Gose, Stephen

Birth Name Gose, Stephen
Gender male
Age at Death 80 years, 7 months

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1719 Strasbourg, Alsace Lorraine, Germany Germany  
Death August 1, 1799 Cripple Creek, Wythe County, Virginia, United States Virginia  
Burial 1799 Crockett, Wythe County, Virginia, United States Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery  

Relation to the center person (Claunch, William Nathan) : sixth great grandfather

Families

    Family of Gose, Stephen and Spracher, Elizabeth
Married Wife Spracher, Elizabeth ( * + ... )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 1759      
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Gose, Elizabeth
Gose, Catherine
Gose, Unnamed Twin
Gose, Juliana
Gose, John
Gose, Anna Maria
Gose, Stephen Jr.April 5, 1762December 12, 1847
Gose, ChristopherApril 30, 17651817
Gose, GeorgeFebruary 14, 1769August 15, 1819
Gose, MargaretAugust 6, 1772May 8, 1808
Gose, PhilipJune 6, 1774January 4, 1832
Gose, BarbaraSeptember 27, 1776March 10, 1828
Gose, JacobJuly 8, 1779January 28, 1846
Gose, PeterJanuary 1784April 14, 1839

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Gose Family:

The name GOSE is derived from GOOSE. The original domicile of the family was Strasbourg, Providence of Alsace, Germany. Strasbourg is in the Rhine Valley on the west side of the Rhine River and not far from the border of Switzurland. Germany and France fought several wars over the provence of Alsace and Strasbourg. Following World War I, the city is now a city in France. STEPHEN GOSE I was born in Germany and came to America on the ship "Brothers", landing at the Port of Philadelphia on 22 Sep 1752. In 1759, at the age of 40, Stephen married Elizabeth Spracher and they settled at Cripple Creek, in Montgomery Co., now Wythe Co., Virginia where Stephen owned 247 acres on the waters of Cripple Creek. Stephen died in 1799 and is probably buried in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetary on Cripple Creek where many grave stones may be seen without inscriptions. The old church records there are written in German and record the birth and baptismal dates of numeraus pioneers living on Cripple Creek and other communities 50 miles or more distant. In these records, the name was spelled Gooss, Goss and finally Gose. The first church services were held at Zion under the tree by Rev. John Stanger, minister, doctor and farmer. A pulpit was made by 2 poles mortised one above the other into two trees.

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Biographical Sketch:

Stephen was born in 1719 in Strassbourg, Alsace Lorraine, Germany (now France).
He came to America on September 22, 1752 aboard the ship "Brothers" with Captain William Muir from Rotterdam.

He marrried Catharina Sprecher (Spaker) in about 1759. They had 11 children, 2 died young. About 1764-1765 they moved to North Carolina. (Her Family moved there about 1761.) They settled in the Rowan, North Carolina area. Catharina died in the late 1770's and Stephen married her sister Elizabeth. They had 4 children. They settled in Cripple Creek on the Zion Road (presently route 651) about 1779. He died August 10, 1799 in Virginia and is probably buried in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, near his home.

Parents of Catharina and Elizabeth were Johan Christopher Sprecher and Maria Ernestine Beck.

http://gosedecendants.tripod.com/StephenGose.html

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Passenger List of Ship "Brothers"

List of passengers aboard the ship Brothers from Rotterdam to Philadelphia
c. 1752

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007109121;view=1up;seq=563

P. 481

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Biographical Note:

Stephen Gose I came from Germany on the ship Brothers, landing at the Port of Philadelphia on Sept 22, 1752. His plantation consisted of 247 acres on the waters of Cripple Creek in Montgomery, now Wythe County, Va.

Notes found among research by Mary Louise Claunch

 

Family Map

Family Map

Pedigree

    1. Gose, Stephen
      1. Spracher, Elizabeth
        1. Gose, George
        2. Gose, Christopher
        3. Gose, Elizabeth
        4. Gose, Catherine
        5. Gose, Unnamed Twin
        6. Gose, Juliana
        7. Gose, Margaret
        8. Gose, Jacob
        9. Gose, Philip
        10. Gose, Barbara
        11. Gose, John
        12. Gose, Peter
        13. Gose, Anna Maria
        14. Gose, Stephen Jr.