Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Joseph Gaston    
                Born: Oct- 8-1738          in Ireland  1
                Died: Apr-21-1823           2,3
              Buried:                      in Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chester Co, SC  4,5,6,2
              Father: Alexander Gaston   (1702 -     ) 
              Mother: Jane Harper 
Notes 
                Wife: Martha Gaston   7  
             Married: 1770                 in Chester Co, SC  5
                Born: Jun-11-1741          in Pennsylvania  7
                Died: Mar- 4-1826           
              Buried:                      in Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chester Co, SC  4,6,2
              Father: John Gaston   (1703 - 1782) 
              Mother: Esther Waugh   (1715 - 1789) 
Notes 
           F Child 1: Esther Jane Gaston      
                Born: 1770                  8
                Died: 1814                  8
             Husband: Ebenezer Elliott  
             Married: ca 1794              in Fishing Creek, Chester Co, SC  9
           M Child 2: Alexander Gaston      
                Wife: Living  
           M Child 3: John Gaston      
                Born: Apr- 2-1772          in Chester Co, SC  10
                Died: Jul- 6-1847           10
                Wife: Anne Porter  b. Jul- 7-1782  d. bef 1844  
           F Child 4: Martha Gaston      
           F Child 5: Margaret Gaston      

Sources:
(1) His family bible, per Edward H. Couey, Scotts Mills, OR.  Other sources have given only 1740 for his birth. 
(2) Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina, 1982, p. 196. 
(3) Death date provided by the Judge, with age at death indicated as 84. 
(4) Headstone. 
(5) Reid Family Genealogy (on file at Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington, DC) 
(6) Marilyn Merritt, Blowing Rock, NC  (a Gaston descendant) 
(7) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 40. 
(8) Connie Chaffee Leaman , 4th g-granddaughter of Esther Jane Gaston and Ebenezer Elliott. 
(9) Connie Chaffee Leaman , 4th g-granddaughter of Esther Jane Gaston and Ebenezer Elliott, Marriage 
date thought to be Sep 25 1794. 
(10) Rob Salzman, Beaverton, OR, e-familytree.net (http://www.e-familytree.net/surnames.htm) 







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