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Original Family Cemetery.
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View of Goldston Family Cemetery as it looked in July, 2002.
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Joseph John
Goldston
Born Oct. 18,
1800
Died Sept. 23,
1874
Aged 73 years,
11 months, 5 days
(This stone has
the carved handshake on the top portion, made in Greensboro, NC)
I imagine one or two of his sons
drove a wagon to Greensboro, 40 miles away, to pick up the tomb stone. His son,
William Edwards Goldston, is buried nearby. William drowned in
Bear Creek in 1846.
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Notice that Martha K. was wife of J. J. Goldston, Sr. To me, this
proves that there was no Joseph John Jackson Goldston who Black said was
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William Edwards Goldston was son of Joseph
John Goldston, Sr., and drowned while swimming in Bear Creek.
This is the earliest (1846)
marked grave in the Goldston Family Cemetery. He was named after
his maternal grandfather, Edwards Rives. |
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Pictured left is Bear Creek from the bridge about
100 yards from the original home place.
Photo was taken by Marci Goldston Kulesus during
the drought summer of 2002. The creek is covered with green algae.
This is in the vicinity of where William Edwards Goldston drowned in
1846. |
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This is the Goldston home
place as I remember it from 1940 visit with my parents. The
location is marked on 1870 Chatham County map as J. J. Goldston home.
The original Goldston Family
Cemetery is several hundred feet down the Old Road toward Bear Creek as
shown by 3 white tomb stones in drawing. |
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Joseph John Green, age 3, son of Mary Austin
Green, (daughter of A. J. Goldston), and husband John D. Green who may have been
living here at the time of son's death. |
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Infant Martha Bell,
daughter of John M. and Mary A. Green, born 1849 died 1850.
Allan Goldston is pictured walking away in July,
2002. |
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Mary E., wife of W.
F. Johnson, born Mar. 12, 1843, died Aug. 5, 1871.
Who was W. F. Johnson??? |
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The original
William Goldston marker in the Goldston Cemetery. He was a Captain
in the NC Militia during the Revolutionary War. |
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This is probably the grave of Benjamin N.
Watson and may be the earliest grave in the cemetery. He could be
the father of the Benjamin Watson below. Herbert writes:
In August, 1801, William Lamberth sold both 200 tracts to
Benjamin Watson and in a 175 acre tract from him to Thomas Eubanks. It
defines a line to a post oak, to a branch called Goldston’s Spring
Branch. |
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Benjamin Watson, died 1886,
Died May 8, 1886 Aged 63 years, 3 months, 16
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Bennie T. Watson Born Dec.
11, 1857
Died Aug. 31, 1884
Aged 26 years, 8 months, 20 days
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