Gazlay Family History
 

FamilyCarter Gazlay

DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Carter Gazlay5 (Aribert Gazlay,4 James Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)

Parents

FatherAribert Gazlay (10 December 1797 - 22 May 1885)
MotherElizabeth Buck (14 October 1803 - 11 February 1899)

Personal Information

Record Created: 31 August 2012; Last Edited: 3 February 2022 
Person ID4114
NameCarter Gazlay
GenderMale
Born 15 June 1828 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Married 15 June 1853 to Elizabeth B. Emerson11
Died 7 July 1909 in Iola, Allen County, Kansas1, 2
Buried in Patriot Cemetery, Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana1

Biography

Carter Gazley, when young, was drilled in surveying by his uncle, Asaph Buck, and studied law for three years with his uncle, Judge Theo. Gazley, at Lawrenceburgh, Ind. He practiced law in Indiana and Ohio until after the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he raised the 37th Indiana Vols., of which he was appointed Colonel, and did active service about sixteen months. The regiment was sent to South Carolina, and thence into the Army of the Ohio (8th Brigade, 3d Division), Maj. Gen. Mitchell commanding. The regiment participated in the capture of Huntsville and the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, holding that road and the country north to Fayetteville, Tenn. The Division was considered part of Buel’s army. Upon the close of his service, Mr. Gazley returned to the practice of law, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Carter was at one time a leader at the Cincinnati bar, his practice amounting to $8000 per annum. He was attorney for numerous railroad corporations. Ill health has compelled him to retire from active life.11

An interesting anecdote about Carter during his service in the Civil War appears in Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865, collected and arranged by Frank Moore:12

A Colonel on Guard — A Lieutenant in one of the Ohio regiments was making a detail of men to guard a lot of army stores captured from the enemy. He approached a crowd of men all wearing overcoats such as Uncle Sam gives his boys, and selected four or five for special duty. It happened that Lieutenant-Colonel Gazley, of the Thirty-seventh Indiana, was in the crowd, and was selected by the Lieutenant. This was fun for the Colonel, and without a word he shouldered his gun and went to his post of duty. Not long afterwards, the Lieutenant, going his rounds, discovered by the firelight the bugle upon Gazlay’s cap. He rather authoritatively inquired where he got that bugle. The Colonel said he “must have picked up an officer’s cap somewhere,” and the Lieutenant passed on.

The Colonel stood his turn all night long, and was found in the morning walking his post. Having laid off his overcoat, his shoulder-straps appeared very conspicuously in connection with the musket on his shoulder. As soon as the Lieutenant discovered a Colonel on guard, he approached him, and courteously inquired how he came to be there upon guard? “Well, sir, you placed me here.” With no little agitation the Lieutenant inquired who he was. “My name is Carter Gazley, and I am Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Indiana regiment.” The Colonel was speedily “released,” but the Lieutenant was not yet relieved from his embarrassment.

Person/Family

Spouse 1FamilyElizabeth B. Emerson
Born 11 March 1831 in Switzerland County, Indiana
Married 15 June 1853 to Carter Gazlay
Died 6 February 1861 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana
  
Children of Carter Gazlay and Elizabeth B. Emerson:
  
+1.FamilyAribert Gazlay, Jr.
Born 26 July 1854 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana
Married 22 February 1875 to Lydia L. Cox
Died 10 May 1928 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
  
2.FamilyLuella Tede Gazlay
Born 7 January 1857 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana
Died 8 August 1858 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana
  
+3.FamilyElizabeth Blanch ‘Lizzie’ Gazlay
Born 17 January 1859 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana
Married 26 December 1887 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio to Charles Henry Apt
Died 1926
  

Sources

  1. Cemetery Record, Patriot Cemetery, Posey Township, Switzerland County, Indiana; list by Wanda Morford; available at Indiana Gen Web (www.ingenweb.org); Big stone: Gazlay; Three small stones: Carter, b. Jun. 15, 1828, d. Jul. 7, 1909; Elizabeth B., b. Mar. 11, 1831, d. Feb. 6, 1861; Luella Tede, b. Jan. 7, 1857, d. Aug. 8, 1858.
  2. Find a Grave (website). Patriot Cemetery, Switzerland County, Indiana, Carter Gazlay: born: 15 June 1828 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana; died: 7 July 1909 in Iola, Allen County, Kansas (from record, which also indicates he served as a Colonel of the 37th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War, and provides the names and links for his spouse and one child; grave stone photos provide the same vital information).
  3. U.S. Federal Census, 1850, Indiana, Switzerland County, Posey Township, family of Aribert Gazlay (52, NY, merchant); Elizabeth Gazley (46, NY); Carter Gazley (22, Id, student); Annabelle Boyle (13, Id); Jane Buck Boyle (4, Id); John P. B. Boyle (35, Id, clerk). [The latter four people may be relatives of Elizabeth in her Buck family.]
  4. U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Indiana, Dearborn County, Lawrenceburg, Page No. 8, family of Carter Gazly [sic] (31, Inda. attorney); Elizabeth Gazly (27, Inda.); Albert Gazly (5, Inda.); Blanch Gazly (1, Inda.); domestic Harriet North (17, Inda.).
  5. U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Page No. 128, family of Carter Gazlay (38, Indiana, atty at law); Elizabeth Gazlay (67, New York) [This is Carter’s mother]; Harrie Gazlay (15, Indiana) [This is probably son Aribert, possibly called Arrie but heard as Harrie]; Blanch Gazlay (13, Indiana); Mary Evert (23, Tennessee, domestic servant); Jane Irwin (24, Tennessee, domestic servant).
  6. U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Enumeration District 167, Page No. 39, family of Aribert Gazlay (82, N.Y.); wife Elizabeth Gazlay (76, N.Y.); son Carter Gazlay (52, Indiana, lawyer, widow); grd. son Aribert Gazlay, Jr. (25, Indiana, clerk, steamboat); grd. daughter Lydia Gazlay (24, Ohio) [actually the elder Aribert’s daughter-in-law]; grt. grd. daughter Adella Gazlay (4, Ohio); grt. grd. son Arthur Gazlay (2, Ohio); grd. daughter Blanche Gazlay (21, Indiana).
  7. Kansas State Census, 1895, Pratt County, Pratt, Page No. 35, family of C. H. Apt (34, O[hio]); Blanche Apt (33, Ind.); Fred G. Apt (5, Kansas); Elis. Apt (3, Kansas); Carter Gazlay (66, Ind.); Elis. Gazlay (92, NY).
  8. U.S. Federal Census, 1900, Kansas, Pratt County, Pratt, Enumeration District 184, Sheet No. 4B, family of Charlie H. Apt (39, Ohio, July 1860, lawyer); wife of 13 years Blanche G. Apt (39, Indiana, Jan. 1861, 2 children, 2 living); son Frederick G. Apt (10, Kansas, July 1889); daughter Elizabeth Apt (8, Kansas, Dec. 1891); father-in-law Carter Gazley (72, Indiana, Jan. 1828, widow, lawyer). [Several of the birth dates vary from other sources.]
  9. Kansas State Census, 1905, Pratt County, Pratt, Page No. 33, family of C. H. Apt (45); B. G. Apt (44); Fredrick Apt (15); Elizabeth Apt (13); Carter Gasley (74); Mary Ball (23).
  10. Gazlay History, written by Spencer G. Kuhn, a grandchild of Theodore Gazlay; undated. This is a typewritten re-compilation of the earlier Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, compiled by Theodore Gazlay in 1890, including the 1852 statement of the family history by Reverend Sayers Gazlay, an elder brother of Theodore. This document re-formats the information in the 1890 work. For example, facts originally shown in list form, such as birth and death dates, are incorporated in the narrative of this later work. Two post-1890 sections are unique to this document: one with additional details about Theodore Gazlay’s family, with dates as late as 1951; and another on the Donaldson family, featuring Jean Gazlay Donaldson and her six marriages, with several dates in 1965.
  11. Origin, History, and Genealogy of the Buck Family, by Cornelius B. Harvey, Esq. 1889: J. J. Griffiths, Steam Book and Job Printer, Jersey City, N.J. Digitized copy available at archive.org.
  12. Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865. Collected and arranged by Frank Moore. New York: Printed for the Subscribers. 1866. Available at Google Books. Page 510, anecdote about Lieutenant-Colonel Carter Gazley.