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Re: Robert F. Gasper

Lindastokes1951 — 2009-08-24 12:29:37Z

Hi I just found this on my message board search. We are related. My Great Grandmother was Alice Louise Grayling (Gasper), I live in St. Thomas Ontario Bob Gasper used to come visit my Grandmother and father. My Grandmother was Ruby. I would love to hear from you. Linda

Re: Gasper Genealogy

Missy_Kellum — 2009-04-29 05:13:49Z

Hopefully the following will explain the change of religious faith.

The Cospers: Pioneers of the South and Southwest
By Quillie Pugh Caskey
Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi

“Here you may see my name. Rev. G.H. Cosper was born October 17 Day, 1773. Elizabeth Cosper was born 18 Day of January, 1779, South Carolina.” When the Rev. George Henry Cosper, inscribed these words on the flyleaf of the Bible from which he preached, little did he dream that within less than 200 years there would be thousands who could trace their ancestry back to him and his beloved wife, Martha Elizabeth.

The writer began her interested research on the Cosper family several years ago. But there have been many interruptions, and delays. And, although ofttimes working until exhausted, this article does not represent an exhaustive study. It is presented, however, with the fond hope that it will be read with interest, at least by some of the hundreds of descendacys who now reside largely in the South and Southwest.

This work was a matter of fact, undertaken by me in order to complete my “family tree,” and to satisfy a growing curiosity. But the work, which has been a “labor of love,” soon developed into a hobby, and this hobby has become almost an obsession.

Why this deep and abiding interest in a family, many members of who were ever moving westward? My answer – at the risk of being charged with eagertism – is that this pioneer family of mine which sided so materially in filling up the wide open spaces, was an exceptional, if not a remarkable one. Certainly its leadership was more than ordinary, because only dedicated leaders would have braved the dangers of this new country, pressed ever forward, and carved out of this frontier a new and better way of life for themselves and their posterity.

Tradition plays its role in this story, for much information for this article has been passed on to me by word of mouth and personal letters, other than recorded documents. However, the major portion has been obtained from family Bibles; inscriptions from tombstones; census, Masonic, church and courthouse records. The write is also indebted to F. M. Cross, author of “A Short Sketch-History from Personal Reminicences of Early Days in Central Texas;” Jess G. Hayes, author of “Apache Vengence;” A.D. Betts, author of “A History of Carolina Methodism;” and many state and county maps and documents. Last, but by no means least, I am deeply grateful to my husband Dr. W. M. Caskey, author of books and long time professor of history, political science and economics in Mississippi College and other colleges and universities, for his helpful suggestions, and painstaking revisions of this manuscripts. To all these, and many others, too numerous to mention. I express my deep and profound appreciation.

The immediate progenitor of the Cosper clan, that is the father of the Reverend George Henry Cosper was born in German, of German-Jewish parents. His wife was Dutch. This father, who had migrated to America about 1766, landed at Charleston, South Carolina. According to so-called “authentic family recourds,” he left Germany after have fought a duel with a count of the hand of a beautiful fraulein. He was victorious in this battle of swords. He killed the count, a fact which no doubt accounted for his hurried departure for America.

To this couple were born Jacob, George Henry, and Harmon P. There were no daughters. These three sons grew to manhood, married, and reared large families. A number of their children were born in Edgefield and surrounding district before these three brothers started their trek South and Southwest.

In the early years of the nineteenth century many settlers migrated from Virginia and the Carolinas to Georgia. Sparsely settled Georgia offered golden opportunities to those seeking large land holdings. Most of these settlers were descendants of those who had left Europe because of religious persecutions. A family was required to live in Georgia at least one year before it was eligible to draw for the maximum, 400 acres. Rev. George Henry Cospers, a Methodist minister, was one of these opportunity seekers who was undoubtedly motivated by “genuine missionary zeal, because, as will presently be shown, he because [sic] a noted “circuit rider,” and a “powerful camp meeting preacher.” But he no doubt had other motives. One was to acquire and speculate in lands. This is attested, not only by the fact he was, during subsequent years, involved in many land transactions, but also by the fact that he eventually became a man of great affluence in Georgia and Alabama.

But this remarkable character, the Rev. George Henry Cosper, who was located in the “Indian lands” in Georgia as early as 1821, did not confine his religious and land activities wholly to that section or even to the state of Georgia. We find him, according to authentic lands records of 1827, drawing “land in land lottery of Carroll County, “ Georgia [sic]. In 1840 he was involved in the land transactions in Talladege County, Alabama. By 1847 he had migreated [sic] Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and bought and settled on a large tract of land. The next year, he was back in Georgia, in Spaulding County. The 1850 census reveals that this versatile man had become a resident of Randolph County, Alabama, where he died some ten years later.

It must be observed that the first generation of Cospers in South Carolina were “devout followers of Martin Luther, “ and that they established a small Lutheran church in Edgefield County. But this church was destined to be replaced by the Methodist, and the Cospers embraced that faith. The reasons for this change were logical. One was the difficulty of securing a Lutheran minister in this small German community. But the real influence was the visits of Bishop Asbury, the greatest circuit rider of them all. Suffice to say this consecrated Bishop not only converted the Cospers, but he ordained both George Henry and Jacob, and they followed in his footsteps, that is they became circuit riders along the roads and trails in the back country of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama; during all those same sterling qualities of character in their preaching that had enabled the great Bishop Asbury to proclaim the Gospel message, ofttimes under most adverse circumstances.

Just as the Rev. George Henry was born on the even of the American Revolution, so he passed away at the ripe old age of the even of another great civil conflict, The War Between the States for Southern Independence. This was not an unmixed blessing for him, because he was spared the heartaches, the tragedies, and the humiliations that were soon to be suffered by so many of his sons and daughters, and by the South that he loved so dearly. He was buried in Bethlehem Camp Ground Methodist cemetery in an unmarked grave near the church where he had preached so long and so faithfully. His devoted wife Martha Elizabeth Cosper, does sleep in a marked grave in this same cemetery, which is located just one mile north of Gaham [sic], Alabama.

Meanwhile the other preacher brother, the Rev. Jaco Cosper had also settled permanently in the Talldege County, Alabama, and had, before passing on to his richly earned reward, reared a large family of sons and daughters who in turn have left many worthy descendants to perpetuate and reflect credit upon the Cosper name. One among the many of these highly esteemed descendants is Anna Gray Sweeney Noe, wife of the ex-Governor, James A. Noe of Louisiana. She is his great-great-granddaughter.

The writer has discovered the tomb of one of Jacob’s son’s in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Shelby County, Alabama. He was the Rev. James Berry Cosper, one of the large number who have continued to carry the “Methodist minister” family tradition. The marker, erected to his memory by his children, has embossed on it a Masonic emblem and an open Bible with an inscription which gives the enlightening information what “Our Father, James B. Cosper was born March 6, 1796. Departed this life August 26, 1875. A Minister of the Gospel about fifty years.”

As had been stated, the Rev. George Henry Cosper and Martha Elizabeth Knapp Cosper reared a large family. There were eight sons and two daughters. All were born in South Carolina, except two. These consecrated parents were deeply devoted to these children and reared them “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Their deep spirituality and abiding faith, which they instilled in the children at the family altar, was to serve them in good stead, not only during the tragic civil war years that were just ahead, but also during those heartrending years of adversity, which some encountered on the frontier as they migrated westward.

The writer has been unable to trace the subsequent history of the daughters, Martha and Harriet. The evidence would seem to warrant that at least one, or possibly both of them, married and left many descendants in Georgia and Alabama. The eldest son, Jacob F. reared a large family and has numerous descendants in Georgia and Alabama. William M., who lived in Beat thirteen of Randolph County, Alabama, also reared a large family (moved to Texas after the War). Edward, Joseph Berry and George Robert Perren also settled in Randolph County, Alabama. All three of them likewise reared large families.

The three sons of this large family of Cospers who were to play such a large role in the annals of the Southwest were Hampton Harmon, the Rev. Joel Henry, and James Glenn. The first named, Hampton Harmon, who was born in 1816 in South Carolina, was unquestionably the most restless, and venturesome of all the Cospers. The voluminous information available reveals that he and his brother, the Rev. Joel Henry graduated from a college in Charleston, South Carolina, and that he and his other brother, James Glenn, owned a large merchantile [sic] establishment, several plantations, and that they used slave labor before the war to manufacture many farming implements, wagons, and even shoes and clothing.

Hampton Harmon married Eliza Caroline Smith. This union was blessed with fifteen children, six sons and nine daughters. After her death, which occurred fifteen years after he moved to Texas, he married Dora Trammell Worley, a young widowed school teacher with one daughter. To this second union two sons and three daughters were born, making a total of twenty of his own children. All except to of these children settled in the Southwest, and two of them are still living. Mrs. Barabara Zaid Cosper (Richard) Sowell of Colorado City, Texas, and Milo Bert Cosper, the twentieth child. Milo Bert of Fort Worth, Texas, had this to say recently of the close relationship existing between him and his father: “We were great pals.”

Just why Hampton Harmon, who was engaged in such profitable enterprises in Randolph County, Alabama, should decide to go west is one of those unsolved mysteries. But some time shortly before 1851 Hampton Harmon Cosper, and others in his locality loaded their families and worldly possessions into ox-wagons and started west. Texas was their destination. The writer’s grandmother, Mary Ann Frances, and several of her sisters, including Emily, Martha, Manda and Eliza, were in the caravan. Mary Ann Frances said that when they had camped at nights in tents that the women would cook enough food for the next day’s journey; that “During the night they would often be awakened by fright between their two big watch-dogs and the wolves beating against the tents; and that “fires were kept burning all night to keep the wolves from coming inside.”

But they were not as yet destined to reach their “promised land,” because when they reached the swamps of the Mississippi River the “water was so high and the mud so deep that they were forced to turn back.” They settled once again in Randolph County, Alabama, and Carroll County, Georgia, where during the ensuing years, they sowed, reaped their crops and continued to “look beyond the horizon of the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountain and to long for, to know, and to experience a new life in that much talked about fabulous Texas.”

Hampton Harmon made extensive plans for their second departure. He owned much land and many families of negroes. The negroes “all begged to go with him.” He was unable to grant this request. But he did grant to each family “a certain portion of land to cultivate for its own.” No sales or deeds were ever made or recorded.

The time set for this departure of these pioneers was September 15, 1854. When the designated day arrived, the covered wagons, drawn by horses and mules were loaded. Fond farewells were said with very heavy hearts, because this time two married daughters, and a number of grandchildren and relatives were being left behind at the home place, a large two story mansion which still stands.

These daughters of Hampton Harmon, soon demonstrated that they were strong and courageous women, for after the first grief over the departure of most of their loved ones, they set about building a new life of their own. Both had married in the interim between the first ill fated attempt to migrate to Texas and this second departure. Mary Ann Frances, who had married the Rev. Vincent King soon learned that a circuit rider’s wife must assume tremendous responsibilities. It meant staying at home, directing the farm activities and caring for their five lovely daughters. One of these five daughters, Emily Amanda Tommie, married Henry Tilman Pugh and became the mother of the six sons and three daughters. The writer is her eighth child. The other daughter of Hampton Harmon, Emily Caroline, married Marshall Williams, and soon experienced the real hardships of a typical pioneer mother. She became of the mother of sixteen children, thirteen of whom lived to be grown, married and reared large families. Her husband died in 1878. She passed away in 1925, after having lived a widow for 47 years.

But we must return to our Texas bound caravan. After a few months of travel, during which these pioneers endured extreme hardships and adversities, Hampton Harmon and his large party settled at Farmersville, Texas. He remained for several years ever increasing family. The first Texas born was named Texas Cordella. Masonic and other records reveal that Hampton Harmon Cosper lived, during the next few years in Bosque County, at Acton in Hood County and at Buffalo Gap in Taylor County. It was a Buffal Gap that he engaged in farming and ranching on an extensive scale for a number years before moving, as we shall presently see, further westward into New Mexico, Arizona, and eventually back to Texas.

We must, of necessity, pause here, first, to give a brief resume of the contribution of the Cospers to the cause of the Confederacy; and, second, to recount the interesting story of the last great migration of the Cospers from Alabama to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. As has been stated again and again in the records, “the Cospers loved God, their families, home and country.” So, when the first call came for volunteers to serve in the Confederacy, “these men and boys” were amongst the first to volunteer. Some fifty Cospers are listed in the Confederate Records from Alabama, and a great number from Georgia, and Texas. Although he was 50 years of age, James Glenn Cosper volunteered in 1864 in Captain Larkin Breed’s Company “F” of Randolph Militia, along with his nephew, Joseph Berry Mark Cosper, a lad who was only sixteen. The Rev. Joel Henry Cosper served as First Lieutenant in the same Company. Hampton Harmon, who was passed the middle age years, is also listed among those Texas Cospers who volunteered, and the evidence warrants the assertion that he was wounded while serving in Texas and Arkansas in the Texas Cavalry.

Most of these Cospers returned home at the end of the war “without a scratch.” The younger ones married and have left large families to perpetuate their memory. But others were wounded, and several died on the field of battle. Some of these who paid the supreme sacrifice at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and on other battle fields, were Francis M. Henry “Buch”, William Marion and David Smith Cosper (son of Hampton Harmon).. Joel Henry lost two sons at Shiloh, and a younger brother, George Robert Perren, who died in a military hospital in Selma, Alabama in 1862, leaving a comparatively young wife and seven sons and daughters to mourn his untimely departure. But let us draw the mantile [sic] of charity over those tragic and heartrending years and return to our pioneers.

It was late October, 1869 when the Rev. Joe Henry, William M. and James Glenn Cosper, with their families turned their faces toward the west, and began what was to be the last great trek to Texas and Arizona. Many circumstances had conspired to cause this large party of rugged pioneers to take this decisive step. The most important reasons was no doubt the lure of the west. It was to them the land of adventure and golden opportunities. But the decisive factors must have been the ravages of the great war, which had left them, not only in a poverty-stricken condition, but also the prospects of a so-called “reconstruction,” with all of its evil social equality implications.

There were sixty-four children, forty-two adults and two former faithful slaves in this last great caravan. The oldest was the Rev. Joel Henry Cosper, who had passed his three score years. The youngest was his three weeks old grandson, who still lives with his wife on the original farm settled by his parents on the Lampasses [sic] River. There were also “twenty three hound dogs used for guarding the tents at night and hunting wild life by day” so that there might be an ample supply of meat for the trip. After many days of journey they crossed the Mississippi River on a dangerous flat-boat, and headed directly westward. The unusually heavy rainfall during that fall of 1869 had made of Louisiana almost a quagmire. But the Louisiana “settlers had built bridges, and had laid cross lays” for just such an emergency, although a small “toll fee was charged” for their use. These enabled the party to continue its journey, but at a retarded rate of much less than “eight miles per day.”

They crossed the Red River at Shreveport on a steam boat in early December, and turned towards the Southwest. The Christmas holidays were spent in Rusk County, Texas, and James Glenn and his immediate family remained here for one year. The large majority journeyed on westward, under the leadership of the Rev. Joel Henry Cosper, and they reached Bell County early in February 1870, where they pitch their tents in what was eventually to be their “promised land.”

Land in Bell County on the Lampasses [sic] River was rich and cheap. The best was selling for only fifty cents and one dollar per acre. These are no doubt the reasons why these pioneers settled permanently here, and later acquired large holdings and prospered. In fact, as the years passed the large families grew larger “even unto the third and fourth generations” – these Cospers seem to have become so deeply attached to that lovely section, that few cared to migrate elsewhere. They just stayed on and “multiplied and replenished,” as one of them, Mrs. Willie Zell Ray Hunt, stated recently, “until there are today enough Cospers in Bell County to put one under every bush.” Most certainly these descendants of the Rev. Joel Henry Cosper have made a tremendous contribution to the development of the great state of Texas, and Bell County.

Mary Eliza Bagby Cosper did not long survive this rugged frontier life in Texas. She passed away October 11, 1877. Ten years later, to the day, Rev. Joel Henry Cosper departed this life, a life which had been full, and rich, and fruitful. These two great ancestors sleep peacefully under the stars of Heaven in the Cosper family cemetery near the banks of the Lampassas [sic] River.

As was stated above, James Glen and Sarah Caroline Tendall Cosper and the four sons and two daughters who had accompanied them settled in Rusk County for one year. In the spring of 1871 this family continued its westward journey, and stopped first in Bosque County. It is not known how long they resided here, but we do know that they subsequently became neighbors of Hampton Harmon Cosper at Buffalo Cap, and that in 1866 these families, including their married sons, began another westward trek. Their destination this time was the new territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Some of the seemed to “have gone by train to Magdalena, New Mexico,” and then traveled by wagons and coach to the rich Luna Valley near the Arizona boarder, where they settled for a short period of time.

The following interesting excerpt is taken from a letter written at this time by one of the older men to a brother in Alabama. “… Everything is high in this country this year. Bacon is 10 cts., pork 6 to 7 (a lb.), corn 75 cts. (a bu.), wheat $1.00 (a bu.), coffee 3 to 4 cts. (a lb.). There are hundreds of miles of fine country all around us. What a pity that there are so many people scratching among those rocky, worn out hills, when there are so many fine rich valleys in this country covered over with grass which will fill a cow…”

Sometime before 1889 Hampton Harmon and two of his sons, Sylvester Swope, and Freeman Tullis, moved to Wilcox, and began “freighting” for the government between that place and Globe. It was on one of these trips that they were waylaid near night fall just out of Globe by some Apache Indians, and Tullis was murdered. This sneak attack, which occurred February 1869 is recounted in detail by Superintendent Jess G. Hayes of Globe, Arizona in his interesting book, entitled, “Apache Vengeance.”

Shortly after this tragedy the broken-hearted Hampton Harmon, who had also lost another son, George, and two daughters-in-law, one the wife of George, and the other the wife of Swope, decided to return to Texas. He was soon followed by Swope, the twelve orphaned children, and the widow of the murdered son. They settled in Coke County, and were living there when Hampton Harmon “died on a deer hunt near Alpine, Texas.” This old patriarch, who had reached the ripe age of 87 years 6 months and 21 days, was buried at Fort Chadbourne, Texas, and a beautiful Masonic marble monument marks his final resting place and that of his second wife Dora, who was buried by his side in 1932.

James Glenn Cosper and his four sons and their families settled around Duncan and Clifton, Arizona, and many worthy descendants still live in the section of the southwest. One son, Towles, who became a most successful rancher, and the “First County Supervisor of Greenlee County,” reared ten children, seven of who are still living. One daughter of James Glenn Cosper, Mrs. Sally Cosper Brewer, lives in Santa Ana, California. She is nearing her 92nd birthday, and enjoys the distinction of being one of the three living persons who made up that last great caravan, headed by her father, and the Rev. Joel Henry, which arrived in Texas in the early Spring of 1870. The other two survivors are Thomas Henry Cosper who lives near Killeen, Texas, and Edward Jackson Wiggins, of Gatesville, Texas.

James Glenn Cosper, who was two years older than Hampton Harmon, and five years younger than his brother Joel Henry, died in 1891 at his home in Luna, New Mexico at the age of 77. As has been observed, his brother Joel Henry who had settled in Bell County, Texas, had preceded him in death in 1887, and the other of this remarkable triumvirate, Hampton Harmon, lived on until 1903. James Glenn Cosper’s devoted wife, Sarah also lived on for another quarter of a century before her death which occurred May 14, 1915.

It is with reluctance and certain misgivings that I bring this somewhat rambling story to a rather abrupt end. I realize that many interesting and exciting episodes and heroic exploits must, in a study of this nature, go unrecorded. I am also not unmindful of the fact that I have no recorded the contribution s of those hundreds of Cospers who have lived more recently, or are now living. Perhaps this should be undertaken in a subsequent study. It is, however, my sincere wish and fondest hope that the many descendents of the Cospers who per chance may read this resume, will be brought to the realization that our fathers and mothers, and most especially these three brothers, the Rev. Joel Henry, James Glenn, and Hampton Harmon Cosper, have left us a rich and glorious heritage. Certainly they wrought wisely and nobly and well, and I, for one, feel that it is our duty, in fact, our solemn obligation, to perpetuate the memory of those great pioneers whose lives have been both an inspiration and a benediction.

Re: Gaspers of Luxembourg

draggonette17 — 2009-04-10 20:04:11Z

At this point I don't know, but I am looking into it. I know my Grandmother's name was Mary Elizabeth.

Re: Gaspers of Luxembourg

luv2smile70 — 2009-04-10 15:10:31Z

Do you know the name of your GGrandmother? I have some information on the Henry Gasper in my line that I will check again to see if it matches yours

Re: Gaspers of Luxembourg

draggonette17 — 2009-04-10 08:54:41Z

I recently found out I had a GGrandfather Henry Matthew Gasper who was born in Metz,Germany in 1875. After WWII Metz, Germany was reclaimed by France and is now Metz, France. I would be interseted in any further information you may have leading further back.

Re: Gasper's In Indiana, Putnam Co - Hendricks Co

LeasiaKorbel — 2009-04-05 08:44:47Z

I can tell you how all these Gaspers are related, it took a while but I finally got them all sorted out!

Re: Gasper's In Indiana, Putnam Co - Hendricks Co

LeasiaKorbel — 2009-04-05 08:44:43Z

I can tell you how all these Gaspers are related, it took a while but I finally got them all sorted out!

Re: Gasper - daughter of Robert Allen Gasper

LeasiaKorbel — 2009-04-05 08:01:55Z

Just curious as to who you were referring to?

Re: Gasper Genealogy

GarrettDiment — 2009-03-30 01:53:49Z

I'm a descendant of Henrick Gasper through his son George Henry as well. I came across a couple of things online suggesting he was of German Jewish extraction. But if he was from Jewish parentage, why do other reports say he was a Lutheran in South Carolina (before the Great Awakening came and turned the family Methodist)?

Joe Gasper-Pasadena California

CynthiaMcChristian21 — 2009-01-16 19:26:01Z

I am looking for any relatives of Joe Gasper who lived on Parke Street in Pasadena, California. I recently purchased a photo album from a swap meet with numerous old photos, hoping to reunite it with the family. There are 2 postcards addressed to Joe Gasper. Many baby pictures are in the album. Also a photo of a woman named "Vineta". Some photos are dated 1956, 1958 and 1952. Other photos are older but not dated. If anyone has any information, please contact me at cindimccs@yahoo.com.

Gasper - daughter of Robert Allen Gasper

theatreworks — 2008-12-25 20:29:31Z

Hello:

I began looking up information on my family when I came across your extensive research. I have some more information that I could add, if you wish.

Floyd Clinton Gasper

LeasiaKorbel — 2008-07-11 17:28:20Z

I am looking for any information on Floyd Clinton Gasper, so far all I can of him are his parents and his birth and death dates. He was born on Sept 2 or 7th, 1900 and died in December of 1973 in Gaston, Delaware, Indiana. Anyone know of any descendants? They would be close cousins to us. Any information would be appreciated! Christ4gives@hotmail.com
Thanks!
Leasia Korbel (nee Gasper)

Sgt. Frank J. Gasper of Merced, Calif., died May 25, 2008

RIP_08 — 2008-05-29 12:20:17Z

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 450-08
May 27, 2008
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Frank J. Gasper, 25, of Merced, Calif., died May 25 in Najaf, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Fort Carson, Colo.

For further information, media should contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office at (910) 432-6005, or visit the following Web site: http://news.soc.mil/

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=1...

Re: GASPER,Baden>Wisconsin,USA,1850's

blackwolf1113 — 2008-04-23 09:44:40Z

Are you absolutely sure your ancestor's Surname was originally Gasper. My Great Grandfather Peter came to Ohio from the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1854. I think his original Surname was Gerspach or Gerspacher which is a Baden place name. However, over his lifetime he used a variety of variations, including spelling of the two names above with a b replacing the p, Gaspacher, Gasper, and Gersper. In fact, he married twice and the descendents of the first family all use Gasper and the second all use Gersper. Peter's brother Herman has records which also document a variety (not as wide as Peter's) and his descendents are all Gersbach. From what I've seen along the way, Baden Immigrants were very plastic in how they pronounced/spelled their surname.

Gaspers of Luxembourg

luv2smile70 — 2008-04-08 21:52:18Z

Im looking for family in Luxembourg Germany. My GGGrandmother was born in Luxembourg and I believe her family stayed in Germany. Her parents were Nicholas Gasper and Elizabeth Wagner. I believe she had at least one brother who had a son named Henry or Henrich Gasper.

Shelly Reynolds
luv2smile70 @ yahoo.com

Re: Thomas gaspers

harperrobin01 — 2008-03-25 17:09:13Z

dachiz1773

I just came across your post. Sherry, from the original message, is my cousin. If this is your line of Gaspers I have some info and am willing to share what I have. If you're still interested, please email me directly at harper.robin@yahoo.com

looking for bob gaspar from deerborn,MI

slhawke1 — 2008-03-12 15:30:51Z

served in the Airforce in Idaho early 80's family from Deerborn,MI

Re: Thomas gaspers

dachiz1773 — 2008-02-21 06:42:10Z

Hi, I was just reading your post all about the Gasper family. I know very little about the Gaspers all I know that they are from michigan and ohio. I'm not sure where exactly in ohio but I do know where they are from in michigan. In grand rapids or lowell. I have been looking for some information on my grandpa gasper I think his name was Ted I don't remember. I'm just cirious to know a little bit more information. Thank you

Gaspar/Burkhardt

2006-08-31 17:30:58Z

please write back,

to carolyn Davies,
if you are still online please write back, sorry i haven't wrote i haven't done anything with the family tree until now. i was online and saw your message to get ahold of you. when your get this please write back. i would love to see what info you have maybe we can share info? what program do you use?

i saw you said you have almost 2000 people that's great i think i have almost 1400.

e-mail me back at danlvsjo67@comcast.net so we can talk.

nice to hear from somebody.

Daniel Gaspar

update--- not Gasperlaken as originally thought

2005-05-17 03:24:00Z

the writing in the back did say this. but I thinkthe writer was My grandmother Josephine Lodes. no t was crossed and it should have been." My mother as Annie Gasper taken when she was 18 years old. Friend Eilylhe Uhoctechius."
Not right spelling ;probably very difficult to make out and more scribbles ... So two women posed and at the Yankton S.d. Photography shop. She spent her later years as a widow in Los Angelus. My grandmother married at 18. There in yankton. I think she grew up there.
The other picture postcard must have been given to mother by an aunt. It says on the back.
"Grandma Gertrude Jasper
Grandchildren Geniv?iv or 'a' and George Murphy
aAlvena, grandma on mother side of house."

However, I thought Alvena, Mayme and Teresa and Lauretta, and Josephine were all sisters of same parent..??? with brother joseph Lodes b. 1883 whose mother was Gasper. or Jasper. Joseph wife may have been Noma.
I hope you find something familiar about this. Pehaps the name was Gasperick and that is why I cannot find them in any census in iowa or illn.
But Ii shall keep looking.
Thanks

Re: Many Gaspers in Iowa in 1850

2005-05-14 14:44:35Z

..also, if you can could you please send me a scan of the name Gasparik, we have a family website and maybe somebody can make it out..I'll send you an invite later on..
Marta Elena

Re: Many Gaspers in Iowa in 1850

2005-05-14 14:41:13Z

The only Gasparik I know of was George Gasparik then George Gasper who arrived to ILL circa 1880 from Slovakia. I'll check with cousins if they know for sure about him and will let you know, also abt your other names and places..many apologies if I missed your previous post..thanks!
Marta Elena

Clarabelle Gasper

2005-03-18 00:26:47Z

Hi Carlton,
I'm Marie, formally Gasper. Anyway I am Clarabelle Gasper's daughter. I think I remember you and even have a picture of you , yet, after all this time. What has happened in your life? Are you a Christain? I am! Mom's prayers were not for naught.
Write back and let me know what is happening in your world.

Re: Clarabelle Gasper

2005-03-16 06:42:42Z

Clarabelle is my grandmother and Marie is my mother. I have to inform you that my grandmother passed in Dec.1997. If there is any way I can help please feel free to contact me.

Jackie Gasper-Jennings County Indiana

2005-02-08 12:07:01Z

I am trying to find when he was born and where he went from Indiana. I heard he went out west. Thank you. David Conklin

robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945

2004-11-19 19:21:22Z

looking for info on robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945, has a brother named david gaspar. anybody know where he is ? or see him.

Re: Gasper Genealogy

2004-11-05 20:52:02Z

As it turns out this line of Gaspars (Henrick) did not fight in the Revolutionary War, in fact, they were loyal to King George. That is why no records.

Trying to find a friend

ltrumbo — 2006-04-11 02:04:15Z

I am looking for Carla Rose Gasper. Was living with her brother while he was stationed at El Toro USMC in Calif. Am very interested in talking to her and seeing how she is doing. I have lots & lots to tell her. Anyone that can help please have her email me at davidt@netnitco.net

Carla Rose Gasper

ltrumbo — 2006-03-08 02:04:35Z

I am looking for a friend. Her name is Carla Rose Gasper. Her brother was in the Marine Corp in the 1980's station at Tustin (El Toro) CA. We worked together at the Tustin base service station. Anyone who knows where I can contact her, please email at davidt@netnitco.net. I have so much to tell her.

Peter Gasper / Polly Sutherland

robbintina — 2005-05-14 15:05:26Z

Looking for descendants of Peter Gasper born 1787 SC died aft 1860 KY & wife Polly Sutherland. (Married 19 Jan 1806 Clark Co KY).
Known children are: Mahala born 1806 KY, Thomas born 1814 KY, Catherine born 1820 KY, Sarah born 1824 KY & Susan born 1828 KY.

Mahala Gasper married 2 Feb 1828 Clark Co KY James Artemas Glover born 1798 KY died bef 1860 KY (son of John A Glover and unknown wife) .

Thomas Gasper 1814-1894 Clark Co KY married Rebecca Smith 1 Aug 1839 Clark Co KY (1 child: Mary E Gasper)
He also married after 1870 Sarah Ann UNKNOWN born 1846
KY. Known children: John H Gasper born 1876 and William T. Gasper born 1879.

Sarah Gasper married a CASKEY.

Gaspers in KY

LeasiaKorbel — 2006-08-30 23:26:44Z

I was researching my Gasper Ancestors through the Census and I keep getting stuck at a James Gasper...his son Albert Gasper is listed as sometimes being born in KY and sometimes being born in Indiana. James Gasper his father married in Mary J. Robinson.
I also have James as being born around 1821 and 1840! They moved up from Kentucky with a John, Elizabeth, John(son), and Melinda Gasper. If anyone knows these names please email me at christ4gives@hotmail.com

Gaspers in the Amo Cemetary Relations

LeasiaKorbel — 2006-07-31 08:27:52Z

Re: Gapser and Reisinger

LoriBrogna96 — 2006-07-30 07:58:21Z

I have information on Peter Gasper and his wife Mary F. Reisinger. Peter's father was William J. Gasper and his mother was Mary M. Hahn. They had a total of 13 children including Peter.
William is my great-grandfather. His daughter Florence Ann, Peter's sister was my grandmother.

Lori Brogna
brognal@comcast.net

Re: Gasper Genealogy

JimCosper — 2005-06-30 04:14:51Z

You are probably right since Heinrich Gasper (Cosper) was given (l00 acres) land when he & his family landed in Charleton, SC. It was not very good land. Have you heard that maybe he was forced labor. Anything is possible. Tell me what you think.

Jim Cosper

Obituary - Edward Gasper - St. Paul, MN

timandannette1 — 2006-07-11 20:24:11Z

St. Paul Pioneer Press Sunday 10/31/99 page 7B
Gasper
Edward D., res. St. Paul Eastside on Wed. evening. Preceded in death by wife, Victoria. Beloved father of Rita Berger & David Gasper. Also survived by 6 grandchildren & many great-grandchildren. He was a proud member of the Anderson-Nelson VFW Post #1635. Mass of Christian Burial, Monday, Nov. 1, 10 AM at CHURCH OF ST. PATRICK, 1095 DeSoto @ Magnolia. Interment Fort Snelling Nat'l Cemetery. Visitation Sunday (TODAY) 2-6 PM with a parish vigil service at 2 PM at WULFF FAMILY SERVICES CRESTWOOD PARK MORTUARY, 1485 White Bear Ave.
WULFF-CRESTWOOD
651-776-1555

Re: Ghasper, Waterman Families in Clark Co. KY-1790-1820

shirle06 — 2007-12-09 19:02:50Z

Correction: Jonathan & C. Hester Gasper Waterman married in KY 1814, migrated to Mechanicsburg, Sangamon Co. IL in 1825. In years between 1830 and 1870 they are missing from historic documents. In 1870 they are in Talkington Township, Sangamon Co. IL Their death dates and burial place is unknown. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated.
shirle06

Ghasper, Waterman Families in Clark Co. KY-1790-1820

shirle06 — 2007-10-24 16:04:06Z

Catherine Hester Ghasper (or Gasper) was born in Virginia in 1798 and moved to Clark Co. KY with her parents. They were also connected by relatives to Washington Co. KY.
C.Hester is my 3rd G-GM who married Jonathan W. Waterman in 1814 in Clark Co. KY. I cannot find Hester's parents or siblings. I don't know if her parents stayed in KY or went to Sangamon Co. IL with Hester and Jonathan. Their children were Charles C., Anna Emma Wall, Sarah Ann, Catherin L. They lost 3 daughters in childhood. Hester and Jonathan are last found in the 1870 Sangamon Co. IL census in 1870 at ages 72 and 73. Any help would be greatly appreciated. No obits or death certs have been found.
Shirle06

Re: Gasper/Gasparik

Dorothea500 — 2004-05-31 03:51:27Z

A brother to my grandfather, Joseph Gasper/Gasparik, was Andrew Gasper. That could have been his middle name. He lived at Streater, IL & then moved to Peora. His wife's name could have been Elizabeth. They sent my grandparents pictures of their children. It is difficult to say how many brothers or relatives could have come to America. Is Gasparik a very common name in the Carpathian Mts? They were coal miners in the US. When Joseph moved to IA with Anna & their children, they moved from coal camp to coal camp. The last coal camp was Truax.

Re: robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945

gthelobster — 2007-08-02 18:10:31Z

I am descended through Friederike Borchard (1844-1894)and I know nothing about her except her husband (Daniel Borth) and children (Lena and Rose). I know she immigrated from Germany but I have no records of siblings or parents. I'm not sure how Friederike ties up with Herman Borchard, if at all, but I'm hoping to find out more info and hopefully help other people along the way.

I am from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Thank you so much for your help!
-Gabi

Re: robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945

gthelobster — 2007-08-02 16:22:43Z

Do you have any information on Friederike (Rike) Borchard who married Daniel Borth? She was born in Germany, 1844 and died around 1894. That would be so great! Thanks! You can also email me at gthelobster@cox.net

Re: Anyone related to John and Anna Gasper or Vincent Gasper or Mary Gasper TIllman.

nannyostrom — 2004-09-13 21:28:45Z

Hi My name is Mary Ostrom I have a new E-Mail so if you can tell me the names of John's Father and Mather
We may be family ok

nannyostrom2@msn.com

Re: Relatives

robertorlandoblea — 2006-09-19 10:50:19Z

Hello Rosie:
My name is Robert O. Blea from Albuquerque,New Mexico.
I realize that your message is quite dated,but I am quite new to genealogy myself and just now came across your posting.
Carlos Diaz Blea also had a son by the name of Juan Gerva-
cio.
I am descended from Tomas Diaz/Carlos Dias Blea via Juan Gerbacio.
If you are still intersted and still doing research on the Blea fa
mily,I would very much like to hear from you.
You can contact me via this forum or via e-mail at --- kelliegan
dy@yahoo.com.
Thank You very much for your time and attention.
Robert O. Blea

Re: Relatives

DannyBleaCruz — 2006-07-29 21:01:29Z

I'm the grandson of manuel Blea ,severo,,juan christobal blea and laura,rita gallegos and marie rita martinez.all from mora N.M

Re: Many Gaspers in Iowa in 1850

jomeyer13 — 2005-05-13 16:34:17Z

I always thought the name waqs jasper and found gasper. md to Lodes and who then married Peters. Peters from Illn. Lodes from Iowa. had an old picture, which i have lost. of a jasper woman and a strange name which could have been gasparik, I posted it once. I am now looking for that old posting and thought I would see if you have any knowldege of a family connection like mine.
One city has been mentioned. Mallard iowa.

Re: Iowa/ Illinios Gaspers

dragonflybandj — 2007-01-03 21:23:45Z

are there any other relatives that could of come over at different times. my great grandparents came over from austria hungary approx 1912. they were michael and mary catherine gasper. her maiden name was pollack. michael and mary had three boys-vincent, michael, and joseph.in one of the pictures we have of my great grandfather it appears the way he spelled his last name is gasperic. my great grandmothers parents names were james pollack and agnes horvath. any info would be greatly appreciated. hopefully there is a tie there.

Re: Gasper Genealogy

Faegin143 — 2004-10-23 03:10:25Z

Hey! We are relatives. My father has quite a bit of information including the deed of land from King George. I looked into the Charleston lists of landowners and their list of men who fought in the Revolutionary War and did not find the name. I am not sure what to think about this. I would be happy to get the information I have for you.

Let me know what you know too.

Re: Thomas gaspers

harperrobin01 — 2006-05-16 00:18:26Z

I just ran on to this posting today and I may be late,but I CAN help.Tom and Hila Gaspers were my Grandparents.Sue was my Aunt.I have some info on Dad's side of the family.
If I can help email me at harper_robin01@yahoo.com

Gasper/Wesolowski

petuniapete — 2004-04-19 19:56:31Z

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Searching for a Theodora Gasper from Buffalo, New York. This is my great-aunt. She was seven years old in the 1910 census - birthdate maybe 1903. Her parents are Karol and Leocadia Wesolowski from Superior, WI. She was born in Minnesota, however. Theodora went by the nickname "Tillie". Tillie moved to Buffalo, New York and I have placed her there in 1944. Any information about Tillie would be greatly appreciated, husband?, kids?.

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Re: robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945

ultfamtree — 2006-02-06 02:36:01Z

IMPORTANT YOU CONTACT ME---RE: Herman Burkhardt m. Lillian and then divorced. Saw your posting on Hennepin County message board.

Noticed that you are listed with Rootsweb with many different email addresses---there is a way to update email addresses after you log in. It then puts all your past postings under your current address.

Trying desperately to find you. We have info to share!!!

Mabel Baier is my Grandmothers sister. Their Mother was Herman's sister.

Have 24 pages of new info to go through that has some good info on the Borchard/Burkhardt line. Herman was born in Germany, not MN. Have info from his WW1 draft registration.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Carolyn Davies

Re: robert allen gaspar/gasper born may 12, 1945

ultfamtree — 2007-08-02 17:48:37Z

Hi Robert?,

I have a some information about the Borchardt's(Burkhardt's). I have info about Herman C. Borchard w. Lillian Gaspar, and Herman's parents, and other relatives/descendants.

Which of their children are you a descendant of???

I am a descendant of Herman's older sister Marie(Mary) who married a Baier in MN. Herman lived with them in MN when he came from Germany, when he was about 12, according to census info.

I have other later info about him also.

I will try to contact you directly, but if I cannot, we can continue through this site.

Glad to have made contact.

I am located in NJ. Where are you located??? As your cox.net email sounds like a domain name frequently used in this area---and those that use it are related to another side of my families tree.

Small world isn't it???

Carolyn