Sarah Goode Marshall Descendant Reunion 2011

Sarah Goode Marshall - Chadwick

This reunion was a wonderful success.  I am leaving this post so you can see what happened at our first reunion.  If you are sad you missed it, be of good cheer because we are planning another for this summer in 2017!  It will be held Friday and Saturday June 23rd and 24th 2017 in Salt Lake City Utah at This Is The Place Heritage Park.  Please plan to attend, and also help us get the word out.  Let's make this next one the best one yet! 

2011 Reunion 

Sarah Goode Marshall 2011 Reunion highlights video. 

Please watch.

What:       Reunion of Sarah Goode Marshall - Chadwick Descendants
Where:    Friday: Logan Family History Center located to rear of the historic Logan Tabernacle.

Saturday: Franklin Idaho Historic District Park and Relic Hall Heritage Driving Tour of Franklin County Idaho visiting sites of family significance.   

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When:  July 29th - 31st 2011

Time:   10:00 a.m. (Meet and Greet/Registration)

Cost:    $5/person - $15/family Registration Fee (for Reunion Overhead only, cost of all meals are seperate)

Announcing the First - Ever, Reunion of Sarah Goode Marshall - Chadwick Descendants. The SGM Reunion will begin Friday morning, July 29th with a Meet and Greet (registration) at the Logan, Utah Family History Center, located in the rear of the Logan Tabernacle.  The Logan Tabernacle is a historic building erected by early Cache Valley settlers.  The address is 255 North Main Logan, Utah.  (Recommend making lodging reservations early while accommodation options are available to meet your family needs.  Other large activities are happening this same weekend that can put a strain on available lodging.)  There will be a nominal registration fee of $5/person and $15/family.  This covers reunion overhead expenses only.  All meals costs are seperate. 



Logan Utah Tabernacle 
255 North Main Logan, Utah

 

Activities:

Friday July 29th:  10a.m. - 4p.m. 

Meet and Greet/Registration

Logan Utah Family History Center

255 North Main Street, Logan Utah

Logan Family History Center
Rear of Logan Tabernacle

Meet and Greet/Registration; FHC Tour; SGDecendants Address Book/contacts. Basically, time to mingle, tour the Tabernacle, provide contact information for a Sarah Goode Descendant Address Book, pick up SG-Reunion schedule of activities, Heritage Drive pamphlet w/ SG-Reunion supplement [where we are going, why it's important and approximate time frame], order and pay for box lunches, head count for family dinner to make final reservations, contributions for honoring Sarah Goode. (Box Lunches provided by Grist Mill $5/ea +tax for Saturday Heritage Driving Tour and Picnic)

Photos, histories, small memorabilia on display for family to view. Digital imaging of original photos, documents, histories to be added to CD/DVD for distribution. Original images and documents returned to owner.

1:pm - 4:pm Histories given of Sarah and her children. Sarah Goode's history given by Florence. Ideally, a representative of each line to present history of their ancestor [Lovina, Selena, Tryphena, Louisa, George, Sarah, William, and Charles].

5:pm - 7:pm - Family Dinner and Elections at "The Copper Mill" across the street from Logan Tabernacle. Each family will be responsible for their cost (single tickets).

Association Officers will be elected who will then be responsible for next reunion and perpetual funds.  Come prepared to make nominations and elect.  If you cannot attend,  provisions for "absentee ballots" through the Sarah Goode Association will be made. 

7:pm - 9:pm - Special Reunion Fireside at Logan Tabernacle: Lynn "Doc" Cleland will share tender and sacred experiences of his historic handcart re-enactment trek from Iowa City to Salt Lake City in honor of Sarah Goode Marshall.  Lynn was the first person in history to recreate the handcart trek from Iowa City to SLC two years ago. Join us for a private fireside that you will never forget as “Doc” shares his intimate moments of trial and trauma when in 2009, he reenacted the 1856 handcart trek to honor Sarah Goode Marshall, walking 1450 miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake.

Lynn "Doc" Cleland
http://sites.google.com/site/faithgreaterthanpaincom/

Come prepared for a spiritual gathering.

Saturday July 30th: 10:00a.m.   IDAHO

Meet at Relic Hall and Park in Franklin Idaho Historic District

Relic Hall - Franklin Idaho Historic District





Franklin, Idaho

Franklin Co-Operative-Mercanatile in Franklin Historic District



Park next to Relic Building in Historic District
Sarah Goode Marshall's name is on this monument

Meet at Franklin Historic District Park [Relic Hall] continue registration for those who were not at Friday Registration have name tags available for "walk-ins". Enjoy items located in Relic Hall and surrounding area while people gather.

10:30am - Begin tour of local sites in walking distance of Relic Hall with short histories or family significance at each site we visit. Visit all places of interest in Franklin except Cemetery.

Noon- Meet at Franklin Historic District Park for Box Lunch Picnic, Auction, mingling, Few games for the children: sack race, tug of war, marbles, weaving activity.  (Sack Lunch catered from "Old Grist Mill" abt $5/ea includes sandwich, chips, "large" cookie and drink.)  Or, bring your own picnic to meet your families needs.  Bringing something to be auctioned is encouraged, but not required.  All proceeds go toward next reunion.

2:pm -  Heritage Driving Tour: 
[This area is very similiar to Lovell, Byron, Cowley, and Deaver communities in Wyoming.  Very small communities, about 5 miles apart.]

Preston: Site of Bear River Massacre - History and how it affected family. Story of Sokobee. 

Oxford: Louisa lived here and was in the RS Presidency.
Note to Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice Descendants: We will also tour the home of John and Mary Ann Barzee Boice and visit gravesite. Special Family Wreath to honor the lives of these remarkable ancestors.  We invite all family members who wish to participate.

Dayton: Charles F. Chadwick buried here; Joseph and Sarah credited with founding; ran mercantile out of their home here; Louisa Marshall Boyce - first RS President in Dayton


Weston: Sarah Marshall Poole Callan buried here

Cove:  Home of Selena and Robert Gregory.

Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick Monument
Franklin Cemetery - Franklin Idaho

4:pm - Franklin Cemetery - Honor gravesites
Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick [wreath]
Joseph Chadwick and Mary Whitehead
Selena Marshall Gregory
George Marshall
William Chadwick

4:30- 5:pm - Plant and dedicate tree honoring Sarah Goode and her children

Adjourn
Note to Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice Descendants: We will also tour home of John and Mary Ann Boice and visit gravesite located in Oxford, Idaho. Special Family Wreath to honor the lives of these remarkable ancestors.  We invite all family members who wish to participate. 


Famous Preston Night Rodeo
http://thatfamousprestonnightrodeo.org/

Famous Preston Night Rodeo July 28th 29th and 30th starting at 8:30 P.M.
This is not part of the organized SGM Reunion, but a fun local festival.

A Heritage Driving Tour of Franklin County to visit sites that are significant to the family, including homes owned by Sarah Goode Marshall.  Areas of interest include: Franklin, Preston, Oxford and Dayton.

Place a wreath at Sarah's grave site, located in the Franklin cemetery. We will be planting a commemorative tree at the Franklin Cemetery, honoring Sarah Goode and her children.  (We will appreciate donations to help make this happen)  Please contact me if you wish to participate.

Sunday July 31st:  The only thing considered is for those who are still in the area may wish to attend church services together.  Many plan to leave Saturday evening. 

If you are planning to attend, please e-mail me or leave a comment so we can get an idea of attendees. Please help pass the word, and we sincerely hope to see you there.                               

Image of Handcart Pioneer from Sarah's Monument

Note to Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice Descendants: We will also tour home of John and Mary Ann Boice and visit gravesite located in Oxford, Idaho.  Special Family Wreath to honor the lives of these remarkable ancestors.                                            

Joseph Chadwick and Sarah Goode Marshall

Sarah Goode Marshall Chadwick

Recently, I received a copy of the Ben and Sarah Walker Chadwick History, written by Bill Horten. Benjamin Chadwick is the oldest of Joseph and Mary Chadwick's children.  From this history I gleaned important and interesting details that gives insight into Joseph and Sarah's relationship. 

This is what I have learned about Joseph Chadwick from the History of Benjamin Chadwick:

"According to family legend, at age 15 Ben accompanied his father Joseph to the gold fields of California in 1852. According to several life sketches (short LDS biographies) of Ben Chadwick, they traveled down the Atlantic Ocean by sailing ship and then walked overland across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean where they traveled by another sailing ship up to San Francisco. According to a life sketch, they wound up in a place called Hangtown which is now Placerville, California. After two and one half years, Benjamin and his father were to meet up with the rest of the family in the Utah Territory or what the Mormons referred to as Zion. Instead, his father Joseph bought some land in Ogden City. Life sketches tell that Joseph Chadwick also built a two room log house in a new settlement to the west in Weber County called Slaterville. They are listed in an 1856 Utah Territory Census. When his mother Mary and other children did not arrive in Utah from Pennsylvania, Joseph assumed they were dead and married widow Sarah Goode Marshall. Ben moved down to Salt Lake City where he worked as a guide."

Mary Whitehead Chadwick

"At age 22, Ben Chadwick had returned to Pennsylvania in 1859 to fetch his mother and younger siblings whom he had received word that they were still living there. It seems that Mary Chadwick was not able to raise the money to travel west with the children and Ben and his father had presume that she and the children had died. ... According to LDS Church History, Ben arranged for his mother and siblings to travel west in June 1860 with John Smith`s Wagon Company where oxen teams pulled covered wagons and he joined the more physically enduring handcart company of Daniel Robinson . Ben worked as a pilot on what was the ninth hand cart company of Mormon pioneers."

As you can imagine, this turn of events would have a dramatic effect on the relationship between Joseph and Sarah Goode who by the time Mary and her children arrived, Sarah had given birth to her second child by Joseph. (1) William Joseph Chadwick, born 6 Oct 1857, (2) Charles Frederick Chadwick, born 6 Aug 1860.



William Joseph Chadwick





Charles Frederick Chadwick


A Decree of Divorcement granted to Mary Whitehead 

Before the Honorable Peter Maugham,

Probate Judge, dated February 28, 1862.



Sarah Goode Marshall

Commissioned painting depicting Sarah (35)  in red dress, and daughter Lovina (12) in blue pulling the hand cart somewhere in Nebraska.  Daughter Selena (10) in green, Tryphena (8) in red walking behind the handcart, Louisa in blue (6) George playing in mud (4), and baby Sarah (2) riding in cart.  Maria (25) would likely be with the group and a hint of red skirt can be seen near the front right, I picture Maria there.

Sarah Goode Marshall, was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-saints while living in Herefordshire, England. Her husband, Thomas was vehemently opposed to her association with the Church. It is said, she would walk 10 miles to hear the missionaries speak, carrying the youngest of her children. Sarah prayed for the Lord to remove the stumbling blocks from her pathway that she would be able to come to America.  "Little did I think the Lord would remove the stumbling block by the death of my husband. I was so hopeful he would embrace the gospel." Thomas died in 1854, leaving Sarah penniless. She worked for two years making kid gloves at night and as a ladies maid during the day to earn passage for herself and her children to come with the Saints to Zion.

Sarah gained passage on the ship, "Samuel Curling". They set sail on th 19th of April 1856 with a company of 707 saints. They were at sea for 36 days, living on ship rations, and arrived in Boston, May 25th. The voyage was under the direction of Captain Dan Jones. They remained in quarantine one day, observed the Sabbath, then on a Monday, proceeded to Iowa City by rail where they were outfitted for the trek to Utah. Nearly 1800 saints awaited on the banks of Clear Creek in Iowa until a sufficient number of handcarts could be constructed. It took three week to finish, and on June 23, began their historic 1,300 mile journey on the first handcart company lead by Captain Edmond Ellsworth.

S. Curling Register (double click on images to enlarge)

S. Curling Circular

The Franklin Cemetery is located about one mile south of Franklin.

The Headstone for Sarah Goode Marshall is attractive with an open book and a shawl draped over the stone. There is a Pioneer designation plaque noting her Pioneer standing.

Sarah Goode Marshall-Chadwick's grave site is located in the south-west end of the cemetery in Block 36 Lot 10.

The marker reads at the bottom: "Dearest Mother thou has left us here thy loss to deeply feel. But its God that hath bereft us. He can all our sorrows heal."

Sarah and Joseph's son William Joseph Chadwick is buried at Block 36 Lot 3 near his mother. George Marshall, Sarah and Thomas Marshall's only son is also located in this cemetery.

Joseph Chadwick and Mary Whitehead monument. His burial site is located in Block 33 Lot 1. This is a long way north of where Sarah Goode Marshall is buried... he apparently was not kind to her.