Notes for Martha (Patsy) G Goodwin

Family Group Sheet

Notes for Martha (Patsy) G Goodwin

!Source: Personal recollection of Mrs. Archie Prior
AKA: "Pasty"

!Note: Records from Bible published by American Bible Society, New York, 1851.
Formely owned by Benton Goodwin, Later by Orlando Beck, and now in possession
of Yakima Valley Museum & Historical Association, Yakima, WA.

!CENSUS: 1871 Yakima Co. Wa. b Indiana age 40. (1831)
CENSUS: 1883 Yakima Co. Wa. b Indiana age 51. (1832)
CENSUS: 1885 Yakima Co. Wa. b Indiana age 53. (1832)
CENSUS: 1887 Yakima Co. Wa. b Indiana age 56 (1831)

!CENSUS: 1900 Washington, Yakima Co. Has Martha b Sep 1830 in Indiana, m 49
years, four children three living.

!Note: Goodwin Newsletter 1 July 1980 Art. by John V. Beck. has b 29 Sep 1830
Greencastle, Putnam Co., Indiana. She was m 30 Oct 1851, d 21 sep 1908. Husband
son of James Beck and Margaret Cannady d 1903.

!LDS ANF has b as 29 Sep 1831.

!Note: Yakima Valley Museum has b as 1830.
At age forty became Yakima first public school teacher.
After raising 4 sons, adopted a little girl who only lived a year.
Took in two sisters(?) whose father had died and whose stepfater was
a man of bad disposition. Girl live with Becks until they married.
At age sixty when daughter-in-law died took in her grand-daughters.

Martha Beck enjoyed to write poetry. After the death of the little adopted girl she wrote two poems that were publish in a book of american poets..