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Samuel Morris GASTON

Samuel Morris GASTON

Male 1825 - 1911  (86 years)

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  • Name Samuel Morris GASTON 
    Born 25 Feb 1825  Lost Creek, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    • Obituary states birth date as Feb 25 1825. But headstone has birth on Feb 18 1825. And obituary gives age at death as 86y 3m 8d, which would put birth at Jan 18 1825.
    Gender Male 
    Census 1850  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 26 Apr 1911  Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6, 7] 
    Buried Gaston-Hart Cemetery, Upper Run, Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Notes 
    • Samuel Morris Gaston and his brother John Smith Gaston left Harrison Co, WV in early 1847 and moved to Doddridge County. They bought property from their cousins, John Hugh, Eli and Daniel Gaston, who had come to Doddridge a few years before. They cleared land and built their homes on Camp Run, near Oxford.

      1850 Census, Doddridge County, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jul 24 1850:
      Samuel M. Gaston, 25, farmer; Elizabeth, 25; Mary A, 2.

      1870 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District):
      Samuel M. Gaston, 45, farmer; Elizabeth, 45; Sarah J, 17; Susan, 14; Hannah E, 14; Columbia, 9; Morris S, 7; Martha E, 5.

      1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District):
      S. M. Gaston, 75, b. Feb 1825, married 16 yrs; wife Rebecca Jane, 60, b. Jan 1840 in Virginia, both parents b. in Maryland, married 16 yrs, no children; grandson James M. Jones, 14, b. Mar 1886; grandson Howard H. Jones, 11, b. Jan 1889; grandson Samuel Boyd Reed, 20, b. Apr 1880.

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District), enumerated on Apr 26 1910:
      Morrison S. Gaskins (sic), 85, farmer, married 26 yrs (3rd marriage); wife Rebecca J, 70, married 26 yrs (2nd marriage), no children; grandson Ernest E, 22, single.
    Person ID I1363  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2009 

    Father John GASTON,   b. 24 May 1796, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1884, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth MORRIS,   b. 8 Nov 1797, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jul 1882, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Family ID F444  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth LAW,   b. 17 Apr 1825, Bristol, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Feb 1882, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 3 Sep 1846  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Mary Ann GASTON,   b. 6 Nov 1847, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1855, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)
     2. Rebecca GASTON,   b. 29 Apr 1849,   d. 29 Apr 1849  (Age 0 years)
    +3. Elizabeth Lucinda GASTON,   b. 16 Jun 1850, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Mar 1939  (Age 88 years)
    +4. Sarah Jane GASTON,   b. 29 Mar 1853, Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jun 1918, Fairmont, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
    +5. Susan GASTON,   b. 6 Jan 1856, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1890, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 34 years)
    +6. Hannah Elizabeth GASTON,   b. 6 Jul 1858, Summers, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Sep 1938, Glenville, Gilmer Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    +7. Columbia GASTON,   b. 15 Feb 1861, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Oct 1946  (Age 85 years)
    +8. Morris Samuel GASTON,   b. 9 Feb 1863, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jul 1951, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     9. Martha Emaline GASTON,   b. 28 Feb 1865, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1871  (Age 5 years)
    Family ID F452  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Rebecca Jane FURNER,   b. 22 Jan 1840, Loudoun Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Nov 1922, Camp Run, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 6 Nov 1883  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 11] 
    Family ID F453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S14] Obituary.

    2. [S1891] 1900 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District).

    3. [S1792] Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985)).

    4. [S1590] Death record of daughter.

    5. [S5] Headstone.

    6. [S1773] Doddridge County WV Deaths 1853-1969, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101).
      Entry states Apr 27 1911, at variance from other sources.

    7. [S692] Obituary of wife.

    8. [S5] Headstone.
      - Inscribed on the marker are the names of himself and his two wives, along with all of their birth and death dates. His wife Elizabeth also has a separate marker nearby of her own.

    9. [S14] Obituary.
      - Pallbearers identified as six of his grandsons: Howard, Earnest & Albert [Bert] Jones, Blair [Josiah Blaine] Nutter, C. W. [Charles Wesley] Britton, and Z. W. [Jebidee or Zebidee Warner] Britton.

    10. [S110] Obituary of husband.

    11. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 165 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=255994&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Samuel M. Gaston, widowed, age 58, b. Harrison Co, res. Doddridge Co, son of John & Elizabeth; and Rebecca J. Furner, 43, b. Loudoun Co VA, res. Harrison Co, dau of John & Sarah. Married Nov 6 1883 in Clarksburg.