Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Gilham
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Emeline Jackson (Gilham) Stearns
Died
at about age 67
in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Profile last modified
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Biographical Time Line
1822 Mary J (Riley) Gilham's headstone in Fredericksburg City Cemetery gives 1822 as the year of her birth. Though undocumented, it is believed that she was born in Ireland.
1843 Mary J Riley married John Gilham.
1850 The 1850 Fredericksburg, Virginia, Census lists her in the household of John Gilham, grocer, with two female children: E, age 7; and M, age 2. [1]
1859 The death of John Gilham left her a widow with children in Fredericksburg, VA, a location subjected to extensive bombardment throughout the national catastrophe, the US Civil War.
1870 The Census lists her in a Fredericksburg household with her daughter, Emeline Gilham Stearns, and two grandsons: Edgar, age 3; and Frank, age 1.[2]
1892 On February 2, Mary died in Fredericksburg. [3]
Burial
See: FindAGrave Memorial #8858356 [1]
Sources
- ↑ 1850 CENSUS — http://resources.umwhisp.org/Fredericksburg/census/1850US.htm — Schedule I. Free Inhabitants in the town of Fredericksburg in the County of Spotsylvania, State of Virginia enumerated by me on the 30th day of July 1850. Lorman Chancellor Ass't Marshal. PAGE 338 (16/16)
- ↑ 1870 CENSUS — http://resources.umwhisp.org/Fredericksburg/census/1870US_1.htm — Schedule 1. Inhabitants in Fredericksburg, in the County of Spotsylvania, State of Virginia, enumerated by me, on the 1st day of June 1870. Post Office: Fredericksburg. D. S. Dolbear, Ass't Marshall PAGE 20 (158/162)
- ↑ "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X51D-RY2 : accessed 26 April 2016), Mary Gilham, 05 Feb 1892; citing Fredericksburg, Virginia, reference 1 L15; FHL microfilm 2,056,985.
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