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THE DANIEL ROSS GANDY FAMILY
Daniel Ross Gandy, son of John and Cloey (Mullins) Gandy, was born in Georgia in 1811. The Gandys moved to Perry County Alabama and there Daniel married Nancy Evans (born in Mississippi) in 1811.
Daniel and Nancy came across country in a wagon train with her family, going to Texas where land was free. It took them many months to make the trip. They had to stop to make a garden, to rest a team, or to tend...
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Not sure about her mother.
THE DANIEL ROSS GANDY FAMILY
Daniel Ross Gandy, son of John and Cloey (Mullins) Gandy, was born in Georgia in 1811. The Gandys moved to Perry County Alabama and there Daniel married Nancy Evans (born in Mississippi) in 1811.
Daniel and Nancy came across country in a wagon train with her family, going to Texas where land was free. It took them many months to make the trip. They had to stop to make a garden, to rest a team, or to tend a sick person.
There were no roads or bridges. The Mississippi River was so big, the crossing so formidable, that when they lost a dog there, everyone cried. Finally reaching Texas, they were plagued with a severe drouth and encounters with hostile Indians. They couldn't rid themselves of visions of the lush green forests east of the Sabine River. They returned to Sabine Parish in 1833.
Daniel and Nancy settled on land just south of Many and lived there the rest of their lives. He was elected sheriff of Sabine Parish twice, and to the State Legislature in 1853. While he was in Baton Rouge, Nancy died.
Of their seven children, only Mary Elisa (married Vincent A. Montogomery), Daniel Ross (married Nancy A. Self), and Marion Franklin survived their mother.
In December 1853, Daniel married (2) Louisa Jane Sibley, daughter of John Isaac and Jane (Felder) Sibley, Louisa Jane died in 1862 and was buried on the Gandy home-place.They had five children, three of whom reached maturity:
Frances Eugenia (married George S. Plant); Nancy Jane (married James W. Brumfield); and Rufus Sibley (married Ida Rilla McLanahan).
Daniel Ross Married (3) Angeline Jane Duggan, daughter of Rev. Edmund and Elizabeth (Swint) Duggan. They had three children: Mary Louise; Willie Elliot (married Louisa Jane Cook); and Anna Elizabeth (married Francis J. Davis).
In 1867 Daniel Ross Gandy died. He was buried beside Louisa Jane on the homeplace. In later years, the KCS railroad cut through close to this little cemetery. Cedar trees grew up around the graves and eventually some landowner cleared the trees, threw the gravestone against the fence, and plowed the land.
Bertha (Gandy) Miller (daughter of Rufus Sibley Gandy and Granddaughter of Daniel Ross Gandy) when searching for the gravesites, rescued the old stone.
She mounted it in the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, beside the grave of her father.
Daniel Perry Gandy, and Harvey M. Gandy, sons of a deceased brother of Daniel Ross Gandy, came to Sabine Parish in the early 1850's from Alabama.
Their parents were Harvey M. and Caroline (Martin) Gandy of Bibb County
Alabama.
Herbert R. Sibley
Willa Dean Duggan Reynolds
Lona Mae Duggan Gordon
Sabine Parish Library Many LA
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MINUTES of the
TWENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION
of the
SABINE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
Held with
LITTLE FLOCK CHURCH,
SABINE PARISH, LA.,
Oct. 19th-22d, 1867.
MOUNT LEBANON, LA.,
Printed at the office of the Louisiana Baptist. 1867.
APPENDICES.
[A.]
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, to remove from a life of honor and usefulness among us, our highly esteemed and beloved brother D. R. Gandy, who for twenty years has been a member of this body. Be, it
Resolved, 1st, That in token of the respect of this Association for the memory of the deceased, and also of our appreciation of his virtues and valuable services to this body, a page of the minutes of this Association be devoted to a record of the death of our departed brother, giving a brief summary of his history.
Resolved, 2d, That a copy of such a record, together with these resolutions, duly acknowledged by the Clerk of this Association, be presented, one to the bereaved family of the deceased brother, and another to the Editor of the Louisiana Baptist for publication.
Resolved, 3d, That some brother be appointed to draft a suitable obituary, in accordance with the foregoing resolutions, and present the same to this Association sometime during its session for approval.
N. H. BRAY.
[B.]--ON OBITUARIES.
Your Committee offers the following report. Upon examination we find that our Heavenly Father has taken sixteen of our number from their toils on this earth to that rest prepared for the people of God, which plainly teaches us, that this is not our home, but that we are only probationers here, and warns us to use all the means that God has devised and so graciously bestowed on us as his children, for our comforts here are our enjoyments in Heaven. The obituary notice of brother, D. R. Gandy has been received and is hereunto annexed. All of which is respectfully submitted.
E. DUGGAN, Chairman
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Sabine Parish Public Library
Family member 1867
DIED
May 12, 1867
(My Mother's Father)
OBITUARY OF D. R. GANDY
[C.]--OBITUARY OF D. R. GANDY.
To the Sabine Baptist Association: --Having been appointed by your body to write an obituary, with a brief history of our departed brother D. R. Gandy, I beg leave to present for your reception and approval the following:
The writer has been intimately acquainted with the deceased over twenty-six years, during that period his intimacy was something more than mere acquaintance. We knew him to love him for his kindness and Christian life. We knew him in adversity and in prosperity -- in sickness and in health. We have been his associate at home and abroad, and always found him the same upright Christian gentleman. Brother Gandy was born in the State of Georgia, March the 22nd, 1811. When but a boy his parents moved to Bibb County, Alabama, At the age of eighteen he was married to Miss Nancy Evans on the 10th of October 1830, and moved with some of his wife's family to Texas about the year 1831, and stopped near the mouth of the Little Brazos for a short time. Like many others, he became very much dissatisfied with the country, and in the latter part of the same year, he with his wife and two or three Spanish ponies, moved to Louisiana and settled on the place where he died. He built him a camp and borrowed the axe to do his first work, having spent all in moving. He was very poor, but being a man of strong constitution, with untiring energy, he soon, by God's blessing on his labors, found himself surrounded with plenty and good friends. About the year 1833, he became a professor of religion and was baptized by Eld. Ben Garlington, into the Zion Hill church. He dated his conversion from his fifteenth year. In a short time he was ordained a deacon.
In 1834 [Original copy shows 1834 but Sabine Parish was created in 1843.], soon after the organization of this Parish, he was appointed sheriff by Gov. Mouton, and was afterward elected twice to the same office. In 1853, contrary to his wish, he was nominated and elected to the State Legislature; and while at Baton Rouge his first wife was taken suddenly sick and died on the 27th of April, 1853, leaving him three living children, having buried four.
The same year, December the 1st, he married his second wife, Miss L. J. Sibley, and in April the 21st, 1862, she died, leaving him four children -- they having buried one.
He was married to Miss Angeline (Mama's mother) Duggan, his third wife, on the 30th of September, 1862, his now bereaved widow, leaving her two children -- they having buried one.
So his family was and is as follows: Seven children by his first wife -- two of which are living; five by his second wife -- four of which are living; three by his third wife -- two of which are living, making fifteen, of which eight only are living and seven dead.
Up to the war, he had, by industry and economy, accumulated a considerable property, the loss of which he bore patiently.
On the 12th day of May, 1867, after six months sickness, the two last of which his sufferings were very severe, he fell gently asleep in death, without a struggle or murmur, with a full assurance of his reconciliation with his God, through the merits of a Redeemer's blood. He died of Chronic Diarrhea in the 57th year of his age. Thou art gone, dear brother, to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, since God was thy ransom, thy guardian, thy guide. He gave thee, he took thee; and he will restore thee. And death hath no sting, since the Savior hath died.
In taking a final leave of our beloved brother, it behooves us, who have known him so long and so well, to give to his memory something more than a passing tear. As a man he was exemplary in his conduct; gentlemanly in his bearing; hospitable to his friends, and always ready to lend a helping hand to the poor and needy in their distress. He fed the hungry, clothed the naked, he visited the widows and fatherless, the sick and afflicted, and administered to their wants and to all such as needed. The string of the latches of his store-house and barn, always hung outside, with a
purse open when a friend wanted to borrow. As a legislator he was faithful to his constituents: as an officer of trust he was honest; as a Christian he was consistent; as a citizen and neighbor he was useful. To speak of his virtues as a husband, father, friend, neighbor and Christian, we find it difficult to express in words the extent of his usefulness and our loss. As one of the founders of this Association, he has ever been at his post, and ready as he was able, with a clear head and kind heart, to give his advice in time of trouble.
He leaves behind a bereaved widow and eight children, with a large connection of relatives in Alabama, together with numerous friends to bemoan his loss. But thank God, we mourn not as those that have no hope; for we believe that our loss is his eternal gain.
N. H. BRAY
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The State of Louisiana,
Parish of Sabine.
Know all men by these presents that I Daniel R. Gandy, Sr. a resident of the Parish of Sabine, in the state of Louisiana, reminded of the uncertainty of life, and being now of sound and disposing mind, thought afflicted, and fearful that I may soon be called from this earth, do make and ordain this my last will and testament.
First -- I give, donate and bequeath unto my beloved wife Ann Gandy, the following described lands with all the improvements thereon or appurtenances there to belonging, to wit, The south east quarter of section Twenty six (26) Township Seven (7) Range eleven (11) containing One hundred and sixty acres - and being and lying in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, and being what is known as my home place, ___ Also all my undivided one half interest in and to the following described One hundred and sixty acres of land with all improvements thereon, to-wit, The North east quarter of section Thirty five (35) Township seven (7) Range Eleven (11) in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, this tract being the same upon which is situated and located my gin house, and appurtenances; ___ Also all my undivided one half interest in and to the following described eighty acres of land with all improvements there on; to-wit, The east half of south west quarter of section twenty six (26) Township Seven (7) Range Eleven (11) in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, this tract lying directly west of the first tract herein described.
Second, I give, donate, and bequeath unto my beloved wife Ann Gandy, out of my stock of cattle on hand six head of mother cows with their calves, and out of my flock of sheep on hand fifteen head of sheep, she to make her won selection and choice out of my lot of cattle, and flock of sheep, and to have such as she may select and choose after my decease.
Third, It is my will, disposition, and desire, that all the property, and effects, of which I may now be possessed in my own right, and of which I may be possessed in my own right at my decease, meaning to my part in the community with my former wives, and present wife, except that property herein before disposed of to my present wife be divided among my children the heirs of my body, as the laws of Louisiana will divide, partition and apportion the same, it being my intention and desire in this my last will and testament simply to give, donate and bequeath to my beloved wife Ann Gandy the lands, cows and calves, and sheep herein described and mentioned, and there to let the law take its course, and make its won proper distribution of the balance of my property.
Fourth -- It is my will and desire that whoever is appointed Tutor of my minor children, to wit, Nancy Jane Gandy, John Wiley Gandy, Francis Eugenia Gandy, and Rufus Sibley Gandy, issue of my marriage with my deceased wife Louisa Jane Sibley, will permit them to remain on the place with my present wife Ann Gandy, until circumstances may render it unadvisable and unnecessary, so that they may receive a good and liberal education, my object being simply to express my desire, and to request that my said children be permitted to remain with my present wife, and that they receive as good an education as possible out of the property left them by inheritance --
Finally -- I hereby appoint Edmund Duggan -- my son Daniel R. Gandy Jr. -- my son in law Vincent A. Montgomery -- and the father of my second wife John I. Sibley, to be the Executors of this my last will and testament. --
In witness of all of which, I have caused this my last will and testament to be written by James F. Smith, the said James F. Smith, writing the same for me as I dictated the same to him, and then caused the same to be presented and read by James F. Smith, acting as a witness, in a loud and audible voice, in the presence of me the testator, and in the presence of the undersigned witnesses of lawful age, and domiciliated in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, on this the 8th day of May 1867. I presenting this paper in the presence of the undersigned five witnesses, and declaring to them the same to be and to contain my last will and testament, and all being done, presented and declared to be my last will and testament, read over by James F. Smith, one of the witnesses in a loud tone to the rest and in presence of the other witnesses, and in presence of me the testator, and signed, on this the 8th day of May, A.D. 1867.
(Signed) Daniel R. Gandy, sen,
Witnesses:
(Signed)
James F. Smith,
Robert W. ???Avnette,???
Washington H. Aldridge,
Edmund Duggan,
Nathan H. Bray,
A true copy
September 16th 1867
W. W. M Neely
clk Dist-Court
Note: The original when probated duly stamped and marked "Ne Varietur" at the beginning and ending of each page. |
