Family, WILLIAM GAUSE This collection taken from various records around the web. Table of Contents Ann Bryan Gause - Find-A-Grave....................................................2 Notes by C. B. Berry..............................................................3 Gause family - Kathy Gause........................................................8 William Gause, Sr..............................................................9 William Gause, Jr.............................................................12 Emery (Emory) Purefoy Gause...................................................22 Oland Brantley Gause..........................................................27 Other Related Lines...........................................................28 Francois Bacot..............................................................28 Foissin Line................................................................34 Frink Line..................................................................35 Purefoy (Purifoy) Line......................................................39 Land Office Patents & Grants..............................................39 Clovis "The Riparian" King of Cologne.......................................43 The Independent Republic Quarterly...............................................47 William Gause.................................................................47 Footnotes.....................................................................63 James Fletcher Gause..........................................................64 A HISTORY OF STAR BLUFF, HORRY COUNTY, S. C......................................68 THE GAUSE PLANTATION at OCEAN ISLE BEACH.........................................72 THE GAUSE PLANTATION..........................................................73 THE GAUSE TOMB................................................................73 WHOSE TOMB?...................................................................74 RAVAGED BY TOMB ROBBERS, VANDALS & TIME.......................................75 About the Authors.............................................................76 Resources.....................................................................76 The History of William Gause the patriarch.......................................77 S. C. Dept. of Archives and History..............................................79 IGI Individual Record - William Gause Sr.........................................80 SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION..................................................81 DONALD WILLSON FISCHER........................................................81 Page 1 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Ann Bryan Gause - Find-A-Grave BIRTH 1718 New York, USA DEATH 1812 (aged 93-94) BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 66593279 - View Source Family Members Spouse: WILLIAM GAUSE 1710-1761 Children: JOHN JULIUS GAUSE 1730-1783 NEEDHAM GAUSE 1733-1801 BENJAMIN A. GAUSE 1741-1825 CHARLES GAUSE 1743-1807 WILLIAM GAUSE 1745-1801 Maintained by: Jen Originally Created by: Barbara Smeton Jones Added: 7 Mar 2011 Page 2 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Notes by C. B. Berry May 24, 1962 From THE STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. - Wed. Feb. 14, 1962 (Courtesy Mrs. Marshall Maultsby Frink) Place of Beauty - "GAUSE LANDING HAS HISTORY" Photo (large oaks and lane, looking toward bay). BEAUTY - One of the most beautiful spots in all of Brunswick County is to be found at Gause Landing, where moss-shrouded live oaks provide a natural canopy for a view overlooking the inland waterway with Ocean Isle Beach and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance. Photo (photo of old Gause tomb made of brick projecting three or four feet above the ground) TOMB - One of the most unusual burial arrangements in the history of Brunswick county is the Gause Tomb, which is located in the woods about a mile from the site of the old Gause Manor at Gause Landing. The burial vault is of masonry construction, with brick walls 18 inches thick. The structure is about three feet high, but extends about that same depth below the ground. It is 15x15 feet, and is well preserved, except for a hole blasted at one corner by vandals. By EUGENE FALLON Why am I sorry, Chloe? Because the moon is far And, however I scheme and plot, I cannot find a ferry to the land where I am not. By Ernest Cristoper Dowson. The story of Gause Landing is the story of a family once numerous and rich; a family who came to what is surely one of the most fascinating parcels of real estate anywhere along the South Atlantic coast, to flourish mightily for two- hundred years, only to vanish as mysteriously as they had arrived. And if the Gauses built a two story manor house atop a high hill overlooking a channel separated from the Atlantic only by a few hundred feet of marshland, and employed many slaves to cultivate their several thousand acres of land, time laid its inexorable hand upon the clan one-by-one until today not a single one of the original Gause family walk the earth. As to the origins of this remarkable family, there is little recorded. One story has it that they migrated northward from the South Carolina Low-country; another that they came to Brunswick County from the mid-lands of Georgia. Exactly when the first Gause arrived is also somewhat dim. A manuscript at hand states: "Gause Landing was settled by WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., a former innkeeper of Prince George Parish, S. C. His is said to have purchased land in Brunswick County in 1751. There were five sons: WILLIAM [GAUSE] Junior, JOHN [GAUSE], NEEDHAM [GAUSE], CHARLES [GAUSE] and BENJAMIN GAUSE. Page 3 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE CHARLES settled in Smithville (now Southport) in the spring of 1790 and was one of the founders of this city. WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., JOHN and CHARLES GAUSE all fought in the Revolutionary War in which William lost a leg. A second manuscript studied by the writer generally agrees with the above, except that it's States colon quote the Gause family, Fairly well-to-do Farmers, departed from Woodbine in Central Georgia rather suddenly in 1749. So hurried was their departure that it was said, that they left some furniture and household belongings in a barn on the Family Farm and never reclaimed these possessions. No reason was ever given for the move, although the family who settled along the lower North Carolina coast, were said to have quote waxed rich in their new surroundings So much for the origins. Now as to The disappearance of the fine old family. The writer spent two days down on the landing recently, during which he probed, talked and wondered about the old empire of the Gauses. This led eventually to a rather pathetic and tangled woodland cemetery on sloping Hills leading down to Hales swamp. Escorted by a young Native of the vicinity, I stood and finally in front of a huge round Crypt. It was a full 30 ft in circumference, this bricked vault, or tomb. Under it lay the dust of many Gauses. There is no entrance way. The brick rises almost three feet above the earth; and there is a jagged hole torn through the thick tomb, a hole just large enough to admit a grown person. I lay on the ground and played the beam of a flashlight through the hole. The debris of a century meets the eye. The vault is perhaps seven feet below the earth level. Once the floor too was bricked, and although it was still dry down there and they are quite musty, vandalism had heaped brick pell mell upon the flooring. I did not venture through the hole. Last year a man was said to have killed several rattlesnakes inside the tomb. I walked about the crypt looking for some sort of inscription. If ever there had been such it is now gone. Near the back of the ruined burial mound and situated against what was said to be an air vent - but what local residents call a chimney - is a hole in the earth to the depths of almost two feet. What purpose are these two holes - one through the brick and the other end to the earth - at this lonely forest vault? My guide said that the earthen hole had been dug many years before, dug by unknown persons hunting the gold and currency tradition says was buried with the early Gause's. The hole blasted through the brick itself is even a more sordid story. Twice in fifty years the Vault has been violated by men to whom human corpses are as nothing compared to jewelry and other valuables. Again tradition says that the first grave robbers found and took away a quantity of jewelry and money. These did not, at least, bother the mortal remains. But the second nocturnal visitors, after blasting through the thick walls of the tomb, entered and tore crumbling skeletons aside, searching, perhaps, for rings on the finger bones, and delving like the human vampires they were, beneath the bones for valuables. Enraged, perhaps, with the scarcity of plunder, or may be frightened of apprehension, the man or men snatched skulls and skeletons along with them on their flight, scattering The remains along the woods path. Page 4 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Neither party of ghouls was happy ended. Relatives of the Gauses came from a distant point, some say Georgia, others, Alabama, to mend the broken vault following the first outrage. No one has come to patch the last violation. The Gauses, like all things of flesh and blood, approach disillusion swiftly. Standing there in the soft winter afternoon I was reminded of a couple of lines penned Long ago by the incomparable Percy Bysshe (sic) Shelly: "look on my works ye mighty, and despair!" Scattered to the thick Woods within a couple of hundred yards radius of the vault are an unnumbered legion of graves. Most of these bear markers, some of marble, some of Cyprus. The markers sag and some have rotted through at the ground and lie flat. All the marble, too, are flat upon the ground. This combined with the fallen leaves, branches, moss and Earth, make them very hard to discover. Had it not been for my young guide, I might never have found the first one. Since three families have used the secluded graveyard, situated some two miles from Gause's Landing proper, and a good one-eighth mile from a dirt road in the woods, to bury their dead. They are the GAUSE, RANDALL and the RUSS families. The oldest grave uncovered with inscribed date proved to be that of one SAMUEL RUSS, who was born in Charleston, South Carolina, July 7th, 1790 and who died, presumably at Gause landing, on August 13th, 1829. Other Graves discovered were those of ANSON RANDALL, aged 4 years. No date was found on the Cypress marker. The graves of S. B. B. GAUSE, born August 1877, died October 1885 and that of MON GAUSE, born 1865, died 1868 were all that were discovered still bearing inscription upon the markers. Presumably the remains of WILLIAM, CHARLES, BENJAMIN, JOHN and NEEDHAM GAUSE were interred in the great brick vault. So much for the Gauses and death, now to their thin ribbons of information which linked them to life on the landing that is named for them. Bishop Francis Asbury, circuit riding Methodist preacher who wrote his way to fame in the pages of a diary kept, wrote that he had preached at WILLIAM GAUSE's Manor House in 1801. The Bishop goes on to say: "at the great house, most pleasantly situated on the Brunswick Coast at Gause town, where I had looked forward to again greeting my once dear friend, WILLIAM [GAUSE], death had stolen a march on me." Several years later the indefatigable Bishop came back to Gause's Manor where he writes: "I lodged at JOHN GAUSE's. Our host is a local Minister, and, I trust, a dear child of God." And yet another reference to the clan Gause, the good Bishop wrote: "we came off to Town Creek and housed with CHARLES GAUSE". But even before these visits, another great figure was sleeping at the Manor House on the landing. This time it was GEORGE WASHINGTON, surely one of the greatest sleepers in early American History. George also kept a diary. In it he records: "breakfasted with WILLIAM GAUSE a little out of the direct road 14 miles". This entry was dated Wednesday, April 27th, 1791 and was written on one of Washington's Southern tours via horseback (sic-CBB). Page 5 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Gause Landing is located some six miles east of Shallotte. A paved Road runs between some of the largest and most beautiful oak trees in the country. Moss Falls like a benediction from the great branches of these trees and trails almost to the ground. At the first house one reaches lives the PORTER PARKER's. Porter, who admits to 63 years, was born at Gause Landing. His wife, the former LILY LUDLAM, has lived in the same house for 52 years. Porter took the writer on a short tour of the landing. The paved Road ends in a circular fashion, right on a high Bluff overlooking the inter-coastal waterway and Ocean Isle Beach. And, although neither of the Parkers had ever seen any of the original Gause's, they had heard stories about them from their parents and other older residence. Porter drove us down to the end of the road. On a hill he pointed out where the old Gause home had been situated. Burned down before he, Porter Parker, had been born, he said. Many years before. "So far as I heard", said Mr. Parker, "the last survivors of the original family down here where JULIUS GAUSE, his wife, EDIE, and MACK GAUSE. All of them have been dead a hundred years." Until fairly recent years Parker said that flowers, crepe myrtle trees and the remnants of grape arbors, all planted by the Gause's, grew atop the hill where the house had stood. Parker said that the old house itself had been described to him as a boy by the old heads, as "a great and solid two story of the Gause's haunted their old stamping grounds on the hill for many, many years after the inhabitants had gone to their rest." Folks told of "hearing violin music, guitars, even a bugle", says Parker seriously, "and the singing of The departed Gauses." According to Parker the family were by way of being accomplished singers and musicians in life. They held a mighty reputation as sea minstrels, although they were popularly supposed to be a close-knit bunch, who rarely entertained local visitors. There are people living today on Gause Landing who will tell you they have heard the ghostly concerts on more than one occasion and with my own ears. To Landing ladies, who preferred to remain anonymous, told this writer and interesting Tale. They said that a Southport lawyer, now deceased, "had come to The Landing to make a political speech." Speaking to a fairly large gathering congregated inside the store, operated some 45 years ago by a man named Warren Pigott, the speaker was holding forth in great style, when the two ladies, then thirty or under, went down together to here and not be seen. "We didn't want to intrude on what was then a man's game" they said, "and so we came upon the old Gause Hill, where we would not be detected." "All at once we heard the crying of a baby! It came from the back of us, up the hill, where the old house had stood! We ran back home as fast as we could ... No one has lived at that Hill for years and years." John Pigott left a number of sons, several of whom still reside on the landing, and there are numerous newer Pigott progeny. Page 6 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE One of the eldest, a widow, lives between the Parker home and the landing proper. Going on eighty, Mrs. Piggott recalled that the last direct descendant of the original Gause family was ANNA GAUSE, she home married FRANK LEONARD, and who succumbed about 30 years ago. Mrs. Piggott did not know if ANNA GAUSE LEONARD had been buried at the Hales swamp, or not. They are all gone now, along with the old Manor House. Even the ghostly music has ceased coming from the hill which faces the sea. The Latins had a phrase "Memento Mori", meaning "remembrance of the dead". But the old Gause family have conquered time and that mournful memory. In death they are remembered as living beings common, a family circle proud and haughty. A clan who carved in empire along the ocean, an empire almost four miles long. And today, with the last of that clan vanished from view, this lovely and sprawling place, swept by cooling breezes in the summer, caressed by sunshine in the short and painless Winters, bears their name still. Page 7 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Kathy Gause, TX Gause family - Kathy Gause I have been researching the Gause family since 1996. Along the way, I have found many new "cousins." I would like to thank each and every one of them, as well as, the persons who were not related, but willing to help just the same. Genealogical research is hard work, but very gratifying. It is a thrill to finally break through a barrier or "brick wall" that you thought you would never break through. In this report, the format that I chose to use is explained here: 1. When you see a name in red, that means that this ancestor is directly related to us (Robert Lloyd Family). 2. The asterisk and number signify what generation that person is from the main ancestor. Example: *6 Robert Lloyd Gause This would indicate that Robert is the 6th generation from WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., who would be Robert's great-great-great-grandfather. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed researching and putting it all together. I would like to point out that this is an ongoing project and more information will be constantly added to it. If you find any errors, please draw my attention to it so that it can be corrected. Thank you, Kathy Gause June 2000 Page 8 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. was born around 1700-1710 in Virginia and died circa 1763 in Prince George Parish, South Carolina. William was one of the earliest settlers in what is now coastal Horry County, South Carolina, after the state became a royal province in 1729. According to Pre-Revolutionary Plats, Volume 2; WILLIAM obtained grants to at least 400 acres of land in 1737 in what is now called the Windy Hill Beach area where he made his home as an innkeeper. A salt water inlet now known as "White Point Swash" was formerly known as "Gause‘s Inlet or Gause‘s Swash." According to Charleston County Misc. Records, Volume 78B, some years later, WILLIAM purchased a plantation at Star Bluff on the Waccamaw River from Nathan Frink, including his livestock, plantation tools, and household furnishings, including 400 acres of land. The Frink and Gause families were closely entwined as several Gause children married into the Frink family. WILLIAM GAUSE was the father of the Gause families found in the Shallotte and Lockwood's Folly areas of Brunswick County, North Carolina, after 1760. "Gause Landing" is Off a secondary road paralleling U. S. Hwy. 17 in Brunswick County, lying on the inland waterway just Opposite Ocean Isle Beach (formerly called "Gause Beach"). He married Ann Bryan and had six children: * WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. (more will discussed regarding him later on) * JOHN GAUSE JOHN GAUSE was born circa 1745 and died circa 1783 in South Carolina. JOHN was a Revolutionary War Patriot. He married SUSANNA FRINK (born 1748). SUSANNA is listed in the 1790 United States Census for Bladen County, Wilmington District, North Carolina. She is listed as having 1 Free White Male over the age of 16, 1 Free White Male under the age of 16, 2 Free White Females, and 19 Slaves. John and Susanna had six children: *2 Charles Gause *2 John Julius Gause JOHN JULIUS GAUSE was born in 1774 and died in 1838. He served as a member of the North Carolina House of Commons (state legislature) from Brunswick County between 1825 and 1829. He married his first cousin, ELIZABETH BACOT GAUSE (daughter of WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. and ELIZABETH BACOT). After Elizabeth's death, he married MARIA THERESA BRUARD. After Maria's death on February 18, 1814, he married EMILY R. MILLER. He had eleven children between his three wives: *3 Elizabeth Gause *3 Ann Marie Gause ANN MARIE GAUSE was born in 1799 and died on September 18, 1837. She married her first cousin, WILLIAM WILLSON (son of MARTHA GAUSE and ALEXANDER JOHN WILSON) on October 23, 1821. *3 Samuel S. Gause *3 George Whitfield Gause *3 John Peter Gause *3 Julius L. Gause *3 Jane Miller Gause *3 Margaret L. Gause Page 9 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *3 Frederick B. Gause *3 Mariah J. B. Gause *3 Julia E. Gause *3 James M. Gause *3 Mariah T. Gause *2 Elizabeth Gause *2 Needham Gause *2 Benjamin Gause (Sr.) *2 Charlotte Gause * Needham Gause NEEDHAM GAUSE was born before 1733 in South Carolina and died after July 1, 1801 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He is recorded as buying land in New Hanover County, North Carolina on August 19, 1763. Along with his brothers, he too served in the Revolutionary War. He is found in the 1790 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, as having 2 Free White Males over the age of 16, 4 Free White Males under the age of 16, 1 Free White Female, and 5 slaves. He married HANNAH FRINK. Needham and Hannah had five children: *2 Needham Gause, Jr. *2 William Gause *2 John Gause *2 Elizabeth Gause *2 Bryan Gause * Charles Gause CHARLES GAUSE was born circa 1746 in Prince George Parish, South Carolina. He died circa 1807 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Charles also served in the Revolutionary War. He purchased 640 acres of land on Lockwood's Folly, Brunswick County, from his brother, WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. in 1773. Charles is found in the 1790 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, as having 1 Free White Male over the age of 16, 1 Free White Male under the age of 16, 4 Free White Females, and 15 slaves. Charles is given much credit for the founding of Smithville, now Southport, North Carolina. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married a second time to ELEANOR MILLER LEONARD (who had a daughter, ELIZABETH LEONARD, by her first husband, JACOB LEONARD). Charles had five children (it is not known as to who the mother of each child was): *2 Mary Gause *2 Ann Gause *2 Elizabeth Gause *2 Sarah Gause *2 Charles Gause, Jr. * Benjamin A. Gause Page 10 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE BENJAMIN A. GAUSE was born circa 1750. Benjamin is found in the 1790 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, as having 1 Free White Male over the age of 16, 2 Free White Males under the age of 16, 3 Free White Females, and 4 slaves. He, like his brothers, served in the Revolutionary War. He married ANN FRINK. * Bryant Gause Page 11 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. was born in 1745 in Craven County, South Carolina. He died on May 9, 1801 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He is supposed to be buried in the Oakdale Cemetery in New Hanover County, North Carolina, according to Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 2. However, no one has been able to find his grave. William made his home at Gause's Landing, adjacent to the present day Ocean Isle Beach. It is said that he built a fine house that stood on a bluff, overlooking what then was a salt water creek but is now part of the Inland Waterway. It was part of a several thousand acre rice plantation. No trace of it remains today, as it was destroyed by a Yankee gunboat during the American Civil War. It is said that Gause Landing is where William and his descendants loaded their crops for shipment and received cargo from overseas. The ships came through one of the several inlets in that region. However, not far away is Brick Landing, and it is told that this was the place where Gause unloaded brick shipment from England for his house. Evidence of his land ownership can be found: Colony of North Carolina, 1765-1775, Abstracts of Land Patents, Volume Two, page 181: WILLIAM GAUSE received on April 9, 1770, 290 acres in Brunswick on the East side of Waccamaw, joining Edward Wingate, New Brittons old field, the Swamp side on New Brittons line, and Jennys Branch. In addition: WILLIAM GAUSE received on April 9, 1770, 470 acres in Brunswick - being a tide Marsh between Jobs Inlet and Mad Inlet between NEEDHAM GAUSE, John Simmons, Gause's own land, Peter Allston, and Isaac Ludlan, joining the mouth of Spring Branch on Allstons Line, the Marsh side by Shelleys point, Gauses beach tract, the mouth of Morgans Creek, the beach, and the up land. William served as a Private in the North Carolina Militia from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was wounded while in service during the Revolutionary War which resulted in the loss of a leg. William is listed in Ashe's expedition to Wilmington, North Carolina. The following paragraph is quoted from The Roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors, 1976, pg. 816: SERVICE: Private in the North Carolina Militia from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was wounded and lost a leg. He was a member of the Committee of Safety in July 1775. He was also a member of the Provincial Congress from Bladen County, N. C. William was also paymaster to the Militia in the Wilmington, N. C. District. The following paragraph came from Heartening Heritage on a Carolina Crescent by J . M. M. Holden. "Rebellion was spreading over Brunswick County. field guns were sent from Wilmington for James Moore to erect a battery at Brunswick Town. Supplies were ordered for WILLIAM GAUSE and the people at Lockwood's Folly." Page 12 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE From the Wilmington-New Hanover Safety Committee Minutes, 1774-1776, for Saturday, January 20, 1776, we find the following: "On the Application of WILLIAM GAUSE & Others in behalf of themselves & the Inhabitants of Challottee [Shallotte] and Lockwoods folly setting forth their apprehensions of Danger from the people of Waggamaw and requesting of this Committee a small supply of powder to enable them to Act in their own defense in case they should be Attacked - Ordered that 20 lbs of Gunpowder be supplied to WILLIAM GAUSE from the Stock of this Committee for the use of the Inhabitants of Lockwoods folly & Challottee when the said Gause apply's for the same." The Colonial Records of North Carolina contain several references to WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. In Volume 12, Page 816: William was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons. The House journal, session beginning August 8, 1778, stated that "WILLIAM GAUSE and Lewis Dupree, Esquires, were representing Brunswick County." In Volume 22, Page 36: Journal of Convention of 1789, Fayetteville, 3rd Monday in November says that WILLIAM GAUSE was one of five representing Brunswick County. In Volume 22, Page 47, 48: William voted in favor of adoption of the United States Constitution. The vote carried 195 to 77. In Volume 13, Pages 375-376: March 5, 1778, states that WILLIAM GAUSE, Justice of the Peace, and NEEDHAM GAUSE (William's son), a freeholder, were two of seven who constituted a court to try a slave, James, for murder of Henry Williams. James confessed and the court, "Ordered that the sheriff take the said Jimmy from hence to the place of execution where he shall be tyed to a stake and burnt alive." The History of Brunswick County, North Carolina, by Lawrence Lee, gives numerous insights into the life of WILLIAM GAUSE. In Chapter Nine, Government in a Free Land, WILLIAM GAUSE and his brother, Needham, are listed among the first (19) justices for Brunswick County named by a 1776 Convention act. It was common practice for them to meet at the beginning of each year and choose five from among their number to hold court for that year. General George Washington was apparently a good friend of WILLIAM GAUSE's, for he paid William a Visit on April 27, 1791. This Visit is mentioned in The Diaries of George Washington, Volume VI, January 1790-December 1799: "Wednesday 27th Breakfasted at WILLIAM GAUSE's a little out of the direct Road 14 Miles – crossed the boundary line between No. & South Carolina abt. half after 12 o'clock which is 10 miles from Gauses. Dined at a private house (one Cochran's) about 2 miles farther and lodged at Mr. Vareens 14 Miles more and 2 Miles short of the long bay. To this house we were directed as a Tavern, but the proprietor of it either did not keep one, or would not acknowledge it. We therefore were entertained (& very kindly) without being able to make compensation." A marker has been erected in North Carolina on Highway 17 between Shallotte and Grissettown commemorating the Visit of General George Washington in the home of WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., during his Southern tour. The Gause family place was located at Gause's Landing, some four miles south of the site of the marker (The State Port Pilot, Southport, NC, October 6, 1965). The Gause family was also a friend of the famous Methodist minister, Bishop Francis Asbury. Bishop Asbury Visited Brunswick County in March 1801 after a six-hundred mile trip in "barrens, swamps, savannahs, rivers, and creeks in South Carolina." He wrote of his restful stay at Gause's Page 13 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Manor. On this Visit to the area, he preached first at Gause's and at Shallotte meeting house. He again Visited in 1802 when, upon arrival, found out that WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. had died. We find WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. listed among numerous census records. They are, in chronological order: St. Phillip‘s Parish, 1763, Head of Household Listing: Gause, William Colonial America, 1607-1789 North Carolina Tax Lists: St. Phillip‘s Parish, Brunswick County 1769: GAWSE, WILLIAM - 1 White Male, 3 Negro Men, and 4 Negro Women. St. Phillip‘s Parish, Brunswick County 1772: GAUSE, WILLIAM - 2 White Males, 7 Negro Men, and 5 Negro Women. Brunswick County 1784: GAUSE, WILLIAM North Carolina 1790 Federal Census2 Wilmington District2 Bladen County: Name of Head of Family: GAUSE, WILLIAM Free White Males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 2 Free White Males under 16 years: 3 Free White Females, including heads of families: 3 Slaves: 37 North Carolina 1800 Federal Census2 Brunswick County: Head of family: GAUSE, WILL Free White Males between 10-16 years: 1 Free White Males 45 years and Older: 1 Free White Females 26-45 years: 1 Slaves: 28 WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. was married twice. His first Wife was named Mary (last name unknown). They had four children: *2 Sarah Gause Sarah Gause married Samuel Frink and had no children. *2 Needham Gause Needham Gause married Elizabeth Hankins, daughter of Dennis Hankins and had no children. He died about January 17, 1792 in Bladen County, North Carolina. *2 Mary Gause Mary Gause married Daniel Bellune and had four children: *3 Mary Bellune *3 Sarah Bellune Page 14 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *3 Elizabeth Bellune *3 Michael Bellune *2 Samuel Gause SAMUEL GAUSE died in 1811. SAMUEL married MARGARET COUNCIL of Bladen County and had seven children: *3 William James Gause WILLIAM JAMES GAUSE married his first cousin, SARAH GAUSE. *3 Mary Gause *3 Sarah Gause *3 Margaret Gause *3 Hannah or Ann Gause *3 Harriet Gause *3 Samuel Cyrus After Mary died, WILLIAM married ELIZABETH BACOT (born in 1746 in Prince George Parish, South Carolina, to SAMUEL BACOT and REBECCA FOISSIN; died in 1801 in Brunswick County, North Carolina). This was ELIZABETH's second marriage. She was married first to JOHN SMITH on February 11, 1768 in St. George's Parish, Craven County, South Carolina. Elizabeth and William had: *2 William Bacot Gause (he will be discussed later) *2 Elizabeth Bacot Gause ELIZABETH GAUSE married her first cousin, JOHN JULIUS GAUSE in 1798. (see paragraph written earlier regarding John and Elizabeth) *2 Martha Gause MARTHA GAUSE was born on October 17, 1780 and died in 1844. She married twice. Her first marriage on September 7, 1797 was to ALEXANDER JOHN WILSON of All Saints Parish, South Carolina. They had: *3 Elizabeth Willson ELIZABETH WILLSON was born on October 18, 1787 in North Carolina. She died on January 6, 1882 in Horry County, South Carolina. She married JOSIAH COX on December 28, 1815 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. *3 William Alexander Willson WILLIAM WILLSON was born in 1800 and died in 1879. He married his first cousin, ANN MARIE GAUSE (daughter of JOHN JULIUS and ELIZABETH BACOT GAUSE) on October 23, 1821. Ann Marie died on September 18, 1837 at the age of 38 years. William and Ann Marie had: *4 Emeline Willson *4 Julia Willson *4 John J. Willson After Alexander died, MARTHA married JOSEPH TILLEY. They had no known children. Page 15 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *2 Peter Gause PETER GAUSE married SARAH GOODMAN on January 15, 1805 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. His father, WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. was the Bondsman. WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE was born on March 24, 1778 at the Gause Landing Plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He died on April 7, 1860 at his residence in Southport, Brunswick County, at the age of 82 years. WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE is listed in The North Carolina Directory, 1822-23, as a local Methodist minister of the Brunswick Circuit. In 1859, Zoar, near Bolivia, was being served by C. C. Mercer, and WILLIAM GAUSE helped in the general area (Heartening Heritage on a Carolina Crescent). Rev. Gause was possibly influenced to go into the ministry by his association with Bishop Francis Asbury who Visited his father's home on several occasions. The church records of Southport show that he was a pastor there in 1859. After wandering around through Georgia, Louisiana, and other Southern states as a circuit Methodist minister, he came back to Brunswick County to spend his last days. We find WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE in the following census records: 1800 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina WILLIAM GAUSE (Head of Household) 1 Free White Male, Aged 16-26 1 Free White Female, Aged 16-26 20 Slaves 1810 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina WILLIAM GAUSE (Head of Household) 1 Free White Male, Under 10 1 Free White Male, Aged 26-45 3 Free White Females, Under 10 1 Free White Female, Aged 26-45 1 Loom, 65 Cotton Cloth, 1 Spinning Wheel, 2 Unknown 1820 United States Census for Appling County, Georgia WILLIAM GAUSE (Head of Household) 1 Free White Male, Under 10 1 Free White Male, Aged 10-16 1 Free White Male, Aged 16-18 1 Free White Male, Aged 45 and over 1 Free White Female, Aged 10-16 1 Free White Female, Aged 45 and over 1840 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina WILLIAM GAUSE (Head of Household) 1 Free White Male, Under 5 3 Free White Males, Aged 10-15 1 Free White Male, Aged 60-70 1 Free White Female, Aged 30-40 0 Slaves listed Page 16 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 1850 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, Smithville District GAUSE, WILLIAM, Aged 72M, Occupation: Farmer, (Head of Household) Real Estate Value: $5,000 PIERCY, 45F, Wife EMORY, 21M, Son, Occupation: Farmer FRANCIS, 19F, Dtr. OLIN, 13M, Son LUCIAN, 7M, Son After William's death on April 7, 1860, his surviving wife, PIERCY, and his family are listed in the following census record: 1860 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, Shallotte District GAUSE, PIERCY, 55F, Color: White, Occupation: Farmer, Real Estate Value: $7,000, Value of Personal Property: $29,105 LUCIAN A., 17M, Color: White MARY A., 18F, Color: White INFANT, 5/12F, Color: White It would appear that this is LUCIAN ALLSTON GAUSE and his wife, MARY, and their first child, GEORGE. WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE married twice. His first wife was MARTHA (or ELIZABETH) FRINK who died in 1828. MARTHA was born in 1776 to THOMAS FRINK and ELIZABETH HARGROVE. He and Martha had seven children: *3 Thomas Frink Gause THOMAS GAUSE was born in 1805 in Horry County, South Carolina and died on November 1, 1868 in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. He was married three times. He first married SARAH GAUSE (daughter of BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr. and JUDITH E. JEFFORDS PORTER) on May 23, 1826 in Horry County, South Carolina. Sarah was born on April 24, 1806. They had ten children: *4 Thomas Summerfield Gause *4 Mary Jeffords Gause MARY GAUSE was born about 1842 and died on September 13, 1843, from Diphtheria at 10 months of age. *4 Benjamin Gause BENJAMIN GAUSE was born about 1840 and died on September 11, 1843, from Diphtheria at 3 years of age. *4 Mary Durant Gause MARY DURANT GAUSE was born about 1842 and died on September 13, 1843, from Diphtheria at 1 year of age. *4 Mary Martha Judith Gause MARY MARTHA GAUSE was born about 1838 and died on September 13, 1843, from Diphtheria at 5 years of age. Page 17 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *4 Sarah (Sallie) Gause *4 Irwin Jeffords Gause IRWIN GAUSE was born about Jan. 1830, and died on September 8, 1830, at 9 months of age. *4 William Drayton Gause WILLIAM GAUSE was killed accidentally by the discharge of his gun on April 29, 1851, at the age of 19 years. *4 John Benjamin Gause JOHN BENJAMIN GAUSE was born about 1843 and died on May 19, 1846 at 3 years of age. *4 Melvina Ann Gause THOMAS and SARAH GAUSE lived in Horry County, South Carolina for many years, but they moved to Wilmington, North Carolina between 1832-1837. Sarah died on July 24, 1844. After Sarah died, he married MARGARET L. ROBINSON (born July 3, 1818 and died May 1865) on June 11, 1846. They had five children: *4 James Frank Gause JAMES FRANK GAUSE was born about 1886 and died on June 2, 1922 at 36 years of age in Wilmington, North Carolina. James is listed in the 1902 North Carolina, New Hanover County, Voter Registration. *4 Rosa Coddington Gause ROSE CODDINGTON GAUSE was born about 1852 and died on January 15, 1855 at the age of 3 years. *4 Cyrus Smith Gause CYRUS SMITH GAUSE was born about 1850 an died on December 14, 1853 at 3 years of age. *4 Peter W. Gause After Margaret died, Thomas married Elizabeth (Betty) Betsy Ann Petit about 1865 and had no children. *3 John WILLIAM GAUSE John Gause was born on March 24, 1808 and married twice. His first marriage was to Lydia Russ (born August 8, 1811 and died January 5, 1851 in Slidell, Lousianna) on June 11, 1829 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They had eight children: *4 Samuel Thomas Gause *4 Amelia Francis Gause AMELIA GAUSE married NAPOLEON MORSE in Brunswick County, North Carolina on December 24, 1866. Page 18 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *4 Martha Emma Gause *4 William Fletcher Gause *4 Henry Clay Gause *4 Jane Kimball Gause *4 Alonzo Russ Gause *4 Sarah Adeline Gause After Lydia‘s death, JOHN married JOHANNA FREDRICA VAN HOOM KECH and had one child: *4 Fredrick V. Gause *3 Wesley Coke Asbury Daughtry Gause WESLEY GAUSE was born on March 8, 1815 and died on February 12, 1865 in the Prisoner of War Camp of Elmira, New York. He married AMELIA POTTER RUSS (born March 1, 1814 to SEMORONIUS RUSS and AMELIA POTTER and died December 4, 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana) on June 20, 1837 and had two children: *4 George Harrison Gause *4 Thomas Albert Gause *3 Elizabeth Gause ELIZABETH GAUSE was born in 1817 and married a man by the name of ANDERSON. *3 Samuel Peter Gause SAMUEL GAUSE was born on May 25, 1818 in North Carolina and died on February 5, 1875 at 56 years of age in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married CAROLINE FERGUS on February 11, 1845. CAROLINE was born about 1825 and died on October 26, 1874 at 49 years of age in Wilmington, North Carolina. They had three children: *4 William Fergus Gause WILLIAM GAUSE was born about 1851 and died on June 30, 1852 at 1 year of age. *4 Alice (Ella) Gause ALICE GAUSE was born about 1850 in Wilmington, North Carolina, and died on April 2, 1876 in Wilmington at 26 years of age. She was unmarried. *4 Johnnie Gause JOHNNIE GAUSE was born about 1856 in Wilmington, North Carolina, and died on April 11, 1879 in Wilmington at 23 years of age. She was unmarried. *3 William Fletcher Gause WILLIAM GAUSE was born in 1820. *3 Benson Kennedy Gause BENSON GAUSE was born on January 10, 1825. He died before September 1835. Page 19 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE After MARTHA died, WILLIAM married PIERCY PUREFOY (born on August 23, 1804 in Georgia to WILLIAM PUREFOY and MARY BROTHERS; died on September 6, 1860 in Brunswick County at the age of 57 years) on November 29, 1827. An interesting note would be from a petition for division of slaves dated September term 1835 in Brunswick County, North Carolina, by Petitioners THOMAS F. GAUSE, JOHN W. GAUSE, WESLEY C. A. D. GAUSE, and SAMUEL P. GAUSE, it is stated that on October 31, 1827 (before WILLIAM's marriage to PIERCY PUREFOY) that their father had made a deed of gift of slaves to his sons and BENSON KENNEDY GAUSE was included. If one son should die before reaching maturity, then that son's part would be divided among the other sons. BENSON KENNEDY had died by September 1835 and SAMUEL P. GAUSE was still a minor. SAMUEL FRINK was appointed guardian for SAMUEL P. GAUSE and the brothers received their shares of their deceased brother's slaves. WILLIAM and PIERCY had five children: *3 Emory (Emery) Purefoy Gause (he will be discussed later) *3 Frances A. Gause FRANCIS GAUSE was born on October 27, 1830 in Georgia. She married A. H. STEAGALL on May 31, 1854. *3 MacCarroll Bangs Gause MACCARROLL GAUSE was born on March 19, 1833. He died on October 18, 1900 in Texas. He served in the Confederate Army in Company G, 36th Regiment Infantry from North Carolina from September 8, 1862 until 1865. He was transferred from Company G to a regimental band on August 15, 1864. He married a LOUISANN J. (born about 1840 in Alabama) on May 11, 1854 in Russell County, Alabama. *3 Olen (Olan) Bacot Gause OLEN GAUSE was born on October 31, 1836 in Georgia. He died on November 29, 1876 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. He served in the Confederate Army from 1862 until 1865. He was a member of Company A (Thomas Co. Dragoons) 20th Battalion Georgia Calvary. OLEN was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Terrell. He married a VIRGINIA A. (born about 1844 in North Carolina) on June 26, 1860 in Leon County, Florida. *3 Lucian Allston Gause LUCIAN GAUSE was born on February 5, 1842 in Georgia. He died on January 16, 1901 in Texas. Lucian served in the Confederate Army as a Private under Captain John W. Galloway's Company, North Carolina Volunteers (Coast Guard). He enlisted on January 24, 1861 in Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. He was enlisted until April 1865. He married a MARY A. (Mollie) (born about 1842 in South Carolina) on May 29, 1859 in Horry County, South Carolina. Mollie died on January 23, 1930 in Alto, Cherokee County, Texas. Lucian and Mollie had six children: *4 Nora Gause NORA GAUSE was born about 1860 in North Carolina. *4 George A. Gause Page 20 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *4 William A. Gause WILLIAM GAUSE was born about 1864 in North Carolina. *4 Sallie E. Gause SALLIE GAUSE was born about 1865 in North Carolina. *4 Lucian H. Gause LUCIAN GAUSE was born about 1869 in North Carolina. *4 Jerry V. Gause JERRY GAUSE was born about 1873 in North Carolina. As a special note regarding PIERCY PUREFOY GAUSE, noted in the Marriage and Death Notice from the Southern Christian Advocate, September 27, 1860, is a quote from A. Purifoy: My sister, Mrs. PIERCY GAUSE, widow of the late Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE, died September 6, 1860, in Brunswick County, North Carolina, in the 57th year of her age … She embraced religion in Jasper County, Georgia, near our father's … at my residence on Little River, All Saints Parish, South Carolina. She married Bro. GAUSE in 1827 … left four sons … her only daughter in Texas. Page 21 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Emery (Emory) Purefoy Gause EMERY (sometimes spelt "Emory") GAUSE was born on February 12, 1828 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He died sometime between 1880 and 1900 in Texas. EMERY is found in the following census records: 1860 United States Census for Brunswick County, North Carolina, Shallotte District GAUSE, EMERY P., Aged 31MW, Occupation: Farmer, Real Estate Value: $5,990 CAROLINE, Aged 23FW, Wife LENORA, Aged 7FW, Dtr. ROBERT, Aged 3MW, Son MARY, Aged 3FW, Dtr. JOHN W., Aged 1MW, Son 1880 United States Census for Red River County, Texas GAUSE, E. P., Aged 51WM, Head of Household, Occupation: Farmer CAROLINE, Aged 43WF, Wife, Occupation: Keeping House HENRY C., Aged 15WM, Son, Occupation: Laborer JOSIE E., Aged 15WF, Dtr., Occupation: Laborer OLAN B., Aged 12WM, Son, Occupation: Laborer BILLIE V., Aged 8WF, Dtr., Occupation: At School FANNIE R., Aged 7WF, Dtr., Occupation: At School JOE F., Aged 5WM, Son, Occupation: At School JOHN W., Aged 21WM, Son, Occupation: Laborer He married CAROLINE NARCISSA GARDNER (born in Barnsville, Georgia to Colonel GARDNER and died sometime between 1880 and 1900 in Texas) on November 5, 1851 in Pike County Georgia. They had eleven children: *4 Leonora Alethea Gause LEONORA GAUSE was born on November 23, 1852 in Corinth, Mississippi. She died on December 27, 1891 in Grayson, Texas. She married JOHN HENRY HAMMAN on April 14, 1870 in Corinth, Mississippi. JOHN was born on August 10, 1839 in Valley Head, Alabama to PHILLIP H. HAMMAN, Jr. and MARY ANN ALLEN. He died on April 3, 1912 in New Boston, Bowie County, Texas. They had eleven children: *5 James Emory Hammonds JAMES HAMMONDS was born on March 15, 1871 in Corinth, Mississippi. He died on December 27, 1891 in Naples, Texas. He married TEMPIE CAROLINA SMITH on August 30, 1890. Tempie was born on January 20, 1876 in Illinois. She died on August 18, 1950 in Old Boston, Bowie County, Texas. *5 Lena Elizabeth Hammonds LENA HAMMONDS was born on August 17, 1873 in Corinth, Mississippi. She died on January 31, 1910 in Texas. She married WINCE J. PERRY. Wince was born on February 2, 1848 and died on November 8, 1925 in Texas. *5 Carrie Mae Hammonds Page 22 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE CARRIE HAMMONDS was born on May 1, 1875 in Corinth, Mississippi. She died on October 12, 1945. She married AUSKER SMITH (brother of TEMPIE CAROLINA SMITH). Ausker was born on February 20, 1872 and died on October 24, 1914 in Carbondale, Texas. *5 Emily Josephine Hammonds EMILY HAMMONDS was born on December 11, 1878 in Tyler, Smith County, Texas. She died on December 26, 1967 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. She married Jefferson Lycurgis Gaines on June 28, 1896 in Fannin County, Texas. Jefferson was born on February 20, 1875 and died on April 25, 1955 in Denison, Texas. *5 Virginia Mae Hamman VIRGINIA HAMMAN was born on November 22, 1880 in New Boston, Bowie County, Texas. She died on December 1, 1934. She married ANDREW EPHRIM BRINKLEY in Grayson County, Texas, on July 8, 1896. Andrew was born on November 9, 1877 in Hopkins County, Texas. He died on August 7, 1956 in Weatherford, Texas. *5 George Hammonds GEORGE HAMMONDS was born on October 18, 1882. He died on June 4, 1883. *5 Terry Hammonds TERRY HAMMONDS was born on October 18, 1882 (twin to George). He died on June 4, 1883. *5 Samuel M. (Sammie) Hammonds SAMUEL HAMMONDS was born on October 15, 1884 and died on March 12, 1907 in Denison, Texas. She married BILLY ENOCHS. *5 Robert Terry Hammonds ROBERT HAMMONDS was born on November 3, 1886 in Van Alstyne, Texas. He died on June 24, 1964 in Smackover, Arkansas. He married MATTIE PHEMELIS JONES. Mattie was born on August 4, 1891 in San Augustine County, Texas. She died in April 1978. *5 Mack Barnes Hammonds MACK HAMMONDS was born on August 19, 1888 in Texas. He died on November 15, 1935 in Maud, Bowie County, Texas. He married WILLIE LEE SCARBORROUGH on March 25, 1907 in Bowie County, Texas. Willie was born on August 12, 1893 and died on April 3, 1991. *5 Joseph Zachariah Hammonds JOSEPH HAMMONDS was born on November 27, 1891 in Van Alstyne, Texas. He died on July 22, 1929 in Weatherford, Texas. He married IDA WARDEN on August 1, 1914 in Bowie County, Texas. *4 Robert Emory Gause ROBERT GAUSE was born about 1855. He moved to Texas and married a SOPHIA and had: Page 23 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *5 Walter Gause WALTER was born about 1877 in Mississippi. *5 Otis Gause OTIS GAUSE was born about 1879 in Texas. He married ______ and had: *6 Ralph Gause, MD. *4 Mary Gause MARY GAUSE was born about 1857. *4 John WILLIAM GAUSE JOHN GAUSE was born about 1859 in Georgia. *4 Martha Vorena Gause MARTHA GAUSE was born in 1861 and died in 1911. She married NELSON BAILEY HUTCHINSON, Jr. in 1879. Nelson was the son of NELSON BAILEY HUTCHINSON, Sr. and MARY ELIZABETH BAILEY. They had eight children: *5 James Thomas Hutchinson, MD. JAMES HUTCHINSON was born in 1880 and died in 1957. He married LONE MOSELEY and had six children: *6 Benjamin Hutchinson, M.D. BENJAMIN HUTCHINSON married LOUISE DOUGLAS. *6 Ruth Hutchinson RUTH HUTCHINSON married FRANK HUDGINS, MD. *6 Thomas Nelson Hutchinson THOMAS HUTCHINSON married BARBARA LUNCEFORD. *6 Robert Bailey Hutchinson, MD. ROBERT HUTCHINSON married RUBY BLACK and had no children. *6 Nola Beatrice Hutchinson NOLA HUTCHINSON married IRBY FIRES, MD. and had no children. *6 Roma Vance Hutchinson ROMA HUTCHINSON was born in 1886 and married EGGLESTON STRACHAN SHOAF. They had two children: *7 Anne Vorena Shoaf Page 24 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *7 Jacob Eggleston Shoaf *6 Vida Roberta Hutchinson VIDA HUTCHINSON married ELEXIS DUPONT SHOAF and had no children. *6 Elza Hutchinson ELZA HUTCHINSON was born in 1896 and died in 1958. She married first, GORDON HARDY and had no children. She married second, GRAF HUGO VON TRUCHSAS and had no children. *6 Leila Hutchinson LEILA HUTCHINSON (twin to Elza) was born in 1896. She married BRODIE HENRY ASHBY, Sr. in 1918. They had three children: *7 Geneva Ashby *7 Brodie Henry Ashby, Jr. *7 Robert Hutchinson Ashby *6 Vera Pauline Hutchinson VERA HUTCHINSON died young. *4 Henry Clay Gause HENRY GAUSE was born about 1868. *4 Oland (Olen) Brantley Gause (he will be discussed later) *4 Isabelle Gause *4 Frances Gause FRANCES GAUSE was born about 1873. *4 Josephine Gause JOSEPHINE GAUSE was born about 1874. *4 James T. Gause JAMES GAUSE was born on August 9, 1877. He married a cousin, MAGGIE BRAMLETT SMITH, on January 26, 1897 and lived in Mississippi. Maggie was born on December 18, 1870 in Booneville, Mississippi to FRED PAIGE SMITH and MARY FRALICK. James' mother, CAROLINE NARCISSA GARDNER, and Maggie's grandmother, MARY NEAL GARDNER, were sisters. James and Maggie had five children: *5 Steve Taylor Smith Gause STEVE GAUSE was born on December 3, 1897. *5 Una Gause UNA GAUSE was born on January 3, 1901. Page 25 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *5 Eva Gause EVA GAUSE was born on January 31, 1903. *5 Mary Gause MARY GAUSE was born on April 27, 1905. *5 Reba Gause REBA was born on August 21, 1908. Until about 1860, EMORY GAUSE and his family lived on family lands in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Leaving Brunswick County, they went to Texas and settled at Whiterock in Red River County. EMERY GAUSE is found in the 1860 Georgia Census for Barnesville, Pike County in the Slave Schedule. We know that EMERY moved his family to Texas around 1880 because they are found in the Red River County, Texas, Tax Roll for 1880. In this Tax roll, he listed his property as the following: * 1 carriage, buggy, or wagon Value: $ 5.00 * 1 horse or mule Value: $10.00 * 10 hogs Value: $ 5.00 * Misc. property Value: $26.00 Total Value: $46.00 He paid $2.96 in State and County Taxes. Also found listed in this same Tax Roll for the same area was EMERY‘s brother, LUCIAN A. GAUSE. Page 26 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Oland Brantley Gause OLAND BRANTLEY GAUSE (his name is spelled this way on his death certificate) was born on March 27, 1868 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He died on April 17, 1937 in Henderson County, Texas. He married LENA VICTORIA MARTIN about 1897 in Kaufman, Kaufman County, Texas. LENA was born on May 25, 1878 in Arkansas to PONY MARTIN (born in Georgia). She died on April 2, 1931 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Oland and Lena had five children: *5 Lawrence Gause LAWRENCE GAUSE was born about 1901 in Texas. *5 Robert Lloyd Gause *5 Opal Gause OPAL GAUSE was born about 1908 in Texas. *5 Cuba Gause CUBA GAUSE was born about 1909 in Texas. *5 Tincy Gause TINCY GAUSE was born about 1911 in Texas. Page 27 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Other Related Lines Francois Bacot FRANCOIS BACOT was born in 1560 in Tours, Province of Touraine, France. He married MARTHA DALEU. They had one known child: *2 Pierre Bacot (Sn) PIERRE BACOT, Sr. was born in 1597 in Tours, Province of Touraine, France. He married JEANNE MOREAU on February 22, 1637 in France. They had fifteen children: *3 Pierre Bacot, Jr. PIERRE BACOT, Jr. was born on December 25, 1637 in Tours, Province of Touraine, France. He died on September 6, 1701 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina. He settled as a cotton planter on the west side of Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1691. He married JACQUINE (MENESSIER?) MERCIER in June 1666 in Tours, Province of Touraine, France. JACQUINE was born on April 4, 1649 in France to ABRAHAM MENESSIER and JACQUINE PHELYPAU. She died in October 1709 in Charleston, South Carolina. They had seven children: *4 Pierre Bacot PIERRE BACOT was born on November 22, 1668 in Tours, France. He died on October 11, 1670. *4 Abraham Bacot ABRAHAM BACOT was born on January 12, 1670 in Tours, France. *4 Peter (Pierre) Bacot (III) PETER BACOT III was born about 1670 in La Rochelle, France. He married twice, the first time to MARIANNE DU GUE (daughter of ABRAHAM FLEUR DE LA PLAINE). She died prior to 1716 with one child by her first marriage to JACQUES DU GUE, MARIANNE DU GUE. She and Peter had no known children together. PETER then married MARIE PERONNEAU in 1716. Marie was born envoyage (according to family accounts) to South Carolina in 1685 to SAMUEL PERONNEAU and JEANNE COLLIN. Marie died in 1778. They had four children: *5 Samuel Bacot, Sr. SAMUEL BACOT, Sr. was born in 1716 and died about 1771 in the Darlington District of South Carolina. According to Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina by Arthur Henry Hirsch, SAMUEL BACOT, Sr. moved into the Darlington District, South Carolina, far into the back-country in 1769. The Bacot Family owned the Mars Bluff Plantation near Florence. There, with the assistance of a considerable amount of slaves, they grew cotton and other cash crops. SAMUEL married REBECCA FOISSIN on April 14, 1741 in Christ Church Parish, South Carolina. REBECCA was born to ELIAS (Elie) FOISSIN (a wealthy planter of Georgetown, South Carolina) and LOUISE FRISSELLE. She died about 1768 in Prince George Parish in South Carolina. They had five children: Page 28 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *6 Samuel Bacot, Jr. SAMUEL BACOT, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 3, 1745. He served as a Lieutenant of General Marion's South Carolina Rangers during the Revolutionary War. He was imprisoned at Camden on May 12, 1780, and while being removed to the "Black Hole" in Charleston, where the small-pox was raging, overcame the guard and escaped. Bishop Gregg in his History of the Old Cheraws relates several incidents in the life of Samuel during the war years. Samuel died in Darlington, South Carolina in 1795. SAMUEL married SARAH MARGARET ALLSTON on July 13, 1769. SARAH was born on December 1, 1748 to PETER ALLSTON, Sr. and SARAH BACOT. Sarah died in 1797. and had six children: *7 Peter Hannabal Bacot *7 Maria Allston Bacot *7 Cyrus Bacot *7 Samuel Bacot III *7 Rebecca Foissin Bacot *7 Labon Bacot *6 Elizabeth Bacot ELIZABETH BACOT was born about 1746 and died in 1801. ELIZABETH married JOHN SMITH of Prince George's Parish, Craven County, South Carolina on February 11, 1768. After John's death, she married WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. *6 Mary Bacot MARY BACOT was born in 1748 and died in 1795. She married PETER ALLSTON on July 13, 1769. She was married in a double wedding ceremony with her brother Samuel and his wife in Darlington, South Carolina. They had four children: *7 Peter Allston *7 Samuel Allston *7 Sarah Jane Allston *7 John Hays Allston *6 Susannah Bacot SUSANNAH BACOT was born prior to 1754. She married EDWARD WINGATE, Jr. (son of EDWARD WINGATE, Sr. of Prince George's Parish, Craven County, South Carolina). Edward died in 1798. They had two children: *7 William Bacot Wingate *7 Elizabeth Wingate *6 Peter Bacot PETER BACOT was born in 1754 and died on August 12, 1821, unmarried. *5 Mary Bacot MARY BACOT was born in 1717 and died unmarried in 1806. *5 Elizabeth Bacot Page 29 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE ELIZABETH BACOT married in 1752, CHARLES DEWAR who was a prominent merchant of Charleston. Elizabeth died in 1789. Elizabeth and Charles had six children: *6 Mary Dewar *6 Robert Dewar *6 Elizabeth Dewar *6 Jane Dewar *6 Ann Dewar *6 Sarah Dewar *5 Peter Bacot, Jr. PETER BACOT, Jr. was born at Goose Creek in 1728. He emigrated to the States from France by 1685. Land records show that Pierre, his father, received grants of land in 1696 and 1700, lands in part upon which now are located the grounds of Middleton Place, South Carolina. Huguenots had been settled at Goose Creek as early as 1680, and are thought to have had their own place of worship in this vicinity - a small church which had disappeared or had been swallowed up when the French lost their Huguenot ecclesiastical identity in 1706 to the Established Church. Probably PIERRE and JACQUINE were buried at the church site, as PETER BACOT, their son, is said to be buried near his father, either at Cherry Hill Plantation or at the Huguenot Chapel (Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina by Arthur Henry Hirsch). He married ELIZABETH HARRAMOND (daughter of HENRY HARRAMOND and ELIZABETH MUNCRIEF) on November 11, 1764. Elizabeth was born on March 6, 1746 and died on September 19, 1799. PETER, Jr. left his father's lands and occupation to settle in Charleston as a junior partner in the mercantile business of his brother-in-law, CHARLES DEWAR. He died on September 7, 1787, a highly respected citizen of Charleston. He and Elizabeth had: *6 Thomas Wright Bacot, Sr. THOMAS BACOT, Sr. was baptized on August 19, 1765 and died on October 2, 1834. He was well-educated and highly respected in the community. He held the post of President of the Bank of South Carolina for many years. He was appointed Postmaster at Charleston by President George Washington in 1794, and served as such continuously until his death. He married JANE DESAUSSURE (daughter of HENRY DESAUSSURE who died at the Seige of Savannah in the Revolutionary War) on March 6, 1788. They had twelve children: *7 Louis Bacot *7 Peter Bacot *7 Jane Amelia deSaussure Bacot *7 Henry William Bacot *7 Thomas Wright Bacot, Jr. *7 Daniel deSaussure Bacot *7 Francis Augustine Bacot *7 Elizabeth H. Bacot *7 Mary D. Bacot After JANE‘s death, THOMAS married ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT. They had two children: *7 Richard Wainwright Bacot *7 Julianna Scott Bacot Page 30 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *6 Peter Bacot III PETER BACOT III was born in 1766 and died young. *6 Elizabeth Henrietta Bacot ELIZABETH BACOT was born in 1768 and died young. *6 Mary Bacot MARY (Maria) BACOT was born in 1770 and died in 1840. *6 Daniel Bacot DANIEL BACOT was born in 1771 and died young. *6 Frances Bacot FRANCES BACOT was born in 1772 and married JOSEPH R. MACCAY. *6 Hariette Bacot HARIETTE BACOT was born in 1773 and died in 1826. *6 William Locok (Loocock) Bacot WILLIAM BACOT was born in 1775 and died young. *6 Elizabeth Beauford Bacot ELIZABETH BACOT was born in 1776 and died young. *6 Henriette Bacot HENRIETTE BACOT was born in 1777. *6 Henry Harramond Bacot HENRY BACOT was born in 1780 and died in 1834. *6 Elizabeth Catherine Bacot ELIZABETH BACOT was born in 1782 and died in 1824. *4 Rene Bacot RENE BACOT was born on February 15, 1673 and died on August 21, 1677. *4 Daniel Bacot DANIEL BACOT was born on September 30, 1674. He first emigrated to America, then to England. *4 David Bacot Page 31 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE DAVID BACOT was born on November 14, 1676 in Tours, France. He died in Tours in 1756. He married MAGDELEINE VILLIERS on February 17, 1711. They had four children: *5 David Bacot DAVID BACOT was born in 1712 and died in 1712. *5 David Bacot DAVID BACOT was born on July 31, 1713 and died in 1787. He married ANNE DUMOUSTIER. *5 Pierre Bacot PIERRE BACOT was born on September 3, 1714 and died in 1795. He married RENEE CATHERINE BARRE. *5 Madeleine Bacot MADELEINE BACOT was born on August 11, 1721. She married PIERRE BRUERE. *4 Elizabeth Bacot ELIZABETH BACOT was born in South Carolina after 1685 and before 1696. She married JONAS BONHOSTE, Jr. (son of JONAS BONHOSTE, Sr. and CATHERINE ALLAIRE). They had one known child: *5 Elizabeth Bonhoste *3 Essaye Bacot, Sr. ESSAYE BACOT, Sr. was born in Tours, France on January 30, 1639. He married MARGUERITE BAUDOIN (widow of Jean Baudoin) on January 12, 1670. Marguerite was born on August 14, 1644. They had seven children: *4 Essaye Bacot, Jr. *4 Francoise Bacot *4 Jeanne Bacot *4 Gabrielle Bacot *4 Marguerite Bacot *4 Pierre Bacot *4 Jean Bacot *3 Jeanne Bacot JEANNE BACOT was born on February 19, 1640 in Tours, France. She married HECTOR FOUCAULT on August 31, 1679. They had no children. *3 Marthe Bacot MARTHE BACOT was born on September 1, 1641 in Tours, France. She married Rene GILLES on February 9, 1669. *3 Anne Bacot ANNE BACOT was born on September 24, 1642 in Tours, France. Page 32 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *3 Francois Bacot FRANCOIS BACOT was born on May 3, 1644 in Tours, France. *3 Paul Bacot PAUL BACOT was born on May 10, 1645 in Tours, France. *3 Jean-Christope Bacot JEAN CHRISTOPHE BACOT was born on July 19, 1646 in Tours, France. *3 Etienne Bacot ETIENNE BACOT was born on January 6, 1648 in Tours, France. *3 Jean Bacot JEAN BACOT was born on April 29, 1649 in Tours, France. *3 Daniel Bacot DANIEL BACOT was born on August 10, 1651 in Tours, France. *3 Francoise Bacot FRANCOISE BACOT was born on March 25, 1654 in Tours, France. *3 Francois Bacot FRANCOIS BACOT was born on April 5, 1656 in Tours, France. *3 Magdeleine Bacot MAGDELEINE BACOT was born on July 19, 1657 in Tours, France. *3 David Bacot DAVID BACOT was born on March 9, 1659 in Tours, France. *3 Francois Bacot FRANCOIS BACOT was born on March 30, 1664 in Tours, France. Page 33 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Foissin Line NICHOLAS FOISSIN (born in France, married Madeleine Poussin about 1599, and died about 1647) had: *2 Pierre Foissin, Sr. PIERRE FOISSIN, Sr. was born about 1600 in France. He married ESTHER HAUDUROY about 1634. He died in 1686 in France. Esther was born in France to LOUIS HAUDUROY and GENEVIEVE PARISET and died about 1672 in France. Pierre and Esther had: *3 Pierre Foissin, Jr. PIERRE FOISSIN, Jr. was born on October 16, 1635 in Villiers-le-Bel, France. He married MARIE HARDY on April 30, 1657 in Paris, France. He died on February 12, 1713 in Paris, France. MARIE was the daughter of PIERRE HARDY. She died on March 27, 1733 in Paris, France. Pierre and Marie had: *4 Elias (Elie) Foissin ELIAS FOISSIN was born about 1670 in France. He married LOUISE FRISSELLE and died in 1739 in South Carolina. LOUISE was the daughter of ALEXANDER FRISSELLE. Elias and Louise had: *5 Rebecca Foissin REBECCA FOISSIN married SAMUEL BACOT and died about 1768. They are the parents of ELIZABETH BACOT who married WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. Page 34 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Frink Line The Gause and Frink families were linked thru the various marriages of their children. Our connection with the Frink family stems from WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE marrying MARTHA FRINK. The following is a genealogy of the MARTHA FRINK family. JOHN FRINK, Sr. married MARY WOOD around 1635 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. They had one known child resulting from this union: *1 John Frink, Jr. JOHN FRINK, Jr. was born on August 20, 1639 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He married GRACE STEVENS (daughter of HENRY STEVENS and ELIZABETH GALLUP) about 1657 in Taunton, Massachusetts. He died on December 8, 1717. They had nine children: *2 Grace Frink *2 Hannah Frink HANNAH FRINK married WILLIAM PARKE on December 3, 1684 in Preston, Connecticut. *2 Deborah Frink *2 Samuel Frink *2 Thomas Frink *2 Judith Frink JUDITH FRINK married DANIEL YOUNG on January 12, 1698 in New London, Connecticut. *2 John Frink, III JOHN FRINK, III was born on May 16, 1671 in Stonington, Connecticut. He died on March 2, 1717. He married HANNAH PRENTICE (daughter of JOHN PRENTICE and HESTER NICHOLS) on February 15, 1693 in Stonington, Connecticut. They had ten children: *3 Benjamin Frink *3 Esther Frink *3 Hannah Frink *3 John Frink *3 Joseph Frink *3 Mary Frink *3 Thankful Frink *3 Thomas Frink *3 William Frink *3 Zachariah Frink *3 Nicholas Frink NICHOLAS FRINK was born on December 17, 1696 in New London, Stonington County, Connecticut. He died on July 8, 1749 in Little River, Horry County, South Carolina. He married DEBORAH PENDLETON (daughter of JOSEPH PENDLETON and DEBORAH MINER) on November 30, 1715 in New London. They had eight children: *4 Hannah Frink HANNAH FRINK was born in Craven District, Horry County, South Carolina. She married NEEDHAM GAUSE (son of WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr.). Page 35 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *4 Nathan Frink NATHAN FRINK was born on October 12, 1716. He married twice, first to ANN MASTERS (daughter of SAMUEL MASTERS and ANN) and then to an ELEANOR. *4 John Frink JOHN FRINK was born on March 7, 1717 and died about 1761 in Horry District, South Carolina. He married MARTHA MASTERS (daughter of SAMUEL MASTERS and ANN) about 1740. They had six children: *5 Sarah Frink SARAH FRINK married JOHN BELLAMY, Sr. about 1749. John was born about 1720 in the Georgetown District of South Carolina. They had two children: *6 John Dillard Bellamy, Sr. JOHN DILLARD BELLAMY, Sr. was born on April 12, 1750 in Buck Creek, Georgetown District, South Carolina. He died in February 1826. He married twice, first to SARAH FRINK and then to ELIZABETH VAUGHT. *6 Abraham Bellamy ABRAHAM BELLAMY was born about 1752 in Buck Creek, Georgetown District, South Carolina. He died on March 28, 1828 in Monticello, Jefferson County, Florida. He married a CLARAMOND. *5 Ann Frink ANN FRINK married BENJAMIN GAUSE (son of WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr.) *5 John Frink *5 Thomas Frink THOMAS FRINK was born about 1742. He married ELIZABETH HARGROVE on December 26, 1769. Elizabeth was born on January 13, 1752. She died on October 7, 1817. They had four children: *6 John Frink JOHN FRINK was born about 1774. He died about 1806. He married ELIZABETH BELLAMY (daughter of ABRAHAM BELLAMY and CLARAMOND), his first cousin. *6 Martha Frink MARTHA FRINK was born about 1776. She died about 1826. She married WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE. *6 Samuel Frink SAMUEL FRINK was born on September 1, 1786. He died on November 2, 1862. He married ELIZABETH BELLUNE (daughter of DANIEL BELLUNE and MARY BOSSIER) on July 16, 1807 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Elizabeth was born on April 14, 1790. She died on Page 36 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE September 20, 1843 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. They had twelve children: *7 Sarah Bellune Frink SARAH BELLUNE FRINK was born on July 16, 1808 and died on February 16, 1829. She married BENJAMIN GAUSE, Jr. (son of BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr. and JUDITH E. JEFFORDS PORTER) on February 1, 1827. Benjamin was born on November 8, 1801 in Horry County, South Carolina. He died on March 4, 1860 in Marion District, South Carolina. He married twice more after Sarah's death: to MARTHA ANN WOODBERRY (1832) and SUSAN EDITH GREGG (1859). Sarah and Benjamin had one child, ELIZABETH EMMA SARAH BELLUNE GAUSE (1829-1850) who married THOMAS JEFFERSON DOZIER. Benjamin and Susan had one child, BENJAMIN GAUSE, III. *7 Louisa Frink LOUISA FRINK was born on June 25, 1810. *7 Lorenzo Frink LORENZO FRINK was born on April 30, 1812. He died on October 14, 1889 in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. *7 Amanda Hargrove Frink AMANDA HARGROVE FRINK was born on February 18, 1814. She died on February 26, 1839. *7 Theresa Jane Frink THERESA JANE FRINK was born on July 12, 1815. She died about 1836. *7 Mary Elizabeth Frink MARY ELIZABETH FRINK was born on December 4, 1817. *7 Samuel Fletcher Frink SAMUEL FLETCHER FRINK was born on July 21, 1819. *7 Martha Rebecca Frink MARTHA REBECCA FRINK was born on August 1, 1821. She died on August 19, 1826. *7 Robert Hargrove Frink ROBERT HARGROVE FRINK was born on October 21, 1823. He died on September 2, 1825. *7 Daniel Bellune Frink DANIEL BELLUNE FRINK was born on September 2, 1825. He died on August 23, 1826. *7 Lucian Orrin Frink LUCIAN ORRIN FRINK was born on September 23, 1827. He died on July 12, 1829. *7 Lenora Frink Page 37 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE LENORA FRINK was born on August 20, 1830. She died on November 9, 1848. *6 Thomas Frink, Jr. THOMAS FRINK, Jr. was born before 1790 and died about 1809. *5 Samuel Frink SAMUEL FRINK was born about 1743. He died before 1795. He married SARAH GAUSE. *5 Susannah Frink SUSANNAH FRINK was born about 1748. She married JOHN GAUSE (son of WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr.). SUSANNAH married again after John's death to DENNIS HANKINS, Sr. and had two children: *5 Dennis Hankins, Jr. *5 Masters Hankins *4 William Frink WILLIAM FRINK was born on October 30, 1719. *4 Deborah Frink DEBORAH FRINK was born on June 15, 1722. She married twice, first to LEONARD OUTERBRIDGE and then to JOHN SMITH. *4 Sarah Frink SARAH FRINK was born on March 7, 1723. *4 Oliver Frink OLIVER FRINK was born on December 12, 1726. *4 Ephraim Frink EPHRAIM FRINK was born on January 8, 1727. He married a HANNAH _____. *4 Jabesh Frink JABESH FRINK was born on June 16, 1736 in Georgetown District, Horry County, South Carolina. He died about 1779 while fighting in the Revolutionary War. He was listed on the jury list in Prince George Parish, South Carolina for 1778-79. He married RUTH BREWTON PINKNEY (daughter of WILLIAM PINKNEY and RUTH BREWTON). They had one known child: *5 Thomas Frink THOMAS FRINK was born about 1775 in the Georgetown District of South Carolina. He died after February 20, 1843. He married REBECCAH ANN GORE on June 30, 1792. Page 38 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Purefoy (Purifoy) Line THOMAS PURIFOY was born in Leicestershire, England. He married MARGERIE FITZHERBERT. MARGERIE was born in Norbury, County Derby, England, to ANTHONY FITZHERBERT and MARTHA NICHOLES. It is thru MARGERIE‘s line that we are related to Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of the Franks. Thomas and Margerie had: *2 Nicholas Purifoy NICHOLAS PURIFOY married JOICE HARDWICK, the daughter of JOHN HARDWICK. They had: *3 Humphrie Purifoy HUMPHRIE PURIFOY was born in Warwickshire, England, and died in 1598. He married ALICE FAUNT, daughter of WILLIAM FAUNT. They had: *4 Thomas Purifoy, Sr. (Leutenant) THOMAS PURIFOY, Sr. was born about 1578 in Warwickshire, England, the sixth son of HUMPHRIE and ALICE. He died about 1652-1655 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, at his 1,000 acre estate, "Drayton." THOMAS was the emigrant ancestor of this line. He came from England in 1621 aboard the "GEORGE" when he was 43 years of age. Captain John Smith founded the first English Colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Lt. THOMAS PURIFOY is named as one of the Early Virginia Pioneers from the 1624 records. In 1652, he was a member of the council. He was commissioner of Elizabeth City County in 1626, and was Burgess of the lower part of Elizabeth City County from 1629-1630. He was principal commander of Elizabeth City County in 1629 and was a member of the King's Council in 1631. In 1635, the mutiny in Virginia was reported by this same Captain Purifoy. Land Office Patents & Grants September 20, 1628 - Lt. THOMAS PURIFOY bought 100 acres in Elizabeth City. Within the precincts of Elizabeth City, from the fields called Fort Henry. April 18, 1635 - THOMAS PURIFOY, county location unknown, 2000 acres. Part of the land beginning south from the Pocoson River at a point called by the name of Willoughby Point. May 10, 1631 - THOMAS PURIFOY, county location not given, 500 acres. Upon a point called Cross quarter. November 28, 1635 - THOMAS PURIFOY, Elizabeth City County, 100 acres. Northwest upon a creek next upon the fort field and northwest upon John Neal's land. September 15, 1652 - THOMAS PURIFOY and Mrs. TEMPERANCE PEPPETT, county location not given, 76 acres. On the westward side of the North River, in Mackjack Bay. Beginning on the southward side of a creek which divides this land from the land of Thomas Symons, deceased. He married Lucy Ransom in 1620. Lucy was born in 1598 in Leicestershire, England. She died about 1657-1660 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. They had: Page 39 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *5 Thomas Purifoy, Jr. THOMAS PURIFOY, Jr. was born about 1621 in England. He died about 1673-1675 in Gloucester County, Virginia. Thomas came to Virginia with his mother in 1629. THOMAS PATENTED 2,000 acres in the "Freshes of Rappahhannock" in 1655. He was a member of the Abingdon Parish Episcopal Church in Gloucester County, Virginia. March 13, 1655 - THOMAS PURIFOY, county location no given. In the freshes of Rappahhannock River and beginning at a point of Low Land on the south side of the river about 4 miles above Nanzamum Towne. He married (name unknown) about 1650. They had: *6 Thomas Nicholas Purifoy, Sr. THOMAS NICHOLAS PURIFOY, Sr. was born about 1657 in Gloucester County, Virginia. He died on February 28, 1686 in Middlesex County, Virginia. Family tradition says that THOMAS was delicate and scholarly, and was educated in England. He married JUDITH SEARIES. JUDITH was born about 1661 in Wales, England. She died about 1715 in Craven County, North Carolina. It is said that she came to America for religious liberty. They had: *7 Thomas Nicholas Purifoy, Jr. THOMAS NICHOLAS PURIFOY, Jr. was born about 1679 in Virginia. He died about 1770 in Craven County, North Carolina. Records indicate that he was persecuted for his religious beliefs. He helped to establish religious freedom in America. A full account of his persecution is given in Elder Henry Sheets', A History of the Liberty Baptist Association from Its" Organization in 1832 to 1906. The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume II, No. 2, Page 198, gives the petition of the Baptist brethren to build a house of worship in Newbern, North Carolina. The Rev. NICHOLAS PURIFOY's name is signed to this petition. He married in 1711 (name unknown) and had: *8 Thomas Purifoy, Sr. THOMAS PURIFOY, Sr. was born in 1716 and died in 1802. He married "SALLIE" who was born in 1740 and died in 1807. They had: *9 "Unknown" Peurifoy "Unknown" Purifoy was born in 1766. *9 "Unknown" Peurifoy "Unknown" Purifoy was born in 1769. *9 William Peurifoy WILLIAM PEURIFOY was born in 1771 in Craven County, North Carolina and died on May 9, 1829 in Putnam County, Georgia. WILLIAM and his brothers, ARRINGTON and JOHN, came to Georgia from Craven County, North Carolina, in 1807-1808. JOHN later moved to Alabama. He married MARY BROTHERS on November 12, 1795. Mary was born in 1779 and died on August 9, 1838 in Griffin, Georgia. They had: *10 Archibald Peurifoy Page 40 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE ARCHIBALD PEURIFOY was born about 1796 in Putnam County, Georgia. He died in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a physician, druggist, and a Methodist preacher. *10 Tillman Peurifoy TILLMAN PEURIFOY was born about 1798 in Putnam County, Georgia. He died about 1872 in Edgefield County, South Carolina. He was a physician, druggist, and a Methodist preacher. He married Louisa Byrd. *10 McCarroll Peurifoy MCCARROLL PEURIFOY was born about 1802 and died about 1859 in Monroe County, Alabama. He was a physician, druggist, and a Methodist preacher. He married CAROLINE KILLEBREW in 1829. *10 Stanley Peurifoy STANLEY PEURIFOY was born about 1804 in Putnam County, Georgia. He was a Methodist preacher, but never joined the conference. He married MARTHA PERSONS on June 14, 1827 in Upson County, Georgia. *10 Piercy Peurifoy PIERCY PEURIFOY was born on August 23, 1804 in Georgia. She died on September 6, 1860 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. She married WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE on November 29, 1827. *10 Sidney B. Peurifoy SIDNEY PEURIFOY was born on April 13, 1807. She married twice, the first time to IVEY F. STEAGALL who was born on December 4, 1806. After IVEY's death, she married John Burgamy, her deceased sister's (MARTHA) husband. *10 Frances Peurifoy FRANCES PEURIFOY was born about 1809 and married ELI GRAY. *10 Martha Peurifoy MARTHA DAVIS PEURIFOY was born on November 22, 1814 in Putnam County, Georgia. She died on April 16, 1857 in Griffin, Georgia. She married JOHN BURGAMY on December 1, 1830 in Putnam County, Georgia. JOHN was born on February 6, 1809 in Houston County, Georgia to WILLIAM BURGAMY, Jr. and MARGARET LEGGETT. He died on June 17, 1861 in Griffin, Georgia. After MARTHA's death, he married her sister, SIDNEY B. PEURIFOY STEAGALL. Martha and John had thirteen children. *9 Sally Peurifoy Sally Peurifoy was born in 1774 and married John Tingle on May 13, 1795. *9 Asa Peurifoy ASA PEURIFOY was born in 1778 and married ANNA SPEIGHT on May 24, 1814. Page 41 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE *9 Thomas Peurifoy, Jr. THOMAS PEURIFOY, Jr. was married to VINEY KING on March 6, 1816. *9 Arrington Peurifoy ARRINGTON PEURIFOY was born in 1782. He married a "PRITCHETT." *9 John Peurifoy JOHN PEURIFOY was born on September 21, 1787 and married NANCY WILLIAMS in 1809. *9 Eliza Peurifoy ELIZA PEURIFOY was born in 1792 and married EPHRAIM WILEY. *8 David Purifoy *7 India Purifoy INDIA PURIFOY married WILLIAM SEARIES, a cousin. *7 Sarah Purifoy SARAH PURIFOY married a man named CHAPMAN. *7 Mary Purifoy MARY PURIFOY married MARTIN WHITFORD. *7 Thomas Purifoy *7 John Purifoy *7 David Purifoy *6 Frances Purifoy FRANCES PURIFOY was born about 1653 and married RICHARD HAND. *6 "Unknown" Purifoy Page 42 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Clovis "The Riparian" King of Cologne Due to the numerous amount of generations to show, this family line will only show the direct descendants from CLOVIS to MARGERIE FITZHERBERT, who married THOMAS PURIFOY. CLOVIS "The Riparian" King Cologne had CHILDEBERT King of Cologne. CHILDEBERT had SIEGBERT I, King of Cologne. SIEGBERT was also known as SIEGBERT, the Lame. SIEGBERT had CLODERIC "The Parricide", King of Cologne. CLODERIC was murdered in 509 by agents of his kinsman, CLOVIS I. CLODERIC had MUNDERIC, Lord of Vitry-en-Parthois. MUNDERIC was born in 500 and died in 532. He revolted against THIERRY I who killed him. MUNDERIC married ARTHEMIA and had BODEGISEL I. BODEGISEL married PALATINA in 562. PALATINA was the daughter of GALLUS MAGNUS, BISHOP of TROYES. BODEGISEL died in 581. BODEGISEL I and PALATINA had BODEGISEL II "Dux." BODEGISEL II married Oda, who was a Seuvian. They had ST. ARNOUL "De Heristal" METZ. BODEGISEL died in 588. ST. ARNOUL was born on August 13, 582 in Heristal, Austrasia, France. ST. ARNOUL married DODE (Ode) De Heristal. DODE was born in 586 in Old Saxony and died in 611. ST. ARNOUL died on August 16, 640. ST. ARNOUL and DODE had ANSIGISE, Mayor of Austrasia. ANSIGISE was born in 602 in Austrasia, France. He was murdered in 685 in the Andene Monastery. ANSIGISE married ST. BEGGUE, of Austrasia in 639. ST. BEGGUE was born 613 in Landen, Liege, Belgium to PEPIN, Mayor of Austrasia, and IDUBERGA ITTA. She died in 689. They had Pepin, Mayor of Austrasia. PEPIN was born in 635 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium. He died on December 16, 714 in Junille, Meuse, France. PEPIN was the Carolingian mayor of the palace who reunited the Frankish realms in the late Merovingian period. A grandson of PEPIN THE ELDER, he succeeded to his position in the kingdom of Austrasia around 680. In 687, he extended Carolingian rule to the other Frankish kingdoms, Neustria and Burgundy, but retained members of the Merovingian dynasty as figurehead monarchs in all three. Two years later, he extended his control over the Frisians, a pagan people living on the North Sea Coast. Pepin's death was followed by a civil war and the succession of his illegitimate son, CHARLES MARTEL. He and one of his concubines, ALPAIDE, had CHARLES "MARTEL", Mayor of Austrasia. ALPAIDE was born in 654 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium. She died in Oplegranmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France. CHARLES "MARTEL" was born in 676 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium. He died on October 22, 741 in Quierzy, Aisne, France. Charles ruled the Merovingian Franks from AD 719 to 741. He used only the title of Mayor of the Palace, but he actually had the power of a king. Most of the lawful Frankish kings of this period were weak. In 732, Charles defeated the invading Moslems in the famous Battle of Tours near Poitiers. For repeatedly attacking the Moslems, Charles later received the title of Martel, meaning the Hammer. He built an army of mounted men by seizing church estates. Charles supported Saint Boniface in his reform of the Frankish church. He Page 43 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE married ROTRUDE (Chrotude), Duchess of Austrasia. ROTRUDE was born in 690 in Austrasia, France to LEUTWINUS TREVES. She died in 724. Charles and Rotrude had PEPIN "The Short" FRANKS. PEPIN was born in 714 in Austrasia, France. He died on September 24, 768 in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France. PEPIN "The Short" founded the Carolingian dynasty. Like his father, grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, PEPIN served as mayor of the palace in the Merovingian kingdom in France and Germany. In each case, the mayor was the power behind the throne. In 751, an assembly of the Franks deposed Childeric, the last of the weak Merovingian kings, and proclaimed PEPIN king. Pope Stephen II, who ruled Rome, asked PEPIN for help against the Lombard king. PEPIN sent his army to save Rome. The Lombards had captured Ravenna. Pepin recaptured the city and much of the nearby territory, known as "the Donation of Pepin," and helped build the political power of the pope. PEPIN added Aquitaine to his own kingdom, and began many important religious and educational reforms. His son, CHARLEMAGNE, carried on these reforms. PEPIN married BERTRADA, Countess of Laon in 740. BERTRADA was born in 720 in Laon, Aisne, France to HERIBERT, Count of Laon, and BERTRADA. She died on July 12, 783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France. PEPIN and BERTRADA had CHARLEMAGNE, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, King of the Franks. CHARLEMAGNE was born on April 2, 742 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt. He died on January 28, 814 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia. CHARLEMAGNE was king of the Franks from AD 768 to 814 and "Emperor of the Romans" from 800 to 814. He became a key figure in the development of western Europe's medieval civilization. By his almost constant military campaigns, he created a vast empire in the West which included much of the western part of the old Roman Empire as well as some new territory. He was the first Germanic ruler to assume the title of emperor, and the "empire" he revived lasted in one form or another for a thousand years. Culturally and politically, he left his mark on the newly rising civilization of the West. From 768 to 771, CHARLEMAGNE shared PEPIN's kingdom with his brother, CARLOMAN. When CARLOMAN died, CHARLEMAGNE became sole ruler. He married HILDEGARD, Countess of Vinzgau in 772. HILDEGARD was born in 757 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia to GEROLD I, Duke of Swabia, and IMMA, Duchess of Swabia. Hildegard died on April 30, 783 in Thionville, Moselle, France. CHARLEMAGNE and HILDEGARD had LOUIS I "The Pious" of the Holy Roman Empire. LOUIS I was born in August 778 in Casseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne, France. He died on June 20, 840 in Near, Ingelheim, Rhinehessen, Hesse. LOUIS I became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 814 succeeding his father, Charlemagne. In 817, he arranged for the succession after his death by dividing the empire among his three sons. After his first wife died, LOUIS married again, and a fourth son, CHARLES, was born. LOUIS redivided his empire in 829 in order to give CHARLES a share. The Older sons resented the new division and revolted. LOUIS was removed from the throne in 833, but was restored the next year. The bitter struggle between his sons continued until Louis died. LOUIS I married JUDITH, Empress of Holy Roman Empire in February 819. Judith was born in 800 in Bavaria to WELF I, Duke of Bavaria, and HEDWIG, Duchess of Bavaria. She died on April 19, 843 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France. They had CHARLES II, "The Bald", Holy Roman Emperor, King of Franks. Page 44 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE CHARLES II was born on May 15, 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. He died on October 6, 877 in Brios, France. CHARLES arranged for his two half brothers to divide the great empire of their grandfather, CHARLEMAGNE. He accomplished this by the Treaty of Verdun in 843. CHARLES received the western portion, thus becoming the first to rule France as a separate kingdom. He married ERMENTRUDE, Queen of Franks on December 14, 842 in Crecy, France. ERMENTRUDE was born in 825 in Orleans, Loiret, France to Eudes, Count of Orleans, and Ingeltrude, Countess of Orleans. CHARLES II and ERMENTRUDE had LOUIS II, "The Stammerer" Franks. LOUIS II was born on November 1, 846 in France. He died on April 10, 879 in Compiegne, Oise, France. LOUIS II was briefly king in France after his father died in 877. When LOUIS died two years later, the nobles wanted to make LOUIS the Younger, King of Saxony, the king, but through the power of the major French nobles, Duke HUGH, Duke BOSO, and Count BERNARD, LOUIS III and CARLOMAN, both sons of the late king, were made joint-kings of France. LOUIS II married ADELAIDE, Queen of Franks in 875. ADELAIDE was born in 850 to BEGGEN (Bego), Count of Paris, and ALPAIDE (Alpais), Princess of the Holy Roman Empire. They had CHARLES III, "The Simple", King of the Franks. CHARLES III was born on September 17, 879 in France. He died on October 7, 929 in Peronne, Somme, France. CHARLES succeeded EUDES as king of France in 893. In 911, he was forced to cede Normandy to the Norse leader, Duke ROBERT I. In 923, CHARLES was imprisoned by his chief nobles, most notably Duke RUDOLPH of Burgundy (later king of France). RUDOLPH succeeded as king. CHARLES died in prison in 929. CHARLES III married EADGIFU OGIVE, Queen of Franks on April 18, 907 in France. EADGIFU was born in 904 in Wessex, England to SIGEHELM, Earl of Kent, and EDGIVA, Queen of England. She died in 955. CHARLES III and EADGIFU had LOUIS IV, "Transmarinus", King of Franks. LOUIS IV was born in 921 in Laon, Aisne, France. He died on September 10, 954 in Reims, Marne, France. He married GERBERGE, Queen of Franks on April 25, 940. GERBERGE was born in 913 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia to MATHILDA, Countess of Ringleheim and HEINRICH I, "The Fowler", Germans, Duke of Saxony. She died on May 5, 984 in Reims, Marne, France. LOUIS IV and GERBERGE had CHARLES, Duke of Lorraine. CHARLES was the eldest son of LOUIS IV and Gerberge. He was excluded from the throne. He married Lady AGNES DE VER MANDOIS, the great-granddaughter of ALFRED the Great, King of England. They had CHARLES, Duke of Lorraine. CHARLES was heir to the throne of France, however, he was usurped by HUGH CAPET and was exiled to Germany. He married and had WIGERIUS, Duke of Lorraine. WIGERIUS was the father of BALDRIC TEUTONICUS. Baldric married a daughter of RICHARD FITZ-GILBERT DE TONEBRIDGE and was created Earl of Clare and justiciary of England. BALDRIC had NICHOLAS DE BASCHAVILLE. NICHOLAS was Lord of Castle Martel in Germany. He married a daughter of HERFASTUS, the Dane and a niece of GUNNARA, Duchess of Normandy. NICHOLAS had WILLIAM DE MARTEL. WILLIAM, Earl of Gaurrena, or Warren, in Normandy, married a daughter of RAFE DE TORTA, a Danish nobleman, protector of Normandy during the nonage of Duke RICHARD I. Page 45 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE WILLIAM had Sir ROGER DE MORTIMER. Sir ROGER was a companion of WILLIAM the Conqueror. Sir ROGER had RALPH DE MORTIMER. RALPH, Lord of Wigmore Castle, also accompanied WILLIAM the Conqueror. RALPH married Lady MILLICENT and had HUGH DE MORTIMER. HUGH was the Second Baron Mortimer of Wigmore Castle. He died in 1185. He married Lady Maud. They had ROGER DE MORTIMER. ROGER was the Third Baron de Mortimer of Wigmore Castle. He died in 1215. He married Lady Millicent, daughter of Robert de Ferres. They had Lady JOAN DE MORTIMER. Lady Joan married Walcheline de Beauchamp. Wacheline died in 1235. They had WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP. WILLIAM died in 1298. He married Lady ISABEL and had WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP. WILLIAM (son) was the Sixth Baron de Beauchamp, who was created Earl of Warwick. He married Lady MAUD, daugher of JOHN FITZ. WILLIAM and Lady MAUD had GUY DE BEAUCHAMP. GUY was born in 1275 and died in 1315. He was the Second Earl of Warwick. He married Lady ALICE, daughter of RALPH DE TONI. GUY and Lady ALICE had Lady MATILDA DE BEAUCHAMP. Lady MATILDA died in 1359. She married Sir GEOFFREY DE SAY, a Magna Charta Baron, second Baron de Say and Admiral of the King's Fleet. They had Lady IDONEA DE SAY. Lady IDONEA married Sir JOHN CLINTON, Knight of Maxtock (Mantoch) and Amington, third Baron Clinton and governor of Warwick Castle. Sir JOHN was born in 1326 and died in 1397. They had Sir THOMAS DE CLINTON. Sir THOMAS married MARGARET MEYNELL, daughter of Sir Ralph MEYNELL. They had Lady ANNE DE CLINTON. Lady Anne married Sir ROBERT FRANCEYS. They had MARGARET FRANCEYS. MARGARET married NICHOLAS FITZHERBERT. NICHOLAS died in 1472. MARGARET and NICHOLAS had ROBERT FITZHERBERT. ROBERT was born in Tissington and married GRACE EYRE of Holme Hall, Bakewell. They had GEORGE FITZHERBERT. GEORGE died in 1515. He married AGNES BERESFORD of Newton Grange, Ashburn. They had ROBERT FITZHERBERT. ROBERT died in 1595. He married ELIZABETH BULLOCK of Darley. They had Sir JOHN FITZHERBERT. Sir JOHN married ELIZABETH (surname unknown). They had ANTHONY FITZHERBERT. ANTHONY married MARTHA NICHOLES of Boycote, Salop. They had MARGERIE FITZHERBERT. MARGERIE married THOMAS PURIFOY which eventually takes us down to our ancestor, PIERCY PEURFOY who married our WILLIAM BACOT GAUSE in 1827. Page 46 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE =================================================================================== Fall 1982 The Independent Republic Quarterly Page 4 Vol. 16 No. 4 =================================================================================== The Independent Republic Quarterly WILLIAM GAUSE By C. B. Berry The Gause family resided in the Little River area long before the Revolutionary War. The origin of this family has not been traced in this study but the name is German and at least one report says they were French Huguenots. WILLIAM GAUSE, Senior, of Prince George Parish, South Carolina, was one of the earliest settlers in what is now coastal Horry County after the state became a royal province in 1729. There is some evidence to indicate that WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., might have come from Virginia to North Carolina, for in 1734, a WILLIAM GAUSE purchased lands in Edgecombe County from JOHN BRYAN. Other records show that JOHN BRYAN and WILLIAM GAUSE were of Bertie Precinct, North Carolina. .Bertie Precinct adjoined the Virginia line some thirty miles southwest of the present day Norfolk, and Edgecombe County was just across the Roanoke River from Bertie Precinct. WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., sold these lands in 1735 and 1736, and evidently came from there to the Little River, South Carolina, area, where he settled. He was the father of the Gause families found in the Shallotte and Lockwood's Folly areas of Brunswick County, North Carolina, after 1760. Most of the Gause families had left the Little River area by 1790 because the census for that year shows no Gause families for All Saints Parish. There were several families listed for Brunswick County, North Carolina, as follows: HEAD OF FAMILY FREE WHITE MALES FREE WHITE 16+z Incl. H.F. UNDER 16 FEMALES SLAVES =================================================================================== WILLIAM GAUSE 2 3 3 37 Benjamin Gause 1 2 3 4 Charles Gause 1 1 4 15 Bryant (Bryan) Gause 1 0 3 18 Needham Gause 2 4 1 5 John Gause 1 1 1 7 Susanna Gause 1 1 2 19 WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., obtained grants to at least four hundred acres of land in 1737 in what is now the Windy Hill Beach area2 where he made his home as an innkeeper. A salt water inlet now known as "White Point Swash" was formerly known as "Gause's Inlet or Gause's Swash" within the memory of some elderly persons living as this was written. An interesting deed to Ann Bryan and her children, dated in 1740, shows WILLIAM GAUSE to be an innkeeper in the Long Bay area, but the deed also raises a question for family students as to the relationship of Ann Bryan who is referred to as a "spinster" who at the time had three children with first names exactly the same as three of the children of WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. Some have speculated that Ann Bryan was marrying WILLIAM GAUSE; others that she was his daughter. The deed is as follows:3 Page 47 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Page 48 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE South Carolina, SS To all to whom these presents shall come, I WILLIAM GAUS of Long Bay of the parish of Prince George and the province aforesaid, Innkeeper, sendeth greeting: Know ye that I the said WILLIAM GAUS for and of the sum of five shillings current money of this province to me in hand paid at and before the ensealing and delivery by Ann Bryan of the said province aforesaid, spinster, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and thereof and therefrom and of and from every part and parcel thereof doth forever acquit, release, exonerate and discharge the said ANN BRYAN, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns and every of them, hath given, granted bargained and sold, aliened, remised, released, enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents doth give, grant, bargain and sell, alien, remise, release, enfeoff and confirm unto the said ANN BRYAN her heirs and assigns forever, one negro wench called ROSE with her two children called PEGG and JENNY, them and their issue with twenty breeding cows and their increase some of which is branded with an IN and some with an I thus and marked with a flap and a slit on the left ear and a crop and a nick on the right ear and hath their dew lap out (which said cattle are now in the care of one _____ JONES as Cowpen Keeper who is to receive as his share the fifth calf each year whilst in his care) and three breeding mares and their increase, one of which is branded with an N and one with an I and one with a W thus, with three feather beds of-goose feathers with quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows and bolsters and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders rents, issues, services and profits of the said Negroes, cows and calves, mares and colts and feather beds and furniture heretofore mentioned and all the estate right title interest use trust, possession, property claim and demand whatsoever of him the said WILLIAM GAUS of to and out of the said Negroes, cows, and calves, mares and colts and feather beds and furniture heretofore mentioned and all the estate right title interest use, trust possession property claim and demand whatsoever of him the said WILLIAM GAUS to have and to hold the said negro wench ROSE and PEGG and JENNY and their issue and the twenty cows and calves and their increase and the three mares and colts and their increase; also and the three feather beds and furniture above mentioned, to her the said ANN BRYAN her heirs and assigns but to and for the use, benefit and behoof of NEEDHAM BRYAN, JOHN BRYAN and WILLIAM BRYAN by an equal dividend that to each one alike out of THE above named Negroes and cattle and mares and beds and the said WILLIAM GAUSE and his heirs the said Negroes, cattle and mares and beds to the said ANN BRYAN and her heirs shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. In witness whereof the said WILLIAM GAUS hath hereunto set his hand and seal this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord 1740. WILLIAM GAUSE (Seal) Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of THOMAS BLYTHE SIMON STEAD Page 49 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Craven County Personally came and appeared before me this day THOMAS BLYTHE one of the witnesses to the within testament of writing who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist, declares that he did see WILLIAM GOSS [GAUSE] sign, seal and as his act and deed deliver the said instrument of writing for the use therein mentioned and that he did also see SIMON STEAD sign the same as witness thereto. Sworn before me this 2 March 1743. WILLIAM WHITESIDE. Recorded 4th January 1744 Some years later, WILLIAM GAUSE purchased a plantation at Star Bluff on the Waccamaw River from NATHAN FRINK, including his livestock, plantation tools and household furnishings, including 400 acres of land.4 However, there is no information to indicate that he ever moved there. Later, some of his descendants did settle nearby in the Red Bluff area and further inland where a Gause settlement and an old Gause cemetery is to be found today. WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., had at least five children by a wife whose name has not been determined for this record: 1 a JOHN GAUSE, Sr. 2 b NEEDHAM GAUSE 3 c BENJAMIN GAUSE 4 d CHARLES GAUSE 5 e WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. f BRYAN GAUSE (no further data) 1. JOHN GAUSE, Sr., Revolutionary War Patriot, dated his will June 12, 1783, and it was proved Sept. 16, 1783. He married SUSANNAH FRINK5 and had six children: 6 a BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr. b CHARLES GAUSE, Jr. 7 c CHARLOTTE GAUSE 8 d JOHN JULIUS GAUSE e NEEDHAM GAUSE f ELIZABETH GAUSE Page 50 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 2. NEEDHAM GAUSE was probably born prior to 1742 as he is recorded as buying land in New Hanover County August 19, 1763.6 His will was dated September 27, 1794 and proved in the July term of court in 1801, in which he names his wife, HANNAH, as executrix. He also served as a Patriot in the Revolutionary War. His will7 records four sons and a daughter: a NEEDHAM GAUSE; Jr. "Land where I now live on Indigo Branch" (Indigo Branch crosses the highway which leads from Hickman's Crossroads to Wampee near the junction of the S. C. - N. C. state line.) b WILLIAM GAUSE. "Land on Caw-Caw Swamp" near present day Thomasboro, N. C. c JOHN GAUSE. "Land on Caw-Caw Swamp", etc. d ELIZABETH GAUSE. "Slaves, furniture", etc. 9 e BRYAN GAUSE 3. BENJAMIN GAUSE, often confused with BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr. (see no. 6), seems to have returned to South Carolina.8 Data is incomplete for this record. 4. CHARLES GAUSE, a Revolutionary War Patriot, purchased 640 acres of land on Lockwood's Folly, Brunswick County, North Carolina, from his brother, WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., in 1773, and seems to have moved there at that time. CHARLES GAUSE is given much credit for the founding of Smithville, now Southport, North Carolina.9 His will was in the possession of Mrs. GERTRUDE (GAUSE) MCNEIL who contributed much information for this study. He died between 1807 and 1811. The name of his first wife has not been found; he married second,ELEANOR, widow of JACOB LEONARD (See MILLER). Children: a MARY GAUSE m. GIBBS, had son CHARLES GIBBS. 10 b ANN GAUSE 11 c ELIZABETH GAUSE d Sarah Gause e CHARLES GAUSE, Jr. His will also mentions granddaughters ELIZABETH DAVIS and SARAH BRINSON; also a stepdaughter, ELIZABETH LEONARD. 5. WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. (1745-1801) was among the first of the name to move from Prince George Parish, South Carolina, to Brunswick County, North Carolina. He made his home at Gause's Landing adjacent to the present day Ocean Isle Beach. He was wounded while in service during the Revolutionary War which resulted in the loss of a leg, and in 1778 was elected a member of the House of Commons from Brunswick County, N. C. From the minutes of the Safety Committee at Wilmington, Saturday, January 20, 1776, is the following:10 "On application of WILLIAM GAUSE and others in behalf of themselves and the inhabitants of Shallotte and Lockwoods Folly, setting forth their apprehension of danger from the people of Waggamaw and requesting of this committee the Committee of Safety & small supply of powder, to enable them to act in their own defense in case they should be attacked, ordered that 20 lbs. gunpowder be supplied to WILLIAM GAUSE from the stock of this Committee for the use of the inhabitants of Lockwoods Folly and Shallotte when the said GAUSE applies for them.“ Page 51 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE In his diary, Bishop Francis Asbury tells of his visits with this WILLIAM GAUSE: "Friday, December 23, 1791 - We passed Lockets Folly and Shallot-River, and came up to Father Gauses . . . and held meeting on Christmas day, it being the sabbath. South Carolina, Monday 26. We came to Little River, and thence to Kingston ... Thursday 9 [year not indicated] but contained in v. 2, 1786-18097 Came to father WILLIAM GAUSE's. I paid a visit to the sea and saw the breakers; awfully tremendous sight and sound, but how curious to see the seagull take the clams out of the sand and bear them up in the air, and drop them down to break them, and then eat the flesh! This I saw demonstrated; and if they fail once in breaking the shell, they will take it up again, and bear it higher, and cast it down upon a hard spot of ground, until they effect their purpose. We are now in Bladen circuit, Brunswick County, North Carolina. Sunday 10. We attended at Shallot Church." From v. 3 (1800 to 1815): "North Carolina. Thursday, January 14, 1802 - After preaching, we rode on to the house of my once dear friend WILLIAM GAUSE, Senior; but death had stolen a march upon me; the body of my friend was in the dust, his soul is, I hope and trust, with God." (Note: WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., was designated as WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr., at the time of his death because he had a son of the same name.) On his Southern Tour, President George Washington recorded in his diary: "Tue. 26th. April (1791) Having sent my carriage across the day before, I left Wilmington about 6 o'clock accompanied by most of the gentlemen of the town and breakfasted at gr. BEN SMITH's; lodged at one Russ 25 miles from Wilmington - an indifferent house A ["indifferent" seems to refer to the facilities and accommodations of the place and not to the attitude of the hosts]; Wednesday, April 27, 1791e-Breakfasted at WILLIAM GAUSE's a little out of the direct road 14 miles - crossed the boundary line between No. & South Carolina abt. half after 12 o'clock which is 10 miles from GAUSES" - dined at a private house (one Cochran's) about 2 miles farther - and lodged at Mr. VAREEN's 14 miles more and 2 miles short of the long bay ..." (Note: Washington did not mean that Gause's place was 14 miles out of his direct route - the 14 miles refers to the distance from his last stop. Those familiar with the "Old King's Highway" which Washington was following can note that Gause's Landing is only two or three miles out of the way from that route.) WILLIAM GAUSE is believed to be buried at the old Gause cemetery which is located some one hundred yards southwest of the junction of N. C. Highway no. 904 with the highway that leads from Sunset Beach to Ocean Isle Beach. There are several bricked over graves in this cemetery but no tombstones. He was twice married, first to MARY, whose last name is not known. One daughter is known of this marriage: a SARAH GAUSE m. SAMUEL FRINK. No issue. Page 52 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE WILLIAM GAUSE is believed to be buried at the Old Gause cemetery which is located about one hundred yards southwest of the junction of N. C. Highway no. 904 with the highway that leads from Sunset Beach to Ocean Isle Beach. There are several bricked over graves in this cemetery but no tombstones. On a visit there in the 1960s this writer with Mrs. Ida B. Kellam of Wilmington and some other members of the Brunswick County Historical Society observed that a firebreak disc had apparently ploughed right through the cemetery area and disturbed many of the bricks. WILLIAM GAUSE was twice married, first to MARY, whose last name is not known. Issue: a SARAH GAUSE m. SAMUEL FRINK (no issue) b NEEDHAM GAUSE m. ELIZABETH HANKINS, dau. of DENNIS HANKINS. No issue. 12 c SAMUEL GAUSE d MARY GAUSE m. DANIEL BELLUNE. Their issue included MARY, SARAH, ELIZABETH, and MICHAEL BELLUNE. MARY m. JOHN COLLIER BAKER and their issue included SARAH ANN BAKER who married ROBERT M. MCRACKAN. WILLIAM GAUSE m. 2 ELIZABETH BACOT, widow of JOHN SMITH of Santee, South Carolina, and had: 13 e Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE f ELIZABETH BACOT GAUSE who married her first cousin, JOHN JULIUS GAUSE. (See No. 8) 13A g MARTHA GAUSE (1781-1844) m. 1 in 1797 ALEXANDER JOHN WILSON; m. 2 JOSEPH TILLEY. h PETER GAUSE m. SARAH FRINK 6. BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr. (1762-1825) married four times.11 Married first in 1782 to MARY WOODBERRY who died in 1794. Their children: a NANCY GAUSE b MARTHA GAUSE, b. 1784, m. JOHN DURANT of Horry County in 1802. No issue. 14 c MARGARET GAUSE BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr., m. 2 in 1796 to Mrs. JUDITH JEFFORDS Porter (1774-1811). Children of this marriage: d JOHN GAUSE (1799-1826) m. ELIZABETH B. WOODBERRY (180?-1826), daughter of RICHARD WOODBERRY, Jr., and his wife, DESDA DAVIS.12 They had at least one son, Richard W. Gause, b. 1825. 15 e BENJAMIN GAUSE, Jr. BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr., m. 3, ELIZABETH BELLUNE. No issue. BENJAMIN GAUSE, Sr., m. 4, ELIZABETH SINTER. No issue. 7. CHARLOTTE GAUSE, b. Nov. 11, 1767, m. NATHANIEL GALLOWAY (June 12, 176613-1824). Their children: a SARAH GALLOWAY (May 1790-Oct. 18, 1874) m. THOMAS HANKINS 16 b AMELIA GALLOWAY Page 53 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE The Cause tomb has been vandalized by treasure seekers. Much of the vegetation that covered the brick work has been removed. Gadse's Landing, near Ocean Isle Beach, N. C. It was here that WILLIAM GAUSE resided when he was visited by Bishop FRANCIS ASBURY and President GEORGE WASHINGTON. (Left to Right) RUBY LEE WACHTMAN, REBECCA BRYAN, the late NELL BRYAN and BURGIN BERRY. 8. JOHN JULIUS GAUSE (1774-1836) signed his will May 3, 1836, in which he provides for the construction of the family burial vault which is located a short distance east of the entrance to Ocean Isle Beach in Brunswick County, N. C. This old brick vault has become something of a point of historical interest in modern times. The citation of the will that provided for its construction is as follows: Reserving from (aforementioned distribution) a sum sufficient to build a family vault for the interment of my remains and that of my family as hereinafter directed. It is my request that my body should be placed in the vault with my two dead wives until a new one can be built at the old family grounds on the plantation late the residence of Samuel Gause, deceased, estate. Then I request my executors to have my own remains interred therein, those of my two wives, Mr. and Mrs. Bruards and my children that are within the vault or lie interred in the old burying ground. This I enjoin on my executors to have carried into effect immediately after my death. Son, Frederick B. Gause, Friend and Kinsman, Samuel Frink, sons John P., Samuel S., and George W. Gause, Executors. Page 54 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE John Julius Gause served as a Member of the House of Commons from Brunswick County in 1825.15 He was married three times, first to his first cousin, Elizabeth Bacot Gause, daughter of WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr. (q.v.); second to Maria Theresa Bruard, daughter of John B. Bruard who served as the first Postmaster of Little River, S. C., appointed August 20, 1823. John B. Bruard's will is on file in the Horry County records, dated January 20, 1827, in which he bequeaths all of his property to "my affectionate son in law, John Julius Cause." The third marriage was to Emily R. Miller who survived him. She was a daughter or widow of Frederick Miller whom he refers to in the will. There were eleven children referred to in the will of John Julius Gause, but this study has not determined the mother of each: a Elizabeth Gause m. Blackwell. She was deceased at the time her father signed his will. The will bequeaths three quarter-sections of land in Arkansas to her three children. b Ann M. Gause m. William Willson. Their children included Emeline Wilson, John J. Willson and Julia Willson. c Samuel S. Gause d George W. Gause had son, John Julius Gause. e John P. Gause f Julius L. Gause g Jane Miller Gause m. 1840 Joseph W. Evans, attorney-at-law in Fayetteville, N. C. h Margaret L. Gause i Frederick B. Gause j Mariah T. B. Gause k Julia E. Cause 9. Bryan Gause is listed in the 1850 census for Brunswick County as being 75 years of age and his wife, Nancy, as 60. Bryan (also sometimes spelled Bryant) Bause probably had an earlier marriage by which he had children. A photostat of an old Bible record 7 shows "Margaret Ann, Daughter of Bryan Gause, was born the 29th. June 1812). In his will Needham Gause bequeaths to his son, Bryan Gause, negroes Cain and Lucy, one-half of "lands where I live" which is one-half or the remaining half of "what I gave my son Needham"; one-half of Beach Tract and one-half of tide marsh and Island. The identified children of Bryan Gause are: a Needham Cause. The 1850 census record for Brunswick County lists a family of "Nedam Gause, 42; Mary Gause, 29, Martha Cause, 6; and Elinor Cause, 4" which seems to be this Needham Gausec18 b Margaret Ann Gause married June 28, 1832, Andrew (or Andred) Gold (b. Sept. 28, 1806, in Scotland). Their children included Eliza Landers Gold, who m. Solomon Benjamin Frink. 17 c Joseph W. Gause 10. Ann Gause, d. Jan. 6, 1813, m. John Bassett Evans (1761-0ct. 19, 1825) who was born John Evans Bassett in England; came to America during the Revolution and made their home at Shrub Hill, now the home of Mrs. Edwin W. Taylor, at Winnabow, North Carolina. They are believed to be buried in an old Gause burying ground back of a barn there. Issue: a John Bassett Evans II b Rebecca Evans, m. Thomas Durant 18 c Daniel Bassett Evans Page 55 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 11. Elizabeth Gause. Information lacking. 12. Samuel Gause, d. 1811, m. Margaret Council of Bladen County and had issue:19 a William James Gause m. Sarah Gause, his first cousin b Sarah Gause, d. y. c Mary Gause m. Birdwell (or Bidwell) d Margaret Gause m. 9-23-1829, Anthony Toon e Hannah or Ann Gause m. Dr. James C. Hale f Harriet Gause m. Langdon g Samuel Cyrus Gause 13. Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE (b. about 1778-d. April 7, 1860) was possibly influenced to go into the ministry by his association with Bishop Francis Asbury who visited his father's home on several occasions. On a visit during the week of February 15, 1801, Asbury paints a brief picture of the Gause home and it was possibly this WILLIAM GAUSE who "stood for scribe" as indicated below:20 At Gause's Manor, or more properly TOWN, we were pleasantly situated. I had a most solemn visit to the sea beach, which to me was a most instructive sight: the sea reminded me of its great Maker, 'who stayeth the proud waves thereof; its innumerable productions; the diversified features of its shores - the sandhills; the marsh,; the palmetto, tall and slender; the sheep and goats frisking in the shade or browsing in the sun: or the eye, directed to the waters beholds the rolling porpoise; the seagulls lifting and letting fall from high the clam, which, breaking, furnished them with food; the eagles with hovering wings watching for their prey; the white sail of the solitary vessel tossed upon the distant wave - how interesting a picture do all these objects make! We preached at WILLIAM GAUSE's, the patriarch of the place: his son stood for scribe, and assisted me in Eakihg extracts of letters to add to my manuscript. We visited Charlotte [sic] meeting house, named after the river, vulgarly and improperly called Shalotte. On our return, I prepared a few long letters for the north. WILLIAM GAUSE is believed to have married first Martha Frink, who died about 1828.21 The church records of Southport show that he was a pastor there in 1859. After wandering around through Georgia, Louisiana, and other southern states as a Methodist minister, he came back to Brunswick County to spend his last days. He had quite a large family. Children by his first marriage included: 19 a Thomas Frink Gause b John W. Gause 20 c Wesley Coke Asbury Daughtry Gause d Elizabeth Gause m. Anderson (Deed Bk. a, p. 268, Brunswick Co.) 21 e Samuel Peter Gause f William Fletcher Gause Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE m. 2 Piercy Purefoy, whom he names in his will.22 Hurst's Sunday American, published in Atlanta July 24, 1932, gave the royal line of the Purefoy family and in the genealogy states that Piercy Purefoy, daughter of William and Mary Brothers Purefoy, was born about 1808 and married a Gause, Methodist minister Page 56 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE of near Wilmington, N. C. A letter from a descendant of the Rev. Gause states that her ancestor, Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE, was a Methodist minister, a man of means, a rare combination. He lived to be 82 years old. His Bible and Concordance used in preparing his sermons, were destroyed "in our library in the hurricane of Segt. 19, 1949. We still have some documents in the handwriting of Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE."23 The other children in this family seem to have been by the wife Piercy Purefoy: g Benson Kennedy Gause (Deed Bk. J, p. 268, Brunswick County) h Emory P. Gause m. 1851, Narcissa, daughter of Col. Gardner, Pike County, Georgia, according to the Wilmington Herald, Nov. 5, 1851. i Frances A. Gause, m. Feb. 15, 1855, A. H. Stegall j McCarroll Gause k Olin B. Gause moved to Texas l Lucian A. Cause, b. about 1843 (youngest son listed in will). 13A. Martha Cause of Gause's Landing, Brunswick County, N. C., m. Sept. 7, 1797, Alexander John Willson of A11 saints Parish, South Carolina. Family tradition said he was born in Scotland.24 Information available on one son: 2 a William Willson 14. Margaret Gause m. Bethel Durant who died between October 18, 1825 (will signed) and May 30, 1826 (will proved). Bethel Durant's father resided near Kingston (now Conway) and was visited by Bishop Asbury on March 14, 1785, who wrote in his journal: "From Georgetown we came by Kingston and got to Mr. Durant's who, I had heard, was a Methodist: we found him in sentiment, one of Mr. Hervey's25 disCiples, but not in the enjoyment of religion: I delivered my own soul before I took my leave of him."26 Many years later, Asbury was moving northward through Kingston and again wrote: "Tuesday, January 17, 1815: We started away in company with William M. Kennedy, and James Norton, with the last of whom we parted at the ferry over Black River. Lodged with Mr. Rogers--his father has gone to rest. On our route we visited Bethel Durant, and saw his brethren, John and Henry: their simple-hearted, kind father entertained me thirty years ago on my returning from my visit to Charleston."27 Margaret Gause and Bethel Durant had three children:28 a Henry Hill Durant 23 b John Wesley Durant c Mary Ann Durant Bethel Durant m. 2 Sarah Perkins and had a daughter, Sarah Durant; married third Martha _____ and had children, Martha Durant and Bethel Durant; married fourth, Hannah whom he names in his will. 15. Benjamin Gause, Jr. (Nov. 9, 1801-March 4, 1860) served as Senator for Horry District 1832-1834 and for Marion District, 1840-1844, 1848-1852 and 1856-1860. He died while in office as Senator and is buried in a family graveyard at Hardy's Ferry on the Waccamaw River.29 Page 57 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Senator Benjamin Gause, Jr., was married three times: first to Sarah Bellune Frink (16 July 1808-6 Feb. 1829), daughter of Samuel Frink and his wife, Elizabeth Bellune. By this marriage, one daughter was born: a Sarah B. Gause (Jan. 1829-Aug. 23, 1850) m. Dr. Thomas J. Dozier of Marion County, S. C. No known issue. Benjamin Gause, Jr., m. 2 Martha A. Woodberry (1811-1835) and had b William Drayton Gause (1832-1851) No record of marriage. Benjamin Gause, Jr., m. 3 in 1859 Susan Edith Gregg3O daughter of R. J. Gregg, who was Tax Collector for Marion District for thirty years.31 Susan Edith Gregg (1832- 1908) survived Benjamin Gause, Jr., and married as the second wife of James Norton Stevenson, a merchant of Marion, who had first married Mary Hughes.32 Benjamin Gause, Jr. and Susan Gregg had one son: c Benjamin Gause III (1860-1921) moved to Bennettsville, S. C., and married Loula Helene Nissen (1876-1912). Issue: a Theodora Gause (1902-1980) b Benjamin Gause (1904-1955) c George Rupert Gause (1909- ) [photos removed, see original] Above. Benjamin Gause III, 1860-1921 Top right. Benjamin Gause, 1904-1955 Bottom right. Benjamin Gause, 1936 Thanks to G. Rupert Gause, past president HCHS, for these pictures. 16. Amelia Galloway mo John Swain and had:33 24 a George Washington Swain b John Co Swain c Luke Swain d Amelia Swain m. Thomas McKeithan e Mary Swain m. James G. McKeithan 17. Joseph W. Gause signed a marriage agreement with Mary Ann Grissett, daughter of John G. Grissett January 26, 182634 Family records say that Mary Ann was killed by slaves and their children were left to the Grissett grandparents while the father remarried and probably moved to Florida. Children were: a Hannah Jane Gause (May 14, 1827-Feb. 14, 1902) m. Samuel Frink b Roubin Gause c Elmer Eliza Gause d JOHN BRYAN Gause (April 28, 1831-Aug. 3, 1904) m. Martha A. Vereen, daughter of Joseph Jeremiah Vereen (1812-1873) e Evander McC. Gause. f Athalia Ann Gause m. _____ Brown. Page 58 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 18. Daniel Basset Evans (March 29, 1796-Jan. 13, 1867) m. Nov. 20, 1820, Elizabeth Aiken Smith (Febo 19, 1798-Nov. 10, 1881), dau. of Thomas Smith and his wife, Jane Jordan of the Conway, So C. area. They are buried at Zion Methodist Cemetery in Brunswick County. Issue: 25 a Anna Jane Evans b Jacob A. Evans, had issue c John Basset Evans III d Thomas S. Evans e Carolina Rebecca Evans m. Rufus Galloway f Henry Clay Evans, unm. g Anchram H. Evans m. Elizabeth Kelly 19. Thomas Frink Gause, d. Nov. 11, 1868, m. 1, Sarah Gause (buried Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N. C., no marker) a Mary Jeffords Gause (1831-1835) b Benjamin Gause (1840-1843) c Mary Durant Gause (1842-1843 d Martha Judith Gause (1838-1843) [ghrah Gause (1837- )7 e Tiwin Jeffords Gause (1829-1830) f William Drayton Gause (1832-1851)35 g Malvina Gause m. Richard Hatch Grant (July 3, 1816-Feb. 28, 1876), children included James M. Grant (1862-1893) and William M. Grant (1866-1893) Thomas Frink Gause m. 2, June 11, 1846, Margaret L. Robinson (July 3, 1818-May 1865) and had: h James Frank Gause (May 7, 1849-Ju1y 13, 1917) m. Dec. 12, 1876, Fannie Caroline Jones and they were the parents of Capt. Thomas James Gause who m. Mary Belle Snead of Wilmington i Rosa Coddington Gause (1852-1855) j Cyrus Gause (1850-1853) k Peter W. Gause (1854-0ct. 29, 1898) m. April 19, 1877, Mary A. Manning (1858-June 13, 1902) Thomas Frink Gause m. 3 in 1865 Elizabeth (Betty) Betsy Ann Petit. No known ISSUE. 20. Wesley Coke Asbury Daughtry Gause, b. March 8, 1815, d. Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1865, m. June 20, 1837, Amelia Potter Russ, b. March 1, 1814, d. New Orleans, La., Dec. 4, 1866, dau. of Semoronius Russ, b. July 6, 1767, m. Spot. 27, 1792, Amelia Potter, dau. of Samuel Potter, who was killed by the British in 1781. Semoronius Russ is buried in the old cemetery at Southport, N. C., and his record says: "Died November 19, 1816, aged 51 yearso He was born in Asheville, Connecticut, but had spent the last twenty-eight years of his life in this state." Wesley Coke Asbury Daughtry Cause and Amelia Potter Russ had several children, among them: a George Gause 26 b Thomas Albert Gause Page 59 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 21. Samuel Peter Gause m. Caroline Fergus and lived in Wilmington, N. C. Issue: a Alice Gause m. _____ Young b Johnnie Gause m. 1, Hardwick and had Carris Sale Hardwick, m. Nelson; Johnnie Gause mo 2, Cummings and had dau., Ann Cummings m. Ted Burr, reside in Wilmington and had dau., Ann Cummings Burr m. June 2, 1947, Murdock McRae Dunn 22. William Willson, b. Craven County, S. C., Feb. 7, 1800, d. Wilmington, N. C., July 26, 1879, m. 1, Ann Marie Gause, his first cousin (see Family No. 8) (1799- Ju1y 18, 1837). Issue included: a Emeline Willson b John J. Willson c Julia Willson 27 d William Alexander Willson, Sr. 23. John Wesley Durant (b. Sept 11, 1807, in Horry County, d. June 18, 1889, at Alvin Texas. His gravestone is one of the oldest recorded in that city).36 He was elected to the South Carolina Legislature from Horry County in 1836 and served until 1838; elected a Colonel in the S. C. Militia and served in the Indian Wars. He lived in Tennessee for a brief time and was known to commute between S. C. and Tenn. between 1826 and 1840. He first visited Texas in 1839 and returned to settle in Leon County, Texas, in 1841. He was elected to the Texas State Senate and served 1861 to 1865. He was formally educated in law and served as a circuit judge in Texas for many years. He also was a Methodist preacher and spent the last 15 years of his life as a minister. He m. 1, Sarah Green Sweet, daughter of Silvius Sweet and Elizabeth Green, on May 22, 1828. Issue: a Mary Elizabeth Durant m. A. H. Kirby b Silvius So Durant, d. about 18 c Benjamin Go Durant, do about 12 John Wesley Duranm mo 2, Carolina Virginia Sherrod, dau. of Irvin R. Sherrod and Elisa Shelton of Mason County, Tenn., in Nov. 1844. Issue: d Emma S. Durant m. George W. Durant e Martha Eliza Durant m. S. N. Richardson f John F. Durant m. Lula B. Thweatt John Wesley Durant m. 3, Miriam Burkhalter. No issue by this marriage. Page 60 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 24. George Washington Swain (Jan. 26, 1815-May 4, 1890) resided and is buried on "Goosemarsh Plantation", the old Swain family plantation between Dutchman Creek and Jumping Run Creek in Brunswick County, N. C. He ma. Ann Eliza Norton Galloway (Aug. 6, 1822-Dec. 6, 1902), dauo of Nathaniel Galloway, Jr. and Penina McKeithan. Issue: a George Thomas Swain, unm. killed at Gettysburg b Benjamin Franklin Swain m. Margaret Drew c Carolina Swain m. Benjamin Drew d Mary Caledonia Swain m. Julius D. Davis e Christopher Columbus Swain (Dec. 15, 1851-May 5, 1929) m. Florence Galloway 28 f Luke Peyton Swain " g Rebecca Brown Swain (twin) m. S. F. Craig h Jessie Frink Swain (twin) m. Henry Daniel i John Nathaniel Swain, resided in Mexico j Sarah Florence Swain (twin) k Jefferson Davis Galloway Swain (twin) 25. Anna Jane Evans (May 15, 1822-Dec. 23, 1912) m. Feb. 24, 1841, John W. Mercer (July 20, 1812-Sept. 12, 1863), son of Redmond Mercer (1788-1863) and his wife, Sarah Taylor. They first made their home on Bell Swamp near Town Creek in Brunswick County, N. C., where their first two children were born; later, they moved to what is now Bolivia and still later settled at Supply which was then referred to as "New Supply" on the Lockwood Folly River. Issue: 29 a Oliver Evans Mercer 30 b Sarah Elizabeth Mercer c Charles Owen Mercer (Dec. 12, 1845-Apri1 6, 1902) m. Dec. 12, 1877, Nolie Wooten of Bladen County, N. C. d Mary Carolina Mercer (Feb. 4, 1848-June 14, 1900) m. Dec. 15, 1874, Micajah Coke Reeves of Surry County, N. C. I e Sophia Jane Mercer (June 15, 1850-Apri1 10, 1904) m. Oct. 20, 1890, Edward Taylor. No issue. f Daniel Fulton Mercer (April 29, 1852-Nov. 28, 1878), unm. g John Bascom Mercer (March 8, 1855-Nov. 28, 1913) m. Mary Lilly, Albemarle County, N. C. h Emma Judson (May 15, 1857-Nov. 3, 1945) m. Nov. 27, 1878, Henry Fulton Walker (Jan. 1, 1852-Feb. 8, 1883) i William Henry Mercer, called "Little Pompey" (Aug. 21, 1859-Mar. 27, 1860) j Florence Mercer (March 6, 1863-Dec. 13, 1896) m. Feb. 23, 1882, Bryan Winslow Newkirk 26. Thomas Albert Gause, bn June 19, 1845, d. Mass Point, Miss., Dec. 13, 1929, m. Feb. 25, 1871, Jane Amelia Reed, bo Feb. 4, 1854 in New Orleans, La., d. Nov. 7, 1940, at Gulfport, Miss. They were the parents of: a Warren Daughtry Gause, b. Jan. 28, 1883, at Mass Point, Miss., d. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 22, 1939, m. Dec. 23, 1903, Mary Willis Hasty, b. March 31, 1883, at Stockton, Ala., and had a daughter, Lucile Gause who m. Carl A. Fryxell.37 Page 61 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 27. William Alexander Willson, Sr., b. Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 19, 1834, d. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 21, 1917, m. Sarah Jane Beery, b. Wilmington, N. C., August 9, 1843, d. Wilmington, N. C., June 30, 1925. They were married at the Beery mansion corner 2nd and Nun Sts. in Wilmington. Data on one daughter available: a Hattie Lu Willson (Sept. 17, 1875-May 4, 1955) resided in Wilmington, m. Stacy K. deVany (Septo 16, 1876-Jan. 12, 1945) of Texas. They were the parents of Marilyn deVany, b. June 16-1904, in Wilmington, N. C., m. 1, A. Gaston Creasy; m. 2, Leon R. Pierce, Nov. 4, 1955, in Augusta, Ga. 28. Luke Peyton Swain m. at St. Phillips Church, Southport, N. C., Dec. 17, 1884, Mary Ida Prigge, dau. of Covert Prigge and his wife, Mary Ann Gerrard of Wilmington. They were the parents of a son and daughter: 31 a Erla Roberts Swain b George Thomas Swain 29. Oliver Evans Mercer (Jan. 23, 1842-Ju1y 1, 1863) served in the Confederate forces, having volunteered in 1861 and chosen as a second lieutenant of his company. He was attached to the 20th N. C. Regiment and stayed at Forts Caswell and Johnson, N. C., until June 1862. They were then ordered to Richmond where he saw action and later he was engaged in battle at Manassas. He was promoted to captain and engaged in other battle activity. He was shot through the head while leading and cheering his men on to victory at the battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.38 30. Sarah Elizabeth Mercer (25 March 1843-16 March, 1888) m. Jan. 1, 1874, as the second wife of Edward Ward Taylor (Jan. 6, 1830-Jan. 6, 1909) of Onslow County, N. C., and made their home as "Shrub Hill" on Town Creek, near Winnabow, Brunswick County, N. C. Issue: a Charles Edward Taylor b Martha Jane "Mattie" Taylor c John Mercer Taylor d Edwin Wellington Taylor e Clarissa Cornelia Taylor 31. Erla Roberts Swain, b. Nov. 19, 1886, resided at 1819 Market St., Wilmington, N. C., as this was written in 1969. She was a family student and contributed much information for this sketch. She m. Jan. 1, 1935, as the second wife of Robert Rollo Stone. No issue. Page 62 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Footnotes 1. The Reeves Mercer Newkirk Families, by Lillian Reeves Wyatt. 1956. (RMN) 2. Pre-Revolutionary Plats, v. 2, p. 403-404, S. C. Archives. 3. Charleston Misc. Records, v. FF (1743-1746), p. 189. 4. Charleston County Misc. Records, v. 78B, p. 565. 5. R. M. N., p. 176. 6. Deed Bk. E, p. 61, courtesy Mrs. Ida B. Kellam, Wilmington, N. C. 7. Deed Bk. B, p. 65, Brunswick County, N. C., courtesy Mrs. Ida B. Kellam. 8. RMN, p. 176. 9. RMN, p. 177. 10. History of New Hanover County, by Alfred Moore Waddell. 11. Data chart owned by Mrs. Henry Hill Durant, 50 Laurens St., Charleston, S. C. Courtesy Leonardo Andrea. 12. Sellers, History of Marion Count , p. 355. 13. Wyatt (see 1 above) gives his Birth 1766 on p. 177 and 1770 on p. 73. 14. Will Bk B, p. 171, Brunswick Co. Records. 15. Wheeler, Historical Sketches of North Carolina, v. 2, p. 50. 16. Marriage and Death Notices in Wilmington Newspapers 1797-1842, by Ida Brooks Kellam, 1959, p. 91. 17. In possession of Mrs. Ida B. Kellam. 18. Courtesy Mrs. Benjamin J. Frink, 1611 Doncaster Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga., also Deed Bk N., p. 254, Brunswick Co., courtesy Ida B. Kellam. 19. Wyatt, RMN, p. 176. 20. The Journal & Letters of Francis Asbury. Epworth & Abingdon Presses, 1958. In three v. Vol. II, p. 283. 21. Most of the data on Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE was furnished by Mrs. Ida B. Kellam. 22. Will Bk D., p. 31, Brunswick County. 23. Ida B. Kellam. 24. Information from Leonardo Andrea. 25. James Hervey was one of the original Oxford Methodists who broke with the Wesleys and became a Calvinist. 26. Asbury, v. I, p. 484-85. 27. Asbury, v. II, p. 772. 28. Information from a descendant, Mr. Ralph B. Cushman, Jr., 7806 Kimble St., Houston TX 77017. 29. Biographical Directory of the Senate of S. C.: 1776-1964, by Emily Bellinger Reynolds and Joan Reynolds Fannt. S. C. Archives Dept., 1964. 30. From a chart owned by Mrso Henry Hill Durant, 50 Laurens St., Charleston, S. C. Courtesy Leonardo Andrea. 31. Sellers, p. 463. 32. William Lewis of Horry County, S0 C0, by Mary Lewis Stevenson, c1960 by Charlotte Stevenson. 33. Courtesy Mrs. Erla Roberts Swain Stone, 1804 Market St., Wilmington. 34. Bk. L, p. 288, Brunswick County. Courtesy Ida B. Kellam. 35. From Gravestone Records in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington. Courtesy Mrs. Ida B. Kellam. 36. Cushman data, see note 280 37. Kellam data, see note 6. 38. Wyatt, pp. 241-276, Civil War letters of Oliver E. Mercer. Page 63 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE =================================================================================== Fall 1982 The Independent Republic Quarterly Page 17 Vol. 16 No. 4 =================================================================================== James Fletcher Gause by C. Burgin Berry James Fletcher Gause (October 26, 1862-June 26, 1921) resided in the Daisy section of Horry County and is buried in the Old Gause cemetery there, From a study of the Census records he seems to descend from Fitze Gause, age 47 in 1850, whose family is listed as follows: Elizabeth Gause 50F Mehalah (?) Gause 18F W. C. Gause, 15M Marsdon F. Gause 12M J. W. Gause 10M Nancy Gause 6F In the 1870 Census this W. C. Gause appears to be the same listed as: WILLIAM GAUSE 35 Mary A 24 Sephronia 11 Nancy 9 James 8 Robert 6 Julius 4 Isobel 3 Then in the 1880 Census there is listed: Culverhouse Gause 47 Mary A. 38 James 20 Robert 15 Julius 13 Histella 12 Fitze Gause 74 and Sarah A. Gause, 70, are still living in the 1880 Census and this study needs to connect them to the Brunswick County Gauses from which they apparently came, as no Gause is listed in Horry County in the 1790 Census. Page 64 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE James Fletcher Gause married Charlotte Emeline Hardee (Jan. 20, 1867-July 28, 1913), daughter of John W. Hardee (March 29, 1818-August 30, 1892) and his wife, Frances Boyd (May 5, 1827-Dec. 7, 1902). Issue: 1 a Fletcher Cornelius Cause 2 b George Wilson Gause 3 c Bert Gause d Ivy Gause. His wife was Maude. Issue included son, Edwin Gause. 4 e Florrie Gause f Fannie Gause m. Marvin Prince. Issue included Caldonia Cause. 5 g Davis Gause 1. Fletcher Cornelius Gause m. Dettie Gause, daughter of Dority Asbury Gause. They had five sons: 6 a Shirley Gause b Nollie Gause. Issue included N. C. Gause. c Fletcher Cornelius Gause, Jr. Issue included Randy Gause and Kevin Gause. d Robert Otis Gause resides at 809 Parkway B1vd., Wilmington, N. C. Issue. includes: Stephen, Gaye and Garrett Gause. e Willis Gause m. Bertie Stevens. They reside at 3309 Liberty St., Loris, S. C. Issue: Rex Gause and Jan Gause (deceased) 2. George Wilson Gause m. Roxie Cox, daughter of Needham C. Cox and his wife, Nancy Carter. They are buried at Carter Cemetery near Simpson Creek. Issue: a Lena Gause b Gracie Gause c Versie Gause d Alma Gause e Winston Gause f Leslie Gause m. Juanita Hall g Needham Cloy Gause m. Eloise Bennett. Resided in Longs. He operated the Dockside Restaurant in Calabash for several years. h W. C. Gause i Wilfred Gause j Carolyn Gause 3. Bert Gause m. Arnetta _____. Issue: a Bert Gause, Jr., m. Joan _____. b Kathryn Gause m. Howard Balley. They made their home in North Myrtle Beach. Howard was police chief for Crescent Beach in the 19608. Issue: Cynthia Bailey and William Howard Bailey, Jr. Page 65 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 4. Florrie Gause m. Obie Floyd. Issue: a James Fred Floyd m. Lena Curry. Reside in Mullins. Issue: Ricky and Fred, Jr. b Mady Belle Floyd (dec.) m.]1, Emerson Pender; m. 2, Luther Campbell. Issue: Harold Pender c Joseph Clyde Floyd, Little River, S. C., m. Juanita Prince d Pauline Floyd, Loris, m. Donald R. Campbell. Issue: Michael, Craig, Betty and Joy. e Mildred Louise Floyd, Charlotte, N. C., m. Harold Jordan. Issue: Harold D. (Buddy) Jordan, Jr., and Harriet Louise Jordan. f Ruby Denise Floyd (Loris) m. Samuel P. Stanley. Issue: Bradley Paul Stanley g Wilton Troy Floyd, dec. 1948 8 h Jesse Bryan Floyd i Harry Wayne Floyd m. Bonnie Dreher. Issue: Hary Wayne, Jr., Shannon and Troy. Wayne is a restaurateur and resides in Myrtle Beach. j Jimmy Ray Floyd m. Kay Priest. Issue: Robin, Tracy and Chris 9 k Sylvia Ann Floyd m. John Luther Breeden, Jr. 5. Davis Gause m. Ora . Issue: a Velma Gause m. Brooks Cox b Alice Gause c Vera Gause m. Taft Boyd 6. Shirley Gause m. Ruth Harrelson, daughter of Hubert Harrelson and Emma Floyd Harrelson. Issue: a Paula Gause m. Jimmy Soles b Dale Gause c Dennis Gause m. Sarah Cox d Donna Gause m. Winston Todd e Sylvia Gause m. Legrande Dorman f Sandra Gause m. Sammie Hardee g Sharon Gause m. Carroll Hooks 7. Alma Gause mo Alva Moseley Suggs (1915-Ju1y 20, 1979), son of Cornelius and Julia Fennel Suggs. They resided at Wampee. Issue: a Ronald Lester Suggs b George Raymond Suggs c Edwin Suggs 10 d Alva Charles Suggs e Gwendolyn Suggs m. Richard Bane of Raleigh, N. C. f Marilyn Suggs m. Bill Millman of Burlington, N. C. g Ryan Suggs (d. y.) 8. Jesse Bryan Floyd resides in North Myrtle Beach were he has served on the city council and as mayor. He is very prominent in business activities, being owner or partner in many enterprises, including the Yachtsman Motel in Myrtle Beach, Hoskins Restaurant in North Myrtle Beach, Possum Trot Golf Course, Robbers Roost Golf Course, Bay Tree Golf Plantation, Sandy Island Corporation, etc. He m. Joan Hoskins, dau. of Hubert Hoskins (who established Hoskins Restaurant) and his wife, Leona Eason. Issue: a Keith Floyd b Cindy Floyd c Tina Floyd Page 66 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE 9. Sylvia Ann Floyd m. John Luther Breeden, Jr., County Attorney and Master in Equity for Horry County. They reside in Cherry Grove Beach. Issue: a Jessica Tatum Breeden b John Breeden, III 10. Alva Charles Suggs (b. March 5, 1945) has been employed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Columbia for many years. He m. Sandra Gale Berry (b. Sept. 1, 1946), dau. of C. B. and Dallas W. Berry of North Myrtle Beach. She is employed by The State (newspaper) and they reside at 6 Holly Tree Court in Columbia. Issue: a Alva Charles Suggs, Jr. (b. July 9, 1970) b Christa Suggs (b. October 26, 1971) [photos removed, see original] Above. James Fletcher Gause (1862-1921) and his wife, Charlotte Emeline Hardee (1867-1913) Right. Fletcher Cornelius Gause and his wife, Dettie Gause. Page 67 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE The Independent Republic Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3, Page 30-34 A publication of the Horry County Historical Society A HISTORY OF STAR BLUFF, HORRY COUNTY, S. C. By C. B. Berry June 15, 1988 Star Bluff on the Waccamaw is a quiet community today that attracts fishermen and campers but is practically devoid of any commercial activity. It was not always so. Less than a century ago, the Gardner & Lacy Lumber Company, with headquarters in Georgetown, S. C., had the place alive with workmen removing the huge cypress trees from the abundant swampland and shipping them down to the mill to be cut into prized lumber. A number of other activities have occurred there in the years gone by. A pioneer named SAMUEL MASTERS seems to be the first owner of record of Star Bluff. He was referred to as an Inn Keeper on Winyaw Bay near Georgetown where he obtained a grant for 600 acres of land on 19 June 1711. He also purchased lands in the same area in 1729 from Lewis John, an Indian Trader, in which he was referred to as a “Cooper.” Travelers, passing over the ferry at Winyaw, often stopped in with SAMUEL MASTERS. He had a number of grants in and around Little River in the 1730’s and an inlet at Cherry Grove Beach is referred to as “Masters Inlet” on the plat to one of these grants. He obtained a grant for 400 acres of land “called Star Bluff” on 28 August 1736 and, in this transaction, he was referred to as “Captain” SAMUEL MASTERS. It seems probable that he operated a boat carrying supplies on the Waccarnaw during this time and which activity earned him the title of “Captain.” SAMUEL MASTERS died sometime prior to 1741 and his widow, ANN MASTERS, married NATHAN FRINK, son of NICHOLAS FRINK, who came to the Little River area in the 1730’s, from Connecticut, and for whom Little River Neck was called “Frinks Neck” for many years. SAMUEL and ANN MASTERS had only one daughter, MARTHA MASTERS who married, first, DENNIS HANKINS who owned Lot 143 in Georgetown, SC. (SC. Hist. Mag, Vol. IX, No. 2, April 1908) and from this marriage was born 2 sons, DENNIS HANKINS, Jr. and MASTERS HANKINS. ANN MASTERS FRINK and her second husband, NATHAN FRINK, apparently made their home on Start Bluff for several years then sold out to old WILLIAM GAUSE who was an Inn Keeper at Windy Hill Beach. A road ran directly from Windy Hill inland, crossing the Waccamaw River at Star Bluff. The deed is as follows: NATHAN FRINK, to WILLIAM GAUSE, Inn Keeper, all and whole, my stock of cattle on Waccamaw, likewise my sheep, 8 geese, and old canoe, and sundry household furniture, plantation tools, one desk with drawers, 1 large mahogany table, one small tea table, two small tea tables, 2 chests, 3 bedsteads, 1 couch and 2 feather beds, 3 iron pots, 1 tea kettle, 1 pair mill stones, 1 case quart bottles, 4 old chairs, axes and hoes, 2 grind stones and 400 acres of land, known as Star Bluff, for 300 pounds current money. Page 68 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE NATHAN FRINK puts WILLIAM GAUSE into quiet possession of the land and mansion house and all rights except the “quit rents” hereinafter due his Majesty, “By delivery of Twig and Turf.” The deed was signed on February 6, 1751, at Star Bluff on the Waccamaw. NATHAN FRINK apparently moved to North Carolina after selling out to WILLIAM GAUSE. Also, several of WILLIAM GAUSE’s sons also moved to North Carolina and settled, among other places, at what was to become Gause’s Landing, just south of the present day Ocean Isle Beach. WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., who made his home there, entertained President George Washington with breakfast on Wednesday, April 27, 1791, during the president’s Southern Tour. WILLIAM GAUSE, Jr., who was also Visited by Francis Asbury, the Methodist “Prophet of the Long Road”, is buried in a small cemetery at Seaside, just southwest of the intersection of Highway 179 (the coastal highway) and Highway 904 in a grave that has no tombstone. At least two of WILLIAM GAUSE’s sons obtained land in the Star Bluff area prior to the Revolutionary War. In Plat Book 16, Page 43, Pre-Revolutionary Plats, S. C. Archives are plats as follows: By precept dated 2 March 1773, I have admeasured and laid out to JOHN GAUSE a plantation or tract of land containing 200 acres situated on Wampee Swamp, waters of the Waccamaw River, in Prince George Parish, bounded on all sides vacant. Certified 20 June 1774. Alexius Mador Forster, D.S.” Also on the same page is the following: “Below is tract of 100 acres of land granted to BENJAMIN GAUSE and situated at Star Bluff, and all sides bounded by vacant land. Certified 25 June 1774. In later years, the Vereens and Bellemes came into possession of the land around Star Bluff. In Deed Book B-1, Page 227, Horry County Records, is the following: I, John S. Dewitt, for $100.00 paid by John Belleme, Jr., have sold one half of that plantation whereon I now live, known by the name of Wampee, situated on Waccamaw River near Star Bluff and bounded Westerly and Northerly on Waccamaw; Easterly on Cader Hughes land; Southerly on Mr. Duboise land, the said plantation or tract of land I heired from the estate of Jeremiah Vereen, deceased, in right of my wife. Also one other tract containing 500 acres surveyed and granted to the said Jeremiah Vereen adjoining the aforesaid land and is bounded South on Cader Hughes and William Belleme’s land; West on Star Bluff land and North on Waccamaw River. 5 February 1819 (42nd. year of US. Independence). Signed John S. Dewitt. Wit: William Bellemee and John Harris, Junr. Boats plying the Waccamaw River furnished supplies for the countryside at Wampee and Star Bluff. In an interview with Thomas Walter Livingston (b. 1876) on September 17, 1959, he stated the following to this writer: Hagens and Banter, from New York, ran a store right at the river at Star Bluff about seventy five years ago. They also ran the Star Bluff Ferry at the time. After some years, they closed up and left. Page 69 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE In the Horry County Records, Deed Book S, Page 765, is the following: December 18, 1877 - Deed for 30 acres of land at Star Bluff conveyed to Frederick A. Higgins and Albert Z. Banta (Carpenters in trade under the firm name of Higgins & Banta) being a portion of a tract originally granted to SAMUEL MASTERS 5 June 1742 for 400 acres and subsequently conveyed to John Harris and by John Vereen and William Lee, heirs of John Harris, conveyed to me about 1836 Robert Livingston dower, Hellon P. Livingston. The 1880 census records show: Little River Township: Albert Z. Banta, Age 27 (white, male) Frederick A. Higgins, Age 29 (white, male) On August 10, 1959, I interviewed Mr. Isaac Purley Edge (May 13, 1887 - Sept. 30, 1966), son of Isaac P. “Handy” Edge and his wife, Cenith Grainger, who made their home where the Forest Lake Subdivision in North Myrtle Beach is located. Mr. Purley operated the first hardware business in Ocean Drive Beach, adjacent to the corner lot at the intersection of Main Street and Ocean Boulevard. The property is still owned by his heirs as this is written. He stated that Banta, of Higgins and Banta, of Star Bluff, was crippled. He said he just could remember this as a tiny child. Frederick A. Higgins was the first postmaster for Wampee when the post office was established 3 March 1880. Since Higgins operated a store at Star Bluff, it would seem likely that the post office was located there but I have no information on this. Other postmasters for Wampee were William S. Thompson appointed 5 January 1881; Marcus Bear Thompson, appointed 13 June 1889; and Katherine M. (Bogie) Ward, 29 may 1919. She served for more than twenty years and was succeeded by Mrs. R. E. Bell who was the last postmaster for Wampee. Grover Lee (“Mark”) Bellamy (1891 - Jan. 17, 1968) represented Horry County in the South Carolina Legislature (with H. Kemper Cooke) for the term 1931-1932. I interviewed Mark on August 15, 1959, and he stated that when the highway department was planning US. Highway 17 (it was originally Highway No. 31), it was routed to come up from Myrtle Beach and cross the Waccarnaw River at Star Bluff. He stated that part of the right-of-way had already been cleared. In such a location, the highway would have missed all of the Northern Horry Beaches (the Intracoastal Waterway did not exist then). He contacted Highway Commissioner Charles H. Moorefield and others and arranged to relocate the highway to its present location. This apparently was the connection of Highway 9 with the new US. Highway 17. The Star Bluff Ferry was re-chartered on 3 June 1902 by James B. Morse for a period of 21 years. His charter was certified by Joseph Todd, County Supervisor; Ray Worley and W. L. Hardee, county commissioners. It was a small ferry and, after automobiles came upon the scene, they were ferried over, one at a time. Morse was apparently succeeded by Duke Watts and his family who were the last operators. There was no need for a ferry after the Waccamaw River bridges were built on S. C. Highway 9 and it was discontinued. The ferry had existed for approximately two and a half centuries. Page 70 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE This web site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society, 606 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526-4340. Telephone 843-488-1966 or HCHS Secretary A non-profit organization Submit information or report content errors to HCHS Webmaster. ©1999-2008 All rights reserved Page 71 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE THE GAUSE PLANTATION at OCEAN ISLE BEACH ITS TOMB & THE TOMB RAIDERS BY FRED R. DAVID & VERN J BENDER www.OceanIsleHistory.com October 2009 Limits of Liability & Disclaimer of Warranty The authors and publisher of this ebook and the associated materials have used their best efforts in preparing this material. The author and publisher make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the contents of this material. They disclaim any warranties expressed or implied, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose. The authors shall in no event be held liable for any loss orother damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. If you have any doubts about anything, the advice of a competent professional should be sought. This material contains elements protected under International and Federal Copyright laws and treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. Page 72 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE THE GAUSE PLANTATION In 1751, WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. purchased land in Brunswick County and established the Gause plantation. The Gauses built a two-story manor house atop a high hill overlooking a channel separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a few hundred feet of marshland and what today is Ocean Isle Beach. The size of the plantation was several thousand acres. The manor house was located on Gause Landing Road (a few hundred yards from today’s Ocean Isle bridge). The Gause Manor house was described as “a great and solid two-story affair, built entirely of heart lumber.” The plantation prospered and became known as Gause Manor. Soon there were five Gause sons: WILLIAM Junior, JOHN, NEEDHAM, CHARLES, and BENJAMIN. CHARLES moved to Smithville (now Southport) in the Spring of 1790 and was one of the founders of that city. Three of the Gause children: WILLIAM Jr., JOHN and CHARLES fought in the Revolutionary War, in which WILLIAM lost a leg. President George Washington visited Gause Manor on one of his horseback Southern tours. In his diary Washington wrote: “Breakfasted at WILLIAM GAUSE’s, a little out of the direct road 14 miles (from the last stop). After then, we, crossed the boundary line between North & South Carolina about half after 12 o’clock which is 10 miles from the Gause Manor.” The entry was dated, “Wednesday, April 27, 1791 Note: Washington’s final destination on this tour was Georgetown, S. C. A road marker on Hwy, 17 acknowledges this part of Ocean Isle history. Bishop Francis Asbury, circuit-riding Methodist preacher who rode his way to fame up and down the Coastal Carolinas for 50 years often stayed at the Gause Manor. In his diary, he wrote that he had preached at WILLIAM GAUSE’s manor house in 1801, The Bishop goes on to say: “At this great house, most pleasantly situated on the Brunswick Coast at Gause Town, where I had looked forward to again greeting my once dear friend, WILLIAM, death had stolen a march on me." Several years later, the indefatigable Bishop came back to Gause Manor, where he writes: “I lodged at John Gause’s. Our host is a local minister, and, I trust, a dear child of God.” What happened to Gause’s Manor? The popular explanation is that fire destroyed the structure. There is no credible date for the fire. THE GAUSE TOMB One of the most unusual burial arrangements in the history of Brunswick County is the Gause tomb, which is located in the woods a few miles from the site of the old Gause Manor at Gause Landing. The burial vault is of masonry construction, with brick walls 18 inches thick. The bricks were brought in from England by the Gauses for building the Page 73 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE vault as well as other buildings and structures they owned. This is how Brick Landing got its name. The structure is about three feet high, but extends about that same depth below the ground. It is a full 30 feet in circumference (15 feet X 15 feet). There is a jagged hole torn through the thick tomb, and is just enough to admit a grown person. Once the floor too was bricked but vandals have scattered the flooring bricks looking for valuables. Near the back of the burial mound and situated against what is an air vent (looks like a chimney) is a 2 foot hole dug into the earth surrounding it. Vandals had dug it, looking for anything of value. This tomb is one of the last vestiges of this prominent Brunswick County family. It lies nearly forgotten amidst a tangle of undergrowth. The old burying ground surrounds it. Scattered around the tomb within a couple-of-hundred yard radius are unnumbered, unmarked graves. The graves used to bear markers, some of marble, some of cypress. The ground however has swallowed all remaining markers. WHOSE TOMB? From the will of JOHN JULIUS GAUSE, signed May, 3, 1836: Item 9th, It is my request that my body should be placed in the vault With my two deceased wives until a new one can be built at the old family grounds on the Plantation let the residence of SAMUEL GAUSE, deceased Estate. Then, I request my Executors to have my own remains interred therein, those of my two wives. Mr. & Mrs. BRUARD’s, my children that are within the vault or interred in the old burying ground. This / enjoin on my Executors to have carried into effect immediately after my death. I direct that a sum be reserved from my estate, sufficient to build a family vault for the interment of my remains and that of my families as hereinafter directed. (Transcribed from the original will). The Gause Tomb was built posthumously at the direction of this JOHN JULIUS GAUSE will. His last testament and other accounts differ on other points, however, shrouding in perpetual mystery the identities of those buried in and around the vault. Some accounts say that his parents and others were posthumously placed within the vault, other accounts refute that claim. One tale, handed down over the years, claims that a number of Gauses died at the same time of some “real contagious" disease and were together buried in the vault. It has been reported that WILLIAM GAUSE Sr. was moved to the vault, but modern researchers have never been able to verify that fact. The will of JOHN JULIUS GAUSE indicates the intent to have a new family vault built at the old family ground on the Plantation late the residence of Samuel Gause, deceaded, Estate. And have everything moved there at some future date. That future date was never met. A 1962 article by Eugene Fallon printed in The State Port Pilot purported to tell the names of those who were originally entombed there: WILLIAM, CHARLES, BENJAMIN, JOHN and NEEDHAM GAUSE. Those buried nearby were also moved to the vault. Of the adjacent graves, he said the oldest was that of SAMUEL RUSS, “born in Charleston, Page 74 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE S. C., on July 7, 1790, d. 1829. But both Gause’s will and an eyewitness account of an area genealogist somewhat contradict Fallon’s article. In a 1961 letter from one Gause researcher to another, area genealogical author Ida Brooks Kellam wrote C. B. Berry that she had taken the following information from the site of "the old Gause Cemetery where the big tomb is.” There she had found two marble markers on the ground covered by leaves. The wording on one showed: ELIZABETH FRIERSON, wife of DANIEL P. RUSS, born in Charleston, SC on July, 7, 1799, d. Aug. 13, 1829. The other stone nearby showed: ANSON RANDAL, age 4 years, “so I presume he was a Russ, she wrote. “A few partially burned wooden markers” still standing showed the following, she said, but the inscriptions were very hard to make out. “THOMAS FRINK (GAUSE), Aug. 27, 1802”. “DUNCAN M. GAUSE, died—17, 1808, 10 years, “S. B. B. GAUSE, born March 19, 1877m d, lot, 26, 1885". “MCN. GAUSE born March 10, 1863m died Sept, 15, 1863". RAVAGED BY TOMB ROBBERS, VANDALS & TIME Since the 18303, vandals and treasure hunters have desecrated the vault and the old burying ground surrounding it. Its contents have long since disappeared; gaping, oblong holes nearby bear silent testimony to efforts to locate other graves. There are local tales of pranksters scattering bones throughout the old Gause burying grounds and hanging skulls from tree limbs. The entry has been cut open. The rounded corners of the vault have been chipped away and a hole has been cut into one corner. It is a wonder that the tomb still exists at all. The first wave of vandals did or did not get some buried valuables, depending on who is telling the story. The second nocturnal visitors, after blasting through the thick walls of the tomb, entered and tore crumbling skeletons aside, searching perhaps for rings on the finger-bones and digging beneath the bones for valuables. These ghouls allegedly are the ones that spread the skeletons around and hung the skulls from the tree limbs. No grave robbers have ever been apprehended. In an October 15, 1966 article in The State Magazine, writer Bill Sharp said a Gause ancestor had resealed the tomb and put over the door an inscribed stone. He may have been referring to a visit in 1923 from one BALDWIN W. GAUSE of “somewhere in California”. Reportedly he was a great-great-grandson of one of the Gauses buried in the tomb. This fellow hired Claude Gore, then 17, to help him clean up the graveyard. Gause collected the bones of his ancestors and burned them to put an end to the vandalism. Gore told a Brunswick Beacon reporter in 1976 that he had used a mirror to reflect sunlight into the tomb so Gause could see to clean it. Sharp wrote that the tomb had been “built with racks to hold a number of coffins.” Today, the land around the Tomb and Old Burying Ground remains hidden in the woods on private property just off of Hale Swamp Road near the east end of the Ocean Isle Beach airport. Page 75 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE About the Authors Dr. Fred David is a native of Whiteville, North Carolina in neighboring Columbus County, but today is a full-time resident of Ocean Isle Beach in Brunswick County. Fred spent most of the summers since 1965 at Ocean Isle Beach. He is a college professor, historian, and writer. He recently published twelve articles in the local Brunswick Beacon newspaper on "The History of Ocean Isle Beach from the year 10,000 BC to Today." He and his wife Joy have three children: Forest, Byron, and Meredith. Fred is an avid scuba diver and saltwater fisherman. From 1989 to 2006, he owned and operated the FOLLOW ME charter boat at Ocean Isle Beach and took many hundreds of people deep sea fishing. Fred currently serves as President of the Ocean Isle Beach Land Conservancy. Vern J. Bender is a native of Saginaw, Michigan but has been a property owner at Ocean Isle Beach since 1979. Mr. Bender received a BS degree in marketing from Michigan State University and has over 30 years of executive level experience in retail management and marketing. He has held various national management positions with both Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Transamerica Commercial Finance Corp. He has a successful track record in managing turn-around and/or work—outs within the retail industry and the commercial finance industry. Mr. Bender owns the Bender Consulting Group, Inc. and is a local historian at Ocean Isle Beach. Resources For more of the fascinating stories, legends and facts about the history of Ocean Isle Beach, visit our website at: http://wwww.OceanIsleHistory.com Our Book “The History of Ocean Isle Beach from Prehistory to Present“ is available for order there, along with: Rare Framed Prints and Photos More Articles of Interest Additional Free ebooks ! And if you would like to contact us, please do so through the site with the “Contact Us” form, or you can just give us a call! Page 76 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE The History of William Gause the patriarch The Myrtle Beach, SC Sun News By C. B. BERRY Thursday, October 03, 2002 In a small cemetery about a hundred yards south of the intersection of N. C. Highways 179 and 904, about two miles east of Sunset Beach, is the unmarked grave of WILLIAM GAUSE Sr. (1745-1801). Ida B. Kellam, a prominent historian of Wilmington, carried a group of us there and identified it as the burying place of the prominent patriarch of the area about 1965. Born in what is now Windy Hill Beach, this WILLIAM GAUSE was a son of WILLIAM GAUSE who settled there in 1737 and was an innkeeper. White Point Swash is still referred to sometimes as Gause's Swash. The son, WILLIAM GAUSE Sr., settled on what became known as Gause's Landing, adjacent to Ocean Isle Beach. It was here that he was host to President George Washington, for breakfast, on April 27, 1791. Bishop Francis Asbury, "The Prophet of the Long Road," made several visits to WILLIAM GAUSE. From his diary: "Friday, December 23, 1791 - passed Lockwood's Folly and Shallotte River and came up to Father Gause's ... and held meeting on Christmas Day, it being the Sabbath. Monday, Dec. 26th - we came to Little River and thence to Kingston (now Conway)." "Friday, Feb. 13, 1801 - At Ebenezer (today's Longs). The house was unfinished and the day windy and uncomfortable. Brother Whatcoat and myself held the people nearly three hours ... we lodged for the night at William Gore's. ... From this neighborhood we came to Abraham Bessent's, Brunswick County [Abraham Bessent had a plantation adjacent to the state-line where Indigo Farms exists today] fording the Seven-mile Creek, and crossing the Waccamaw at Loftus's Flat. At Gause's Manor, or more properly town, we were pleasantly situated ..." "Thursday, Jan. 14 - After preaching we rode on to the house of my once dear friend WILLIAM GAUSE Sr., but death had stolen a march upon me - the body of my friend was in the dust, his soul is, I hope and trust, with God." The resting place of WILLIAM GAUSE Sr. (and perhaps his son, the Rev. WILLIAM GAUSE Jr., 1778-1860) has several bricked graves but no tombstone to indicate who is buried there. Contact freelance writer C. B. BERRY at 272-6303. MILITARY: SERV: CAPT NC MILSAR #144350-BMD #03319-BDAR #092948DAR #379660 Page 77 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE WILLIAM GAUSE, Sr. (I) was the ancestor of the Causes of Brunswick County, NC and the adjacent area of South Carolina that is now Horry County. It is believed that WILLIAM was the son of CHARLES GOSS of James City County, VA and the grandson of EDMOND GOSS. He moved from Virginia to North Carolina and then to South Carolina as shown in the following records: VIRGINIA 2 Feb 1725 - WILLIAM GOSS of Henrico Co, VA sold for 16 pounds, 50 acres of land in James City Co, VA that had been granted to CHARLES GOSS 22 Dec 1682 and left to his son WILLIAM by will dated 12 Mar 1706 which also mentions a son BENJAMIN. (Weisiger, Benjamin B. III. Charles City County, Virginia Wills and Deeds, 1725- 1731, pp 8, 38) The land had belonged to EDDY GOSS who probably was CHARLES' father. (Duvall, Linsday 0. Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Series 2, Vol 4, James Citz Countz, Va., 1634-1904) An EDMOND GOSS was in Virginia as early as 25 Jan 1658. (Nugent, Nell M. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. I, 1623-1800, Patent Book 4, p 385, 1963 Edition) NORTH CAROLINA 29 May 1729 - Rec: Nov 1729. "WILLIAM GADSE" bought for 20 pounds, 300 ac. of land on the 8. side of the Morattuck Moratock (Roanoke) River in Bertie Co, NC from JOHN BRYANT (BRYAN). Wit: CHARLES CAVENAH, JOHN MACKMIALL. (Bertie Co, NC Deed Bk C, pp 146, 157) 9 NOV 1731 - Bertie Co, NC court minutes show that a deed of sale from "WILLIAM GOSS & MARY his Wife” to ARON DRAKE was recorded. Aug and Nov 1732 -”WILLIAM GOSS" appeared in Bertie Co, NC court and cleared his name in a case involving a 5 pound bill. (Haun, Weynette Parks. Bertie County, N. C. Court Minutes 1724-1739, Book I, pp 20, 33, 34) 29 Jul 1734 - Rec: Aug 1736. "WILLIAM GAUSE of Bertie Prect., planter" bought land (acres not given) on the 3. side of Moratock R. from JOHN BRYAN, Sr for 100 barrels of tar. Wit: JOHN GRAY, WILLIAM GRAY, JAMES BRYAN. (Halifax Co, NC Record of Deeds, Vol I, p 172) 8 NOV 1736 - Rec: no date. "WILLIAM GAUSE" of Edgecombe Precinct, for 50 pounds, sold 400 ac. to JOHN BALLARD, it being the remainder of the land he bought from JOHN BRYAN. Sign: WILLIAM GAUSE (his mark W). Wit: ROBERT BUTTERS, WILLIAM REDDING, m. _____ _____ ?. (Halifax CO, NC Record of Deeds, Vol I, p 177) Edgecombe Prect. was formed unofficially from Bertie in 1732. At that time, the settlers in Edgecombe Precinct were complaining about the illegal collection of quit rents and WILLIAM GAUSE appears to have been among those who moved away. The next record of William is found in South Carolina. Page 78 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE S. C. Dept. of Archives and History Record Detail Description: GAUS, WILLIAM, Innkeeper of Long Bay, To ANN BRYAN, Spinster of Long Bay, Bill of Sale For Twenty Cows, Three Mares, Household Goods, And Three Slaves Named ROSE, PEG, And JENNY, To Be Held In Trust By ANN BRYAN And Divided Equally Between Her Three Sons, NEEDHAM BRYAN, JOHN BRYAN, And WILLIAM BRYAN. (2 Pages) People: BRYAN, ANN; BRYAN, JOHN; BRYAN, NEEDHAM; BRYAN, WILLIAM; GAUS, WILLIAM; JENNY (Slave); PEG (Slave); ROSE (Slave) Places: Long Bay; St. Georges Parish Topics: Household Goods; Livestock Sales; Slave Sales; Slaves, Named Record details: Date: 8/27/1740 Document type: Bill of Sale Online images: Images: Available at SCDAH building or by order. See How to search menu. Online lookup number: 175623 Record identifier: Series: 5213003 Volume: 002F Page: 00189 Item: 000 Page 79 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE IGI Individual Record - WILLIAM GAUSE Sr. FamilySearch® International Genealogical Index v5.0 John Gause Pedigree Birth: About 1737 , Brunswick, North Carolina Father: WILLIAM GAUSE Sr. Mother: ANN BRYAN Page 80 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE National Number: 99907 State Number: 1258 Applications must be made in duplicate (or triplicate if required by local chapter) and sent to the Secretary of the State Society, who will forward the original, typed application, when approved, to the Registrar of the National Society. THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY of the NATIONAL SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP OF DONALD WILLSON FISCHER DESCENDANT OF HONORABLE WILLIAM GAUSE (GOSS) Application examined and approved Accepted by the State Board of Management April 8, 1970 April 8, 1970 Carlos Smith Carlos Smith State registrar State Secretary DATES Application filed with State Secretary: April 7, 1970 Notification of election: _________________________________________________________ Fees paid: April 7, 1070 Application sent to Registrar General: April 8, 1970 Approved and registered by Registrar General: April 14, 1970 Certificate of Membership delivered: May 13, 1970 Badge delivered: _________________________________________________________________ Resigned: _______________________________ Transferred:____________________________ Deceased: ________________________________________________________________________ Page 81 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE Full maiden name of applicant's wife: Mrs. Valeria Houghton, nee Hale born: 9-24-1921 married: 1-12-1952 at Rocky Point, N. C. NAMES OF CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF APPLICANT Name Date of Birth Residence ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Zack Fischer 11-7-1952 Wilmington, N. C. Mary Willson Fischer 6-21-1957 Wilmington, N. C. Statement of applicant of services, if any, in the Military or Naval forces of the United States of American ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World War II United States Navy - Seabees 10-19-1943 to 4-16-1946 The following are references to the authorities for the record of my ancestor's service and for the genealogical data contained in this application: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Society Daughters of the American Revolution #170796 of Lassie Willson Bell, Mrs. Zack Kershaw DAR Patriot Index, page 277 (WILLIAM GAUSE or WILLIAM GOSS) Army claim allowed 1777, 1787 $405 Vol. 8 page 266, Raleigh, N. C. Historical Commission Vol. E & G, p. 60, Vol. 11 p. 17 Nominated and recommended by the Signature of Appplicant, (Name in full) undersigned members of the Society: Donald Willson Fischer Leon R. Pierse 755 Timer Lane 408 Nun St. Wilmington, NC 28401 Wilmington, NC Rural Carrier - U. S. P. O. Dept Robert S. Beckham The following form of acknowledgment is required STATE OF: North Carolina April 1, 1970 COUNTY OF: New Hanover Personally appeared: Donald Willson Fischer signer of the above and foregoing application and statement, and made oath before me that the statements therein contained are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Official Signature: Robert S. Beckham, Expires December 11, 1970 Page 82 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK ** Family, WILLIAM GAUSE ###### # # ##### ####### # # ##### ####### # # # # ## ## # # # ## # # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ###### # # ##### ####### # # ### ##### ####### # # Transcribed from original documents by Brent R. Brian & Martha M. Brian. This document and others can be found on our website: BMGEN We claim COPYLEFT on the documents that we publish that are our original work. COPYLEFT “rules” can be reviewed on the web site: GNU Free Documentation License In short, use what you like. But if you use our stuff, mention us as the source. Brent R. Brian Martha M. Brian BrianMitchellGenealogy@gmail.com Page 83 of 83 ** PAGE BREAK **