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William J. GASTON

William J. GASTON

Male 1859 - 1937  (78 years)

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  • Name William J. GASTON 
    Born 18 May 1859  Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation physican  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Residence 1884  Lewis Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died 19 Oct 1937  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Buried (MAUSOLEUM)  Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Notes 
    • Name given as William C. Gaston in 1860 Census of Lewis County, (W)VA, but William J. Gaston elsewhere. He practiced medicine in Good Hope, Harrison Co, WV, from 1884 to 1907, when he joined practice with Dr. Arnett in the Goff Building in Clarksburg, WV.

      "In the country schools of Lewis Countv our subject was educated and later became a teacher in the schools of the countv. He attended the State Normal at Fairmont and Otterbein University at Westerville, Ohio, and in 1880 began reading medicine with Dr. Florent Gibson, a cousin, at Freemanburg, this State. In 1884 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati. Ohio, and in the Fall of the same year located on Two-Lick Creek, fourteen miles southwest of Clarksburg, where he soon built up a good practice, partly among the people with whom he had been reared and who had had every opportunity to judge of his character and qualifications, and onlv five miles from where he was born. He is a member of the West Virginia Eclectic Medical Association, and of Harrison Countv Medical Association, and stands high in the estimation of his professional brethren. He is one of the busiest of this busy class of men, and is well and fully prepared to meet any professional demand that may be made upon him, and has met with flattering success from the start. In the vear 1884 he married Miss Nellie J. Thrash, daughter of Richard and Eliza J. Thrash, of Harrison County. She died May 3. 1892. On the 25th of March 1894, the doctor married Mrs. Sue Easter, daughter of Perry Wolf. Dr. Gaston has a small but well-improved farm, but devotes his entire attention to his profession. Socially he is a Mason, a member of Jackson Lodge No. 35, at Good Hope, and is Worthy Master. In 1894 he represented this lodge in the Grand Lodge. He is a Democrat in politics." [4, 5]
    Person ID I1788  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2010 

    Father George GASTON,   b. 23 Sep 1831,   d. 7 Feb 1901, Freemans Creek, Lewis Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Martha Ann GIBSON,   b. 7 Jul 1838,   d. 13 Feb 1909, Freemans Creek, Lewis Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Family ID F614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Nellie J. THRASH,   b. 11 Jun 1864, Barbour Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 May 1892  (Age 27 years) 
    Married 11 Sep 1884  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    Children 
     1. (Daughter) GASTON,   b. 16 Jun 1891, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1891, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F615  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Susan WOLFE,   b. Jul 1859, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1921, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Married 24 Mar 1894  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Howe Russell GASTON,   b. 4 Jan 1895,   d. 13 Sep 1980, Bay Pines, Pinellas Co, FL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     2. William Bryan GASTON,   b. 20 May 1897,   d. 12 Dec 1932, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years)
    Family ID F1790  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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    1788_WilliamJGASTON_NellieJTHRASH_Marriage_1884.jpg    		1788_WilliamJGASTON_NellieJTHRASH_Marriage_1884.jpg
    1788_WilliamJGASTON_SusanWOLFE_Marriage_1894.jpg    		1788_WilliamJGASTON_SusanWOLFE_Marriage_1894.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S1670] Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV, DR Bk 11, p. 92C.

    2. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV.

    3. [S1853] Death Certificate, WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx).

    4. [S1992] U.S. Biographies Project - West Virginia, (http://www.wileygenealogy.com/~usbios/bios/wv).

    5. [S2627] A Reminiscent History of Northern West Virginia (1895), (FamilySearch.org https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE114731), pp. 373-374.

    6. [S2269] Cemeteries of Clark District, Harrison County, WV, (Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV).

    7. [S1792] Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985)).
      Identified as Willie Gaston, 25, of Lewis Co, son of George & Martha; and Nellie J. Thrash, 20, b. Barbour Co, res. Harrison Co, dau of Richard & Jane. Married Sep 11 1884.