Rebecca S. Jamieson

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant Samuel Davidson
• Group: Davidson Direct Descendant
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• 1850 Census: 10 Oct 1850, Tippah County, Mississippi

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant Samuel Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

1850 Census:
District No. 2, p. 450a
Joseph Jamerson    50  M   Farmer  $1200   SC
Mary        "               48  F                              SC
Samuel D.   "            26  M      "                      SC
James W.    "            24  M      "                      SC
John D. L.   "             21  M      "                     SC    school
Ann E.        "             17  F                              SC
Rebecca S.  "           11  F                              SC
Allen             "             6  M                             SC

Wiley Turner             44  M   Farmer  $500  NC
Susan                       35  F                           NC
James                       19  M   Farmer            NC    school
Sarah                        17  F                           NC       "
Mary                          16  F                           NC       "
Robert                        14  M                          NC       "
Susan                         10  F                          NC
Redmond                      8  M                          NC    school
John                             6  M                           NC
William T.                      3  M                           Miss
Thomas                    10/12  M                        Miss

Other Events:

• 1830 Census: 1830, York County, South Carolina
• 1840 Census: 1840, York County, South Carolina
• 1850 Census: 10 Oct 1850, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1860 Census: 20 Jul 1860, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1870 Census: 2 Aug 1870, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1880 Census: 10 Jun 1880, Tippah County, Mississippi

Notes:

1830 Census:
p. 359
Capt. Milton Jamieson    220 001 000 0000 - 110 111 000 0000
...
William Jamieson            100 001 000 0000 - 210 001 000 0000
...
Joseph Jamieson           210 010 000 0000 - 000 010 000 0000

p. 360
William Jamieson Esq.   000 000 100 0000 - 001 000 100 0000

Census Analysis

Male     20-30 : Joseph Jamieson, Jr., b. 1801
Female 20-30 : Mary/Polly Davidson, b. 1802
Male       5-10 : Samuel D. Jamieson, b. c. 1824
Male         < 5 : James Wesley Jamieson, b. 1827
Male         < 5 : John D. L. Jamieson, b. c. 1829

Male     30-40 : Capt. John Milton Jamieson, b. 1792
Female 30-40 : Jane Harper, b. 1795
Female 20-30 : ?
Female 15-20 : Rachael Jamieson, b. 1814
Male       5-10 : Rev. Lorenzo Harper Jamieson, b. 1820
Male       5-10 : Son Jamieson, b. 1820-1825
Female   5-10 : Mary Jamieson, b. c. 1825
Male         < 5  : Son Jamieson, b. 1825-1830
Male         < 5  : Son Jamieson, b. 1825-1830
Female     < 5 : Elizabeth Jane Jamieson, b. c. 1828     

Male     30-40 : William Jamieson, b. 1794
Female 30-40 : Jane Brown, b. 1792
Female   5-10 : Mary E. Jamielson, b. 1823
Female      < 5 : ?
Female      < 5 : ?
Male          < 5 : ?

1840 Census:
p. 286
Wm Jamison       000 110 010 0000 - 000 010 010

p. 287
Joseph Jamison  112 100 000 1000 - 110 001 000 0000
Wm. Jamison       011 000 010 0000 - 001 100 000 0000

p. 288
Allen Jamison      000 001 000 100 - 200 001 000 0000

1850 Census:
District No. 2, p. 450a
Joseph Jamerson    50  M   Farmer  $1200   SC
Mary        "               48  F                              SC
Samuel D.   "            26  M      "                      SC
James W.    "            24  M      "                      SC
John D. L.   "             21  M      "                     SC    school
Ann E.        "             17  F                              SC
Rebecca S.  "           11  F                              SC
Allen             "             6  M                             SC

Wiley Turner             44  M   Farmer  $500  NC
Susan                       35  F                           NC
James                       19  M   Farmer            NC    school
Sarah                        17  F                           NC       "
Mary                          16  F                           NC       "
Robert                        14  M                          NC       "
Susan                         10  F                          NC
Redmond                      8  M                          NC    school
John                             6  M                           NC
William T.                      3  M                           Miss
Thomas                    10/12  M                        Miss

1860 Census:
Orizaba PO, Southern Subdivision, p. 93
Joseph Jamison     60  M   Farmer  $900  $590   SC
Mary          "            58  F                                      SC
Ann E         "           26  F  Cous Schl Teacher     SC
Allen           "           16  M                                     SC

1870 Census:
Ripley PO, Range Three (3) Township Five (5), pp. 167-167a
Jimison, J. W.    48  M  W  Farmer   $525  $400   S. Carolina                 citizen
---, M. H.            36  F  W                                      N. Carolina
---, Mary            12  F  W                                      Mississippi
---, S. R.             10  F  W                                     Mississippi
---, M. C.               8  F  W                                     Mississippi
-----  p. 167a  -----
Jimison, E. A.        6  F  W                                     Mississippi
---, G. L.                4  F  W                                     Mississippi
...
Jimison, Joseph   69  M  W   Farmer  $360  $200   S Carolina          citizen
---, Mary               67  F  W   Keeping House          S. Carolina
---, A. E.               36  F  W   Teacher                     S. Carolina

1880 Census:
ED 191, pp. 16-17
Sanders, James      W  M  43   Head  Md   Farmer                SC  SC  SC
---, Martha C.           W  F  38    Wife  Md    Keeping house   SC  SC  SC
---, Thomas J.          W  M  13     Son  S     Works on farm    MS  SC  SC
---, Nancy A.            W  F  11     Dau  S                                 MS  SC  SC
-----  p. 17  -----
Sanders, Susan       W  F    6                Dau   S                                 MS  SC  SC
---, Sallie E.               W  F    2                Dau   S                                 MS  SC  SC
---, James W.            W  M    3/12 Mch  Son   S                                 MS  SC  SC

Jamieson, Joseph    W  M  80       Head  Md   Farmer                SC  SC  VA
---, Mary                   W  F  78        Wife   Md   Keeping House   SC  VA  MD
---, Ann E.                W  F  46          Dau   S                                SC  SC  SC
---, Warren               W  M  24  Nephew   S    At School            MS  SC  SC

Jamison, James        W  M  53       Head  Md    Farmer                SC  SC  SC
---, Mary                   W   F  46        Wife  Md    Keeping House   NC  NC  NC
---, Sarah R.              W  F  20          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Martha C.             W  F  18          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Elizabeth              W  F  16          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Georgia L.            W  F  14          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
Linsey, William           W  M  19     Laborer  S    Farm Laborer      MS  SC  SC

Joseph married Mary "Polly" Davidson on 7 Aug 1823 in York, York County, South Carolina. Mary (daughter of Capt. Samuel Davidson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis) was born on 29 Aug 1802 in South Carolina; died on 29 Aug 1884 in Union County, Mississippi; was buried after 29 Aug 1884 in Wells Chapel Church Cemetery, North Haven, Union County, MS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant Samuel Davidson
• Group: Davidson Direct Descendant
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• 1850 Census: 10 Oct 1850, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1860 Census: 20 Jul 1860, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1870 Census: 2 Aug 1870, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1880 Census: 10 Jun 1880, Tippah County, Mississippi

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant Samuel Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

1850 Census:
District No. 2, p. 450a
Joseph Jamerson    50  M   Farmer  $1200   SC
Mary        "               48  F                              SC
Samuel D.   "            26  M      "                      SC
James W.    "            24  M      "                      SC
John D. L.   "             21  M      "                     SC    school
Ann E.        "             17  F                              SC
Rebecca S.  "           11  F                              SC
Allen             "             6  M                             SC

Wiley Turner             44  M   Farmer  $500  NC
Susan                       35  F                           NC
James                       19  M   Farmer            NC    school
Sarah                        17  F                           NC       "
Mary                          16  F                           NC       "
Robert                        14  M                          NC       "
Susan                         10  F                          NC
Redmond                      8  M                          NC    school
John                             6  M                           NC
William T.                      3  M                           Miss
Thomas                    10/12  M                        Miss

1860 Census:
Orizaba PO, Southern Subdivision, p. 93
Joseph Jamison     60  M   Farmer  $900  $590   SC
Mary          "            58  F                                      SC
Ann E         "           26  F  Cous Schl Teacher     SC
Allen           "           16  M                                     SC

1870 Census:
Ripley PO, Range Three (3) Township Five (5), pp. 167-167a
Jimison, J. W.    48  M  W  Farmer   $525  $400   S. Carolina                 citizen
---, M. H.            36  F  W                                      N. Carolina
---, Mary            12  F  W                                      Mississippi
---, S. R.             10  F  W                                     Mississippi
---, M. C.               8  F  W                                     Mississippi
-----  p. 167a  -----
Jimison, E. A.        6  F  W                                     Mississippi
---, G. L.                4  F  W                                     Mississippi
...
Jimison, Joseph   69  M  W   Farmer  $360  $200   S Carolina          citizen
---, Mary               67  F  W   Keeping House          S. Carolina
---, A. E.               36  F  W   Teacher                     S. Carolina

1880 Census:
ED 191, pp. 16-17
Sanders, James      W  M  43   Head  Md   Farmer                SC  SC  SC
---, Martha C.           W  F  38    Wife  Md    Keeping house   SC  SC  SC
---, Thomas J.          W  M  13     Son  S     Works on farm    MS  SC  SC
---, Nancy A.            W  F  11     Dau  S                                 MS  SC  SC
-----  p. 17  -----
Sanders, Susan       W  F    6                Dau   S                                 MS  SC  SC
---, Sallie E.               W  F    2                Dau   S                                 MS  SC  SC
---, James W.            W  M    3/12 Mch  Son   S                                 MS  SC  SC

Jamieson, Joseph    W  M  80       Head  Md   Farmer                SC  SC  VA
---, Mary                   W  F  78        Wife   Md   Keeping House   SC  VA  MD
---, Ann E.                W  F  46          Dau   S                                SC  SC  SC
---, Warren               W  M  24  Nephew   S    At School            MS  SC  SC

Jamison, James        W  M  53       Head  Md    Farmer                SC  SC  SC
---, Mary                   W   F  46        Wife  Md    Keeping House   NC  NC  NC
---, Sarah R.              W  F  20          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Martha C.             W  F  18          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Elizabeth              W  F  16          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
---, Georgia L.            W  F  14          Dau  S                                 MS  SC  NC
Linsey, William           W  M  19     Laborer  S    Farm Laborer      MS  SC  SC

Other Events:

• 1790 Census: 1790, York County, South Carolina
• 1800 Census: 1800, York County, South Carolina
• 1810 Census: 1810, York County, South Carolina
• 1820 Census: 1820, York County, South Carolina
• 1830 Census: 1830, Chester County, South Carolina
• 1830 Census: 1830, York County, South Carolina
• 1830 Census: 1830; not located
• Will: Between 1840 and 1853, South Carolina; Will Book 3, p. 60
• 1840 Census: 1840, York County, South Carolina
• 1850 Census: 16 Oct 1850, York, York County, South Carolina
• Obituary: 12 Oct 1853, York, York County, South Carolina; The Remedy

Notes:

Obituary:
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume I
Number 1, Winter, 1973
James and Joseph Jamieson, Patriot Brothers

SCMAR, Vol. I, Winter 1973, No. 1, p.10
Died at the residence of his son in this (York) District, the 27th ultimo, Mr. JOSEPH JAMIESON, a soldier of the Revolution, in the 89th year of his age.

1790 Census:
p. 198
Jas. Jamison    1-2-2-0-0

1800 Census:
p. 624 (p. 643) (p. 958)
Joseph Jameson          *20** - **011
...
Capt. James Jamison   01101 - 00110

The census listing is too damaged to do an analysis.

1810 Census:
p. 264A (p. 635)
Jos. Jamieson    21101 - 01010

Census Analysis:

Male       > 45 : Joseph Jamieson, b. 1764
Female 26-45 : Elizabeth Ann Rowe, b. 1767
Male     16-26 : Capt. John Milton Jamieson, b. 1792
Male     10-16 : William Davidson, b. 1794
Female 10-16 : ?
Male        < 10 : Joseph Jamieson Jr, b. 1801
Male        < 10 : Allen Rowe Jamieson, b. 1809

1820 Census:
p. ?
Captain James Galloways Company
Joseph Jamison    010 111 - 00101 - 0400
...
William Jamieson   010 110 - 01010 - 0220
...
Milton Jamieson    100 010 - 10100 - 0100

Census Analysis:

Male       > 45 : Joseph Jamieson, b. 1764
Female   > 45 : Elizabeth Ann Rowe, b. 1767
Male     26-45 : ?
Male     18-26 : Joseph Jamieson Jr, b. 1801
Male     10-16 : Allen Rowe Jamieson, b. 1809
Female 16-26 : ?

Male     26-45 : Capt. John Milton Jamieson, b. 1792
Female 16-26 : Jane Harper, b. 1795
Male        < 10 : Rachel Jamieson, b. 1814
Female    < 10 : Rev. Lorenzo Harper Jamielson, b. 1820

Male     26-45 : William Davidson, b. 1794
Female 26-45 : Jane Brown, b. c. 1792
Male     18-26 : ?
Male     10-16 : ?
Female 10-16 : ?

1830 Census:
p. 301 
J. Jamison                      101 110 001 0000 - 000 300 010 0000   ???

1830 Census:
p. 359
Capt. Milton Jamieson    220 001 000 0000 - 110 111 000 0000
...
William Jamieson            100 001 000 0000 - 210 001 000 0000
...
Joseph Jamieson           210 010 000 0000 - 000 010 000 0000

p. 360
William Jamieson Esq.   000 000 100 0000 - 001 000 100 0000

1840 Census:
p. 287
Joseph Jamison    112 100 000 1000 - 110 001 000 0000     Joseph Jamison 76

Census Analysis

Male     70-80 : Joseph Jamieson, b. 1764
Female 30-40 : Daughter, b. 1800-1810
Male     15-20 : ?
Male     10-15 : ?
Male     10-15 : ?
Male       5-10 : ?
Female   5-10 : ?
Male         < 5 : ?
Female     < 5 : ?

1850 Census:
p. 239a-240
Joseph Jamison     86  M   Farmer  $700   Chester
Allen R.                   41  M                           York Dist
Nancy                     44  F                            Union Dist
Eliza A.                   19  F                            York Dist
Sarah S.                 11  F                                   "
-----  p. 240  -----
Martha C                 10  F                            York Dist
Joseph H                   3  M                                  "

Obituary:
York, South Carolina, Newspapers: Marriage and Death Notices, 1823-1865
Yorkville Miscellany
Issue of October 12, 1853
page 26

York, SC, Newspapers, Marriages & Deaths, 1823-1865, p.30
Died at the residence of his son in this District, on Tuesday the 27th ult., Mr. Joseph Jamieson, a soldier of the Revolution, in the 89th year of his age. His mother had been widowed by the death of his father, some years before the separation of the colonies from the mother country, and was left to depend upon the energy and industry of her two sons, James and Joseph for the support of herself and her orphan children....(long account)… guarded the log meeting house of Bullock's Creek Church, while the Rev. Dr. Joseph Alexander, preached the gospel to his people.…

Joseph married Elizabeth Ann Rowe about 1785. Elizabeth was born on 22 May 1767 in Virginia; died on 11 Mar 1837 in York, York County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant Samuel Davidson
• Group: Davidson Direct Descendant
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• 1800 Census: 1800, Union County, South Carolina
• 1800 Census: 1800, Union County, South Carolina
• Court: 1801, Union County, South Carolina
• 1810 Census: 1810, Union County, South Carolina
• Land: 1812, Union County, South Carolina
• 1820 Census: 1820, Union, Union County, South Carolina
• 1830 Census: 1830, Union County, South Carolina
• 1840 Census: 1840, Union County, South Carolina
• Will: 23 Mar 1849, Union County, South Carolina; Vol 2, Bk. C, pp. 92-93
• 1850 Census: 8 Nov 1850, Union County, South Carolina

Notes:

JC Davidson has additional children Polly D Jamison, Sarah D. Dawkins, and John G. Davidson.

Samuel's will is in Union Co., SC. Vol 2, Bk. c, pp. 92-93, recorded March 23, 1849.

Group:
Descendants of immigrant Samuel Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

1800 Census:
p. 607
John Davison    00001 - 00001 - 00
Saml Davison    10010 - 20100 - 01

1800 Census:
p. 241  612
Saml Davidson   00110 - 00001 - 02

Court:
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=252149

Series: S165015
Year: 1801
Item: 00088
ignore: 000
Date: 1801

Description: DAVIDSON, SAMUEL, PETITION ASKING PERMISSION TO BRING FOUR SLAVES INTO THE STATE FROM MARYLAND. (2 PAGES)

Names indexed: DAVIDSON, SAMUEL
Locations: MARYLAND; UNION DISTRICT
Document type: PETITION

http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=268712
Series: S165005
Year: 1801
Item: 00092
Page: 000
Date: 12/8/1801

Description: COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE PETITION OF SAMUEL DAVIDSON. (2 PAGES)

Names indexed: DAVIDSON, SAMUEL
Locations: UNION DISTRICT
Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE

1810 Census:
p. 232A (549)
Thomas Lusk         13101 - 41011 - 03
...
Samuel Davidson   20001 - 30011 - 03
...
James Steen          00100 - 10100 - 00
John Steen             00201 - 00001 - 02
...
John Lusk               10110 - 10010 - 01
Amos?James Davison   00001 - 00000 - 00

Census Analysis:

Male       > 45 : Samuel Davidson, b. 1765
Female   > 45 : Sarah "Sally" Gilham, b. 1743
Female 26-45 : Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis, b. 1776
Female   < 10 : Mary/Polly Davidson, b. 1802
Male       < 10 : Robert Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Male       < 10 : John Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Female   < 10 : Rebecca Davidson, b. 1808
Female   < 10 : Sarah Davidson, b. c. 1810

Land:
UNION COUNTY DEED BOOK U, page 15, 1812: Samuel Davidson, and dower by Elizabeth, his wife, of Union County to John David Thomas, of Spartanburg District, for $300, ... 200 acres on Harris Branch of Fairforest Creek, where Samuel Davidson now lives, bound by William Davitt, George Thompson, Joseph Davidson, James Park, James Means, being original grant to John DAVIDSON in 1773. Proved by Archibals on same day before Hugh Means, J. P.

1820 Census:
p. 146  468A
Saml Davidson    120 010 - 12010 - 0200

Census Analysis:

Male     26-45 : Samuel Davidson, b. 1765
Female 26-45 : Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis, b. 1776
Female 10-16 : Mary/Polly Davidson, b. 1802
Male     10-16 : Robert Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Male     10-16 : John Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Female 10-16 : Rebecca Davidson, b. 1808
Female   < 10 : Sarah Davidson, b. c. 1810
Male       < 10 : William Thomas Davidson, b. 1817

1830 Census:
Union District, p. 212
Elizabeth Bankhead        000 000 000 0000 - 000 000 001 0000
Captn. Saml. Davidson   001 020 001 0000 - 000 120 010 0000

Census Analysis:

Male     60-70 : Samuel Davidson, b. 1765
Female 60-70 : Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis, b. 1776
Male     20-30 : Robert Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Male     20-30 : John Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Female 20-30 : Rebecca Davidson, b. 1808
Female 20-30 : ?
Female 15-20 :  Sarah Davidson, b. c. 1810
Male     10-15 : William Thomas Davidson, b. 1817

Married : Mary/Polly Davidson, b. 1802

1840 Census:
p. 224
William Bankhead         011 000 100 0000 - 100 101 000 0000
...
John Davidson            100 001 000 0000 - 100 001 000 0000
...
Capt. Saml Davidson   000 011 000 1000 - 000 020 001 0000

Census Analysis:

Male     70-80 : Samuel Davidson, b. 1765
Female 60-70 : Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis, b. 1776
Male     30-40 : Robert Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Male     20-30 : William Thomas Davidson, b. 1817
Female 20-30 : Rebecca Davidson, b. 1808
Female 20-30 : Sarah Davidson, b. c. 1810

Male     30-40 : John Gillis Davidson, b. 1805
Female 30-40 : Jane Starke Kennedy Hamilton, b. 1810
Female     < 5 : Mary Ellen Davidson, b. 1836
Male         < 5 : William Gillis Davidson, b. c. 1839

Married :
Mary/Polly Davidson, b. 1802

1850 Census:
p. 76
Samuel Davidson    85  M   Planter  $5640  VA
Elizabeth    "            74  F                             MD
Robert        "            44 M   Planter   $1860  SC
Rebecca    "            42  F                               "
William       "             33  M   Farmer                "

Samuel married Elizabeth "Betsy" Gillis on 27 Nov 1800 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Gillis and Elizabeth Sharpe) was born on 3 May 1776 in Maryland; died on 4 Nov 1854 in Union County, South Carolina; was buried after 4 Nov 1854 in Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cherokee County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant Samuel Davidson
• Group: Davidson Direct Descendant
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Proven Davidson DNA Family 001
• Group: Veteran of Revolutionary War or Patriot
• Book Article: 1882, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois; History of Madison County, Illinois : illustrated : with biographical sketches of many prominent men and pioneers. (W. R. Brink & Co.), pp. 71-76

Notes:

Christened:
His baptism was not recorded in the book "The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom" (by Rev. Howard McKnight Wilson, 1954, p. 473). He may have been born before family went to Virginia.

Group:
Descendants of immigrant Samuel Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Proven as a descendant of DNA Family 001 by YDNA test of a direct descendant

Group:
Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.

Book Article:
In the early history of Madison county the most numerous family were the Gillhams. Thomas Gillham, the first of the family to come to America, was a native of Ireland.

He settled in Virginia about the year 1730, and afterward moved to South Carolina. He had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters: Ezekiel, Charles, Thomas, William, James, John, Isaac, Nancy, Mary, Sally, and Susannah. The original stock was Irish Presbyterian, though the descendants are now mostly of the Methodist faith.

The first of the family to behold the Illinois country was James Gillham, the fourth son of Thomas Gillham. He came in the summer of the year 1794 in search of his wife and children, who were then held captive by the Indians. He had married Ann Barnett in South Carolina, and at the close of the war of the Revolution moved to Kentucky.*
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* One day in the month of June, 1790, while Mr. Gillham was plowing corn on his farm in Kentucky, and his son Isaac, then a small boy, was clearing away with a hoe the clods which the plow might throw on the young stalks, a party of Kickapoo Indians stole up to the house, and captured Gillham's wife and his three other children, whose ages ranged from four to twelve years. The field in which Mr. Gillham was at work was at some distance from the house, and it was not for some time that he discovered the misfortune which had befallen his fimily. In the meantime the Indians hurried away with their prisoners. Mrs. Gillham was so alarmed at the sudden appearance of the savages that she lost her senses, and the first that she could recollect afterward was the voice of her oldest son, Samuel, saying, "Mother, we are all prisoners." The Indians ripped open the beds, turned out the feathers, and converted the ticks into sacks into which they placed clothing and such other articles as they could carry on their backs. They then hurried off in the direction of the Kickapoo town, near the head waters of the Sangamon river in Illinois. Their course avoided the settlements, and their anxiety to escape pursuit made them push forward without rest or food. The savages hurried them forward with fierce looks and threatening gestures. The children's feet became sore and bruised, and the mother tore her clothing to get rags in which to wrap them. The Indians had with them a small quantity of jerked venison which they gave the children, but neither they nor the mother, had a particle of food, until one day after they had traveled some distance from the white settlements, the party made a halt, and two of their best hunters were dispatched to look for game. Towards night they returned with one poor raccoon. Mrs. Gillham, who was afraid that either the children would perish with hunger, or that the Indians would kill them to save them from starvation, afterward said that the sight of this one poor coon gave her more satisfaction at that time than any amount of wealth could furnish. The coon was dressed by singing of the hair over a blazing fire, and after throwing away the contents of the intestines, in was chopped in pieces, and with head, bones, skin, and entrails, boiled in a kettle and made into a kind of soup. The Indians and their captives sat around the kettle, and with bone spoons and forked sticks, obtained a scanty relief from starvation.

They approached the Ohio river with great caution, fearful that they might be discovered by white people passing down the river. They camped through the day in a thick wood near the site of the town of Hawesville, Kentucky, and made three rafts of dry logs, lashed together with thongs of red elm bark, and at night crossed the river in safety. Once across the Ohio the Indians relaxed some of their caution, marched slower, and secured abundant food. Keeping to the right of the white settlement at Vincennes, they crossed the Wabash below Terre Haute, and marching through the present counties of Clark, Coles and Macon in this State, finally reached the Indian town on Salt Creek about twenty miles east of north from the present city of Springfield.

Mr. Gillham on returning home from his work at noon found all about his house in confusion. The feathers from the beds were scattered over the yard, and the mother and children were gone. It did not take a long time for a frontiersman to conjecture the fate of the family. It was plain that they had been taken prisoners by the Indians, and Mr. Gillham and his friends lost no time in starting in pursuit. Their trail, as they left the clearing, was discovered, and in one or two places the footprints of Mrs Gillham and the children were visible. But the trail was again lost, and all their efforts to recover it were ineffectual. Mr. Gillham was obliged to abandon the pursuit, but he still entertained hope of one day recovering his wife and children. He sold his improvements in Kentucky, and visited Vincennes and Kaskaskia, with the hope of enlisting the aid of the French traders, who had personal knowledge of all the Indian tribes in the Northwest. The commencement of hostilities between the whites and Indians made his efforts almost hopeless. After five years of disappointment he learned from some of the French traders that his family were among the Kickapoos, and with two Frenchmen as interpreters and guides he visited the Indian town on Salt Creek, and found his wife and children, alive and well. The ransom was paid through an Irish trader at Cahokia, named Atchinson. The younger son, Clemons, could not speak a word of English, and it was some time before he could be persuaded to leave the Indian country. In his visit to Illinois, Mr. Gillham had become favorably impressed with the advantages of the country, and in 1797, two years after the recovering of his family, he became a resident of this State.

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He conceived so favorable an opinion of Illinois that he made it his home in 1797, first settling in the American Bottom below St. Louis, and at the beginning of the present century moving to what is now Madison county. Congress, in 1815, gave to Mrs. Gillham one hundred and sixty acres of land at the head of Long Lake, in township four, range nine, in testimony of the hardship and sufferings she endured during her captivity among the Indians. The children of James Gillham, were Samuel, Isaac, Jacob Clemons, James, Harvey, David M., Polly, Sally and Nancy. Samuel settled in section fifteen of township four, range nine ; and the other sons, Isaac, Jacob Clemons, James, Harvey and David M., all made homes for themselves in section four of the same township and range. The descendants of the two youngest daughters now reside in the State of Mississippi.

James Gillham wrote to his brothers in South Carolina of the advantages of the Illinois country, and his brother, Thomas, left South Carolina in the fall of the year 1799, and reached the end of his journey on the closing day of the eighteenth century - thus ready to begin the new century in the new western world. Two other brothers, John and William, came to Illinois in the year 1802, both settling within the present boundaries of Madison county, and another brother, Isaac, followed a couple of years afterward.

The oldest son of Thomas Gillham was Isham Gillham, sheriff of Madison county, from 1812 to 1818. He first settled on a farm adjoining that of Colonel Samuel Judy, and in the spring of 1817 moved to the bank of the Mississippi, nearly opposite the mouth of the Missouri. Another son, William, settled on a farm in the Ridge prairie, five miles east of Edwardsville. One of the daughters, Violet, married Joshua Vaughn, and settled in the American Bottom; and another, Patsy, became the wife of Peter Hubbard, and moved to Bond county.

William Gillham, on coming to Illinois settled in the Six mile prairie, as early as 1820, or 1822; he moved to Jersey county. His sons were John D., William, and Ezekiel. William became a resident of Scott county, and the two others lived in Jersey county. One of the daughters, Agnes, married John G. Lofton, one of the early judges of the court of common pleas of Madison county. Sally married a Mr. Waddle, and subsequently a Mr. Jarvis. Jane became the wife of William Davidson. Peggy became the wife of Benjamin Steadman, and Polly of Frank Kirkpatrick.

John Gillham arrived in what is now Madison county on the tenth day of June, 1802, and first settled in section nineteen, township four, range eight, on the west bank of Cahokia creek, near the farms of Col. Samuel Judy, and William Bolin Whiteside, and afterward removed to a farm in section one, township four, range nine, where he lived till his death in the year 1832.

His oldest daughter, Margaret, was married in South Carolina to Samuel Brown, who settled in section four, township four, range nine, and in 1830, moved to Scott county.

Ann, his next daughter, was likewise married in South Carolina, to Isaiah Dunnagan, who made the first improvement in township five, range eight.

James, the oldest son, married Polly Good, under the authority of the first marriage license issued in Madison county, and settled in section one, of township four, range nine.

Ryderus C, another son, settled near his brother James.

The other children were Thomas, Sarah, Charles, Elizabeth, Susannah, Polly, John and William.

Sarah became the wife of Daniel Brown, and settled on the Cahokia, in section eighteen, township four, range eight.

Susannah married William Ramsey, and moved to Scott county.

Polly married Thomas Cox, and settled in section thirty-six, township five, range nine.

John settled where Wanda station now is. He was a pioneer Methodist preacher and died in 1835.

William was born in Tennessee in 1802, on the journey from South Carolina to Illinois. His home was in section thirty six, of township five, range nine. He was also a Methodist minister, and died of the cholera in Alton in 1853.

Isaac Gillham came to Illinois in 1804 or 1805, and settled in the American Bottom, in this county. His children were Thomas, John, James, William, Isaac, Polly, Margaret, Susannah, and Jane.

Thomas settled within a short distance of the old Six mile prairie Methodist Church; John settled on an adjoining farm; James moved to Scott county; William improved the farm on which Dr T. J. Irish now resides, in township three, range nine; Isaac lived on a farm near his brother Thomas; Margaret married John Davidson, who lived on a farm adjoining the church property at Kinder; Polly married Robert Whiteside, and removed from the county; Susannah became the wife of Hardy Willbanks, and emigrated to Texas; Jane, the youngest daughter, married Hiram Fish, and resided in township three, range nine.

Ezekiel Gillham, the oldest son of the original Thomas Gillham, was married in Virginia, and moved to what is now Oglethorpe county, Georgia. One of his sons and two of his daughters, Charles, Mary and Margaret, came to Illinois in 1803. Charles Gillham settled the Phillips farm, southeast of Edwardsville, and his daughter, Lucretia, became the wife of John T. Lusk. Mary married Thomas Good in Georgia. Good settled two miles and a half south of Edwardsville. His wife was a Methodist, and on his farm were held the early Methodist camp meetings. Margaret had married in Georgia Bryant Mooney. Mooney settled about a mile east of Edwardsville, and gave his name to Mooney's branches.

Sally, one of the daughters of the original Thomas Gillham, married in South Carolina John Davidson, who was killed in one of the battles of the Revolutionary war. Two of her sons, Thomas G., and William Davidson, and one of her daughters, Sally, came to Illinois, and settled in Madison county early in the present century.

Susannah, the youngest daughter of Thomas Gillham, married James Kirkpatrick in South Carolina. After an absence of months in the army during the war for Independence, he obtained permission to visit his family, which, on account of the strong Tory feeling in the neighborhood in which he lived, he had to do by stealth. He had been home but a few minutes when as he was seated by his wife, surrounded by his children, he was shot through the window by a Tory and killed. The four oldest sons of Mrs. Kirkpatrick James, Thomas, Franklin, and John came to Illinois, and figured prominently in the early settlement of Madison county.

The Giillhams were strong supporters of morality and order, and among the best citizens of the county. Though born in a slave State, they recognized the corrupting influence of slavery, and unalterably opposed its introduction into Illinois. The author of a history of the State, published in 1849, remarks that the convention party of 1824 owed its defeat to the Gillham family and their kinsmen who, almost in a solid phalanx, cast five hundred votes against the proposition to make Illinois a slave State.

The following facts in reference to the Gillham family, were written and furnished by Hon. Daniel B. Gillham:

"Thomas Gillham, the ancestor of the family in America, many of whose descendants were identified with the early settlement of Illinois during the last year of the last, and first years of the present century, was a native of Ireland. He was married there and with his wife and child, Charles, emigrated to America about the year 1730, and settled first in Virginia. His first wife dying there, he again married, and removed to South Carolina and settled in what was then known as Pendleton county, since divided into the counties of Pickens and Henderson.

His family consisted of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, namely: Charles, Ezekiel, Thomas, William, James, John, Isaac, Nancy, Mary, Sally, and Susannah, and were Irish Presbyterians, though their descendants are now mostly Methodists.

He, his sons and sons-in-law all served in the war for Independence, during which two of his sons-in-law lost their lives, namely, John Davidson and James Kirkpatrick.

The first of the family that beheld the Illinois country was James, the fourth son of Thomas Gillham, in quest of his wife and children then held captive by the Indians in the summer of 1794 - a history of which is given above. When he recovered his family from the Indians he was so pleased with the prairies of Illinois and happy in the results of his long and dangerous search, that he wrote his relations of his grand discovery requesting them to come. Accordingly, Thomas the third, and Isaac the youngest of the sons of Thomas Gillham the 1st, left South Carolina in the fall and arrived at their journey's end on the last day of the eighteenth and rested quietly on Illinois soil on the first day of the nineteenth century. Thus they began the new century in the new world. James was here as before stated, and two others, John and William, arrived in 1802, both settling within the present boundaries of Madison county.

Charles, the first son, and his two eldest sisters remained in the old south state. Ezekiel, the second son, raised a large family, four of whom emigrated to Illinois, namely, Charles, Mary, Ruth and Margaret.

Charles, son of Ezekiel, was the father of Mrs. Lucretia, wife of the late Hon. J. T. Lusk, and grandfather to Capt. G. C. Lusk and Mrs. Sarah Torrence, residing in Edwardsville, where they were born. Ezekiel was the grandfather of the late Thomas and Davidson Good.

Thomas Gillham, the oldest of the second family, married a Miss McDaw and raised three sons, Isham, William and John T.; and seven daughters, Jane, Margaret, Sally, Violet, Patsy and Agnes, several of whom either died young or never came to Illinois.

Isham, the oldest son, married Ruth Vaughn. Their family were Jonah K., Shadrach B., John, James Johnson, and a daughter Julia, all born and raised in Madison county. Only one, J J., is now living. He now lives in Jersey county. Isham first settled on a farm adjoining that of the late Samuel Judy, and, in April 1817, removed to the bank of the Mississippi river, nearly opposite the mouth of the Missouri. He was Sheriff of the county from 1812 to 1818.

William, the second son of Thomas Gillham, Jr., married Mary Anderson and settled on a farm in Ridge prairie, five miles east of Edwardsville. Their children were Evaline, Cyrus, Isham, Valugand, Orsman. I am not aware of any of this family residing in the county at present. Violet married Joshua Vaughn and settled on the American Bottom near the bluff. Patsy married Peter Hubbard and moved to Bond county. Agnes lived to be old and died single. Of the remainder of the family I have no history.

William, second son of Thomas Gillham, married Jane McDaw. Their sons were John D., William and Ezekiel. Their daughters were Agnes, Sally, Mary, Margaret and Jane. John D. has always lived in Jersey county; his sons Marcus and Andrew still reside there I believe. William long since removed to Scott county. Ezekiel also lived in Jersey county, and is the grandfather of the Rev. John D. Gillham, now of Belleville. Agnes married John G. Lofton, and was the mother of the Rev. Thomas G. Lofton, the former owner of the great Orchard farm, four miles north of St. Louis on the Alton road. John G. Lofton was one of the first judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Madison county. Sally married a Mr. Waddle, raised four sons, named Alexander, Thomas, Andrew and William.

After Mr. Waddle's death, she again married a Mr. Jarvis, and was the mother of John Wesley and Fletcher Jarvis, and a daughter Lucinda. Although twice married afterward she had no more family. She always resided in Madison county.

Jane, the youngest daughter, married William Davidson, and was the mother of T. Sidney, now living near Venice, and Mr. Madison Davidson, who settled a farm near the present residence of C. P. Smith in Fort Russell township, and died there in 1859 or '60.

James Gillham, the third son of Thomas Gillham, Sr. and Miss Ann Barnett, a sister of Capt. Barnett of Revolutionary fame, was married in the state of South Carolina in 1770, and at the close of the war for Independence removed to Kentucky.

Their children were as follows, viz: Samuel, Isaac, Jacob Clemons, James Harvey, David, Polly, Sally and Nancy. As before stated, Mr. Gillham first saw Illinois while in search of his captive family, and was so pleased with it that he determined to make it his future home, and did so from the summer of 1797, and in 1800 he settled in the American Bottom below St. Louis. In the latter part of the same year he, with his family removed to a tract of 160 acres of land that the United States in consideration of her great trials had bestowed upon his noble wife, where they continued to reside to the time of their death.

Of this family we have the following:

Samuel, the oldest son, married Anna Patterson and settled on the south half of section 15, township 4, range 9, west. This family consisted of five sons, viz: John P., James H., Isham Barnett, Dr. Samuel J., late of Carlyle, now deceased, and Gershom M., now residing in Carlyle. Their daughters were Adelaide, Louisa, first wife of late Samuel P. Gillham, Ruhama, and Nancy, the latter now living in Mascoutah, St. Clair county.

Isaac, the second son, married Nelly Patterson and settled on the south-east quarter of section 4 in township No. 4 north, range nine west. This family consisted of five daughters, Sally, who was the wife and widow of Charles Bram, and also the wife of J. Miller Murphy. Eliza, who was the wife of Phillip Day, Arilda and Indiana, the first and second wives of Isaiah Dunnagan, Jr., Zurah, who married a Mr. Douglas, and Ellen, the first wife of Micajah C. Gillham, and J. Franklin, who died at the age of 18 years.

The third son, J. Clemons, married first Priscilla Patterson and settled in the same section, township and range. Their children were John Patterson, now of Missouri, Harriet, now Mrs. Rush, of this county, and Lucinda, first wife of the late James Sanders. His second wife was Miss Katy Harkleroad, sister of the late Isaac Harkleroad of this county. His children were J. Milton, Priscilla Gillham, now of Mississippi, and Malinda, now the wife of James Coda of Madison.

J. Harvey, the fourth son of Samuel Gillham, married Polly Whiteside, and settled in the same section with his brothers. Their children were William, Sally, Samuel and Ann.

David M. married Polly Harkleroad, and settled also in the same section. They had two sons, Thomas and Mason.

Polly, the oldest daughter of Samuel Gillham, married a Mr. Thomas, but raised no family.

The others married and left the county, and are residents of the state of Mississippi.

John Gillham, the fourth son of Thomas Gillham, Sr., emigrated from South Carolina to Illinois, arriving in Monroe county on the 10th day of June, 1802, and settled in Madison county in section 19, township 4 north, range 8 west, just west of the farm of Col. Samuel Judy and Bolin Whiteside on the west bank of Cahokia creek, where he lived a few years and then removed to the north-east quarter of section 1, same township and range, where Mr. Sinclair now resides, where he lived until his death in March 1832. He was married in South Carolina to Miss Sarah Clark, by whom he had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Their names were in this order, Margaret, Ann, Thomas, James, Ryderus Clark, Sarah, Charles, Elizabeth, Susannah, Polly, John and William.

Margaret and Ann were married in South Carolina, the former to Samuel Brown who settled on the northeast quarter of Section 4, township 4 north, range 9 west, where Mrs. William Emert now resides; selling out in 1830 and removing to Scott county. The latter to Isaiah Dunnagan, who made the first improvements in township 5, range 8, now Fort Russell, upon the southwest quarter of section 31, where the parsonage stands at Wanda station. Their children were Joshua, now of Colorado, Thomas, Almer, Joseph, Clark, Isaiah and a daughter Louisa, the wife of Levi Stringer. Their descendants are few and widely scattered, yet all married, settled, lived and died in Madison county, except Joshua, who alone is living.

Thomas, the oldest son of John Gillham, died single.

James, the oldest son, married Polly Good under authority of the first license of marriage issued in the county, and settled on the southwest quarter of Section 1, township 4, range 9, now Chouteau. His family consisted of four daughters; the oldest, Sally, became the wife of Ryland Ballard, the second, Polly Ann, was the wife of a Jackson Davidson, and afterward the wife of Jefferson Cox. The third, Nancy C. married Hugh Paul, and the fourth, Martha T., is the wife of Lemuel Southard and resides on the old homestead, the only one living.

Ryderus C, best known as "Red," for short, was first married to Susannah Brown and settled one quarter of a mile south of his brother James, in Section 12, township 4, range 9, where he resided to the day of his death. He was a juror in the first murder case tried in this county. Their children were Lydia, who married James Gillham, Samuel P., Rev. John, a Methodist minister, now of Eldorado, Salin county, Micajah C, Hannah, the first wife of Charles Sebastian, Sarah, now of Jersey county, and Susannah B., who was the first wife of Samuel Teter and afterward the wife of George S. Rice. By his second marriage to Mrs. Ruhama Stockton, nee Patterson, his children were Ann, the wife of Elias Judy, James, now of Alton, Gershom P., deceased, Mary E., second wife of Jonah Good, E. Ellen,
the wife of John Willson of Marion county and Ryderus Clark, Jr., now residing on the old homestead.

Charles, the third son of John Gillham, first married Miss Celia Medford and raised two daughters, Sarah and Mary Ann, who married Joseph Tilton. Both died in early life. By his second wife, Miss Mary Murphy, he had one daughter, Ann, now the wife of David Klingle, Esq. Sally, the third daughter, married Daniel Brown, and settled on the banks of Cahokia creek in section 18, township 4, range 8. Their children were John, Charles, Samuel, I. Newton, D. Sanders, and James. I. N and James died young; a daughter, Susannah, married Mr. McMurtra and resides in VanBuren, Arkansas. D. Sanders also lives there.

Charles married Miss Elizabeth Murphy, who is yet living.

John married Elizabeth Vaughn, and Samuel married Miss Sebastian, and went to California in 1849.

Elizabeth, fourth daughter of John Gillham, married Micajah Cox and early located in Scott county. Their numerous descendants still reside there.

Susannah, fifth daughter, married William Ramsey and also located in Scott county, where they resided until 1840, when Mr. R. died. They had three children, John, the oldest, Caroline, who became the wife of a Mr. Packwood, and Mary Ann, now the wife of Dr. Mahlon Turner, of Des Moines, Iowa. John was killed by accident on a steamship upon his return home from California, at the city of New Orleans, in 1850.

The sixth daughter, Polly, married Thomas Cox and settled upon the southeast corner of section 36, township 5, range 9 now Wood river. Their children were Jefferson, John H. and William, all born and raised in this county.

John, fifth son of John Gillham, Sr., married Miss Phebe Dunnagan, and settled on the northeast quarter of section 1, township 4, range 9, right where Wanda Station now stands. He was a pioneer Methodist preacher, and did what he could toward the advancement of the church, aided by a true Christian wife. They both died within a brief period in 1835, he at 37 she at 36 years of age, leaving five small children, whose names were Narcissa, who married Johnson Vaughn and mother of Mrs. M. H. Boals, of Alton. Mr. Vaughn dying she married George Quigley of Alton. Their children were Frank, John G. and Mac.

Daniel B., the oldest son, married first Miss E. Lucretia Smith, who lived only six years, leaving a daughter, M. Eliza, wife of Warren Lowe, Esq., of Upper Alton.

He again married Miss Virginia Harrison, by whom he has one son Willard T., and four daughters living, viz: Nannie Addean, Alice E., E. Lillian and Virginia N. His second wife dying in 1872, in I876 he was married to Adeline Harrison, sister of the second wife, who has no children.

Julia A, second daughter, married Wm. Harrison of the firm of Harrison Brothers, merchant millers of Belleville. She lived but a short time afterward.

H. Eliza, third daughter, married Shed B. Gillham, now of Upper Alton. Shortly after they were married they removed to West Point, Iowa, where she died about four mouths afterward.

Both the latter were graduates of the Jacksonville Female College and neither left children.

Joseph B., the second son, emigrated to California in 1853. He there married a Miss Adams and died from a wound inflicted by a man whom he had befriended across the plains by loaning him money, upon which to live, while serving upon him a writ as sheriff of the county. He left two children.

William, sixth son of John Gillham, Sr., was born in the state of Tennessee while his parents were en route to Illinois in 1802. He married Polly McKinney, and settled on the southeast quarter of section 36, township 5 range 9, Wood River. They raised but two children, - sons - John M. formerly of the Western House, Broadway, St. Louis, now of Leadville, Colorado, and Wm. E. Emaring of the Brunswick House, St. Louis. He was also a Methodist minister, and died of cholera in the city of Alton, in 1853, beloved by all. His wife survived him, but has now passed away.

All of the above named descendants of John Gillham, Sr., have numerous descendants now scattered over the wide domain of the United States, a complete history of which would make a large volume.

Isaac, the fifth son of Thomas Gillham, was married in South Carolina to Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, emigrated to Illinois in 1804 or 5 and settled on the American Bottom in Madison county. Most of his children were born in the old South State. Their names were Thomas, John, James, William and Isaac, Polly, Margaret, Susannah and Jane. Thomas married Letitia Davidson and settled near the plank road from Edwardsville to St. Louis, about three and one-half miles northeast from the latter, and within a few hundred feet of the old Six-mile Methodist church. Their children were Newton, now of Oregon, Lewallen, deceased, James G., of Des Moines, Iowa, Shadrach B., of Upper Alton, Minerva and Lucretia, the wives of Gabriel and James Marlow, both deceased, and Margaret wife of W. C. Linn, of California.

John, second son of Isaac Gillham, Sr., married Elizabeth Gillham and settled on the farm just west of his brother Thomas. Their children were Jane, Madison, Julia and John.

James, third son of Isaac Gillham, Sr., married Polly Lofton, and early in the century removed to Scott county. Their children were Leroy, Wesley, both deceased, Judges Erastus, and William, now of Scott county, Margaret, widow of the late Dr. Kersey, of Winchester, and Jane, wife of Jesse Newman, of Jacksonville.

William, fourth son of Isaac, Sr., married Barbara Heaton and settled the farm now owned and resided upon by Dr. T. J. Irish, in Nameoki township. Their children were J Addison and Louisa the wife of T. Sidney Davidson of this county. His first wife dying, he married Miss Marian Davidson. Their children were Thomas and Mary Jane.

Isaac, Jr., third son of Isaac, Sr., married Rebecca Hayden and settled on a farm just east of and near his brother Thomas. Their only child, James A., now of Brighton, with whom his mother still resides.

Margaret, the first daughter of Isaac Gillham, Sr., married John Davidson and settled the farm adjoining the church property at Kinder. Their only son, Milton, was the father of John E. Davidson, of Golden, Col. Mrs. Maggie McCarty, of Arizona and Miss Mattie Davidson, of St. Louis. Mr. Davidison dying, she became the wife of Calvin Kinder, aud was probably as well known as any woman ever living in the county.

Polly married Robert Whiteside and left this county.

Susannah, third daughter of Isaac, Sr., married Hardy Willbanks and emigrated to Texas at an early day.

Jane, fourth daughter of Isaac Gillham, Sr., married Hiram Fish, who lived in the township of Nameoki. Their only child, Stilman Oscar, now resides in St. Louis.

Sally, eldest daughter of Thomas Gillham, Sr., married John Davidson in South Carolina. Their children were Samuel, Thomas, George, William, Susannah and Sally. Samuel and Susannah did not come to Illinois.

Thomas G. married in South Carolina, and early came to Illinois with his brothers George and William and his sister Sally. His children by his first wife were Letitia, wife of Thomas Gillham, Jr., and mother of S. B. Gillham of Upper Alton, Ephraim William and Dovey, widow of Alexander Bell. She now resides at Exeter, Scott county.

His first wife dying, he married Polly Stanford and settled just on top of the bluff where J. H. Kendall now resides. Their children were Beverly A., and Clayton T., who long lived on the old homestead. Matilda, who was the first wife of Joshua Dunnagan, married the second wife of William Gillham. Jane, the wife of Walker Delaplain, who settled, lived and died near Venice. Sinai, the wife of the late Sidney Smith and the mother of Mr. Shed. B. Gillham, Mrs. W. C. Hadley, and William Smith, Esq., of Collinsville; Sopronia, the first wife of George S. Rice; and Elvira, the wife of Abner Dunnagan and mother of W. H. and Miss Mattie Dunnagan of this county. Thomas G. Davidson was one of the first justices of Madison county.

William, second son of John Davidson, married Hannah Bunkhead [sic. actually Bankhead] and early came to Illinois. Their children were Isham, James, Andrew, Elizabeth, who became the wife of Thomas G. Dunnagan, and S. Milicent, second wife of J. Clark Dunnagan, both yet residing on the old homestead in section 1 and 2, township 4, range 9.

George, the third son of John Davidson, married Miss Jane Lusk.

Susannah married a man by the name of Lusk. They did not come to Illinois.

John Davidson, husband of Sally Gillham, as above, was killed in battle in the Revolutionary War.

Susannah, youngest daughter of Thomas Gillham, the 1st, married James Kirkpatrick in South Carolina. After having been away from his home, in the army of the revolution for months, he obtained permission to visit his family which, on account of Toryism, he had to do by stealth. He had been at home but a few minutes when, sitting upon his wife's knees, surrounded by his children, he was shot and killed by a Tory named Pruitt, who fired through a window.

They had five children, viz: James, Thomas, Franklin, John and Polly. Mrs. Kirkpatrick again married a man by the name of Scott, and raised a son Joseph. She, her daughter, and youngest son never came to Illinois. Her older sons, four in number, all came to Illinois at an early day, and figure prominently in the early settlement of Madison county. Their descendants are to be found in many portions of the state in Bond, Adams, Morgan and other counties."

Thus I have imperfectly sketched the history of the family to the second generation in Illinois only, which is all that space will admit which from the meagre and somewhat contradictory data at hand, must of necessity contain mistakes or errors. Were it continued to the present day it would supply material for a large volume, and while this is in no sense a history of the family, it is as correct as I think
it possible at this late day to make it, and it will enable the descendants of the different branches of the family to take up the thread in each and carry it down."

John married Sarah "Sally" Gillham about 1765. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Gillham, Sr. and Margaret Campbell) was born about 1743 in Augusta County, Virginia; died on 5 Dec 1827 in Bullock's Creek, York County, South Carolina; was buried after 5 Dec 1827 in Bullock's Creek Cemetery, Bullock's Creek, York County, SC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• 1790 Census: 1790, Union County, South Carolina
• 1800 Census: 1800, Union County, South Carolina
• 1810 Census: 1810, Union County, South Carolina
• Pension: 1820, South Carolina
• 1820 Census: 1820; not located

Notes:

From: History of Madison County, Illinois : illustrated : with biographical sketches of many prominent men and pioneers. (W. R. Brink & Co., Edwardsville, IL, 1882), pp. 71-76:

1790 Census:
pp. 48-49
Robert Lesk       2-1-4-0-2
...
Sarah Davison   2-2-5-0-0
...
-----  p. 49  -----
Joseph Davison   1-2-4-1-0
...
Wm. Steen            1-1-2-0-1

1800 Census:
p. 241  612
Saml Davidson   00110 - 00001 - 02

Sarah might be the female over 15 in this family. Samuel did not marry until later that year.

1810 Census:
p. 232A (549)
Thomas Lusk         13101 - 41011 - 03
...
Samuel Davidson   20001 - 30011 - 03
...
James Steen          00100 - 10100 - 00
John Steen             00201 - 00001 - 02
...
Amos?James Davison   00001 - 00000 - 00

Pension:
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/RecordDetail.aspx?RecordId=310201

Series: S390008
Year: 1820
Item: 00005
Page: 000
Date: 1820

Description: LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONERS PAID IN 1820, DIVIDED BY UPPER AND LOWER DIVISION. (4/4 PAGES)

Names indexed: ADAIR, ELIZABETH; ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM; BALL, MARY; BLACK, ELEANOR; BLACK, MARY; BRADFORD, CHARLES; BRANDON, AGNES; BROWN, MRS. MAJOR; BROWN, PATSEY; BRYSON, DANIEL; BUCKHALLER, DAVID; CARR, DAVID S.; CARTER, WILLIAM; CHENEY, CATHARINE; CLIBOURN, FRANCIS; COOK, DANIEL; CROSSLINE, JOHN; CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM; DAVIDSON, SARAH; DELIN, JAMES; DIXON, ANN; ENLOE, JOHN; FINNEY, MICHAEL; FORBES, JOHN; FORBES, WILLIAM; FOWLES, JAMES; FOX, MARY; FRY, PHILIP; GLENN, JANET; GOSLING, GEORGE; GOWEN, MARY; GRACEY, SIDNEY; HAMILTON, JAMES; HARWOOD, MARY; HENSLEY, MARY; HILL, JOHN; HODGE, WILLIAM; JAMIESON, JAMES; JONES, MARY; KERR, JOSEPH; KNEEL, BENJAMIN; KNOWLTON, GRANT; KNOX, JANNET; KNOX, WILLIAM; LEE, SIMON; LINCH, WILLIAM; LOOMY, JOHN; LOONY, JOHN; LOYD, WILLIAM; LUSK, NATHAN; MARTIN, MARTHA; MCALISTER, ANDREW; MCBETH, GEORGE; MCCLURE, CHARLES; MCDANIEL, EDWARD; MCDOWELL, WILLIAM; MCDUFF, D.; MCFARLANE, MARY; MCJUNKIE, DANIEL; MILLER, JOHN; MILLER, ROBERT; MILLER, THOMAS; MOORE, JANE; MORRIS, JOSEPH; MORROW, JOSEPH; MORROW, MARY; NASH, MICHAEL; NEILY, JOHN; ODHAM; PAGIOTT, JENNET; PINCKNEY, ANDREW; REID, JOB; RICHARDSON, DANIEL; ROBERTS, JOHN; SNEAD, JANE; STEADHAM, ZACHARIAH; STEELE, JOHN; TINSLEY, JAMES; TRAMIEL, WILLIAM; VANN, MARTHA; WALSH, ELEANOR; WARD, JAMES; WATKINS, E.; WEST, JAMES; WILLIAMS, MARY; WILLIAMS, WILLIAM; YOUNG, ANDREW

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Document type: LIST
Topics: AMERICAN REVOLUTION; PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES

Robert married Elizabeth Sharpe. Elizabeth died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]