I don't have my notes with me, but wasn't one of Joel's daughters named Carrie, who married L.A. Gossett? "Tom Griesan" <[email protected] sn.com> To [email protected] 11/16/2005 12:46 cc PM Subject [OHLAWREN] Rome Beauty Apple Please respond to [email protected] eb.com Hi! Here's the story of the Rome Beauty Apple. In readying his new home in Lawrence County, Joel Gillet decided to have an apple orchard on his property. He brought about 200 grafted fruit trees from General Rufus Putnam of the Putnam Nursery near Marietta with him during the move. In early May of 1817, he was ready to set out the orchard. There was one seedling that was smaller and different from the others. He gave that one to his 14 year-old son, Alanson, and told him, "Here's a Democrat. You may have this one." (Joel Gillet was a staunch Whig at the time.) Young Alanson planted his seedling down by the river in a corner of the fence. A few years later, Alanson's tree was producing such nice fruit that people began to take notice of "Gillette's Seedling." The fruit was red and juicy and tasted sweet, and the apples were clustered together like grapes. Horatio Nelson "H.N." Gillett, a cousin of Alanson's, was the first person to take a graft of Alanson's apple tree. Other farmers also began to take grafts of the tree. H.N. Gillett started a nursery and began to promote this new apple. In about 1830, a neighbor, George Walton, named the apple the "Rome Beauty" apple in honor of Rome Township and the fine appearance of the fruit. After this, most of the orchards in southern Ohio contained mostly the Rome Beauty apple. The original tree lived 40 years on a sandy knoll in a corner of a field near the Ohio River. It stood until the river bank caved in during a flood in 1856. One of Alanson's cousins moved to Oregon in the 1860s and took seedlings of the Rome Beauty trees, thereby making the apple available and popular in the West. The Rome Beauty apple continued to be marketed by local Lawrence County farmers. Through much of the late 1800s, the Rome Beauty was considered one of the most important apples grown in the area. In my understanding, the Rome Beauties may have been the apples shipped to the soldiers during World War I. The Rome Beauty is still considered to be one of the best cooking apples. I recently read an article that stated that the ones grown and sold in Ohio are nice and firm. I have to say that the ones that I can get in the stores in Colorado are not very firm, and I have no idea of where they are grown. I descend from Joel Gillet through his oldest daughter, Chloe (Gillett) Gardner. At least five generations of this family (Gillet, Gardner, and Cox) have grown Rome Beauty Apples in Lawrence County. - Jean Griesan Colorado [email protected] ==== OHLAWREN Mailing List ==== Web page with info for this list - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OH/lawrence.html ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi! Here are the children that I have for Joel Gillet and his wife Cloa (Griswold) Gillet: 1. Chloe, born December 14, 1799 in Hartford, Connecticut, married Thomas Gardner. 2. Alanson, born August 22, 1802 in Hector, New York, married first Sarah G. Radford, and second, Sarah (Haskell) Paine. 3. Roswell, born about 1805 in Hector, New York. 4. Candace, born May 23, 1807 in Ulysses County, New York, married Elhanen Winchester Wakefield. 5. Philinda, born April 12, 1809 in Seneca, New York, married Henry Hodder Radford. 6. Joel Griswold, born in 1812 in New York, married Nancy Ann Radford. 7. Columbus, born about 1815 in Ohio, married Anna Marie Bilbo. 8. Emily, born September 28, 1817 in Ohio, married George Washington Wakefield. Cloa died in 1820, and Joel remarried to Azuba (Pingrey) Risley. They had the following children: 1. Elisha, born August 18, 1821 in Lawrence County. He married first Henrietta Jones, and second Elizabeth Jane (Church) Sydenstricker. 2. Irena, born April 24, 1823 in Lawrence County. She married Mark Singer. Joel migrated to Lawrence County with at least two of his brothers and one sister. There are a lot of Gillets (Gilletts or Gillettes) in early Lawrence County because of the three brothers that moved there together. Honestly, L. A. Gossett isn't one that I recognize as being a part of the family, but I could check my notes and resources further to see if I can find a tie-in. - Jean Griesan Colorado -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] Rome Beauty Apple I don't have my notes with me, but wasn't one of Joel's daughters named Carrie, who married L.A. Gossett? Hi! Here's the story of the Rome Beauty Apple. In readying his new home in Lawrence County, Joel Gillet decided to have an apple orchard on his property. He brought about 200 grafted fruit trees from General Rufus Putnam of the Putnam Nursery near Marietta with him during the move. In early May of 1817, he was ready to set out the orchard. There was one seedling that was smaller and different from the others. He gave that one to his 14 year-old son, Alanson, and told him, "Here's a Democrat. You may have this one." (Joel Gillet was a staunch Whig at the time.) Young Alanson planted his seedling down by the river in a corner of the fence. A few years later, Alanson's tree was producing such nice fruit that people began to take notice of "Gillette's Seedling." The fruit was red and juicy and tasted sweet, and the apples were clustered together like grapes. Horatio Nelson "H.N." Gillett, a cousin of Alanson's, was the first person to take a graft of Alanson's apple tree. Other farmers also began to take grafts of the tree. H.N. Gillett started a nursery and began to promote this new apple. In about 1830, a neighbor, George Walton, named the apple the "Rome Beauty" apple in honor of Rome Township and the fine appearance of the fruit. After this, most of the orchards in southern Ohio contained mostly the Rome Beauty apple. The original tree lived 40 years on a sandy knoll in a corner of a field near the Ohio River. It stood until the river bank caved in during a flood in 1856. One of Alanson's cousins moved to Oregon in the 1860s and took seedlings of the Rome Beauty trees, thereby making the apple available and popular in the West. The Rome Beauty apple continued to be marketed by local Lawrence County farmers. Through much of the late 1800s, the Rome Beauty was considered one of the most important apples grown in the area. In my understanding, the Rome Beauties may have been the apples shipped to the soldiers during World War I. The Rome Beauty is still considered to be one of the best cooking apples. I recently read an article that stated that the ones grown and sold in Ohio are nice and firm. I have to say that the ones that I can get in the stores in Colorado are not very firm, and I have no idea of where they are grown. I descend from Joel Gillet through his oldest daughter, Chloe (Gillett) Gardner. At least five generations of this family (Gillet, Gardner, and Cox) have grown Rome Beauty Apples in Lawrence County. - Jean Griesan Colorado [email protected]