Fleetwood Augustus Golden
Birth: 1875 (Newberry or Laurens County) South Carolina
Death: 1965 Burial: Liberty Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cross Hill, Laurens County, South Carolina [1]Find-a-Grave Memorial# 8247740
Parents: Richard Golden / Golding (c1815-1818) and Martha Golding (c1836). Martha may be Martha Dendy, a name given in some genealogies but no document for that, nor of a marriage to a Richard Golden or Golding.
—— Some genealogies suggest that parents are John Richard “Dickie” Golden (1815-aft.1887) and Martha Hughes (1820-1880). Martha would have been age 55 when Fleetwood Golden was born. This is not beyond being possible. Most of Martha’s children were born in the 1850s and very early 1860s. There was a late child born in 1869. [2]Benjamin Perry Golden was born 1869 to Richard and Martha Hughes Golden. There are no later records for him and Benjamin may have died as a child. This Golden line is yDNA-tested and is different from the more probable male line of descent as a g-g-grandchild of William Golding (c1704-1782) and Elizabeth Foster (c1704-1775).
yDNA: Strongly matches (37 marker test) two other DNA tests that claim descent from William Golding (c1704-1782) and Elizabeth Foster (c1704-1775). [3]yDNA test results on FamilyTreeDNA. Testing recorded also on YSearch.org ID: 8QZY3; YSearch no longer exists but some records of 8QZY3 may in various genealogies.
atDNA: There are atDNA matches with kin of John Richard “Dickie” Golden (1815-aft.1887) and Martha Hughes (1820-1880). [4]See AXG for DNA match with a Samuel Golden, 1770-1859 decendent, same male line as John Richard “Dickie” Golden.
Married: Carrie A. Rawlinson (1872-1945) AKA Rollinson in 1900; one son: James Richard Golden (1901–1997)
Married: Katherine “Kate” Harris (1885-aft.1830 census) in 1922 at Taliaferro, Georgia[5]Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978, available on Ancestry.; no children.
Married: Amelia Cecilia Bianchi (1888-1972); no children. Married 2 Nov 1935 at Greenwood, South Carolina, USA.[6]South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Country Marriage Records Living at Elberton, Elbert, Georgia in 1950 census.
Lived most of his adult life after age 25 in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
Fleetwood was living in the Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama area during 1918 when he registered for the World War I draft. On his registration, Fleetwood listed ‘Mrs. Sarah Ella Golden‘ as his nearest kin, residing at 915 Alabama Avenue, Birmingham.
Who is ‘Mrs. Sarah Ella Golden‘? Mother? Sister? Aunt? Undocumented wife? His wife at the time was ‘Carrie’, although he does not list Carrie as his next of kin. Carrie was living in the Atlanta area in 1920, along with her son James Richard Golden (18) and reported her status as widowed (both Carrie and Richard are listed in the 1920 census as ‘Gordon’). Carrie again listed herself as the widow of Fleetwood Golden in the 1940 Atlanta city directory (address H785 Piedmont Ave., NE)
References
| ↑1 | Find-a-Grave Memorial# 8247740 |
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| ↑2 | Benjamin Perry Golden was born 1869 to Richard and Martha Hughes Golden. There are no later records for him and Benjamin may have died as a child. |
| ↑3 | yDNA test results on FamilyTreeDNA. Testing recorded also on YSearch.org ID: 8QZY3; YSearch no longer exists but some records of 8QZY3 may in various genealogies. |
| ↑4 | See AXG for DNA match with a Samuel Golden, 1770-1859 decendent, same male line as John Richard “Dickie” Golden. |
| ↑5 | Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978, available on Ancestry. |
| ↑6 | South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Country Marriage Records |