Peter Gose – 13^th Born Child (12^th Surviving Child) Of Stephan Gose and the 2^nd Born Child Of Stephan and Elizabeth

Peter Gose was born in Cripple Creek, Wythe County, Virginia in January of 1784.   He married Elizabeth Kinser in 1807. . .

Peter was married by the Reverand John Stanger, March 19, 1807, to Elizabeth Kinser, at the Zion Lutheran Church, near Cripple Creek, Wythe County, Virginia. Peter had attended the Zion Lutheran Church there all of his life, and many of Peter's siblings had been married there by Reverand Stanger. In the same year that he married Elizabeth, Peter bought land in Burke's Garden from William and Mary Hall, and he and Elizabeth started their new lives together in a new location. Burke's Garden is a flat-bottomed, bowl-shaped valley surrounded by high ridges and peaks all around and is not more than five miles across at the base. Thus Peter and his wife lived very close to his older brother Philip who had moved his family to Burke's Garden some eight years earlier. Had Peter visited his brother there before and liked what he saw, or did perhaps Philip's descriptions of the area convince Peter to choose Burke's Garden? Whatever the reason, they found a good home and prospered well.

(There are some nice photos of the Burkes Garden area in the Photo Album section for the Philip Gose family.)

In 1809, Peter was appointed an Ensign in the U.S. Armed Services and later a Captain in the 112th Regiment in Tazewell County, Virginia. This was in the last days of Thomas Jefferson's presidency and at a time when patriotism was swelling greatly in the new American Nation. Much was going on at this time as Napoleon, who was fighting the British, sold their Louisiana Territory to the United States and as new, stronger leaders were being elected who believed that the U.S. should seek to govern most.. if not all.. of the lands of North America. These were the days leading up to the War Of 1812 and tremendous growth of the new American Nation. Peter served as Captain in the War of 1812. For more insights on these interesting times, visit the website.

After the war, Peter built a stone house on a hill above the stream known as Wolf Creek which has its source in Burke's Garden. A spring flowed from a cave which is below and to the front of this stone house. The cave was walled up with stone with a wooden door entrance. This spring afforded the water supply for the house.

Captain Peter Gose was the father of ten children (all by his first wife) and served as a Justice in Tazewell County for more than 20 years.

Elizabeth died between 1820 and 1825. After her death, he married Nancy Bell Smith, July 23, 1825. Peter died on April 14, 1839 and is buried in a private cemetery with his first wife, Elizabeth and other members of his family a short distance to the north and in front of their house. In September, 1845 Nancy sold her dower right in the land along with the house, to Thomas and Anna Jane (Gose) Peery (Deed Book No. 8, page No. 464, Tazewell, Virginia). Nancy moved to Indiana sometime before 1850.

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