Re: John Gayle/Joanna Walden family members
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Re: John Gayle/Joanna Walden family members
Tiffany Luchetta 10/06/07
I have spent lots of years researching John Walden's family. He died in Caroline CO in 1794 and was the father of the Mary "Polly" Walden who married Aaron Estes. In addition to my Joanna Walden Gayle and Nancy Ann Walden Puller, John Walden had nine additional children: namely, five sons and seven daughters. They have been a complicated family to research and I have really put my concentration on Joanna Walden Gayle, my ancestor. Her daughter Sarah Gayle, born 1780, married Gerrard Freeman and among their children was daughter Maria Freeman who married a George Smith, s/o Philip Smith and Teresa Herrin, both of Hunterdon CO, NJ and who migrated from NJ to the Brandy Station area of Culpeper CO. Maria and George never achieved materially and were assisted at times by Ann Puller. One document does include the name of Paul Williamsso this document does lay a basis for kinship between Elizabeth Gayle and Maria Freeman Smith. I also found an interesting article in a book called FORKS OF ELKHORN CHURCH. This church is located in Franklin CO, KY, and is near where several Walden and Gayle families settled when they began to migrate from VA. However, the writer of this book, Ermine Jett Darnell, cites Elizabeth as the dau of Matthew Gayle Jr., who married Sarah Penn d/o Thomas Penn. Darnell wrote this book in 1946 and, while there are many inaccuracies in it, it is an excellent source of research clues. She cites other children of Matthew, in addition to Elizabeth, as John and Mary. Darnell also states that Elizabeth first married Paul Williams and second _______ Smith and went to Hannibal, MO. This seems to support some of your research. Further down in her article on the Gayle family, Darnell does state that William Edwards Gayle, son of Matthew Jr. married Elizabeth Davies Walden in 1815 and they lived for some time in Caroline CO, VA, though he died in Cincinnati and she in Fleming CO, KY. I have never tried to verify this but it may indeed be true because both Gayles and Waldens are in that particular section of KY. Are you a John Walden/Lily Gatewood descendant? I think I have seen your name in the family tree somewhere. I hope this information is helpful. Eldred W. Melton
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Re: John Gayle/Joanna Walden family members
Tiffany Luchetta 10/06/07