This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/CiY.2ACEB/1285.2 Message Board Post: I am searching for info on Napoleon Gillespie...who had ties to Kirksville and IL, namely my g.grandfather, John Clinton Gillespie and his son, Wm. Lowery. Napoleon was either a brother or a father to Steave. If you have any further data on your Gillespies, please contact me. I'm also interested in descendants of same. I recently read in History of MO, Illustrated, 1888, that a JM Glassby served in the 50th IL, a JM Gillespie also did. An Allen Gillespie was elected commissioner in Sullivan Co, MO in 1845-1851; and a James Gillespie was a general merchant in Adair Township, 15 mi. from Kirksville, 9 mi. north of Brashear in 1880, pg. 371, Adair Co section of above History. He may be the same JM who served in the CW. Anxious to hear any replies. Good hunting! Karen Gross Rockwood, Tyler, TX