OBITUARY: Box Elder News Newspaper 12 June 1913 (A Thursday)
On Monday of this week [9 June] at 5 o'clock, Patriarch Arnold Goodliffe of Snowville passed peacefully into the other life after suffering for seven years, the major part of the time being practically helpless with paralysis.
In the passing of Bishop Goodliffe, one of the best known characters in Box Elder County is removed from life's activities and a good man has gone to rest. A pioneer all his life, he has suffered the hard knocks and assisted in laying the foundation of more than one community which today is a thriving city and his name will forever be linked with the history of Snowville in an inseparable bond. He went out there when there was no Snowville, being called to preside over the Curlew ward or district, at the stake conference in Brigham, August 18, 1877, the conference at which the stake was divided and a number of new wards were created. Curlew at that time was far away from civilization, there being no other settlements between Brigham and there except Bear River and Corinne, but the faith of Bishop Goodliffe was undaunted and he went to work with those of the people who were associated with him in pioneering the place, built the roads, plowed the land, constructed mud houses and finally laid out the city which was named Snowville in honor of President Lorenzo Snow, who called Bp. Goodliffe to be the bishop of the ward.
He started a mercantile institution and carried his goods from Brigham by team, making periodical trips to this city over the poor roads for that purpose, and he never lost hope nor became dissatisfied with his lot but kept steadily on and lived to see the desert blossom as the rose and thriving communities established. He continued in his labors as bishop until stricken with paralysis about seven years ago, when he was forced to retire and Jonathan C. Cutler of Brigham City was called to take his family and move to Snowville to succeed Bishop Goodliffe, who was ordained a patriarch.
The sad condition of Bishop Goodliffe touched the hearts of his friends and acquaintances and no one could visit him without feeling a deep pity for him. He had to sit, when out of bed, with head bowed upon his breast, helpless. He could talk and eat but had to be fed. He could walk about for a time with the assistance of someone, but his activities ceased when the stroke fell upon him and since that time he has prayed to be released though he did not complain at his lot.
Bishop Arnold Goodliffe was born in the year 1837, in Rutlandshire, England. At the age of 16 years, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and came to America in 1855 in the company which suffered so severely with cholera. He located at Salt Lake City and lived there for a few years then went to Franklin, Idaho, with the first settlers and assisted in starting that place. He moved from there to Bloomington, Bear Lake county, then back to Logan from where he went to Malad and then to Curlew to preside as bishop. He was a man who could be trusted with anything and the trust would never be betrayed. He lived to do good to others and in doing that blessed himself and endeared himself to those with whom he was associated to the extent that the entire ward of Snowville regarded him as a father which he truly was to them. Arnold Goodliffe was one of the noble men of the earth and his works will forever stand as a monument to his name.
Funeral services will be held at Snowville tomorrow [13 June].

Son of James GOODLIFFE & Elizabeth Caroline ANDREWS.

Seven wives. You're right - he was a polygamist.

Father of five children: Henry Arbon GOODLIFFE, of Lillie Arnetta GOODLIFFE, Charles Willard GOODLIFFE, Clarence Merley GOODLIFFE, and Elizabeth Roxcy GOODLIFFE. Son Charles said, "Arnold Goodliffe had no children that he had not adopted. Aunt Lizzie, as we called her, adopted a baby girl whom she named Lillie. Esther adopted her nephew Henry Arbon." Hence, while Arnold Goodliffe had no biological children himself, he has a numerous posterity who call him great grandfather and honor his memory. I am one of those. He was my 2nd great grandfather.