Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees


Peter Zabriskie Elmendorf [Parents] 1 was born in 1775 in Kingston, NY. He died on 19 Jul 1852 in Sam Sloan's residence in Brooklyn. He married Maria LaGrange Van Veghten on 24 May 1821.

Peter Z. Elmendorf was a respected citizen of Somerville; during aportion of his career he resided at New Brunswick, NJ for a obituarynotice in the N.Y. Herald July 20, 1852 stated that he was "late of NewBrunswick, NJ" that he died at No. 163 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY "inthe 77th year of his age; he departed life in the home of his son-in-law,Mr. Samuel Sloan. In a wide community he was looked up to as a leaderdistinguished for his urbanity and broad intelligence. He was a devotedchurchman and was for upwards of 50 years an Elder in the Dutch Church.Mr. Elmendorf was an old time gentleman most particular in deportment andpunctilious in observing the fine courtesies of life. His children,including his sons-in-law revered him. He insisted in all familyrelations on a strict observance of the fifth commandment. Doubtless hispresence led to a certain repression of the spirits of young people. Hesubscribed to the bessst periodical literature of the day and no one waspermitted to open or cut the pages of the Magazines without hispermission. The deportment of the children at table and in church wasstrictly supervised. His son-in-law, Sam Sloan, enjoyed recallingincidents of the dignified way his father-in-law carried himself.

Maria LaGrange Van Veghten [Parents] 1 was born on 25 Dec 1795 in Somerville, NJ. She died on 19 Dec 1866. She married Peter Zabriskie Elmendorf on 24 May 1821.

They had the following children:

  F i Margaret ELMENDORF was born on 8 Apr 1822. She died on 13 Oct 1913.
  M ii Peter Elmendorf was born in 1826. He died in 1851.
  F iii Mary Crooke Elmendorf was born on 15 Mar 1829. She died on 17 Jun 1902.
  F iv Elizabeth LaGrange Elmendorf.

MELCHIOR. married Sybil Marie HUEY.

Sybil Marie HUEY [Parents] was born on 14 Nov 1919 in Kemp, Okla. She died on 22 Nov 1982. She married MELCHIOR.


HARRINGTON. married Clarissa MCKENZIE.

Clarissa MCKENZIE [Parents] was born in 1808 in Pulaski Co, Kentucky. She married HARRINGTON.


Thomas GAULT [Parents].Thomas married Sarah APELNG.

Sarah APELNG.Sarah married Thomas GAULT.

They had the following children:

  M i William GAULT.
  M ii Henry Calvin GAULT.

Jacob "Jack" WENDER was born in Poland. He married Ethel GREENBERG.

Other marriages:
, Natalie

On Page 2 of the 1972 edition of "Profile of a Prodigy", Frank Brady states: "Bobby's mother, though raised in St. Louis, where her father Jack Wender was a dress cutter, was born abroad in Switzerland."

Became a naturalized US citizen on 12 November 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri.
"Bobby Fischer Goes to War", page 319, ISBN 0-06-051024-2

Ethel GREENBERG.Ethel married Jacob "Jack" WENDER.


William GAULT was born in 1735. He died in 1803. He married Rebecca COFFEE.

Pressley Brown Gault and Elizabeth Pinkerton Leighty, The William Gault Family History, 1735-1948 (Sparta IL, n.d.).

William Gault was born in Pennsylvania about 1735 and settled in the Waxhaw area of North Carolina in the 1760s.
He married Rebecca Rebecca Coffey who was born in Virginia and they had 13 children. Soon after William Gault
died, about 1803, Rebecca Coffey Gault moved to Williamson County Tennessee with some of her family. After a
few years members of the family moved again to Lincoln County, Tennessee and settled five miles west of
Fayettesville.

From the Graham Family Book.

Rebecca COFFEE.Rebecca married William GAULT.

They had the following children:

  M i Thomas GAULT.
  F ii Grace GAULT.
  F iii Nancy GAULT.

James Clark TAYLOR.James married Nancy GAULT.

Nancy GAULT [Parents].Nancy married James Clark TAYLOR.

They had the following children:

  F i Hulda TAYLOR.

James JOHNSON.James married Grace GAULT.

Grace GAULT [Parents].Grace married James JOHNSON.

Other marriages:
WILSON, John

They had the following children:

  F i Rebecca JOHNSON was born about 1800. She died before 1850.
  F ii Mary JOHNSON.

John WILSON.John married Grace GAULT.

Grace GAULT [Parents].Grace married John WILSON.

Other marriages:
JOHNSON, James

They had the following children:

  F i Ursula WILSON was born on 19 Jul 1819. She died on 27 Jan 1893.
  F ii Susan WILSON.
  F iii Eliza L. WILSON.

BOAZ. married Bobbie Fay HUEY.

Bobbie Fay HUEY [Parents] was born on 15 Jul 1928 in Kemp, Oklahoma. She married BOAZ.

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