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Welcome! I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR, 97005 USA
This is my personal genealogy hobby site. The data contained
here has been gathered through 20 years of genealogy. Although some of
it is my research, most of it has been shared with me.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: William Newton Gaston LieutenantMale Note
Born: 20 Feb 1839 1839-2-20 at Near Fishing Creek, Chester County, South Carolina Near Fishing Creek, Chester County, South Carolina
Married: 13 Feb 1866 1866-2-13 at Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina
Died: 17 Nov 1907 1907-11-17 at Chester County, South Carolina Chester County, South Carolina
WIFE
Name: Mary Mccullough Baskin Note
CHILDREN
Born: 18 Feb 1867
Died: 26 Jan 1953
Wife: Susan Annie Hicklin
Born: 13 May 1868
Died:
Wife: Jane Owings
Born: 25 Dec 1871
Died: 20 Dec 1954
Wife: Mary Patton
Born: 2 Feb 1874
Died: 27 Aug 1969
Husband: William Frtancis Strait
Born: 25 Feb 1875
Died: 27 Feb 1913
Husband: William Pinckney Neely
Born: Abt 1876
Died:
Husband: A. Theodore Quantz
Born: 26 Oct 1877
Died: 12 Jan 1971
Husband: Joseph Conner Steele
Name: Anna Gaston
Born: 18 Jan 1879
Died:
NOTES
1). WILLIAM NEWTON AND MARY McCULLOUGH BASKIN GASTON William Newton Gaston, son of Joseph A. and Elizabeth Wyli e Gaston, was born January 20, 1839 near the banks of Fishing Creek. He spen t his boyhood days in the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church c ommunity where he attended an academy sufficiently to ge t a fair education. He was a farmer and tilled the soil unt il his death, except for the years interrupted by the war. Designated Lieutenant in Co. A. Fifth S.C. Reg. C.S.A. , he served with his brother John Porter Gaston. A letter W illiam wrote to his father from Petersburg, Virginia, Octob er 29, 1864, vividly recounts skirmishes with Grants army . William also kept a diary of his war experiences. Unfortu nately, only the last page has survived, recording his impr isonment off the Virginia coast aboard a prison steamer where he was given three days rations of b acon and hard tack before being disembarked at Newport News . On June 25th and 26th, he recounts that the officer in co mmand of the prison was Col. Bamberg of the 5th Maryland Re giment. On June 28th the North and South Carolina troops we re discharged. William arrived home July 3, 1865. William was soon working the land again and thinkin g of a stable domestic arrangement after so many years of l iving in tents and trenches. He married Mary McCullough Ba skin, daughter of Joseph Baskin, and kinsperson to Alexand er Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate Sta tes. Mary was a very attractive and refined lady. Born Jul y 29, 1839, she married William on February 13, 1866, i n a ceremony performed by the Reverend J.H. Saye at Fishin g Creek Presbyterian. Eight children were born to William and Mary Anna, Lottie Blair who married a Mr. Steel, Rosa Ferr y who married Dr. W.F. Strait, Elizabeth Wells who marrie d William Pinkney Neely, Ethel Victoria who married a M r. Quantz, Joseph who married Jane Owings, Dr. John Newto n who married Mary Patton, and William Wylie who married Su san Annie Hicklin. !DEATH Headstone, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, H eadstone, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church cemetary
2). !DEATH Headstone, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, H eadstone, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church cemetary
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