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GOODWIN Family History, Part III

Carrie J. (WAGNER) DEXTER (1873-1964)

1341. Carrie J. Wagner was born on April 14, 1873, in California. She married Alonzo L. Dexter, Jr. on October 11, 1891, in Coulterville. They had at least two children, one of whom died in childhood before 1900:

13411.	(Martha) Violet Dexter	28 Feb 1892	29 Nov 1971	(79)
13412.	Dexter	--	Bef 1900	(<8)

Carrie and Alonzo were married on October 11, 1891, in Coulterville by John S. Murphy, Justice of the Peace. Witnesses to their marriage were Burnie (Burnham) Greeley and Carrie's younger sister Maggie Wagner.^{[Mar 1891]}

In 1900, Carrie and daughter Violet lived at the Wagner farm in Red Cloud Precint (Greeley Hill).^{[Cen 1900]}

The Dexters were enumerated in an area referred to as Stanislaus National Forest^{[Cen 1920B, 1930]} in Township 2, but was later identified as along Texas Hill Road^{[Cen 1940]}, which branches off Dogtown Road well past Dogtown. Alonzo owned and worked a farm there. He and Carrie also rented a house on Walnut Avenue in Oakdale Township, Stanislaus County where they were enumerated twice that year.^{[Cen 1920A]}

Alonzo died in 1945 and Carrie died in 1964. Both are buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Charles A. WAGNER, Jr. (1874-1888)

1342. Charles "Charley Boy" A. Wagner, Jr. was born September 22, 1874, in California. He died at the young age of 13, possibly from diphtheria, on June 11, 1888. He was buried two days later at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Marguerite May (WAGNER) CALDWELL (1876-1968)

1343. Marguerite "Maggie" May Wagner was born in February 1876, probably in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She is recalled to have attended San Jose Normal School (now San José State University) and became a teacher on Greeley Hill, above Coulterville. Maggie is not known to have had any children of her own, but is recalled to have raised her younger cousin Marguerite Wible after her mother died following childbirth in 1899.

In July 1893, friend Carrie (Converse) Sullivan (age 22) led a two-week ladies' campout to Yosemite with her sister Lizzie Converse (age 16), friend Mattie R. Turner, and sisters Birdie (age 14) and Maggie (age 17).

Maggie later married Claude Cambridge Caldwell, a native of San Mateo, San Mateo County, California, who was 21 years her junior, about 1921 or 1922. She was 44 years old and he 25.^{[Cen 1930]}

Claude bought a house in Greeley Hill worth $3,000 by 1939 and farmed.^{[Cen 1940]} By 1950, Claude was a rancher and Marguerite taught at a public elemetary school.^{[Cen 1950]}

Claude had served two and a half months with the U.S. Navy in California prior to registering for the World War I draft in which he claimed exemption from service to support his dependent father.^{[Draft WWI]}

Claude Cambridge Caldwell died on November 3, 1964, and is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Marguerite May (Wagner) Caldwell died four years later on July 2, 1968, in Mariposa County, California. She is also buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Bertha "Birdie" E. (WAGNER) HANNAH (1878-1974)

1344. Bertha "Birdie" E. Wagner was born on September 13, 1878, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Samuel Crockett Hannah, a native of Missouri, on August 27, 1897, and had one daughter in Tuolumne County, California.

13441.

Edith Pearl Hannah

9 Dec 1898

23 Nov 1993

(94)

In July 1893, friend Carrie (Converse) Sullivan (age 22) led a two-week ladies' campout to Yosemite with her sister Lizzie Converse (age 16), friend Mattie R. Turner, and Birdie (age 14) and her sister Maggie (age 17).

Birdie is recalled to have been a teacher and librarian. After their marriage, Birdie and Crockett lived in the Third Township of Tuolumne County in 1900 where Crockett worked as a teamster.^{[Cen 1900]} By 1910 they lived near the Empire Saw Mill in Confidence Precinct in Tuolumne County. There Crockett worked odd jobs.^{[Cen 1910]}

Birdie and Crockett separated by 1920 and Birdie never remarried. Birdie and Pearl moved to San Francisco and lived at 1750 Sacramento Street where Birdie worked as a matron at a college, perhaps one that Pearl, then age 21, attended.^{[Cen 1920A]}

By 1940, Birdie and Pearl moved from San Francisco to 2136 Lincoln Avenue in Ravenswood (perhaps between Menlo Park and Palo Alto), San Mateo County. Pearl worked as a dentist for the Board of Education in Palo Alto.^{[Cen 1940]}

After their separation, Crockett moved down into the valley to Montpelier, Waterford Township, Stanislaus County. There Crockett lived with the Earle and Minnie C. Field family as a hired man and laborer.^{[Cen 1920B]} Later he moved to Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, and married the widow Florence A. (Blodgett) Trumbly in 1929. They lived with her two elder sisters and their husbands: Alice E. and Lewis N. Trumbly and Agnes J. and Myron Brackett.^{[Cen 1930B]} Crockett later remarried to Birdie's childhood friend, Carrie M. (Converse) Sullivan (1871-1963), in 1940.

Bertha E. (Wagner) Hannah died on January 9, 1974, at the age of 95, while residing in Palo Alto, San Mateo County, California. She is buried with her parents and sisters at the Coulterville Cemetery in Coulterville, Mariposa County. Daughter Pearl later joined her.

Daniel M. WAGNER (1880-1883)

1345. Daniel M. Wagner was born in California, probably in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California, on August 25, 1880. He appears to have been named for his father's older brother who bought the Coulter Hotel in Coulterville and renamed it the Wagner Hotel.

Daniel M. Wagner died two years later on January 20, 1883. He is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Marguerite (WIBLE) BURK^Δ (1899-1971)

1361. Marguerite Wible^Δ was born on November 2, 1899, in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California and her mother died the following day. She married Leslie J. Burk, of Elk, Washington, at the One Tree Church in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. They had two children:

13611.	Ronald Stanton Burk	5 Oct 1933	1939	(5)
13612.	Marles BurkΔ	--	--	--

Marguerite was born prematurely and lost her mother upon birth. She is recalled to have been the first baby to be placed on an incubator at the hospital in San Francisco and spent her first 18 months there. Her father moved south to Imperial County, near the Mexican border, and she was raised among her elder cousins, the Wagner sisters, on Greeley Hill, Mariposa County, California.

Marguerite attended the University of California at Berkeley and became a teacher. While teaching, she met one of her student's elder brother, Les Burk, and they later married at the One Tree Church in Santa Rosa. Les worked as a pharmacist.

Marguerite and her father traveled back to his hometown near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, to visit his brothers, George and David, in July 1936.^{[News 1936]}

In 1939, Marguerite and her five year old son Ronnie contracted scarlet fever and strep throat. Sulpha drugs were sent for but arrived only in time to save Marguerite. Little Ronnie did not survive.

By 1942, the Burks lived at 1124 Arreba Street in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California, where Les worked as an oil worker.^{[Vote 1942]}

Marguerite (Wible) Burk died on September 19, 1971 in San Joaquin County, California. She was 71 years old. As daughter Marles recalls, Marguerite was universally known as an angel and an inspirational teacher.

Leslie J. Burk died eight years later on August 30, 1979 in San Joaquin County. He was 77 years old.

Shirley Mercedes (GOODWIN) MUES (1892-1979)

1381. Shirley Mercedes Goodwin was born in California on June 11, 1892. She first married Bruce Wakefield Fargo on May 8, 1912, in Fresno, Fresno County, California, but they divorced without any children. She later married Christopher Diedrich Mues, a widower who had been married to Louise Catherine Rohde, who died in 1919 after only 5 years of marriage. Shirley and Christopher wed on February 21, 1921, in San Francisco, and had two children:

13811.	John Carston Mues	1 Aug 1923	16 Jan 2002	(78)
13812.	Martha Eve Mues	19 Feb 1930	10 Feb 2005	(74)

As a teenager, Shirley worked as a post office clerk in Coalinga, Fresno County, California.^{[Cen 1910]}

Shirley and Bruce were married on May 8, 1912, in Fresno, Fresno County, by Duncan Wallace, Minister of the Gospel. Shirley was 19 years old and Bruce was 25. Witnesses to their marriage were H. E. Patterson of Fresno and Nettie L. Hefton of Coalinga.

Bruce served as a Sergeant 1st Class in an Army medical department during World War I. He served from August 5, 1917, to March 17, 1919. It is unclear when Shirley and Bruce divorced, but Bruce remarried to Amanda Wilma Meyers of Placerville County, California, on October 21, 1919, in San Francisco.^{[Mar 1919]} Bruce later died on April 22, 1961, in Los Angeles County. He was 74 years old.

Shirley lived with her father at 1136 North Ophir in Stockton in 1920, where she worked as a bookkeeper for a tractor company in Stockton, San Joaquin County.^{[Cen 1920]} She lived and worked their until she remarried.

Shirley and Christoper were married on February 21, 1921, in San Francisco, by clergyman J. W. Lundy. Shirley was recorded to be 27 years old (actually 28) and Christopher was 39. Christopher was living at 60 Market Street in San Francisco and working as a marine surveyor in the shipping industry. Witnesses to their marriage were Lousie Bertolas of Stockton and Matilda Michaelis of San Francisco.^{[Mar 1921]}

After they wed, accounts hold that the Mueses moved to Oregon, where son John was born, and later to Washington, where daughter Martha was born.

The Mueses returned to California by 1936, where they lived at 1317 Bay Street in Alameda, Alameda County. The 1940 census records that they had lived in Seattle, King County, Washington, in 1935. Christopher continued work as a marine surveyor. Shirley's maternal aunt, Maud Stevenson (sic, Stephenson), lived with the family. Shirley's voter registrations record that they lived at 1317 Bay Street until 1942, and then with her son John two blocks south at 1128 Bay Street through at least 1944.^{[Vote 1936,1944]} No voter registrations were found for Christopher during this period.

Christopher Diedrich Mues died on March 15, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He was 73 years old.

Shirley Mercedes (Goodwin) Mues died 24 years later on December 14, 1979, in Seattle. She was 87 years old.

John Maurice GOODWIN, Jr. (1874-1953)

1411. John Maurice Goodwin, Jr. was born October 21, 1874, in Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California. He married Harriet "Hattie" Lou Alderson and had two sons:

14111.	Thomas Goodwin	2 Nov 1893	--	--
14112.	Maurice Alderson Goodwin	24 Aug 1899	23 Sep 1949	(50)

Harriet Lou (Alderson) Goodwin died at her home at 360 West Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach on March 4, 1953. She was 76 years old. Hattie was buried on March 7 at Forest Lawn Mausoleum in Glendale.^{[Dth 1953, Grave]}

John Maurice Goodwin, Jr., died eight days later on March 12, 1953, at the age of 78. He was also buried at Forest Lawn Mausoleum.^[Grave]

Walter Thomas GOODWIN, Sr. (1876-1939)

1411. Walter Thomas Goodwin, Sr. was born April 28, 1876, in Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California. He married Nellie Jane Helm, a native of New Mexico, on August 18 or 19, 1903, in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona. They had five children:

14121.	Margaret Louise Goodwin	4 Jul 1904	9 Jun 1947	(42)
14122.	John Goodwin	18 Mar 1906	Sep 1908	(2)
14123.	Doris Viola Goodwin	7 Jun 1908	18 May 1960	(51)
14124.	Walter Thomas Goodwin, Jr.	23 Jun 1911	2 Apr 1982	(70)
14125.	Nellie Marie Goodwin	5 Jun 1917	4 Apr 1993	(75)
14126.	Albert Henry Goodwin	15 Dec 1920	5 Sep 2001	(80)

After their marriage in Prescott, the Goodwins started their family in Jerome, among the mountains to the northeast of Prescott. A few years later they relocated northwest to Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada, where Walter worked as a gold miner through 1910^{[Cen 1910]}. A year later they returned to Jerome, where Walter worked as a copper miner^{[Cen 1920]} and quartz miner^{[Cen 1930]}.

Walter Thomas Goodwin, Sr. died on April 20, 1939, in Yavapai County, Arizona. He is buried at the Cottonwood Cemetery in Cottonwood, Yavapai County, Arizona which is about 3 miles southeast of Clarkdale along Alternate Highway 89.

After Walter's death, Nellie remarried to Floyd A. Rogers.

Nellie Jane (Helm Goodwin) Rogers died on May 24, 1955, in Los Angeles County, California. She was laid to rest at Sunnyside Memorial Park in Long Beach, California.

Charles Edward GOODWIN (1877-1882)

1413. Charles Edward Goodwin was born November 8, 1877 in Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California. He died on November 21, 1882 at the age of 5.

Joseph Bodie GOODWIN (1880-1946)

1414. Joseph Bodie Goodwin was born October 10, 1880, near Peck Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona. He married Rachael "Rae" Foletta in Prescott, Yavapai County on July 2, 1904, and had three children:

14141.	George Clyde Goodwin	16 Jan 1905	--	--
14142.	Joe Bryon Goodwin	13 Oct 1906	--	--
14143.	Juanita "Nita" Goodwin	6 Sep 1911	--	--

Joseph Bodie Goodwin died in July 1946 at the age of 65. His believed to be buried near Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California.

Robert Royal GOODWIN (1884-)

1415. Robert Royal Goodwin was born on July 7, 1884, near Peck Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona. He married May Cody on April 15, 1916, in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. They had three children:

14151.	May C. Goodwin	8 May 1917	--	--
14152.	Robert C. Goodwin	7 May 1919	--	--
14153.	Edward Goodwin	24 Sep 1921	--	--

Margaret GOODWIN (1888)

1416, 1417. Margaret Goodwin and a twin sister were born on June 22, 1888, in Calico, San Bernardino County, California. The twin sister died that day and Margaret died two months later on September 2, 1888.