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The Gossard family. Sarah Emery Gossard, second from right in front, taught at the Hoggatt School, first school in the Ames area, in 1862 and for a short time thereafter. In 1865, she married Thomas Gossard while he was on furlough from Union Army. He is seated second from left. Also pictured are the Gossards' four children (Will, Harry, Thomas L., and Blanche) and their grandmother, Elizabeth Emery, who died at age 85 in her daughter's home in Ames.