Gazlay Family History
 

FamilyClarence Gazley

DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Clarence Gazley6 (James Gazley,5 Samuel Gazley,4 Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)

Parents

FatherJames Franklin Gazley (12 September 1822 - 1900)
MotherAdeline E. Adams (8 August 1831 - 19 September 1884)

Personal Information

Record Created: 10 September 2011; Last Edited: 15 September 2013 
Person ID3054
NameClarence Gazley
GenderMale
Born 29 January 1854 in Gazley, Douglas County, Oregon1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Married ca. 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri to Minnie Belle Roberts4, 6
Died 7 February 1910 in Canyonville, Douglas County, Oregon1, 5, 7, 8
Buried in James F. Gazley Family Cemetery, Gazley, Douglas County, Oregon1

Person/Family

Spouse 1FamilyMinnie Belle Roberts
Born July 1864 in Illinois
Married ca. 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri to Clarence Gazley
  
Children of Clarence Gazley and Minnie Belle Roberts:
  
1.FamilyClaire Gazley
Born January 1892 in California
  
+2.FamilyJames Clyde Gazley
Born 14 July 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri
Married March 1924 to Madge Madra ‘Mabel’ Mayo
Died 25 July 1943 in Contra Costa County, California
  

Sources

  1. Find a Grave (website). James F. Gazley Family Cemetery, Gazley, Douglas County, Oregon; Gazley, Clarence, born: 29 January 1854 in Gazley, Douglas County, Oregon; died: 8 February 1910 in Gazley, Douglas County, Oregon [from record, which provides biographical details].
  2. U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Oregon, Douglas County, Canyonville, Page 8, family of James Gasley (38, NY, lawyer); Adaline Gasley (28, Penn); Franklin Gasley (11, Penn); Clarence Gasley (7, Oregon); Hellen Gasley (4, Oregon); Mary Gasley (2, Oregon); Emma Gasley (2/12, Oregon); Geo Chapman (25, Maine, farm laborer).
  3. U.S. Federal Census, 1870, Oregon, Douglas County, Canyonville, Page 14, family of James Gazlay (48, New York, attorney at law); Adaline Gazlay (39, Pennsylvania); Franklin Gazlay (21, Pennsylvania); Clarence Gazlay (16, Oregon); Helen Gazlay (14, Oregon); May Gazlay (12, Oregon); Minnie Gazlay (10, Oregon); Elmer Gazlay (8, Oregon); Claude Rumsey (18, New York); William Holmes (28, Kentucky, farm laborer).
  4. U.S. Federal Census, 1900, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, Enumeration District 248, Sheet No. 3A; family of Clarence Gazley (46, Oregon, Jan 1854, fruit grower); wife of 13 years Minnie B. Gazley (Illinois, July 1864, 2 children, 2 living); Claire Gazley (8, California, Jan 1892); James C. Gazley (4, California, May 1896). All are borders at the Westminster Hotel.
  5. Mernitz Family Tree, Ancestry (website). Although no sources are cited in this family tree, much of the information agrees with other sources. A few individuals in this family tree have duplicate entries with slightly different vital statistics for each.
  6. Mernitz Family Tree, Ancestry (website). Although no sources are cited in this family tree, much of the information agrees with other sources. A few individuals in this family tree have duplicate entries with slightly different vital statistics for each. This source indicates Clarence Gazley and Minnie Roberts were married in 1880 in St. Louis. The year conflicts with the information listed for them in the 1900 Census.
  7. Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998; Gazley, Clarence, died 7 February 1910, Douglas County, Oregon.
  8. U.S. Federal Census, 1910, Oregon, Douglas County, Days Creek, Enumeration District 77, Sheet No. 8A; family of Minnie Gazley (46, Illinois, widow, farmer, own farm, 2 children, 2 living); daughter Claire Gazley (19, Missouri); son Clyde Gazley (14, Missouri). [The children’s birth places shown here are different than in other records.]