The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Birth: 02 Dec 1737 Morristown / Morris / NJ Death: 28 Dec 1806 North Bend / Hamilton / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
Private - Captain James Keen's Company; COL David Seely's Eastern Regiment, Morris County, New Jersey, Militia
Additional References:
Rev War Slips: Single Citations of the New Jersey Department of Defense Materials, FHL Roll #569681, 25.42
Stryker, William S, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Rev War, New Jersey. Trenton: Wm. T. Nicholson & Co, 1872, pg 602
The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Who Lived in the State of Ohio, Volume ll, Compiled by Mrs. Orville D. Dailey. Greenfield, Ohio: The Greenfield Printing & Publishing Co, 1938
Gershom Gard was born in 1738 (or 1734) in Morristown, New Jersey. He was a veteran of the American Revolution and served as a Private in the company of Captain Keen, commanded by Colonel Seely of the Morris County Militia.
He came west from New Jersey with his brother Daniel and his cousin Alexander Guard, settling first in North Bend, Ohio. In 1795 with a Miami land warrant and $200, Gershom purchased adjoining sections 31 and 25. This land totaled 1,280 acres and encompassed what today is North Bend Road to Galbraith Road and Daly Road to the Colerain Township line. He came to Hamilton County, Ohio, and settled in Springfield Twp. On North Bend Rd. about 1 mile W of the Cincinnati Hamilton Turnpike. He Mar Phoebe Huntington.
He was buried at McCrea Cemetery, aka Gard Cemetery on the north side of N. Bend Rd., west of College View Place. The grave is in row 6 [on the N side of 1928 North Bend Rd. Gard Cemetery]; on a lot that he set aside for burial. There is no stone remaining for Gershom, but one for his wife remains. Once there was a plain stone that is said to have given the date of his death and age. According to that gravestone, he died on 15 January 1807, which must be wrong as he made his Will on 25 December 1807.
His obituary, which appeared in the Western Spy newspaper on 19 January 1809, has: “Departed this life on the 28th of December, MR. GERSHUM GARD, aged 70. He was born in 1734. His wife Phebe died in 1812, in her 81st year, and is buried next to him.”
Most of the bodies in Gard Cemetery were later removed to Spring Grove Cemetery. However, when Hamilton Avenue was widened at that corner and electric streetcar rails were being laid, bones were uncovered.
Sources:
Revolutionary War Soldiers, Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio”; Little Miami Publ. Co. Milford, Ohio, 2010. By DAR, Cincinnati Chapter.
Hamilton County Recorder’s Office. Veterans’ Graves Registration Cards. (Cards are located at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.)
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Revolutionary War Veteran burial records in Ohio; Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library, History/Genealogy department.
Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. 4 vols. Dallas, Tex.: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987.
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