A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 996-997
Eri A. Gambold, of Coatesville, Ind., one of the old soldiers of the Civil War, and a respected citizen and farmer of Clay Township, Hendricks County, Ind., comes from Holland Dutch stock. His ancestors were early settlers of Long Island, N.Y., and Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a farmer of Stokes County, N.C., coming there from Bethlehem, Pa. John C. Gambold, the father of our subject, was a farmer of North Carolina and there married Nancy, daughter of Jesse Swim, and to Mr. and Mrs. Gambold were born seven children: Levi, Eri, Louisa, Jane, Josephus, Narcissus and Cynthia. Three of these sons were in the Civil War, Josephus and Eri serving in the Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry and Levi in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Infantry. In 1836 Mr. Gambold moved to Indiana and settled on a farm in Hendricks County near Amo, lived to be about sixty-seven years of age, died a member of the Methodist Church and in politics was a Republican. He was a carpenter in his later days and an honorable, industrious man, who brought up a respected family of children.
Eri A. Gambold, our subject, was born in Stokes County, N.C., of September 7, 1833, and was but three years old when brought by his parents to Hendricks County, Ind. He was reared a farmer, received a common education in the pioneer schools, and was brought up a farmer among the pioneers. He enlisted in July, 1861, in Company A, Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, at Coatesville, under Capt. A.L. Morrison and Col. Silas Colgrove, for three years or during the war. He served out his time and was honorably discharged and veteranized in the same organization February 14, 1863, served until the close of the war, was honorably discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 23, 1865, and returned home August 6, 1863, where he was paid off at Indianapolis and received his discharge, dated as aforesaid. He was in the battle of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, and Antietam, where he was shot through the heel, which lamed and disabled him, and he was in hospital at Philadelphia nine months. Pieces of shattered bone continued to come out from his wound for months, so that it was a long time in healing. He then rejoined his regiment and was in the famous Atlanta campaign, the battles of Bentonville, Dallas, Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Pumpkin Vine, Kenesaw Mountain and Peach Tree Creek, and was in Sherman's march to the sea, and Hawesboro and at Bentonville on the return march to Washington, and took part in the grand review, which was one of the greatest sights in history. After this he returned home and engaged in railroad work and bridge carpentering on the Vandalia Railroad from 1865 to 1870.
Mr. Gambold married in 1870, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Byram. Mr. Byram was a merchant from Ohio, now of Clayton, and aged about seventy years. He was the father of seven children: John, James (soldier), Edward, Charles, Caroline, Lizzie and Indiana. Mr. Byram is an honorable, respected citizen and a member of the Methodist Church. After marriage Mr. Gambold settled on his present farm, consisting of seventy acres, where he has since resided. To Mr. and Mrs. Gambold have been born four children, Maud (died aged twenty-three years), Orissa, Edie, and Anna. Mrs. Gambold is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Gambold is a member of the G.A.R., John A. Layton post, Coatesville, and has held the office of senior vice-commander. Mr. Gambold is one of the most industrious and hard-working men, and has reared a highly respected family.