Elizabeth Orpha Gaston

1866 - 1961  (95 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Orpha Gaston
  Born	2 Mar 1866	East Liverpool, Ohio
  Gender	Female
  Died	Oct 1961	Wooster, Ohio
  Person ID	I8352	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2001

  
  

  Father	George Gaston
  Mother	Rachel Montgomery
  Family ID	F3102	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Horace Nelson Mateer,   b. 12 Dec 1855, , Adams, Pennsylvania ,   d. 10 Jun 1939, Wooster, Ohio  (Age 83 years)
  Married	25 Oct 1888	East Liverpool, Ohio
  Children	+ 1. John Gaston Mateer,   b. 14 Feb 1890, Wooster, Ohio ,   d. 2 Sep 1966, Detroit, Michigan  (Age 76 years) + 2. Mary Nelson Mateer,   b. 2 Sep 1891, Wooster, Ohio ,   d. 17 Dec 1971, Harwich, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years) + 3. Elizabeth Montgomery Mateer,   b. 31 Jul 1894, Wooster, Ohio ,   d. 29 Oct 1930, Cleveland, Ohio  (Age 36 years)   4. Dorothy Mateer,   b. 1 Nov 1901, Wooster, Ohio ,   d. 2 May 1972, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona  (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F3101	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  In a will written in March 1949, Elizabeth Gaston Mateer of Wooster, Ohio, bequeathed $1000 each to three grandchildren, Mary Mateer Randal, Richard M. Douglas and Samuel N. Douglas: "Inasmuch as my grandson William Gaston Mateer to whom I would have bequeathed $1000, predeceased me", that sum is now to go to his nephew, "my great-grandson", William Randall Jr., this legacy to be paid in U. S. Government bonds, for which either or both of his parents may receipt without the appointment of a guardian; to granddaughter Nancy Hole Schaack, $5000 in U. S. Government bonds; to daughter Dorothy Mateer, all stock in the First National Bank of East Liverpool, Ohio, "which stock I consider a family heirloom"; all remaining estate, share and share alike to son John G. Mateer and daughters, Mary Mateer Douglas and Dorothy Mateer, these three to be Executors. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 113.