Husband: William Joseph Gaston
Born: Sep-19-1778 in New Bern, Craven Co, NC 1,2,3
Died: Jan-23-1844 in Raleigh, Wake Co, NC 4,2,3
Buried: in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC (see note 1)
Occupation: Congressman & Judge
Father: Alexander Gaston (1727 - 1781)
Mother: Margaret Sharpe (1755 - 1811)
Other spouse 2
Other spouse 3
Notes 5
Wife: Susan Hay 3 Married: Sep- 4-1803 in Fayetteville, Cumberland Co, NC 6
Born: ca 1787 6 Died: Apr-20-1804 6 Father: John Hay Mother: ___ Grove
Sources: (1) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston: Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 2. (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. 10. (3) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 42. (4) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston: Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 224. (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. 11. (6) Dorothy Perry Brawley, The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends (1995), p. 111. Event Notes Note (1) William Joseph Gaston was initially buried in Raleigh, but his remains were later taken to New Bern for burial by the graves of his parents and daughter.