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James GASTON

James GASTON

Male 1761 - 1840  (78 years)


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  • Name James GASTON
    Birth 24 Jul 1761  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Residence (SETTLED)  Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence FORMERLY  Christian Co, KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence ORIGINALLY  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 7 Mar 1840  Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial Bovee Cemetery, Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Notes 
    • Hanna, in "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 41, and Burgess in "Gaston Genealogy," p. 121, state only that this James Gaston was a son of Robert Gaston, who was a son of William Gaston and Olivet Lemon. More recent researchers have shown that this James Gaston married Catherine Creighton and settled in Wayne Co, IL, raising a family of eight children.
    Person ID I3361  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2011

    Father Robert GASTON,   b. 1720, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 9 May 1787, Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Mother Margaret LOGAN
    Family ID F1182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine CREIGHTON,   b. 1764   d. 5 Jan 1848, Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)  [3]
    Marriage 20 Mar 1783  Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Margaret GASTON,   b. CA 1784, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. CA 1806, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 22 years)
    >2. Jane Catherine GASTON,   b. 11 Jul 1785, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1865 (Age 79 years)
    >3. Thomas Creighton GASTON,   b. May 4 1790/91, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. CA 1833, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years)
    >4. Robert Rutledge GASTON,   b. 27 Jan 1792, Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Nov 1837, Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
    >5. Elihu GASTON,   b. 1793, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1834, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
    >6. John GASTON,   b. 14 Jan 1796, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 May 1875, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    >7. Elizabeth GASTON,   b. 1797, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >8. James Cyrus GASTON,   b. 28 Aug 1798, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1878, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F17575  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1868] 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. 13.

    2. [S501] Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy, (1989), p. 87.

    3. [S1918] Bill Gaston, Austin TX , Descendants: The Huguenot John Jean Gaston b: About 1600, France.

    4. [S934] Findagrave.com.