Golding / Golden / Goulding et al Family History on Facebook 1985 September – My commissioning as an Army officer. No one broke a bottle of champagne across my bow, but my mother Clara Ann Norfleet Golden and best buddy SSG Kent Nutting pinned on my Chief Warrant bars at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. MOS: 982A / … Read more
Golding / Golden / Goulding et al Family History on Facebook >> Thank you to Bill Golding the junior for sharing this photo. Wedded Feb 28, 1942 – William Arthur ‘Bill’ Golding and Mary Hope Booker at Washington DC. Bill Golding is a YDNA-tested descendant of William Golding (1704-1782) and Elizabeth Foster (1704-1775). William Arthur … Read more
Golding / Golden / Goulding et al Family History on Facebook >> Thank you to Ally Dowd for sharing this story. Cyril Clarence Golding was born in Gravesend, Kent, England in 1899. He enlisted as a Seaman in the Royal Navy in 1917. His number was J76570 344256. He was 5 foot 3 1/4 tall, … Read more
Golding / Golden / Goulding et al Family History on Facebook Updated 2014.11.22 Three generations of Samuel Goldens have lived and raised families in the Woodward, Oklahoma area. Samuel Henry Golden was born 28 Jul 1849 in Ohio and died 21 Dec 1918 in Britton, Oklahoma. This family moved to Oklahoma from Indiana at some … Read more
Golding / Golden / Goulding et al Family History on Facebook William Franklin “Frank” Golden and Nancy Ann Foust Frank is my 1st cousin, three times removed (separated by three generations of time). Frank was born 4 May 1844 in South Carolina and passed away on 16 Jan 1926 in Anderson County, Tennessee. Nancy Jane Foust was born 21 Jun 1850 … Read more
When I was 12 I lived several houses over from the Price family, a Navy family. The father served on a destroyer at Mayport Naval Base, Jacksonville, Florida. He was one of the ship’s barbers. Each year they would have family day. The whole family was welcome to come aboard ship as they sailed several hours out … Read more
My father was a Marine and my mother a Department of the Navy civilian. I was graduating high school during the Vietnam War years. I wanted to go to college. My father said NO to helping me pay for college. OK, so … the military offered college tuition if you joined. Being the son of … Read more
This Goulding family left behind large amounts of written documentation as to their community’s and family’s journey through life and history. Preservation and care for this record archive collection appears to conclude in 1929 with the passing of Richard William Goulding, notable for his devotion to history and ensuring that it would be passed to future … Read more
Mucho thanks go to my cousin Carole Golden Alessi for pointing me to this resource. The North Carolina Land Grant Database is a free site contains searchable data for over 216,000 land grants issued by the state of North Carolina from 1663 to 1960, including around 12,000 grants issued for what is now Tennessee. Over 36,000 grants … Read more
COLUMBIA, South Carolina – A Mass of Christian burial for Maj. Wayne Harris Golden, U.S. Army (Ret.), 87, will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 3600 Devine Street, Columbia, SC 29205. Commendation and Farewell Prayers with full military rites will be in Fort Jackson National Cemetery, 4170 … Read more