Notes for Joseph Gerking

Family Group Sheet

Notes for Joseph Gerking

!Note: Information on Joseph Gerkins provided my Jenny Harrison 15 June 2000, (jennyscott@prodigy.net).
She has born 25 Dec 1804?? -- Head stone has 26 Dec 1805

Note:
1. This birth is also recorded as Dec 26, 1805.
2. Joseph was a trustee of the Mount Holly Methodist Church.
3. Apparently, this branch and the family of brother David did not leave the Louisville, Kentucky area when Joseph's father and brothers moved to Washington County, Indiana about 1814 and then to the Orange/Lawrence/Martin county area of Indiana about 1832. However, Joseph was only nine years old in 1814...did he and David return to Louisville from Indiana? Brother David, b. , is listed in the 1830 census of Jefferson County, Kentucky as David Gherken (indexed as Gerken ).This surname is spelled Gerking in marriage and burial records, and was spelled Gherkin in the 1840 and 1850 census ; Gerking (the widow Lurica) in the 1860 and 1870 census while the spelling of the surname is indeterminate in the 1880 census.Enumerated at family #434 in the 1850 Federal Census of district 1, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sarah Gerking, age 74 was living with Joseph Gerking family in the 1850 census of Jefferson County, Kentucky, however, this is probabl y Sarah Price, mother of Lurica. The children in the 1850 census are Mary, 20, Burton, 18, Julina (sp ?), 16, Elizabeth, 14, Corinna, 12, Nancy, 10, Marilda, 5, John 3 and William, 3 months.