21 December 2009

Found the missing data about the Gatlin family

Tonight I stumbled upon someone with great Gatlin info on RootsWeb.  Macy Gatlin (Campbell)'s father, or G.W. Campbell's maternal grandfather, was Moses Allen Gatlin, born a twin in 1782 with the infant brother dying.  He apparently served in the War of 1812.  Macy G. Campbell's mother was named Chloe Rowe (Gatlin).

Moses surely was a popular name, with Macy's husband being Moses Campbell, and her daughter-in-law Eliza Jane Wright having a brother Moses Wright. --- Oh, and I just noticed that Macy married a man of her father's age, too, if the birth year for Moses Campbell of 1781 is correct!  Maybe there was a shortage of young men when the War of 1812 was over in 1815.  She was born in 1800 in Warren County, Ga., and lived until 1888, or until at least three years after Granny got married. 

This source also shows the next generation back was Jesse Gatlin, who is said to have served in the Revolutionary War.  This family seems to have had the same migration pattern as the Campbells: N.C. to Ga., then later to Ala.

If you look at the link below, "Mrs. McDuffie" refers to the author of a book cited, The Gatlin Family in America.

If you click on Pedigree, you'll find they trace the line back to about 1500 in Sussex, England, when the name was Gatland.

Another source had made me think that Macy's father was named Jeptha, but this was her brother's name.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=klineclan&id=I8765


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