Samuel was born in 1810. He is the son of William Gatewood and Jane Warrick. Samuel Vance Gatewood married Eugenia Massie. They lived at Mountain Grove, Bath County, Va. They had 4 children together.
Military Service: Oath as First Lieutenant before William McClintic, 24 May 1829
Social
Samuel V. Gatewood was postmaster at Mountain Grove, Bath Co, VA[2]
Property
In 1839 Jane Gatewood transfers the Benjamin Vance property to Samuel V. Gatewood. The property consists of 3 tracts of land, 193 acres, 47 acres, and 150 acres.[3]
Slaves
For more information on the enslaved of William and Samuel Gatewood please see the Mountain Grove Plantation page.
Source InformationAncestry.com. Early Western Augusta Pioneers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Cleek, George Washington. Early Western Augusta Pioneers. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. [2]
Richard Gatewood, Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Richard and others.
Bath Co Historical Society, Heritage News, Oct-Nov 2020, p.3
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DNA Connections
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