Gazlay Family History
Elizabeth Gazlay
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Elizabeth Gazlay3 (John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Elizabeth Gazlay3 (John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Parents
| Father | John Gazlay (9 July 1722 - 9 August 1811) |
| Mother | Anna Ward (9 November 1725 - 5 October 1798) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 24 November 2009; Last Edited: 13 April 2014 |
| Person ID | 461 |
| Name | Elizabeth Gazlay |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 9 February 17631, 2 |
| Married | 1 January 1785 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York to Samuel Furman2, 3, 4 |
| Died | 1 June 1847 in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York3, 5 |
| Buried | in Burnt Hills Baptist Church (Hillside) Cemetery, Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, New York5 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Samuel Furman (son of John Furman and Elizabeth Albertus) |
| Born | 2 March 1753 in Newtown, Long Island, New York |
| Married | 1 January 1785 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York to Elizabeth Gazlay |
| Died | 26 August 1830 in Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, New York |
| Children | of Elizabeth Gazlay and Samuel Furman: |
| +1. | Nancy Ann Furman |
| Born | 11 October 1784 in Newtown, Long Island, New York |
| Married | 25 December 1808 to David Lamberson |
| Died | 7 April 1845 in Hudson River near Athens, New York |
| 2. | Elizabeth Furman |
| Born | 17 April 1787 in Newtown, Long Island, New York |
| Died | 17 September 1869 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York |
| +3. | Susanna Furman |
| Born | 28 June 1789 in Newtown, Long Island, New York |
| Married | 5 May 1813 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York to John Hatch Lathrop |
| Died | 20 September 1850 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York |
| 4. | Robert Furman |
| Born | 11 March 1793 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Died | 10 March 1796 |
| +5. | John Gazlay Furman |
| Born | 10 December 1794 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 16 October 1816 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York to Armenia Northrup |
| Married | 28 February 1837 in Rensselaer, Rensselaer County, New York to Malvina Green |
| Died | 6 September 1871 in Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan |
| +6. | Robert Furman |
| Born | 30 April 1797 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 23 December 1820 to Melinda Wilkins |
| Married | 1853 to Marie B. Angle |
| Died | 5 May 1864 in New York, New York |
| +7. | Phillip Heartt Furman |
| Born | 13 February 1799 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 20 February 1823 in Ballston, Saratoga County, New York to Mary ‘Polly’ Cogswell |
| Died | 3 September 1871 in Maspeth, Long Island, New York |
| +8. | Rev. Charles Edwin Furman |
| Born | 13 December 1801 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 19 January 1831 to Harriet Emiline Johnson |
| Died | 10 June 1880 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York |
| +9. | Mary Wright Furman |
| Born | 6 September 1803 in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York |
| Married | 18 October 1828 to Prosper French |
| Died | 13 February 1887 |
| +10. | Abigail Rhodes Furman |
| Born | 4 September 1805 in Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York |
| Married | 14 November 1835 to Thomas Croly |
| Died | 18 November 1857 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York |
Sources
- U.S. Federal Census, 1790, New York, Queens County, Township of Newtown, page 19, family of Samuel Furman showing 1 male over 16 years, 4 females, 1 other free person named Casar, and 1 slave.
- Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, collated by Theodore Gazlay, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890; unpublished. Transcription available at Gazlay Family History (website).
- Baker Family History and Genealogy; The Descendants of Josias Furman, Generations 4, 5, and 6. Website.
- American Ancestry, Volume VII, ALbany, N.Y.: Jole Munsell’s Sons, Publishers, 1892. Available at Google Books. Page 184, Furman, Charles Edwin. The entry provides details of his ancestors and some of their spouses for several generations back to the 1600s. Some dates and places vary in this source from other sources.
- Cemetery Inscriptions, Burnt Hills Baptist Church Cemetery (now called Hillside Cemetery), Saratoga NYGENWEB (website), Saratoga, New York. Gazlay, Elizabeth. Her headstone shows that she died 1 June 1847 age 84 years, 3 months, 21 days. Other records show her date of death as 8 June 1847.