Notes for: Crockett Godbey

The birth order of his children comes from Annie Myrle (Godbey) Arnold. She was pretty sure of this, but not absolutely sure.

His name on the 1880 Census at LDS is "Godly."

Dianne (Godbey) Betts said that the name Crockett probably was given in honor of Davy Crockett who was famous at about the time Crockett Godbey was born.

We have an image of his Parole Pass from April 10, 1865 aftere the surrender of the Northern Army of Virginia to Grant's Union Forces at Appomattox Court House on April 9. Joy got this image of his Parole Pass from Elizabeth Godbey Kelly who got it from her brother Stephen. And we don't know how Stephen got it. Maybe somebody could find that out since these Parole Passes have mostly rotted away after all this time. There aren't that many left today. They were just printed out quickly by the thousands on cheap paper after the surrender. Hopefully somebody is taking care of it since that is a family treasure. Joy and I visited the Appomattox Court House State Park today and saw the room and printing presses used to print those. They were printed out in the back of the tavern there that has now been restored to what it used to look like.

The Park records say he was serving as a Chaplain in the 63rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment. That doesn't match what is on his gravestone (74th Tennessee Infantry Regiment). Joy then searched Google about the difference in regiment numbers. The National Park Service responded that the two (63rd and 74th) are actually two different names for the same group. So that doesn't seem to be a mistake.