Gazlay Family History
Aaron Gazlay
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Aaron Gazlay4 (John Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Aaron Gazlay4 (John Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Parents
| Father | John Gazlay (11 January 1750 - 26 February 1813) |
| Mother | Sarah Furman (ca. 1754 - 7 June 1821) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 16 March 2010; Last Edited: 25 December 2011 |
| Person ID | 442 |
| Name | Aaron Gazlay |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 16 May 1773 in Edmeston, Otsego County, New York: (the year is shown as 1775 in some records)1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Married | 11 January 1797 in Yorktown, Westchester County, New York to Abigail Sutton3, 6 |
| Died | 29 September 1830 in Edmeston, Otsego County, New York1, 3, 4 |
| Buried | in Gazlay Cemetery, South Edmeston, Otsego County, New York1 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Abigail Sutton (daughter of Andrew Sutton and Elizabeth Montross) |
| Born | 1 February 1780 |
| Married | 11 January 1797 in Yorktown, Westchester County, New York to Aaron Gazlay |
| Died | 29 May 1855 in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York |
| Children | of Aaron Gazlay and Abigail Sutton: |
| 1. | David Montross Gazlay |
| Born | 12 February 1798 in Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 13 February 1868 in Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Angeline Elizabeth Warner (née Gleason) |
| Died | 3 May 1877 in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut |
| 2. | Amanda Gazlay |
| Born | 12 February 1800 |
| Died | 10 November 1830 |
| 3. | Leah Gazlay |
| Born | 13 February 1802 |
| Died | 9 July 1827 |
| 4. | John Harley Gazlay |
| Born | 4 February 1804 in New York |
| Died | 19 October 1869 |
| +5. | Sarah Sallie Gazlay |
| Born | April 1810 in Columbus, Chenango County, New York |
| Married | 18 October 1832 to Benjamin ‘Uncle Ben’ Warner |
| Died | 22 November 1902 in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut |
| +6. | Albert S. Gazlay |
| Born | ca. 1811 in Otsego County, New York |
| Married | to Harriet L. Moor |
| Died | 29 September 1886 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York |
| +7. | Orville F. Gazlay |
| Born | 24 February 1814 in South Edmeston, Otsego County, New York |
| Married | to Mary Elizabeth VanCise |
| Died | 1 April 1872 |
| +8. | Charles M. Gazlay |
| Born | ca. 1815 in Otsego County, New York |
| Married | to Martha Ann _____ |
| Married | to Catherine E. Cornell |
| Died | before 1880 |
| +9. | Addison Mandel Gazlay |
| Born | 31 December 1818 in Edmeston, Otsego County, New York |
| Married | 11 February 1851 in Oldham County, Kentucky to Sallie Louise Wheeler |
| Died | 17 July 1881 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky |
| 10. | Delos W. Gazlay |
| Born | 9 April 1821 |
| Died | 17 July 1840 |
| 11. | Henry Martin Gazlay |
| Born | 29 February 1824 in New York |
| Married | 4 September 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts to Angeline Elizabeth Gazlay (née Gleason) |
| Died | 2 June 1894 |
Sources
- Cemetery Inscriptions, The Gazlay Cemetery, South Edmeston, New York. Copy of all inscriptions existing on 30 March 1902 copied by Charles H. Gazlay. List available on various web sites.
- Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, collated by Theodore Gazlay, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890; unpublished. Transcription available at Gazlay Family History (website).
- Gazlay History, compiled by Margaret Howe in 1955-1956 (copy available at Gazlay Family History - Sources). Margaret Howe indicated that the document is “based on material my mother Inez L. Gazlay collected, but never lived to edit. Her material has just been copied and explains the more extensive material on generation V and VI. Other information has been added which I found from numerous sources.” Unpublished, 29 pages. Several differences in dates have been found between this document and others, especially A Genealogy of the Leavenworth Family; the latter is considered the more accurate source.
- The Gazlay Family in America, with sections titled “Ten Generations of American Gazlays” for several branches of the Gazlay family. Document is marked on one page, “From Gerard Gazlay, Jr. Jan. 1980.” Unpublished, nine unnumbered pages. Photocopy in possession of Lee Gazlay.
- Gazlay Family Tree, Henry Willis Gazlay 1854-1934 Ancestors & Descendants, by Francis P. Gazlay, Northville, Mich., 1978
- Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Edited by Emily Warren Roebling. Printed for Private Circulation by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1903. Republished in 1976 and 1984 by the Somers Historical Society, Somers, New York. Pages 291 and 378, marriage of Aaron Gazely [sic] and Abigail Sutton on 11 January 1797 at the widow Sutton’s home.