Father Bartholomeau Goudin
Mother Martha Malan
Husband Jean Paul Cardon∼Obituary of Mrs. Susan Goudin Cardon " The Logan Republican" Dec 11, 1920
Mrs. Susannah Goudin Cardon, wife of the late Paul Cardon, died at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Sarah A. Turner at Logan, Utah, December 8, 1920. Mrs. Cardon was born July 30, 1833 in Piedmont, Italy. [Parents were Barthelemi Goudin and Marthe Cardon.] She became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853 and in the fall of 1855 she began her journey to Utah in a sailing vessel [John J. Boyd - her name on the ship manifest is Susanna Godin. She was accompanied by Catterinna Godin.] from Liverpool, December 13, 1855 [arriving in New York March 15, 1856] having been on the water for more than three months. Taking a train from New York to St. Louis, she started on her way [to Utah] pulling a handcart and arriving in Salt Lake City on the 26thh day of September with the first handcart company [Edmund Ellsworth Handcart Company– She was age 22.]. After remaining in Salt Lake City for a short time, she went to Ogden to live, where in March 16 of 1857 she married Paul Cardon [Jean (John) Paul Cardon]. In 1858 Mrs. Cardon, with many others, moved south when Johnston's army entered Utah. Within a few months she returned to Ogden where her husband remained on guard during the stay south. In 1860 she moved to Logan where her husband had come the year before and built a home for the family. She has made her home in Logan ever since, except a few years while living on a farm in Benson, near Logan.
The first few years in Cache valley were extremely severe, and she necessarily underwent many hardships and especially was this the case the first year, as the grasshoppers destroyed all the crops. They used roots and herbs as their principle food and were very fortunate in occasionally getting some game, such as deer, rabbits, fish, etc.
Prior to her coming to Utah she earned her living by working in the silk industries and naturally she turned in the same kind of work here when the opportunity came. She was the first in the territory to plant mulberry trees and when they were large enough, she gathered the leaves for the silkworms which resulted in raising a very fine grade of cocoons. She had a small loom made and was the first person here to produce silk. A little later she was called upon a mission by President Brigham Young to go among the people and instruct them in the art of silk making which at that time was an important industry among the pioneers.
In a church capacity she has always been a devoted worker, filling a number of important positions. She was the second person to join the Relief Society in Logan, an organization in which she labored hard practically all her life as teacher and later in the presidency. She was a splendid neighbor, a loving wife and mother and took pleasure in doing good to others, always having in her mind the happiness and welfare of others.
She is the mother of eleven children, seven of whom survive her as follows: Mary Cardon Merrill of Richmond, Sarah Cardon Turner of Logan, John P. and Louis S. Cardon of Logan, Lucy Cardon Merrill of Richmond, Joseph E. Cardon of Logan, Moses C. Cardon of Rigby, Idaho. She has sixty grandchildren and forty-five great grandchildren, a total of one hundred and sixteen.
Few persons, if any have ever been more loved and revered than has Susannah Cardon. Her faith in God and His glorious work was indeed sublime and she radiated the spirit of love to such a wonderful degree as to impress all who ever associated with her. She goes to a well earned reward, a realization of a well spent and beautiful life filled with service and satisfaction.
Funeral services will be held at the tabernacle today, December 11, at noon.