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. about 1891 and had at least two children, one died in childhood before 1900:
| 13411. | (Martha) Violet DEXTER | 28 Feb 1892 | 29 Nov 1971 | (79) |
| 13412. | DEXTER | Bef 1900 | (<8) |
Alonzo died in 1945 and Carrie died in 1964. Both are buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.
- Cen 1880: 24 Jun 1880 Census, Coulterville, Mariposa County, California
- Cen 1900: 15 Jun 1900 Census, Red Cloud Precinct, Mariposa County, California
- Cen 1910: 12 May 1910 Census, Township 2, Mariposa County, California
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.
"This young man who so early in life surrendered to the sad call of death, was beloved by all who knew him, and his untimely death is universally lamented."
"Mr. WAGNER and daughters have the sincere sympathy of all in this great and irreparable affliction, they suffer in the loss of a loving and dutiful son and brother."
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.
Maggie later married Claude Cambridge CALDWELL, who was 21 years her junior, about 1921 or 1922.[Cen 1930]
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.
- Cen 1880: 24 Jun 1880 Census, Coulterville, Mariposa County, California
- Cen 1900: 15 Jun 1900 Census, Red Cloud Precinct, Mariposa County, California
- Cen 1920: 2 Mar 1920 Census, Township 2, Mariposa County, California
- Cen 1930: 12 Apr 1930 Census, Stanislaus National Forest, Township 2, Mariposa County, California
Bertha "Birdie" E. (WAGNER) HANNAH (~1877-1974)
1344. Bertha "Birdie" E. WAGNER was born September 13, 1877/1878. She married Samuel Crockett HANNAH, a native of Missouri, and had one daughter in Tuolumne County, California.
| 13441. | Edith Pearl HANNAH | 9 Dec 1898 | 23 Nov 1993 | (94) |
Birdie is recalled to have attended the University of California at Berkeley, as did her daughter Pearl years later. Birdie was a teacher and librarian.
Bertha and Crockett divorced by 1920 and Bertha never remarried.
Crockett later remarried to Carrie M. CONVERSE sometime after 1945.
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, sisters, and daughter at the Coulterville Cemetery in Coulterville, Mariposa County.
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 (1899-1971)
1361. Marguerite WIBLE 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 A. BURK |
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.
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.
- Cen 1900: 1900 Census, 248 Harriet Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
- Vote 1942: 1942 and 1944 Registers, 1124 Arreba Street, Martinez Precinct 14, Contra Costa County, California
Shirley M. (GOODWIN) MUES (~1893-)
1381. Shirley M. GOODWIN was born in California about 1893. She married Christopher MUES by the early 1920s and had two children:
| 1382. | John C. MUES | |||
| 1382. | Martha E. MUES |
As a teenager, Shirley worked as a post office clerk in Coalinga, Fresno County, California[Cen 1910] and later as a bookkeeper for a tractor company in Stockton, San Joaquin County[Cen 1920].
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she lived at 1317 Bay Street in Alameda, Alameda County[Vote 1936]. By 1944 she had moved in with her son John two block south at 1128 Bay Street[Vote 1944].
- Cen 1910: 15 Apr 1910 Census, 317 Buchanan Street, Coalinga, Fresno County, California
- Cen 1920: 14 Jan 1920 Census, 1136 North Ophir Street, Stockton, San Joaquin County, California
- Vote 1936: 1936-1942 Registers, 1317 Bay Street, Alameda, Alameda County, California
- Vote 1944: 1944 Registers, 1128 Bay Street, Alameda, Alameda County, California
John Maurice GOODWIN, III (1874-1926)
1411. John Maurice GOODWIN, III was born October 21, 1874 in Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California. He married Harriet "Hattie" L. ALDERSON and had two sons:
| 14111. | Thomas GOODWIN | 2 Nov 1893 | ||
| 14112. | Morris A. GOODWIN | 24 Aug 1899 |
John Maurice GOODWIN, III died on December 28, 1926 at the age of 52 in Cottonwood, Yavapai County, Arizona which is about 3 miles southeast of Clarkdale along Alternate Highway 89.
- Cen 1900: 23 Jun 1900 Census, Upper Verde Precinct, Yavapai County, Arizona
- Cen 1910: 22 Apr 1910 Census, Giroux Street, Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona
- Cen 1920: 7 Jan 1920 Census, County Road, Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona
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.
- Cen 1910: May 1910 Census, 1010 Miner Street, Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada
- Cen 1920: 2 Feb 1920 Census, Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona
- Cen 1930: 17-19 May 1930 Census, Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona
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.