Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Alexander Gaston    
                Born:        1727          in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland  1
                Died: Aug-20-1781          in New Bern, Craven Co, NC  2,3
          Occupation:                      physician  4,5
              Father: William Gaston   (1680 - 1770) 
              Mother: Olivet Lemon   (1688 - 1752) 
Notes 6 
                Wife: Margaret Sharpe     
             Married: May-  -1775           6,7
                Born: 1755                 in Cumberland County, England  6
                Died: 1811                  8 (see note 1)
              Buried:                      in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC  8
              Father: ___ Sharpe 
Notes 
           M Child 1: (Male) Gaston      
                Born: bef 1778              
                Died: in infancy            
           M Child 2: William Joseph Gaston      
                Born: Sep-19-1778          in New Bern, Craven Co, NC  9,3,2
                Died: Jan-23-1844          in Raleigh, Wake Co, NC  10,3,2
              Buried:                      in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC   (see note 2)
          Occupation:                      Congressman & Judge  
                Wife: Susan Hay  b.     ca 1787  d. Apr-20-1804  
             Married: Sep- 4-1803          in Fayetteville, Cumberland Co, NC  11
                Wife: Hannah McClure  b.     ca 1786  d. Jul-14-1813  
             Married: Oct- 6-1805          in New Bern, Craven Co, NC  11
                Wife: Eliza Ann Worthington  d. Jan-19-1819  
             Married: Sep- 3-1816          in Georgetown, Washington, DC  1
           F Child 3: Jane Gaston      
                Born: ca 1780               12
             Husband: John Louis Taylor  b. Mar- 1-1769  d. Jan-29-1829  
             Married: ca 1797               

Sources:
(1) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949. 
(2) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 42. 
(3) 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. 
(4) Chalmers Gaston Davidson, Gaston of Chester, Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956), Based chiefly on notes and 
records preserved by Judge Arthur Lee Gaston, and privately printed according to his will. p. 
xi. 
(5) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 41. 
(6) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 3. 
(7) Dorothy Perry Brawley, The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends (1995), p. 109. 
(8) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 201. 
(9) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 2. 
(10) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 224. 
(11) Dorothy Perry Brawley, The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends (1995), p. 111. 
(12) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston:  Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 4. 

Event Notes
Note (1) late in the year
Note (2) 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.







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