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William GASTON

William GASTON

Male 1839 - 1907  (67 years)


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  • Name William GASTON
    Birth 26 Oct 1839  Somerset Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Military From 26 Apr 1861 to 3 Jun 1861  [3] 
    Pvt, Co D, 7th N.Y. Inf, Civil War 
    Occupation 1880  [4] 
    bookkeeper 
    Census 1880, 1900  Elizabeth, Union Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [2] 
    real estate office manager 
    Death 18 Sep 1907  [5] 
    Person ID I4537  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2013

    Father Daniel Castner GASTON,   b. 14 Oct 1807   d. 2 Aug 1888, Somerset Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Mother Ida Ann VLIET,   b. 9 Jul 1811, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Feb 1880 (Age 68 years)
    Family ID F1595  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Ann KEILEY,   b. Oct 1844, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage 15 May 1865  [6] 
    Notes 
    • 1910 Census, Union Co, New Jersey (City of Elizabeth), enumerated on Apr 19 1910:
      Margaret A. Gaston, 65, b. NY, widowed, mother of 4 children (all still living); son-in-law James E. Pyle, 33, b. NJ, lawyer, married; dau Mary G. Pyle, 34, b. NJ, married, no children; granddau Margaret G. Runyon, 16, b. NJ; servant Sarah Burnside, black female, 42, b. Va, widowed, mother of one child (still living).
    Children 
    +1. Frederick Keiley GASTON,   b. 6 Jan 1868, Elizabeth, Union Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 1931, Greenwich, Fairfield Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    +2. Ida GASTON,   b. 2 Jun 1871, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1946, Los Angeles Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     3. William Edgar GASTON,   b. 14 Jul 1873   d. 27 Jul 1874 (Age 1 year)
    >4. Mary B. GASTON,   b. 3 Sep 1875, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Margaret H. GASTON,   b. 27 Dec 1879, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1932, Westport, Essex Co, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
    Family ID F1600  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S248] American Ancestry, Vol. V, (originally published 1890 by Joel Munsell's Sons; republished 1968 by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore), 86.

    2. [S1662] 1900 Census.

    3. [S2222] 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online], (Ancestry.com and National Archives & Records Administration).

    4. [S1710] 1880 Census.

    5. [S250] Max Perry, American Descendants of William Gaston and Mary Olivet Lemon, (Midland, TX, 1989).

    6. [S2686] Oliver B. Elsworth (1893-1970, Greenwich, CT), Gaston Genealogy, (self-published, revised & updated by K. P. Williams, 2005).