BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Gamel; Washington co., NY
surname: Gamel

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BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH W. GAMEL
July 11, 1792 - 1863

Joseph was born July 11, 1792, probably in Washington County, New 
York. He married Isabel Gillis about 1813 in Argyle, Washington County, 
New York. Joseph and Isabel had at least five  children between 1814 and 
1822. They most likely lived during this time in or near Argyle. Isabel died 
in 1833 and is buried in the Scotch Cemetery in Argyle near her Gillis 
family. Joseph remaried before 1838. His second wife was named Sarah, 
probably Sarah Talmadge. This couple had two children. The 1840 
census shows Joseph as head of household in Genoa, Cayuga County, 
New York. There is also a female between 20 and 30, probably Sarah, 
and a female under 5, probably their daughter Sabra. The 1850 census 
shows Joseph still in Genoa. He is listed as a mason, 58 years old. 
Sarah is 38, Sabra is 11. Other people in the home are Joel Pierson, 17, a 
tailor, who later married Sabra, and Abigal Talmadge, 68, possibly 
Sarah’s mother.

By 1860, the census shows that Joseph was living with his son Archibald 
in Knox County, Illinois. His second wife, Sarah, had died in 1858. 
Joseph’s age was listed as 67. Joseph died in Knox County, Illinois and 
was buried in the Rio Cemetery in Rio Township. His gravestone reads 
“Joseph W. Gamel 1792-1863”.

Information for this biography was gathered from census records from 
1820 to 1860; cemetery records from the Scotch Cemetery in Argyle, 
Washington County, New York and the Rio Cemetery in Rio Township in 
Rio, Knox County, Illinois; a family Bible known to be in the possession of 
Harry Gamel and information from Leona Gamel Stone Gilpatrick.