I have listed Mary with the last name of Gillen. She married Tilghman Gillen in 1871 and he died in 1893. Mary then married Rev. William H. Hook in 1905, but apparently that did not go well because they were divorced a few years later. She returned to using her previous married name and that is what shows up in all subsequent sources and on her death certificate. If there is a grave marker, it certainly has the last name of GILLEN on it. Her/my family always referred to her as Mary Gillen.
Before Mary's marriage with Tilghman Gillen, he was previously married to, and then divorced from, Mary Hardin. He was born in Indiana and lived there with Mary Hardin, then briefly in Iowa with his two oldest sons after his divorce, before coming to Missouri. Two of the children from his first marriage, Alonzo Gillen and Lewis Gillen, lived with Mary (Brandenburg) and Tilghman after they married, but they did not have any birth children together. Tilghman was a farmer and he and Mary lived in Nine-Mile Prairie Township in Callaway County, Missouri.
After her divorce from Rev. Hook, Mary lived with her brother Joseph in Denver, Colorado for a time, and with her sister Eliza in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri for quite a while, but was returned to be buried in Montgomery County.
Mary's parents were also farmers in Callaway county. Her father had come from Kentucky and her mother from Virginia in the early 1840s. Although white settlers started arriving in the later 1820s, the 1840s were still in the early days of settlement there and families lived in log houses , cooked over open fires, and hunted for game as well as farming. Both her parents died while Mary was still a teenager, and she lived with her slightly-older brother Thomas until she married.
Mary Jane's sister, Susan Brandenburg Eldridge, is also buried in Wellsville Cemetery, as well as numerous other relatives--nieces, nephews, cousins. Her parents are buried in the Smith-Chapman farm cemetery, a few miles away. The family name was spelled BRANDENBURGH at the time the family emigrated from Prussia, but most of the descendants in Mary Jane's generation started using BRANDENBURG, so there are family graves with both spellings.
Before Mary's marriage with Tilghman Gillen, he was previously married to, and then divorced from, Mary Hardin. He was born in Indiana and lived there with Mary Hardin, then briefly in Iowa with his two oldest sons after his divorce, before coming to Missouri. Two of the children from his first marriage, Alonzo Gillen and Lewis Gillen, lived with Mary (Brandenburg) and Tilghman after they married, but they did not have any birth children together. Tilghman was a farmer and he and Mary lived in Nine-Mile Prairie Township in Callaway County, Missouri.
After her divorce from Rev. Hook, Mary lived with her brother Joseph in Denver, Colorado for a time, and with her sister Eliza in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri for quite a while, but was returned to be buried in Montgomery County.
Mary's parents were also farmers in Callaway county. Her father had come from Kentucky and her mother from Virginia in the early 1840s. Although white settlers started arriving in the later 1820s, the 1840s were still in the early days of settlement there and families lived in log houses , cooked over open fires, and hunted for game as well as farming. Both her parents died while Mary was still a teenager, and she lived with her slightly-older brother Thomas until she married.
Mary Jane's sister, Susan Brandenburg Eldridge, is also buried in Wellsville Cemetery, as well as numerous other relatives--nieces, nephews, cousins. Her parents are buried in the Smith-Chapman farm cemetery, a few miles away. The family name was spelled BRANDENBURGH at the time the family emigrated from Prussia, but most of the descendants in Mary Jane's generation started using BRANDENBURG, so there are family graves with both spellings.
I have listed Mary with the last name of Gillen. She married Tilghman Gillen in 1871 and he died in 1893. Mary then married Rev. William H. Hook in 1905, but apparently that did not go well because they were divorced a few years later. She returned to using her previous married name and that is what shows up in all subsequent sources and on her death certificate. If there is a grave marker, it certainly has the last name of GILLEN on it. Her/my family always referred to her as Mary Gillen.
Before Mary's marriage with Tilghman Gillen, he was previously married to, and then divorced from, Mary Hardin. He was born in Indiana and lived there with Mary Hardin, then briefly in Iowa with his two oldest sons after his divorce, before coming to Missouri. Two of the children from his first marriage, Alonzo Gillen and Lewis Gillen, lived with Mary (Brandenburg) and Tilghman after they married, but they did not have any birth children together. Tilghman was a farmer and he and Mary lived in Nine-Mile Prairie Township in Callaway County, Missouri.
After her divorce from Rev. Hook, Mary lived with her brother Joseph in Denver, Colorado for a time, and with her sister Eliza in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri for quite a while, but was returned to be buried in Montgomery County.
Mary's parents were also farmers in Callaway county. Her father had come from Kentucky and her mother from Virginia in the early 1840s. Although white settlers started arriving in the later 1820s, the 1840s were still in the early days of settlement there and families lived in log houses , cooked over open fires, and hunted for game as well as farming. Both her parents died while Mary was still a teenager, and she lived with her slightly-older brother Thomas until she married.
Mary Jane's sister, Susan Brandenburg Eldridge, is also buried in Wellsville Cemetery, as well as numerous other relatives--nieces, nephews, cousins. Her parents are buried in the Smith-Chapman farm cemetery, a few miles away. The family name was spelled BRANDENBURGH at the time the family emigrated from Prussia, but most of the descendants in Mary Jane's generation started using BRANDENBURG, so there are family graves with both spellings.
Before Mary's marriage with Tilghman Gillen, he was previously married to, and then divorced from, Mary Hardin. He was born in Indiana and lived there with Mary Hardin, then briefly in Iowa with his two oldest sons after his divorce, before coming to Missouri. Two of the children from his first marriage, Alonzo Gillen and Lewis Gillen, lived with Mary (Brandenburg) and Tilghman after they married, but they did not have any birth children together. Tilghman was a farmer and he and Mary lived in Nine-Mile Prairie Township in Callaway County, Missouri.
After her divorce from Rev. Hook, Mary lived with her brother Joseph in Denver, Colorado for a time, and with her sister Eliza in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri for quite a while, but was returned to be buried in Montgomery County.
Mary's parents were also farmers in Callaway county. Her father had come from Kentucky and her mother from Virginia in the early 1840s. Although white settlers started arriving in the later 1820s, the 1840s were still in the early days of settlement there and families lived in log houses , cooked over open fires, and hunted for game as well as farming. Both her parents died while Mary was still a teenager, and she lived with her slightly-older brother Thomas until she married.
Mary Jane's sister, Susan Brandenburg Eldridge, is also buried in Wellsville Cemetery, as well as numerous other relatives--nieces, nephews, cousins. Her parents are buried in the Smith-Chapman farm cemetery, a few miles away. The family name was spelled BRANDENBURGH at the time the family emigrated from Prussia, but most of the descendants in Mary Jane's generation started using BRANDENBURG, so there are family graves with both spellings.
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