Person:James Gourley (2)

Gourley, James, Leatherwood p.o., New Bethlehem, was born in Westmoreland county in 1817, and was a son of Henry and Ann (Marshall) Gourley, who settled in Clarion county in 1834. They died in Monroe township -- Henry in 1872, and his wife Ann, who was born in 1806, died in 1868. They had a family of seven children. James Gourley was married in 1840 to Nancy A. Brisben, of Monroe township. She was born in 1821. They had a family of seven children, five of whom are now living -- George B., Elizabeth, Andrew, James, jr., David, John, and Alva. John enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, in 1862, and died at Fredericksburg, while in service, in 1863. Alva was drowned at the age of twenty years. James settled in Porter township in 1867. He has held several of the town offices, and was numerator in taking the census of 1880. He is now a retired farmer. source: "History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania"; Edited by: A. J. Davis; D. Mason & Co., Publishers; Syracuse, N. Y.; 1887, p xx