Posted By:	Michael Gauldin
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	Subject:	Re: migration from Va. to Mo.
	Post Date:	September 22, 2001 at 20:52:12
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Some years ago I copied down these notes from the Missouri Historical Review if they are of any help. There is a Turley mentioned. My ancestor, Josiah (sometimes called Joseph) Gauldin, migrated from Virginia to Saline County, Mo, in 1830. SETTLEMENT ON THE PETITE SAUX BOTTOM (LITTLE FALLS) Petite Saux (pronounced Teet Saw) Plains -- This bottom covers about 18 miles between Malta Bend and Grand Pass. Every on calls it "Tete Saw Bottom." The first settlers were Elijah Arthur, an old soldier of the Revolution, Robert and William White and John Dustin. They came in the latter part of 1815 or 1816. In 1816 George Davis settled on the farm, long known as his. In 1818 Anthony and Notley Thomas settled near the Grand Pass Church...Most of the settlers were from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Other early settlers in this part of the County were John Lincoln, said to have been a brother of Abraham Lincoln, Elisha Evans and Andrew Russell, who came from Kentucky in 1819. A Mr. John Gregg with a family of 21 children is said to have settled in this bottom as early as 1818. In 1834 there was a boarding school on the Mose White farm three miles west of Marshall. This was maintained by John Duggins and his wife, Frances E. Duggins, for 10 years. Some pupils were: Paris, Pleasant and Jane Walker; Royal and Dr. Addison Brown; Samuel and Mary Miller; John Wall; Thomas W. Gaines; Liberty Green; David, Rebecca and Mary Van Meter; Georgia Bruce; Elizabeth and Edwin Oliver; Mary and Wallace Turley; Samuel, Joseph and Ezekiel Scott; David and Marshall Durrett; Miss Susan Bates of Virginia; Miss Mary Howard of Tennessee. In the Grand Pass neighborhood came: Lewises, DeMosses, John and William. Then, in two years, came Major Thomas H. Harvey, Daniel Snoddy, JOSEPH (Josiah) GAULDIN and Col. John Brown (1832) to the Petite Sauts. In 1837, JOSIAH GAULDEN was a charter member of the Mount Carmel Sunday School in Saline County, Missouri. METHODISM IN SALINE COUNTY Mount Carmel -- There is some uncertainty as to the date of the organization of this class. Rev. W.S. Woodard in his "Annals of Methodism in Missouri," says it was organized one or two years after the organization of the Miami class. According to this, Mt. Carmel class must have been organized in 1837 or 1838, and as B. R. Hohnson was on the Circuit at that time it is quite certain that he organized it. Services were held in a school house erected by Maj. T.H. Harvey on his own land. There were few or no public school houses at that time. Among the early members of the first class we find the names of William Brown and Lucy, his wife, JOSIAH GAULDEN and his wife, B.T. Irwine and wife, High Irvine and wife, T.H. Harvey and Elizabeth, his wife, Mrs. Lucinda Johnson, wife of the pastor, as we suppose, and T.R.E. Harvey, son of Maj. T.H. Harvey...a substantial brick church was erected in 1850 during the pastorate of W.M. Prottsman, at a cost of about $3,000. It is yet in a good state of repairs and still in use at this writing, 1910.