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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  EDGAR W. GODBEY, Attorney-at-law, Decatur, son of Crockette and Evaline
(Forgey) Godbey, was born in March, 1861, at Morristown, Tenn.

  The senior Godbey was a native of Halifax County, Va., where he was born in
May, 1818. In early manhood, he moved with his parents to Loudon County, Tenn.,
and was for many years a preacher of the Methodist Church, South, and a member
of Holston Conference. Upon the outbreak of the late war, he took sides with the
South, and entered Gracey's command as a chaplain in the army, holding this
position throughout the entire war. After its close, he came to Alabama and
located near Huntsville, in which city he was for a short time pastor of a
congregation of the Methodist Church, South, and afterward united with the North
Alabama Conference. He was the father of five children, four of whom are living:
Edgar W. is the eldest; the others are Laura, Chas. C. and Albert S.

  Wm. Godbey, great-grandfather of Edgar W., was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War, and among the early settlers of Virginia.

  Mr. Godbey's mother was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1835. She was a
daughter of Wm. Forgey, of Irish descent.

  Edgar W. Godbey graduated at Hiawassee College, Tenn., in 1882, taught school
seven months at Somerville, Ala., and subsequently was Principal of Dyersburg
District High School, an institution under the auspices of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and located near Memphis, Tenn. After teaching here
eighteen months, he entered the law department, University of Alabama, and
graduated in February, 1885; after which he located at Decatur, and commenced
the practice of law, in which he was quite successful, he was for a time County
Solicitor.

  Mr. Godbey is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Masonic
fraternity, and was during college life a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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