Not much is known about her, although based on the obituary, she must have had boundless curiosity for religious literature. I thought often of how they may have met. Charity have have taken a small sailboat or ferry up Mad River north to the Winooski River, chartered another boat to sail west to Burlington on the shores of Lake Champlain. From Burlington, she may have sailed down the Hudson River to Brooklyn where she may have met Hezekiah Gorham and married him. If she did not take a river route, she may have taken a wagon north to Middlesex and ferried to Burlington.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Charity Gorham
Not much is known about her, although based on the obituary, she must have had boundless curiosity for religious literature. I thought often of how they may have met. Charity have have taken a small sailboat or ferry up Mad River north to the Winooski River, chartered another boat to sail west to Burlington on the shores of Lake Champlain. From Burlington, she may have sailed down the Hudson River to Brooklyn where she may have met Hezekiah Gorham and married him. If she did not take a river route, she may have taken a wagon north to Middlesex and ferried to Burlington.
Hezekiah Gorham I
Hezekiah made a Will (Ashland County, Ohio, 5th District Court of Appeals, 3: 326 Hezekiah Gorham Will; Ashland County Probate Court, Ashland, Ohio) requesting his property be sold to take care of debts. His widow moved to be with her son James and his wife in Perrysville. Both Hezekiah and Charity are buried in the Perrysville Union Cemetery (Perrysville Union Cemetery (Perrysville, Ohio; corner of East Bridge and East Church Streets), Hezekiah Gorham, Section 2, row 3, lot 99; read and photographed by Lee Martin, 25 May 2015; Jane Ellen Bechtel Fitting, compiler, Perrysville Union Cemetery, Perrysville, Green Township, Ashland County, Ohio: A Revision of "Old Perrysville or Old Presbyterian Cemetery" Records 1812-1966 (Cincinnati, Ohio: private, 1 October 2003), ix, xi, 78, 101, 135).
I hunted for their tombstone through the years and did not find it until recently on Memorial Day last year in 2015 because I searched through the wrong part. I made the presumption they would be buried near their children close by the large family stone marked "GORHAM," but they are not buried near there. Instead, both of them are buried in the third row about 10 meters west of the family stone. The grave next to Hezekiah and Charity's is their young daughter, Lucy T Gorham. Lucy died as a child and their is no death record for her in the court records. On the third face of Hezekiah and Charity's stone is the inscription of their daughter Cordelia who is buried next to her parents in the same plot.
The stone is located N 40° 39' 21.1" W 82° 18' 43" and Hezekiah is the only one on my direct Mayflower line who came to Ohio. All his siblings lived in died in Massachusetts. In fact, Hezekiah's parents are buried in Woodside Cemetery in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts right there on the Cape.
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