ELIZABETH CARLILE GAMBLE 1819 - 1890

Grandma Elizabeth was the oldest in a family of 13 kids.  At least three of her sisters died as young women.  She was born and married in Carroll County, Ohio, but the family (including her parents and siblings) moved on west to Scott county, IN in l842 where she and her husband Alex raised their family of 10.  The move must have been hard for her with a one-year old and either pregnant or with a newborn.  And knowing that her husband was leaving his family in Ohio.

It is a small world.  My Aunt Mabel, maternal aunt, married (as a second husband) the grandson of Elizabeth (my paternal gg grandmother).  The first man I wanted to marry ended up marrying a descendant of Elizabeth's sister (none of three of us grew up in Scott County).

Elizabeth's great niece wrote,  "The Carlyles were chased out of Scotland by dogs when the Catholics chased the Covenanters or Scottish anti-Catholics out of Scotland.  Groups of men were driven to the edge of the Irish Sea by angry men with dogs.  Some swam out to little rocky islands off the coast and were later rescued by Irishmen in small boats . . . Grandfather's [Elizabeth's brother's] mother, Mary Whitcraft, was born in Ireland and came to America when quite a young girl.  Grandfather remembered his grandfather Whitcraft and said he spoke with a broad Irish brogue."

Elizabeth was the granddaughter of a Scottish or Irish immigrant and daughter of an Irish immigrant, and she married Alexander Gamble who was born in County Cavan, Ireland and came with his family to Ohio in 1821 when he was about 7.  The Gambles probably were Scots who moved to Ireland for a few generations before coming to America.

Elizabeth's mother, Mary Whitcraft Carlile, died the same year they moved from Ohio to Indiana, but many of Elizabeth's children made their homes in Scott County.  She died there in l890 at age 71.


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