Hugh GASTON
1788 - 1888 (100 years)
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Name Hugh GASTON Born 5 Jun 1788 New Jersey 
[1] - Birth date calculated from age at death, 100y 1m 21d, stated in death record. This varies by one day from the age stated in his obituary, 100y 1m 20d.
Gender Male Census 1830 Harrison Co, (W)VA Census 1840, 1850, 1860 Lewis Co, (W)VA Census 1870 Willey District, Lewis Co, WV Census 1880 Freemans Creek District, Lewis Co, WV Died 26 Jul 1888 Lewis Co, WV [2] Buried Gaston-Henry-Queen Cemetery, Sassafras Run, Camden, Lewis Co, WV [3] Notes - Death notice in the "Republican" newspaper of Saturday, July 28 1888:
"HUGHY GASTON One of our centenarians, aged 100 years, 1 month and 20 days, died at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the residence of his son-in-law, John S. Butcher. By request he was interred on his farm."
1830 Census, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated date not recorded:
Household of Hugh Gaston:
1 male, age 40-50 (this would be Hugh)
1 male, age 15-20 (probably Daniel)
1 male, age 10-15 (probably Eli)
1 male, age 5-10
1 female, age 40-50 (this would be Susannah)
1 female, age 15-20 (probably Anna)
1840 Census, Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumeration date not recorded:
Household of Hugh Gasting (sic):
1 male, age 50-60 (this would be Hugh)
1 female, age 30-40 (probably Anna)
1 female, age 10-15
1 female, under age 5 (probably Credella)
1850 Census, Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Oct 3 1850:
Hugh Gaston, 62, farmer, b. New Jersey; Elizabeth Gaston, 48, b. Virginia; Henry H. Gaston, 9, b. Virginia; Credilla Gaston, 11, b. Virginia; Amanda Washburn, 24, b. Virginia.
1860 Census, Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia):
Hugh Gaston, 72, farmer, b. New Jersey; Elizabeth Gaston, 58, b. Virginia; Henry H. Gaston, 18, b. Virginia; Amanda S. Washburn, 34, b. Virginia; Marion H. Gaston, 8.
1870 Census, Lewis County, WV:
Hugh Gaston, 81, farmer, b. New Jersey; Elizabeth Gaston, 67, b. Virginia; Marion Gaston, 17, farm laborer, b. Virginia; Amanda Washburn, 43, b. Ohio, cannot write.
1880 Census, Lewis County, WV (Freeman's Creek), enumerated on Jun 2 1880:
Hugh Gaston, 91, farmer, b. New Jersey, both parents b. New Jersey; wife Elizabeth Gaston, 77, b. Virginia, both parents b. Virginia; step-daughter A. Washburn, 53, b. Ohio, both parents b. Virginia.
(NOTE: Hugh Gaston is identified by some researchers as Hugh H. Gaston, based on a mistranscription of this census. His name clearly is entered as Hugh Gaston, with no middle initial.)
Person ID I948 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 5 Nov 2015
Father John GASTON, Jr., b. 16 Sep 1752, Monmouth Co, NJ , d. 6 Apr 1829, Harrison Co, (W)VA (Age 76 years) Mother Anna DAVISSON, b. 20 Feb 1765, Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ , d. 8 Aug 1854, Duck Creek (West Milford), Harrison Co, WV (Age 89 years) Family ID F343 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Susana JETT, b. CA 1788, d. Bef 1840 (Age ~ 51 years) Marriage Bond 7 Dec 1811 Harrison Co, (W)VA [4] Married 12 Dec 1811 Harrison Co, (W)VA [5] Children + 1. John Hugh GASTON, b. 17 Jul 1812, Harrison Co, (W)VA , bur. (UNMARKED), Oxford Baptist Cemetery, Doddridge Co, WV 2. James GASTON, b. 17 Jul 1812, Harrison Co, (W)VA 3. Anna M. GASTON, b. 3 Jan 1814, d. 30 Jul 1892, Grove, Doddridge Co, WV (Age 78 years)+ 4. Daniel H. GASTON, b. 27 Jun 1816, Harrison Co, WV , d. 14 Apr 1905, Doddridge Co, WV (Age 88 years)+ 5. Eli Morris GASTON, b. 3 Aug 1822, Harrison Co, (W)VA , d. 27 Jan 1909, Doddridge Co, WV (Age 86 years)6. William GASTON 7. Granville GASTON + 8. Credella GASTON, b. 29 Dec 1838, Lewis Co, (W)VA , d. 30 Mar 1919, Lewis Co, WV (Age 80 years)+ 9. Henry Lee GASTON, b. 1841, Lewis Co, (W)VA , d. 14 Dec 1923, Weston, Lewis Co, WV (Age 82 years)Family ID F308 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Elizabeth KING, b. 1801, d. 16 Sep 1885, Lewis Co, WV (Age 84 years) Married 1 Jun 1848 Lewis Co, (W)VA [6] Children + 1. Marion GASTON, b. 7 Jun 1852, Lewis Co, WV , d. 2 Dec 1948, Weston, Lewis Co, WV (Age 96 years)Documents 
Hugh Gaston - Elizabeth King Washburn Marriage Record, Lewis Co, 1Jun1848 Family ID F309 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Photos 
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Sources - [S1631] Lewis County Death Records, Weston, WV.
- [S1631] Lewis County Death Records, Weston, WV, DR Bk 1, p. 165 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=2917238&Type=Death.
Identified as Hugh Gaston, white male, widower, b. in New Jersey, parents (blank), occupation farmer; died Jul 26 1888 in Lewis County, age 100y 1m 21d, cause of death old age. Informant & relationship: (blank), step-daughter. - [S5] Headstone.
- [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR 2-288 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=22076&Type=Marriage.
- [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 4 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=39475&Type=Marriage.
- [S1820] Lewis County Marriage Records, Weston, WV, MR Bk 3, p. 4 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=10708229&Type=Marriage.
The handwritten record is actually a list of four marriages performed by a particular minister between Aug 1847 and Oct 1848. It reads, in part, "I hereby certify that I joined together ... Mr. Hugh Gaston and Miss Elizabeth Washburn on the first day of June 1848 ... agreeably to a license issued from the clerk's office of Lewis county court. Given under my hand this 29th day of May 1849. Carr Bailey, Minister of the Baptist Church." Just below that entry is a handwritten statement reading "The above certificate of marriages was presented in the clerk's office of Lewis county court on the 11th day of June 1849. Testa John Morrow, Clerk"
- [S1631] Lewis County Death Records, Weston, WV.