Eleazar GAYLORD

  General Notes:

Baptisms, marriages, burials and list of members taken from the church records of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, first minister of Norfolk, Connecticut, 1761-1813 (1910)

Sunbury's first mill was built just north of Big Walnut Creek on Granville Road (Rt. 37 Today) by Nicholas Manville in 1810. The mill passed to Major Strong in 1817 then to Eleazor Gaylord in 1825 and became know as the Gaylord Mill. "Eleazer was a taxable inhabitant of Wyalusing in 1795, the township at that time embracing all the territory between Standing Stone rock on the north and the mouth of the Meshoppen on the south. His name appears among those who met to decide on a petition for the erection of a new county out of the upper part of Luzerne, 11 November 1806. this was the first direct movement looking toward the formation what is now Bradford County. His brother Justus Jr., was a member of the same group. He migrated to Ohio and acquired in 1825 a combination gristmill, sawmill and distillery about half a mile southeast of the present village of Sunbury, Ohio. The gristmill part had been build about 1810 by Nicholas Manville, and four years later he added a sawmill, and a few years after that, a distillery. Eleazer signed an affidavit in 1838, stating that he was 70 years of age, and that he was present at the marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Thomas Wigton at his father's house at Kingston, PA., 5 January 1774." ("Twigs From Family Trees," Part IV, p. 585-6)

"Eleazer was a taxable inhabitant of Wyalusing in 1795, the township at that time embracing all the territory between Standing Stone rock on the north and the mouth of the Meshoppen on the south. His name appears among those who met to decide on a petition for the erection of a new county out of the upper part of Luzerne, 11 November 1806. this was the first direct movement looking toward the formation what is now Bradford County. His brother Justus Jr., was a member of the same group.

He migrated to Ohio and acquired in 1825 a combination gristmill, sawmill and distillery about half a mile southeast of the present village of Sunbury, Ohio. The gristmill part had been build about 1810 by Nicholas Manville, and four years later he added a sawmill, and a few years after that, a distillery. Eleazer signed an affidavit in 1838, stating that he was 70 years of age, and that he was present at the marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Thomas Wigton at his father's house at Kingston, PA., 5 January 1774." ("Twigs From Family Trees," Part IV, p. 585-6)

According to some old family notes (which the Organization would like to have) in the possession of J. O. Coolbaugh of Borger, TX., Eleazer is supposed to have had:
Mary, who had a daughter, Catherine, who m. 1) Amos Earl, and 2) Reuben Benedict.

Eleazar married Jemima WHEELER before 1794 in PA. (Jemima WHEELER was born about 1776 in New Jersey, USA and died on 3 Jun 1823 in Canaan twp., Marion Co., OH.)

Eleazar next married Sarah Ann after 1823 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Sarah Ann was born about 1787 in New York and died after 1859 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States.)