William Blair Gornto Sr.
William Blair Gornto Sr. appears in household 15 of the 1900 Barney census as the head. Open the household dossier.
Family and settler connections
Joel Gornto
Path: Joel Gornto → William Blair Gornto Sr.
Grade: Vital-record supported
Evidence: William Sr.’s 1927 death certificate names Joel Gornto and Mary Blair as his parents. The 1850 census places five-year-old William in Joel and Mary’s household.
Open issue: The reported 1826 arrival remains later family testimony.
Evidence grades
- Census- or vital-record supported: recent parent-child steps are named or placed in compatible households by census, marriage, death, or comparable records.
- Secondary-supported: a compiled genealogy supplies one or more early generations while local records independently establish the people involved.
- Strong probable: the relationship is well supported, but one part of the settler claim still lacks direct settlement-era proof.
Each generation is judged separately. Marriage, surname, proximity, or a shared household does not by itself establish descent.