Re: Gills of VA/WV area (Montcalm)
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In reply to:
Gills of VA/WV area (Montcalm)
Linda Eley 2/17/03
Linda,
I have done lots of work on our Gills family since I spoke to you last. You descend from Gideon Gill/Gills and Mary Tancil from North Carolina. Gideon Gill?Gills died in 1838 and his wife Mary with several of her sons came to Tazewell Virginia about 1843. The youngest of her sons was Benjamim Gills born about 1835. Benjamin married Mary Neal about 1852. The part of Tazewell county, that they lived, later became Bland County. You can find Benjamin and Mary in the 1870 and 1880 Bland County Census records.Between 1880 and 1900 Benjamin and Mary Gills moved to Mercer County West Virginia. Here are their children.
1)Francis A. Gills b. 1855
2)Julia Gills b. 1857
3)James Thomas Gills b. 1859 (married Elizabeth Corner)
4)Mary Ellen Gills b. 1862 (married Charles Franklin)
5)Mary Elizabeth b. 1862 (married John B. Taylor)
6)Robert Glenn Gills b. 1865( married 1) Mary Bowman 2) Sarah E. Scott)
Children of Robert Glenn and Sarah E. Scott were
Mary E. Gills born 1892
William Gills born 1894 (married Ethel J.)
Effie L. Gills born 1895 (married George Walls)
John Thomas Gills born 1898 (married Chloe Pearl Cole)
Phillip M. Gills born 1900
Minnie Gills born 1904
Clona(Cleo)Gills born 1906( married Paul Hicks)
Robert R. Gills born 1909( married Hazel Smith )
7)Samuel H. Gills B. 1869 (married Molly Hicks)
8)William (Mack) Gills B. 1870 (married Mattie Florence Hubbard) These are my Grandparents.
9) George W. Gills B. 1874 (married Lola Belcher)
10) Howard Greely Gills B. 1883 (married Della?Stella Sands)
I have more on some of the children of these people if anyone is interested.
Wanda O'Neal