The early newspapers printed the lists of letters remaining as rather a courtesy to their readers and the postmasters. Being a rural society, trips to the postoffice were probably not a daily, weekly or even a monthly event. So the newspapers began to run the lists to alert the addressees there was mail waiting for them. William 9 Godowns. He married Harriet A unknown Jefferson Co, GA, February 22, 1844.
Parents are unconfirmed.
A William and Harriet A Goodown are recorded in the early Georga mariages. John M Godowns was born 1827. She married William H Himes Jefferson Co, GA, 1853. William A Godowns was born 1831. The 1870 census lists James age as 31.