A Sketch of Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick

Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick

     This sketch is written by Luna Chadwick, daughter-in-law and May Chadwick Jones, grand-daughter.

     She was born March 2, 1822, in Michaeldeen, England.  We have heard her tell about working for the well-to-do families as a girl.  When she was middle-aged, the Mormon elders visited their home.  She was interested in the principles at once, and began to investigate.  She would walk several blocks to get to hear the Mormon elders speak, which caused some disturbance in the home, for her husband was very much opposed to Mormonism.

     She was converted and baptized, and to the best of our knowledge, she came from England to America about two years after her husband's death.

     She walked every step of the way from New York to Salt Lake Valley, in the year of 1856, pushing  a hand-cart all the way.  She felt the responsibility of making the journey with six small children, so went to President Young for advice.  He said, "Sister Marshall, I promise you in the name of the Lord, that you shall make the journey safely, and not lose one of your children by the wayside.  You will live to see them all grow to man and woman-hood".  She lived to see her family all grown and with families of their own.  One kind man would often take some of the children on his hand-cart to lighten her load.  Some days she would have but one pint of flour for herself and six children.

     One incident happened that was rather pathetic.  When camp was made one evening two of the children were missing.  Some men went back to hunt for them and found them sitting down gnawing at some bones they had found.

     When they landed in Salt Lake Valley, Sarah and the older girls worked wherever they could find something to do.  It was there that she met and married Joseph Chadwick.  A son William was born in Slatersville, Utah, October 6, 1857.  They moved to Franklin, Idaho, and there Charles Frederick was born in the year 1860, on the 6th day of August. They had many experiences with the Indians while there.  Some were friendly, but the greater part were hostile, because they felt that their land was being taken from them.

    We have heard Sarah tell that when they would hear the Indians make their war whoops, she would send the larger children with the smaller ones to the school house in the middle of the Fort for protection, a place the women and children often went when they saw approaching danger, while the men were on guard.  Many times of an evening the Indians would sneak up and peek in through the windows.  They would be so heavily painted, it would give them a big scare.  Not a great deal of harm was done, only the stealing of their horses and oxen.

     In about the year 1868, the family moved to Dayton, Idaho.  They built two log rooms, and had a little store in the north room.  They carried groceries, meats, and supplies for the freighters and travelers.  They raised cattle and some grain.

     In the year 1876, her husband caught a severe cold and died in less than a week.

     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 her cows and made butter to sell. 

     Fred did freighting from Corrinne to Montana when only 17 years old.

     Sarah was a staunch Latter Day Saint, and remained so until her death.  We remember her asking for the sacrament to be brought to her home after a sick spell, saying it always gave her strength.  She lived quite close to our home and we have known her to be called out as much as four times in one night for sickness.  She was a good mid-wife and helped bring dozens of babies into the world. 

     She was exceptionally good to the poor.  One of her pet sayings was, "I never gives a happle where there's a horchard" and her every day life proved that that was her actual feeling.  She never failed to have some little thing, such as licorice, peppermints or a handful of nuts or raisins in the house to give to her grand-children as well as all other children.

     She had a very pleasing disposition, always trying to make peace in place of confusion.  She was a good house-keeper and cook.  She could beat the world making bread and did never waste food or anything else.  She would be imposed upon, rather than take advantage of others, and held to the golden rule, "do to others as you would have them do unto you".

     We don't know how large a family there was of them, but told of her brother Fred who roamed a great deal.  He went to Australia, as he was a miner, and went where-ever  he thought there might be some prospecting to be done.

     It was while he was in Canada that he advertised for his sister, Sarah.  Her daughter, Scelena [sic]saw it in the paper and she brought the clipping from the paper to her mother.  Then Fred who lived near his mother, took care of her business answered the advertisement.  Sarah and Fred Goode corresponded for some length of time.

     She believed from the first that he was her brother, but wanted to prove it beyond a doubt.  These letters were a test.  She asked many questions of their childhood days, and of certain incidents that happened while she lived in England.  They had been parted 45 years, and when she was convinced, she invited him to her home in Dayton, Idaho.  He came and partook of her hospitality as long as she lived, which was three or four years.

     Sarah was no hand to put on a big show.  We loved her for what she really was.  Her health was unusually good.  She looked after her garden, her cow and chickens up to the last.  We well remember of one sick spell she had when her great faith and the administration of the elders restored her to health.  Her children all but the two oldest were with her when she died on the 23rd of April 1904, and was buried in Franklin.

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Georgia Drake Publishers Note:  It is known that Brigham Young was in Salt Lake City, Utah when Sarah and her children were preparing to come to America.  However, there were other LDS Missionaries during the time Sarah would have been considering the journey to America with the last name Young in England.  It is apparent Sarah would not be referring to President Brigham Young. 

Sarah's brother Fred referred to in this history would be her younger brother George Frederick Goode born in 1835.  Out of the fourteen children of George and Selena Goode, apparently four or five left England and came to America.  Patience arrived in Salt Lake with her husband John Herbert the same year as Sarah and Mariah though they left England a year earlier.  Patience's history mentions a brother that traveled with them and eventually went to the LDS colonies in Mexico.  She does not mention a name.  There are two men in this family whose death place is not indicated, George Frederick and an older brother Samuel Goode.  I have had no luck as yet verifying a sibling going to the Mexico colonies. 

This traveling group from England rode by train to Iowa City.  Here they were outfitted with handcarts and began their trek to Salt Lake City by foot.


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Transcribed as written by Luna Chadwick, wife of Charles Frederick Chadwick (taken from her original personal papers) and a grand-daughter of Joseph Chadwick, May Chadwick Jones. 

Charles Frederick Chadwick

Charles Frederick Chadwick

A Sketch by his Daughter, May

 

Charles Frederick Chadwick was born August 6, 1860, at Franklin, Cache County, Idaho.  He was the son of Joseph and Sarah Goode Chadwick.  He moved, with his parents, and brother, Will, to Dayton, Idaho, when he was about 8 years old.

 

He attended school at Oxford, about 11 miles north of Dayton.  He stayed with his sister, Louise, while in school. As a boy, he was husky, and had good health.  His father died when he was about 16.

 

At 17 years of age, he did freighting from Corrine, Utah to Helena, Montana.  It was while freighting, that he bought 2 wool blankets for his mother.  When he was 40 years old, his mother gave him one of the blankets.  It is a relic in the family now.

 

Father had seen and admired my mother, Luna Nelson, when he attended school at Oxford and Franklin, because of her studiousness, and said he would make her his wife some day.  When the trustees at Dayton were looking for a teacher, father suggested h knew where one lived and went to Riverdale with Calvin Boice, a brother-in-law, to see her about teaching school.  Mother had not met father until then.  She went to Dayton with them, boarded at the home of Sarah Pool Callen, and commenced teaching on December 28, 1880.  Father, although older than she, went to her school.  It was there that the romance began and June 2, 1881, they were married in the Endowment House.

Luna Nelson Chadwick

 

They lived with father's mother, Sarah Chadwick, for about 4 months.  Then Father bought a house and moved to the central part of Dayton, not far from Five Mile Creek.  Their little home was made happy when their first-born, Joseph William was born, April 29, 1882.

 

Grandma lived about 500 yards from them.  Both families used the same corral.  They were busy improving the place by planting lawn, a nice variety of fruit trees, also trees for shade.

 

Father presided over the Mutual Improvement Association the winter of 1881.  He was president until he was called on a mission to the North Western States in 1887.  Their daughter, May, was born July 14, 1884.

 

Father was called to administer to the sick a great deal.  He was always ready to go.

 

When he went on his mission, he left mother with three babies, Joseph, myself, and Charles, who was born July 24, 1886.  We took Father to Franklin in the wagon, to catch the train for his mission.  As the freight train pulled away, father stood in the door, waving good-by.  I jumped up and down, screaming for him to come to me.

 

Mother carried the big responsibility of the home, now that Father was gone.  There were crops to manage, cows to milk, horses and pigs to care for, besides we three children and a school teacher, Miss Ida Wood, who boarded with us.  Mother was a wonderful person and did her jobs nobly and well.

Father was away 21 months, arriving home, December 19, 1888.  He farmed the next summer.  He bought some land on Birch Creek, east by Bear River and it had to be proved upon.  He moved the family there until the 1st of November, 1889.  Then we moved back with Father's mother until after George was born, November 22, 1889.

In the Spring, we all went back to Birch Creek.  Father took a contract to haul rock for the Rail Road track that was being built through Dayton.

Our new home was under construction, the land being entered under the "Timber Act".  He planted thousands of trees and made a beautiful grove.  Many fine entertainments were held there when the trees grew large enough.  Our new house consisted of three rooms.  Two more were added later.  Vera was born at the new home, September 8, 1892.

When the call was made by the church for land to be donated to help the mission cause, Father donated 20 acres of his choicest land.  A part of it was used for the Dayton cemetery.  The rest is still used for a mission farm (1958).  Later, Father gave 5 acres where a new structure is now being built for the Saints to meet.

If there was any one thing Father liked best it was buying and selling cattle.  His judgment was very good, too.  At one time, he took several car loads of cattle to Canada for sale.

After crops were harvested, the next big job was to get the winter wood.  It was eight or ten miles through the "narrows" into the mountains.  It wasn't unusual for Father to bring the winter meat home too, as deer were very plentiful.  Mother was an expert in caring for the meat.  It was delicious dried.

The long winter evenings were spent reading, knitting, and romping.  I shall always remember the many happy evenings we spent romping with father; we kids would all pile on him.  He would laugh so hard, we could get the best of him.

Father was devoted to mother and always looked after her financial affairs.

The summers were spent raising hay and grain, and the winters feeding and caring for the cattle.

Father and mother went out among the sick a great deal.  I can remember father being called out at all hours of the night to administer to the sick.

Our home was always open and a welcome given to missionaries and people travelling through the country.  The family was always taught to work and save.  Donations were always given freely.  Father served as Bishop's counselor for a long time.

Sorrow came to the family when Joseph, the oldest, died October 17, 1901.  Grandmother, father's mother, died April 23, 1904.  It was after her death that Father got the rambling fever and in the spring of 1905, came out in the Snake River Valley looking for a new location.

He liked the country, new the Minidoka Project, and moved the family out in June of 1905.  He bought a relinquishment of 40 acres in Heyburn, Idaho.  He camped by the Snake River for two weeks, then went to Albion, where he and George put hay up for a Mr. Hayden.

George and Vera went to the State Normal school at Albion.  I should have been with them but got the "marry bug", went to the Logan Temple, and was married to Charles Jones.

The folks moved back to Heyburn, February 7, 1906, on the new homestead.  The sage brush cleared off the land, a log house and barn were built, and a large orchard planted.

Father was the Superintendent of the Sunday School in Heyburn until his death.  He served as a home missionary one winter and was always interested in Church and Civic affairs.

Father was an average-sized man, with black hair, blue eyes, and weighed about 160 pounds.  He had rather a serious disposition, but could enjoy fun with the crowd.

He died, January 25, 1910, at his daughter, May's home, in Rupert, Idaho, of typhoid fever.  We took him to Dayton, Idaho for burial.


C. Frederick Chadwick Memorial
1860-1910  Dayton, Franklin, Idaho
 

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Source:  Family History Document
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