I'm posting these Gill queries on behalf of cynlynn@aol.com. She adds: "I would like to add that 'Henry Gill' was actually William Henry Gill whose wife was Lorena Schaffer. They are my husband's great grandparents by through their son Phillip Dodridge Gill (Dolph) and his son, Raymond Henry Gill." There was an Edward Gill who lived in Barren Co., KY at the same time as did Benjamin Bowles, ca. 1810. I'm hoping that through these allied surnames, someone will have ideas or connections to these families and which will give us more clues about our own Boles/Bowles. If you want to correspond with cynlynn@aol.com you'll have to write to her directly; she's not a member of our list. Yours, Linne ===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: GILL@rootsweb.com From: cynlynn <cynlynn@aol.com> Subject: Re: [GILL] searching DNA has connected our Gill line to two lines that were in the US during the 1700's: one in VA and one just across the border in NC. ÝThese Gill's were English and we know we have Ýcommon direct ancestor.... .....but we have a 100 year gap! Still looking for the parents and siblings of Peter Gill b.1825 in Alabama. ÝWe believe this Peter Gill appears in the Franklin Co. AL 1850 census records. Ý Questionable whether he is the Peter Gill born in Elyton, AL who fought in the Mexican/American War. ÝDates appear slightly off, but family names so similar, I continue to look at this Peter too. Ý Peter Gill and family moved to Texas where he appears in the 1860 census in Anderson Co. with sons John and William Henry and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Boles. Would appreciate any clue as whether this Peter Gill is the one born in Elyton?????? ===================================================== ===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: GILL-L@rootsweb.com From: Joyce Moore <jmoore@marshill.com> Subject: [GILL] Peter Gill I am looking for information on my biggest Gill dead end, which is also Peter Gill. According to the records, he was 26 years old and born in Alabama when he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Boles in Huntsville, Alabama, and both were from Franklin Co., Alabama. I do not know if he is the same Peter who married Nancy and had a son John in the 1850 census, but I would guess that he was as he named his oldest child John. I assume that they married in Huntsville in order to leave on a wagon train, as they seem to have come to Texas from there. I have other ancestors who left from Huntsville, so I guess it was one of the routes where wagon trains started. The courthouse burned in Franklin Co., Ala, so it is lucky for us that they married in Huntsville and we have a record of his wife's name. We were in Franklin Co. this summer and there are no records of any Gills there. I have his children as John, Peter, Henry, Joseph, my husband's grandfather, Ladd, and Elizabeth. I noticed that others have listed him as Lazarus, so maybe that was a nickname, but my mother-in-law said her uncle's name was Ladd Gill. Elizabeth apparently died as a girl of about 18, but the boys all married and had families. According to all of the family they were supposed to have been part Indian. I have seen a picture of Peter Gill, Jr. when he was older and he definitely looked Indian. Joseph Gill supposedly had the gift of being able to cure animals by concentrating on them or something. My mother-in-law said she remembered him doing it one one occasion when a neighbor called and said his prize bull had gotten tangled in barbed wife and was bleeding to death. She said he laid down in the floor, closed his eyes and repeated a bible verse three times, and the bull stopped bleeding and lived. She also said that he always said it was a gift given to him and he could only pass it on to a female that was not kin to him. He died from a Mastoid infection in 1923 when he was only 52, I think, so I doubt that he passed it on. He is buried in the cemetery in Lorraine, Mitchell Co., Texas. For years he lived by Henry Gill, and some of his children are buried in the cemetery close to where Henry Gill is buried in Winters, Texas. Peter Gill fought in the Civil War from Palestine, Texas, was a blacksmith, and later drove the stage from Waco to Round Rock, according to relatives. He and Mary Elizabeth Boles both died of typhoid fever and left the children as orphans. Some of the boys were raised by Hugh Schaffer, as he took in orphans in a kind of boarding school. Hugh Schaffer was married to Sina Bailey, and Joseph Gill met her niece, Sina America Bailey, daughter of Winfred Bailey and Martha Littleton. Her mother had died and she was living with Sina and Hugh Schaffer. I have a lot of information on the Boles family. Mary Elizabeth was the daughter of Travis Boles, who was born in Iredell Co., N.C. She was born in Alabama. I would like any information available if anyone has any clues. I think that the John C. Gill who got land in Alabama was either his brother or his father, but probably his father as he seems to have named two sons after him. Joyce Moore ====================================== This was posted on 11 August 05: Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:06:19 -0700 (PDT) From: joyce moore <jtex37@sbcglobal.net> Subject: John and Travice Bowles To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com I am searching for information on my husband's Bowles line. His ggrrandmother was Mary Elizabeth Bowles, born ca 1833, probably Franklin Co., Ala., married John Gill in Blount Co., Ala, and came to Anderson Co., Texas by 1860. Travis (Travace) Boles is listed on the 1850 census of Franklin Co., Ala. Travace Boles - 51 - M farmer born Va. Margaret 41 F Al John 19 M Al Mary (ggrandmother) 17 F Al Eliza 14 F Al William 12 M Al Margaret 9 F Al Rebecca 7 F Al Catherine 3 F Al Hdalade 4 F Al John 2 M Al According to a bible leaf, Trvaice's father was John Bowles and his mother was Elizabeth Barker John Bartley Bowles was born Feb 15, 1769 Elizabeth Barker Bowles was born March 10, 1769 married January 31, 1787 Travis Alexander Bowles was born Dec 8, 1797 Jack Burrell Bowles was born Dec 1, 1799 Benjamin Gordon Bowles was born April 6, 1802 William Gunn Bowles was born Nov 1, 1803 Isaac Gillian Bowles was born June 18, 1805 Elizabeth Milly Bowles was born March 22, 1810 Rebecca Ann Bowles was born August 15, 1811 Harriett Betty Bowles was born Jan 12, 1813 Jerrymiah Bowles was born March 5, 1814 George David Bowles was born June 24, 1816 Nancy Derrey Bowles was born June 8, 1819 Jerry Miah Bowles married Genvea? Sloan, sister of I.G. Sloan born to them John Bowles Lafayette Bowles Russel ? Bowles Mary Bowles Nancy Bowles Betty Bowles Harriett Bowles, born Nov. 14, 1855 Reuben Bowles John Bartley Bowles appears to have been born in Brunswick Co., Va. His mother was Elizabeth ? Bowles and his father appears to have been a Jeremiah Bowles. I have never been able to find a marriage license for him. There are documents that show Jeremiah Bowles in Amelia Co. and and Lunenburg Co. Unknown whether this is the same Jeremiah Boles. The will of Elizabeth Bowles, County of Brunswick, Va. Names children Isaac Bowles, John Bowles, David Bowles, Amey Huff, wife of George Huff, and any living children of William Fogg and Elizabeth Brown. Dec 4, 1815. George Huff and Amery Bowles were married 1890 in Warren Co., N.C. John Bartley Bowles and Elizabeth Gilliam Bowles were married 23 Jan 17907 in Brunswick Co., Va. Brunswick Co,., Va. shows James Tomson Boles m Milly Huff Brunswick Co. Personal Property tax, 1787 Elizabeth Bowls, self, widow, nontithable Isaac Bowls - Elizabeth Bowls charged with tax I can go back to the Flood family that came ca 1606 to Jamestown on the Gilliam line, but I am stuck on Jeremiah Bowles. Who was he? There is another Jeremiah and Elizabeth but they are the wrong couple. Any help would be appreciated. Joyce Moore 1815 Poll tax list shows Bowls, Benjamin, 1 white , 80 acres of land Bowles, John, 1 white, 180 acres ============================================================ ===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: GILL@rootsweb.com From: Rdvsr@aol.com Subject: Re: [GILL] searching The "tradition" in some of the James Gill family is that there was a brother who went from VA "south", about 1812. The same time that James came to Logan Co. KY. (he was from Fauquier Co. VA, and his brother came from Stafford Co. VA...his wife was a PHILLIPS, and it appears her family were from that county. ============================================================