|
|
Facts and Events
Revolutionary War Pension File
- William Gillespie applied for a pension while in Haywood Co., Tenn. in 1832. He stated that he was born in 1759 in 96 Dist., SC or Rowan Co., NC. In one place Ninety-Six Dist., SC was scratched through, with Rowan, Co., NC written in above. He served under Andrew Pickens at one point. William Gillespie remained in SC after the War and in 1804 moved to Livingston Co., KY. In 1824 he moved to Haywood Co., Tennessee. Later he moved to Mississippi. On 29 April 1843 he signed a document stating that he had lately removed to Macoupin Co., Illinois with his son, Matthew, and family, and requested that his pension be sent to that location.
- [Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/James-K-Willis-TX/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0051.html].
- From "The Livingston County, Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly", Vol 3, No. 4:
- List of SC Rev. War Soldiers who settled in Livingston Co. On that list was William Gillespie with a notation that he was a brother-in-law of William Pickens.
Notes
- In the Book, "Sweet Remembrance", the author, Karen Cosby, says there were several Cozby/Cosby families in Abbeville Dist., SC around 1800. Among them was James Cozby who married Nellie Gillespie by 1795. She says that Nellie was the daughter of RWS William Gillespie who married a Pickens, and was the granddaughter of Matthew and Anna Gillespie, adding that this Matthew Gillespie was the son of Matthew Gillespie and Lucy Pickens.
- Karen says that William Gillespie left SC in 1804 and went to Livingston Co., Ky., that in the early 1840's he lived with a daughter in Lafayette Co., Mississippi. She states further that William married ca 1780 and had at least nine children: William; Nellie Cozby; John P.; Elizabeth Harris; Margaret Trimble Clemens, Fannie Brown, Lemma Clemens, Matthew and an unidentified daughter.
- From dictations by Matthew Stinson Gillespie, we are told that William died in 1844, leaving three sons, Mathew, Andrew and John.
Citations
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnlincol/pml/pmllin11.txt
|
|
