Maria Goode Smith

Maria Goode Smith

Maria Goode was born 16 May 1831 to George and Selena Mary Ann Holder Goode.  She was baptized a member of the Church Latter Day Saints on 22 Aug. 1849.

She came to Utah with her sister, Sarah Goode Marshall and Sarah's six children on the Edmund Ellsworth Handcart Company in 1856.  She arrived in Salt Lake on the 26 August 1856.

She went to Fillmore, Utah, and married Jonathan Pidcock Smith in Fillmore, Utah, on 22nd of October, 1856. Married by Lewis Brunson.   In 1862 Maria repaid $20.00 to the Perpetual Immigration Fund.  In 1868 she was noted as being in the Fillmore Ward Choir.  Maria and Jonathan are on the 1870 and 1880 Federal Census living in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah.  The couple bought property in 1880 and it was sold again in 1886.   We have not been able to find an exact death date for her.

She went to Salt Lake City and took her endowments out at the Salt Lake Endowment House.

The records that contain information on early church members are kept in Special Collections at the LDS History Center in Salt Lake City Utah. You have to have Temple Recommend to view these records.

Maria Goode is listed in the Endowment Film # 183,404 in Book C. Page 44.  Her name is listed as Maria Smith.  She took her endowments out on Oct 2, 1856, on this film it shows her parents George and Selena Mary Ann Holder Goode.

This record has been verified by Delmont (Pete) Goff and Jolene Goff. On the 25 May 2011 they personally viewed the records.

The sealing of Jonathan Pidcock Smith and Maria Goode Smith is on Film #  1,149,514, page 325, Sealing,  Number 2165.  The date was 31 of August, 1858.  This sealing was performed by Amasa M. Lyman, a member of the 12 Apostles.  This sealing was done at the home of  Orson Tyler in Beaver he was the Sheriff in Beaver, Utah.  The witnesses to this sealing were A. Sullivan and J.H. Raser.

Amasa M. Lyman

The reason for the sealing being done in Beaver is because from  March 19, 1858 until August 20, 1859, there were no endowments recorded in the Salt Lake Endowment  House because there was unsettled advent in Salt Lake City with the U.S. Army being present in Salt Lake during the time that the Church was being persecuted. This note is listed on the film at the end of the film in September 1858 film number 183404

Jonathan Born on the 5 May, 1816 in Tinicum, Bucks Pennsylvania.   Died on the 9 Sept 1890, buried in Fillmore Utah, Fillmore Cemetery  Block 31, Lot 3 Grave 6, no head stone as noted on the Fillmore First Ward records.

We have been to the Fillmore, Utah, cemetery and Jonathan is buried in the Pioneer Section of the cemetery.  He has a grave site, but no headstone.  Maria is not buried in this grave site.  The Sexton indicated that during this period of time some families were buried one on top of another, Maria was buried  around 1880 and Jonathan on September 9, 1890.

From early records of Fillmore, names of people who deeded all their property to the church and joined the United Order are found.   Jonathan P. Smith's name is among those listed, indicating that he and Maria lived by the United Order for a time at least.   The information was taken from book entitled, "Millard Milestone" page 13. The research for Jonathan Pidcock Smith and Maria Goode has been challenging but rewarding, through lots of prayer and perseverance I feel like we are closer in solving this mystery in our family for so many years. 

The reason we put so many different documentation and various information we hope that someone out there will be able to add to the story.  One fact we know for sure is that Jonathan Pidcock Smith came from Tinicum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and he married Maria Goode, Sarah Goode Marshall's sister . Thanks for all those who have helped solve this mystery.

 Do you think Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick. knew Jonathan Pidcock Smith because his brother John Pearson Smith lived in Logan Utah and went to the Logan Temple where Sarah often went.?

Pete and Jolene Goff

beaverpete@q.com

 I'm so grateful to Pete and Jolene for their research and documentation of Maria Goode.  It had been recorded in error, that Maria died along the way and was buried "in the plains".   Having the record corrected with meticulous documentation as they have provided is so important in clearing up this long standing error.   I have researched as others have, reading all the diaries available that were kept of Capt. Edmund Ellsworth's Company finding no record of her death or burial.  They seemed to keep a consistent record of deaths and location of burials, none was reported for Maria Goode.  I have also seen documents of Maria's marriage to Jonathan P. Smith.  The documents identified Maria as the daughter of George and Selena Holder Goode. The only record I could find however that she did come all the way to Salt Lake, was a brief mention in a history for George T. Marshall, where its stated,  "Maria, his mother's twenty-five year old sister came from England with the family and was a great help in crossing the plains during the entire journey."
Georgia Drake

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Sources:
United States Census 1880 for Jonathan P. Smith Forest of Dean Family History Ken Wilks of LDSFamily History Center in SLC Utah
Sons of God, Gwendoyn Perkins, pp 311