 1793 - 1883 (90 years) Submit Photo / Document
Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
-
| Name |
Clarissa Goss |
| Birth |
8 Mar 1793 |
Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
21 Jan 1846 |
NAUVO |
| FamilySearch ID |
LKVY-JVJ |
| Death |
22 Jun 1883 |
Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
| Burial |
Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
| Headstones |
 Submit Headstone Photo |
| Person ID |
I164499 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Daniel Goss, b. 23 Mar 1764, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States d. 19 Oct 1837, Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Tirzah Prouty, b. 15 Feb 1769, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States d. 21 Apr 1843, Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States (Age 74 years) |
| Marriage |
1790 |
Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States |
| Family ID |
F18755 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
-
-
| Notes |
- Clarissa was well-educated, and proud of being descended from the distin g uished New England Prouty family. Despite being in poor health as a you n g mother, she taught her children to read, write, and sew. She also lat e r taught her grandchildren to read and do sums. The Eastmans mourne d a so n who died of an accident at a young age .
Clarissa and her husband James were devout Christians but did not unit e w ith a church until James met the LDS missionaries while in Boston o n a bu siness trip. James was baptized and Clarissa soon joined as well . (Her mo ther had also been previously converted but died suddenly befor e their de parture.) They left their comfortable home for Nauvoo via th e steamboat R obert Fulton from Troy to Albany, New York, then railway an d canal to Pit tsburg, then steamboat on the Ohio .
Clarissa performed proxy baptisms for her sisters in Nauvoo. In the fa l l of 1843, she and James were among the three thousand Saints who sign e d the Scroll Petition for Mormon redress due to mob violence. The Eastm an s received their blessings in the Nauvoo Temple. Once they left Nauvoo , t he Eastmans traveled in rainstorms nearly daily for months. This wa s a ha rd time for the family, as all were ill for weeks on end. Clarissa ’s sist er Lavinia Whipple and her baby died at Council Bluffs, and the n Clarissa ’s husband James also died in Winter Quarters .
Clarissa recovered and crossed the plains. She insisted on bringing alo n g her little rocking chair, which her husband had made. Her son Ozro re tu rned from the first expedition west with Brigham Young to accompany hi s w idowed mother and sister Sylvia to Utah. Clarissa and Sylvia helped t ur n the adobe for their first Utah house. Clarissa moved in with Sylvi a whe n her oldest child (Lorenzo Lafayette Hatch) was born, and lived wi th th e Hatches in both Utah and Idaho until her death. She doctored he r grandc hildren when ill, wrapping up their legs—sore with growing pains —in “re d hot flannel”; she also knit their stockings and mittens and tol d them s tories.
It is said that Clarissa was never known to have lost her temper, and on l y told one falsehood in her life, when she took some dried apples and d id n’t own up to it. Her testimony, given when she was 84 years old in 18 77 , reads as follows: “I want to bear my testimony to the work we are en gag ed in. When I received the testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophe t I wa s as happy as I could be in the flesh, seemingly I loved all who l oved hi m and the doctrine he taught. I loved Nauvoo and had the spirit o f gather ing as soon as I believed. The spirit of Christ tells his servan ts they c annot be wrong. And so it was I have never had a doubt of the t ruth of th is work for a moment.” http://www.familytreerings.org/2011/03/ happy-218th -birthday-clarissa-goss.html
|
|
|
Submit Photo / Document
Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
English
