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Clifford Samuel Gorby(29) was
born on 1 FEB 1900 in NE. He died in MAY 1972 in Benson, Cochise Co., AZ. Ref:
CEN1900
Ref: SSDI - Last residence listed as Benson, Cochise Co, AZ. Parents: Wallace B Gorby and Mattie E Luddington.
He was married to Dorothy Wadsworth in JUN 1919. Children were: Richard E Gorby, Dannie Lee Gorby, Donald W Gorby, Darlene Karol Gorby.
Cora
Gorby(29) Parents:
Levi Gorby and Flora Powell.She was married to Charles Gorrell. Children were: Carl Gorrell, Ruby Gorrell.
Cyrus
Gorby(29) was born on 8 DEC 1851 in
Hancock Co, OH. He died on 15 JUN 1861 in Hancock Co, OH. Parents:
Jacob Gorby and Maria Frederickson. Dannie
Lee Gorby (Private). Parents: Clifford Samuel Gorby
and Dorothy Wadsworth. Darlene
Karol Gorby (Private). Parents: Clifford Samuel
Gorby and Dorothy Wadsworth. Dave
Gorby(29) Ref: DG1 Parents:
Robert Gorby. David
Gorby(29) was born on 15 JUN 1810
in On Wheeling Creek, Ohio Co, VA. He died on 12 MAY 1887 in Hiramsburg, Noble
Co., OH (Near). He was buried in Buried at Methodist Church Cemetery, Hiramsburg,
Noble Co, OH. (1936) David Gorby was born on Wheeling Creek, Ohio Co, VA, near
West
Alexander, PA. He died on his farm near Hiramsburg, OH. His parents
moved to this farm when he was six years old and he lived there nearly
all his life. In 1860 he went to Illinois and took up a homestead near
Bloomington, IL at $1.25 an acre. He returned to Ohio for his family,
they started in a covered wagon, but Ft Sumter was fired upon and they
returned to Hiramsburg until the "trouble should cease", and never
reached Illinois.
David Gorby was a minister of the Free Methodist Congregation, and was a
most interesting character, as he typifies the frontier preacher that
played such a big part in the community life of the early days. He was
well known throughout southeastern Ohio, where he preached in many
communities for a number of years.
David Gorby, aside from his preaching, was a successful farmer. He owned
400 acres of fine ridge land near Hiramsburg and took great pride in fine
blooded horses and other stock, this shown by the prizes he won at the
Sarahsville, OH, Fair, September 24 and 25, 1857. According to the Noble
Democrat of Oct 3, 1857, he won:
Second best thoroughbred Stallion, 4 years and upwards - $3.00, Best
Native cow and calf - $2.00, Best pair dorkings - $1.00, Best pair
turkeys - $1.00, Best pair ducks - $1.00.
He was also a millwright and developed mines of carbonate of iron ore and
coal (See Volume X, page 490 of Catherine Fedorachek's "History of Noble
Co" by L M Watkins, Chicago, IL, 1887).
Mr Gorby was a very large man, 6 ft 4 in tall, heavy, and very strong,
often called "Big Dave".
The following obituary was printed in the Caldwell Journal of May 19,
1887:
"Rev David Gorby died on last Thursday morning near Hiramsburg, OH, age
76 years, and on the day following appropriate funeral ceremonies were
held, conducted by the Rev Piggott of Cumberland, at the conclusion of
which his remains were followed to the cemetery near his residence by a
large concourse of relatives and friends.
Mr Gorby was born on Wheeling Creek, Ohio Co, VA, but came to Ohio with
his parents when six years of age, and spent most of his life on the farm
on which he died. He was one of the founders of the Free Methodist
Congregation and the first member of the congregation near his home known
as Union Chapel. He was ordained as a minister and preached many years.
Except the time passed in the ministry, his life was spent in farming and
stock raising. He was twice married and raised a large family of
children, nine of whom survive him. As well as one of the oldest, he was
one of the best known citizens in the county, and few persons will leave
behind them a greater number of sincere mourners as Father Gorby."
The farm on which David Gorby lived was the one on which his father, Job
Gorby, settled September 23, 1816. He built his home on a different part
of the farm from where his father had lived. The last house he built, a
two-story red brick, still stands, but the farm is now owned by strangers.
From the History of Noble Co, OH , Watkins, 1887:
p 490 - [Noble Twp] Rev. David Gorby was born in Ohio County, W. Va., in
1818
and has resided in Noble County since his parents settled here in 1824.
His maternal grandfather took part in the Revolutionary War, and
afterward assisted in suppressing the "whisky insurrection" in
Pennsylvania. Mr. Gorby is a farmer, millwright, and minister of the
Free Methodist church. He has recently been engaged in developing a fine
mine of carbonate iron ore, which with coal, render his land valuable. He
married, first, Mary Mason, and second, Eliza N. Hunter.
p 320-1 - [Olive Twp] As a specimen of the manner in which some of the
pioneers
did business, the following contract between Samuel Caldwell and David
Gorby, for the construction of a sawmill, is presented. The document,
however shaky its orthography may appear in these days, was sufficiently
strong and binding:
"An article of an agreement made and entered Into by David Gorby
of the
first part of Noble Township Morgan County Ohio & Samuel Caldwell of the
Second part of Olive Township & County & State aforesaid. The Sd Gordy
doath on his part agree to build the sd Caldwell A sow Mill and grist
mill forebay he is To take the timber from the Stump The timber is to be
got out in first rate Stile, The poasts of the Lower part of the Mill to
be 12 by 12 inches Squair, he is to Fraim the Mill & put in the running
Geers in first rate workmen Like manner He further agrees to make a mill
that will Saw as fast as anny other man can with the Same head of or if
he dont he is to Have nothing for dowing Sd work, the Sd gorby is to
have the timber hewed by the 25th of June next & the mill Fraimed by the
first day of August next And The mill redy to Saw by the first of Nov.
Next
"the Sd Caldwell doath on his part agree to Pay The Sd gorby one
hundred Dollars As soon as the Mill performs as he has Agreed to make
her perform the Sd Caldwell is to do all the hawling & to Furnish Plank
for The forebay and other uses about the mill allso brases, 2 Shute
Pieces timpber for Saw gate We have boath hereunto set our Hand and
Seals this 9 of May A D 1836
David Gorby (Seal)
Samuel Caldwell (Seal)
Attest William Lanam."
The mill was duly erected and "she performed" satisfactorily to
the
owner and the millwright.
Ref: GWG1-4.6.99 - Shares a single tombstone with wife Eliza and daughter
Malissa. Parents: Job Gorby and Hannah Richmond.
Donald
W Gorby (Private). Parents: Clifford Samuel Gorby
and Dorothy Wadsworth. Dorothy
Gorby(29) Parents:
Earl D Gorby and Violet Crites. Earl
Gorby (Private). Parents: Emmitt E Gorby and
Winnie ?. Earl
D Gorby(29) was born on 13 APR 1896
in Hancock Co, OH. He resided in 1936 in McComb, OH. He died on 13 JUN 1972.
(1936) Earl Gorby, like his father, is an up-to-date farmer, his farm
being quite near his father's. He and his wife are active in Sunday
School (Earl being superintendent) and church work, schools, community
activities and social affairs, and their home is thrown open to these
activities whenever needed. Earl is interested in all farm questions and
movements of the day and active in their organizations. He was president
of the Gorby Association for several years.
He is built along the lines of some of the older Gorbys - tall, erect,
well built and fine looking. His 15-year-old son is fast following in
his footsteps - almost six feet and weighs 180 pounds.
Ref: CEN1900
Ref: SSDI - Last residence zip was 45858, McComb, Hancock Co, OH.
Ref: ARG1-1.1.99 Parents: Levi Gorby and Celesta Jane Bond.
He was married to Violet Crites on 12 MAY 1921. Children were: Margaret Jane Gorby , Dorothy Gorby, Robert Gorby .
Earl
William Gorby(29) Resided in 1949
in New York, NY. Parents: Jacob A Gorby and
Leola Anne McCabe. Ebenezer
Gorby(29) was born in 1784 in Rostraver
Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA. He died on 22 DEC 1852 in Moundsville, WV. (1936)
Ebenezer Gorby was born in 1784 in Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland
Co, PA, moving successively into Fayette, Washington and Green Co, PA,
then into Ohio Co, VA. Ebenezer was killed by a runaway horse on
December 22, 1852, in Moundsville, WV. He and his wife Prudence "Prudy"
(Parsons) Gorby are buried in the cemetery of the Bowman Ridge M E
Church, about 8 miles out of Moundsville. Both were members of the M E
Church.
Ebenezer was a successful farmer and miller, his farm being about 6 miles
form John Gorby's farm and near Cameron, WV. In later life they lived in
Cameron.
Prudence Parsons' brother Henry married Ebenezer's sister Hannah, and two
older brothers named Vincent and William are brought into Gorby history
occasionally. Many of the Parsons have lived in and around Cameron, WV.
Ebenezer served in the War of 1812 from Ohio. He filed bounty land claim
based upon his services in the War of 1812. Evidently this claim was
followed up by his wife after his death, for she was allowed bounty land
in satisfaction for he husband's war service.
For much of the data on the older generations of descendants of Ebenezer
Gorby and his wife Prudence Parsons, we are indebted to Josephus Gorby,
son of John, son of Job Gorby, including records up to 1909. He had a
very complete list, furnished him, he said, by a granddaughter of
Ebenezer, but he did not say which one. This included data on the family
tree only.
The information concerning Daniel Gorby and his descendants was collected
by Frank S and Lois Gorby Lint of Hollywood, CA, while C E Bassett of
Proctor, WV, Jennie C Bibber of Smithfield, OH, and others, have
contributed much on the remainder of this branch of the family, another
being Jennie Martin of St Clairsville, OH.
Ref: GWG1 - From "Index to War of 1812 Pension Files", transcribed by
Virgil D White, pg 840, he served with Capt Carother's OH Milita, BLW
#42753-160-55. Parents: Thomas Gorby and Elizabeth Allman.
Edith
C Gorby(29) was born about 1869 in
OH. Ref: CEN1870 - Not listed. Parents: Samuel Pierce
Gorby and Mary E Edmundson. Edmund
Gorby(29) was born in 1849. He died
in 1865. (1936) Edmund Gorby died after returning home from the Civil War,
in
1865, from injuries he received in battle when only 16 years of age. Parents: Thomas Gorby and Wealthy Goss.
Eli
Gorby(29) was born in 1777 in Chester
Co., PA. He died on 8 JUN 1831. (1936) The first record of Eli Gorby was found
in Greene Co, PA where he
appeared as a witness for his father in 1800 in the trial of Thomas Gorby
for assault and battery on Robert Carroll. In 1804 we find him indicted
for assaulting a constable in Washington Co, PA, following in the
footsteps of his father evidently.
in 1803 and 1808 records show him selling land in Washington Co, and in
1819 selling 200 acres in Ohio Co, VA for $125.00. All the early Gorbys
seem to have done much buying and selling of real estate.
Eli and his wife lived at the mouth of Rocky Run on Fish Creek, in what
is now Marshall Co, WV, in a log cabin built with their own hands. Their
furniture was all home made, their table a log split and worked down with
an axe. They did all their cooking over an old fashioned fireplace. They
had one bed, but a comfortable loft with plenty of bear and deer skins.
The oldest son, John Ryan, often remarked that he was a grown man before
he knew what it was like to sleep in a bed, he and William always
sleeping in the loft. This is only a typical life of those hardy old
forebears of ours in those early pioneer days, making the rugged, strong,
splendid men and women from whom we are so proud to have sprung.
In his earlier years Eli spent much of his time hunting, trapping, and
trading with the Indians. His son John Ryan, at the age of twelve years
accompanied his father on one of his trading trips to the present site of
Chillecothe, OH (1978 - where his sister Faithful (Gorby) Clark lived and
was buried). Here they camped to hunt and trade with the Indians. The
Indians became hostile because they thought the whites were cheating
them, and started a fight. Eli grabbed a wooden poker and knocked one of
the Indians into the fire. While the Indians were rescuing their comrade
and getting over their surprise, Eli and John Ryan escaped under cover of
darkness. John said they let no grass grow under their feet until they
had put the Ohio River between them and the Indians. In these hunting
and trading trips Eli wandered far afield, often going as far west as
Indiana.
Eli Gorby died just eight days after the birth of his twin sons Eli and
another who died in infancy. The twins were born June 16, 1831. He is
buried in an old cemetery near his home, near the mouth of Rocky Run on
Fish Creek, and near the post-office of Adeline, WV. It was once called
the Gorby cemetery.
(1978) Family photos and data sent by Glenn Crane of Paden City, WV;
some records by Nancy Gorby Martin of Apple Valley, CA; research on
Postlethwaites by a friend in Wetzel Co, WV.
Eli Gorby's grandson Daniel L Gorby married Mary Jane Gorby, a
great-granddaughter of his brother Jesse Gorby. Parents: Thomas Gorby and Elizabeth Allman.
Eli
Gorby(29) was born in 1794. He died
about 1795. He Mortality in Died in infancy. Parents:
Job Gorby and Hannah Richmond. Eli
Gorby(29) was born on 20 OCT 1800
in Greene Co., PA. He died on 30 JUN 1894 in Clark Co., MO. (1936) Eli Gorby
moved with his parents to Noble Co, OH on September 23,
1816. He served during the Mexican War, in Texas but not in Mexico as
was his cousin Col A W Doniphan. Eli, too, was a Colonel and as he was
an especially good drill master, he drilled many soldiers for the Mexican
War, also for the Civil War, though he was too old for active service
then, except for drilling the raw recruits.
In 1852 he moved to Near, Clark Co, MO. His brother Thomas lived in the
adjoining county of Knox, and as he and his three sons fought with the
Confederate Army, Eli probably drilled southern soldiers. He was a
carpenter, living on a farm and farming when not busy at his trade.
A nephew - Sylvester Scott Gorby, son of Thomas - often told the
following stories of him:
He once lived in a part of the country where they had learned that the
tomato was not poison as was generally supposed, but really a very good
food. On a visit to one of his brothers, Eli took with him some of the
tomatoes he had grown. He told them they were very good indeed and the
Mother prepared them according to his directions.
At the table they were all anxious to taste the new food which had been
so highly praised. One little fellow, after tasting his, began to cry,
and when his Mother asked him the trouble he quite shocked them all by
crying: "Uncle Eli lied, he did, they're not good."
When Eli Gorby himself was a small lad they lived near a stream in
Virginia, possibly on Fish Creek or Wheeling Waters. One favorite sport
of the brothers was to gather in the pasture along the creek and catch
the cows by the tail to make them run. One day, when the water was
unusually high, the boys resumed their favorite sport. Eli caught one of
the cows, and to the horror of the whole group she tore down the hill and
plunged into the swollen stream.
The brothers, panic stricken, for Eli could not swim in the rapid water,
yelled frantically - "Hold tight to the tail, Eli, hold tight to the
tail, Eli." Now Eli had no intention whatever of letting loose of that
tail, for he knew that tail to be his only hope, so he held on like grim
death until the cow landed him safely on the opposite bank of the stream
- let us hope a wiser boy.
October 1893 newspaper clipping, Near, MO, Editor's Review by Jonathon
Johnson:
"There resides with the family of J F and Mattie (Gorby) Taylor, her
father, the venerable Mr Eli Gorby, who has been blind for the past 25
years. He was born October 20, 1800, in Washington Co, PA, moving with
his parents to West Virginia, then to Ohio in 1816. He went to Indiana
in 1840, from there to Illinois in 1845, to Iowa in 1851, and to Missouri
in 1853, where he still resides. He was married in Ohio to Miss Olive
Fowler, who died August 22, 1887, at the ripe old age of 77. To this
union were born 8 girls and 2 boys, 6 girls and one boy still living.
Last Friday, October 20, 1893, being the 93rd birthday of the hero of
this sketch, relatives, neighbors and friends, to the number of 41, met
in honor of the occasion and had a sumptuous dinner at the residence of J
F Taylor and wife, among them one son and four of his daughters, viz: Mr
G D Gorby of Bowen, IL; Mrs Mattie Taylor of Near, MO; Mrs Melissa Prall
of Near, MO; Mrs Caroline Bennett of Prospect Grove, MO, and Mrs Margaret
Lancaster, Mt Sterling, IA. Twelve grand children and six
great-grand-children were present." Parents: Job Gorby and Hannah Richmond.
Eli
Gorby(29) was born on 21 JUN 1849
in Eagle Twp., Hancock Co., OH. He died on 12 AUG 1924 in Findlay, OH. (1936)
Eli Gorby was born on his parent's farm 3 miles NE of Rawson.
When a few years old his parents moved to farm one-half mile south of his
birthplace, and a part of this farm is still owned by his widow Sarah
(Lightfoot) Gorby. Half of this farm Eli's father deeded him at death,
and Eli lived on this farm until he retired from business in 1920 and
moved to Findlay, OH.
He was a member of the M.E. Church all his life. While on his farm, he
was also a member of the Eagle Township school board, and also a member
of the Grange order in Rawson.
Most of Eli Gorby's descendants live in Hancock Co, OH.
Ref: CEN1900 - Was living in Union Twp, Hancock Co, OH. Parents: Jacob Gorby and Maria Frederickson.
He was married to Ellen Turner. Children were: Allie Gorby, Blanche Laura Gorby.
He was married to Sarah Lightfoot on 4 APR 1888. Children were: Marguerite M Gorby, Anna B Gorby, Mary M Gorby.
Eliza
Gorby(29) was born about 1820. She
resided in Moved to Updike, IL. Ref: JSM1 Parents:
Jonathon Gorby and Nancy Ann Davis.She was married to Russell Jr Meacham on 12 APR 1838 in Portage Co., OH. Children were: Julius Jones Meacham , Elizabeth A Meacham.
Eliza
Gorby(29) was born on 23 JAN 1872.
She resided in 1936 in Racine, OH. Parents: Jacob Gorby
and Mercy Lydia Smith.She was married to Cloyce Apger on 4 MAY 1893. Children were: Alonzo J Apger, Paul Gorby Apger, Lois LaVaun Apger, Violet Ruth Apger, Victor Russell Apger.
Eliza
Jane Gorby(29) was born on 9 AUG 1838.
She Children in No children. Parents: Jacob Gorby
and Ann Huston.She was married to William Gorby before 1864.
She was married to ? Fulton after 1865.
Elizabeth
Gorby(29) was born in 1796 in Washington
Co., PA. She resided in Noble Co, OH. She Spouse in Wheeling, WV (Marriage
license recorded in courthouse, License Book No 1, pg 180.). Parents:
Job Gorby and Hannah Richmond.She was married to Isaac Gray on 8 OCT 1818 in Wheeling, WV. Children were: David Gray, William Gray, Joseph Garrison Gray.
Elizabeth
Ann Gorby(29) was born on 29 OCT 1822.
She died on 20 JUL 1850 in Columbiana Co., OH. She was buried in Buried in
Unity Brick Church Cemetery, Columbiana Co, OH. She Mortality in Died in young
womanhood. Ref: BK11 Parents: Samuel George Gorby
and Ann Pierce. Elizabeth
E Gorby(29) was born in JAN 1868 in
OH. Ref: CEN1870, CEN1880
Ref: CEN1900,CEN1910 - Listed as "Lizzie E Fulton". Living with her
mother. Parents: Benjamin Franklin Gorby and Caroline ?.
She was married to ? Fulton.
Emeline
Gorby(29) was born in 1845. She died
in 1923. Parents: Thomas Gorby and
Wealthy Goss.She was married to Herbert O Hutson . Children were: Charles Edmund Hutson.
Emmitt
E Gorby(29) was born in AUG 1870 in
OH. Ref: CEN1880
Ref: CEN1990 - Listed as "Ernst E". Living at 406 N Scioto, Circleville,
Circleville Twp, Pickaway Co, OH.
Ref: CEN1910 - Listed as "Gorbey". Living in Columbus, Franklin Co, OH. Parents: Benjamin Franklin Gorby and Caroline ?.
He was married to Winnie ?. Children were: Earl Gorby, Leila Gorby .
Emogene
Gorby(29) was born in OCT 1847. She
Children in No children. (1936) Emogene (Gorby) Case spent all her married
life in Kent, OH. She
is the only living child of Thomas Gorby and is now living in San
Garbriel, CA, in the Christian Church Home for the Aged, where she can
occasionally see her cousin, Thomas Gorby Stallsmith, the only living
child of Thomas Gorby's sister, Julia Ann (Gorby) Stallsmith. Parents: Thomas Gorby and Wealthy Goss.
She was married to Gibbon A Case in 1871.
Erma
Gorby (Private). Parents: Levi Gorby and
Celesta Jane Bond. Estella
Gorby (Private). Parents: Levi Gorby and
Flora Powell.She was married to Walter J Swinehart . Children were: Harold Swinehart.
Ethel
Gorby(29) Parents:
Samuel Gorby. Ethel
Elma Gorby(29) was born in 1872 in
OH. She died in JAN 1934. F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Frank m 34
Dec 1865 Illinois
Head; W; Farmer. Married 13 yrs (c1886). Parents born Illinois.
Owns a morgaged farm (Ag. Sch. #36).
F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Ethel E. f 28 Jun 1871 Ohio
Wife; W. Married 13 yrs (c1886). She had 5 children, 4 living.
Parents born Ohio.
F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Charles m 11 Mar 1889
Nebraska
Son; W; At school. Single. Father born Illinois, mother born
Ohio. Attended school 9 mo.
F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Frank S. m 7 Oct 1892
Nebraska
Son; W. Single. Father born Illinois, mother born Ohio. Attended
school 9 mo.
F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Bertha E. f 6 May 1896
Nebraska
Daughter; W. Single. Father born Illinois, mother born Ohio.
F236 p7b D117 F120 Foster, Ethel B. f 1 Jul 1898
Nebraska
Daughter; W. Single. Father born Illinois, mother born Ohio. Parents: Samuel Pierce Gorby and Mary E Edmundson.
She was married to Frank C Foster in 1887. Children were: Bertha Foster, Glen Foster, Charles Foster, Bernice Foster.
Ethel
May Gorby(29) was born on 18 JUL 1886
in Rawson, Hancock Co., OH. She resided in 1936 in Rawson, Hancock Co., OH (RFD).
She died on 18 MAR 1969 in Rawson, Hancock Co., OH. (1936) Ethel May (Gorby)
Walter and her husband are farmers, their farm
lying quite near her father's farm. But Ethel can do other things
besides the things a farm housewife must do. She can manage a large
tearoom successfully, as she has done several times. She can prepare and
serve dinners and banquets to large numbers. And she can find the time
to be a most gracious hostess.
She has also taken time to be quite active in hunting up material
concerning her particular line for the Gorby history.
Ref: ARG1-1.1.99 - Ethel married a Mr Parks after C C Walters died. Parents: Horace Finton Gorby and America Huffman.
She was married to Charles C Walter on 15 NOV 1906. Children were: Fairy Maxine Walter , Barbara Ruth Walter, Charles Franklin Walter, James Eldon Walter.
Eunice
Allen Gorby (Private). Parents: Wallace B Gorby
and Mattie E Luddington.She was married to W J Lee in 1929.
Evilan
Gorby (Private). Parents: Clesson John Gorby
and Ella ?. Frances
Gorby (Private). Parents: Clesson John Gorby
and Ella ?. Frank
L Gorby (Private). Parents: Clesson John Gorby
and Ella ?. Grace
C Gorby (Private). Parents: Clesson John Gorby
and Ella ?. Hanna
Gorby(29) was born on 9 JUL 1813 in
Columbiana Co., OH. She died on 22 JUL 1859. (1936) Nothing has been found
of any member of this family. None of the
relatives questioned have any idea where they went on leaving Columbiana
Co, OH, and none of them have lived in that county. Parents: Samuel George Gorby and Ann Pierce.
Hannah
Gorby(29) resided in Union Twp., Hancock
Co., OH (Settled in). (1936) Hanna (Gorby) Garty must have been one of the
older children, for
when her brother Jacob was 14 years of age he went to Hancock Co, and
"hired out" to work for his brother-in-law, Cyrus Garty. Later, when her
mother's health failed, she went to live with her daughter Hannah, too,
died there and is buried on the creek bank of that farm, as are also the
Gartys.
Their farm, in 1936, was known as Deeds Farm. Parents: Jonathon Gorby and Nancy Ann Davis.
She was married to Cyrus Garty.
Hannah
Gorby(29) was born in 1798 in Washington
Co., PA. (1936) Hannah (Gorby) and Jacob Mason lived on Fish Creek, at that
time
Ohio Co, VA. Many of their descendants remained in West Virginia. Parents: Job Gorby and Hannah Richmond .
Hannah
A Gorby(29) was born on 30 APR 1833.
Parents: Jacob Gorby and
Ann Huston.She was married to Coy.
Hannah
Etta Gorby(29) was born in 1782 in
Rostraver Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA. She died on 3 JAN 1868 in Marshall Co,
WV. (1936) Hanna (Gorby) Parsons was born in 1782, probably in Rostraver
Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA, as her father is listed as a taxpayer in that
county in 1783. Hanna and Henry Parsons lived on Fish Creek, Marshall
Co, WV, and are buried in a cemetery on a ridge about three miles from
the mouth of Fish Creek (Fredonia Ch Cemetery, Rine Ridge, Marshall Co,
WV). Stones bearing dates mark their graves.
Three of Hanna (Gorby) Parson's great-granddaughters married three of her
brother Job Gorby's great-grandsons, through Hannah (Gorby) Mason: Robert
Spencer Lee McKimmie m. Isadore Parsons, Webster McKimmie m. Henrietta
Parsons and John McKimmie m. Margaret Jane Parsons.
One of her grandsons married one of her sister Faithful (Gorby) Clark's
granddaughters: Seth Parsons m. Jane (Jennie/Virginia) Clark.
The Parsons-Yoho, Parsons-Rine and Parsons-Gatts combinations in this
family about equals the Gorby-Wade combination in the family of Jesse
Gorby, Hannah (Gorby) Parsons' brother.
Rumor says that through a family named Ball, the Parsons and Gorbys are
related to George Washington.
Middle name added, Ref: LCF1 Parents: Thomas Gorby and Elizabeth Allman.
Hattie
Gorby(29) was born about 1873 in OH.
Ref: CEN1880 Parents: Benjamin Franklin Gorby and
Caroline ?. Helen
Gorby(29) was born in 1921. She died
in 1994. Ref: ARG1-1.1.99 Parents: Charles George Gorby
and Esther Mae Greding.She was married to Parks Deming in 1943. Children were: Darlene Deming , Randall Deming.
Henry
Gorby(29) was born on 29 AUG 1821
in Columbiana Co., OH. He died on 31 AUG 1864 in Rome, GA. (1936) Henry Gorby
was enrolled as a Private in the 3rd Independent
Battery Reg., Ohio Vol. Lt. Art., on Feb.29, 1864. for the period of 3
years, from Columbiana Co., Ohio. He was wounded at Vicksburg and died
Aug. 31, 1864. at Rome, Ga.
(1997) Buried in the Marietta & Atlanta National Cemetery, GA. Parents: Samuel George Gorby and Ann Pierce.
Hezekiel
Gorby(29) was born on 7 JUL 1751.
He was on 25 OCT 1751 in Baptized. Record found in Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington,
DE, pg 558. (1936) No further record found. Parents:
Joseph Gorby and Maria Littlejohn. Horace
Finton Gorby(29) was born on 23 JUL
1864 in Eagle Twp., Hancock Co., OH. He was buried in 1931 in Buried at Flick
Cemetery, N of Rawson. He died on 25 APR 1931. (1936) Horace Finton Gorby,
was born on a farm about 3 miles NE of
Rawson, OH. This farm is in Eagle Township, Hancock Co, and he grew to
manhood there. Like most of the men of his family, he was a farmer and a
successful one. His farm was quite near Rawson.
His daughter, Ethel Gorby Walter writes of him:
"My father, Horace F Gorby, was a good husband and father, a faithful
Christian, having united with the U.B. Church when he was a boy. His
father and mother were charter members of this church. He lived all his
life in Rawson and vicinity where he was a highly respected citizen, and
after five years from his death neighbors and friends still speak of
missing him and his whistling and singing as he passed up and down the
highways and streets, never too busy to lend a helping hand to someone in
need.
He was good natured and loved jokes, and as a boy he kept his parents
guessing, for he was always playing jokes - taking a mule colt upstairs,
for instance.
He passed away April 25, 1931, and his body was laid to rest at Flick
cemetery north of Rawson. When I visit his grave I think of what a
fitting place for him to rest, where the birds sing from morn till night
and the trees which he loved so dearly ever keep a silent vigil o'er his
grave. My mother rests beside him now."
Ref: CEN1900 - Lived at 526 Washington, Findlay, Hancock Co, OH. Parents: Jacob Gorby and Mercy Lydia Smith.
He was married to America Huffman on 26 NOV 1885. Children were: Ethel May Gorby, Naomi Ruth Gorby, Raymond Orrin Gorby.
Inez
Camilla Gorby (Private). Parents: Raymond Orrin
Gorby and Roxanna Dale Hews.Children were: Ellen Kay Rosenberger, Dalee Jan Rosenberger, Calvin David Rosenberger.
Infant
Gorby (Private). Parents: Clesson John Gorby
and Ella ?.
