Photograph shared by her granddaughter
Minnie's father Samuel Willis Gabriel, who built the Gabriel House on Ann Street, was born in Core Sound in 1848 to Emanuel Gabriel and Caroline Willis. Samuel's great-grandfather Richard (1727‒1775), born in Nantucket, died in Carteret County.
On March 28, 1875, Samuel Gabriel married Sarah M. Haskett, who was born in Beaufort about 1851. Of note - Sarah was a descendant of Michael Paquinet (1690-1772), who was born in Paris and died in Carteret County (Paquinet House circa 1769). Sarah's grandparents were Thomas Haskett, born 1779 and Sarah Paquinet, born 1788.
The 1880 census recorded dry-goods merchant Samuel Gabriel in this home with wife Sarah, daughter Minnie Coral and Samuel's sister Caroline W. Gabriel.
On January 8, 1896, 19-year-old Minnie Coral Gabriel married her penmanship teacher Claudius Franklin Bland (1871-1936). The couple moved to Washington, NC, then Hendersonville, then back to Washington. They had seven children. "Claude" was killed in 1936 from injuries sustained in a tragic automobile lift accident in Rocky Mount. He, wife Minnie Coral, and her aunt Caroline, who lived with them, were buried in Washington, NC.
