J'" :':ar1etta on thIJ OhIo Rive r. Rufus made every effort to
cake this first settlp.2cnt In the state of ~hlC1 a success In 1788.
There h" ltvec and dIed and 15 burled . HIs deccndants are pr oclnent
cltlt!!n' of ~arletta to thiS cay.
Thill ploMer sottlement 15 1n all 'poobabil1ty the lUre that br ought the
FlJnts Cr oCI Uasllachulletts and \'ermont to Wash ington County, Ohio •
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F'LlllT .:.if.JJRiAL LIBRAm" AT t;CRTH READING, !!ASS.

In 1872 :.:rs Charles F FlL"lt " l sh~d te beneCit thll Inhabitants

of No rt h Re,<11ng by establi~htng a Crl"e l1brary at hl!r own
expenDe . :n 1875 the Flint library 1I'as lIIove<1 to Flint 1!<trllorlal
hall. RoolI!!I 1n thf~ library ar'" <1evote1 to m"~ol'abllia an<1
history of tha flint family A.I{. ..

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L ThM1U FUnt b . Wales 1603 d. le83 at SalB!l) !.!au. 1n AllIer. leis
m. 1642 or 43 to Anne----
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2 Thomas Flint b . r645, 6alem u u . d . Capt. 1n !tins
m. 2 wives, s'lcOlIIl ¥ al"Y Dountqn In 1677
ha>! 9 childran to ~ary
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3. Tnoma! Flint b . 16?8, 1 . 1757
m. 3 wives m. Lydia Putcao in 1703
total of 9 children
4. Tholn&s FUnt b . 1705, 1 . 1775
pl . 1n 1732 Prlc1l1a Porter b . 1712
eh. 11 Six S(IflS all served in Amer. Rev. •

•• Joseph FUnt
(th~ thlrd~
b. 1737 d.----
m. Hannah Hp.nnlck In Rea11ng Uass.
• • First child oC three forte:!:' Flint

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b. 1763 d. ______ _
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Jacob Flint
FHnt
m. Lucy Farwell.. In 17~O
Ch . 10 all born In Verlllont.
b . 1805 d. age 82 at Rinard JiHls
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5 chtldren. Fourth Child Loretta.
6. "t.c,retta FUnt b. 1641 d. 1925, at New /;Iatamoras 0
m. Davl~ ~urdoek Riggs ~ (Ref. Riggs ? lstory)
7 ehl1~ren as follows:-
SKr..iCI:I. FRO. OJ::...ul\i f.<; la TH/DATES (,IF SUCC:.EDING CeUl:lIIATIOr;S
9. out
Lyda m. :.1arlon Rldg.,.. ay bur. Ilarletta Cem oh. Loretta, IUl7.abeth, Lu
/ lora, Hulda l1ve In
and ar"und :.Iar letta
Ru11a ~. John Bell eh. ~ajor,d. Ernest , d. Glen at Rye Col" .
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Carrie Bell Q. ""son ~le eh. Jallles d. PIttsburgh, Loretta d . Bacon Rld,gc.
, Celli. Superior tlE'br.
Nancy Eliza m. G~"rge Hill eh. David, ~. Ft . Steub. Cem., John, Cora,
.:. .' '{juy. liar. "'.
, 1!aJ'Y Evaline Q . !.:areellu" Dye eh. David, DlJlght,t retta.~. Salem, 0
,V Celli. W1l1ard, Agnea. Hfllen.

/ Cora 1:1 . Robert AlElo'

Lucy Garfhld. m. Frank .ueCasl1n. lived Now Olatamoras. 0 ,h. Beryl. Ind
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The History of

'NILLIAU FLINT

Written by
Fidell a Flint Jacobs

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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 Spaf-
ford, 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. He presi-
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 cross-
ing 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 res-
cued 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 hard-
ships, 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
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him" she said,· "VYhY .. I don't know anyth~mz: 8.bout you. fI He asked her
to see Brother Heber C. Kimball, which she did, and Brother Kimball
told her she would do well to get such a fine man for a husband.
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 Lei born October 21, 1856, in Farmington, Davis County,
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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CHILDHOOD - GIRLHOOD

As I have mentioned before, I was born at Farmington October

21, 1856. 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 John-
son'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 hos-
tile 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 re-
turned 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 reRch-
ing 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 im-
pression 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
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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

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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. I was
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 con-
struction 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 my-
self. 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.
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I 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 dis-
tanoe 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 in-
formed 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 sheep-
ishly, "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. ex-
chanpe 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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recall,. arid:' s'at" down. President Brigham Young arose and said tor
fear all In,'the bul'd1:ng didn't he~r he w"uld reueat it. Just
thirteen days after, th~s, nn S~ntember '7. 1870, he was re-bantized
1ntl"') the ohurch, and was o·~nf'lrm.ed by Edward Stevens. He had been
severed from the church for thirty-three years.
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. I received two dollars a week and gave mother one
or 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. On one occasion I remember of telling her
I was at least honest and upr1ght. She was a very beautirul girl.
In later years there was a peculiar coincidence. Fate was not as
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 had our endowments. TbJ.s was on January 6, 1874.
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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2. If publication is not indicated, it shall become n part of the archives to perfect the
record of the Utah Pioneers.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOODRIDGE OF LUNENBURG
~ .. 1794 -1659
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.
5. FROM THE JOURNAL OF PENELOPE RANDALL GARDNER GOODRIDGE,
typed by Rhoda Hardy Garn.
6. GEORGE ALBERT GOODRICH FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY- 1606-
1976, Vol. I and II, by Hazel Hilbig, 1976 (GAC-HH)
7. HISTORY OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, D. Hamilton
Hurd, 1889.

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

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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. (Found in
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.
 There were hail and hardy white men who were known to frequent
·
~ .' .' t·he Worcester County area earlier, but the modern history (which
means written records) of the town of Lunenburg, Worcester County,
Massachusetts, began with a grant of two hundred and four acres of
land to Nathaniel Walker, June 6, 1663, which was surveyed in
October 1666, subsequently owned by Ephraim Savage and later by
James Kibby. This acreage was situated near the 1889 line of
Shirley, in neighboring Middlesex County.
In 1672, one hundred and fifty acres were granted to Mrs.
Francis Adams located in the present east part of Lunenburg, and
later also owned by Mr. Kibby.
There was also in that year a grant of two thousand acres for
a town to be called Woburn, apparently nothing happened to it, and
the grant was renewed in 1716. The following year the large grant
was surveyed, and another grant "next to Woburn Farm" WaS surveyed,
for a grant for "Dorchester Town."
This region was known as Turkey Hills for many years, and of
the five natural ponds in it, three were known by their Indian
names: Unkachewalwlck, Massapauge, Cataconamog, Lane's Pond and
Dead Pond. On December 7, 1719, a grant for two towns was made by
the General Court. On December 22, seven men went out to survey the
boundary lines of the two townships, doing it in eight days. While
surveying they found Mr. Samuel Page, the first settler in
Lunenburg, already residing on the province land. The following
April, the east line of the new towns was established.
May 11, 1720, this same committee began letting out the land
to grantees, in what the committee called "Horth Town" and "South
Town." The North Town consisted of present Townsend and Ashby;
South Town included present Lunenburg, Fitchburg and a part of
Ashby. The committee, appointed by the General Court, were the
proprietors and the affairs of the township were conducted by them.
The tiny settlement grew slowly. These settlers were
const·antly in danger from the Indians, who were anything but
friendly, and hardships abounded. Only nine families were situated
in the Lunenburg area in 1725, as evidenced by the following
petition.
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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 Goodridge --"lieutenant, but he was sick and not with the company
" when the forgoing pay-roll was made up." (p. 770.)
The citizens of Lunenburg wrote their petitions of freedom
during the Revolutionary War, as did citizens of the other
colonies. They "are clearly expressive of a sentiment and purpose
that animated and sustained the patriots of Lunenburg through the
trials and sacrifices of the war." (p.771)
"Two companies of twenty-seven men, exclusive of officers,
were organized October 25, 1774. In the choice of officers all
males over sixteen years of age were allowed to vote." A
geographical line was drawn to divide the town into two parts, and
a company was raised from each part. Also listed among the troops
were the names BENJAMIN GOODRIDGE, WILLIAM GOODRIDGE, ABIJAH
GOODRIDGE, JOSHUA GOODRIDGE from Lunenburg, and JOHN GOODRIDGE from
Fitchburg.
As soon as the word came about the fighting at Concord, a full
company marched from Lunenburg to help out there. They
participated in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment in the service in
Boston, and some of them were with him 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 older towns 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,
 deceased 11 years, Sewall, age 10, and Zabdial, age 9. There was
.' also one sister, Elizabeth, age 1 year .
The family lived in Lunenburg. Benjamin Franklin's father was
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,
 pp 19-21.
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Benjamin F's father-in-law, Abel Gardner, died in nearby
Fitchburg, April 29, 1840.
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 (1843-
PMD). 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 Latter-
day 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 was killed by lightening it came to my mind that
it was the last of our troubles on our journey, which I prophesied
to my friends. We had no more incidents worth naming except herds
of buffalo and one day we were surrounded with about five hundred
·..,
Indians, all mounted with good arms. It looked rather scarey for
,. 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, but being
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-grand-
daughter, 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
" ..
"

in our devotions, and united. A vote was taken to that effect.

They called upon the Lord in prayer that He would bless us and
preserve us on our journey to the valley. We then started on our
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 baptism had been delayed
until now because of his 111ne58- PMD.)
For a week or more, they experienced heavy thunderstorms, and
on the 12th, a horse drowned in the swollen river, which was two
feet over its normal height. On the 15th, a Bro. Ridges was killed
by lightening during another 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!
 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
It • • •

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.
 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
'.'
,

situated outside and around the Block, and when Benjamin arranged
'f 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 n714S ... )

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 - almost the same information appears in a pamphlet
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. He
was her only child.
(This information gleaned from GAG-HH, Vol I pp . . . . . . . )
After Benjamin F.' 5 death, there would be forty-five more
grandchildren born, making a total of sixty-four. His son George
Albert would end up having three wives and thirty-two children.
George's thirty-two children was an equal number to the children
his six sisters had 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, OPH-
KBC, 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-in-
law, 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. He would suffer no
more. His mind, sick for so long a time, would now be restored to
full faculty in the great beyond. His body, weary and worn by
years of weakness and ill health, was laid to rest in the Lord's
good earth, and he was at peace.

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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