Joseph GASTON
1789 - -
Name Joseph GASTON Birth 24 Dec 1789 Pennsylvania 
[1, 2, 3, 4] Gender Male Census 1850, 1860 Columbiana Co, OH Occupation farmer [3] Notes - 1850 Census, Columbiana Co, Ohio (St. Clair Twp), enumerated on Sep 3 1850:
Jos (Jas ?) Gaston, 62, b. Pa, farmer; Mariah, 47, b. Pa; Catherine, 27, b. Ohio; Saml, 25, b. Ohio; Hamilton, 22, b. Ohio; Jacob, 18, b. Ohio; Hugh, 17, b. Ohio; Martin, 20, b. Ohio, school teacher.
(Note: Joseph's birthplace has been incorrectly reported elsewhere as New Jersey. The seven children listed by Hanna, p. 44, for Joseph Gaston & Elizabeth Conkle include a son Watson and a daughter Elizabeth, but not a daughter Catherine. It is not clear whether or not Elizabeth and Catherine refer to the same child. Similarly,is unclear whether Mariah is Joseph's second wife or another name for his wife Elizabeth.)
1860 Census, Columbiana Co, Ohio (St. Clair Twp), enumerated in June 1860:
Joseph Gaston, 74, b. Pa, farmer; Mariah, 58, b. Pa; Adelaide A, 19, b. Ohio.
In the adjacent household:
Samuel Gaston, 38, b. Ohio, farm laborer; Mariah, 34, b. Ohio.
Person ID I3522 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 6 Jul 2011
Father Hugh GASTON, b. 18 Jan 1764, Somerset Co, NJ d. 24 Jun 1839, East Liverpool, Columbiana Co, OH (Age 75 years)Mother Grace GASTON, b. 25 Nov 1764 d. 14 Mar 1838 (Age 73 years) Family ID F1238 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 
Elizabeth CONKLE [2] Children 1. Elizabeth GASTON > 2. Samuel GASTON, b. CA 1825, Ohio + 3. Hamilton GASTON, b. CA 1828, Ohio + 4. Martin GASTON, b. CA 1830, Ohio 5. Jacob GASTON, b. CA 1832, Ohio + 6. Hugh GASTON, b. CA 1833, Ohio 7. Watson GASTON Family ID F1239 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- 1850 Census, Columbiana Co, Ohio (St. Clair Twp), enumerated on Sep 3 1850:
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Sources - [S517] Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 (1916), (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html).
- [S504] Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 44.
- [S184] 1850 Census.
- [S1791] 1860 Census.
- [S517] Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 (1916), (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html).