David Henry Gesner (1793 - 1879)

Born 7 Mar 1793 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia

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Died 30 Jan 1879 at age 85 in Oxford, Kent, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

David Henry Gesner

Birth 7 March 1793 Cornwallis,Kngs,NS

Christening 11 September 1810 Cornwallis,Kngs,NS

PARENTS Father Henry Gesner Col

Mother Sarah Pineo

CITING THIS RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9MDF-XDZ : accessed 2015-09-06), entry for David Henry Gesner. ANCESTRAL FILE Ancestral File Number 2TZ3-D8W

Notes

From Eaton's "History of King's County", page 434:

"In 1818 the Sixth Battalion King's County Militia had as officers: Lieut.-Col., William Campbell; Major, Henry Gesner; Captains, E. Crane, W. C. Moore, John Wells, W. Chipman, D. Cogswell, Elisha Eaton, H. Cox, Gr. Pineo, G. Gumming, J. Cogswell, H. Van Buskirk, J. B. Best ; 1st Lieuts., J. Nisbet, J. Calkins, A. Beckwith, H. Chipman, J. Magee, W. Borden, J. Jackson, T. Barnaby, J. H. Gesner, J. Crane, N, Woodworth, J. Newcomb ; 2nd Lieuts., J. H. Chipman, J. J. Campbell, S. Chipman, D. H. Gesner, E. M. Terry, J. J. Allison, T. Fuller, J. Belcher, E. Calkin, S. Parker, F. Tupper; Adjutant, A. Beckwith ; Surgeon, Wm. Baxter"

Sources

See also:

• Anthon Temple Gesner, “The Gesner family of New York and Nova Scotia : together with some notes concerning the families of Bogardus, Brower, Ferdon, and Pineo”, Pelton & King, 1912: https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029841818/cu31924029841818_djvu.txt
• "Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWTW-6GX : accessed 23 March 2016), David H Gesner, Orford, Kent County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada; citing p. 17, line 15; Library and Archives Canada film number C_11729, Public Archives, Ontario.
• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6NV-Q4H : accessed 23 March 2016), David H. Gesner, 30 Jan 1879; citing Oxford, Kent, Ontario, yr 1879 cn 6258, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,853,226.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-PDBN : accessed 23 March 2016), David Henry Gesner, 1879; Burial, Howard, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada, Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery; citing record ID 115317923, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.