Gazlay Family History
Joshua Gazlay
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Joshua Gazlay4 (Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Joshua Gazlay4 (Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Parents
| Father | Jonathan Gazlay (17 August 1760 - 7 September 1835) |
| Mother | Karenda Carter ( - ) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 4 December 2011; Last Edited: 20 November 2021 |
| Person ID | 3311 |
| Name | Joshua Gazlay |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 31 December 17851 |
| Married | ca. 1811 to Abigail ‘Abby’ Jones2, 3 |
| Died | 5 June 18421, 4 |
| Buried | in Willet Cemetery, Willet, Cortland County, New York1 |
Biography
Joshua is believed to be one of the 10 unidentified children of Jonathan Gazlay and Karinda Carter. According to a statement by Rev. Sayrs Gazlay in 1852, Jonathan had 14 children, of which four were still living at that time: Samuel, Thomas Jefferson, Patty, and Maria.5
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Abigail ‘Abby’ Jones (daughter of James Jones and Sarah Leach) |
| Born | 1794 in Shutesbury, Franklin County, Massachusetts |
| Married | ca. 1811 to Joshua Gazlay |
| Married | 1850 to Timothy Allen |
| Died | 22 February 1880 in Decatur, Van Buren County, Michigan |
| Children | of Joshua Gazlay and Abigail ‘Abby’ Jones: |
| +1. | Karinda Gazlay |
| Born | 10 November 1812 in Cortland County, New York |
| Married | 1830 to Sterling A. Crippen |
| Died | 25 June 1905 in Buchanan, Berrien County, Michigan |
| +2. | Abigail ‘Abbey’ Gazlay |
| Born | 10 March 1828 in New York |
| Married | 1845 in Smithville, Chenango County, New York to Henry Rogers Ryan |
| Died | 27 February 1920 in Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin |
| +3. | David Ward Gazlay |
| Born | 29 October 1830 in New York |
| Married | 3 September 1855 in Canada to Mary Baker |
| Died | 2 December 1899 in Buchanan, Berrien County, Michigan |
| 4. | Mary Gazlay |
| Born | ca. 1833 in New York |
Sources
- Find a Grave (website). Willet Cemetery, Willet, Cortland County, New York; Gazlay, Joshua: Joshua Gazlay / died / June 5, 1842 / aged 56 years / 5 months & / 5 days (from headstone) [constructed birth date: 31 December 1785].
- History of Sauk County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1880. Digitized copy available at Google Books. Page 703, biographical sketch of Henry R. Ryan. This document names his wife Abbie Gazlay’s parents: Joshua and Abigail Jones Gazlay. It is one of the few documents, or perhaps the only document, that provides their names.
- Letter, from Harlan Quardokus to Frederick Page, 6 April 2010, containing several pages of notes related to various Gazlay family members, including: notes of birth and death dates for early Gazlay generations, by Ruth G. Tuttle; biographical notes about David Ward Gazlay and his wife Mary Baker; four children of Joshua Gazlay and Abigail Jones; one page of a DAR application from 1928; a page showing the lineage of four Mayflower descendants from whom David Ward Gazlay was descended; and two pages of cemetery photographs annotated with burial and inscription details. Copies sent to Lee Gazlay in 2012.
- The Cortland Connection (website); post by Harlan Quardokus, 15 September 2010, indicating that Abigail Jones Gazlay, wife of Joshua Gazlay, bore nine children, of which four have been identified: Karenda (1812-1905), Abigail (1828-1920), David Ward (1830-1899), and Mary (1833-?). The post includes other details regarding the marriages of these children, remarriage of Abigail to Timothy Allen, and her burial next to her daughter Karenda.
- Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, collated by Theodore Gazlay, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890; unpublished. Transcription available at Gazlay Family History (website).