William Moody Golden appears in some 50 pages of legal documents. At no time does he have a middle name. His surname can appear as Golden or Goulding, a variation of Golding. William Moody Golden (WMG) was mostly likely South Carolina born. Was living in the Newberry, South Carolina area where he met and married Mary Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Lagrone, first child born 1812 at Newberry.
Books Index of Bill Golden’s library. Books fall into four categories: hard copy, PDF, online/downloadable for free or they are behind a paywall such as on Ancestry.com
Listing of slave owners and their location are shown alphabetically below by: last name, first name, year. Slaves were counted in the 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860 census (bold means that those census records are included below). In the 1860 census, as slavery came to nearing its close, there were 3,950,450 registered slaves.
1810 Surry County NC — Genealogies have become blended for the parents of Lucinda “Lucy” Smith, b. 20 Jan 1832 Surry County NC; d. 26 Mar 1910 at Lone Jack, Jackson County MO. Her death certificate show Nancy Golden as her mother BUT it does appear that another name may have been written on the death certificate and then erased.