The funeral services were attended at the Central Congregational Church, with which Dr. Goodell was connected. They were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Edward Hawes, assisted by the Rev. E. R. Beadle, D.D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and formerly a missionary of the American Board to Syria; and by Rev. George W. Wood, D.D., one of the secretaries of the Board, who had been associated with Dr. Goodell as a missionary at Constantinople.
His dust now sleeps in the Woodlands Cemetery, West Philadelphia.
Mrs. Goodell, the loving and faithful companion of his entire ministerial and missionary life, who had shared in all his toils and trials, who had been with him in all his perils, who had accompanied him in his journeys by land and by sea, and who had lived to return with him to their native land, and now to see him depart to “a better country, even an heavenly,” was to tarry a little longer before being permitted to join him in the mansions above.
She continued to reside with her son, Dr. William Goodell, in Philadelphia, until the summer of 1871, when, in the seventy-second year of her age, the summons came for which she had been hopefully waiting. During her last illness, which, though short, was severe, she spoke freely of her departure; and even before it was thought by others that her end was near, she said, that, while she was in possession of all her faculties, and was able to express her thoughts, she wished to say that she was very happy in the thought of dying. Her trust in the Redeemer and her peace of mind were unbroken to the last.
Mission work on the banks
The day before she became unconscious she was permitted to embrace once more her son and daughter, the Rev. Herman N. Barnum, D.D., and wife, with their children, who had returned to this country for a brief season from their mission work on the banks of the Euphrates. Her last prayer was now granted, her last desire fulfilled, her work on earth was all done; and early on the morning of the 11th of July, from the same chamber from which the spirit of her beloved husband had ascended to heaven, from which, on the 7th of March, 1870, her daughter Isabella had gone up to meet him, she, too, went up to join her beloved, and to meet, in the home of their Father, the many from the lands of the East whom they had been instrumental in turning to righteousness.