Reanm8er
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I'm posting some fine old photos of my wife's family the Gashes from Asheville, NC. William Leander Gash entered West Point in 1870.
He was expelled for disrespecting an upper classman and subsequently went to Texas and became a schoolteacher. And was either injured or got sick and wound up marrying his nurse, Susan Taylor. They started their family in Brownsville, Tx.
In the 1890s they moved from Texas to Asheville, by wagon train, to reclaim the Gash homestead that was a land grant for their Revolutionary Service and included the entire East End of what is now the city of Asheville. They built a new home there as well as some smaller log cabins for the grown children from native timber. They grew old together and were blessed with seeing their children
grow into larger than life folks like themselves. They must have bought the first camera they ever saw and took hundreds of photos.
Sue was the shutter bug and used to pile the daughters into the Model T touring car and just drive and tour the country. The boys were very mechanically inclined and built a sawmill from a Model T chassis. The last photo shows the junk man hauling off the body of the car. Sue was not only the photographer but loved to dress up and was quite photogenic herself.
He was expelled for disrespecting an upper classman and subsequently went to Texas and became a schoolteacher. And was either injured or got sick and wound up marrying his nurse, Susan Taylor. They started their family in Brownsville, Tx.
In the 1890s they moved from Texas to Asheville, by wagon train, to reclaim the Gash homestead that was a land grant for their Revolutionary Service and included the entire East End of what is now the city of Asheville. They built a new home there as well as some smaller log cabins for the grown children from native timber. They grew old together and were blessed with seeing their children
grow into larger than life folks like themselves. They must have bought the first camera they ever saw and took hundreds of photos.
Sue was the shutter bug and used to pile the daughters into the Model T touring car and just drive and tour the country. The boys were very mechanically inclined and built a sawmill from a Model T chassis. The last photo shows the junk man hauling off the body of the car. Sue was not only the photographer but loved to dress up and was quite photogenic herself.
Sue's parting shot!
When WL passed the legend says he was buried in his West Point great coat. When we cleaned out my mother in laws estate
we found a small box full of round silver plated buttons with no markings. The exact number from a cadet's great coat.
Legend was nothing shiny was buried with the body because it might attract the devil.
Thanks for looking!
When WL passed the legend says he was buried in his West Point great coat. When we cleaned out my mother in laws estate
we found a small box full of round silver plated buttons with no markings. The exact number from a cadet's great coat.
Legend was nothing shiny was buried with the body because it might attract the devil.
Thanks for looking!
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