BIOGRAPHY: GASH, Samuel G., Lincoln County, Kentucky 


Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:56:32 -0500
From: "Diana Flynn" <ivie@tima.com>

BIOS: GASH, WILSON, REID, GILLILAND     Lincoln County, Kentucky


Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 302

SAMUEL G. GASH, farmer, was born in Lincoln County, Ky., January 3, 1828, and
is the eldest of five children born to Thomas and Eliza (Wilson) Gash, natives
of Kentucky, and of Scotch and Irish descent respectively. Thomas Gash was
educated and married in his native State, where in early  life he learned the
carpenter's trade, and followed the same, in connection with farming, all his
life.  He and his wife were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
The death of Mrs. Eliza Gash occurred March 6, 1835, and that of Mr. Gash
October 5, 1840.  Samuel G. Gash, the subject, received a fair common school
education.  After his father's death, he made his home with his uncle, David
R. Wilson, until he attained to his majority, with whom, during that time, he
learned the blacksmith's trade.  After leaving his uncle, he was employed as a
laborer on a farm some four years.  He then farmed on shares in Kentucky for
one year, after which, in the fall of 1853, he came with his wife and family
to Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he bought a partially improved farm
of forty acres. In 1846, he enlisted for service in the war with Mexico, but
was never en- gaged in active service.  He was married, August 7, 1852, to
Miss Margaret S. Reid, a native of Jefferson County, Ky., and  a daughter of
John and Esther (Gilliland) Reid, who were among the early pioneers of
Jefferson County, Ky.  One son has blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Gash,
viz., John T.  Mr. Gash was at one time Adjutant in the Kentucky militia, and
for a time carried the mail from Eminence to Quincy.  Himself and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are earnest advocates of the
temperance cause.  In politics, he is a Democrat.

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