Bessie H. Woolsey

William Walton Woolsey married 2nd, Betsy "Bessie" Hill Gammel. They had Elizabeth Gammel, a writer known as Gamel Woolsey.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamel_Woolsey

Gamel's mother, Bessie Gammell, was her father's second wife. Bessie was the daughter of William A. Gammell and traced her maternal ancestry to LTC William Augustine Washington, Sr.. [3]

After William died, the family moved to Charleston, where Gamel went to day school.

• 3. Second Supplement to the History of the class of 1864. Yale College. 1895. p. 49.

He [William Walton Woolsey] was married again April 6, 1893, to Miss Bessie Gammell, daughter of William A. Gammell of Savannah, who, on her mother's side, is a great-granddaughter of Col. William Washington, nephew of George Washington. They "have two daughters, one five years old and the other just now four."

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• Directory: DAR Directory of the Chapters, Officers and Members.
  • f. Esther Marion Chapter—Aiken Organized November 4, 1893; Members, 11 Regent, Mrs George W. Croft Treasurer, Mrs E. C. Legare Vice-Regent, Mrs M. H. Gam m el Registrar, Mrs Harriet Palmer Dwight Rec. Secretary, Mrs W. W. Woolsey Historian, Miss Julia Carroll
  • Woolsey, Mrs W. W. (Bessie Gammell), of Breeze Hill
• Residence: 1910 - Millbrook, Aiken, South Carolina, USA
• Race: White
• Ethnicity: American
  • Reference: 1910 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Jan 16 2017, 22:03:34 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 16 2017, 22:14:11 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 16 2017, 22:15:24 UTC
• Residence: 1880 - Summersville, Colleton, South Carolina, USA
• Race: White
• Ethnicity: American
  • Reference: 1880 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Jan 17 2017, 1:37:00 UTC