THE CHURl S WORKER. VOL. 3 JUNE, 1899. N01 ery and William. His firs~, pact of usefulness in the mInJS­ W.e or Otherwise. John ~ano--Hi8 Life lnd r~ceived a fall, from which.. t1"1~ the necessity of an old ex­ Work. dJed, and their sixth child perienced minister to take care ,alJpox!' fell to given hip name. of a young church there. and to".", "but he floun- " Mr. Gano had early flatering temporal prospects for Ipel~ ,[ In order to help our rea.ders to ti.ons of sin, but soon thet" the support of my family. For more fully appreciate an excep­ y," .tl the teacher, dlsregarded. One day these'reasons I concluded to re­ know'what a little boy tionally intere~ting article to ap­ provoking his pious move." And then added: "I simple a word pear in our next issue, "Did with his sins, the tears called a church meeting, and \ John Gano baptize George as sm8l1po~ht to getP" came to her eyes revived ,!for~~, ,eellm of my intention. Washington?," we ,give here "Yes'~ :<' replied Tommy, ""he slumbering conviction T.b'eyt~ it as a chimera, ought ." get vaccinated." some historical incidents con­ wat! in his soul. There w,.s and thottgflt they could~stop me nected with his life aild work. other source of trouble " by ralaPlg my salary, (He "was HIS ANCESTRY . His great ,grand faUll)r Fran- his father was impresseMee­ cOllst~bIy / in debt, and saw AN 10 W OMAN'S IDBA.-The cis Gano, brought his' grand ~n life, that he would haY'" no way of being released, but Post . e Department, in ac­ father, Stephen Gano, when a large family of r.h by selling - my (his) house atd coman ; with .J' requirement tA> chi1~ from Guernsey,in Jersey. tha~ three ~f them would lot").' that ct, racentlY88nt a no- Hls progenitors were, on his their twentleth year. '':fie iipd about seventeen tice to woman iii Obi6 inform­ father's side, from France' his At this time nearly aU years in this state. He seemed ing he , .hat a letter a4dressed mother'S from Britian. ' family were sick of dy ~ Unsettled and part of the to her as held'oll acootmt of His grand father, Stephen Ga- a brother and two tfJ¥e,aprely afflicted. His work insuffi ' !It po~~ , 8he,..4i. no, married Ann Wal$on. They fa~len.victims of the SO tar as can be learned send t , requ~ ~ f, were blessed with a'numerous thls disease, one of his writings, was unimpor- But family of children, some of in her twentieth year, readar of his Mem- sayin­ whom died in youth. Of those was next in course of be conltrained to be- ripe who livtld to marry were Dan- (Three of the that his removal to this has iel, Francis, James, 'l ohn, Lew­ die in their,twentieth yeary' was the mist ~ !'::"" ":l~ his life. ever b o~1Iii is, Isaac, besides th ~ daugh- . Soon after he begaQ pfpi4hf. ~a~th Qf ~ wife, he I o~ poL. .. "" lettier ' tl"om North tf'll'R. 8a~athariD I~ a.nd Sus-_, In!, !,.~u t 1756, he'vilited , . ~"" -~ s I4UNn abo1,l,t 1766,he'viliteyll ... ~ ~~ . ~~halJl\y"~~~~~~ ~i "clfti'i~onh'e~ . ' " ~lil1o ..'hg1tr5htf~1wI .l'-~" ..;, " . Yadkin." That was what we had sold, the man claiming that : ( Ill" ess­ . now call, the "Jersey ChUl'Ch;," ' h~ (Gano) had sold more land. 0 .lo hisan littleInOIS congrdau hter tbamel But.ton of Siltc:n I~l~n~ here tn Davidson county. (The '. tban he owned. "This was man . h d ffi d h~ a They remaIned on IS and Rowan). The people here wer botb injurious to my purse and that ama lt n aId er: b ~h~8 f f ~ ~m for a while after m~rlage an d s'rous that he should mov . character." room u * 0 go or er a y were bles~d with tw childrer;t, :amo: I t them, that they.sent "I looked over myoid pa- brot~~r.t· "If.I ~,ll him for that Daniel and Jane. T y then re- commfttee on hl)rseback all th pers. I found the deed and sum, . sa~d, I can buy, you moved to New J e . ey and set- way to New Jersey-800 mile the necessary papers;** I deter- eve1"th g 111: thl~ :.or!~ y~~ tIed in Hopewell, Hun~~~: in order to secure .his service mined to go and ~ettle the busi- :::del: :ted w~en s~:~eplied, county: ~er.t y d At last he came, oought Ian ness; and, accordIngly, set off, "Oh r. I" And then she here, SIX mo1'e chIl · n ;ereha - (the place now owned by M ' and after a fatigueing journey dd~~' . apa. b' till he's big­ ded to them, name ~ tepnr~' Dempsey My~rs, (traditio arrived therl:l. aero h~' ;:~o~~ more then." Susa;nnah, JOB:, atha 'says), and remaIned about t I got the county surveyor, and g, -Young Reaper DaDlel. and Sara. years and a half, when he r havin"g traced part of the line, At the age of SIX ears,b s~ys turned with his family to Ne he (the pur(~haser) found it he: ~ I .well rem ~er el~g Jersey. would take in part of lan~ seized a seve Soon after this, he was call . which he claimed and occupied, ~Jth sl~~n~ssd~~ "Oommon Tatura." the sprmg, from ' hlc d . 1 to the pastorate of the Fir and a spring which his family I The ,v. Dr. Foosterer seems not recover till 11;. urIng Baptist church. New York cit · used; he. therefore, begged me h· h t' as I h e SInce un- .. been a very original W IC Ime. ' ro He remained the~e a few yea . to desist, and sait) he would set­ man. derstood, the 11 was ~ . after the close of the Revol tIe the matter . without . any "I'm Aware that the cornmen­ cured in which to. ay me out, tionary war. The church w further difficulty. I could have tators jo not agree with me," supposing I was ually d~d, greatly prosper¢ here duri put him to much trouble and he said -in his sermon. as I lay a .~reat pa of the tIme his long stay with them. , expense; but having my object Naxt ~ay , old Farmer Turnlp­ senseless. left there on the 30th of Septe answered, I settled the matter top~ drove . up to the rectory HIS MARRIAGE FAMILY. ber, 1794, for work in the s with him." Then he adds: with half a cartload of his finest Not long af he began of Kentucky. He left Nt "Here I found and obtained a- potatoa,. preaching, perha about the York when the church was . nother companion. She was "MOJ.-bin,' parson,' said he. year 1756, he co, ummated. a fine condition . the widow of Captain Thomas "Ye tGld us yist'dy that the matrimonial eng ment. WIth RElIIOVAL TO KENTUCKY. .' Bryant, and daughter of Colonel COIDmoa taturs didn't agree Miss Mary Stites, .fore hIS fi~t "The reason of my removal'" Jonathan Hunt." wid ye; so I brought ye a trifle visit to North ~ar ' na. Of thIS Kentucky. I shall here sta~ . This was,."l'Dost probly in. the 0' the finest pink-eyes evarlye union ten chIld were born, One Mr. William Wood, caJlUe Jersey neighborhood, for he re- laid ye own on." viz: from that country, and gav. 'a marked : "She was a communi- Then Mr. F. saw the commer- John Stites, D niel, .Pegg, very exalted character of Vlle cant in a Baptist cJiurch iu that cia! value of bei~g . profound, Stephen, Sarah, hn Stl~S, a state of it. He made several neighborhooJ." : and pa,tor and panshlOner both daughter, (name not gIven), encouraging proposals!i<> meto Gano diea August 10th, 1804, appeared to be happy.-Youth's Isaac Eaton, Rich d Montgom- go there, said there was a proS- in his 78th year, Companion. NAME Ancestry b. d. Ancestry ~cJ-v<.'~ 1 /l,..-,r. L. )/Jt.~~ i. 7,~.?· / File No. &u., ..sJ' I .7 J 5'~ ~ (Over) JOHN GANO .' t ~ . , NA}lli : Gano, John, 1727-1804 DATA : b. Hopewell, N. J., 22 July 1727, son of Daniel and Sarah (Britton) Gano; ord. 29 May 1754; missionary in the South, 1754; sett. Morristown (Morris) N. J., 1754- 25 Sept. 1757; sett. Jersey Settlements (Davidson) N. C., 1758-1760; commissioned a Captain in N. C., 1758-1760; sett. N.Y.C., N. Y. (1st Bapt. Chh.), 1762-1788; sett. Town Fork Chh., near Lexington, Ky., 1788-1798; Chaplain, Am. Rev.; Bapt.; d. Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 1804, a. 77 (GS) SOURCE: The Colonial C ergy of Virginia, ~ ort h Carolina and5Duth Carolina by : Rev . Frederick Lewis Weis . ----~ Page : 63 32 MINUTES OF THE ci,-<..:tA.A~ c&~ far as Charles State Board. They gave a part of their time in assist£ the weak people at Jers churches and in various other ways. two men all tI Sunday Schools in order that Seven small churches were rejected by the Abbotts Creek Union sented. In 18 Association; one ground upon which they were rejected was because for about thre they favored Sunday Schools. But in these seven churches Sunday The reason fOJ Schools had a struggle to get started and to exist. In fact it was with of my leaving very much irregularity tJ:at they did exist for many years. owned a farm From the organization of the association in 1832 until 1844 not he left.