Jul-28-2018
Husband: Robert Gaston
Born: 1720 in County Antrim, Ireland 1,2,3
Died: bef May 9 1787 at Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC 2
Resided: at Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC 3
Father: William Gaston (1680 - 1770)
Mother: Olivet Lemon (1688 - 1752)
Notes 2
Wife: Margaret Logan 4
Married: 1756 in Lancaster Co, PA
Father:
Mother:
M Child 1: William Gaston 3
Born: Jul-10-1757 in Lancaster Co, PA 3,5 (see note 1)
Died: Jan-12-1838 in Marion Co, IL 6,7 (see note 2)
Buried: in Old Covenanter Cemetery, Walnut Hill (Centralia), Marion Co, IL 8
Resided: in Walnut Hill, Marion Co, IL 3,5
Resided: 1808 - ca 1829 in Christian Co, KY 8,3,5
Military: South Carolina Militia, Revolutionary War 3,5,9
Wife: Mary McClure b. 1758 d. ca 1829
Married: ca 1781 8
M Child 2: Thomas Gaston
Born: Jul-18-1759 in Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC 10,11
Died: Apr-23-1832 10
Occupation: wagon maker 12
Military: Revolutionary War (served as an irregular) 13,14 (see note 3)
Wife: Sarah Nickels d. Mar-30-1818
M Child 3: James Gaston 3
Born: Jul-24-1761 5,4
Died: Mar- 7-1840 in Wayne Co, IL 7
Buried: in Bovee Cemetery, Wayne Co, IL 15
Resided: (settled) in Wayne Co, IL
Resided: formerly in Christian Co, KY
Resided: originally in South Carolina
Wife: Catherine Creighton b. 1764 d. Jan- 5-1848
Married: Mar-20-1783 in Lancaster Co, SC 15
F Child 4: Margaret Gaston 3
Born: 1764 7
Died: Mar- 6-1816 7,3
Husband: John McCreary b. 1754 d. Nov- 4-1833
M Child 5: John Gaston 3
Born: ca 1766 in Pennsylvania 7
Died: 1836 in Shelby Co, IL 7
Resided: formerly in Tennessee
Resided: originally in South Carolina
M Child 6: Joseph Gaston 3
Born: ca 1770 in South Carolina 7
Died: Sep- 4-1839 in Greene Co, TN 7,16
Never married: 7
F Child 7: Elizabeth Gaston 17
Born: ca 1772 in South Carolina 7
Died: ca 1810 in Illinois 7
M Child 8: Stephen Gaston 18
F Child 9: Martha Gaston
Born: ca 1774 in South Carolina 7
Died: ca 1851 in Pulaski Co, KY 7
Husband: Isaac Dye
M Child 10: Hugh Gaston 3
Born: 1776 7
Died: 1830 7
Resided: (settled) in Greene Co, IN
Resided: formerly in Kentucky
Resided: originally in South Carolina
Wife: Jane ___
Sources:
(1) Ireland birth/marriage/christening records, Parents listed as William Gaston and Olivet Lemon. Page 10,322.
(2) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 12.
(3) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 41.
(4) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989), p. 87.
(5) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 13.
(6) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989), p. 88 & 96.
(7) Bill Gaston, Austin TX , Descendants: The Huguenot John Jean Gaston b: About 1600, France.
(8) Nancy A. Sicotte, Palo Alto, CA .
(9) Military Grave Marker.
(10) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 14.
(11) Larry Charles Slaughter, Amarillo, TX, citing Mary Gaston Gee's "The Ancestry & Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II
(1841-1911) of Spartanburg Co, SC" and other sources.
(12) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 18.
(13) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989)
(14) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 16.
(15) Findagrave.com.
(16) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944). Thomas Pinckney Gaston left notes stating that his grandfather
Thomas Gaston (1759-1832) had a brother Joseph who died in Tennessee. p. 13.
(17) Bill Gaston, Austin TX , Descendants: The Huguenot John Jean Gaston b: About 1600, France,
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancientage&id=I08564.
(18) Larry Charles Slaughter, Amarillo, TX, citing Mary Gaston Gee's "The Ancestry & Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II
(1841-1911) of Spartanburg Co, SC" and other sources. Questionable.
Event Notes
Note (1) Hanna's "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 41, reports birth date as Jul 23 1755.
Jane Farrell Burgess, in "The Gaston Genealogy," pp. 87 & 96, provides
conflicting birth dates of 1755 and Jul 10 1757. Bill Gaston,
http://home.mindspring.com/~bgaston2/, reports birth date as Jan 13 1761. Age
82y 6m 2d on headstone calculates to a birth date of July 10 1855. But William
Gaston's birth date accepted by the DAR is July 10 1757.
Note (2) Death date of Jan 14 1838 reported by Mary Gaston Gee, p. 13.
Note (3) As a wagon maker by trade, in the Revolutionary War he devoted his time to
building and repairing wagons for the Continental Army. The same powder horn
used by Thomas Gaston in the Revolutionary War was later used by other family
member in the War of 1812 and in the Civil War.
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