PEOPLE - Gash Family Descendants
Photos courtesy of the Gash Families - Argyle Wells Gash, Betty Saunders Gash
Photos courtesy of the Gash Families - Argyle Wells Gash, Betty Saunders Gash
Buncombe County
John (1769 - 1857) and Nancy Gudger (1777 - 1851) Gash had a homestead in the northeast part of Buncombe County. At least three of their grown children, Alfred Raney, Martin Alley and Leander Sams, moved to Henderson and Transylvania Counties. Alfred and son Joseph are the Etowah Valley lineage. |
Etowah Valley homestead of Alfred and Mary Gash - It is believed Alfred and Mary's home was located somewhere along Gash Rd (off Holly Springs Rd / Turnpike Rd), in the vicinity of the Holly Springs Chapel. Their son Joseph Leander's obituary states he was "born December 19, 1833, at the old Gash homestead about a mile and a half from Etowah." Joseph and his wife Margaret are credited with giving Etowah its name.
Cooking pot over the fire, storage and Kitchen prep area at left, framed picture of confederate soldier on the mantel. Photo courtesy of Argyle Wells Gash. |
Joseph Leander Gash
(1833-1916) Margaret Indiana Stewart Gash (1850-1922) Read the Story - Etowah Got Its Name Joseph and Margaret's Children: George Alfred Gash (1872 - 1958) James Leander 'Lee' Gash (1874 - 1958) Pink Margaret Gash (1876 - 1968) Pearl Gillie Gash (1883 - 1971) Infant Son (20 Dec 1885 - 20 Dec 1885) Mamie Stewart Gash (1889 - 1912) George, James and Pink were born in Georgia. Pearl and Mamie were born in Henderson County. |
James Leander 'Lee' Gash (1874 - 1958)
James Leander Gash, son of Joseph & Margaret Stewart Gash, and brother of Postmaster Pearl Gash, delivered mail to the community in this wagon. The lantern he sometimes carried to deliver the mail is featured on the page, MEMORABILIA. Behind James sits in the former Gash home of early Etowah where he, his three sisters and brother lived after moving here from Adairsville, GA. The woman on the porch is most likely his wife, Julia Hood Gash. Wedding photo below. |
Above, parents of Julia Monteval Hood Gash:
Monteval (1837-1878) & Mary Morris Hood (1839-1912) of Blantyre. The Hood's are buried at Davidson River Cemetery. The 16"x20" framed image is an artist's rendering of the Hoods, on cardboard and enlarged, of an original photo(s), a common practice in late 1890's and early 1900's. The image is in the style of those made by the Chicago Portrait Company. "Chicago Portrait Company images were made from 1893 through at least 1940. Typically, rural salesmen (drummers) fanned out across the countryside to solicit old photographs of revered ancestors. These were to be made into impressive portraits suitable for framing. Portraits were available in pastel, crayon, or sepia and were executed on a heavy, curved card stock and offered at prices that were difficult to turn down. In the 1890s, pastel portraits ... were available for $3 and crayon renditions were under $2." [Quoted material courtesy of: esarey.us/reunion/gallery5.htm ] |
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Pink Margaret Gash (1876 - 1968)
" Attended the former Judson Female College. She was graduated from the Georgia and Alabama Business College of Macon, GA [diploma dated 1904]. She taught school for a short time before she became a traveling saleswoman for the National Sales and Dry Goods Co. of New York City for 34 years. She was highly regarded as a seamstress, and there are those who still remember visits to the Gash home for fittings. She was an entrepeneur. " Courtesy of Tom Orr |
Pearl Gillie Gash (1883 - 1971)
Pearl served as Etowah's Postmaster from April 1914 to Dec 1948. She was employed as the Station Agent at the Etowah Train Depot from 1916 - 1948, succeeding her father, Joseph Leander Gash. Read more about Pearl. Pink and Pearl never married. They are buried next to each other in the Mills River United Methodist Church cemetery near the graves of their parents, Joseph and Margaret Stewart Gash.
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Pink Gash (center) with her Georgia cousins, Ella Stewart (L) and Bessie Stewart (R)
- daughters of Warren Stewart, Pink's uncle on her mother's side. This may be a graduation photo taken in Macon, GA, Georgia - Alabama Business College. Pink's diploma is dated July 2, 1904. |