{"id":3149,"date":"2023-09-23T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2023-09-23T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:36:24","slug":"william-brewster-bodie-bill-godward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/william-brewster-bodie-bill-godward\/","title":{"rendered":"William Brewster \u201cBodie Bill\u201d Godward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/372-bodie-bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3150\" style=\"width:196px;height:301px\" width=\"196\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/372-bodie-bill.jpg 372w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/372-bodie-bill-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 85vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Son of William T. Godward and Delcie Pearl Millslagle. \u201cBill\u201d was the 2 year child old responsible for the 1932 fire in Bodie, California, that destroyed 70% of the town. He was playing with matches behind the Old Sawdust Corner saloon and ignited the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1.jpeg 372w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 85vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He married Dian Dovereaux on Sept. 9, 1949, in Sandusky, Ohio. He worked as an Engineman Third Class in the US Coast Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3151\" style=\"width:439px;height:521px\" width=\"439\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.jpeg 372w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-252x300.jpeg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 85vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bill and his new bride were on their delayed honeymoon when they were involved in a single-car accident on the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/road-trail\/highway-395.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>US 395<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;near Susanville, California. Bill died from a broken back and injuries he sustained from the accident.<br>(Findagrave.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of William T. Godward and Delcie Pearl Millslagle. \u201cBill\u201d was the 2 year child old responsible for the 1932 fire in Bodie, California, that destroyed 70% of the town. He was playing with matches behind the Old Sawdust Corner saloon and ignited the building. He married Dian Dovereaux on Sept. 9, 1949, in Sandusky, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/william-brewster-bodie-bill-godward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Brewster \u201cBodie Bill\u201d Godward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}