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Family of Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS and Tallitha GRAHAM

Husband: Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS (1747?-1811)
Wife: Tallitha GRAHAM (1755?-1840)
Children: Daniel GASKINS (1780?- )
David GASKINS (1784?- )
Dennis GASKINS (1793?- )
Margaret GASKINS (1795?- )
Thomas GASKINS (1796- )
Darling Monroe GASKINS (1800-1873?)
Marriage 1789

Husband: Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS

Name: Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1747 (app)
Death 18 Jul 1811 (age 63-64) Kershaw County, SC

Wife: Tallitha GRAHAM

Name: Tallitha GRAHAM
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1755 (app)
Death 22 May 1840 (age 84-85) Kershaw County, SC

Child 1: Daniel GASKINS

Name: Daniel GASKINS
Sex: Male
Birth 1780 (app)

Child 2: David GASKINS

Name: David GASKINS
Sex: Male
Birth 1784 (app)

Child 3: Dennis GASKINS

Name: Dennis GASKINS
Sex: Male
Birth 1793 (app)

Child 4: Margaret GASKINS

Name: Margaret GASKINS
Sex: Female
Birth 1795 (app)

Child 5: Thomas GASKINS

Name: Thomas GASKINS
Sex: Male
Birth 19 Mar 1796

Child 6: Darling Monroe GASKINS

Name: Darling Monroe GASKINS
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary NELSON ( - )
Birth 1800
Death 1873 (app) (age 72-73)

Note on Husband: Ezekiel Ephraim GASKINS

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/t/Constance-M-Latta/GENE8-0001.html

 

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scroots/sc04384.htm

 

Subject: Ezekiel and Tallitha (Graham) GASKINS

From: Donna Witt

Date: May 05, 1998

Tallitha was Ezekiel's second wife, first wife still unknown(see difference in children's names from each will). I have left mis-spellings, ect. intact.

Donna Witt donna@arts.com

 

 

WILL OF EZEKIAL GASKINS IN THE NAIME OF GOD AMEN

 

I EZEKIAL GASKINS of the State of South Carolina and Destrict of Kerfhaw

beinge halth and sound memory Calinge to mind the mortality of my Boday ad

Knowinge all men has to die I doe make and ordaine this my Laste will and

testament that is princapally and firste of all I Recommend my Soul into the

hands of the Almighty god whom gave it and my Boday to the Earth to beried in

a desent manner at the Disscretion of my Exectors nout doutinge but at the

General resurrection I shall Recieve the Saime Again by the mighty Power of

god and as touchinge such worldy Estate where with it has pleasd god to blefs

me with in this life I give and devise an Expose in the followinge mannar and

form firste I lend to my wife Tallitha Gaskins all my House hold & Kitchen

furniture and choice of one of the horses and stock of Sheep and foure Cows &

Calves & two beath cattle and my stock of hogs and my negroe woman dinah to

the day of her death or Marage then to be Eqully devideid to tween her Seven

Children I likewise give to my Daugher Cathran Macullaster five shillings to

her & her heirs for ever likewise I give to my Son Samuel Gaskins five

shillings to him & his heirs for Ever I like wise Give to my Son Vinson

Gaskins heirs fiver Shillings to them & ther heirs for Ever I like wise give

to my sons Ezekel Gaskins heirs five shillings heirs five Shillings to them &

their heirs for Ever I likewise give to my Daughter Charity Kennedy five

Shillings to her & her heirs for Ever I likewise give to my Daughter Maith

Gaskins five shillings to her & heirs for Ever the Ballance of my land that is

not gave away it is my Desire that it shall Equally davided be twixt my three

Sons John & Thomas & Darlings and their heirs for Ever I likewise leave all my

Slaves and all the Reste of my Estate to be kept to gather and Improved by by

my Executors until Darlings is eighteen years olde then all my Estate to be

sold and the money to be Equally devided between my Seven Children Daniel

David Dennis John & Margret & Thomas & Darlings Also I Apinte Daniel Gaskins

and my wife Tallitha Gaskins my hole and Sole Executers to this my laste will

and Testament and doe here unto set my hand and seal this 22 february 1810 and

in the thirtieh fifth yeare of the Independance of Americk

 

his

Ezekel X Gaskins

(seal)

mark

 

Witnefs

Wm Bracey

Robert Williams

Benny King

Recorded in Will Book C, page 31 (81?)

recorded march 10, 1812

Ord. John Doby

Apt.25, Pkg-915 (916?)

===

From Tammy freethink2@yahoo.com, 25 Jan 2004, cousin of Muriel K. Hanna who wrote GASKINS/GASKIN Family of

Williamsburg and Kershaw County South Carolina.

Craven County, 1768. Ezekiel Gaskins, a grant of 100 acres on NE side of Lynches Creek, bounded on all

sides by vacant land from George III. (Possibly the land located today at the Gaskins Cemetery at Hannah,

SC. Ezekiel appears to have participated in the Revolutionary War by giving supplies of crops, food

and livestock to the Patriots, but apparently did not join in the fighting. Because of his contributions,

his name is listed in the Patriot Index of DAR. In the 1790 Census, Ezekiel is in Prince Frederick

Parish, Georgetown District with self and 5 free white males under 16, 2 white females and 6 slaves.

In 1795, Ezekiel left Williamsburg and moved to Sumter District (now in Lee County). He seems to have lived

there with his younger children until at least 1803. It is said, the reason he left Williamsburg ws to get

his second family away from his older children because they could not get along with his new wife, Tallitha.

He was a farmer and a miller. Ezekiel and Tallitha lie lost in unmarked graves in the woods on property

belonging today to the Herb

Young family. Will: February 22, 1810, Recorded March 10, 1812.

Tallitha's date of death is from the Camden Journal, May 30, 1840 and states that she died May 5, 1840,

85-90 years old.

Note on Wife: Tallitha GRAHAM

WILL OF TILLITHA GASKIN

SOUTH CAROLINA }

KERSHAW-DISTRICT} in the name of god amen I Tillitha Gaskin being weake and

low in boddy but in sound and perfect mind memory and understanding do make

publish and pronoun_.and Declare this to bee and Contain my last will and

testament by me at any time made and executed and declare this to be and

Contain my last will and testament first I Recommend my Sole to god who gave

it and my boddy to the earth to be desently Buried at the Discreasion of my

executor herein after named and my worldly estate after payment and

sattisfaction of all my just debts and funeral expences I give and bequeath as

follows thats to say I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Gaskin one Dollar I

give and bequeath to my son David Gaskin one dollar I give and bequeath to my

Daughter Margaret Coats one dollar I give and bequeath to my son John Gaskin

one dollar I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Gaskin one dollar. I give and

bequeath to my grand daughter Mesurah Gaskin my bed and firniture lastly I

give and bequeath to my son Darlin Gaskin all the ballance of my worldly

estate I do Consitute and apoint Arch. McDowell my executor to this my last

will and testament to which I have set my hand seal this nineteenth day of

March in the year our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine----

Signed sealed published and declared by the testator to bee and Contain her

last will and testament who in her presants and each other at her Request Sub-

our names witnfess theirto

her

Tillitha X Gaskin (seal)

mark

 

James L.M.Dowell

Arch. E(N?) Dowell Junr.

Abraham Young

 

Recorded on Will Book A page 6

Recorded Aug. 27, 1840

J.W.Baskin ?? (Ord?)

Apt.?? Pkg??? (unreadable)

 

Date of death is from the Camden Journal, May 30, 1840 and states that she died May 5, 1840, 85-90 years old.