Daughter of Osborne F. Nunnelee & Ada Bentley
Married: Thomas Evans Godbold 23 December 1841 in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama
Ten Children:
1. James Franklin - April 12, 1843
2. Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" - May 23, 1845
3. Elizabeth Ann - August 22, 1847
4. Henrietta M. - February 16, 1850
5. Mary Sarah - September 21, 1861
6. William Henry - September 23, 1855
7. Harriet A. "Hattie" - April 12, 1858
8. Sarah N. - September 21, 1861
9. Nathan Osburn - August 14, 1863
10. Amelia Pope - March 26, 1867
Three of these children married three siblings from the family of Samuel Burton Dampier:
William Henry to Frances America Dampier
Nathan Osburn to Mary Judson "Sis" Dampier
Amelia Pope to Oliver Milton Dampier
Edited Obit: TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 15, 1887
GODBOLD--Sister Sarah Godbold was the daughter of O. F. and
Ady Nunnelee, prominent members of the Baptist Church. She was born in Dallas county, Alabama, June 17, 1827. In 1833 her parents moved to Conecuh county, Alabama, where the subject of this sketch was happily married to Mr. T. E. Godbold, Dec. 23, 1841. In the year 1844 Sister Godbold joined the M. E. Church, South, at Evergreen, Ala. In 1854,
Sister Sarah, in company with her husband and children, came to Texas. [remainder long account of trials and tribulations of a Christian lady]
In the family collection is a letter from her husband, T.E. Godbold (written the way he spoke with a South Carolina accent), to daughter Amelia Pope Godbold Dampier, living in Los Angeles, enclosing her funeral notice, a swatch of black lace and a lock of her hair:
"Uvalde Tex Nov the 27, 1887
Dear Children
With a broken harte and seater nurves I write to you a bout your dear ma death she had bin complaining for a weake or to with her bowels and had bin taking som Landorum and on thursday she sent to the drug stoer and got som maufean and had taken som on friday night and then sundy evening she was complining som and when we wer to bead / at 8 Oclock she went out to the water bucke and I suppose taken a dost of Maufean she did not say but when I waked just befor one monday morning I found her getting her breath very hard and shuck her and tride to rouse her but did not dwo much good I got up and rased a lite and called molley and went to her and roused her up but could not get any sence out of her only beged us to go to bead that they was nothing the matter with her thout she had taken too much Maufean we made some coffee first as quick as we could but we could not get much of it down her. I wen for the doctor he came and did all we could for her but we could not save her she dide wenisday morning a bout 10 Oclock the 23 of Nov Children I cant write and you must excuse me this time my mind are so torne up I write those lines to you all we ar all well except little Cleo she has the tooth ache Billey and Francus left hur thursday evening I close by saying you must all write your father in geate trouble
T.E. Godbold"
Barry Michie - G-G Grandson
Married: Thomas Evans Godbold 23 December 1841 in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama
Ten Children:
1. James Franklin - April 12, 1843
2. Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" - May 23, 1845
3. Elizabeth Ann - August 22, 1847
4. Henrietta M. - February 16, 1850
5. Mary Sarah - September 21, 1861
6. William Henry - September 23, 1855
7. Harriet A. "Hattie" - April 12, 1858
8. Sarah N. - September 21, 1861
9. Nathan Osburn - August 14, 1863
10. Amelia Pope - March 26, 1867
Three of these children married three siblings from the family of Samuel Burton Dampier:
William Henry to Frances America Dampier
Nathan Osburn to Mary Judson "Sis" Dampier
Amelia Pope to Oliver Milton Dampier
Edited Obit: TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 15, 1887
GODBOLD--Sister Sarah Godbold was the daughter of O. F. and
Ady Nunnelee, prominent members of the Baptist Church. She was born in Dallas county, Alabama, June 17, 1827. In 1833 her parents moved to Conecuh county, Alabama, where the subject of this sketch was happily married to Mr. T. E. Godbold, Dec. 23, 1841. In the year 1844 Sister Godbold joined the M. E. Church, South, at Evergreen, Ala. In 1854,
Sister Sarah, in company with her husband and children, came to Texas. [remainder long account of trials and tribulations of a Christian lady]
In the family collection is a letter from her husband, T.E. Godbold (written the way he spoke with a South Carolina accent), to daughter Amelia Pope Godbold Dampier, living in Los Angeles, enclosing her funeral notice, a swatch of black lace and a lock of her hair:
"Uvalde Tex Nov the 27, 1887
Dear Children
With a broken harte and seater nurves I write to you a bout your dear ma death she had bin complaining for a weake or to with her bowels and had bin taking som Landorum and on thursday she sent to the drug stoer and got som maufean and had taken som on friday night and then sundy evening she was complining som and when we wer to bead / at 8 Oclock she went out to the water bucke and I suppose taken a dost of Maufean she did not say but when I waked just befor one monday morning I found her getting her breath very hard and shuck her and tride to rouse her but did not dwo much good I got up and rased a lite and called molley and went to her and roused her up but could not get any sence out of her only beged us to go to bead that they was nothing the matter with her thout she had taken too much Maufean we made some coffee first as quick as we could but we could not get much of it down her. I wen for the doctor he came and did all we could for her but we could not save her she dide wenisday morning a bout 10 Oclock the 23 of Nov Children I cant write and you must excuse me this time my mind are so torne up I write those lines to you all we ar all well except little Cleo she has the tooth ache Billey and Francus left hur thursday evening I close by saying you must all write your father in geate trouble
T.E. Godbold"
Barry Michie - G-G Grandson
Daughter of Osborne F. Nunnelee & Ada Bentley
Married: Thomas Evans Godbold 23 December 1841 in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama
Ten Children:
1. James Franklin - April 12, 1843
2. Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" - May 23, 1845
3. Elizabeth Ann - August 22, 1847
4. Henrietta M. - February 16, 1850
5. Mary Sarah - September 21, 1861
6. William Henry - September 23, 1855
7. Harriet A. "Hattie" - April 12, 1858
8. Sarah N. - September 21, 1861
9. Nathan Osburn - August 14, 1863
10. Amelia Pope - March 26, 1867
Three of these children married three siblings from the family of Samuel Burton Dampier:
William Henry to Frances America Dampier
Nathan Osburn to Mary Judson "Sis" Dampier
Amelia Pope to Oliver Milton Dampier
Edited Obit: TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 15, 1887
GODBOLD--Sister Sarah Godbold was the daughter of O. F. and
Ady Nunnelee, prominent members of the Baptist Church. She was born in Dallas county, Alabama, June 17, 1827. In 1833 her parents moved to Conecuh county, Alabama, where the subject of this sketch was happily married to Mr. T. E. Godbold, Dec. 23, 1841. In the year 1844 Sister Godbold joined the M. E. Church, South, at Evergreen, Ala. In 1854,
Sister Sarah, in company with her husband and children, came to Texas. [remainder long account of trials and tribulations of a Christian lady]
In the family collection is a letter from her husband, T.E. Godbold (written the way he spoke with a South Carolina accent), to daughter Amelia Pope Godbold Dampier, living in Los Angeles, enclosing her funeral notice, a swatch of black lace and a lock of her hair:
"Uvalde Tex Nov the 27, 1887
Dear Children
With a broken harte and seater nurves I write to you a bout your dear ma death she had bin complaining for a weake or to with her bowels and had bin taking som Landorum and on thursday she sent to the drug stoer and got som maufean and had taken som on friday night and then sundy evening she was complining som and when we wer to bead / at 8 Oclock she went out to the water bucke and I suppose taken a dost of Maufean she did not say but when I waked just befor one monday morning I found her getting her breath very hard and shuck her and tride to rouse her but did not dwo much good I got up and rased a lite and called molley and went to her and roused her up but could not get any sence out of her only beged us to go to bead that they was nothing the matter with her thout she had taken too much Maufean we made some coffee first as quick as we could but we could not get much of it down her. I wen for the doctor he came and did all we could for her but we could not save her she dide wenisday morning a bout 10 Oclock the 23 of Nov Children I cant write and you must excuse me this time my mind are so torne up I write those lines to you all we ar all well except little Cleo she has the tooth ache Billey and Francus left hur thursday evening I close by saying you must all write your father in geate trouble
T.E. Godbold"
Barry Michie - G-G Grandson
Married: Thomas Evans Godbold 23 December 1841 in Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama
Ten Children:
1. James Franklin - April 12, 1843
2. Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" - May 23, 1845
3. Elizabeth Ann - August 22, 1847
4. Henrietta M. - February 16, 1850
5. Mary Sarah - September 21, 1861
6. William Henry - September 23, 1855
7. Harriet A. "Hattie" - April 12, 1858
8. Sarah N. - September 21, 1861
9. Nathan Osburn - August 14, 1863
10. Amelia Pope - March 26, 1867
Three of these children married three siblings from the family of Samuel Burton Dampier:
William Henry to Frances America Dampier
Nathan Osburn to Mary Judson "Sis" Dampier
Amelia Pope to Oliver Milton Dampier
Edited Obit: TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 15, 1887
GODBOLD--Sister Sarah Godbold was the daughter of O. F. and
Ady Nunnelee, prominent members of the Baptist Church. She was born in Dallas county, Alabama, June 17, 1827. In 1833 her parents moved to Conecuh county, Alabama, where the subject of this sketch was happily married to Mr. T. E. Godbold, Dec. 23, 1841. In the year 1844 Sister Godbold joined the M. E. Church, South, at Evergreen, Ala. In 1854,
Sister Sarah, in company with her husband and children, came to Texas. [remainder long account of trials and tribulations of a Christian lady]
In the family collection is a letter from her husband, T.E. Godbold (written the way he spoke with a South Carolina accent), to daughter Amelia Pope Godbold Dampier, living in Los Angeles, enclosing her funeral notice, a swatch of black lace and a lock of her hair:
"Uvalde Tex Nov the 27, 1887
Dear Children
With a broken harte and seater nurves I write to you a bout your dear ma death she had bin complaining for a weake or to with her bowels and had bin taking som Landorum and on thursday she sent to the drug stoer and got som maufean and had taken som on friday night and then sundy evening she was complining som and when we wer to bead / at 8 Oclock she went out to the water bucke and I suppose taken a dost of Maufean she did not say but when I waked just befor one monday morning I found her getting her breath very hard and shuck her and tride to rouse her but did not dwo much good I got up and rased a lite and called molley and went to her and roused her up but could not get any sence out of her only beged us to go to bead that they was nothing the matter with her thout she had taken too much Maufean we made some coffee first as quick as we could but we could not get much of it down her. I wen for the doctor he came and did all we could for her but we could not save her she dide wenisday morning a bout 10 Oclock the 23 of Nov Children I cant write and you must excuse me this time my mind are so torne up I write those lines to you all we ar all well except little Cleo she has the tooth ache Billey and Francus left hur thursday evening I close by saying you must all write your father in geate trouble
T.E. Godbold"
Barry Michie - G-G Grandson
Inscription
SARAH B.
Wife of T.E. Godbold
Born June 17, 1827
Died Nov. 23, 187
A precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled
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