People - Gash Family descendants

PEOPLE - Gash Family Descendants

Photos courtesy of the Gash Families - Argyle Wells Gash, Betty Saunders Gash

Buncombe County
John (1769 - 1857) and Nancy Gudger (1777 - 1851) Gash had a homestead in the northeast part of Buncombe County. At least three of their grown children, Alfred Raney, Martin Alley and Leander Sams, moved to Henderson and Transylvania Counties. Alfred and son Joseph are the Etowah Valley lineage.

Alfred Raney and Mary Livingston Gash in their later years. They married in 1829, and were the parents of Joseph Leander and seven other children.

Mary Livingston Gash (1802 - 1882) Buried at Mills River United Methodist Church Cemetery

Alfred Raney Gash (1809 - 1888) Buried at Mills River United Methodist Church Cemetery

Etowah Valley homestead of Alfred and Mary Gash - It is believed Alfred and Mary's home was located somewhere along Gash Rd (off Holly Springs Rd / Turnpike Rd), in the vicinity of the Holly Springs Chapel. Their son Joseph Leander's obituary states he was "born December 19, 1833, at the old Gash homestead about a mile and a half from Etowah." Joseph and his wife Margaret are credited with giving Etowah its name.

Cooking pot over the fire, storage and Kitchen prep area at left, framed picture of confederate soldier on the mantel. Photo courtesy of Argyle Wells Gash.

1850 - 1922 Buried at Mills River United Methodist Church Cemetery

Joseph Leander Gash
(1833-1916)

Margaret Indiana Stewart Gash
(1850-1922)

Read the Story - Etowah Got Its Name

Joseph and Margaret's Children:

George Alfred Gash
(1872 - 1958)

James Leander 'Lee' Gash
(1874 - 1958)

Pink Margaret Gash
(1876 - 1968)

Pearl Gillie Gash
(1883 - 1971)

Infant Son
(20 Dec 1885 - 20 Dec 1885)

Mamie Stewart Gash
(1889 - 1912)

George, James and Pink were born in Georgia.
Pearl and Mamie were born in Henderson County.

1833 - 1916 Buried at Mills River United Methodist Church Cemetery

Joseph and Margaret at home

Margaret Indiana Stewart Gash by the great tree on the Gash homeplace in Etowah, December 1911

Margaret I. Stewart Gash and "who?"

James Leander 'Lee' Gash (1874 - 1958)

James Leander Gash, son of Joseph & Margaret Stewart Gash, and brother of Postmaster Pearl Gash, delivered mail to the community in this wagon. The lantern he sometimes carried to deliver the mail is featured on the page, MEMORABILIA. Behind James sits in the former Gash home of early Etowah where he, his three sisters and brother lived after moving here from Adairsville, GA. The woman on the porch is most likely his wife, Julia Hood Gash. Wedding photo below.

Above, parents of Julia Monteval Hood Gash:
Monteval (1837-1878) & Mary Morris Hood (1839-1912) of Blantyre. The Hood's are buried at Davidson River Cemetery.

The 16"x20" framed image is an artist's rendering of the Hoods, on cardboard and enlarged, of an original photo(s), a common practice in late 1890's and early 1900's. The image is in the style of those made by the Chicago Portrait Company. "Chicago Portrait Company images were made from 1893 through at least 1940. Typically, rural salesmen (drummers) fanned out across the countryside to solicit old photographs of revered ancestors. These were to be made into impressive portraits suitable for framing. Portraits were available in pastel, crayon, or sepia and were executed on a heavy, curved card stock and offered at prices that were difficult to turn down. In the 1890s, pastel portraits ... were available for $3 and crayon renditions were under $2."

[Quoted material courtesy of: esarey.us/reunion/gallery5.htm ]

James Leander Gash standing in front of a sawdust pile at a saw mill site in Blantyre, between Fodderstack Mountain Rd & Hood Hill Dr, Transylvania County. circa 1950's

Wedding Photo of James Leander Gash (1874 - 1958) & Julia Monteval Hood Gash (1877 - 1955), married March 21, 1907. Photo Studio name at lower right: J. M. McCanless, 12 N. Pack Square, Asheville, NC.

Hood sisters, L to R: Mattie (Maggie) Hood Blythe, Julia Hood Gash, Annie Hood English

Julie Monteval Hood Gash (1877-1955), circa 1950 - 1953. "She was a very refined, gentle woman."

1952, Julia Hood's 75th Birthday. Standing, L to R: Betty Saunders Gash, Margaret Gash, Argyle Wells Gash.

Pink Margaret Gash (1876 - 1968)

" Attended the former Judson Female College. She was graduated from the Georgia and Alabama Business College of Macon, GA [diploma dated 1904]. She taught school for a short time before she became a traveling saleswoman for the National Sales and Dry Goods Co. of New York City for 34 years. She was highly regarded as a seamstress, and there are those who still remember visits to the Gash home for fittings. She was an entrepeneur. " Courtesy of Tom Orr

Pearl Gillie Gash (1883 - 1971)

Pearl served as Etowah's Postmaster from April 1914 to Dec 1948. She was employed as the Station Agent at the Etowah Train Depot from 1916 - 1948, succeeding her father, Joseph Leander Gash. Read more about Pearl.

Pink and Pearl never married. They are buried next to each other in the Mills River United Methodist Church cemetery near the graves of their parents, Joseph and Margaret Stewart Gash.

Sisters Pearl and Pink Gash in front of their home that once stood on Old Hwy 64 near the former Etowah Train Depot.

Pink Gash - perhaps while attending the Georgia - Alabama Business College, in Macon, GA.

Pink Gash (center) with her Georgia cousins, Ella Stewart (L) and Bessie Stewart (R)
- daughters of Warren Stewart, Pink's uncle on her mother's side.
This may be a graduation photo taken in Macon, GA, Georgia - Alabama Business College.
Pink's diploma is dated July 2, 1904.

Pearl Gash and dog, Sam

1914 Gash Family - Grandparents Margaret & Joseph, James & Julia with children Winborn, William and Margaret; the boy is unknown.

L to R, Winborn and William Gash;

The twin boys in 1914, L to R, William and Winborn, Baker's Art Gallery

Margaret Morris Gash (1908 - 2008)

Margaret