Elizabeth Buck
Parents
| Father | William Sherman Buck (17 February 1764 - 4 August 1844) |
| Mother | Barentha York (27 September 1770 - 4 October 1827) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 31 August 2012; Last Edited: 19 May 2022 |
| Person ID | 4113 |
| Name | Elizabeth Buck |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 14 October 1803 in Trumansburg, Tomkins County, New York1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| Married | 15 April 1827 in Hamilton County, Ohio to Aribert Gazlay8, 9, 10 |
| Died | 11 February 1899 in Pratt, Pratt County, Kansas1, 7 |
| Buried | in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio1 |
Biography
Elizabeth inherited largely, the disposition and characteristics of her mother. Among these were, pluck and determination, --qualities which always furnish a wife and mother with a most formidable equipment, to cope with the innumerable obstacles she must meet in her pathway of duty. While living with her parents near Cincinnati, Elizabeth first met her future husband, Aribert Gazley, who had but recently emigrated from Dutchess County, N. Y. The twain, after a brief courtship, were married early in April 1827. The country around Cincinnati, was still comparatively a wilderness. Land was however cheap, and the broad Ohio River adjacent, furnished a fair market for wood and timber, with the money for which the settler, by dint of hard labor and exposure, might, in time, pay for it. No sooner had the marriage knot been tied than the young couple shouldered their scanty household outfit and plunged into the wilderness about fifty miles below Cincinnati, in what is now Switzerland County, Ind., bent upon carving out a home for themselves and their posterity. They found a partly cleared but abandoned tract, which they purchases and settled down to housekeeping after a fashion. The husband shouldered his axe and chopped wood, which, with a yoke of cattle, he hauled to the river bank and sold to the steamboat craft plying up and down the Ohio, devoting the proceeds to paying for his land. The dock from which he shipped his wood took the name of Gazley’s Landing, which it retained as late as 1850. It was as well known to boatmen and travelers as any place on the river. Old boatmen still living are willing to testify that Mr. Gazely always supplied good wood from his yards at honest prices. Later on in his life he conducted the mercantile business with success, purchasing his goods in New York principally. Besides performing all the duties of a prudent and industrious housekeeper, Elizabeth did her full share of outside work. Her husband always bore witness, with pride, that she did full as much as he did towards paying for the farm. She usually had butter, milk, eggs and other farm products which she sold to the boatmen for cash, this being at that time about the only market for such products, and the proceeds usually went to liquidate the farm and other debts. Her wise counsel and words of encouragement greatly aided her husband in fighting the battle of life. In 1867, she and her husband removed to Cincinnati, where Mrs. Gazley still resides, with their only son Carter. At this present writing (1885) she is, both bodily and mentally, in excellent health, and has undertaken a visit to her relatives in Illinois. In 1884, Mr. Gazley was stricken with paralysis, which confined him to his room, and seriously impaired his mental powers; he continued to grow weaker, both physically and mentally, until the 23d of May, 1884, when he breathed his last, without a struggle.8
Elizabeth’s obituary elaborates on her life and character:7
Elizabeth Gazlay was born near Trumansburg, N.Y. October 14, 1803. On April 7, 1827, she was married to Aribert Gazlay. They immediately settled near Patriot, Ind. In 1890 she broke up house-keeping and removed to Pratt to reside with her granddaughter, Mrs. Blanche G. Apt. She died Saturday, February 11, 1899. The funeral services were held at the Apt home, conducted by Rev. Gragg. She was the last survivor of a family of thirteen children. Her husband Aribert Gazlay died at Cincinnati, Ohio in May 1885. She was educated a Presbyterian, but early after she moved to Indiana, she became a Universalist, and remained in that belief to her death. She was the mother of only one child, Carter Gazlay, who survives her. Although her immediate family was small there was no time in her active life when she was not taking care of some persons children and she raied and cared for some ten children other than her own.
Thus, briefly is told the story of one who lived for more than 95 years a life of activity, and full of good works. “Till like a clock worn out with eating time. The weary wheels of life stood still.”
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Aribert Gazlay (son of James Gazlay and Huldah Carter) |
| Born | 10 December 1797 in Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 15 April 1827 in Hamilton County, Ohio to Elizabeth Buck |
| Died | 22 May 1885 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio |
| Children | of Elizabeth Buck and Aribert Gazlay: |
| +1. | Carter Gazlay |
| Born | 15 June 1828 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana |
| Married | 15 June 1853 to Elizabeth B. Emerson |
| Died | 7 July 1909 in Iola, Allen County, Kansas |
Sources
- Cemetery Record, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio (website); Gazlay, Elizth, card no. 67297, born Oct. 14 1803, Trumansburgh, N.Y.; died Feb 11, 1902, Pratt, Kansas; parents: Wm. S. Buck & Lucretia York; Sec 39 Lot 68.
- 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.]
- U.S. Federal Census, 1860, Indiana, Switzerland County, Patriot, Page No. 47, family of Aribert Gazlay (61, N.Y., merchant); Elizabeth Gazlay (56, N.Y.); Jane E. Gazlay (13, Ind.) [The identify of Jane has not been determined.]
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Obituary, The Pratt Daily Union, Pratt, Kansas (available at: https://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/), 16 February 1899, Elizabeth Gazlay, died: 11 February 1899; born: 14 October 1803 near Trumansburg, N.Y. The article provides vital and biographical details and the names of her husband, son, and granddaughter.
- 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.
- Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997, Hamilton County, Page 141, Albert [sic, this is actually Aribert] Gazlay and Elizabeth Buck, married on 15 April 1827.
- 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.