Gazlay Family History
John Gazlay
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
John Gazlay5 (Daniel Gazlay,4 John Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
John Gazlay5 (Daniel Gazlay,4 John Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Parents
| Father | Daniel Gazlay (8 May 1778 - 6 May 1847) |
| Mother | Susannah Leavenworth (21 September 1784 - 2 October 1841) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 6 November 2010; Last Edited: 22 February 2015 |
| Person ID | 1532 |
| Name | John Gazlay |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 24 April 1817 in New York1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Married | 2 March 1854 in Cook County, Illinois to Tryphena L. Goodhue: (the date listed in Gazlay History is 1 March 1854)8, 9 |
| Married | 3 May 1876 in Jefferson County, Wisconsin to Harriet Drusilla ‘Hattie’ Roe6, 10, 11 |
| Died | 18 May 19091, 12 |
| Buried | in Fasset Cemetery, Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin1 |
Biography
The following article refers to John Gazlay, his second wife Hattie, her daughter Sadie (as a youngster), and their unnamed son. The incident is also mentioned in Hattie’s obituary:13, 14
Wisconsin
A sad accident occurred at Edgerton a few days since. A little girl of Mrs. John Gazly was going out the door with her little baby brother in her arms; she stumbled and fell against a boiler of hot water, which had just been removed from the fire, tipping it over and spilling the water scalding the baby so that it died the night following. The girl was scalded some, but nothing serious. Another warning to parents not to set vessels of hot liquids where their children will run into them.
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Tryphena L. Goodhue |
| Born | ca. November 1826 in New York |
| Married | 2 March 1854 in Cook County, Illinois to John Gazlay |
| Died | 27 March 1875 |
| Children | of John Gazlay and Tryphena L. Goodhue: |
| 1. | Charles H. Gazlay |
| Born | ca. 1856 in Illinois |
| Died | before 1870 |
| Spouse 2 | Harriet Drusilla ‘Hattie’ Roe (daughter of Benjamin Roe and Sarah Maria Beemer) |
| Born | September 1843 in New Jersey |
| Married | 3 October 1865 in Lafayette, Sussex County, New Jersey to James E. Gunderman |
| Married | 3 May 1876 in Jefferson County, Wisconsin to John Gazlay |
| Died | 2 January 1928 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin |
| Children | of John Gazlay and Harriet Drusilla ‘Hattie’ Roe: |
| +1. | Sadie Jane Gazlay (born Gunderman) |
| Born | 27 October 1869 in Koshkonong, Jefferson County, Wisconsin |
| Adopted | (child of James E. Gunderman and Harriet Drusilla ‘Hattie’ Roe, adopted by John Gazlay) |
| Married | 2 July 1886 in Jefferson County, Wisconsin to John Schoellkopf |
| Died | 30 November 1929 |
| 2. | Johnnie G. Gazlay |
| Born | 8 February 1877 |
| Died | 18 June 1878 |
Sources
- Find a Grave (website). Fassett Cemetery, Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin, John Gazlay: John Gazlay / Apr. 24, 1817 / May 18, 1909 [from grave marker]; the record provides that name and link for his wife Tryphena.
- U.S. Federal Census, 1850, Illinois, Cook County, Maine, family of John Gasley (33, NY, farmer); Mary Sa. Gasley (40, NY) [this is believed to be John’s sister Mary Louise]. Also, family of Erasmus D. Gasley (38, NY, farmer); Cornelius Gasley (30, NY, farmer, male) [this is strongly believed to be Cornelia (female), a sister of John, Mary, and Erasmus]; James Sherman (2, Illinois) [this is believed to be the orphaned child of Ann (Gazlay) and Nicholas Sherman; Ann is another sister of the above siblings]; M. L. Gasley (23, NY) [the identity of this male has not been determined but may be a heretofore unknown brother of the above siblings].
- U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Illinois, Cook County, Town of Maine, Page 89, family of John Gazlay (43, NY, carpenter), Tryphena Gazlay (32, NY), Chas H. Gazlay (4, Illinois).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Wisconsin, Rock County, Town of Fulton, Page 47, family of John Gazley (53, NY, carpenter), T. Gazlay (43, NY).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Wisconsin, Rock County, Fulton, Edgerton, Enumeration District 181, Page No. 17, family of John Gazlay (63, NY, carpenter), wife Hattie D. Gazlay (33, NJ), daughter Sadie J. Gazlay (10, Wisconsin).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1900, Wisconsin, Jefferson County, Koshkonong, Enumeration District 142, Sheet 10B, family of John Schoellkopf (36, WI, June 1863, farmer), wife of 14 years Sadie Schoellkopf (30, WI, Oct 1869, 3 children, 3 living), son John Schoellkopf (13, WI, Feb 1887), daughter Gertrude Schoellkopf (10, WI, Dec 1889), daughter Ester Schoellkopf (6, WI, Apr 1894), father-in-law John Gazley (83, NY, Apr 1817), daughter-in-law/wife of 24 years Hattie Gazley (56, NJ, Sept 1843, 3 children, 1 living), boarder George Parks (52, WI, May 1848, farm laborer), border Elias Roe (15, WI, Mar 1885, farm laborer).
- Wisconsin State Census, 1905, Jefferson County, Town of Koshkonong, Sheet Nos. 14-15, family of John Schoellkopf (42, WI, farmer), wife Sadie Schoellkopf (35, WI), son Gunther J. Schoellkopf (18, WI, farm laborer), daughter Gertrude Schoellkopf (15, WI), daughter Esther Schoellkopf (10, WI), daughter Cleodine Schoellkopf (1, WI), father-in-law John Gazley (87, NY), mother-in-law Hattie M. Gazley (56, NJ), border Benjamin Roe (91, NJ, Widow, landlord).
- 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.
- Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900; Gazlay, John, and Goodhue, Fryphenie L. [sic]; 2 March 1854, Cook County, Illinois.
- Wisconsin Marriages, Pre-1907; available at ancestry.com; John Gosley [sic] and Hattie Roe, 3 May 1876, Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin Marriages 1836-1930, available at familysearch.org; Groom: John Gaslay; Bride: Kattie [sic] Roe; Marriage Date/Place: 3 May 1876, Jefferson County, Wisconsin; Groom’s Father: Daniel Gaslay; Groom’s Mother: Susannah Gaslay; Bride’s Father: Benjamin Roe; Bride’s Mother: Roe.
- Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society, Watertown, Wisconsin (website), Clippings Master File Index. Gazley, John; death, 21 May 1909 [publication date].
- Find a Grave (website). Lakeview Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Harriet Roe Gazlay, born: 22 December 1845 [this birth date differs from the September 1843 date in the 1900 census] in New Jersey; died: 2 January 1928 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin [from record, which also provides her obituary, giving vital and biographical details, the names of her two husbands and two children, and details of how a third child, a son, burned to death with scalding water at the age of 16 months].
- Deaths, Brookfield Courier, Brookfield, New York. Available at www.fultonhistory.com. 26 June 1878, article about the accidental scalding and subsequent death of a baby son of Mrs. John Gazly [sic].