William Samuel Godbe

26 June 1833 — 1 August 1902

1 Born at London; son of Sarah LaRiviere and Samuel Godbe. 2 Baptized in England, 1850. 3 Immigrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1851. 4 Settled at Salt Lake City. 5 Married Ann Thompson, 1855; participated in plural marriage. 6 Served as counselor to Bishop Edwin D. Woolley in the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward, circa 1868. 7 Excommunicated, 1869; founded the Church of Zion (Godbeites), circa 1869–1880s. 8 Published the Utah Magazine and the Salt Lake Tribune. 9 Died at Brighton, Salt Lake County, Utah; buried at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 3.7)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Church of England St. Luke’s Church (Finsbury, Middlesex), Parish Registers of St. Luke’s Church, Finsbury, 1733–1895, film 585444 (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2000). “W.S. Godbe Is Gone,” Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 2, 1902, 1.

  2. [2] Ronald R. Walker, Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 14.

  3. [3] Ibid., 16.

  4. [4] Ibid. “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), William Samuel Godbe.

  5. [5] Walker, Wayward Saints, 45.

  6. [6] Edward W. Tullidge, Tullidge’s Quarterly Magazine (Salt Lake City: Star Printing, 1883), 2:300. Walker, Wayward Saints, 44–45.

  7. [7] Thirteenth Ward Relief Society Minutes, Apr. 18, 1868, vol. 1, 1868–1898, in Relief Society Minutes and Records, Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake [Ensign Stake], 1868–1906, CHL.

  8. [8] See Walker, Wayward Saints, 166.

  9. [9] Ibid., 232–233.

  10. [10] “W.S. Godbe Is Gone,” 1. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Oct. 2014), memorial no. 7243466, William Samuel Godbe; Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 30, 2015), William Samuel Godbe KWJC-LP2 .