Samuel Cresswell Gill (1783 - 1854)

Born 22 Nov 1783 in Chester, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Malone) Gill — married 23 Sep 1807 in Kentucky, USA

Descendants

Died 23 Nov 1854 at age 71 in Fleming, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Family

Husband: Thomas Franklin Gill

Wife: Hannah Chriswell

Marriage date: 1782

Place: , Chester, South Carolina^[1]

Child: Robert Gill

Child: Samuel Cresswell Gill

Child: John Gill

Child: Rebecca Gill

Child: Sarah Gill

Child: Betsy Gill

Child: Polly Gill

Child: James Gill

Child: Josiah Porter Gill

Child: Nancy Gill

Child: William Gill

Child: Thomas Gill

Birth

Date: 22 Nov 1783^[2]

Marriage

Husband: Samuel Chriswell Gill

Wife: Sarah Malone

Marriage date: 23 Sep 1807

Place: Kentucky, USA^[1]

Husband: Samuel Chreswell Gill

Wife: Elizabeth Reed

Marriage Date: 1 Nov 1849

Place: Fleming, Kentucky, USA ^[3]

Death and Burial

Death date: 23 Nov 1854

Place: Fleming, Kentucky, USA .

Burial date: About 26 Nov 1854

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Note: The gravestone has Samuel C Gill died on the correct date and was 70 some years old.

Land Gifts and Will

• During his lifetime Samuel gave each of his children, except the youngest, as they married or came of age, two hundred and forty acres of land in Indiana or Illinois, where most settled and farmed.
• In his final will, he additionally made the following provisions:

1. That his debts be paid
2. That his wife Elizabeth shall have the part of the home farm and its accoutrements plus $100 through her natural life when whatever remains shall pass to his heirs.
3. To his son Harrison Gill, $300 and some 305 acres of land held jointly
4. To his son Jonathan, $100
5. To his daughter Eliza P Hymer, $400
6. To his daughter Emily Ashley, $200 and one bay mare with the proviso that my son Harrison is to have and to hold for her exclusive use and benefit, free of any claims of her said husband W.H. Ashley
7. To his daughter Cassandra Kibbey, $400
8. To the children of his daughter Elizabeth Barnes, deceased, $700 to be distributed as they come of age or marry ; with provisions made for the deaths of any
9. To his daughter Marsolete Carson, $200
10. To his son Shiloah, 320 acres in Coles County, Illinois to have and use during his natural life not subject to his debts or disposed of by him and at his death to descend to his children
11. To his daughter Martha Ann Kibbey, $500
12. To his son Thomas F, $500
13. To William Reed and his wife, the house and land "I own adjoining Sharpsburg for and during their natural life to be a home not subject to either of their debts or sold by them. After their deaths, I bequeathed the same to my grandson Samuel W Wright. Should he die without heirs, it shall revert to my estate and descend to my heirs."
14. To his wife's niece Sally Lyons, his sorrel horse and defined accoutrements
15. And that the residue (except for the other half of the Home Farm with its own special provisions) be sold and distributed among his heirs including his son Marcus under the same legacies above mentioned. .. The advancements already made to the children made them about equal. [Note: Samuel made a mistake in his arithmatic and gave Thomas Franklin Gill $1000 to equal the other's cash share but forgot to account for the land which he never gave him. After the division, the other heirs got together and each gave him $50 of their share.]^[3]

Research Notes

According to Origin of Gill Name, this Samuel Gill is James Enoch Gill's father, and their genealogy continues from there. What is there matches here and there with online Gill genealogy, although several dates are quite a ways off and locations are wrong. Also, Thomas Gill's parents are listed as being from Scotland, rather than Ireland. He was not a foundling with a 'gill' in his mouth.

The problem lies in the fact that none of James Enoch Gill's siblings are listed as Samuel Chriswell Gill and Sarah Malone Gill's children. Two large families with NO overlap. Probably a different Samuel Gill was JEG's father, possibly Samuel Gill and Bide Bradley -- dates line up better but no corroborating evidence.^[5]

Contrary to Origin of Gill Name, History of the Gill Family does not give James Enoch Gill as one of Samuel Chreswell Gill's children nor does his will.

Citations

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} FS Page: accessed 20 Oct 2014), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWHL-MM9 : accessed 2017-01-31), entry for Hannah CHRISWELL.
2. ↑ Source: Allen
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Gill, Thomas F. History of the Gill Family. Hannibal, MO: Standard Printing Company, 1893 [Reprinted by Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, Indianapolis, IN, 1979], pg 24.
4. ↑ FaG: Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 13 October 2020), memorial page for Samuel Gill (unknown–23 Nov 1854), Find A Grave: Memorial #196449417, citing Bath County Memorial Gardens, Salt Lick, Bath County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Steve Swim (contributor 47240862) .
5. ↑ Diers

Sources

• S00072Title: Family Search Ancestral File v4.19 Publication: Name: http://www.familysearch.org;
• FS Abbreviation: Family Search Title: database Publication: (https://familysearch.org)
• Allen "Begats" (typescript). Author: Charles J. Allen
• Diers: Author: Diers, Mary Stevens (g'daughter of John Tazwell Gill). Title: Origin of the Gill Name
• Gill, Thomas F. History of the Gill Family. Hannibal, MO: Standard Printing Company, 1893 [Reprinted by Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, Indianapolis, IN, 1979]

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Gill-544 created through the import of LHH WIKI.GED on Jun 17, 2011 by Lee Hoffman. See the [http://www.wikitree.com