David Gault and Matilda Cooke

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Husband David Gault ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Feb 1815 - near Florence, Washington Co, PA 3
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           Died: Feb 1903 2
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         Father: William Gault (      -1816) 4
         Mother: Margaret Brown (      -Abt 1854) 4

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       Marriage: 22 May 1845 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary Patterson (1821-      ) 5 6

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Wife Matilda Cooke ⁷

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            AKA: Matilda Cook 8
           Born: May 1817 7
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           Died: 13 Apr 1853 3
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         Father: James Cooke (1758-      ) 7
         Mother: Martha McCombs (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Georgette Gault ⁹

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            AKA: Georgia Gault 2
           Born: 23 Mar 1846 3
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         Spouse: Aaron Hervey Kerr (1850-      ) 10
           Marr: 27 May 1874 10

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2 M Henry M. Gault ³

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           Born: 16 Mar 1848 3
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3 M James Cooke Gault ^{2 3}

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           Born: 7 Dec 1850 - Cross Creek Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Margaret Allison (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 18 Jan 1877 2

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4 M Silas Gault ³

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           Born: 13 Apr 1853 3
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General Notes: Husband - David Gault

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His father died the year following his birth, and the family moved to Cross Creek township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, settling on a farm. David passed his boyhood days in gaining an insight into agricultural pursuits, and attending for a few months in winter time the primitive subscription school of the vicinity. But he was chiefly self-taught, being a close reader and apt student. At the age of twelve years he found himself of some assistance to his mother, and about this time he "worked out" as a hired hand until he was sixteen years old, when he and his mother, and his brother William, moved to a rented farm near Cross Creek village. The following year William went to Ashland County, Ohio, and David was thus left in sole charge of the farm, which he conducted fifteen years, his mother making her home with him until her removal to Ashland County, Ohio, where she died. She was a remarkable woman, a typical pioneer wife and mother, who spun, wove and made all the clothing for the family; and to her early teachings her son David attributed much of his success.

Mr. Gault's farm comprised 300 acres of highly improved land, where he carried on general agriculture, including stock raising, making a specialty of sheep. In politics he was formally a Republican, but beginning with the formation of the party was an active worker in the ranks of the Prohibitionists. In religious connection he and his wife were long members of the Cross Creek Presbyterian Church, in which he was an elder for fifteen years, while Mrs. Gault took an active and substantial interest in foreign missions.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 857, 1060.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 601.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1063.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1060.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 183.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1278.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 857.

8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 916.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 542, 1063.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 542.