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Clarissa Goss

Clarissa Goss

Female 1793 - 1883  (90 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Clarissa Goss 
    Birth 8 Mar 1793  Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Initiatory (LDS) 21 Jan 1846  NAUVO Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID LKVY-JVJ 
    Death 22 Jun 1883  Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I164499  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Daniel Goss,   b. 23 Mar 1764, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1837, Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Tirzah Prouty,   b. 15 Feb 1769, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Apr 1843, Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 1790  Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F18755  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 8 Mar 1793 - Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 21 Jan 1846 - NAUVO Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Jun 1883 - Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Franklin, Franklin, Idaho, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • 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