Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 333:
George A. Gosnell, one of the leading agriculturists of Orford township, County of Kent, lives on Lot 3, Concession 6, where he owns a farm of sixty-seven and one half acres, and has a fine brick house, which he built in the spring of 1903. He came to this property Aug. 11, 1868, and was born on an adjoining farm Aug. 11, 1856, a son of John and Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell, who were natives of County Cork, Ireland, and Derbyshire, England, respectively. They were married in Howard township, County of Kent, and the mother died in January, 1865, aged fifty-three years, while the father died in Orford township, in August, 1870, aged eighty-seven years. They were buried in the Gosnell cemetery. These two most excellent people were among the founders of the Methodist Church. The children born to their union were: Mary A., who died from the bite of a spider when six years old; Lawrence B., a farmer of Orford township, who is mentioned elsewhere; Ellen, who died young; Catherine, wife of James W. Gosnell, a retired farmer of Pilot Mound; Rebecca, who died in Howard township in 1901, wife of Henry Reeder; John H., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Christopher W., a farmer of Orford township; Charlotte, married to Robert Barker, a farmer of the County of Elgin; Jerusha, who married Hall Barker, a farmer of the County of Elgin; James R., a farmer of Orford township; Thomas H., a farmer of Orford township; Wellington, a farmer of Harwich township; and George A.
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Mary A.
Gosnell
Lawrence B. Gosnell 1832-1919
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