Gaulding Origins

Ned Merriman Gauldin was the middle child of Thomas Arthur Gauldin and Ruby Adair Merriman Gauldin. He was born 23 May 1925 in Rockingham County, North Carolina, grew up in the textile‑mill communities of the Piedmont and moved with his family between Leaksville and Fieldale as his parents followed mill work. By the early 1940s he was living in Henry County, Virginia, attending school while his parents worked in the cotton mills. Like many young men of his generation, Ned ca

Across the rural South and the Appalachian foothills of Virginia and North Carolina, few folk beliefs carried the mystique and reverence of the seventh son of a seventh son. Families whispered the phrase with awe, and communities treated such a birth as a sign of divine favor. In places like Pittsylvania County and Rockingham County—where Dock Whitfield Gauldin was born and lived—this tradition blended Old World folklore with Southern folk medicine, creating a powerful cultur

Andrew Gaulding was born about 1780, probably in Bedford County and he died June 20, 1842 (1) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He is named as one of the heirs of the estate of his father William and he got a 1/8th share. His parents were married in about 1779 and Andrew was probably born the following year, but since there is no birth record, that date is a guess. The 1830 Census states only that he was at that time between the ages of 40

Laura Gaulden wrote that the earliest Gaulding immigrant was Quaker and went through Chester, Pennsylvania before traveling to Virginia. In 1922 Laura Jane "Lucy" Gaulden wrote a short History of the Gaulden Family (1) and at her death she left it with the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Chapter she belonged to. Laura Gaulden was the daughter of John Gaulden (1808-1889) and Jane Elizabeth McFall (1840-1914), and I must say she was much closer to the true story of