Thanks to Polar Bear Mom (48912622) for providing the following obituary:
Late Mrs. Goodwin 30 Years at Sea On Husband's Ship
The death of Mrs. Idah (sic) E. (Grafton) Goodwin on Dec. 3, ended a life which included, 30 years, aboard a sailing ship with her husband, Capt. Goodwin.
She was engaged to another young man when Capt. Goodwin, then a mate, came home to Calais, Me., for a three-day shore leave. Capt. Goodwin met her and fell immediately in love. For the next three years he was at sea, writing to her from ports all over the world and finally sending her a diamond ring from England.
When he finally came back to the United States he did not have time to go to Calais, so, with his sister, (Later Mrs. Edgar Webster of Harris Street, Waltham, mother of Reginald Webster), she went to Baltimore, where they were married and the next day attended the inauguration of President Garfield and afterward attended a reception at the White House and met the President.
The next day, the captain and his bride set sail in the "Sterling", a four-masted sailing ship, which was towed out to sea in the midst of a heavy storm, and set out for San Francisco. Mrs. Goodwin was frightened but never seasick. From that time she sailed for many years, almost always the only woman on the ship, with her husband and a crew of 20 men. They carried cows, pigs, lambs and chickens to provide food. Many times they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn and were often out of sight of land for four months.
Several times there was fire aboard the ship and once a mutiny at sea. Another time, when the Captain was seriously ill, she navigated the ship.
She went back to Calais for the birth of her son but when he was three months old she crossed the country with him to San Francisco, where they joined the ship. The boy sailed with them until he was 12 years old. His father taught him mathematics and his mother all the other subjects a child would have in school. Once, when he was still an infant, they were running out of milk, having only one can left. Sighting a ship they hailed it and got enough milk to last until they reached shore. The boy was always well and husky and never had any children's diseases.
Later the captain became part owner of the "Dirigo", the first steel ship built in America. It was one of the Sewall ships of Bath, Me. Among other things they carried sugar, coal and oil from Norfolk to San Francisco and Honolulu. When about 1912 , the captain retired, he figured that he spent 25 years of his life out of sight of land. They lived for three years in Brighton. A few years after husband died in 1915, Mrs. Goodwin came to Waltham to live with her cousin, Mrs. George T. Carter of Worcester Lane. Mrs. Goodwin, who would have been 91 next March, possessed a keen and active mind which never dimmed with the passing of years.
-obituary published Dec 9, 1947 in Waltham News Tribune
Late Mrs. Goodwin 30 Years at Sea On Husband's Ship
The death of Mrs. Idah (sic) E. (Grafton) Goodwin on Dec. 3, ended a life which included, 30 years, aboard a sailing ship with her husband, Capt. Goodwin.
She was engaged to another young man when Capt. Goodwin, then a mate, came home to Calais, Me., for a three-day shore leave. Capt. Goodwin met her and fell immediately in love. For the next three years he was at sea, writing to her from ports all over the world and finally sending her a diamond ring from England.
When he finally came back to the United States he did not have time to go to Calais, so, with his sister, (Later Mrs. Edgar Webster of Harris Street, Waltham, mother of Reginald Webster), she went to Baltimore, where they were married and the next day attended the inauguration of President Garfield and afterward attended a reception at the White House and met the President.
The next day, the captain and his bride set sail in the "Sterling", a four-masted sailing ship, which was towed out to sea in the midst of a heavy storm, and set out for San Francisco. Mrs. Goodwin was frightened but never seasick. From that time she sailed for many years, almost always the only woman on the ship, with her husband and a crew of 20 men. They carried cows, pigs, lambs and chickens to provide food. Many times they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn and were often out of sight of land for four months.
Several times there was fire aboard the ship and once a mutiny at sea. Another time, when the Captain was seriously ill, she navigated the ship.
She went back to Calais for the birth of her son but when he was three months old she crossed the country with him to San Francisco, where they joined the ship. The boy sailed with them until he was 12 years old. His father taught him mathematics and his mother all the other subjects a child would have in school. Once, when he was still an infant, they were running out of milk, having only one can left. Sighting a ship they hailed it and got enough milk to last until they reached shore. The boy was always well and husky and never had any children's diseases.
Later the captain became part owner of the "Dirigo", the first steel ship built in America. It was one of the Sewall ships of Bath, Me. Among other things they carried sugar, coal and oil from Norfolk to San Francisco and Honolulu. When about 1912 , the captain retired, he figured that he spent 25 years of his life out of sight of land. They lived for three years in Brighton. A few years after husband died in 1915, Mrs. Goodwin came to Waltham to live with her cousin, Mrs. George T. Carter of Worcester Lane. Mrs. Goodwin, who would have been 91 next March, possessed a keen and active mind which never dimmed with the passing of years.
-obituary published Dec 9, 1947 in Waltham News Tribune
Thanks to Polar Bear Mom (48912622) for providing the following obituary:
Late Mrs. Goodwin 30 Years at Sea On Husband's Ship
The death of Mrs. Idah (sic) E. (Grafton) Goodwin on Dec. 3, ended a life which included, 30 years, aboard a sailing ship with her husband, Capt. Goodwin.
She was engaged to another young man when Capt. Goodwin, then a mate, came home to Calais, Me., for a three-day shore leave. Capt. Goodwin met her and fell immediately in love. For the next three years he was at sea, writing to her from ports all over the world and finally sending her a diamond ring from England.
When he finally came back to the United States he did not have time to go to Calais, so, with his sister, (Later Mrs. Edgar Webster of Harris Street, Waltham, mother of Reginald Webster), she went to Baltimore, where they were married and the next day attended the inauguration of President Garfield and afterward attended a reception at the White House and met the President.
The next day, the captain and his bride set sail in the "Sterling", a four-masted sailing ship, which was towed out to sea in the midst of a heavy storm, and set out for San Francisco. Mrs. Goodwin was frightened but never seasick. From that time she sailed for many years, almost always the only woman on the ship, with her husband and a crew of 20 men. They carried cows, pigs, lambs and chickens to provide food. Many times they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn and were often out of sight of land for four months.
Several times there was fire aboard the ship and once a mutiny at sea. Another time, when the Captain was seriously ill, she navigated the ship.
She went back to Calais for the birth of her son but when he was three months old she crossed the country with him to San Francisco, where they joined the ship. The boy sailed with them until he was 12 years old. His father taught him mathematics and his mother all the other subjects a child would have in school. Once, when he was still an infant, they were running out of milk, having only one can left. Sighting a ship they hailed it and got enough milk to last until they reached shore. The boy was always well and husky and never had any children's diseases.
Later the captain became part owner of the "Dirigo", the first steel ship built in America. It was one of the Sewall ships of Bath, Me. Among other things they carried sugar, coal and oil from Norfolk to San Francisco and Honolulu. When about 1912 , the captain retired, he figured that he spent 25 years of his life out of sight of land. They lived for three years in Brighton. A few years after husband died in 1915, Mrs. Goodwin came to Waltham to live with her cousin, Mrs. George T. Carter of Worcester Lane. Mrs. Goodwin, who would have been 91 next March, possessed a keen and active mind which never dimmed with the passing of years.
-obituary published Dec 9, 1947 in Waltham News Tribune
Late Mrs. Goodwin 30 Years at Sea On Husband's Ship
The death of Mrs. Idah (sic) E. (Grafton) Goodwin on Dec. 3, ended a life which included, 30 years, aboard a sailing ship with her husband, Capt. Goodwin.
She was engaged to another young man when Capt. Goodwin, then a mate, came home to Calais, Me., for a three-day shore leave. Capt. Goodwin met her and fell immediately in love. For the next three years he was at sea, writing to her from ports all over the world and finally sending her a diamond ring from England.
When he finally came back to the United States he did not have time to go to Calais, so, with his sister, (Later Mrs. Edgar Webster of Harris Street, Waltham, mother of Reginald Webster), she went to Baltimore, where they were married and the next day attended the inauguration of President Garfield and afterward attended a reception at the White House and met the President.
The next day, the captain and his bride set sail in the "Sterling", a four-masted sailing ship, which was towed out to sea in the midst of a heavy storm, and set out for San Francisco. Mrs. Goodwin was frightened but never seasick. From that time she sailed for many years, almost always the only woman on the ship, with her husband and a crew of 20 men. They carried cows, pigs, lambs and chickens to provide food. Many times they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn and were often out of sight of land for four months.
Several times there was fire aboard the ship and once a mutiny at sea. Another time, when the Captain was seriously ill, she navigated the ship.
She went back to Calais for the birth of her son but when he was three months old she crossed the country with him to San Francisco, where they joined the ship. The boy sailed with them until he was 12 years old. His father taught him mathematics and his mother all the other subjects a child would have in school. Once, when he was still an infant, they were running out of milk, having only one can left. Sighting a ship they hailed it and got enough milk to last until they reached shore. The boy was always well and husky and never had any children's diseases.
Later the captain became part owner of the "Dirigo", the first steel ship built in America. It was one of the Sewall ships of Bath, Me. Among other things they carried sugar, coal and oil from Norfolk to San Francisco and Honolulu. When about 1912 , the captain retired, he figured that he spent 25 years of his life out of sight of land. They lived for three years in Brighton. A few years after husband died in 1915, Mrs. Goodwin came to Waltham to live with her cousin, Mrs. George T. Carter of Worcester Lane. Mrs. Goodwin, who would have been 91 next March, possessed a keen and active mind which never dimmed with the passing of years.
-obituary published Dec 9, 1947 in Waltham News Tribune
