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Month: March 2013

Gorbys and Gorbeys

Gorbys and Gorbeys

There are two branches of our family who no longer use ‘Gorby’ as their surname.  They now use ‘Gorbey’. The first branch which uses this spelling are the descendants of Robert Cloud Gorby of Delaware Co, PA.  Yes, this is the same Robert Cloud Gorby whose brother was our sole Confederate solder featured in the previous post. Robert’s name is spelled both as ‘Gorby’ and ‘Gorbey’ throughout his life.   Most of his children died at an early age, but…

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So how many Gorbys were Confederate Soldiers?

So how many Gorbys were Confederate Soldiers?

According to the “The Gorby Family, History and Genealogy” published by Alva Gorby in 1936, there were five which included her father, grandfather and two uncles in Missouri, and one Lewis M. Gorby in Tennessee. So what did Alva publish about Lewis? “Lewis M. Gorby married a girl from Tennessee and they lived in Tennessee.  He served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War, this fighting against his two brothers who were serving with the Union Army.  Lewis lived…

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