Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Maynard, G.F. Gholson, 1923 

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IN HONOR OF: IN MEMORY OF GHOLSON FRANKLIN AND ROSA ATKINSON MAYNARD 

THIS IS THE EIGHTH IN A SERIES ABOUT THE PEOPLE NAMED IN THE STAINED GLASS 
   WINDOWS AT ROCKY HOCK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. 

  Gholson Franklin Maynard, known as "Golie," was a farmer and farmed the land 
across from where Richard and Carol Andrews live today.  The farm is known to 
us in the community as "Miss Bertie's."  They lived there on the farm all 
their lives.  The house they lived in was built in the 1700s, dismantled in 
the 20th century, moved and restored as a bed and breakfast establishment 
located on Rocky Bottom Road in Surry County. 

  Gholson was an appointed deputy tax collector in Surry County, and rode a 
horse around his district to collect county taxes.  He and his wife, Rosa Bell 
Rebecca Atkinson Maynard, had three children; Joseph Crawley, a farmer and 
chairman of Blackwater District school board and lived on a farm across the 
road from his childhood home; Bertie, who married John Presson from Dendron 
and continued to live in her childhood home after the death of her husband; 
and Odie, who never married and lived in her childhood home her entire life. 

  Both Gholson and Rosa are buried in Rocky Hock Cemetery, 

  Miss Bertie [sic; Birdie] was responsible for having the window honoring her 
parents placed in Rocky Hock Church. 

  Thanks to Rebecca Maynard Gwaltney, granddaughter of Golie and Rosa (whom 
she was named after) and daughter of Joseph Crawley Maynard for this 
information and the picture. 


George Franklin Gholson "Golie" MAYNARD, farmer & former deputy tax collector, 
b. 20 Aug 1856, Surry Co., d. 9 Jul 1923, Surry Co., 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 73*), Surry Co., 
   9 Mar 1933, 
Rocky Hock Church memorial 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137054226. 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/m563g1ob.txt