Charity Turner (1811 - 1887)

Born 18 Nov 1811 in Waitsfield, Washington, Vermont, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Hezekiah Gorham I — married about 1833 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA

Descendants

Died 15 Jun 1887 at age 75 in Perrysville, Ashland, Ohio, USA

Biography

Charity was born 18 November 1811, Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont.^[1] She married Hezekiah Gorham I on about 1833, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.^[2] There are no marriage records in New York City before 1847.^[3] Charity (Turner) Gorham died 15 June 1887, Perrysville, Ashland County, Ohio.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Charity Turner entry, Births, Deaths, Marriages 1779-1857 Waitsfield, 1: 35, Waitsfield Town Clerk, Waitsfield, Vermont; Waitsfield, Vermont, Charity Turner; FHL microfilm 27713
2. ↑ Matt Bushnell Jones, History of the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont, 1782-1908: With Family Genealogies (Boston, Massachusetts: George E. Littlefield, 1909), 492; Charity Gorham obituary, Ashland Press, Ashland, Ohio, 23 June 1887, p. 2, col. 6
3. ↑ New York City Department of Records, "List of Holdings," database, New York City Municipal Archives, Genealogy (http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/archives/holdings.shtml: accessed 7 September 2016), marriage records for NYC boroughs; citing Municipal holdings
4. ↑ Perrysville Union Cemetery (Perrysville, Ohio; corner of East Bridge and East Church Streets), Charity Gorham, Section 2, row 3, lot 98; read and photographed by Lee Martin, 25 May 2015; Sarah Copus Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter No. 1455, Ashland County, Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, Ashland County Cemetery Book: Reprinting of Early Vital Records of Ashland County, Ohio (Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc., 1979), 327