Carolyn Marie (Goodwin) Brubaker (1880 - 1944)

Born 25 Jan 1880 in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Lawrence Gibbel Brubaker — married 28 Sep 1909 in Goshen, Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 22 Jul 1944 at age 64 in Oceanside, San Diego, California

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Biography

By son G. Roger Brubaker (1910-2006), 990 West Florida Avenue, Hemet, California, USA. Carolyn Goodwin: “The sun beat down heavily on that august day in 1906 when Carolyn Goodwin arrived in Hemet to begin her teaching position at the Hemet High School located at the corner of Acacia and Buena Vista. This 1904 graduate of the famous Smith College for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, had been contacted by Principal DeFremery to teach not only English, Latin, German and French, but also Spanish which she had not studied so had to keep ahead of the class in this. She was qualified for the others. But she was a courageous young lady who would really try.

"An attractive brunette with dark brown hair reaching to below her waist when “let down”, she was 26 years old, in the Far West, in a small but friendly town of less than 1,000, not yet incorporated. Soon she met Mildren Hudson, already on the school staff, and both roomed at the Will and Clara Goodhue home on South Harvard Street. The same Mrs, W. C. Goodhue was the first president of the newly formed Hemet Woman’s Club in 1906.

"Carolyn was born January 25, 1880 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, a little “down east" town near Northampton. Her father, Scott Anson Goodwin, was a pharmacist and farmer. He traced his lineage back to a female relative of the famous Captain Miles Standish of the Pilgrim and Mayflower era, although the female relative had come to the new world somewhat later than 1620. Mary Crafts Goodwin, widowed since 1900, accompanied Carolyn as far as Riverside on the Santa Fe Railroad, and lived and worked there until she came to live in Oregon with Carolyn later. Smith was an expensive College and Carolyn’s older 3rd cousin, Georgiana Mowry, wife of a prominent Boston attorney, helped put her through college."

Carolyn Marie was a 1904 graduate of the famous Smith College for women in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was contracted by Principal DeFremery to teach English, Latin, German, French and Spanish at Hemet High School, California, on the corner of Acacia and Buena Vista.

Carolyn Marie and Lawrence Brubaker went to Massachusetts to meet her family and get married 28 September 1909. They lived in Oregon and finally in Hemet. She died at the beach house in Oceanside, California, where they would go to get away from the sulphur fumes used on the ranch to treat the drying trays for the apricots.

She is buried in the San Jacinto Valley Cemetery which is also the Hemet Cemetery. ^[1]

Sources

• Karen Brubaker, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Karen and others.

1. ↑ Entered by Karen Brubaker, Mar 21, 2012

• 1880 United States Federal Census-Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts-granddaughter
• 1900 United States Federal Census-Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts
• 1910 United States Federal Census-18 April-Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
• 1910 United States Federal Census-6 May-Blanton, Lane, Oregon
• 1920 United States Federal Census-26 January-Blanton, Lane, Oregon
• 1920 United States Federal Census-9 February-Hemet, California
• 1930 United States Federal Census-Hemet, Riverside, California
• 1940 United States Federal Census-Hemet, Riverside, California
• California, Death Index, 1940-1997. "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPF4-9MZ : 26 November 2014), Carolyn G Brubaker, 22 Jul 1944; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento. Father: Goodwin, Mother: Crafts.
• Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915
• Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988-birth, name, date, place, father
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
• Ancestry Family Tree with sources
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Q-Z3QL : 15 July 2020), Carolyn Goodwin Brubaker, 1944; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Spouse: Lawrence G Brubaker, Child: George Roger Brubaker
• Grave Memorial