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Dempsey Gaulden was born in 1767 in Sumter County, South Carolina. His parents were John Gaulden and Susannah Brumfield.
1812, Ensign 4th Co. 2nd battalion 1st Regiment, Burke County, War 1812, according to Charles Gaulden, "Dr. Anderson who researched down in Georgia."
He married Elizabeth Hemphill prior to 1826 and together they had 6 children:
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He is listed as Dency Gaulding in the 1840 Census and is living in York District, SC.[2]
His Sister, Martha, mentions him in her Will, "to pay annually to my brother Dempsey Gauldin the sum of eighty dollars annually during the lifetime of Barney the last named negro bequeathed to him." [3]
He died in 1845 in York, South Carolina, United States.
"ADS, 13 Feb. 1841, York Dist. (judgment against Dempsey Gaulden for indebtedness to D.H.)."[4]
"Dempsey GAULDEN [May have] lived in the Winder, Georgia area - circa 1810-1830" - Charles Gaulden Query
According to Laura Gaulden Bailey he migrated with his brother William or sister Martha (Patsy) to Mississippi about five years after the revolutionary war. “As a young man Dempsey raced horses in New Orleans. married "(wife's name unknown) and left at least two sons: John Sidney and _________, father of Sam Gaulden of Windsor County, Mississippi. This information is furnished by John Sidney Gaulden.” This information refers to James Gaulding not Dempsey Gaulden of York, SC, – his brother. Laura Gaulding and Bill Gaulding of Kansas had the two brothers mixed-up.
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