Olive Alta (Goodwin) Fredrickson

Olive Alta (Goodwin) Fredrickson

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After selling the farm to his second eldest daughter Ida and her husband Jacob "John" Mengel, in the spring of 1909 Archie moved most of the family to "about 25 miles northeast of Edmonton, Alberta" according to the book, "The Silence of the North" written by the youngest of the children, Olive Alta Goodwin and published in 1973 under her married name, Olive A. Fredrickson.

Olive’s mother, Clara Clark Goodwin, died in 1910 near Athabasca, Alberta, Canada as the result of an epileptic seizure leaving 9-year old Olive and several of her siblings motherless. Clara was buried in an unmarked grave on the farm Archie was renting at the time. When Olive visited the area many years later she found the burial site had been plowed, planted with grain, and there was no longer any way to determine the actual place her mother had been buried.

Olive Alta (Goodwin) Fredrickson's Letter, 30 Jan. 1970 [1]  [2]  [3]  [4]  [5]  [6]

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Goodwin Family Cemetery