Joseph Chadwick - Daughters of Utah Pioneers

Joseph Chadwick Monument
Franklin City Cemetery Franklin Idaho

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Sarah Marshall, daughter of Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick, was only 18 months old when she came across the plains with her mother and siblings. In a history written for her by her daughter, Ida Callan, she says this about Joseph Chadwick, "When Sarah was young in years her mother married a man by the name of Joseph Chadwick. He was a very fine man but very stern and at an early age the children were forced to earn their own living. They were not allowed to come home to visit--so grandmother used to sneak notes to them when she wanted to let them know of something that was of importance. The going was rough for my mother (Sarah Marshall), so at the early age of 14, that she might have a home, she married a wonderful man by the name of John Peter Poole. He died and she married Stephen Callan in 1888."

An older child, Selena, says of Joseph Chadwick, "Mrs. Marshall married Joseph Chadwick in 1857. Mr. Chadwick didn't prove to be a good husband to Selena's mother. She obtained a divorce in 1860. That spring she left Ogden and took her family to Cache Valley, arriving in Franklin, Idaho, 14 April 1860, where she made her home. Selena worked very hard to help her mother get a home; they planted garden and small crops. She went to the canyon for wood, also plowed with an ox team.'' Selena married Robert Gregory Jan. 2, 1863, when she was 18 years old. They were quiet about their marriage and lived a short time with Selena's mother, then made a home out in Franklin Fort.

Evidently Joseph Chadwick had some troubled times. His first wife Mary 'Whitehead came to Utah Aug 31, 1860. Joseph's and Sarah's son, Charles Frederick, was only about three weeks old. 'In a story about Mary Whitehead written by her daughter, it says, "she went to Lehi and took her nephew William Whitehead to join the family and then (moved to mill Creek (Slaterville) to the Joseph Chadwick farm. Joseph Chadwick wanted to leave his second wife and go back to Mary but she was too independent and wouldn't have him. She went to Franklin, Idaho in the fall of 1860. She did washings and sewings for people there." Mary Whitehead died in 1864 at the age of 62. Joseph Chadwick died suddenly in 1876 and was buried next to her in the Franklin Cemetery. Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick lived in the Chadwick home in Dayton until her death in 1904. She was also buried in the Franklin Cemetery. The story didn't say how close she was buried to her husband and his first wife.

Editor's note:  Sarah is buried on the far southern end of the cemetery, and Joseph and Mary are buried on the northern end.

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Joseph Chadwick - Daughters of Utah Pioneers

TITLE PAGE
PIONEER NAME Joseph Chadwick
BIRTH DATE AND PLACE 9 May 1809 Yorkshire, England
DEATH DATE AND PLACE 7 Apr 1876 Dayton, Idaho
FATHER William Chadwick
MOTHER Molly Shaw

WHO MARRIED AND DATE

Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick
Mary Ann Whitehead

YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH about 1856
NAME OF COMPANY no company. Came from California
WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE Theda Judd
WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE Theda Judd
ADDRESS 82 W. 600 N. Farmington, Utah 84025
CAMP NAME Helen Mar miller
COMPANY NAME Davis/Farmington
CAMP HISTORIAN Theda Judd
ADDRESS
COMPANY HISTORIAN Wanda Barker
ADDRESS 68 W. 950 N. Farmington, Utah
SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND PAGE NUMBERS:

Histories by daughter (in-law), Tuna Chadwick and granddaughter May C. Jones.

Histories by daughters of first wife, Mary Ann Whitehead, and by daughters, of second wife, Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick.

I hereby give this history to the National Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers with the understanding that:

1. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers has the right to edit and publish it.
2. If publication is not indicated, it shall become a part of the archives to perfect the record of the Utah pioneers.
3. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers has the right to reproduce this history for the benefit of its members, and descendants of the pioneer.


JOSEPH CHADWICK

Joseph Chadwick was born May 9, 1809 in Yorkshire, England, and died April 7, 1876 at Dayton, Idaho. He was buried in the Franklin, Idaho cemetery.

As a boy he worked as an apprentice in a rope factory and later in the coal mines in England.

He joined the Latter Day Saints Church in 1841 and with his parents and family, sailed for America on the ship "Samuel Curling". They were on the water nine weeks.

He had married Mary Whitehead in England and they had lived in Oldham, Lancashire, England. Nine children were born to them in Oldham, and two more were born in New Mines, Pa., where Joseph first settled and worked for 2½ years.

Evidently he and his wife had some trouble and they separated before he came west. He went to California in 1854 and stayed about three years. His wife stayed in Pennsylvania. He brought one son, Benjamin with him. They somehow ended up in Franklin, Idaho (which was then thought to be in Utah), where he met and married Sarah Goode Marshall.

The writer of Sarah Goode Chadwick's biography says, "Here she met and married Joseph Chadwick, a widower with several children by his first wife. He was a miner and prospector who hailed from the gold fields of California. He also did some farming. Two sons were born to Sarah and Joseph. They were William M. and Charles Fredrick Chadwick. Sarah endured many hardships as Mr. Chadwick was far from being a kind husband to her."

Luna Chadwick, wife of Charles Fredrick, and May Chadwick Jones, her daughter, have this to say about Joseph Chadwick, "He was an average sized man, strong and healthy; was a hard worker and good provider, always thoughtful and kind to his family and the needy."

Mary Whitehead Chadwick, his first wife, died in Franklin, Idaho, on 20 March 1874. It is not clear from the sources I am using when she left Pennsylvania. Four children died when very young (Abraham, Abraham, William Joseph, Sarah), and three more when about 10 (Elizabeth) or 12 (Eliza) years old. Two others died at ages 42 (Adam) and 57 (James). Only one, Benjamin, lived to the ripe old age of 80. Benjamin married Sarah Walker in 1860. Mary Ann lived to be 93. She married Robert Hull.

Luna Chadwick and May Jones, in their sketch of the life of Joseph Chadwick, go on to say, "On his return from California, cat he met and married a widow, Sarah Goode Marshall, who had six children. The hand cart company with which Sarah Goode Marshall came across the plains in 1856 was the Captain Ellsworth Company. (Ellsworth Handcart Company, September 26, 1856)

On October 6, 1857, a son was born to them, William. They were among the first pioneers arriving in Franklin, Idaho in 1860. On August 6, 1860, Charles Fredrick, husband of Luna Nelson and father of May Jones, was born.

The pioneers had many hardships to encounter. Food was scarce and no money to buy with. The Indians gave them considerable trouble, raiding the homes, scaring the women and children, as well as stealing the horses and cattle.

Joseph always gave freely of his scanty means to help the Emigrants coming west, and to help those in need.

In about the year 1868, Joseph and his wife and two boys, as well as some of the stepchildren, went to Dayton, Idaho, (which was first called Chadville), where he used his homestead right on a piece of land of 160 acres. There he built a two-roomed log house near Five-Mile-Creek, using the north room for a little store.

He carried groceries, meats, and supplies for travelers and freighters. He raised some grain and cut considerable wild hay to feed the cattle he raised. Deer was plentiful and they had all the venison they wanted. They were getting along nicely, when Joseph caught a severe cold and died in less than a week with pneumonia. This was in the year 1876. The Marshall children were grown and married by this time, which left Sarah and the two boys, Will and Fred, to make their living the best they could. They kept on with the little store and kept cows and made butter to sell. She lived until 23 April 1904 and was buried in the Franklin Cemetery. The story of Sarah Goode Chadwick is in the DUP files. (Daughters Of Utah Pioneers)

Further research in the DUP files resulted in finding a story of Mary Whitehead, first wife of Joseph Chadwick, which says that she stayed in New Mines, Pa. while Joseph and his oldest living son, Benjamin went to California to earn money to build a home in Utah. The author of this story says "He gave her money to pay her expenses to Utah and they agreed to meet there in two and a half years. After he left she did washings for the miners and took in boarders to keep herself and children. In 1857 she and her three children started for Utah, by way of New York. When they arrived they found there was no emigrants coming west for a month, so they returned to New Mines and took up their labors again as they had no money. She had loaned some money to the presiding elder and he had failed to return it, thus leaving her with nothing to pay her expenses to Utah.

In a month's time she tried to collect the money left by her husband from Mr. Phroux. Mr. Phroux was advised by Pres. John Taylor (Who was visiting there) to sell all he had and take the Chadwick family along with his own and come to the valleys of the mountains. He did not heed the counsel given him and as a result he suffered greatly.

Mary had written to California and Utah but had received no word from her husband, there being no regular mail. The husband and son had come to Salt Lake and had been misinformed that Mary had died. Benjamin went to work at Camp Floyd near Salt Lake where he met a young man from Pennsylvania who knew his mother and he told Benjamin she was living. Benjamin went East at once to find her. It was a happy meeting, after five years, but also a sad one as he had to tell her that his father had married a widow named Sarah Marshall." The family, after many hardships finally made it to Utah in 1860, with the Robinson Handcart Company.

The writer of Mary's story also says, "After her arrival in Salt Lake on August 31, 1860, she went to Lehi and took her nephew William Whitehead to join the family and then moved to Mill Creek to the Joseph Chadwick's farm." It is not clear if this is Mill Creek near Salt Lake or near Ogden. Benjamin Chadwick lived in Slaterville, near Mill Creek in Ogden, so I presume it was near Ogden. Evidently Joseph and Sarah had just moved to Franklin, Idaho about this time. The writer of Mary's story goes on to say, "Joseph Chadwick wanted to leave his second wife and go back to Mary but she was too independent and wouldn't have him. She went to Franklin in the fall of 1860, where she did washings and sewing for the people there. At the time of her death she was living with her daughter, Mary Ann Hull. She died 20 March 1874 at the age of 62 and was buried in Franklin, Idaho.

There is another discrepancy in the story by Luna and May Chadwick. They said that Joseph Chadwick's family came to America on the ship "Samuel Curling.” The name of the ship was not mentioned in any of Benjamin's or Mary's stories. It was said in Sarah Goode Chadwick's story that she and her children came on the ship "Samuel Curling."

The story of Benjamin Chadwick says that he (and I suppose his father, Joseph) went by sail boat down the Atlantic coast to Panama and then walked overland to the Pacific Ocean, where I presume they got another boat to California. The story of Benjamin Chadwick is in the DUP files and is an exciting and interesting bit of history concerning the Indian troubles in and around Franklin, Idaho.

A family group sheet on file in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, lists a Mary Duce as another wife of Joseph Chadwick. Not all the sheets on file have her listed. Joseph's granddaughter, daughter of Charles Frederick Chadwick, said, "There was talk that Grandpa was a Polygamist but he seemed to just stay with Grandma (Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick) and live with just her." Since he died in 1876 and Vera was not born until 1890 she probably didn't know much about the situation.

Family group sheets also reveal that William and Frederick Chadwick were sealed to Sarah's first husband, Thomas Marshall, along with some Marshall children 8 May 1912. The children of Joseph Chadwick and Mary Whitehead were sealed to them 22 Jan 1896. They were sealed to each other in the Logan temple 11 Mar 1891. Since all this was accomplished long after the deaths of all concerned, it is hard to say what their wishes really were.

Theda W. Judd
Wife of Wm. R. Judd, Jr.,
Son of Vera Chadwick Judd,
Daughter of Luna and Charles Frederick Chadwick.

This copy, made available through the courtesy of the International Society DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS, may not be reproduced for monetary gain.

(Editor's Note:  There are errors in this history but posted due to other information it contains that is helpful.)


Mary Whitehead Chadwick

Mary Whitehead Chadwick, together with her family, came to Franklin, Idaho in the fall of 1860. Being always very thrifty, she did washing and sewing for the people there. At the time of her death, she lived with her daughter, Mrs. Robert M. Hull. Two days before she died she sang a hymn "When I Read my Title Clear”. Before she died, she told those around her that if they would keep her sister away and if they would all be quiet, at 9 o'clock the next morning she would pass away, which she did, 20 March 1874.`

The Whitehead Family organization was named in honor of this woman and her sister Martha, they being the only members of the family to join the church. It is known as the Mary and Martha Whitehead Organization, and includes all of their descendants which number 200 in 1929.

Source: Ancestry.com

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Sources:
Ancestry.com
International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers