Show DEATH OF MARIA L GOODALE it would seem beem rom the reading of your excellent journal that thai the pioneers of 1847 are rap rapidly iAly diminishing in bumbera ono by one they drop away 12 and the dropping away la is bpi be coming so BO it is ia probable in a few years hence toe the last one will have hastied 10 SO lo the ibe other olde aide JI but they leave behind bem monuments enta of integrity of sacrifice privation and endurance of u almost all things for the gospel is make aake they leave a noble heritage in their Il lustrous examples example for the emulation of at not only thel their own pole poe but of coming generations who read their history as a chronicled in your valuable paper I 1 have been requested to furnish furaas b you with the following data in relation to the death of another ot of theu theme founders founder of utah aud and who was waa widely known and beloved throughout the valleys valley B of theme theae mo mountains sister dister marla maria JL goodale was wa the daughter ot or erastus fira atus bingham sr dr and gateb she wasti was born orn june 23 28 1828 la in the tawn of littleton grafen county new hampshire Hampa hire in 1886 she removed with tier her parents to par west mo arrivi DK there nov 4 ot of the same game year in 1857 1837 she ab was bap baptized timed into tile the church ot 01 jenus of day salute saints by rider elder elihu elabu blackburn she neu at far west until 1839 1889 when one ad her parents and the mormon oum were expelled from their hard earned homes by a cruel mob from this place she went into the state of illinois and bottled near la harpe where her lathea lather rented a farm fara here they rested reeled oad aud enjoyed a season 0 of 1 f immunity from their prosecutors who had bad heretofore pursued them and despoiled them ot of their b h mes mee in ID the fall fail of 1845 the family removed remove J to the city cita of nauvoo but their stay there was of but ration tor for in the winter of 1846 they together with the whole church were driven from their heir comfortable habitation into a winter wilderness wilder nebs nem tue the family wintered in the ponca nation sang the zed ed foresters who were less leas savage than the white christians christiana who had robbed them of their all and pursued them with rifles and swords early in the spring of 1847 they broke camp anu went to winter quarters at this place they fitted out for their long tedious march overland for their future resting place in the valleys of the rocky mountains beyond the pale ot of civilization ex petting peo ting there to build a home and enjoy I 1 it for the remainder of their days they were enrolled in captain daniel spencers huu hundred dred and about the middle of june they commenced their ever memorable jour ey there were between and in the trains traina lo in the entire companies whose white canvas was stretched on the long and wide prairies at the same time after enduring many hard toils and overcoming numerous almost insurmountable difficulties they arrived in salt halt lake valloy valley september on january 17 1849 maria louies bingham was married to issac if aaa new ton goodale ale I 1 ii salt ball lake city the ceremony was per performed formea by president brigham young and witnessed by thomas homas bullock and erastus snow in in 1853 she with her husband removed to weber county and and settled in ogden oden city they were adoniz the very first to erect their log cabin c in n the 1 which they have since helped to improve and bring tu to its present valuable condition and make so desirable as the residence part ot of this at city Y when the female relief belief society was organized in this part of the town on the of january 1879 maria ali L goodale was set act apart as a visiting icing teacher 0 that institution the duties of dt which important office she be fulfilled faithfully faith tUlly until june 27 1888 what she was set apart as to president martanna marianna stratford of the fourth ward relief belief society the auti duties of this office she dischar lood honorably and acceptably during the remainder of her useful life sister had bad been in falling health for several years but for I 1 the past pass six alx lx or seven montas she boo baa been a great sufferer from dr dropsy alley whdeh flu ally proved fatal she died october 81 st 1893 1898 |