Some families continued to use the name Goussé (pronounced Goo say´), as appears in French volumes among names of nobles of ancient France. Several soldiers by the name of Goussé served with LaFayette’s troops in the American Revolution.
The Goussét arms are described in Riepstap’s Armorial Général: Goussét—Amsterdam. De sin. au lion d’arg., cour. d’or.
In Lippicott’s Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary and
Mythology, edited by Joseph Thomas, 1908, vol. 1, p. 1151, are
the following biographies:
In the “Index of Surnames” in The Norman People,
published London, 1874, appear two items:
A lad by the name of Jean-François (John) Gosset of Granville, France, served with the troops of LaFayette in the American Revolutionary War. He was a sailor (matelot) on the Fendant, which sailed from Brest, December 15, 1778. He died of wounds at the hospital of Fort-Royal, Martinique, December 23, 1783. (Les Combattants Français de la Guerre Américaine 1778-1783, p. 101, issued and published in Washington 1905, by the French government.)
Found in an English record in the Library of Congress, a Pierre Gosset married Susanne Martel, October 12, 1718.
The Bureau of the Census published in 1908, Washington, D. C., volumes called, Heads Of Families At The First Census Of The United States Taken In The Year 1790. In the volume of North Carolina, p. 230, are the following names (with and without the second “t”): Gosset, Elijah, Gosset, Nicholas, Gosset, Thomas, Gossett, Joseph, Gossett, William.
William Gossett’s name occurs in the “Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Military Services in 1840, South Carolina”.
There was no federal census taken in 1790 for the state of Kentucky. The first taxpayer by name of Gossett appears in the list for Bourbon County, where a James Gossett was taxed June 1791.
The names of James and Shadrick Gossett appear on a list of taxpayers, 1782-85, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. James Sr., James, Thomas, and Shadrick rendered patriotic service in the Revolutionary War.
Jacob Gosset and John Gossett served in the Revolution, as found in The Georgia Roster.
Isaac Gossett in Orangeborough District, South Carolina, two males and five females-Census 1790.
Appraisal of Estate of Abner Gossett, Frederick County Court, bearing date April 1799, Winchester, Virginia, Will Book 6, p. 462.
The arms of a Gossett branch in South Carolina differ from the arms that belong to the English branch of Jersey Island. One member of this branch was the ancestor of Matthew Gosset who was married in 1793 to Grace Frankland, daughter of Sir Thomas and Sarah Rhett Frankland of South Carolina. They had issue: Grace, Henry, Arthur, and William. (South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. IV, pp. 40-46, Charleston, South Carolina, contributed by Barnwell Rhett Heyward, a descendant of Colonel William Rhett (1666-1722) of South Carolina.)
There was a John Gosset in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1781. (Pennsylvania Archives)
There was a Matthias Gosset in Pennsylvania in 1751. (Pennsylvania Archives) He could have been Matthew, son of Peter Gosset from Jersey Island. German scribes frequently wrote into the Pennsylvania records “Matthias,” the German for “Matthew.”
The National Biography, pub., London, 1908, VIII, 262, contains the following data: Gosset, Montague (1792-1854), surgeon, born 1 July 1792, was the second son of Daniel Gosset of Langhedge Hall, Tanner’s End, Edmonton. He was educated at a school at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, conducted by a clergyman named Jones. Although he wished to adopt a learned profession, his father determined he should join the navy. He was accordingly entered in November 1806 on board H. M. S. Curley... he resolved to quit the navy and study surgery. He was apprenticed to Mr. Stocker of Guy’s Hospital in 1809, and obtained his diploma in May 1814. He passed through the hospital with considerable distinction, being a favorite pupil of Sir Astley Cooper. By Cooper be was recommended to the Marquis of Bute, who was then suffering from an eye complaint. In 1815 he went to Scotland for two years, after which he returned to Guy’s Hospital, and again devoted himself to study until 1819, when he commenced practice as a consulting surgeon in Great George Street, Westminster. Thence he removed to the city, where he practiced for thirty-four years. Gosset was among the first to detect and describe in February 1827 a peculiar accident to the elbow-joint, namely dislocation of the ulna backwards and inwards. The case is mentioned in Sir Astley Cooper’s ‘Treatise on Dislocation’, ed. B. B. Cooper, 1842, pp. 451-2. In 1829 Gosset communicated the only case of renal aneurism then detected, the preparation of which is deposited in the Museum of Guy’s Hospital.
“The Horn Papers” gives an account of a David Gossett of Green County, Pennsylvania. The details of the account do not agree, but some notice should be given of this man as he had sons who are said to have settled in Kentucky. The quotation from “The Horn Papers” follows: “David Gossett, of Welsh descent, was born in Maryland in 1747 and came to Northwest Virginia in 1769. He was a wood ranger in 1774 and a hunter and trapper on the Monongahela River in 1775. He married Jane Stockwell in 1771. They had four sons, William, John, George, and Samuel. The father and the two oldest sons became river men in 1778 and in 1779-1780 went to a point on the lower Ohio river. Returning to the Monongahela in the spring of 1781, they assisted Barney Craff to dig the iron slate at McCullough (iron smelter) for a time, but being river men, David Gossett guided a party to Kentucky in 1782. It was while on a return from this trip in October, 1782, that he was severely wounded at the mouth of Middle Island Creek by a Shawnee Indian who shot him from behind a large sycamore tree. John Zane who was with him shot the Indian and they then made their way to Wheeling. He died at Millsboro, Washington County, in March 1822.”
In Kentucky Marriage Records, listed by the compiler Anna Walker
Burns, are the following items:
Pulaski County, Kentucky
Gossett Records. Grant County, Kentucky
Simon P. Gossett, b. December 28, 1832; d. May 3, 1880; m. September
18, 1854, Jane Hicks, b. August 17, 1834; d. March 31, 1895. Children:
Wayne County, Indiana, from Hazzard’s History of
Wayne Co., Indiana, p. 264:
Washington County, Ohio, Records
Anna Mary Gossett of Lexington, Kentucky, furnished the following
Bible records in regard to her family: Her grandfather was Abraham
Gossett, b. in 1788; d. September 1835; m. in 1811 Mary Fightmaster.
Children:
Abraham Gossett’s will requested “no division to be made for 20 years”. Sons, John and William, were executors.
In Harrison County, Kentucky, Deed Book 25, p. 310, April 24, 1854, appears a deed naming grandchildren, in addition to Abraham’s children, as follows: Mary and William Gossett, children of William Gossett (deceased) and grandchildren of Abraham Gossett, deceased. Also, Emily, Elizabeth A., and Ruben M. Gossett, children of Darius Gossett and grandchildren of Abraham Gossett, deceased. Abraham’s sons, William and Darius, had died before 1854.
Luke Gossett married in Coshocton County, Ohio, Jane Endsley,
and moved in 1846 to Coles County, Illinois. Luke was born in
1810. His father, Jacob Gossett, was born in 1770 in Virginia
and married a Miss Garner and had ten children, four of whom were
John, Samuel, Luke, and Hannah.
Andrew Gossett, son of Luke and Jane Endsley Gossett, was born August 8, 1836; d. October 4, 1903; m. Polly Kiser, b. July 4, 1842; d. June 21, 1921. Their son Edwin Stanton Gossett, b. June 14, 1878, in Coles County, Illinois. Was married September 17, 1898, to Allie Cinda Jones, b. December 23, 1880; d. December 12, 1952. Mary Emily Gossett, a daughter of Edwin and Allie Jones Gossett, was born October 21, 1913. She is Mrs. Glenn Clayton, 3009 Walnut Ave., Southwest Place, Matoon, Illinois. She furnished information on her branch.
William Gossett, son of Luke and Jane Endsley Gossett, was
born in 1850 and was married to Martha Ingram. William and Martha
Ingram Gossett had six children, namely:
Marriage Record-Frederick County, Virginia, June 4, 1789, William Gossett to Nancy Smith.
William Gossett, b. October 14, 1790, who married Charity Hageman September 27, 1815, is the ancestor of Clara Hageman Sipperley [January 1999: Mrs. Newcomer spells this name both Sipperley and Shipperley] of Detroit, Michigan. Charity Hageman, b. February 6, 1799; d. October 4, 1855; daughter of John and Hannah Batten Hageman who were living in Union County, Indiana Territory, in 1815, at the time of the marriage of William Gossett and Charity Hageman. John Hageman was a Revolutionary War soldier.
Mrs. Shipperley writes that she has no record of her great-grandfather, William Gossett, previous to his marriage in 1815, except that his mother’s name was Nancy and he had two brothers, Thomas and Joseph. Mrs. Shipperley presented an interesting account of William Gossett and furnished data of her branch, as follows: In 1833 William and Thomas Gossett (brothers) went west to Porter County, Indiana, and entered a claim for a tract of land. In 1834 William returned to Porter County with his family and lived at first in the little settlement of Waverley, which was planned to be a town, and lots were platted on land owned by Mr. Gossett. The first term of the Circuit Court was held in 1836 and Mr. Gossett served as a grand juror. He built a number of mills in the surrounding country, near Lake Michigan, and one town is called Gossett’s Mill. The first minister to visit the settlement was Stephen Jones of the M. E. Church. He came at the invitation of Wm. Gossett and preached at his house. During the next year, William Gossett erected a small building which was used as a church and school building. He owned several hundred acres of land when he died. He had been instrumental in securing good roads and other developments. He died February 16, 1845.
The children of William and Charity Hageman Gossett were:
Dr. William Otto Gossett of Kempton, Indiana, was one of the
historians for the Gossett reunions, which have been mentioned
in this book. It is learned from his letters that he belonged
to a Gossett branch of North Carolina. In 1908 he wrote, “My
ancestors were French nobles, also, Huguenots, and were expelled
from France when the Edict at Nantes was revoked. They fled to
England, from where two brothers emigrated to America.” His
letters give the following information of his family: Dr. Gossett’s
grandfather was Williamson Gossett, who moved about 1860 from
North Carolina and settled in what was, at a later date, Jackson
County, Indiana. Dr. Gossett’s father was Dr. James Montrey
Gossett, b. May 14, 1822; settled in Normandy, Indiana, in 1877;
moved to Augusta, Kansas, in 1886; removed to Indiana in 1896;
d. November 1899 at Kempton, Indiana, where he had taught school.
Both Williamson and Dr. James Montrey Gossett are buried in Baker
Cemetery, two miles east of Circleville, Clinton County, Indiana.
Dr. James Montrey Gossett was married three times and had the
following children:
1. Mrs. L. M. Carr (Bernice Gossett), West Lafayette, Indiana. 2. Mrs. Emil Casey (Katherine Gossett), Brookston, Indiana. Both daughters graduated from De Pauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. Dr. Gossett died in September 1927 at Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he had gone on account of his health. |
From QUI ETES-VOUS?
Annaire Des Contemporains Notices Biographiques. Published in Paris.
GOSSET (Abbé-cure de Saint Eloi)
36 rue de Reuilly
Ne’en 1866-
Curé de Saint-Elois depuis 19l2
GOSSET-professeur a’la Faculté de Medecine de Paris,
chirurgien des hospitaux.
8 avenue Emilé—Deo chanel Segur-’07-33.
Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur:
Croix de guerre.
MARIÉ a MLLE. JEANNE THIERY.
A leading surgeon of France was a Dr. Gossett of Paris. He was Clemenceau’s physician in World War I.
Leon Gosset, author in Paris; writes books on tours; Gosset Quartier latin et Luxembourg; Les environs de Paris Patronages officials; Touring club de France, Office national du Tourisme, Club alpin françois du Paris, 1928, 660 pages. In French.
Harold Gossett is a wholesale hosiery dealer in Los Angeles, California. His father, Louis Gossett, was born in France.
Robert C. Gossett, city manager of Edmond, Oklahoma, wrote in a letter dated March 22, 1945: “Our ancestors were expelled from France on account of Protestantism. My father’s name was John Matthias,, who came from Kentucky to Oklahoma. Our family names were Biblical - John, Jacob, Joshua, Samuel, Matthew, etc.. My brother, Charles Gossett (deceased), lived in St. Shawnee, Oklahoma. There have been two or three families in Oklahoma by the name of Gossett but were no relatives of ours as far as we know...”
M. H. Gossett, lawyer, formerly of Dallas, Texas, was for several years the President of the Federal Land Bank of Houston, Texas. His ancestors went from South Carolina to Texas about the middle of the 19th century.
This information of M. H. Gossett was given by Thomas Henry Gossett of Spartanburg, South Carolina. For years these two men carried on a correspondence concerning the Gossett genealogy.
Incidentally, there is a little village in Kaufman County, Texas, named Gossett. It is on land which was owned by M. H. Gossett. He owned large tracts of land in Kaufman County. The town of Gossett is just below Maybank.
Garry Gossett is the son of M. H. Gossett and is living in Dallas, Texas.
A man named Dewey Gossett lives in Mississippi.
Claude Gossett, Gospel singer, formerly lived in Wilmore, Kentucky.
A colony of Gossetts live near Somerset, Kentucky. The names of William and Mary appear in their families.
Reuben Gossett lived in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Henry M. Gossett, father of the late Betty Jane Gossett, and a brother of Mrs. Charles Anthony, died July 9, 1950, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
An advertisement for a heating company is signed—“Bell and Gossett Company, Morton Grove, Illinois”. Mr. Gossett is Earl J. Gossett and his biography appears in Who’s Who in America. Earl J. Gossett, b. May 12, 1887, son of William H. and Laura Eubanks Gossett at Norris City, Illinois. Student at University of Illinois. Married April 23, 1913, Ida Olander. Member of Union League, Rotary, Mason. Lives in Winnetka, Illinois.
Mrs. P. H. Cushman of Salt Lake City, Utah, wrote that John Gossett, b. 1776; d. 1854; m. Mary Noffsinger (daughter of Jacob and Susan Stoner Noffsinger) in Virginia, went to Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, 1812, was her ancestor. She is Ruth V. Cushman. (Daniel Gossett of Rockingham County, Virginia, was the father of this John Gossett. See descendants of Peter Gossett of Franklin County, Pennsylvania)
Olive Gossett Schad (Mrs. George D. Schad), Marietta, Ohio, writes, “My grandfather was Darius Gossett, who came from Scotland when a small boy. He had 4 or 5 brothers.”
Mrs. Ila Gossett Gent, 21l8 Algonquin Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky, is a granddaughter of Fate Gossett of Graves County, Kentucky.
Marine Corporal William Gossett married July 9, 1949, Constance Palumbo at Torrance,, California. A few days later he sailed for Korea, and was killed in the fighting around Seoul.
David L. Gossett, stationed at Mountain Home, a service base near Boise, Idaho, was married June 2, 1952, to Ellen Laughridge at Caldwell, 8 miles from Nampa, Idaho. His mother is Mrs. Monta Gossett of Shamrock, Texas.
Private First Class Ken P. Gossett, son of Rufus A. Gossett (deceased) of Dallas, Texas, was stationed at Camp Roberts, California, 30 August 1952.
Allen Gossett lives in Bell Gardens, California.
J. D. Gossett resides at 1236 Temple Hills Dr., Laguna Beach, California.
Ed Gossett was born January 27, 1902, in Sabine Parish Louisiana, son of Ed L. and Sarah Ann Gossett. He acquired A.B., University of Texas, 1924; L.L.B., 1927, and was admitted to Texas bar in 1927. He was member of Congress 76-81st from the 13th district of Texas.
Representative Ed Gossett delivered a forceful speech before Congress July 2, 1947, on “Displaced Persons”. Concerning his views on the subject, Time news magazine commented in the issue of June 13, 1949. A picture of him accompanied the article. Ed Gossett resigned from Congress July 31, 1951, to become chief counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Ed Gossett was married May 20, 1939, to Mary Helen Moseley. Children: Glenn, Judy, Sarah Jane, Melissa, and Stephen. He is a Mason and baptist. His home is in Wichita Falls, Texas. (See Who’s Who in America.)
William Thomas Gossett joined the Ford Motor Company as vice-president and general counsel in 1947. He had been associated with the New York law firm of Hughes, Hubbard, and Ewing. Among the clients of Hughes, Hubbard, and Ewing was Bendix Aviation Corp., of which William Gossett was general counsel and a director. He took part in the defense of Aluminum Co. of America in the government’s antitrust suit, and between 1932 and 1937 he assisted in the reorganization of Fox Film Corporation and subsidiaries. William T. Gossett was born September 9, 1904, in Gainsville, Texas, where, in 1851, his grandfather, Thomas P. Gossett, settled and operated as a cattleman. His grandfather was born in Kentucky, and his great-grandfather was a Methodist minister. William’s father, James T. Gossett, owned a string of small hotels in north Texas and southern Oklahoma. His father and mother moved to California in 1933 and lived there until they died, he in 1940, and she in 1943. William Gossett has many relatives in Texas. He has a brother and sister living in Hollywood, California. His brother, Wayne, owns a Ford dealership in Studio City, California, and his sister, Christine, is the wife of Leon Ames, who, under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, played the role of father in the motion picture, “Meet Me in St. Louis”. |
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While William and Elizabeth Hughes Gossett lived in New York, he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Riverside Church and she was the president of the New York Red Cross Chapter and the president of the Junior League. Their home is in the Bloomfield area of Detroit, and they have three children, Antoinette Carter, William T., and Elizabeth Evans.
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes was born Antoinette Carter, September 14, 1864, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter of Walter S. Carter. She died December 7, 1945.
(A biographical sketch of William T. Gossett recurs in Who’s Who in America.)
Mr. T. H. Gossett of Spartanburg, South Carolina, also Mrs. Charlotte McLellan of Topeka, Kansas, furnished the names of the children of John Gossett (1766-1844) of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. They were John, Elijah, Gabriel, Major, Abram, Richard, a daughter, and perhaps another son, William.
The records in the clerk’s office of the Court of Spartanburg, South Carolina, show that four brothers, John, Elijah, Gabriel, and Major Gossett, removed from Virginia and settled in South Carolina about 1780-85.
In all probability, early Gossetts of South Carolina journeyed through the Cumberland Gap to southern states and were the ancestors of Gossett families of later generations in Tennessee and Mississippi, also in Texas and Arkansas. This possibility is strengthened by facts, dates, and the names of Elijah and Gabriel, which appear in the records, and by other factors.
It is difficult to pick up the thread of ancestry where great breaks are made like removal west or south. Nevertheless the research is a challenge to one who is interested in his genealogy. This history endeavors only to offer clues to a few of the problems. This history is, fundamentally, a study of some of the lineal descendants of John Gosset who was licensed land in 1735 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Reference to Elijah Gossett was made in a letter written in 1939 by Mrs. Austin A. Baker of Bolivar, Tennessee, to Colonel H. H. F. Gossett, who was located at that time in Memphis, Tennessee Mrs. Baker is now regent of Hatchie Chapter, D.A.R., in Bolivar. Her tribute is partly quoted: “Elijah Gossett was a delegate at the meeting of Presbytery at old Mt. Comfort Church, near Hickory Valley in March 1829. The first record of Elijah Gossett was in 1823, when he and V. D. Gossett bought a tract of land on the waters of Spring Creek, five miles south of Bolivar, Tennessee. He was captain of a company to take the first census... He must have been outstanding... At any rate, his name has been preserved as one who contributed to the civilizing of the raw new settlement and we are grateful to him for his influence... I hope some day we will know... who he was, from whence he came and whether he strayed.”
Whether Elijah strayed is, undoubtedly, disclosed in The History
of Houston County, Texas by Armistead Albert Aldrich, pub. 1943,
in the following excerpts:
On pages 152-4 appears “The Gossett Family”, a history of Elijah Gossett and his descendants, written by Mrs. Josie Gossett Newton of Galveston. The relevant parts of the history are reviewed, as follows: Elijah Gossett, b. February 1, 1788, on Rutherford Creek, Tennessee. Married Elizabeth Stone Edwards, b. September 1, 1789, in Tennessee. (Her mother was a Miss Lackridge.) They reared a family of ten children and moved to Illinois. Then they returned to Tennessee. In 1833, accompanied by their entire family, they moved to Texas and settled in what was later to become Houston County, which was then a part of Mexico.
Elijah Gossett selected a site for his home on the Hurricane Bayou, five miles from the present town of Crockett, and lived there until 1837. He and his three oldest sons, James Lackridge, Andrew Edwards, and John Van Dyke, served in the ‘Texas Revolution’ for its entire duration as volunteers under Captain William Spurlock, Brigadier General Thomas J. Rusk, commanding. After Texas became a republic, the four Gossetts joined Captain Elisha Clapps company of ‘Texas Rangers’, and served on the frontier. (These facts were furnished by Miss Harriet Smither, archivist of the Texas library, Capitol Building, Austin. She also furnished copies of the discharge papers. Some of this information was copied from Comptrollers Military Service Records, nos. 4909 and 4911, and from Pension Papers, Archives.) The Gossetts received bounty warrants of land, 320 acres each, for their military service. Also, they received land grants from the Mexican government as settlers.
Elijah Gossett was elected county judge in 1841, and he was one of the eleven trustees appointed for Trinity College, which was first established at Alabama in Houston County, by the senate and house of representatives of the Republic of Texas in Congress, assembled January 30, 1841.
Elijah Gossett owned land in Van Zandt County where he died November 24, 1848.
Elijah’s son, Andrew Edwards Gossett, was the father of Newton. He built his first log cabin home at the top of the hill north of the present town of Crockett, where the Mary Ellen Seminary (Negro College) is now located. It was 63 miles over a rough trail to Nacogdoches, the nearest trading post. In 1837 he built his house, now standing, about a mile from Crockett. It is referred to as “the old Gossett place”. He donated the site for the town of Crockett, and he and his father named the town.
Andrew Edwards Gossett was born July 19, 1812, in Maury County, Tennessee. He married December 27, 1831, Rhoda E. Mulder (b. January 12, 1812, in Halifax, North Carolina, d. April 14, 1853, in Crockett). They had nine children.
Andrew Edwards Gossett married January 22, 1857, Mary Margaret Murchison (daughter of Simon and Elizabeth Ross Murchison), born in McNary County, Tennessee, February 17, 1832; d. December 20, 1904, age 72 years. Their children were: Andrew Edwards, b. August 4, 1858; d. April 28, 1928, and Margaret Josephine, b. December 22, 1862, who is Mrs. Josie Gossett Newton, the contributor of “The Gossett Family”.
Herman H. F. Gossett, Colonel, F.A., U.S. Army, writing from
Omaha, Nebraska, in 1944, contributed information regarding his
father’s family, as follows: Colonel Gossett stated that
he had five sisters and he was the only son of John Thomas Gossett,
a Methodist minister. His father was born March 9, 1866, at or
near Ripley, Mississippi, and he died in December 1934 at Searcy,
Arkansas, where Colonel Gossett’s mother was still living.
The children of John Thomas Gossett are:
Colonel Gossett’s grandfather, Gabriel W. Gossett, removed
from Mississippi to Yell County, Arkansas, with his family, which
consisted of 4 sons and 4 daughters. Gabriel was born 1830-40.
Fought with Confederates. Died about 1900-1910. Children were:
[July 1999. The following information was provided by Carolynn Faye Gossett Roberts, great granddaughter of Robert Newton Gossett. "Robert Newton married Rose Etta Morphew. According to the 1900 census Robert was the tax collector/assessor for Paris, Texas. They later moved to Rapides Parish, Louisiana, where Robert died and is now buried. Their children are: Arther L. Gossett, born July 27, 1888; Ennis L. Gossett, born November 3, 1896; and my grandfather Alvie E. Gossett, born May 1894. Alvie married Minnie Price. Sometime during the 1920s, my grandparents, Alvie and Minnie, moved to Monroe, Louisiana, where they had 5 children. Their son, Robert Elmer, also my father, married Mable Louise Overstreet."] See Query on the query page. |
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Colonel Gossett adds, “My father told me before he died that all of the Gossetts in this country are descended from two brothers who came to this country from Britain several generations ago. He also said they originally were French Huguenots and were chased out of France and settled in Great Britain.”
Colonel Gossett gave additional data: Bible and Tombstone
Records—Acklen
December 5, 1844-January 13, 1918 6th Tennessee Infantry |
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April 25, 1862-July 30, 1900. Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, near Knoxville, Tennessee. |
Lebanon County Marriage Bonds
November 29, 1834. Henry Gossett to Poly Dill, John Gossett-Surety. (Colonel Gossett wonders whether this John could have been the brother of his grandfather Gabriel.)
The War Department has reported the death of Colonel Gossett. He had two children-a son and a daughter.
 Thomas Frank Gossett |
For three generations a Gossett family lived in Texas isolated from other Gossett families, and they have little knowledge of their ancestors. Although they recognize they have similar characteristics and physical resemblances to Gossetts whom they happen to meet, no connections have been established. It is obvious a relationship exists between this family and Colonel Gossett’s branch, according to data recently obtained, as follows: Colonel Gossett’s grandfather, Gabriel Gossett, had a brother John and a sister Nancy. Gabriel lived in Mississippi. Evidence points to Gabriel’s brother John as being the ancestor of the family in Texas. This connection is intimated in the information containing incidents, dates, and names given by Thomas Frank Gossett, who is a member of the Texas family. Mr. Gossett expresses his intention to pursue the investigation of this relationship and, eventually if possible, to trace the line to the immigrant ancestor. Thomas Frank Gossett is a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he received a doctorate June 1953. Previously he taught English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees. Formerly he was associate editor of the Southwest Review, a literary quarterly. A book he is writing, entitled “The Idea of Anglo-Saxon Superiority in American Thought, 1865-1915”, will soon be published by the Southern Methodist University Press in Dallas. Recently Dr. Gossett wrote, “I’m teaching a course at the University of Minnesota on the beginnings of American thought in literature, philosophy, and history. Preparing for the new course, I often reflect upon the American past as I am sure you must.” |
James Anderson Gossett, brother of William Simpson Gossett, also born in Mississippi. He was probably two or three years younger than his brother. He had three sons, Lester, John, and Arthur, who live in Fort Worth, Texas. There was also a daughter, Fanny Gossett, b. April 17, 1902; d. December 1952. James Anderson Gossett died in the 1920s in Kaufman County, Texas, where his wife is still living. The only thing I remember about “Uncle Jim” is that he came to our house when I was about eight years old and surprised us all with his ability to whittle. He carved wooden chains and even made a very creditable violin.”
William Simpson Gossett had six children:
The children of Rufus and Fern White Gossett are:
Wayne Walter Gossett had four children:
Pierre Gosset of France and his wife Renée write reports for a Paris monthly magazine, Réalités, on their explorations of foreign countries. To the August number, 1953, of the Paris magazine they contributed the story of life in the United States after they had toured the country from the farms to the cities. They were greatly impressed with San Francisco, where they decided to make their home. An account of these able correspondents was published in Time magazine, p. 69, August 24, 1953.
C. C. Gossett, a naval reservist, is depicted a hero by the press, Atlanta, Georgia, January 23, 1954. Gossett with others hauled Lieutenant Commander J. B. Kisner from his flaming plane near Chamblee, Georgia, ignoring the Memphis (Tennessee) officer’s warning that a gasoline blast might kill all of them. Gossett’s mother commented, “I know it was just what he would do.” His mother is Mrs. Margaret Gossett, formerly of Fillmore, California. She is living with her sister, Mrs. Alice Reynolds, in Stockton, California.
Mr. B. E. Gossett is the owner of Gossett Music Company, Seventh St., Riverside, California. He was born in Georgia, where his grandfather settled. Mr. Gossett was graduated from the University of Chicago in the department of philosophy. For several years he and his family have lived in Riverside. He has a son and a daughter.
Mrs. H. Mather Brooks, 502 Maple Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey, is a descendant of Polly Gossett Judy who was a daughter of Jacob Gossett of Kentucky. The mother of Mrs. Brooks was Grace Judy, daughter of Asa and Mary Gossett Judy.
Throughout the annals of the Gossett history there were many of whom it could have been said, “He is a man among men”. Today among the living this saying aptly applies; for the descendants of John and Peter Gosset, who came to America more than 200 years ago, are outstanding in their communities and leaders in their respective fields of endeavor.