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Donny Osmond

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Gamaliel Vail Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Donny Osmond — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44 
  • Father:
  • Gamaliel Vail 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Manning   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Jun 1803 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saratoga, Saratoga Co., New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 07 or 08 JUN 1844 
  • Death Location:
  • McLean County, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Batholomew
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Apr 1830 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Clark County, Indiana 
  • Children:
  
  

  Isaac Hawk Vail (Ahnentafel No:22 )

  Elvira Vail

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources mistakenly state that Gamaliel Vail and Martha Bartholomew married in McLean County, Illinois, but their marriage can be found in the record books for Clark County, Indiana.

• Sources for Gamaliel Vail Jr.

  • ¹ Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007, Obituary for son Isaac Hawk Vail.
  • ² Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, Marriage record for Gamaliel Vail Jr. and Marthia Bartholomew.
  • ³ Bartholomew, George Wells, Jr., Record of the Bartholomew Family: Historical, Genealogical and Biographical, Austin, Texas: Published by the Compiler (1885), 478.
  • ⁴ Esshom, Frank, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company (1913), 1066.
  • ⁵ Vail, Henry H., Genealogy of Some of the Vail Family Descended From Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, New York: Unknown (1902), 124.
  • ⁶ Vail, William Penn, M.D., Moses Vail of Huntington, L.I.: Showing His Descent from Joseph (2) Vail, Son of Thomas Vail at Salem, Massachusetts 1640, Unknown: Unknown (1947), 357.

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