Contributed to the Pierce County WIGenWeb Project by Nance Sampson nsampson@spacestar.net @2000 by Nance Sampson ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ==================================================================== Submitted by Debbie Barrett June 13, 2001 mrsgrinnin@home.com ABRAHAM GOSSETT, farmer, P. O. Elmwood, Pierce county, is a son of James Gossett, who was born in Tennessee in 1801, and married Lucy A., daughter of James and Nancy Hill. To them ten children were born, namely: Jacob (deceased), Isaac (deceased), Rebecca, Nancy (deceased), Abraham, John, Polly Jenkings, Lucinda (deceased), Fanny (Mrs. Howard), and Peggy (Mrs. Pullen, deceased). Abraham was born June 9, 1827, in Hamilton county, Ill., but when quite young moved with his parents to Fort Madison, Iowa, and lived on a farm. In 1858 he married Rhoda, daughter of John and Elizabeth Jenkings. Five years later he came to Maiden Rock, Wis., and enlisted from there June 11, 1862, in Company A, Twentieth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served nine months, and then was honorably discharged on account of disability. In 1863 he came to Pierce county and took a homestead, and his was the second family in the township. He farmed during the summer and was engaged in lumbering some during the winters, but being quite a hunter he would hunt deer and bear, selling part to Carsen & Co. He was a mill-wright by trade and has served as surveyor two terms. When he came here provisions were very scarce and high, pork costing twenty-four cents per pound, flour $16 per barrel. Now he has a comfortable home with his children near him. He has four children, namely: Amanda M. (Mrs. Smith), Rebecca J. (Mrs. Rima, deceased), Willis W. (deceased), and Laura (Mrs. Layman), who lives in Warren, Chippewa county, Wis. Politically Mr. Gossett is a republican and has been constable of the township for a number of terms. He is a member of the G. A. R. and is widely known and respected by all. --Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley; Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men. Edited by George Forrester. Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Page 545