Gallaudet Oliver

1785 - 1865  (79 years)

• Name	Gallaudet Oliver  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	8 Oct 1785	Kent County, Delaware   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Aug 1865  [4]
  Burial	Harman Cemetery, Gilboa, Putnam, Ohio   [4]
  Person ID	I31311	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel Oliver,   b. 17 Sep 1757   d. 3 Jun 1819, Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia) (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Lydia
  Family ID	F18676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Bogard,   b. 8 Jul 1785
  Marriage	31 Dec 1803	Randolph County, Virginia   [5, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Anore Catherine Oliver,   b. 9 Feb 1805   d. 23 May 1883 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F18584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He is said to have been in Harrison County, Virginia in 1810; Muskingham County, Ohio in 1820; Licking County, Ohio by 1823; and Putnam County, Ohio by 1850. We have seen no direct evidence for the parentage of Gaulladet Oliver, but many unsourced trees place him as a son of Samuel Oliver (1757-1819) and his wife Lydia, and we're inclined to find that plausible. Samuel Oliver, who is known to have had eight sons, was a son of Reuben Oliver and Esther Gallaudet. Reuben Oliver died in 1774. After his death, his wife Esther (Gallaudet) Oliver was granted administration of his estate by the court of Kent County, Delaware. Esther died in New Rochelle the following year, and subequently her brother-in-law Joseph Oliver took her younger children to Delaware and raised them there. Eldest son Samuel Oliver was obviously not one of those "younger children," but he did fight on the Delaware line in the Revolution. Gallaudet Oliver's Find a Grave page asserts that he was born in Kent County, Delaware in 1785. Gallaudet Oliver married Mary Ann Bogard in 1803 in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia); Samuel Oliver died in 1819 in Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia), just one county over. As a descendant of the eminent Huguenot Gallaudet family of New Rochelle, Gallaudet Oliver would have been of exactly the right social class to marry a descendant of early New Amsterdam families such as Mary Ann Bogard. And while onomastics are clinching proof of nothing, it is pretty hard to imagine how you wind up being named "Gallaudet Oliver" without being closely descended from Reuben Oliver and Esther Gallaudet. To the last sentence above: We think Gallaudet Oliver is most likely a son of Samuel Oliver, eldest child of Reuben Oliver and Esther Gallaudet, rather than any of Samuel's brothers, for the following reasons. Second son Gaulladet Oliver (1759-1846) had a son named Paul Gallaudet Oliver (d. aft. 1887), and is thus unlikely to have also had a son named Gallaudet Oliver. Third son Elisha Oliver does not seem to have married. And fourth son Thomas Oliver was born in 1770 and did not marry until 1791, making him an unlikely father for Gallaudet Oliver who is said to have been born about 1785.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5060] Find a Grave page for Anore Catherine Oliver Evans. [S5064] Cornelius Bogard of Randolph County by David Armstrong, at the Allegheny Regional Family History Society page. [S5080] Records of Wyatt Cemetery, Grundy County, Missouri. [S5061] Find a Grave page for Gallaudet Oliver. [S3397] Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, on ancestry.com. [S5063] Bible records of Gollidet (Gallaudet) Oliver and Maryan Bogard, 1852., month and year only. [S5064] Cornelius Bogard of Randolph County by David Armstrong, at the Allegheny Regional Family History Society page., year only.