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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Joseph Lucius Gaston Note Born: 20 Apr 1829 at Chester District, , , South Carolina Married: 10 Sep 1857 at Fairfield County, , , South Carolina Died: 31 May 1862 at Battle Of Seven Pines, , , Virginia Father: John Brown Gaston Dr. Mother: Polly Buford Mcfadden
WIFE
Name: Margaret Brice Hemphill Born: 19 Jan 1829 at Hopewell Section, , , Chester County South Carolina Died: 21 Jun 1921 at Chester, , , South Carolina Father: David Hemphill Mother: Jane Brice
CHILDREN
Name: Janie Gaston Born: 23 Oct 1856 at Chester, , , South Carolina Died: 25 Mar 1935 at Chester, , , South Carolina Husband: George Williams Gage Judge
Name: Joseph Lucius Gaston Dr. Born: Abt 1860 at Chester, , , South Carolina Died: at Montgomery, , , Alabama
NOTES
1). Joseph Lucius Gaston, son of John Brown Gaston, MD and Mar y Buford McFadden Gaston, was born on April 20, 1829 in th e Cedar Shoals section of Chester County, SC. His paterna l grandparents were Joseph Gaston and Jane Brown Gaston. Hi s maternal grandparents were Walter Brown and Margaret Brow n. Joseph Lucius Gaston was the first Gaston to move to Che sterville. After his graduation in 1852 from South Carolin a College he settled there to read law. He was admitted t o the Bar of South Carolina in December, 1853 and became ju nior partner of JamesHemphill, Esquire. Gaston was describ ed by a colleague as six feet two inches in height, stron g and athletic. His address was pleasant and prepossessing , his mind sturdy, vigorous and honest, and sought that whi ch was true and useful. On Thursday evening September 10, 1857 Joseph Lucius Gas ton, Esquire, was married to the beautiful Margaret Brice H emphill of Woodland Plantation, Fairfield County, SC, hom e of her grandfather, Robert Brice. Lucius bought for his bride the Brick House on York St reet in Chesterville which had been built by Absolum House r before 1855. Their parlor furniture, including a Rosewood piano, wa s brought up from Charleston by wagon. Two children, Janie Gaston and Joseph Lucius Gaston, Jr . were born to the young couple whose life was soon to be i nterrupted by the War Between the States. Although Lucius d id not approve of secession and had refused to allow himsel f to be nominated to the Secession Congress, when war cam e he volunteered to serve with Company F. 6th Regiment of the Co nfederate Army. On May 31, 1862 Captain Joseph Lucius Gaston and his bro ther, William Hall Gaston, were killed in Virginia at the B attle of Seven Pines as they fought side by side. Their bro ther, James McFadden Gaston, M.D., wrote to Lucius widow , Margaret, they fought together hour after hour and fel l near the close of action, almost side by side. Their bodies were recovered from the battlefield by thei r brother James, Camp Surgeon, and brought back to Chester by the Rev. John Hemph ill Simpson whose great service to the Confederate cause wa s to return the bodies of fallen Confederates to their hom e districts whenever possible. Isaac Gaston, younger, had died in a military hospital in F airfax Courthouse, VA on September 1, 1861. The three broth ers are buried in the churchyard of the Cedar Shoals Presby terian Church, and on their monument is inscribed, Tres No biles Fratres .

						

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