BIOGRAPHY: Enlisted June 20, 1813. He was a farmer when he enlisted. William received his first wound in 1813, somewhere in the Terrotory of Upper Ohio or Michigan, while engaged in one of the battles with the British in the War of 1812. It was a bullet wound in his right thigh. --On July 25, 1814, Pvt. William Gann participated in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, often called the 'charge at Brightwater,' in Col. Miller's regiment against the troops of Britain's Lord Wellington.--On Sept.4, 1814, in the Battle of Erie (Fort Erie was south of Niagra Falls), William received a severe injury, a bullet wound in his right arm, which led to the amputation of his arm on Sept. 10, 1814. As a result of this wound, he was honorably discharged on January 24, 1815.---- [see "The Ignatious Nathan Gann family: Three Generations of Pioneers" by William R. Gann & Gary R. Toms (1998).pp.221-244)]
All: William, Ruth Ann, and their small children moved from tennessee to Texas about 1835-1836.
CENSUS: 1840-Nacogdoches County, Tx.-Texas Tax List index, 1840-1849-(William Gann).
More About William Gann: Burial: Probably Angelina Co., Tx.35
More About William Gann and Ruth Ann Delaney: Marriage: 22 Aug 1816, Greene Co., Tn.35
More About William Gann and Nancy Reddin: Marriage: 27 Jan 1859, Angelina Co., Tx.35
Children of William Gann and Ruth Ann Delaney are:
+John Delaney Gann, b. 1818, Hardin Co., Tenn35, d. 19 Jan 1864, Angelina Co., Tx35.
+Nathan Wilson Gann, b. 21 May 1820, Gann Spring, near Saltillo, Tn35, d. 22 Sep 1895, Lufkin, Angelina Co., Tx35.
William Gann (b. 1797, d. 25 Nov 1872)
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