David Gander

1800 - 1871  (70 years)

• Name	David Gander  [1]
  Birth	10 Oct 1800	Frederick County, Virginia   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	10 Oct 1800	Shenandoah County, Virginia   [6]
  Alternate birth	1801	Virginia   [8]
  Death	18 Jun 1871	Spencer Township, Guernsey County, Ohio   [6, 7, 9, 10, 11]
  Burial	Bethel Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Bluebell, Guernsey, Ohio   [2, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I26011	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	Samuel Gander,   b. Between 1761 and 1765   d. 6 Oct 1840, Highland Township, Muskingum County, Ohio (Age ~ 79 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Barbara Zull,   b. Between 1761 and 1770, Virginia d. Between 1830 and 1840, Muskingum County, Ohio (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1786  [7, 12]
  Family ID	F15572	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rachael Shull,   b. 16 Jan 1803, Virginia d. 18 Sep 1869, Guernsey County, Ohio (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1822	Frederick County, Virginia   [6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
  Notes	Married by John B. Tilden, the same justice of the peace from Stephens City, Virginia, that married Rachael's older sister Catherine to David's older brother John almost a year earlier. "Neither Gander brother resided in. Page Co., Va., as stated in the Scholl, Sholl, Shull Genealogy." ["Jonathan Shull (Sholl) / Margaret Whissen Biography", citation details below]
  Children	1. David Cross Gander,   b. 30 Jun 1844, Spencer Township, Guernsey County, Ohio d. 3 Jan 1914, Byesville, Guernsey, Ohio (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F15569	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  From Charles Gander (citation details below): It has been reported that David and his brother George walked from the neighborhood of Capon Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia), to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1827. George, who had migrated to Ohio in 1814, evidently had returned to Virginia to guide his younger brother and his small family to the Ohio frontier. David had been the last of the known male descendants of his grandfather Peter Gander to move from the Valley of Virginia to Ohio. Construction on the National Road in Ohio (now U.S. route 40) had begun only two years earlier. Although all of the roads followed by David on his journey to Zanesville were unpaved and especially difficult when wet, the Ohio segment along Zanes Trace still was only a little better than a path through forests beaten down by men and animals; most fordable streams were unbridged. David had a dog that also accompanied the family to Ohio, but shortly after arriving in Muskingum County, the dog decided to leave. He swam the Ohio River and when he arrived back in the former neighborhood in Virginia, his paws were raw. He was taken over and cared for by one of David's former neighbors. […] In July of 1863, the Confederate forces under General John Morgan made a raid into southern Ohio, advancing the farthest north of any Confederate force during the Civil War. Warned of this raid, David and his youngest son, David Cross, hid almost all of their horses in a bush-covered gully. Two of David's other sons were away serving in the Union Army. The Confederate forces came through the farm, took the one unhidden horse and some food and proceeded further north. The horse was never returned. When about 43 years of age, David was converted (possibly from Baptist or Reformed beliefs) and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is listed as one of the "early members" of the Bethel M.E. Church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3391] Find a Grave page for David Cross Gander. [S3393] Find a Grave page for David Gander. [S3304] Ohio Obituary Index, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, on ancestry.com., year only. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com., year only. [S4269] Spaid Genealogy, from the First of the Name in This Country to the Present Time by Abraham Thompson Secrest. Columbus, Ohio: 1922., date and state only. [S4275] "David Gander / Rachel Shull Biography", posted to ancestry.com by Charles Harrison Gander, 3 Dec 2016. Cites his The History and Genealogy of the Gander Families (1987). [S6676] The History and Genealogy of the Gander Families by Charles Harrison Gander. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1987. [S2231] 1870 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S3393] Find a Grave page for David Gander., year, county, and state only. [S3304] Ohio Obituary Index, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, on ancestry.com., year and state only. [S4269] Spaid Genealogy, from the First of the Name in This Country to the Present Time by Abraham Thompson Secrest. Columbus, Ohio: 1922., "near Pleasant City". [S4279] "Samuel Gander / Elizabeth Barbara Zoll Biography", posted to ancestry.com by Charles Harrison Gander, 3 Dec 2016. Cites his The History and Genealogy of the Gander Families (1987). [S3394] Find a Grave page for Rachel/Rachael Shull Gander. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com., year and state only. [S3397] Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, on ancestry.com. [S4272] Scholl, Sholl, Shull Genealogy by John William Scholl. New York: The Grafton Press, 1930. [S4274] "Jonathan Shull (Sholl) / Margaret Whissen Biography", posted to ancestry.com by Charles Harrison Gander, 31 Jan 2017. Cites several works by him unavailable to us, including The Ancestral History of Thelma E. Adair and The Ancestral History of Barbara (Weber/Weaver) Gander.