James Madison University
Family Geography Research Paper
How I came to be.
Emma Pastorfield
GEOG 200-0001
Johnathan Walker
October 17, 2017
On August 30th, 1999, I was born in Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. My legal name is Emilie Woods Pastorfield, but most not the time I am simply called Emma. I am now 18 years old and still live in the same house that have lived in since I was 4 which is located at 360 Heron Lane. I am now a freshman at James Madison University so during this school year I am living in Chappelear Hall in Village located at 360 Carrier Drive.
My family lineage begins on my mother’s side in 1866. My great great grandfather named William H. Godine was born in Brooklyn, Kings New York. He continued living in New York and worked as store clerk at the ripe age of fourteen. Shortly later in 1890, Bella Godine came into the picture, who he would marry. Bella Godine was born in New York as well in 1870. She married Willam when she turned twenty-two, and then they moved to Belleville, Essex New Jersey on Hornblower Avenue. Once they were settled down for a few years, they had a son named Leonard Vincent Godine. Once Leonard V. Godine was older and had left the nest, they moved to Baltimore, Maryland around the 1920’s. They got a house on Windors Mill Road where William worked as a salesman for the toy industry. Bella Godine’s job was unknown but I imagine she was house wife.
William and Bella’s son Leonard Vincent Godine was born on November 15th, 1899. His family was extremely poor so he only made it to eighth grade before he had to drop out and work to help out his family. He later went back to school and made it to the second year of high school. In 1917, he was drafted into the military and fought in WW1 until 1919; during his time in the military he became highly decorated. Once his call expired he moved to 6202 Pine Hurst Avenue Baltimore, Maryland. There he met and married Emilie M. Godine, and they had three kids: Richard, Douglas, and Linda. Emilie M. Godine was born in Maryland in 1905 where she continued to reside. She completed high school but that was her highest form of education. The only thing known about her parents is her mom resided in the District of Colombia. Leonard worked for an insurance company in Baltimore which helped him send all his kids to private school and college. According the ancestry.com, in 1955 Emilie M. Godine took a trip over to Germany and came back to the United States a few months later.
On January 31st, 1929, my maternal grandfather, Richard Leonard Godine was born. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland and attended St. Paul’s private school. After he graduated high school he attended the University of Virginia, there he was in the ROTC program. Not only that but he was also on the first all American lacrosse team and was an Eli Banana. Richard spent his summers in Cape May, New Jersey where he life guarded, this is where he met Caroline Newbold Watson. They dated then got married when he was twenty-three. After he graduated in 1952, he was enlisted in the army on September 13,1953. He returned back to Maryland after fighting in the Cold War on June 13th, 1955. Then Richard and Caroline decided to move to Germany to help reconstruct other countries. After having the first child, Richard in Heidelberg, Germany, they returned to Baltimore. There they had three more children: Caroline, Julianne, and Emilie (my mother). Richard then moved to Charlottesville, Virginia and started his own insurance company, Godine and Nesbit. He lived at both 1155 Tennis Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22901-5032 and 507 Kellogg Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22903-4643. Then he moved to Earlysville, Virginia where he passed away on November 29,1971. This was due to a hunting accident where he was shot in the right thigh, he was unable to be saved. He is now buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbrium, fours rows from the entrance on the right.
My great great grandmother Ada Claire is from Swedish descent, she was born in the around 1870s. Her husbands last name was Peterson which he changed later to Pierson; he worked as a tanner his whole life. They had three children together which she had to raise on her own after he passed away at a young age. She resided in an unknown location in Wisconsin and volunteered at a local hospital. One day during her shift she spilled boiling water all over herself and passed away.
Ada Claire’s daughter Jane Pierson was born in Wisconsin and continued to live there all of her adolescent life. She then studied pre-med at the College of Wisconsin. That is where she found her husband, Charles Newbold Watson, who was studying pre law. Charles N. Watson’s father was named Dr. William Watson and his mother’s name was Caroline Newbold. William and Caroline had an arranged marriage; Caroline was married at fifteen. Caroline Newbold Watson’s parents passed away when she was little leaving a massive inheritance. Caroline came from a long line of Quakers that came over to America. She switched to Presbyterian and was one of the first to break the Quaker religion. Lineage of the Watson family is highlighted in A Quaker Saga and continues through Caroline’s generation all the way to my mother, Emilie Jane Godine’s generation. (Brey, 107) I think it is super cool that a book has been published that traces my family to the Quakers coming over to American fleeing religious prosecution. William and Caroline’s son, Charles Newbold Watson, was born February 27th 1902 on Saunders Street in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He graduated high school at the age of nineteen and soon met his wife Jane Pierson. They moved to Wynnewood, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA and had three daughters: Sally, Caroline (my grandmother), and Jane. Charles was later drafted in WW2.
My grandmother name is Caroline Newbold Watson. She was born on March 14th, 1931 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She went to school at Shipley private school, then attended Mary Washington University. She married Richard Godine and only worked for two years using her teaching degree. She became a mother of four: Richard, Caroline, Julianne, and Emilie. After Richard Leonard Godine passed away she remarried twice. First to Robert (Bob) Englander. and Second to Garrett Kirksey; they moved to Kilmarnock, Virginia and still live there on 81 Dividing Creek Lane.
Caroline Nebold Watson’s youngest daughter, Emilie Jane Godine, is my mother. She was born on January 6th, 1962 in Baltimore Maryland at John Hopkins Hospital. After living in Maryland until she was two she moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where she attended Saint Annes Belfield (STAB). She moved from Earlysville to Farmington after her father passed away. She then attended VCU but dropped out and moved to New York to work for a fashion magazine dressing models. She lived there with her sister Julianne in a Greystone apartment. After that she moved back to Charlottesville to pursue her new passion of real estate along the side of her best friend Lindsey Milby. There they lived together on the downtown mall. She was a agent for two year when she decided she wanted to go back to school at Mary Baldwin for elementary education. After dating for 8 years Emilie married Charles Stuart Pastorfield, then graduated with he Bachelor’s degree. She then gave birth to my older sister, Caroline Morgan Pastorfield on February 20th, 1995. Four years later she gave birth to me on August 30th, 1999. She began teaching at Virginia L, Murray Elementary school and still teaches there.
Charles William Pastorfield Senior (my great grandfather) was born on August 26th, 1891 in Royal Oak, Talbot County, Maryland. His highest level of education was 4th year of high school, he worked as salesman for a coal company. He then married Victoria F. Pastorfield on October 30,1917 in Richmond County North Carolina. Victoria F. Pastorfield was born in South Carolina on March 1st, 1896. They resided together in New Haven Connecticut until they passed away: Charles on December 16th, 1960 and Victoria on May 11th, 1974. They both were buried in Easton Maryland in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Charles Senior and Victoria had a son named Charles William Pastorfield Junior. He was born on August 26th 1918 in New Haven Connecticut. He was a real estate agent until he enlisted and fought in WW2. When he returned from service he married Priscilla Woods after meeting her at a Billie Holiday concert. They had three children: Charles, Frances (Woodsy), and Priscilla (Pooh). They got a divorce in 1955, and passed away a few year later on August 14th, 1967 from a heart attack. He is buried along side his parent in East, Maryland at Spring Hill Cemetery.
Joseph Wheeler (my great grandfather) was born in Boston on November 7th, 1889. He didn’t have any schooling past the second year of high school. He made a living selling alcohol, his business took off during the prohibition era. His ancestors date way back in American history to coming over on the Mayflower. He married a women named Priscilla Pollard and has two children: Priscilla Pollard Woods (my grandmother) and her brother.
Priscilla Pollard Woods is my paternal grandmother. She was born on October 22, in Boston Massachusetts. Her family was well off due to there bootlegging and they send to a private boarding school in Middleburg, Virginia named Foxcroft. Then she attended Katherine Gibbs School in Boston where she gained the credentials to work as a secretary in the District of Colombia. She meet her husband shortly after at a concert and had three children: Charles, Frances , and Priscilla. They moved to Orange, Connecticut where they settled down for a few years until they got divorced. She then remarried David W. McCoy and they had four children together: Anna (Kimmy), Jessie, David (Tuckey), and Elise. They all lived on Ely’s Ferry Road at Roundabout Farm. Priscilla and David got a divorce in 1965, she then took all her kids and moved to the Virgin Islands. They lived at 2P Bierge Gate in Charlotte Amalie. Unfortunately, her daughter Woodsy and Pooh both passed away from different kinds of cancer so she moved back to Connecticut. She resided near Route 156 in Old Lyme, Connecticut until 2012 until her health began to decline. She then moved to 94 Mountain View Rd. Stuarts Draft, Virginia to be close to my family. She passed away October 21, 2016. Her body was donated to science at the Medical College of VA.
Priscilla and Charles Junior had a son named Charles Stewart Pastorfield, my father. He was born September 29, 1951, in New Haven, Connecticut. He lived in Orange Connecticut until his parents got divorced when he was four. Then he moved to Lyme Connecticut where the rest of his siblings were born, after his mother, Priscilla got divorced from her second husband, David, they all moved to the Virgin Islands. Charles spent his summers in St. Stomas but started attending Kent private school in 1963. He then moved to Charlottesville, Virginia by himself to attend the University of Virginia as a Eccles Scholar. He stopped attending university when the Vietnam War began, from then on he pursued his music career which and was a part of a lot of semi famous bands such as Skip Castro or The Believers. He married Emilie Jane Godine in 1992 making her Emilie Godine Pastorfield. He didn’t get a real job until my sister Morgan was born in 1995. At that time the three of them lived at 208 Bennington Road, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903. Then I, Emilie Woods Pastorfield was born in 1999. In 2003, we all moved to 360 Heron Lane where we all still reside (most of the time).
Although I am currently living on campus at James Madison University, my home is back home in Charlottesville. All my lineage lead my there and will continue to draw me home. I plan living in the Phi Mu society house next year, then off campus the next two years. I’m currently a health science major doing the Pre-PA program. But as I have learned I come from a long line of indecisive women so who knows where life will take me. Hopefully graduate school or somewhere tropical.
Biblography
Brey, J. W. (1967). A Quaker Saga. Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance &Company.