GEE, Zopher

1763 - 1829  (65 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	GEE, Zopher
  Birth	28 Aug 1763	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Aug 1829	New Lyme, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States
  Death	14 Aug 1829	New Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	20 Sep 1888	LOGAN
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  Person ID	I52559	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	GEE,, William Sr. ,   b. 5 Apr 1739, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesd. 16 Sep 1817, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 78 years)
  Mother	MACK, Abigail ,   b. 14 Mar 1740, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesd. 23 Mar 1838, East Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 98 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1761	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F26021	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BECKWITH, Esther ,   b. 6 Jun 1770, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesd. 31 Aug 1794, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1783	Lyme. New London, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F26017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Photos		grave stone of Ruth Gee Mack. Photo added to Find a Grave by Carln88 on 4/04/2013.
  		Whistletown Cemetery. photo added to Find a Grave by Jan Franco on 9/08/2005.
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  Zopher is buried in Dodgeville Cemetery, New Lyme Ohio. The 1820 Ashtabula County Atlas shows Zopher Gee owning property in Lebanon ( later New Lyme ) . This was part of lot #6 in the 3rd Range. The Atlas is in the Ashtabula County Genealogical Library. THE LOON STORM IN NEW LYME, l82l By request of Zopher GEE, Esq., of South New Lyme, I will give, as I remember, a description of what is known as the "Great Loon Storm", by the old pioneers, which occurred in April 1821- Mr. Gee says the younger race [generation] of people scoff the idea of the thing when he tells of it. I know how it is myself by experience. "The first half of April l82l was warm and pleasant. On the evening of the l6th, it was so warm we needed no fire. About nine in the evening a heavy thundershower came up from the northeast, and filled the creeks full of water. On the 17th, in the morning the ground was covered with snow, and a heavy wind blowing from the northeast, and the snow falling fast all day. The snow fell to the depth of from 12 to 18 inches. On the 18th it cleared up; at night it froze so that on the morning of the l9th, the ice would bear a man up. It then came warm after that. The reason of it's being called the ”loon storm", was because there had been no loons here before. The wind drove many of them before it, and they lodged in the ponds and creeks and staid all summer. All the water holes in the [livestock] lots were full of a kind of little sharp-billed and red-eyed duck, driven here by the wind. They could not walk on land. The kind had never been seen here before, and I have never seen any of the kind here since. I will refer anyone to B. F. PHILLIPS, Elijah BECKWITH or any pioneer of that time." -Samuel G. Peck, Rome Reprinted Sept. 9, 1930 in the Jefferson Gazette from an earlier Sentinel article. Note: Loons, goose-sized northern diving birds known for their maniacal laughing calls, have feet located far back on the body, and travel on land with difficulty, propelling themselves forward on their breasts. They are occasionally seen here neart Lake Erie. When in Rome (Ohio), do as the Romans do, but which Rome (in Ohio)? From Wikipedia we learn: “Rome is a village in Adams County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 117 at the 2000 census. “New Rome is an unincorporated community in eastern Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States, located on the west side of the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. It was originally incorporated as a village in 1947, occupying little more than a three-block stretch of West Broad Street (U.S. Route 40), and dissolved in 2004. The population was 60 at the 2000 census. “Rome is a township in Ashtabula County, in the Ashtabula metro area. [NOTE: This is not the only community in Ohio named Rome.] The latitude of Rome is 41.605N. The longitude is -80.858W. It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 860 feet. The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 1,568.” Zopher Gee and his family moved from Connecticut at the age of 48 and before his last two children were born, he purchased land in New Lyme, Ohio from Elisha Tracy November 17, 1810, paying him $640. He disposed of his holdings in Lyme and joined the group from Lyme going to the Western Reserve in Ohio. Zopher had by that time seven children, three from his first wife Esther Beckwith and five from Lura Jones. Their last child, William, was born in Lebanon (or New Lyme as it is now called), Ashtabula, Ohio. Thus the journey to Ohio’s Western Reserve was made with Zopher, Lura and six children ranging in age from 17 to 1 year of age. This distance is approximately 590 miles. Salmon lived in Lebanon or New Lyme, Ashtabula, Ohio until he married Sarah Watson Crane (whose grandparents had immigrated to this area) in New Lyme, Ashtabula, Ohio on 15 November 1814. From my notes in PAF I have a source for this information. : Descendants of Solomon Gee by C.E. Benjamin, page 220 The history here quoted was from Erma Garda Gee Adams. She stated that the birth records for George Washington Gee state that he was born in New Lyme, Ashtabula Ohio on 13 August 1815. This is not absolutely correct, because New Lyme was named Lebanon until 1826 when it officially was known as New Lyme. Since Rome and New Lyme were neighboring townships one could walk from the eastern border of New Lyme Township to the western border of Rome Township in about 2.5 hours, I do not think that it makes a whole lot of difference. All of Salmon and Sarah’s children were born in Ashtabula or Lake County, Ohio. These counties are in the northeast corner of the state and border on lake Erie and are less than 20/50 miles form the Pennsylvania border. Zopher and Salmon and the families were never south of this line until George and Mary Jane left Kirtland for Missouri followed by Salmon and Sarah moving to Iowa.