The Ancestors and Cousins of Tracy Lynn DeVault

Barbara Lynn Clifton¹

F, #11251

Parents

Father	Robert Clifton
Mother	Charlene Johnson

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Family: Daniel Robert Shockley

Daughter	Kristina Marie Shockley
Daughter	Danielle Lynn Shockley

BASIC FACTS

Barbara Lynn Clifton and Daniel Robert Shockley were married on 20 June 1989 in Clatskanie, Oregon.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Kristina Marie Shockley¹

F, #11252

Parents

Father	Daniel Robert Shockley
Mother	Barbara Lynn Clifton

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Danielle Lynn Shockley¹

F, #11253

Parents

Father	Daniel Robert Shockley
Mother	Barbara Lynn Clifton

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Richard James Shockley¹

M, #11254

Parents

Father	Gary Robert Trenner
Mother	Virginia Lorenda Heriford

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Family: Karen Elaine Peters

Son	Elijah James Shockley
Daughter	Katherine Elaine Shockley

BASIC FACTS

Richard James Shockley and Karen Elaine Peters were married on 20 July 1985 in Kelso, Washingtom.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Karen Elaine Peters¹

F, #11255

Parents

Father	Thomas Peters
Mother	Mattye Vancamp

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Family: Richard James Shockley

Son	Elijah James Shockley
Daughter	Katherine Elaine Shockley

BASIC FACTS

Karen Elaine Peters and Richard James Shockley were married on 20 July 1985 in Kelso, Washingtom.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Elijah James Shockley¹

M, #11256

Parents

Father	Richard James Shockley
Mother	Karen Elaine Peters

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Katherine Elaine Shockley¹

F, #11257

Parents

Father	Richard James Shockley
Mother	Karen Elaine Peters

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Timothy Jay Shockley¹

M, #11258

Parents

Father	Gary Robert Trenner
Mother	Virginia Lorenda Heriford

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BASIC FACTS

Timothy Jay Shockley and Carol Jean Hatcher were married on 19 November 1994 in Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Carol Jean Hatcher¹

F, #11259

Parents

Father	Duane Hatcher
Mother	Rita Eckert

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BASIC FACTS

Carol Jean Hatcher and Timothy Jay Shockley were married on 19 November 1994 in Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Bethany Grace Shockley¹

F, #11260

Parents

Father	Timothy Jay Shockley
Mother	Carol Jean Hatcher

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Christopher Jordan Dean Ryan¹

M, #11261

Parents

Father	Kevin Dean Ryan
Mother	Stephanie Lucretia Shockley

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Sterling Cole Ryan¹

M, #11262

Parents

Father	Kevin Dean Ryan
Mother	Stephanie Lucretia Shockley

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Becky Ann Shockley¹

F, #11263

Parents

Father	Allen Rayman Shockley
Mother	Virginia Lorenda Heriford

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BASIC FACTS

Becky Ann Shockley and Billy Ray Reeves, II, were married on 7 September 1996 in Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Billy Ray Reeves, II¹

M, #11264

Parents

Father	Billy Ray Reeves
Mother	Evealie Painter

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BASIC FACTS

Billy Ray Reeves, II, and Becky Ann Shockley were married on 7 September 1996 in Longview, Cowlitz Co., Washington.¹

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Hannah Joy Reeves

F, #11265

Parents

Father	Billy Ray Reeves, II
Mother	Becky Ann Shockley

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Mieko Harada¹

F, #11266

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Family: James Calvin Heriford

Son	Michael James Heriford+
Son	Mark Jay Heriford

BASIC FACTS

Mieko Harada and James Calvin Heriford were married on 7 June 1966 in American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.^1,2

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001
[S4603] Email from Karen Shockley dated August 8, 2001

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Michael James Heriford¹

M, #11267

Parents

Father	James Calvin Heriford
Mother	Mieko Harada

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BASIC FACTS

Michael James Heriford and Sarah Esther Bevan were married on 22 May 1999 in Mount Angel, Oregon.^1,2

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001
[S4603] Email from Karen Shockley dated August 8, 2001

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Sarah Esther Bevan^1,2

F, #11268

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Family: Michael James Heriford

Daughter

Gwynedd Bevan Heriford

BASIC FACTS

Sarah Esther Bevan and Michael James Heriford were married on 22 May 1999 in Mount Angel, Oregon.^1,2

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001
[S4603] Email from Karen Shockley dated August 8, 2001

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Mark Jay Heriford¹

M, #11269

Parents

Father	James Calvin Heriford
Mother	Mieko Harada

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Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001

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Wilbert Buckby Senger¹

M, #11270, b. 27 October 1915, d. 10 August 1980

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BASIC FACTS

Wilbert Buckby Senger was born on 27 October 1915 in Chinook, Montana.² He and Lucretia Helen LaFrance were married in 1975 in Washougal, Washington.^1,2 He died on 10 August 1980, at age 64, in Vancouver, Washington.³

Wilbert Buckby Senger had reference number 11538.

Citations

[S4605] Email from Karen Shockley dated March 1, 2001
[S4603] Email from Karen Shockley dated August 8, 2001
[S12317] Phone conversation with Mary (DeVault) Donnelly, August 8, 2001

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Unknown Holmes¹

M, #11271

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Citations

[S12398] Social Security Death Index, Source Medium: Book

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Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt^1,2,3,4,5,6

F, #11272, b. 9 November 1844, d. 17 May 1929

Parents

Father	Thomas Hyder "Hyder" Hunt (b. 7 April 1816, d. 7 June 1863)
Mother	Rachel Mary DeWald (b. 1821, d. 15 October 1900)

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Family: Ephriam Bradley Gillmore (b. 15 June 1843, d. 1 January 1914)

Daughter	Lillie Etta Gillmore+ (b. 3 December 1868)
Daughter	Nora Rachel Gillmore+ (b. 14 February 1870, d. 2 September 1939)
Son	Charles Edgar Gillmore (b. 15 November 1872, d. 15 May 1880)
Daughter	Lula Bell Gillmore+ (b. 3 March 1874, d. 24 March 1933)
Daughter	Lide Otho "Otho" Gillmore+ (b. 12 March 1876, d. 22 October 1966)
Son	Jacob Elmer Gillmore+ (b. 27 March 1877, d. 17 April 1957)
Son	M.A. LL.B William Bruce Gillmore+ (b. 28 July 1880, d. 25 October 1966)
Daughter	Julia Hunt Gillmore+ (b. 4 October 1881, d. 6 January 1975)
Daughter	Mary Emily Gillmore+ (b. 3 April 1884, d. 15 June 1980)
Son	Clyde Ephriam Gillmore+ (b. 18 November 1885, d. 14 January 1977)
Son	Guy H. Gillmore+ (b. 15 December 1892, d. 1 July 1968)

BASIC FACTS

Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt was born on 11 September 1844.⁷ She was born on 9 November 1844 in Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.^8,9,4,10 She was born on 9 November 1845 in Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee.¹¹ She was born on 9 November 1846 in Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee.¹² She and Ephriam Bradley Gillmore were married on 25 December 1867 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois.⁹ She died on 17 May 1929, at age 84, in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri.^8,9 She was buried in City of Lubbock Cemetery, Lubbock, Lubbock Co., Texas.¹³

Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt was also known as Emma. She had reference number 11540. She resided in Jonesborough, Washington Co., Tennessee; Illinois; Barton Co., Missouri (1869); Kansas City, Clay Co., Missouri.¹⁴ She was enumerated on the census in Washington County, Tennessee (1850); Macoupin County, Illinois (1860); Jackson County, Missouri (1900); Delta County, Colorado (1910); Jackson County, Missouri (1920.) OBITUARY -- Lubbock Morning Avalanche, Tuesday, May 21, 1929

GILMORE FUNERAL TO BE HELD HERE
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Gilmore, mother of Mrs. R. H. Martin of Lubbock who died last Friday night in Kansas City, will be held in this city Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. The body is expected to arrive here Tuesday.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Rix-Sanders Funeral chapel with the Rev. H. L. Munger, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Lubbock cemetery.
Accompanying the body here will be Mrs. Nora Brooks, of Kansas City, and C. E. Gilmore of Wichita, Kans., children of Mrs. Gilmore. Others who survive are four daughters, Mrs. J. T. Collom, Arlington, VA; Mrs. Lula Gregory, Stillwater, Okla.; Mrs. E. E. Frost, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Julia Patterson, Tacoma, Wash.; and three sons, Jacob E. Gilmore, Fort Cobb, Okla.; William Bruce Gilmore, Washington, D.C.; Guy Gilmore, Wagoner, Okla.

OBITUARY -- Lubbock Daily Journal, Tuesday, May 21, 1929
Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for Mrs. Mary E. Gilmore, mother of Mrs. R. H. Martin of this city, who died in Kansas City last Friday.
The Rev. H. L. Munger, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Lubbock Cemetery under the direction of Rix-Sanders.
The body arrived this morning and will lie in state today at the Rix-Sanders Chapel.

Citations

[S4616] Email from Kay Appleby dated November 21, 1999
[S7608] Genealogy prepared by William B. Terrell
[S1294] 1920 Census, Missouri, Jackson County
[S560] 1900 Census, Missouri, Jackson County
[S59] 1850 Census, Tennessee, Washington County
[S72] 1860 Census, Illinois, Macoupin County
[S5652] Genealogy prepared by Dan DeVault
[S6442] Genealogy prepared by Kathleen A. Hunt
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book
[S3192] DAR Application - Edna Otho (Frost) Mertel (DAR Number 479280)
[S3683] Death Certificate - Mary Emily (Hunt) Gillmore
[S7220] Genealogy prepared by Sandra Kay Appleby (RootsWeb)
[S4128] Descendents of Henson Hunt prepared by Felicia Gourdin & Clara Hunt Miller
[S6724] Genealogy prepared by Mary (Fluts) Gillmore

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Ephriam Bradley Gillmore^1,2

M, #11273, b. 15 June 1843, d. 1 January 1914

Parents

Father	William Gillmore (b. 1822)
Mother	Elizabeth A. H. "Jane" Nesbit (b. 1823, d. 1846)

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Family: Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt (b. 9 November 1844, d. 17 May 1929)

Daughter	Lillie Etta Gillmore+ (b. 3 December 1868)
Daughter	Nora Rachel Gillmore+ (b. 14 February 1870, d. 2 September 1939)
Son	Charles Edgar Gillmore (b. 15 November 1872, d. 15 May 1880)
Daughter	Lula Bell Gillmore+ (b. 3 March 1874, d. 24 March 1933)
Daughter	Lide Otho "Otho" Gillmore+ (b. 12 March 1876, d. 22 October 1966)
Son	Jacob Elmer Gillmore+ (b. 27 March 1877, d. 17 April 1957)
Son	M.A. LL.B William Bruce Gillmore+ (b. 28 July 1880, d. 25 October 1966)
Daughter	Julia Hunt Gillmore+ (b. 4 October 1881, d. 6 January 1975)
Daughter	Mary Emily Gillmore+ (b. 3 April 1884, d. 15 June 1980)
Son	Clyde Ephriam Gillmore+ (b. 18 November 1885, d. 14 January 1977)
Son	Guy H. Gillmore+ (b. 15 December 1892, d. 1 July 1968)

BASIC FACTS

Ephriam Bradley Gillmore was born on 15 June 1843 in Macoupin Co., Illinois.³ He was born on 15 June 1843 in Barton Co., Missouri.⁴ He was born on 15 June 1843 in Sangamore, Illinois.^5,6,7 He and Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt were married on 25 December 1867 in Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois.⁸ He died on 1 January 1914, at age 70, in Lubbock, Lubbock Co., Texas.⁸ He was buried in City of Lubbock Cemetery, Lubbock, Lubbock Co., Texas; Section 4, Lot 33B.^8,9

Ephriam Bradley Gillmore was also known as Ephram Bradley Gillmore.^4,10,11 He had reference number 11541. He resided in of Illinois; Chesterfield, Macoupin Co., Illinois (1860); Lamar, Barton Co., Missouri (1870); Central Township, Barton Co., Missouri (1880); Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri (1900.)^12,6 He was a Teamster (1900); farmer - general farming (1910_.^11,2 He was enumerated on the census in Macoupin County, Illinois (1860); Barton County, Missouri (1870, 1880); Jackson County, Missouri (1900); Delta County, Colorado (1910.)⁹ THE GILLMORE SUPPLEMENT, remarks by William Bruce Gillmore.

Our first Gillmore ancestor in America was one of two brothers who migrated from Northeast Ireland. They were of the McGilmore Clan in County Down. They landed at Charleston, South Carolina in 1765 and settled in that state. Some of the next generation followed the frontier into Eastern Kentucky, and the third generation went on west.
The Gillmore who designed the fortifications of Charleston Harbor may have been one of these families, but I have been unable to establish that fact.
In Western Kentucky lived one who has come down to us as Judge Gillmore. He had a large family, and some of his sons went to Texas, fired by the enthusiasm of Andrew Jackson, Davie Crockett, Austin and others who fought for Texas independence. One of the boys died in the Alamo. He probably signed the muster rolls with his X as his first name is forgotten. Another son who fought in Texas returned to Kentucky and later moved to Sangamon County, Illinois and reared his family there. He was called Captain, but whether the title was real or honorary, I do not know. If there is a record it is in the Archives of Texas. It is not in Washington.
His younger brother, William Gillmore, later joined him in Sangamon County, and there married Jane Nesbit, the daughter of George Nesbit, in 1840. George had died and his family was raised by his brother William Nesbit, who never married.
William Gillmore seems to have been a gay and care-free lad who never learned to read or write, but who had a wide reputation as a fiddler. He would go a days journey any time to play for a dance for which service he received five dollars if the dance broke up at midnight or ten dollars if it lasted until dawn. That seemed to have been more lucrative than working on a farm at fifteen dollars per month.
It is said that while the Nesbit family liked him, they were not enthusiastic about his marriage to Jane. Her Uncle William seems to have forgiven her, as her son Ephriam Gillmore was one of the heirs mentioned in his will. I inherited the William part of my name from him.
Of this union four children were born, my father, Ephriam Bradley Gillmore being the second child.
Jane Gillmore died in 1846, and very soon afterwards her baby, Henrietta died. Jane's sister, Ellen Nesbit, who married Wiley Mitchel, Sr. took Jane Gillmore and raised her. William Gillmore, not being able to care for the little boys, left them with his brother, Ephriam, and went off to Texas. Not being able to read or write, it seems that no one heard from him. Apparently, Ephriam was not surprised at this, because when he found that he could not raise the boys for domestic reasons, he took them to Macoupin County and placed them with a prosperous farmer, one Pasquel Reader. Since Reader was from Kentucky, it is reasonable to assume that they knew something about each other.
The understanding was that the boys were to stay with Reader until they were twenty-one, and were then to each receive a team of horses, a wagon, and a set of harness. That was the customary start that a farmer gave his sons.
In 1867, Ephriam B. Gillmore learned from some friends, the Sacre brothers, home on a visit from Texas, that his father, William Gillmore, had married again in Texas and had several children. They invited him to return with them to Texas and be re-united with his father. After contemplating the apparent neglect of his father, and the fact that they would be strangers, together with the fact that he was contemplating matrimony in a few months, he did not accept the invitation.
In 1916, I went to some expense, having an attorney run down several clues concerning some of the descendents of William Gillmore without success. During the 1920's and 1930's, my brother, Clyde Gillmore, whose work took him into all parts of Texas, found many Gillmores. Some had the red hair and red whiskers and the long face, characteristic of our family, but he found none who knew that he was a descendent of our Grandfather, William Gillmore.
So our knowledge of our Gillmore ancestors is very limited. Father's Uncle Ephriam Gillmore had one son Harvey Gillmore. He visited Father once in Barton County, Missouri, in the 1870's. At that time he and his father still lived in Sangamon County, Illinois. They raised and bought horses and Harvey drove them west and they were sold to traders who drove them west via the Santa Fe Trail.
It was probably about 1868 that my father learned from a Methodist circuit rider who made the Reader home his headquarters for a few days, that he had a sister, Jane Gillmore, living with her Uncle Wiley Mitchel, in Sangamon County. He went to see her, and in 1869, when he was preparing to move to Missouri, he went and got his sister, Jane, and took her with him to Barton County and she lived with us until she died in 1884. I have some recollections of her as a kindly aunt.
In my research, I have been unable to find any connection between our family and the New England Gilmores. Many branches of this family have been ably outlined by Pasquel Gilmore of Bucks Port, Main, in his Genealogy, a copy of which document is in The Library of Congress.
In America, the name has been variously spelled, Gilmor, Gilmour, Gilmore and Gillmore. According to tradition coming down to us from Judge Gillmore of Kentucky, his family always used and preferred Gillmore, and we have always used that spelling.

PASQUEL READER

I feel that this brief record of the Gillmore ancestry would be incomplete without a word concerning Pasquel Reader, the man who raised our Father, and the only father he ever knew. He could remember seeing his real father once as a child.
I write without notes from childhood memory of the stories my father liked to tell, and many names have long been forgotten. Mr. Reader was a man of small stature and wiry constitution who believed hard work was a cure for the ills of the world. They seem to have been Presbyterians of the dour variety. They did not whistle or play noisily on Sunday. They seem to have been a kindly and closely knit family, but without any show of affection one to another. John and Ephriam were carefully looked after as to all their physical needs, but I doubt that they were ever shown any affection.
Mr. Reader was the kind of a man whose word was his bond. He insisted upon strict integrity. Not to keep one's word was an unpardonable sin. He was always called Squire Reader. Whether or not he ever held an office, I do not know, but he settled all neighborhood disputes with the authority of law. All strangers were made welcome at his board and itinerant Ministers were invited to make his house their home while in the vicinity.
He raised one orphan boy who was grown about the time that father and his brother were taken into the home. For many years, he gave shelter to two homeless Irishmen who worked when they were needed, or for other farmers, and did very much as they pleased except for the one restriction that their drinking must be done some place else, and no whiskey was brought to the farm.
The Readers had four children, if memory serves me correctly. There was James who was father's age and they grew up as brothers. They kept in touch with each other, and always addressed each other as Brother. James went to college and after trying the Ministry, became a Physician. He lost an eye in early youth while trimming hedge. He married late in life and had no children. I think that he was practicing medicine in Colorado at the time of his death.
George, the youngest child, also went to college for a while, but it seems that he did not take to hard work. He and father exchanged letters occasionally, always addressing each other as Brother. George had several children. One daughter was married and lived in Kansas City for a while, and visited us several times. George, Jr. lived with us one year in Kansas City and worked there.
There were two girls. One's name was Elizabeth, and it was to get her husband started in business that Reader assisted him in buying the saw mill, in which John Gillmore was killed. He was sent one afternoon, when they were short-handed at the mill, to assist in carrying lumber from the saw. No one knows what happened, but he fell against the saw and bled to death before help could be summoned. The other daughter married a farmer and they lived in an adjoining community.
When Mr. Reader took the Gillmore boys he had an understanding with their Uncle Ephriam, that they were to be raised as farmers, given the educational advantages of the community, and at twenty-one were each to receive a team of horses, a wagon, and a set of harness. That was the customary way in which a farmer started his sons out for themselves.
Because of this agreement, Mr. Reader never forgave himself for John's death. He had not kept his word. In lieu of John's inheritance, he gave my father forty acres of land, which land father sold for five hundred dollars when he was getting ready to move to Missouri.
When the Civil War was in progress, Mr. Reader was a staunch Southern supporter. In 1863 Union Officers were sent throughout the north holding meetings and encouraging the young men to enlist in the Army. Squire Reader would follow them about, and after they had made their appeal he would ask permission to speak, and then tell the boys the other side of the story.
This practice eventually got the Squire into trouble with the Authorities, and his arrest was ordered. He was locked up in Carlinville. A posse of hot heads undertook to make a jail delivery. While they were battering down the jail door with a telegraph pole, the Sheriff took his prisoner out the back way and put him on a train. Then the boys tore up the railroad track, but the train backed out and was shuttled about and the prisoner delivered to Springfield.
He could be free on his parole, which he refused to give for several months. He was broken in spirit and his health was failing when he gave his parole to save his life. He was so humiliated that he could not live there any longer. He went to Texas and refused to return. He died there at an advanced age.
Before this trouble arose, he sent his own boys to Canada to avoid the draft. Father was approaching his twentieth birthday. Reader felt that he may not have given father all the schooling that the agreement called for, so he sent him to the neighboring community where one of the Reader girls was living. He could live at her house and go to school to the Squire's Nephew, where there was a better school and there would be no danger of his being kept out to help on the farm in case of an emergency. He told Father to consider himself twenty-one and take his inheritance and go away if he wished to avoid the draft.
During that winter at school, Father, the teacher, and the teacher's brother, a young man who was also a student, planned to pool their resources and start for California as soon as conditions would permit in the Spring of 1863.
So, about the first of April 1863 they left Macoupin County in a covered wagon, with two teams and a saddle horse. They went to Council Bluffs, Iowa and waited there for a party to form for mutual protection in crossing the plains. In due time the train set out, some fifty wagons, under a Captain who with a number of out-riders was taking a herd of horses to the California market. He had previously made several such trips and knew the hazards of the West. They followed the Platte River to Ft. Russel (Cheyenne, Wyoming) then over to Sweetwater, to Evanstone, thence down the valley to Salt Lake City. From there they crossed the range twice and by August came into Paradise Valley, Nevada.
A rancher wanted help to put up River Valley hay which commodity was at a premium. He offered five dollars a day and board. To boys who were accustomed to a wage of fifteen dollars a month, that was real pay. Father decided to stay until haying was done and then with his saddle horse join his partners in California. Their reports on California were not encouraging so he followed the mining camps in Nevada, Idaho, and Montana until he heard that the war was over and it was safe to return home.
(Note: In 1867, When Ephriam B. Gillmore was ready to go home to Illinois from Montana Territory, he took a steam boat at the head of navigation on the Missouri River for St. Louis. It was loaded with miners going to their homes in the east. He left the boat at Brownsville, Nebraska to visit the Coones, Mitchells and other relatives who lived in the vicinity. From Omaha he was able to go by train back to Carlinville, Illinois.)
He got home in May 1867 and found the Reader farm in deplorable condition, so he took over. On Christmas Day of that year he went over to Pittsfield in Pike County and married Mary Emily Hunt, and the next year they lived with Mrs. Reader and father worked the farm.
In the spring of 1869 they, with the Hunt family, got in a covered wagon and with their baby, Lillie, started for Barton County, Missouri.

MORE ON PASCAL (PASCHAL) READER by Don Reader

Paschal Reader was born in 1812, possibly in Tennessee or Virginia. He came to Macoupin County with his parents in 1830 from Overton County (now Pickett), Tennessee. Paschal's father Jeptha Reader took up farming as he had done in Tennessee, and also served as an officer in the state militia during the Black Hawk war. He died in 1839 and his grave is in the Reader cemetary, just outside of the village of Reader, west of Carlinville.
In 1837, in Macoupin County, Paschal married Margaret Rafferty. We have the family bible pages of Paschal, in which he recorded all the birth dates and death dates in the family including his parents, siblings and children up through the 1850's. Alas, no marriage dates were recorded. Paschal and Margaret had the following 10 children, of whom 6 lived to adulthood. The boys who carried on the Reader name were James K. Polk, George Washington, and William Donelson Reader.

Jeptha H. Reader (1839-1842)
Elizabeth T. Reader (1840-????) + A. B. Peebles
Nancy Jane Reader (1842-1899) + John Hagaman (1836-1912)
Martha Emaline Reader (1843-????) + George Orr
Mary Virginia Reader (1845-1845)
James K. Polk Reader (1846-191?) + Lou(ise?) E. Poley
George Washington Reader (1847-1930) + Emily Smith (1857-1926)
William Donelson Reader (1848-19??) + Lucy J. Albin
Harriet Caroline Reader (1851-1853)
Joeseph Reader (1853-1853)

Paschal was a well-to-do farmer in what became Western Mound township, acquiring a large amount of rich farmland from the federal government. He was an officer in the state militia along with his father Jeptha, taking part in the Black Hawk war. He later became a Justice of the Peace, and a state legislator. He was called "Squire Reader" and was known to be a firm but fair dispenser of justice, settling many local disputes with an iron hand. He was also very active in Democratic politics. Although having a large family himself already, he took in two young Gillmore boys, John and Ephriam, whose mother had died and whose father left them with an uncle who was unable to care for them. Paschal raised these two boys as his own, but that is another story.
The Civil War proved to be the downfall of Paschal, as he was very much against it. Whether it was because of his Tennessee origins, his Democratic party affiliation, or concern for his three young sons, he took an active part in protesting the Union Army recruiters. When the Army recruiters came to the area, Paschal would find out where they were and show up. Waiting until the recruiters had finished their appeal, Paschal would stand up and ask the gathered crowd if he could say a few words so they could hear "the other side." Eventually he was arrested for "anti-Union" activities by the sheriff of Macoupin County. While being held at the jail in Carlinville, some hotheads got wind that a Southern sympathizer had been arrested and formed a mob to break into the jail, presumably to lynch him. While the mob battered down the door of the jail with a telegraph pole, the quick-thinking sheriff got Paschal out the back door and onto a train to take him to Springfield. However, the mob heard about this and tore up the tracks in front of the train. The train then backed up all the way to Litchfield before switching to another track to go on to Springfield.
My grandfather, Ernest Reader, son of G. W. Reader, wrote that Paschal was held in "the Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC," but I suspect that he was not taken any further than Springfield. In prison he proudly refused a parole for many months, but eventually acceeded to the wishes of his captors and signed it. He returned home a broken man, in both spirit and health. Resolving to leave Illinois after the war, in 1867 he left by wagon to visit his brother-in-law Joseph Rafferty who had already moved to Lancaster in the Dallas area and to seek land for his family in Texas. However, he caught pneumonia and died there in 1868. He was buried in Texas,
but his monument was erected in the Reader Cemetary on the old homestead and is the tallest one there. We have the 1868 diary of
G. W. Reader in which he describes not only the day his father left Macoupin County, but also his own trip to Texas a few months later after the family got word that Paschal was ill.

Information from Patty Cook, 9303 N. Frances, Oklahoma City, OK 73114
Ephriam suffered with Bright's Disease (a form of kidney disease characterized by the presence of albumin in the urine) and died while visiting their youngest daughter.
Jacob Hunt and Michael DeVault lived in this area (Pittsfield?) on farms. They lived with Mrs. Reader and worked the farm.
In the spring of 1869 they with the Hunt family got in a covered wagon and with their baby Lillie started for Barton Co., Missouri.

GRAVE MARKER

HOPE
EPHRIAM B.
GILLMORE
BORN
JUNE 15, 1843
DIED
JAN. 1, 1914
He died as he
lived.
Trusting in
God.

Citations

[S4616] Email from Kay Appleby dated November 21, 1999
[S747] 1910 Census, Colorado, Delta County
[S12477] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Applications 1889 - 1970 (Ancestry.com)
[S6724] Genealogy prepared by Mary (Fluts) Gillmore
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book, Page 261
[S7220] Genealogy prepared by Sandra Kay Appleby (RootsWeb)
[S3192] DAR Application - Edna Otho (Frost) Mertel (DAR Number 479280)
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975
[S6460] Genealogy prepared by Kay Appleby (email address)
[S172] 1870 Census, Missouri, Barton County, Source Medium: Book
[S560] 1900 Census, Missouri, Jackson County
[S7608] Genealogy prepared by William B. Terrell

Family Explorer

Mary Emily Gillmore^1,2,3,4

F, #11274, b. 3 April 1884, d. 15 June 1980

Parents

Father	Ephriam Bradley Gillmore (b. 15 June 1843, d. 1 January 1914)
Mother	Mary Emily "Emma" Hunt (b. 9 November 1844, d. 17 May 1929)

Pedigree Link

Family: Ronald Hilton Martin (b. 17 July 1883, d. 21 November 1967)

Daughter	Hazel Corinne Martin+ (b. 26 April 1909, d. 19 January 2000)
Son	Ronald Hilton Martin, Jr.+ (b. 14 March 1913, d. 19 March 1993)
Son	Martin Howard Martin+ (b. 2 July 1916)

BASIC FACTS

Mary Emily Gillmore was born on 3 April 1884 in Lamar, Barton Co., Missouri.⁵ She and Ronald Hilton Martin were married on 3 June 1908 in Guymon, Texas Co., Oklahoma.⁵ She died on 15 June 1980, at age 96, in West Covina, Los Angeles Co., California. She was buried in Cremated, her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.⁶

Mary Emily Gillmore had reference number 11542. She resided in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri (1900); Lubbock Co., Texas (1910, 1920, 1929); California.^7,6 She was enumerated on the census in Jackson County, Missouri (1900); Lubbock County, Texas (1910 - 1930.) Mary and Ronald were married at the home of her parents in Texas County, Oklahoma. W.B. Gillmore (Uncle Bruce) of Fernwood and D____ Harman of Optima, Oklahoma were witnesses. John E. Lovett of the M. E. Church South performed the marriage.

Citations

[S4616] Email from Kay Appleby dated November 21, 1999
[S12379] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book
[S560] 1900 Census, Missouri, Jackson County
[S1962] 1930 Census, Texas, Lubbock County
[S12380] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book
[S7220] Genealogy prepared by Sandra Kay Appleby (RootsWeb)
[S11209] Obituary - Mary (Hunt) Gillmore

Family Explorer

Ronald Hilton Martin^1,2,3

M, #11275, b. 17 July 1883, d. 21 November 1967

Parents

Father	Thomas Jefferson Martin (b. 6 October 1854, d. 13 September 1942)
Mother	Pandora Corinne "Dora" Arnett (b. 4 May 1857, d. 23 July 1943)

Pedigree Link

Family: Mary Emily Gillmore (b. 3 April 1884, d. 15 June 1980)

Daughter	Hazel Corinne Martin+ (b. 26 April 1909, d. 19 January 2000)
Son	Ronald Hilton Martin, Jr.+ (b. 14 March 1913, d. 19 March 1993)
Son	Martin Howard Martin+ (b. 2 July 1916)

BASIC FACTS

Ronald Hilton Martin was born on 17 July 1883 in Martin's Mills, Wayne Co., Tennessee.⁴ He and Mary Emily Gillmore were married on 3 June 1908 in Guymon, Texas Co., Oklahoma.⁵ He died on 21 November 1967, at age 84, in Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., Texas.⁴ He was buried in Seaside Memorial Park, Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., Texas.⁴

Ronald Hilton Martin had reference number 11543. His Social Security Number was 266-48-8479.⁴ U.S. Coast Guard (1943.)⁴ He was a Baker - own wholesale bakery (1930.)^4,3 He resided in Oklahoma Territory (1900); Lubbock Co., Texas (1910, 1917, 1920.)⁴ He was enumerated on the census in Lubbock County, Texas (1930.) Mary and Ronald were married at the home of her parents in Texas County, Oklahoma. W.B. Gillmore (Uncle Bruce) of Fernwood and D____ Harman of Optima, Oklahoma were witnesses. John E. Lovett of the M. E. Church South performed the marriage.

Citations

[S4616] Email from Kay Appleby dated November 21, 1999
[S619] 1900 Census, Oklahoma (Indian Territory), Source Medium: Book
[S1962] 1930 Census, Texas, Lubbock County
[S7220] Genealogy prepared by Sandra Kay Appleby (RootsWeb)
[S12380] Report on Henry Dewald and Family by Newland DeVault dated 1975, Source Medium: Book