Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Godwin, Charles B. Sr., 1944 

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CHARLES BERNARD GODWIN

C.B. GODWIN DIES, AGED 83, IN HOSPITAL

   Suffolk, - (AP) - Captain Charles Bernard Godwin, 83, prominent Nansemond 
County resident, and owner of several large farms, died in Lakewood Hospital 
here early Tuesday.

   Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. James Allen Batten, of Richmond; three sons, 
Dr. F. Whitney Godwin, onetime head of the FIDAC International Association of 
Soldiers of World War One, and national vice-commander of the American Legion, 
of Suffolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles B. Godwin of Suffolk, and Frank 
Whitney Godwin, an insurance executive of Winston-Salem, N.C.; a sister, Mrs. 
Emmett O. Pope, of Chuckatuck.

   Captain Godwin had built a fortune from the small packet boat which, as a 
young man, he had operated in Chuckatuck Creek and the Nansemond River.  The 
steamboat grew to a fleet, which he plied along the Atlantic Coast from New 
York to Charleston.  When he finally disposed of his packets, he bought 
extensive lands, including timberlands scattered through the South.

   Funeral services will be held in Suffolk at 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. J.W. 
Newman and the Rev. Luis A. Haskell officiating.  Burial rites will be held at 
Wesley Chapel in the county at 5 p.m.


Capt. Charles Bernard GODWIN, Sr., landowner, former packet boat operator, 
d. 4 Apr 1944, Suffolk, age 83, 
interred in Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery*, Chuckatuck, 5 Apr 1944, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA) 

*Wesley Chapel list (WC-9), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wesleych.txt 

A portrait appears online, in the Library of Virginia (LVA) and Suffolk 
   Public Library's Hamblin Studio Photograph Collection (1909-1979). 
   Search catalog at the LVA website for Subject "Godwin, Capt.": 
   http://www.lva.virginia.gov 


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