Enoch Gause (abt. 1752 - abt. 1842)

Born about 1752 in Chester, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Gause — married 13 Nov 1778 in Kennett Friends Meetinghouse, Kennett Square, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died about 1842 at about age 90 in Ohio, United States

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Biography

Enoch, who was born certainly before 1775, was married to his cousin Sarah Gause (daughter of Evan Gause and Hannah White). That he was a Quaker is evident not only from his wife's transactions within the Society of Friends, but in the fact that he and his wife were given a certificate in 1802 to join the Concord Monthly Meeting in the Northwest Territory (near Bridgeport in Belmont Co, OH); the certificate was endorsed to the Westmoreland Monthly Meeting in Washington Co, PA. In 1806 the couple was granted a certificate to the Salem Monthly Meeting in Columbiana County, OH. Enoch's name appeared in a Steubenville newspaper in 1818, notifying him that a letter had been left for him at the New Salem post office. Enoch and Sarah apparently had a daughter Drusilla Gause (1792-1868) who married Abraham Barber (1789-1863); the marriage was recorded by John Street, clerk of the Salem Monthly Meeting, as occurring on 21-2mo-1810. (It is also possible that Drusilla was the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Gaus, but Enoch is given as her father on her tombstone.)

Sources

• *William Wade Hinshaw, "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy," Vol. IV, pp. 33, 87, 147.
• "The Western Herald," XI:15 (Sat., 18 Apr 1818) cited by Karen Mauer Green, "Pioneer Ohio Newspapers, 1802-1818" (Galveston, TX: The Frontier Press, 1988), p. 257.
• Carol Willsey Bell, "Columbiana County, Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1870, and Other Evidence of Marriages" (Youngstown, OH: Bell Books, 1990), p. 13.
• "Columbiana County, Ohio, Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. IV (Salem, OH: Columbiana Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1978), p. 295.