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Godbold, Thomas

Godbold, Thomas

Male Bef 1755 - 1821  (> 66 years)   Has 2 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Godbold, Thomas
    Birth Bef 1755 
    Gender Male
    _TAG Uncle/Aunt ancestors 
    _UID 25EC8C1C70FC464D81CEB893F0242BF18209 
    Death 1821  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I61983  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 11 Feb 2019

    Father Godbold, Cpt John   d. 1765, Craven Co, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother McGurney, Elizabeth
    _UID 86C11DBDCB766646AF363C73EB997B17B803 
    Notes 
    • !REFERENCE:As to the children of Cpt. John Godbold and Elizabeth McGurney:

      From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 117-125.

      GODBOLD. John Godbold was the first who came to the region of Marion Court House. Bishop Gregg, p. 68, says: "He was an Englishman, and had been long a sailor in the British service. Though advanced in years at the time of his arrival, such was his enterprising energy that he succeeded in accumulating what for that day was a large property. He settled in 1735, about a half-mile below the site of the present village of Marion, being the first adventurer to that locality." * * * "During the French and Indian wars, Mr. Godbold was plundered of almost all the personal property he had gathered. Of thirty negroes, twenty-two were taken from him and never recovered ; a trunk of guineas, the fruits of many years' labor, was rifled. He married, after his arrival on Pee Dee, Elizabeth McGurney, by whom he had three sons, John, James and Thomas, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, from whom the extensive connexion in Marion have descended."
    Family ID F8853  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Herron, Martha,   b. Bef 1755   d. 1822, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 67 years)
    Marriage Bef 1770  SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID A2F8C72A9288374189DEC625588C3DCD5DCD 
    Children 
     1. Godbold, Stephen,   b. 1765/1770   d. 8 Mar 1845, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     2. Godbold, David,   b. 1776/1777, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years)
     3. Godbold, Thomas,   b. 1770/1780, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1836/1837, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
     4. Godbold, Elly   d. Aft 1819, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Godbold, Nancy Ann   d. 1840, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Godbold, Mary   d. Bef 1824, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Godbold   d. Aft 1798, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F19738  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !NOTES:
      (1) This person is not related to me as far as I'm aware. However, I am interested in all Marion Co., SC families to some extent.
      (2) This person is an aunt/uncle of my aunt-in-law Debra Rogers McIntyre.
      (3) This person is an ancestor of my aunt Cherry Rogers.


      !REFERENCE:
      http://www.martygrant.com/
      http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/


      !REFERENCE:A History of the Old Cheraws pp. 68-67;

      !REFERENCE:From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 117-125.
      "Thomas, the third son (of the first old John), married Martha Herron, and had four sons, Stephen, David, Thomas and Ely.
      ...
      The third son of the old first John was named Thomas, and he had a son named Thomas. This latter Thomas was the father of Asa Godbold (senior), of whom we have already had something to say. It seems that this last Thomas had seven sons, who have already been named only three of them were married; Asa (senior), Robert and William H. ; the others lived in single blessedness, and they are all dead, leaving no representatives. Robert married and died, leaving only a daughter. Of Asa. (senior) and his family, we have already spoken. The only one not yet noticed is William H., the youngest ; he was a doctor, and a most excellent and worthy man ; he married, first, a Miss Mendenhall, of North Carolina ; she died in about a year, leaving no offspring; after the usual lapse of time in such cases, the Doctor married a second time, a Miss Hunt (Mary E.), from about High Point, N. C, a highly accomplished lady— woman of a fine and a cultivated mind. By her the Doctor had four children, two sons, Thomas N. and William H., and two daughters, Mattie and Mary L,. ; the Doctor died when these children were all small ; the mother, with the courage of a Spartan, with her limited means, raised her children respectably, and gave them all a fairly good education; she is yet living. After some years she married Captain J. C. Finklea (Confederate), by whom she had one child, a son; who died, however, at the age of four or five. The eldest son, Thomas N. Godbold, married on the loth January, 1888, the youngest daughter, Mary, of the writer. She has three children living, Thomas Carroll, Anna and Mary E. The second son of Dr. W. H. Godbold, who was named for his father, married, about 1886, a Miss Mattie Beaty, daughter of Hon. James C. Beaty, of Horry County. About seven years ago, he disappeared from home, and has not been heard of since; he left his wife and four small children, two sons and two daughters ; his wife and the children are doing fairly well. Dr. Godbold's oldest daughter, Mattie, married J. E. Stevenson; she died three or four years ago, and left three children, two sons and a daughter ; Mary L., the youngest daughter of the Doctor, married Richard Davis, below Marion ; they are doing very well.


      !JURY LIST:1778 Georgetown District, SC
      Petit Jurors for the Parish of Prince George 1778
      From [HorryGenWeb]
      James Godbolt
      John Godbold
      Thomas Godbolt;

      !TAXLIST:1786 Georgetown District, South Carolina
      Prince George Parish, Capt. Stephen Godbold's Company
      ... (Name, Land, Negroes)
      James Godbold, 1000, 0
      Jesse Godbold, 50, 1
      John Godbold, 200, 3
      Thomas Godbold, 400, 5
      Zachariah Godbold, 100, 0
      Zachariah Godbold, 50, 0;

      !CENSUS:1790 Georgetown Dist., SC Prince George Parish pg 507
      Thomas Godbold age 16+ (bef 1774)
      1-3-1-0-6;

      !CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist., Liberty Co., SC pg 436
      Thos Godbold Senr age 45+ (bef 1755)
      00301-00001-0-0;

      !VOTER LIST:1809 Marion Dist. SC
      Abraham Godbold
      David Godbold
      Stephen Godbold
      Thomas Godbold Jun
      Thomas Godbold Sen
      Zachariah Godbold Jun;

      !CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist, SC pg 84/27
      Thos Godbold Senr age 45+ (bef 1765)
      10101-00001-0-3;

      !CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 50
      Thomas Godbold Sr age 45+ (bef 1775)
      001101-00101-0
      slaves=1020-1100;

      !EQUITY ROLL # 74 Marion Dist., SC Thomas Godbold
      David Godbold et al vs. Thomas Evans et al, Partition ... 21 Feb 1824 (document in bad shape)
      ... Thomas Godbold died ca 1821 leaving widow Martha and orator and oratrix ---- and Nancy Brown, David Godbold, Thomas Godbold ... Samuel Foxworth his grandchildren and heirs at law.
      ... Martha Godbold widow of Thomas died 1822 .... Thomas's dau Martha Foxworth mother of Samuel Foxworth and his sons David and Thomas ....
      ... on 21 Feb 1824 Stephen Godbold, Thomas Godbold, Edward Brown and wife Nancy filed a bill against said David Godbold as entitled to share in estate, and Thomas Evans and Thomas Godbold as adms and also heirs ...
      7 Nov 1837 David Godbold, Cade Godbold, Ann Brown --- Foxworth --- Foxworth --- Foxworth, grandchildren of of thetestator that Thomas Godbbold died leaving sons Stephen Godbold, Thomas Godbold the orator David Godbold, his daughter Ann Brown wife of Edward Brown, his grandson Thomas Evasn being the son of ---.
      ... Thomas Godbold the younger has died and his widow is adm of his estate.
      ... Elly Godbold step-son of David Godbold testifies concerning Sarah Godbold's mental capacity.
      ... 1871 Ann, widow of Edward Brown. Children of Thomas Godbold the elder: Mary, Stephen, Nancy Eady, Thomas and David. Cade Godbold son of David.;


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