Elizabeth Gough
1795 - 1884 (89 years)
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Name Elizabeth Gough [1] Birth 1795 Kentucky 
Gender Female Death 7 Jul 1884 Ruma, Randolph County, IL Patriarch & Matriarch 
Stephen Gough, b. Abt 1630, County Gloucester Englandd. Between 22 Oct 1700 and 2 Jan 1701, St. Bernards, Newtown Hundred, St Mary's Co., Md. (Age 70 years) (2 x Great Grandfather) 
Elizabeth Heard, b. 1767, St. Mary's County, Marylandd. Bef 1828, Spencer County, Kentucky (Age < 60 years) (Mother) Person ID I3179 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father John Baptist Gough, b. 18 Feb 1764, St. Andrew Parish, St. Marys Co., MD. d. 22 Aug 1835, Perry County, Missouri (Age 71 years) Mother Elizabeth Heard, b. 1767, St. Mary's County, Maryland d. Bef 1828, Spencer County, Kentucky (Age < 60 years)
Other Partners: Ignatius GoughMarriage 1784 Family ID F1853 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Cornelius Horrell, b. 1 Aug 1793, Maryland d. 22 Dec 1861, Randolph Co., IL (Age 68 years)
Marriage 26 May 1815 Washington County. KY [1, 2] Family ID F1752 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
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Notes - From: Washington Co marriages, 1792-1825, p. 25:
p. 32 Gough, Eliz., daughter of John Baptist, and Cornelius Horrell 26 May 1815
Dear List, Here is some information of John GOUGH who died died 22 August
1835, Burial: 23 August 1835 in Perry Co., MO.
1. JOHN BAPTIST GOUGH was born 1761 in St Mary's Co., MD > Nelson Co., KY.
In Nov. 1833 Perry Countian, John Baptiste GOUGH appeared before the Circuit
Court Judge John D. COOK, to lay claim to his Revolutionary War Pension.
(Congress had passed an act 7 June 1832 regarding veteran's pensions.)
John GOUGH'S military career began in April 1781, when he volunteered under
John GRENSWILDS in St. Mary's Co., MD. This company was called "to guard the
coasts from the depredations of the British fleet." The company assembled at
Leonardtown in St. Mary's Co. and marched frequently to the banks of the
Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay during a six week period to keep the
British from landing or to drive away small landing parties. Although the
men were kept under arms during this time, they did not do any fighting.
Pvt. GOUGH was released from service after the six-week period, but in the
middle of July he was drafted with others at Leonardtown in St. Mary's Co.
to fight Cornwallis in Virginia.
Now attached to a company commanded by Capt. Nicholas MANGERS, this group
marched to Annapolis in July and became a part of the 4th Maryland Regiment.
In August the regiment started for the "Little York," (presumably this meant
the York River in Virginia) where they arrived in September. The regiment
had arrived before the British were driven from Pidgeon Hill Fort, but they
did not participate in that action.
>From the time the fortifications built by the Americans to surround Yorktown
were begun, GOUGH was on duty 24 hours and off duty 24 hours until the
surrender of Cornwallis to the American Army.
GOUGH stated that "he was present under arms when Lord CORNWALLIS marched
out and delivered his sword to the American General, LINCOLN, and that he
saw it." It is quite possible GOUGH thought he saw CORNWALLIS give his sword
to LINCOLN, but CORNWALLIS had sent word that he was ill and underlings on b
oth sides handled the surrender of swords..
After the surrender, GOUGH'S regiment guarded "five hundred British, five
hundred Hessians and five hundred Highlanders who were surrendered at the
siege of York." The Americans marched the prisoners to Fredericksburg, VA
and guarded them until the "militia near Fredericksburg, were raised to
march said prisoners on to Winchester or Leesburgh, VA, the place they were
destined for." After the Fredericksburg militia took over the prisoners,
GOUGH and the Maryland company marched back to Annapolis, left their arms
and were discharged about 22 Dec. 1781.
In 1787, John GOUGH left St. Mary's Co., where he was born in 1764, and
moved to Nelson Co., KY, the area later being called Washington Co. In 1814
he moved to Shelby Co., KY which was divided in 1824 or 1825, and he lived
then in Spencer Co., KY. GOUGH moved to Randolph Co., IL in 1832 and then to
Perry Co., in 1833.
Zachariah LAYTON and Joseph MANNING swore they knew John B. GOUGH in St.
Mary's Co., MD and knew he had entered the American Army in June or July,
1781, and "that he returned about the 25th of December, 1781, after the
surrender of Lord CORNWALLLIS." John BRANDS, clergyman who concurred with
the other two.
Article by Billie R. Mills, 'Veterans Ask for Their Pensions in 1833,' Perry
County Heritage, Vol. 12, No. 3 & 4, 1994., p. 92)
There are two female GOUGHS in Perry Co. at this time:
ELIZABETH GOUGH, b. Abt. 1795, who married Cornelius HORRELL 26 May 1815 in Wash. Co., KY.
MARY POLLY GOUGH, b. 1797, Kentucky; d. 10 October 1836, Perry Co., MO. who married Bernard HORRELL 03 June 1822 in Shelby Co., KY.
- From: Washington Co marriages, 1792-1825, p. 25:
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