I hope someone can help me with this obituary for: Thomas and Naomi Gillespie Born: ? Died: They both died December ? 1797 eight hours apart. He died at 2:00 p.m. and she died at 10:00 p.m. in Rowan County, NC. I think this information can be found in the NC Genealogical Society of Rowan County, NC Journal Salisbsury, NC December 1988 Volume 2 Issue 4 Any help will be appreciated. Robbie Reaves South Arkansas reaves@seark.net

Possibly this might help, it is from the Thyatira Presbyterian Church Graveyard abstracted by Mary Bondurant Warren:   Thomas Gillespie, d. 12-12-1797, 78y   Naomi Gillespie, wife of Thomas Gillespie, d. 12-12-1797, 69y   For the convenience of visitors certain graves have been marked with numbered white stakes, beginning with the oldest known graves:   6. Thomas and Naomi Gillespie, also ancestors of President Polk; an obituary of Naomi reports "Died at 2 p.m. on Tuesday the 15th of December 1796, Mrs. Naomi Gillespie, aged 69; at 10 o'clock the same evening Mr. Thomas Gillespie, aged 76. They were the first settlers in Rowan County on the west side of the Yadkin River, and lived in the strictest bond of matrimonial friendship for a space of 51 years. Their descendants amount to 63, of whom six sons carried them to their place of interment, where they were deposited in the same coffin."   The foregoing is taken from the descriptive pamphlet available at the church.   (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncrowan/thyatira.txt)   Thomas Gillespie's will was written 15 Nov. 1796 and probated 1791 [?], according to Rowan County, North Carolina will abstracts by Jo White Linn.  The 1791 probate date is obviously not correct and it's very likely that it should be 1797, the 7 could have looked more like a 1, thus the reason for the question mark by Jo Linn.   Also buried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church Graveyard is a Robert Gillespie who died 21 Mar. 1760 at the age of 36 years, making his year of birth around 1724.  Could this Robert Gillespie have been related to Thomas Gillespie?   I believe this Robert Gillespie who died in 1760 was the one who was scalped by an Indian during the Cherokee uprising, I read about this in Carolina Cradle.  I was fascinated by the story of his widow Elizabeth Maxwell Gillespie who later married William Steel.   Linda Monticelli       --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Larry & Robbie Reaves <reaves@seark.net> wrote: From: Larry & Robbie Reaves <reaves@seark.net> Subject: [NCROWAN] Obituary To: ncrowan@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 2:47 AM I hope someone can help me with this obituary for: Thomas and Naomi Gillespie Born: ? Died: They both died December ? 1797 eight hours apart. He died at 2:00 p.m. and she died at 10:00 p.m. in Rowan County, NC. I think this information can be found in the NC Genealogical Society of Rowan County, NC Journal Salisbsury, NC December 1988 Volume 2 Issue 4 Any help will be appreciated. Robbie Reaves South Arkansas reaves@seark.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCROWAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message