Jul-28-2018
Husband: John W. Gaston
Born: Sep-26-1783 in Somerset Co, NJ 1,2
Died: Jun-19-1859 1
Father: William Gaston (1761 - 1809)
Mother: Naomi Teeple (1760 - 1818)
Wife: Sarah Castner
Married: 1805 3
Born: Oct-20-1782 2
Died: Apr- 8-1859 2
Father: David Castner
Mother: Mary Thompson
M Child 1: William Ker Gaston
Born: Jul-23-1806 in New Jersey 2,4
Died: Dec-24-1885 2
Census: 1870 in Bridgewater, Somerset Co, NJ
Occupation: merchant 4
Wife: Aletta Margaret Tunison b. Aug- 5-1821 d. Dec-12-1890
Census name: Margaret 4
Married: Nov-10-1846 5
M Child 2: Daniel Castner Gaston
Born: Oct-14-1807 6
Died: Aug- 2-1888 in Somerset Co, NJ 7
Census: 1860 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Wife: Ida Ann Vliet b. Jul- 9-1811 d. Feb-29-1880
Married: Jan-28-1830
M Child 3: Samuel Brant Gaston
Born: Dec-14-1809 in New Jersey 2,8
Died: Nov- 1-1870 2
Census: 1860 in Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ
Occupation: merchant, tailor 8
Wife: Jane Maria Van Derveer b. Oct- 4-1815 d. Jun-28-1891
Married: Jun-15-1833 2
F Child 4: Margaret Gaston
Born: Nov-29-1811 in New Jersey 9,2
Died: Oct-31-1869 in New Jersey 2,9
Buried: in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ 9
Census: 1850 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Husband: Thomas Blackwell b. Oct-16-1804 d. Feb-12-1876
M Child 5: Robert Gaston
Born: Dec-15-1813 2
Died: Feb-17-1890 2
Wife: Martha Jane Lane b. Nov-28-1813 d. Aug-10-1878
Also known as: Martha Eliza Lane
Married: Feb- 4-1839 10
M Child 6: Joseph Gaston
Born: Apr-12-1816 2
Died: Dec- 3-1888 2
Never married:
M Child 7: John Gaston
Born: Aug-31-1818 in New Jersey 2,11
Died: Feb- 3-1888 2
Census: 1850, 1860 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Wife: Rebecca Ann Wortman b. Oct- 2-1816 d. Dec-15-1902
Married: Nov-17-1842 10
M Child 8: Oliver Berton (twin) Gaston
Born: Jan-14-1821 in New Jersey 2,12,8
Died: Jan- 8-1894 in Glen Head, Long Island, NY 2,12
Census: 1880 in Elizabeth, Union Co, NJ
Census: 1860, 1870 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co, NJ
Occupation: 1880 merchant tailor 13
Occupation: 1870 sewing machine agent 4
Wife: Sarah Alette Wortman b. Apr- 5-1821 d. Aug-30-1903
Married: Oct- 8-1840
F Child 9: Naomi (twin) Gaston
Born: Jan-14-1821 in New Jersey
Died: Oct-17-1897
Census: 1870 in Banner, Fulton Co, IL
Census: 1860 in Canton, Fulton Co, IL
Husband: Isaac Farley Stephens b. ca 1812 d. Oct-17-1900
M Child 10: Hugh Gaston
Born: Apr-23-1823 in New Jersey 2
Died: Mar-28-1899 2
Census: 1870, 1880 in Branchburg, Somerset Co, NJ
Census: 1860 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Occupation: farmer 8
Wife: Jane VanDeveer Garretson b. Sep-29-1828
Married: Nov- 2-1844
M Child 11: Isaac Gaston
Born: Jul-23-1825 in New Jersey 2
Died: 1900 2
Census: 1880 in North Plainfield Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Census: 1870 in Warren Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Census: 1850, 1860 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ
Occupation: farmer, merchant, miller 11,4
Wife: Catharine Cornelia Sutphen b. ca 1826 d. 1869
Wife: Catherine E. Sutphen b. ca 1836 d. Jan- -1915
Sources:
(1) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 46.
(2) Max Perry, American Descendants of William Gaston and Mary Olivet Lemon (Midland, TX, 1989)
(3) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), Max Perry
gives marriage date as October 17, 1809, but Hanna shows it as 1805. p. 46.
(4) 1870 Census.
(5) Oliver B. Elsworth (1893-1970, Greenwich, CT), Gaston Genealogy (self-published, revised & updated by K. P. Williams,
2005)
(6) Max Perry, "American Descendants of William Gaston and Mary Olivet Lemon," gives first name as David. But Cecil Lee
Jones, Jr., in "Gaston Crier," May 1997, and "American Ancestry," Vol V, p. 86, give first name as
Daniel.
(7) American Ancestry, Vol. V (originally published 1890 by Joel Munsell's Sons; republished 1968 by Genealogical
Publishing Co, Baltimore), 86.
(8) 1860 Census.
(9) Headstone.
(10) Max Perry, American Descendants of William Gaston and Mary Olivet Lemon (Midland, TX, 1989), 148.
(11) 1850 Census.
(12) Audley DeForest "Sandy" Gaston, Austin, TX 78731 , Family of David Gaston 1757-1830,
http://www.genealogy.com/users/g/a/s/Audley-D-Gaston/TREE/.
(13) 1880 Census.
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