[4] He and his wife moved to Maryland after his term as Director of the Pennsylvania State Library and Museum, and died in Leonardtown there after a brief illness, aged 72.

For example, in 1928 Godcharles presided at the dedication of a new museum at the birthplace of Henry Clay Frick in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.

[14] He served as the official representative for Pennsylvania Governor John S. Fisher and featured speaker at a Flag Day parade and ceremony in New York City in 1929.

[15] In 1930 Godcharles was a founding member of the "Society for Pennsylvania Archeology" (SPA) and was elected to its executive board.

[13] Godcharles' tenure coincided with the beginning of the Great Depression and the state library and museum budget were cut repeatedly as a result.

These and staff cuts led him to write "We have not 'sold' our enterprise to the Legislature or to others who hold the public purse strings.

[13] In 1936 he was elected president of the Eastern States Archeological Foundation and announced a Works Progress Administration project to restore a 1643 Swedish settlement on Tinicum Island near Chester on behalf of the Historical Commission of Pennsylvania, a precursor to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

[19] The New York Times review noted it had "a story for each day of the year", many of them originally "widely published in Pennsylvania newspapers on the anniversary of the event or person concerned", and that "Mr. Godcharles succeeds admirably in choosing and bringing out essential facts and relating it all in a readable style.