Born at Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
Daughter of Alexander Nichol Smith & May (Margery) McEwan
Married Isaac Hotchkiss Goodwin, 1 Dec 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Isaac Smith Goodwin, Mary Jane Goodwin, Alexander Smith Goodwin, Lewis Henry Goodwin, Laura May Goodwin, Edwin Abijah Goodwin, James Elijah Goodwin, John McEwan Goodwin, Albert Smith Goodwin
An Enduring Legacy, Volume One, p. 404
Betsy Smith Goodwin, known to her friends and loved ones as Aunt Betsy, was born in Dundee, Scotland, March 7, 1843, to Alexander Nicols Smith and Margery May McEwan Bain Smith. Her mother joined the Church November 21, 1848, and was desirous of gathering with the Saints in Zion. This came about in 1856 through the help of her son Robert Bain who had already emigrated and was settled in Lehi.
In her later life, Betsy wrote about the time when she was thirteen years of age: "How well I remember when my mother said to her daughters, 'Girls, let us try to go to the Valley next season with the handcarts. I have a letter from your brother Robert. He is located thirty miles south of Great Salt Lake City at a place named Lehi.... He says he is trying to raise as much [money] as he can for our comfort. He bids us expect ourselves to emigrate next season and says he will pray while we work.'
"We girls laughed at what Mother said and exclaimed he had the easiest job. But the spirit of gathering to Zion was strong upon us, and we worked at our looms day by day; our fancy work at night, and saved the proceeds. By this means we gathered enough [money] in six months to pay our passage across the sea. In many ways we realized that God helps those who help themselves."
The Smith family joined the Willie Handcart Company and after many hardships arrived in the Valley and settled in Lehi with their brother.
Betsy married Isaac H. Goodwin in 1859. They moved to several areas and she finally settled in Beaver after her husband died April 6, 1891, at the age of fifty-six. In Beaver Betsy raised her children and found time to be active in Church and to write verse for her joy and happiness, some poems being printed in the Relief Society Magazine. She died in Beaver in 1930 at the age of eighty-seven. Three of her sons survived her.
Daughter of Alexander Nichol Smith & May (Margery) McEwan
Married Isaac Hotchkiss Goodwin, 1 Dec 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Isaac Smith Goodwin, Mary Jane Goodwin, Alexander Smith Goodwin, Lewis Henry Goodwin, Laura May Goodwin, Edwin Abijah Goodwin, James Elijah Goodwin, John McEwan Goodwin, Albert Smith Goodwin
An Enduring Legacy, Volume One, p. 404
Betsy Smith Goodwin, known to her friends and loved ones as Aunt Betsy, was born in Dundee, Scotland, March 7, 1843, to Alexander Nicols Smith and Margery May McEwan Bain Smith. Her mother joined the Church November 21, 1848, and was desirous of gathering with the Saints in Zion. This came about in 1856 through the help of her son Robert Bain who had already emigrated and was settled in Lehi.
In her later life, Betsy wrote about the time when she was thirteen years of age: "How well I remember when my mother said to her daughters, 'Girls, let us try to go to the Valley next season with the handcarts. I have a letter from your brother Robert. He is located thirty miles south of Great Salt Lake City at a place named Lehi.... He says he is trying to raise as much [money] as he can for our comfort. He bids us expect ourselves to emigrate next season and says he will pray while we work.'
"We girls laughed at what Mother said and exclaimed he had the easiest job. But the spirit of gathering to Zion was strong upon us, and we worked at our looms day by day; our fancy work at night, and saved the proceeds. By this means we gathered enough [money] in six months to pay our passage across the sea. In many ways we realized that God helps those who help themselves."
The Smith family joined the Willie Handcart Company and after many hardships arrived in the Valley and settled in Lehi with their brother.
Betsy married Isaac H. Goodwin in 1859. They moved to several areas and she finally settled in Beaver after her husband died April 6, 1891, at the age of fifty-six. In Beaver Betsy raised her children and found time to be active in Church and to write verse for her joy and happiness, some poems being printed in the Relief Society Magazine. She died in Beaver in 1930 at the age of eighty-seven. Three of her sons survived her.
Born at Dundee, Forfar, Scotland
Daughter of Alexander Nichol Smith & May (Margery) McEwan
Married Isaac Hotchkiss Goodwin, 1 Dec 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Isaac Smith Goodwin, Mary Jane Goodwin, Alexander Smith Goodwin, Lewis Henry Goodwin, Laura May Goodwin, Edwin Abijah Goodwin, James Elijah Goodwin, John McEwan Goodwin, Albert Smith Goodwin
An Enduring Legacy, Volume One, p. 404
Betsy Smith Goodwin, known to her friends and loved ones as Aunt Betsy, was born in Dundee, Scotland, March 7, 1843, to Alexander Nicols Smith and Margery May McEwan Bain Smith. Her mother joined the Church November 21, 1848, and was desirous of gathering with the Saints in Zion. This came about in 1856 through the help of her son Robert Bain who had already emigrated and was settled in Lehi.
In her later life, Betsy wrote about the time when she was thirteen years of age: "How well I remember when my mother said to her daughters, 'Girls, let us try to go to the Valley next season with the handcarts. I have a letter from your brother Robert. He is located thirty miles south of Great Salt Lake City at a place named Lehi.... He says he is trying to raise as much [money] as he can for our comfort. He bids us expect ourselves to emigrate next season and says he will pray while we work.'
"We girls laughed at what Mother said and exclaimed he had the easiest job. But the spirit of gathering to Zion was strong upon us, and we worked at our looms day by day; our fancy work at night, and saved the proceeds. By this means we gathered enough [money] in six months to pay our passage across the sea. In many ways we realized that God helps those who help themselves."
The Smith family joined the Willie Handcart Company and after many hardships arrived in the Valley and settled in Lehi with their brother.
Betsy married Isaac H. Goodwin in 1859. They moved to several areas and she finally settled in Beaver after her husband died April 6, 1891, at the age of fifty-six. In Beaver Betsy raised her children and found time to be active in Church and to write verse for her joy and happiness, some poems being printed in the Relief Society Magazine. She died in Beaver in 1930 at the age of eighty-seven. Three of her sons survived her.
Daughter of Alexander Nichol Smith & May (Margery) McEwan
Married Isaac Hotchkiss Goodwin, 1 Dec 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Isaac Smith Goodwin, Mary Jane Goodwin, Alexander Smith Goodwin, Lewis Henry Goodwin, Laura May Goodwin, Edwin Abijah Goodwin, James Elijah Goodwin, John McEwan Goodwin, Albert Smith Goodwin
An Enduring Legacy, Volume One, p. 404
Betsy Smith Goodwin, known to her friends and loved ones as Aunt Betsy, was born in Dundee, Scotland, March 7, 1843, to Alexander Nicols Smith and Margery May McEwan Bain Smith. Her mother joined the Church November 21, 1848, and was desirous of gathering with the Saints in Zion. This came about in 1856 through the help of her son Robert Bain who had already emigrated and was settled in Lehi.
In her later life, Betsy wrote about the time when she was thirteen years of age: "How well I remember when my mother said to her daughters, 'Girls, let us try to go to the Valley next season with the handcarts. I have a letter from your brother Robert. He is located thirty miles south of Great Salt Lake City at a place named Lehi.... He says he is trying to raise as much [money] as he can for our comfort. He bids us expect ourselves to emigrate next season and says he will pray while we work.'
"We girls laughed at what Mother said and exclaimed he had the easiest job. But the spirit of gathering to Zion was strong upon us, and we worked at our looms day by day; our fancy work at night, and saved the proceeds. By this means we gathered enough [money] in six months to pay our passage across the sea. In many ways we realized that God helps those who help themselves."
The Smith family joined the Willie Handcart Company and after many hardships arrived in the Valley and settled in Lehi with their brother.
Betsy married Isaac H. Goodwin in 1859. They moved to several areas and she finally settled in Beaver after her husband died April 6, 1891, at the age of fifty-six. In Beaver Betsy raised her children and found time to be active in Church and to write verse for her joy and happiness, some poems being printed in the Relief Society Magazine. She died in Beaver in 1930 at the age of eighty-seven. Three of her sons survived her.
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