Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Jasper Gaddis
Birth11 Sep 1838, Bellville, Richland Co, OH
Census1870, Jefferson Twp, Richland Co, OH
Memoroll#1261, pg 80
Census1880, Jefferson Twp, Richland Co, OH
Memoroll#1061, pg 70
Census1900, Middlebury Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll# , pg 13
Census3 May 1910, Chester, Morrow Co, OH
Memoroll#1219, pg 228
Census1920, Chester, Morrow Co, OH
MemoED 154, sht 5
Death22 May 1922, Morrow Co, OH
BurialQuaker Cem, Fredericktown, Knox Co, OH
FatherDavid Gaddis (1807-1872)
MotherRachel G. Murphy (1814-1876)
Misc. Notes
Listed in 1870 census as William with his wife Martha.
1880 census lists him as Jasper; a farmer (41) with his wife, 2 daughters, and his mother-in-law, Elmira Oldfield (75) plus an employee. The Richland Co, OH birth records list 3 children to Jasper Gaddis and Martha Oldfield (as entered) - all in Jefferson Twp.
Jasper Gaddis of Batemantown: Member of the Township Board of Education for 1886. The order was granted at Sept. 20, 1886 meeting: (included in list) Jasper Gaddis, Wood & Chalk - $10.80.
Jasper and Martha are living with family of daughter Rachel in 1910 - at the time only 2 of their daughters were still living, since Cordelia died in 1906.
He is living alone with Rachel’ family in 1920, as Martha had died by then.
Cemetery record lists Jasper b. 1838, d. 1922, his wife Martha A., and dau Cordelia O. Executor of his father's will in 1900.
Listed as William J. Geddis on his death cert.
Spouses
Birth1839, Bellville, Richland Co, OH
Death4 Feb 1919, Morrow Co, OH
BurialQuaker Cem, Fredericktown, Knox Co, OH
FatherRichard Oldfield (1801-1872)
MotherElmira Phelps (1805-1891)
Marriage25 Mar 1868, Richland Co, OH
ChildrenLouella M. (1873-1948)
 Rachel A. (1875-1944)
 Cordelia O. (1881-1906)
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