I am looking for ancestors and descendants of John Brown GOODELL and his wife Dalinda RHOADES GOODELL. John was born on 18 June 1820 in Genesse Co. New York. Dalinda was born on 21 July 1825 in Clermont Co., Ohio. They were married on 3 Aug. 1843 in Fulton Co., Illinois. John B. GOODELL died suddenly of a lung hemorrhage on 22 Feb. 1975 at Champoeg and is buried in the Champoeg Pioneer Cemetery. Also buried in this cemetery are John's sisters-in-law Mary and Pheobe RHOADES and his sons Christopher Columbus and F. Marion GOODELL. Dalinda is buried in the Oakville Cemetery near Peoria, Oregon alongside son-in-law and daughter William and Cynthia GOODELL ST. JOHN. John and Dalinda had at least 7 children. Their daughter (and my great grandmother) Cynthia Ann was born on 6 Sep. 1849 on the Pudding River near Hubbard, Oregon Territory. John and Dalinda traveled over the Oregon Trail in 1847 with John's brother Lyman GOODELL and Dalinda's mother Eliza Vashti BLACKINGTON RHOADES. Dalinda's brother George RHOADES also came to Oregon in 1847 and her brother Alphonso RHOADES came to Champoeg prior to 1850. It is possible that they were in the same wagon train as John and Dalinda. John and Dalinda settled their Oregon Donation Land Claim (certificate no. 2539) at the Oregon City land office on 5 April 1850. Their land claim was located on Champoeg Creek about 1 mile south of the Willamette River at Champoeg. John B. Goodell's and the Rhoades brother's land claims are shown on a 1852 map of the Champoeg vicinity provided in J. A. Hussey's book "Champoeg, Place of Transition". In 1862 Maria RHOADES (Alphonso RHOADES' second wife) was granted guardianship of Alphonso's children. It seems that Alphonso was a fugitive from Justice and absent from State. Maria divorced him and remarried a year later. John B. Goodell was granted guardianship of Alphonso's children in 1869. I believe Alphonso went to the Willapa Bay area in Washington since one of his adult sons and his mother Eliza went there about the same time he disappeared. Eliza is burried in the Bruceport Cemetery, Pacific Co., Washington. I do not know what Alphonso supposedly did or if he ever did return to Oregon.