Anyone have any information on the wife of William Ganey b. 1809 Sampson co., NC?

Question

The only records I've ever found have her as Elizabeth "Unknown" b. 1814.

Answer 1

www.familysearch.org

William Henry GAINEY

Birth:  10 MAY 1809   , Sampson, North Carolina

Death:  12 OCT 1886

          Married:

ELIZABETH

Birth:   25 Apr 1814,North Carolina  

Death:15 May 1889, Brunswick Co ., North Carolina  

William's parents:

Abram Gainey --b. 1770, Duplin, North Carolina; d.  1822   , Cumberland, North Carolina

           Married-- About 1799, Cumberland, North Carolina

Catherine Wood --b. 1783, Sampson, North Carolina; d. After 1850 ,  Cumberland, North Carolina

       (Had 12 children)

on www.ancestry.com's One World Tree, I found this :

William Gainey

Born:  4 Jan 1807,Knox, Kentucky, USA (date & place different) who married  Elizabeth Sadler (also born in KY on

28 Jan 1808 , d.  2 Feb 1872; and got married on 3 Jan 1826  in Monroe, Indiana. Going by the dates you gave, this wouldn't be right.

Other than the immediate above, all I could see was "Elizabeth Unknown" or "Elizabeth Ganey" listed.

Answer 2

According to the 1850 Census, her name was Elizabeth and she was 50 (he was 40).  They lived in Town Creek, Brunswick County, NC.  They were both born in NC according to this census record, as were all their kids...

Not sure if you can get to this unless you're an Ancestry.com subscriber, but try this (long) link to see all the family trees uploaded by people whose research includes William Ganey:  http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.d...

The ones I looked at don't seem to have information about Elizabeth, but they are "public" trees and you could contact the people who posted them...  I did that with a very distant cousin a few months ago and together we were able to put together a few pieces of the puzzle of our shared ancestry!

Best of luck to you!

Answer 3

The following information is found on http://genforum.genealogy.com/gainey/mes...

"William Henry Gainey was born November 10, 1809 in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and died October 12, 1886 in Brunswick County, North Carolina

He married ELIZABETH (UNKNOWN) Abt. 1830 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. She was born April 25, 1814 in North Carolina, and died May 15, 1889 in Brunswick County, North Carolina."

You could try contacting the author, Cynthia Ganey (chganey @ aol.com) to see if she has found any more information on Elizabeth.

I'll look some more and see if there is anything else to be found.