Online genealogies list several different parents for George W. Golden. Actual parents are unknown.
We know the birth and death years and place of George W. Golden as both were documented in U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880. The originals of these documents still exist and available online.
These cannot be the parents of George W. Golden, b1762 South Carolina and d1859:
~~~ Richard Golden, 1744–1788, and Susanna Wilmoth, 1750–1837, of Orange County, Virginia, settled in the Laurens, South Carolina area about 1770-1771 which is eight (8) years after the South Carolina birth of George W. Golden in 1762.
~~~ Thomas Goulding, 1720–1793, and Elizabeth Cook, 1730–1800, of Carteret NC. The Goulding family, which became Goldens, still reside in Carteret, NC.
Both of the above suggested parents are y700 tested. It is easy to verify descent from either of the above lines by taking a yDNA test.
It is more likely that George W. Golden, b1762 South Carolina, is the son of Thomas Golden, c1720-c1790, who settled at Newberry, South Carolina by 1759. This Golden line is also y700 yDNA-tested. Learn more at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/173427102/person/142254178580/facts or https://www.facebook.com/groups/WilliamNellieGoldenFamily/
There were several other nearby Golden families, also yDNA-tested, and different from the above.
Best regards,
Bill Golden, [email protected]