... Hugh Gilmore, Jr., grandfather of John was born about 1776, and received a common school education in Ireland, coming to America when a boy of sixteen years of age and landing at Charleston, S.C., in 1792. He hired out to a man who was moving to West Virginia on the Great Kanawha river. Although unaccustomed to horses, he drove a four-horse team through from Charleston to the place of settlement. He worked for his employer some years and remained in that neighborhood, Mason County, W. Va., about eighteen miles up the river from Point Pleasant. Gilmore married Lucretia Reynolds, born in that neighborhood, daughter of Morris Reynolds, a pioneer salt maker of the Kanawha, farmer and substantial citizen. Hugh Gilmore and his wife settled in that neighborhood, where he bought 120 acres of mostly bottom land and very fertile, cleared it from the woods. Here he made an excellent farm, and reared his children, whose names were: Elizabeth, John, William, Silas and Morris, Silas being a soldier in the U.S. Service. The family were members of the Baptist Church. In October, 1829, Hugh Gilmore and his family came to Adams Township Madison Co., Ind., locating on what was afterward known as the Gilmore homestead on the 29th of that month. He bought a squatter's claim, and later entered 190 acres of land and still later purchased eighty acres more. He began to clear his farm, but was accidentally killed while clearing a spot for a burial ground. Throughout his life he was a hard working, industrious, God-fearing man, and helped to establish firmly the Baptist Church in the new section of the country. In politics he was an old-line Whig. ...
