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GENETIC PARENTS

Father: William Gault

Mother: Rebecca Coffey

GENETIC CHILDREN

Son: William McCormack (1806-1868) - married Minerva Riddle, Mary Hughey, and Martha (McLain) McHenry¹

Daughter: Nancy McCormack (1807-1852) - married William Pinkerton and John Coulter¹

Son: Thomas McCormack (1809-1828)¹

Daughter: Ellen/Elinor McCormack (c.1811-c.1845) - married James Tenant¹

Daughter: Manda Mulvina McCormack (1813-1828)¹

Son: James McCormack (c.1815-?)¹

Son: John Wilson McCormack¹

Son: Hugh Coffee McCormack (1819-1870) - married Eliza A. Lindsay¹

Daughter: Rebecca J. McCormack (c.1822-c.1888) - married William T. Wilson¹

Son: Mathew Stone McCormack (c.1822-aft.1893) - married Mary Hill¹

Son: Isaac Newton McCormack (bef.1829-?)¹

OTHER RELATIONS

Brother: Robert Gault (1764-1837) - married Isabella ? and Phebe Perkinson Bents¹

Brother: William Gault (c.1774-died young)¹

Sister: Jane Gault (died young)¹

Sister: Isabella (Abby) Gault - possibly married a Bailey¹

Brother: John Gault (1775-c.1823) - married Elizabeth ?¹

Brother: Charles(?) Gault³

Brother: Joseph(?) Gault³

Brother: James Gault (1777-1837) - married Eleanor McCain¹

Brother: Thomas Gault (1780-c.1840) - married Sarah Apeling¹

Sister: Grace Gault (bef.1790-aft.1842) - married James Johnson and John Wilson¹

Sister: Nancy Gault (1791-1835/36) - married John Clark Taylor¹

Brother: Hugh Coffey Gault (1793-1877) - married Nancy Mulhenan Askins¹

Husband: James McCormack

BASIC DATA

Name: Susanna Gault

Born: 20 January 1785 in Union County, South Carolina²

Died: 4 August 1850 at Sparta, Illinois²

Buried: Union Church Cemetery near Sparta

HISTORY

Occupation: Homemaker

Marriage data: 16 May 1805 at Williamson County, Tennessee¹ (recorded in July 1805), ended by his death

Miscellaneous: Susanna must have met James in Williamson County when she moved there with her mother in 1803. The couple settled down on a farm on Little Swan Creek, four miles west of the town of Fayetteville, Tennessee, in Lincoln County. Jim was both a millwright and a farmer.¹

Writing in 1893, Pressley Brown Gault remembered his aunt from stories told to him by his father [Hugh Coffee Gault] and mother.

Aunt Susie was tall and slender, full of energy, regular "lightning on wheels", smart as a steel trap, and always ready for her share of whatever was to be done, along the path of life, either of a physical, mental, moral, or spiritual nature, never balked at anything; and while she had many little faults, she was one of the most devoted Christians I ever knew.¹

She was a member of the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lincoln County, as were her mother, brothers, and sisters who lived there. She was a zealous and consistent member, and was said to have been far ahead of many professing Christians in point of religious knowledge.¹

Her faith was certainly tested, because her husband and two children died of "congestive fever" in just over one year.¹

In the spring of 1843, Susanna sold out her farm and other property, and moved to Sparta, Illinois, bringing all her unmarried children with her, plus Temperance (Sullivan) McCormack, her son John's wife. John had moved there two years previously. She bought a house and lot in the west part of town and lived there until she died.¹

Sources: ¹Gault, Pressley Brown, and Leighty, Elisabeth Pinkerton. The William Gault Family History, 1735 to 1948. [The Gault section written in 1893 and the Leighty section in 1948.]

²Tombstone inscription at Union Church Cemetery near Sparta, Illinois.

³The question mark is because these children's names or existence is unclear. The author of the Gault Family History had been told the correct number of children for William and Rebecca and was making a guess as to their names.

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