Son of Thomas and Sarah Fladger Godbold. Hugh married Rhoda Crawford on September 24, 1817.
THE GRAVE AT THE DEER STAND
By James A. Rogers (Editor Emerltus)
Two Sundays ago, in this column, there appeared the story of Hugh Godbold with whom fact and perhaps some legend have woven a story out of old Marion. Reference was made to a footnote in Bishop Alexander Gregg's book, "History of the Old Cheraws," crediting Godbold with having supplied him with much of the material he used in writing about early settlements in PeeDee.
Gregg described him as having a memory "of extraordinary tenacity" and "a remarkable precision and tender regard for the truth which gave his statements high authority." He also spoke of his "general intelligence." This conforms to a statement also made by the late Julius Dargan of Darlington, quoted in W.W. Sellers' "History of Marion County: that he (Godbold) "had mind enough, had he been educated, to be President of the United States."
The column mentioned above said that the tragedy of Godbolds life was of domestic unhappiness intensified by the religious zeal of his wife who, as a convert to Methodism sought to shake her husband from his Church of England moorings. The result was a domestic separation and life for Godbold as a recluse in the woods of Marion County's Wahee region.
Upon his death, the story has it, he was buried in a lonely grave deep in the woods by his favorite deer stand.
Soon after the column appeared, a call came from Bobby Godbolt of Marion. (Back from him in his family, some generation, he said, had changed the spelling of his family line from Godbold to Godbolt. He was related in someway he did not know to Hugh Godbold.) He had found the grave of Godbold, had stumbled upon it in the woods of Wahee Neck, and would take me to it.
I followed him one afternoon along a winding, and narrow dirt road leading off highway 301 and undulating through sunlit glades deep into the Wahee woods. Some four miles distance, we pulled onto the road's edge and stopped, then stepped out among the trees.
There it was - a granite, rectangular marble slab bearing a Masonic emblem and a legend reading "Hugh Godbold, Born March 5, 1796, Died September 30, 1859." A few feet away was a sunken grave from which the slab had been removed and laid upon the ground. Just above the head of the grave a depression marked where a tree had been - the "favorite deer stand" where they had buried him.
The place is, indeed, as described in the earlier column, "in a secluded glade, far from all sounds but those of nature, the ripple of the water, the song of the birds, the singing of the pines, the whispering of the breeze."
Source - Family file in the South Carolina Room, Marion County Library, East Godbold Street, Marion, SC.
THE GRAVE AT THE DEER STAND
By James A. Rogers (Editor Emerltus)
Two Sundays ago, in this column, there appeared the story of Hugh Godbold with whom fact and perhaps some legend have woven a story out of old Marion. Reference was made to a footnote in Bishop Alexander Gregg's book, "History of the Old Cheraws," crediting Godbold with having supplied him with much of the material he used in writing about early settlements in PeeDee.
Gregg described him as having a memory "of extraordinary tenacity" and "a remarkable precision and tender regard for the truth which gave his statements high authority." He also spoke of his "general intelligence." This conforms to a statement also made by the late Julius Dargan of Darlington, quoted in W.W. Sellers' "History of Marion County: that he (Godbold) "had mind enough, had he been educated, to be President of the United States."
The column mentioned above said that the tragedy of Godbolds life was of domestic unhappiness intensified by the religious zeal of his wife who, as a convert to Methodism sought to shake her husband from his Church of England moorings. The result was a domestic separation and life for Godbold as a recluse in the woods of Marion County's Wahee region.
Upon his death, the story has it, he was buried in a lonely grave deep in the woods by his favorite deer stand.
Soon after the column appeared, a call came from Bobby Godbolt of Marion. (Back from him in his family, some generation, he said, had changed the spelling of his family line from Godbold to Godbolt. He was related in someway he did not know to Hugh Godbold.) He had found the grave of Godbold, had stumbled upon it in the woods of Wahee Neck, and would take me to it.
I followed him one afternoon along a winding, and narrow dirt road leading off highway 301 and undulating through sunlit glades deep into the Wahee woods. Some four miles distance, we pulled onto the road's edge and stopped, then stepped out among the trees.
There it was - a granite, rectangular marble slab bearing a Masonic emblem and a legend reading "Hugh Godbold, Born March 5, 1796, Died September 30, 1859." A few feet away was a sunken grave from which the slab had been removed and laid upon the ground. Just above the head of the grave a depression marked where a tree had been - the "favorite deer stand" where they had buried him.
The place is, indeed, as described in the earlier column, "in a secluded glade, far from all sounds but those of nature, the ripple of the water, the song of the birds, the singing of the pines, the whispering of the breeze."
Source - Family file in the South Carolina Room, Marion County Library, East Godbold Street, Marion, SC.
Son of Thomas and Sarah Fladger Godbold. Hugh married Rhoda Crawford on September 24, 1817.
THE GRAVE AT THE DEER STAND
By James A. Rogers (Editor Emerltus)
Two Sundays ago, in this column, there appeared the story of Hugh Godbold with whom fact and perhaps some legend have woven a story out of old Marion. Reference was made to a footnote in Bishop Alexander Gregg's book, "History of the Old Cheraws," crediting Godbold with having supplied him with much of the material he used in writing about early settlements in PeeDee.
Gregg described him as having a memory "of extraordinary tenacity" and "a remarkable precision and tender regard for the truth which gave his statements high authority." He also spoke of his "general intelligence." This conforms to a statement also made by the late Julius Dargan of Darlington, quoted in W.W. Sellers' "History of Marion County: that he (Godbold) "had mind enough, had he been educated, to be President of the United States."
The column mentioned above said that the tragedy of Godbolds life was of domestic unhappiness intensified by the religious zeal of his wife who, as a convert to Methodism sought to shake her husband from his Church of England moorings. The result was a domestic separation and life for Godbold as a recluse in the woods of Marion County's Wahee region.
Upon his death, the story has it, he was buried in a lonely grave deep in the woods by his favorite deer stand.
Soon after the column appeared, a call came from Bobby Godbolt of Marion. (Back from him in his family, some generation, he said, had changed the spelling of his family line from Godbold to Godbolt. He was related in someway he did not know to Hugh Godbold.) He had found the grave of Godbold, had stumbled upon it in the woods of Wahee Neck, and would take me to it.
I followed him one afternoon along a winding, and narrow dirt road leading off highway 301 and undulating through sunlit glades deep into the Wahee woods. Some four miles distance, we pulled onto the road's edge and stopped, then stepped out among the trees.
There it was - a granite, rectangular marble slab bearing a Masonic emblem and a legend reading "Hugh Godbold, Born March 5, 1796, Died September 30, 1859." A few feet away was a sunken grave from which the slab had been removed and laid upon the ground. Just above the head of the grave a depression marked where a tree had been - the "favorite deer stand" where they had buried him.
The place is, indeed, as described in the earlier column, "in a secluded glade, far from all sounds but those of nature, the ripple of the water, the song of the birds, the singing of the pines, the whispering of the breeze."
Source - Family file in the South Carolina Room, Marion County Library, East Godbold Street, Marion, SC.
THE GRAVE AT THE DEER STAND
By James A. Rogers (Editor Emerltus)
Two Sundays ago, in this column, there appeared the story of Hugh Godbold with whom fact and perhaps some legend have woven a story out of old Marion. Reference was made to a footnote in Bishop Alexander Gregg's book, "History of the Old Cheraws," crediting Godbold with having supplied him with much of the material he used in writing about early settlements in PeeDee.
Gregg described him as having a memory "of extraordinary tenacity" and "a remarkable precision and tender regard for the truth which gave his statements high authority." He also spoke of his "general intelligence." This conforms to a statement also made by the late Julius Dargan of Darlington, quoted in W.W. Sellers' "History of Marion County: that he (Godbold) "had mind enough, had he been educated, to be President of the United States."
The column mentioned above said that the tragedy of Godbolds life was of domestic unhappiness intensified by the religious zeal of his wife who, as a convert to Methodism sought to shake her husband from his Church of England moorings. The result was a domestic separation and life for Godbold as a recluse in the woods of Marion County's Wahee region.
Upon his death, the story has it, he was buried in a lonely grave deep in the woods by his favorite deer stand.
Soon after the column appeared, a call came from Bobby Godbolt of Marion. (Back from him in his family, some generation, he said, had changed the spelling of his family line from Godbold to Godbolt. He was related in someway he did not know to Hugh Godbold.) He had found the grave of Godbold, had stumbled upon it in the woods of Wahee Neck, and would take me to it.
I followed him one afternoon along a winding, and narrow dirt road leading off highway 301 and undulating through sunlit glades deep into the Wahee woods. Some four miles distance, we pulled onto the road's edge and stopped, then stepped out among the trees.
There it was - a granite, rectangular marble slab bearing a Masonic emblem and a legend reading "Hugh Godbold, Born March 5, 1796, Died September 30, 1859." A few feet away was a sunken grave from which the slab had been removed and laid upon the ground. Just above the head of the grave a depression marked where a tree had been - the "favorite deer stand" where they had buried him.
The place is, indeed, as described in the earlier column, "in a secluded glade, far from all sounds but those of nature, the ripple of the water, the song of the birds, the singing of the pines, the whispering of the breeze."
Source - Family file in the South Carolina Room, Marion County Library, East Godbold Street, Marion, SC.
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