Elsberry Gaston, 10 North 52 West
In 1870 Davis County, Iowa, James Gaston is 30, Ellen 24, Ellsberry 11, Elmira 9, William 7, Viola 6, Lucinda 3,a nd Rosalind four months.
Elsberry, 23, son of James Gaston and Ellen Shay, married Amanda D. Godfrey, 23, daughter of S. Godfrey and Elizabeth Carrel, on September 3, 1882 in Boone County, Iowa.
Amanda E. Gaston died Feb 19, 1885 in Cook County, Illinois.
In 1885 Saunders County, Nebraska, Elsberry is farming, 25, wife Ellen 24, both born in Iowa, and her mother Elisabeth 52 born in Illinois.
Ellsberry Gaston and Ellen Gaston divorced in Denver on Sept 23, 1890.
Elsberry claimed a quarter in section 34, 10N 52W, Logan County, in 1892.
Elsberry Gaston and Emma L. Wilson married in Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa on May 22, 1895.
1897 Malvern, Iowa "Hugo K. Doeduing and Elsberry Gaston were each fined $100 and sentenced to twelve months in jail at Keokuk for sending improper letters to a lady at Farmington."
In 1907 Logan County, William Tew filed suit against Elsberry Gaston for that land.
Ellsberry is in Mankato, Minnesota in 1900, a carpenter, born March 1859 in Iowa, widowed,
In 1910 Ottumwa, Iowa, Elsberry Gaston sued Emma for divorce on the basis of desertion, and he was granted the right to remarry.
Eleberry Gaston, of Ottumwa, Iowa was granted a patent in 1915 for a wire-bending machine. Witnesses were Mary Heffron and Viola Wright.
Ellsbery, born Jan 1, 1861, died Dec 3, 1928, buried in Gillette, Wyoming # 88161479.
Cemetery records say "Ellisberry" was the son of James Davis of Pennsylvania and Ella Shay of West Virginia.
Maude Ethel Gaston 1887-1949 is also buried there # 82057493.
One tree said she was the wife of Lloyd Hazen Gaston