Martha Gamblin [255]
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1838 - ,White County,Illinois
Christening:
Death: Abt 1864 - ,St. Clair County,Missouri
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Simon Henry Gamblin [236] (Abt 1817-Bef 1850) [MRIN:101]
Mother: Eliza Ann Harlan [254] (Abt 1823-1853) 2
Spouses and Children
1. *William Wallace Todd [275] (21 Sep 1837 - ) 2 [MRIN:104]
Marriage: 1861 - ,St. Clair County,Missouri
Children:
1. William Thomas Todd [278] (1862- )
2. james Albert Todd [279] (Abt 1863- ) 2
Notes
General:
There may be a question regarding the marriage of Martha Gamblin, the
daughter of Simon Henry Gamblin and Eliza Ann Harlan.
Simon Henry died before 1850 and Eliza is a widow at the time of the census
that year. Pencelle Gamblin, daughter of Marian Greathouse and William
Gamblin, married Alonzo Potter (another Greathouse descendant) and had
children. After Pencelle died in 1853, Alonzo married the widow Eliza Ann
Harlan (Gamblin). Eliza died sometime between 1853 and 1855 as near as I can
determine and Alonzo then married Isabella Jenkins who died in 1858. In
December of 1858, Alonzo married his fourth wife, Martha J. Deshazo (Devin),
a widow with four children.
I mention the above because the 1860 U. S. Federal Census for St. Clair
county, Missouri enumerates Alonzo and Martha and 12 children still living
at "home", all of which are using the surname Potter, not their birth
surnames. When Martha Gamblin married William Wallace Todd, she was married
under the name of Martha Potter.
Regarding William Wallace Todd. I believe he was married to his first wife
in 1860. His second wife was Martha Gamblin (Potter) who died in 1864.
William then married Samantha Gamblin, the daughter of Marian Greathouse and
William Gamblin.
Can it get more confusing?
William Y Gamblin, son of Marian and William, is mentioned in my mother's
diary as having gone to the gold fields of California and was never heard
from again. I found William Y Gamblin in Plumas County, California in the
1860 and the 1870 U. S. Federal Census, but lost the trail after that.
The above information would not be available without the help of other
researchers. It was a Gamblin descendant, Janice Abbott, who put me on the
trail of Martha Gamblin, Samantha Gamblin and Elizabeth Gamblin and she
deserves a lot of credit for her detective work.
Anyway, hopefully the above information will answer any questions you might
receive about Martha Gamblin and perhaps Samantha and Elizabeth Gamblin as
well.
Patricia Doll