1813 - 1846

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• Birth	3 Apr 1813	,New Haven,Connecticut
  Gender	Female
  Buried	May 1846	Rbsn. Crusoe Isl,Juan Fernandez,Chile
  Died	6 May 1846	Ship Brooklyn,Pacific Ocean,Juan Fernandes,Chili
  Person ID	I89637	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2003 00:00:00
  Family	Isaac Richards GOODWIN, b. 18 Jun 1810, New Hartford,Hartford,Conneticut
  Married	2 Feb 1833	New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut
  Children	1. Isaac Richards GOODWIN, Jr, b. 25 Aug 1834, Bethany,New Haven,Connecticut   2. Lewis Hotchkiss GOODWIN, b. 26 Oct 1836, Hartford,Hartford,Connecticut   3. Emerett Elizabeth GOODWIN, b. 18 Feb 1837, Fair Haven,New Haven,Connecticut > 4. Edwin Abiah GOODWIN, b. 30 Nov 1839, Fair Haven,New Haven,Connecticut   5. Nancy Ellen GOODWIN, b. 18 Sep 1841, New Haven,New Haven,Ct > 6. Lucinda Ladelia GOODWIN, b. 4 Apr 1843, Bethany,New Haven,Connecticut > 7. Albert Story GOODWIN, b. 29 Oct 1844, New Haven,New Haven,Connecticut
  Family ID	F39158	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Laura Hotchkiss, daughter of Benjamin Hotchkiss and Elizabeth Tyrell, became the wife of Mr. Goodwin and of this union seven children were born, four boys and three girls: Isaac, Lewis, Edwin A., Albert S., Emmerett, Nancy and Lucinda. Isaac early learned the mason trade at which he worked in New Haven, Connecticut and neighboring towns before his conversion to Mormonism by Elder ElishaDavis. By 1846, he was so thoroughly imbued with the Latter-day Saint spirit,that when the call came to move west he sold his property for almost nothing and, on February 4, 1846, at about the same time the Nauvoo Saints were first ready to cross the plains, Isaac and family took passage on the ship Brooklyn.These converts did not know exactly where they were going, only that they wereto join the Saints from Nauvoo somewhere in the West. Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 3, p.543 Unfortunately, during a storm on this voyage, Isaac's wife, Laura, who was an expectant mother, was thrown down a hatchway and after a prolonged illness, died May 6, 1846 just as the ship rounded the Horn. They were closeenough to the Isle of Juan Fernandez when death occurred, so that Laura was buried there on Goat Island. Ten of their number had died, all but one, LauraGoodwin, the mother of seven young children had been buried in the cold unimpressionable ocean. Laura Goodwin was buried in the Juan Fernandez Islands on the very isle where Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe had lived and awaited rescue. Elder Brannan delivered a wonderful funeral sermon at the burialservice of Laura Goodwin eulogizing motherhood, its place in the eternal worlds even before the worlds were created. The two or three families that lived on the little island and could not understand English and crew of the Brooklynsat spellbound at the sincere comfort of this first Mormon sermon preached inthe Southern hemisphere that autumn day May 4, 1846. Her death left Isaac with the problem of caring for seven motherless children, the eldest of whom wasonly thirteen years of age. After a short stop at Honolulu, the ship sailed onreaching her destination, California, the last day of July, 1846.

• Sources

  [S1551] GEDCOM File : grossnickle.ged, Tony Grossnickle (ken100@uswest.net), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:870374&id=I9920), 14 Aug 2000.