Veteran: Civil War (Union)
h/o Virginia Elizabeth Miller.
For a biography of Capt G W Gilmore view, Joel T Livingston's book, starting page 965.
George's gr,grandfather, John Rabb, was reportedly born around 1700 County Downs, Ulster, Northern Ireland prior to migration to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area where his son Andrew Rabb was born around 1740 but then murdered 1804, in Virginia. Andrew, served as a captain during the Revolutionary war in the Third Battalion of the Westmoreland Rangers. He's noted in Fayette, named for Gen Lafayette, created 1783, five months after the Revolutionary War ended formerly Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, created February 1773 however, before 1780 a part of the 1745 created "District of West Augusta Virginia" (which extended northerly to Ohio river). Then by states mutual consent, a state line was established along the western extension of the "Mason and Dixon line" west to longitude 80 degrees 31 minutes, ~ much to the dissatisfaction of his namesake, General George Washington whose Ohio Company used the Virginia waterways of Ohio & Monongahela rivers (route Andrew used annually to New Orleans with his products), to the Potomic river route to his Mount Vernon estate and on to the Chesapeake Bay, ~ ~ and in 1776 had completed his new state of the art grist mill in what now is Perryopolis, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on some of his then 1,400 acres, still standing today as one of the oldest grist mills in our nation.
George was a twin to Capt David Gilmore, they, the last of four children. Mother died when the twins were but nine days old. They were the sons of Col David Gilmore, a veteran of the War of 1812 and Catherine Rabb, 1st of three children of Capt Andrew Rabb, by his 2nd wife, Catherine Pentecost (1779-1850), who had remarried George Vance and raised her grandson George.
Census: 1850, age 18 German township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania with two older siblings, a grand aunt, daughter of Catherine Pentecost Vance, his maternal grandmother who raised him and a mulatto servant with child.
Its said he first (?) removed west to Kansas territory (where another George Gilmore was located in 1865), in 1855 later returning home, then in the spring of 1861, Captain George W. Gilmore, recruited a company of cavalry under a special order from General George B McClellan and with his cavalry company raised in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They were denominated the "Pennsylvania Dragoons", and attached to the First Virginia Cavalry, mustered into service on July 24, 1861 at Clarksburg, Harrison, formerly Monongalia county, Virginia, (once, much earlier, in the District of West Augusta Virginia), then immediately sent to the front.
His company scouted over most of the counties of what in 1863 became West Virginia, from the Pennsylvania to the Kentucky line and encountered in their line of duty every conceivable hardship of military life while fighting during the Civil War. Captain G W Gilmore's Cavalry Company from Fayette county, was once in the Kanawha Division of the Army of West Virginia in what became West Virginia, 1863, and became a most active person with his cavalry company during that war.
A few years after the war he again removed west, this time to southwest Missouri during the early 1870s, marrying the former Virginia E Miller, third of thirteen children, of Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri in 1873, at one time in partnership with her eight year younger brother, T A Miller, in a lumber yard, who later is said to be responsible for a railroad into Greenfield and helped create town of Miller, Lawrence county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 48 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri with wife, three children, wife's brother and sister.
~ "Capt. G. W. Gilmore, Masontown, president Dade county bank, Greenfield.", SOURCE: The Elizabeth (Pennsylvania) Herald, July 8, 1887
Census: 1900, age 67 Center township, Dade county, Missouri with wife & five children, a farmer.
~ reportedly removed to a farm northwest of Carthage, Jasper county around 1906.
~ City Directory, 1909, Carthage [Marion township] has him with three children, at northwest corner Grand, old Neosho Military Road, & Fairview avenues, katty-corner from Algernon T Sutton, wife Jane and their family at southeast corner, across intersection in Jackson township.
Capt Gilmore became a retired capitalist and farmer with his farms in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Dade county, Missouri and one two miles northwest from Carthage, residing at 2005 Grand Avenue, Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1910, age 77 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & five children, one with husband, at corner of Fairview & Grand, old Neosho Military Road, avenues, retired, strangely around thirty years later Franklin M Hibbs built his new brick home at southwest corner of Grand & Fairview avenues in Jackson township, with street address of 2005.
Census: 1920, age 87 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children, retired, at northwest corner Grand, & Fairview avenues.
~ at the time of his death, his wife surviving, remaining in the house until it burnt down during 1928 then, with two daughters, to California where she died at a son's home.
Death: from complications of heart and kidney failure. See Missouri Death Certificate, informant his son, Grover. Arrangements were under the direction of the Ulmer-Drake Funeral Home in Carthage, MO.
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
Monday, December 5, 1921 Page Eight
CAPT. G. W. GILMORE DEAD
END COMES TO CARTHAGE MAN 89 YEARS OLD
Was Civil War Veteran - Came of Unusual Ancestry -
Friend of Two Presidents
Captain George W. Gilmore, a widely known resident of Carthage, died at his residence, corner of Fairview and Grand avenue, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.
Mr. Gilmore had been very feeble for some time but was critically ill only a few hours. He was feeling as well as usual when he retired Saturday night.
Captain Gilmore had resided in Carthage 16 years, coming here from Greenfield, MO., where he had resided since the early seventies. He was a farmer and stockman but retired before moving to this city.
Mr. Gilmore boasted an unusual record in his ancestry. His forefathers were among the earliest settlers of western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Andrew Rabb, was a captain in the War of the Revolution, and his father was commissioned captain in the War of 1812.
In March 1855 Captain G. W. Gilmore went from Pennsylvania to Lawrence, Kansas and soon became a participant in the border warfare then going on between Kansas and Missouri, serving under Colonel James H. Lane, a noted Kansas leader.
In 1860 he returned to Pennsylvania and upon the outbreak of the Civil War recruited a company of cavalry which he commanded throughout the war. He participated in numerous battles including Antietam and in one engagement at Wytheville, VA., had 26 of his 80 men killed in action. During his army service he formed the acquaintance of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes and Major William McKinley, both of whom later became presidents of the United States.
Captain Gilmore was born June 7, 1832 near Masontown, Pennsylvania. He was married in Greenfield, MO., in 1873 to Virginia E. Miller. The wife and six children survive.
The children are: George D. Gilmore, Ralph M. Gilmore, Thomas H. Gilmore, Grover C. Gilmore, Miss Kate E. Gilmore and Mrs. Mary Palmer, all of Carthage and vicinity.
The body will lay in state at the residence from 7:30 to 9 o'clock tomorrow, after which it will be taken to Greenfield, where funeral services will be held. The funeral will be conducted from the Presbyterian church in that city at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev. D. J. McCaughtry of Carthage will have charge. Burial will be at Greenfield.
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Father: Col David Gilmore b: about 1787 Pennsylvania.
Mother: Catherine Rabb b: about 1801 Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Marriage: Virginia Elizabeth Miller b: 23 DEC 1849 Dade county, Missouri.
Married: 23 OCT 1873 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri.
Known Children
Infant Gilmore b: 20 MAY 1874 Dade county, Missouri.
George David Gilmore b: 5 MAY 1875 Dade county, Missouri.
Ralph Miller Gilmore b: 6 FEB 1877 Dade county, Missouri.
Mary Elizabeth Gilmore b: DEC 1879 Dade county, Missouri.
Thomas Hendricks Gilmore b: 24 OCT 1882 Dade county, Missouri.
Grover Cleveland Gilmore b: NOV 1884 Dade county, Missouri.
Katherine Elizabeth Gilmore b: JAN 1889 Dade county, Missouri.
Roger David Gilmore b: 1892 Dade county, Missouri.
Eldridge Boyd Gilmore b: 1894 Dade county, Missouri.
Prepared 25 MAY 2014 in part by Bill Boggess and obituary researched by I Remember When.
h/o Virginia Elizabeth Miller.
For a biography of Capt G W Gilmore view, Joel T Livingston's book, starting page 965.
George's gr,grandfather, John Rabb, was reportedly born around 1700 County Downs, Ulster, Northern Ireland prior to migration to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area where his son Andrew Rabb was born around 1740 but then murdered 1804, in Virginia. Andrew, served as a captain during the Revolutionary war in the Third Battalion of the Westmoreland Rangers. He's noted in Fayette, named for Gen Lafayette, created 1783, five months after the Revolutionary War ended formerly Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, created February 1773 however, before 1780 a part of the 1745 created "District of West Augusta Virginia" (which extended northerly to Ohio river). Then by states mutual consent, a state line was established along the western extension of the "Mason and Dixon line" west to longitude 80 degrees 31 minutes, ~ much to the dissatisfaction of his namesake, General George Washington whose Ohio Company used the Virginia waterways of Ohio & Monongahela rivers (route Andrew used annually to New Orleans with his products), to the Potomic river route to his Mount Vernon estate and on to the Chesapeake Bay, ~ ~ and in 1776 had completed his new state of the art grist mill in what now is Perryopolis, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on some of his then 1,400 acres, still standing today as one of the oldest grist mills in our nation.
George was a twin to Capt David Gilmore, they, the last of four children. Mother died when the twins were but nine days old. They were the sons of Col David Gilmore, a veteran of the War of 1812 and Catherine Rabb, 1st of three children of Capt Andrew Rabb, by his 2nd wife, Catherine Pentecost (1779-1850), who had remarried George Vance and raised her grandson George.
Census: 1850, age 18 German township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania with two older siblings, a grand aunt, daughter of Catherine Pentecost Vance, his maternal grandmother who raised him and a mulatto servant with child.
Its said he first (?) removed west to Kansas territory (where another George Gilmore was located in 1865), in 1855 later returning home, then in the spring of 1861, Captain George W. Gilmore, recruited a company of cavalry under a special order from General George B McClellan and with his cavalry company raised in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They were denominated the "Pennsylvania Dragoons", and attached to the First Virginia Cavalry, mustered into service on July 24, 1861 at Clarksburg, Harrison, formerly Monongalia county, Virginia, (once, much earlier, in the District of West Augusta Virginia), then immediately sent to the front.
His company scouted over most of the counties of what in 1863 became West Virginia, from the Pennsylvania to the Kentucky line and encountered in their line of duty every conceivable hardship of military life while fighting during the Civil War. Captain G W Gilmore's Cavalry Company from Fayette county, was once in the Kanawha Division of the Army of West Virginia in what became West Virginia, 1863, and became a most active person with his cavalry company during that war.
A few years after the war he again removed west, this time to southwest Missouri during the early 1870s, marrying the former Virginia E Miller, third of thirteen children, of Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri in 1873, at one time in partnership with her eight year younger brother, T A Miller, in a lumber yard, who later is said to be responsible for a railroad into Greenfield and helped create town of Miller, Lawrence county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 48 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri with wife, three children, wife's brother and sister.
~ "Capt. G. W. Gilmore, Masontown, president Dade county bank, Greenfield.", SOURCE: The Elizabeth (Pennsylvania) Herald, July 8, 1887
Census: 1900, age 67 Center township, Dade county, Missouri with wife & five children, a farmer.
~ reportedly removed to a farm northwest of Carthage, Jasper county around 1906.
~ City Directory, 1909, Carthage [Marion township] has him with three children, at northwest corner Grand, old Neosho Military Road, & Fairview avenues, katty-corner from Algernon T Sutton, wife Jane and their family at southeast corner, across intersection in Jackson township.
Capt Gilmore became a retired capitalist and farmer with his farms in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Dade county, Missouri and one two miles northwest from Carthage, residing at 2005 Grand Avenue, Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1910, age 77 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & five children, one with husband, at corner of Fairview & Grand, old Neosho Military Road, avenues, retired, strangely around thirty years later Franklin M Hibbs built his new brick home at southwest corner of Grand & Fairview avenues in Jackson township, with street address of 2005.
Census: 1920, age 87 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children, retired, at northwest corner Grand, & Fairview avenues.
~ at the time of his death, his wife surviving, remaining in the house until it burnt down during 1928 then, with two daughters, to California where she died at a son's home.
Death: from complications of heart and kidney failure. See Missouri Death Certificate, informant his son, Grover. Arrangements were under the direction of the Ulmer-Drake Funeral Home in Carthage, MO.
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
Monday, December 5, 1921 Page Eight
CAPT. G. W. GILMORE DEAD
END COMES TO CARTHAGE MAN 89 YEARS OLD
Was Civil War Veteran - Came of Unusual Ancestry -
Friend of Two Presidents
Captain George W. Gilmore, a widely known resident of Carthage, died at his residence, corner of Fairview and Grand avenue, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.
Mr. Gilmore had been very feeble for some time but was critically ill only a few hours. He was feeling as well as usual when he retired Saturday night.
Captain Gilmore had resided in Carthage 16 years, coming here from Greenfield, MO., where he had resided since the early seventies. He was a farmer and stockman but retired before moving to this city.
Mr. Gilmore boasted an unusual record in his ancestry. His forefathers were among the earliest settlers of western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Andrew Rabb, was a captain in the War of the Revolution, and his father was commissioned captain in the War of 1812.
In March 1855 Captain G. W. Gilmore went from Pennsylvania to Lawrence, Kansas and soon became a participant in the border warfare then going on between Kansas and Missouri, serving under Colonel James H. Lane, a noted Kansas leader.
In 1860 he returned to Pennsylvania and upon the outbreak of the Civil War recruited a company of cavalry which he commanded throughout the war. He participated in numerous battles including Antietam and in one engagement at Wytheville, VA., had 26 of his 80 men killed in action. During his army service he formed the acquaintance of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes and Major William McKinley, both of whom later became presidents of the United States.
Captain Gilmore was born June 7, 1832 near Masontown, Pennsylvania. He was married in Greenfield, MO., in 1873 to Virginia E. Miller. The wife and six children survive.
The children are: George D. Gilmore, Ralph M. Gilmore, Thomas H. Gilmore, Grover C. Gilmore, Miss Kate E. Gilmore and Mrs. Mary Palmer, all of Carthage and vicinity.
The body will lay in state at the residence from 7:30 to 9 o'clock tomorrow, after which it will be taken to Greenfield, where funeral services will be held. The funeral will be conducted from the Presbyterian church in that city at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev. D. J. McCaughtry of Carthage will have charge. Burial will be at Greenfield.
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Father: Col David Gilmore b: about 1787 Pennsylvania.
Mother: Catherine Rabb b: about 1801 Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Marriage: Virginia Elizabeth Miller b: 23 DEC 1849 Dade county, Missouri.
Married: 23 OCT 1873 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri.
Known Children
Infant Gilmore b: 20 MAY 1874 Dade county, Missouri.
George David Gilmore b: 5 MAY 1875 Dade county, Missouri.
Ralph Miller Gilmore b: 6 FEB 1877 Dade county, Missouri.
Mary Elizabeth Gilmore b: DEC 1879 Dade county, Missouri.
Thomas Hendricks Gilmore b: 24 OCT 1882 Dade county, Missouri.
Grover Cleveland Gilmore b: NOV 1884 Dade county, Missouri.
Katherine Elizabeth Gilmore b: JAN 1889 Dade county, Missouri.
Roger David Gilmore b: 1892 Dade county, Missouri.
Eldridge Boyd Gilmore b: 1894 Dade county, Missouri.
Prepared 25 MAY 2014 in part by Bill Boggess and obituary researched by I Remember When.
Veteran: Civil War (Union)
h/o Virginia Elizabeth Miller.
For a biography of Capt G W Gilmore view, Joel T Livingston's book, starting page 965.
George's gr,grandfather, John Rabb, was reportedly born around 1700 County Downs, Ulster, Northern Ireland prior to migration to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area where his son Andrew Rabb was born around 1740 but then murdered 1804, in Virginia. Andrew, served as a captain during the Revolutionary war in the Third Battalion of the Westmoreland Rangers. He's noted in Fayette, named for Gen Lafayette, created 1783, five months after the Revolutionary War ended formerly Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, created February 1773 however, before 1780 a part of the 1745 created "District of West Augusta Virginia" (which extended northerly to Ohio river). Then by states mutual consent, a state line was established along the western extension of the "Mason and Dixon line" west to longitude 80 degrees 31 minutes, ~ much to the dissatisfaction of his namesake, General George Washington whose Ohio Company used the Virginia waterways of Ohio & Monongahela rivers (route Andrew used annually to New Orleans with his products), to the Potomic river route to his Mount Vernon estate and on to the Chesapeake Bay, ~ ~ and in 1776 had completed his new state of the art grist mill in what now is Perryopolis, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on some of his then 1,400 acres, still standing today as one of the oldest grist mills in our nation.
George was a twin to Capt David Gilmore, they, the last of four children. Mother died when the twins were but nine days old. They were the sons of Col David Gilmore, a veteran of the War of 1812 and Catherine Rabb, 1st of three children of Capt Andrew Rabb, by his 2nd wife, Catherine Pentecost (1779-1850), who had remarried George Vance and raised her grandson George.
Census: 1850, age 18 German township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania with two older siblings, a grand aunt, daughter of Catherine Pentecost Vance, his maternal grandmother who raised him and a mulatto servant with child.
Its said he first (?) removed west to Kansas territory (where another George Gilmore was located in 1865), in 1855 later returning home, then in the spring of 1861, Captain George W. Gilmore, recruited a company of cavalry under a special order from General George B McClellan and with his cavalry company raised in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They were denominated the "Pennsylvania Dragoons", and attached to the First Virginia Cavalry, mustered into service on July 24, 1861 at Clarksburg, Harrison, formerly Monongalia county, Virginia, (once, much earlier, in the District of West Augusta Virginia), then immediately sent to the front.
His company scouted over most of the counties of what in 1863 became West Virginia, from the Pennsylvania to the Kentucky line and encountered in their line of duty every conceivable hardship of military life while fighting during the Civil War. Captain G W Gilmore's Cavalry Company from Fayette county, was once in the Kanawha Division of the Army of West Virginia in what became West Virginia, 1863, and became a most active person with his cavalry company during that war.
A few years after the war he again removed west, this time to southwest Missouri during the early 1870s, marrying the former Virginia E Miller, third of thirteen children, of Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri in 1873, at one time in partnership with her eight year younger brother, T A Miller, in a lumber yard, who later is said to be responsible for a railroad into Greenfield and helped create town of Miller, Lawrence county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 48 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri with wife, three children, wife's brother and sister.
~ "Capt. G. W. Gilmore, Masontown, president Dade county bank, Greenfield.", SOURCE: The Elizabeth (Pennsylvania) Herald, July 8, 1887
Census: 1900, age 67 Center township, Dade county, Missouri with wife & five children, a farmer.
~ reportedly removed to a farm northwest of Carthage, Jasper county around 1906.
~ City Directory, 1909, Carthage [Marion township] has him with three children, at northwest corner Grand, old Neosho Military Road, & Fairview avenues, katty-corner from Algernon T Sutton, wife Jane and their family at southeast corner, across intersection in Jackson township.
Capt Gilmore became a retired capitalist and farmer with his farms in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Dade county, Missouri and one two miles northwest from Carthage, residing at 2005 Grand Avenue, Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1910, age 77 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & five children, one with husband, at corner of Fairview & Grand, old Neosho Military Road, avenues, retired, strangely around thirty years later Franklin M Hibbs built his new brick home at southwest corner of Grand & Fairview avenues in Jackson township, with street address of 2005.
Census: 1920, age 87 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children, retired, at northwest corner Grand, & Fairview avenues.
~ at the time of his death, his wife surviving, remaining in the house until it burnt down during 1928 then, with two daughters, to California where she died at a son's home.
Death: from complications of heart and kidney failure. See Missouri Death Certificate, informant his son, Grover. Arrangements were under the direction of the Ulmer-Drake Funeral Home in Carthage, MO.
•*•*~★*~•*•
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
Monday, December 5, 1921 Page Eight
CAPT. G. W. GILMORE DEAD
END COMES TO CARTHAGE MAN 89 YEARS OLD
Was Civil War Veteran - Came of Unusual Ancestry -
Friend of Two Presidents
Captain George W. Gilmore, a widely known resident of Carthage, died at his residence, corner of Fairview and Grand avenue, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.
Mr. Gilmore had been very feeble for some time but was critically ill only a few hours. He was feeling as well as usual when he retired Saturday night.
Captain Gilmore had resided in Carthage 16 years, coming here from Greenfield, MO., where he had resided since the early seventies. He was a farmer and stockman but retired before moving to this city.
Mr. Gilmore boasted an unusual record in his ancestry. His forefathers were among the earliest settlers of western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Andrew Rabb, was a captain in the War of the Revolution, and his father was commissioned captain in the War of 1812.
In March 1855 Captain G. W. Gilmore went from Pennsylvania to Lawrence, Kansas and soon became a participant in the border warfare then going on between Kansas and Missouri, serving under Colonel James H. Lane, a noted Kansas leader.
In 1860 he returned to Pennsylvania and upon the outbreak of the Civil War recruited a company of cavalry which he commanded throughout the war. He participated in numerous battles including Antietam and in one engagement at Wytheville, VA., had 26 of his 80 men killed in action. During his army service he formed the acquaintance of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes and Major William McKinley, both of whom later became presidents of the United States.
Captain Gilmore was born June 7, 1832 near Masontown, Pennsylvania. He was married in Greenfield, MO., in 1873 to Virginia E. Miller. The wife and six children survive.
The children are: George D. Gilmore, Ralph M. Gilmore, Thomas H. Gilmore, Grover C. Gilmore, Miss Kate E. Gilmore and Mrs. Mary Palmer, all of Carthage and vicinity.
The body will lay in state at the residence from 7:30 to 9 o'clock tomorrow, after which it will be taken to Greenfield, where funeral services will be held. The funeral will be conducted from the Presbyterian church in that city at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev. D. J. McCaughtry of Carthage will have charge. Burial will be at Greenfield.
•*•*~★*~•*•
Father: Col David Gilmore b: about 1787 Pennsylvania.
Mother: Catherine Rabb b: about 1801 Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Marriage: Virginia Elizabeth Miller b: 23 DEC 1849 Dade county, Missouri.
Married: 23 OCT 1873 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri.
Known Children
Infant Gilmore b: 20 MAY 1874 Dade county, Missouri.
George David Gilmore b: 5 MAY 1875 Dade county, Missouri.
Ralph Miller Gilmore b: 6 FEB 1877 Dade county, Missouri.
Mary Elizabeth Gilmore b: DEC 1879 Dade county, Missouri.
Thomas Hendricks Gilmore b: 24 OCT 1882 Dade county, Missouri.
Grover Cleveland Gilmore b: NOV 1884 Dade county, Missouri.
Katherine Elizabeth Gilmore b: JAN 1889 Dade county, Missouri.
Roger David Gilmore b: 1892 Dade county, Missouri.
Eldridge Boyd Gilmore b: 1894 Dade county, Missouri.
Prepared 25 MAY 2014 in part by Bill Boggess and obituary researched by I Remember When.
h/o Virginia Elizabeth Miller.
For a biography of Capt G W Gilmore view, Joel T Livingston's book, starting page 965.
George's gr,grandfather, John Rabb, was reportedly born around 1700 County Downs, Ulster, Northern Ireland prior to migration to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area where his son Andrew Rabb was born around 1740 but then murdered 1804, in Virginia. Andrew, served as a captain during the Revolutionary war in the Third Battalion of the Westmoreland Rangers. He's noted in Fayette, named for Gen Lafayette, created 1783, five months after the Revolutionary War ended formerly Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, created February 1773 however, before 1780 a part of the 1745 created "District of West Augusta Virginia" (which extended northerly to Ohio river). Then by states mutual consent, a state line was established along the western extension of the "Mason and Dixon line" west to longitude 80 degrees 31 minutes, ~ much to the dissatisfaction of his namesake, General George Washington whose Ohio Company used the Virginia waterways of Ohio & Monongahela rivers (route Andrew used annually to New Orleans with his products), to the Potomic river route to his Mount Vernon estate and on to the Chesapeake Bay, ~ ~ and in 1776 had completed his new state of the art grist mill in what now is Perryopolis, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on some of his then 1,400 acres, still standing today as one of the oldest grist mills in our nation.
George was a twin to Capt David Gilmore, they, the last of four children. Mother died when the twins were but nine days old. They were the sons of Col David Gilmore, a veteran of the War of 1812 and Catherine Rabb, 1st of three children of Capt Andrew Rabb, by his 2nd wife, Catherine Pentecost (1779-1850), who had remarried George Vance and raised her grandson George.
Census: 1850, age 18 German township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania with two older siblings, a grand aunt, daughter of Catherine Pentecost Vance, his maternal grandmother who raised him and a mulatto servant with child.
Its said he first (?) removed west to Kansas territory (where another George Gilmore was located in 1865), in 1855 later returning home, then in the spring of 1861, Captain George W. Gilmore, recruited a company of cavalry under a special order from General George B McClellan and with his cavalry company raised in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. They were denominated the "Pennsylvania Dragoons", and attached to the First Virginia Cavalry, mustered into service on July 24, 1861 at Clarksburg, Harrison, formerly Monongalia county, Virginia, (once, much earlier, in the District of West Augusta Virginia), then immediately sent to the front.
His company scouted over most of the counties of what in 1863 became West Virginia, from the Pennsylvania to the Kentucky line and encountered in their line of duty every conceivable hardship of military life while fighting during the Civil War. Captain G W Gilmore's Cavalry Company from Fayette county, was once in the Kanawha Division of the Army of West Virginia in what became West Virginia, 1863, and became a most active person with his cavalry company during that war.
A few years after the war he again removed west, this time to southwest Missouri during the early 1870s, marrying the former Virginia E Miller, third of thirteen children, of Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri in 1873, at one time in partnership with her eight year younger brother, T A Miller, in a lumber yard, who later is said to be responsible for a railroad into Greenfield and helped create town of Miller, Lawrence county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 48 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri with wife, three children, wife's brother and sister.
~ "Capt. G. W. Gilmore, Masontown, president Dade county bank, Greenfield.", SOURCE: The Elizabeth (Pennsylvania) Herald, July 8, 1887
Census: 1900, age 67 Center township, Dade county, Missouri with wife & five children, a farmer.
~ reportedly removed to a farm northwest of Carthage, Jasper county around 1906.
~ City Directory, 1909, Carthage [Marion township] has him with three children, at northwest corner Grand, old Neosho Military Road, & Fairview avenues, katty-corner from Algernon T Sutton, wife Jane and their family at southeast corner, across intersection in Jackson township.
Capt Gilmore became a retired capitalist and farmer with his farms in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Dade county, Missouri and one two miles northwest from Carthage, residing at 2005 Grand Avenue, Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1910, age 77 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & five children, one with husband, at corner of Fairview & Grand, old Neosho Military Road, avenues, retired, strangely around thirty years later Franklin M Hibbs built his new brick home at southwest corner of Grand & Fairview avenues in Jackson township, with street address of 2005.
Census: 1920, age 87 Carthage, Marion township, Jasper county, Missouri with wife & three children, retired, at northwest corner Grand, & Fairview avenues.
~ at the time of his death, his wife surviving, remaining in the house until it burnt down during 1928 then, with two daughters, to California where she died at a son's home.
Death: from complications of heart and kidney failure. See Missouri Death Certificate, informant his son, Grover. Arrangements were under the direction of the Ulmer-Drake Funeral Home in Carthage, MO.
•*•*~★*~•*•
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
Monday, December 5, 1921 Page Eight
CAPT. G. W. GILMORE DEAD
END COMES TO CARTHAGE MAN 89 YEARS OLD
Was Civil War Veteran - Came of Unusual Ancestry -
Friend of Two Presidents
Captain George W. Gilmore, a widely known resident of Carthage, died at his residence, corner of Fairview and Grand avenue, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.
Mr. Gilmore had been very feeble for some time but was critically ill only a few hours. He was feeling as well as usual when he retired Saturday night.
Captain Gilmore had resided in Carthage 16 years, coming here from Greenfield, MO., where he had resided since the early seventies. He was a farmer and stockman but retired before moving to this city.
Mr. Gilmore boasted an unusual record in his ancestry. His forefathers were among the earliest settlers of western Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Andrew Rabb, was a captain in the War of the Revolution, and his father was commissioned captain in the War of 1812.
In March 1855 Captain G. W. Gilmore went from Pennsylvania to Lawrence, Kansas and soon became a participant in the border warfare then going on between Kansas and Missouri, serving under Colonel James H. Lane, a noted Kansas leader.
In 1860 he returned to Pennsylvania and upon the outbreak of the Civil War recruited a company of cavalry which he commanded throughout the war. He participated in numerous battles including Antietam and in one engagement at Wytheville, VA., had 26 of his 80 men killed in action. During his army service he formed the acquaintance of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes and Major William McKinley, both of whom later became presidents of the United States.
Captain Gilmore was born June 7, 1832 near Masontown, Pennsylvania. He was married in Greenfield, MO., in 1873 to Virginia E. Miller. The wife and six children survive.
The children are: George D. Gilmore, Ralph M. Gilmore, Thomas H. Gilmore, Grover C. Gilmore, Miss Kate E. Gilmore and Mrs. Mary Palmer, all of Carthage and vicinity.
The body will lay in state at the residence from 7:30 to 9 o'clock tomorrow, after which it will be taken to Greenfield, where funeral services will be held. The funeral will be conducted from the Presbyterian church in that city at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev. D. J. McCaughtry of Carthage will have charge. Burial will be at Greenfield.
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Father: Col David Gilmore b: about 1787 Pennsylvania.
Mother: Catherine Rabb b: about 1801 Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Marriage: Virginia Elizabeth Miller b: 23 DEC 1849 Dade county, Missouri.
Married: 23 OCT 1873 Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri.
Known Children
Infant Gilmore b: 20 MAY 1874 Dade county, Missouri.
George David Gilmore b: 5 MAY 1875 Dade county, Missouri.
Ralph Miller Gilmore b: 6 FEB 1877 Dade county, Missouri.
Mary Elizabeth Gilmore b: DEC 1879 Dade county, Missouri.
Thomas Hendricks Gilmore b: 24 OCT 1882 Dade county, Missouri.
Grover Cleveland Gilmore b: NOV 1884 Dade county, Missouri.
Katherine Elizabeth Gilmore b: JAN 1889 Dade county, Missouri.
Roger David Gilmore b: 1892 Dade county, Missouri.
Eldridge Boyd Gilmore b: 1894 Dade county, Missouri.
Prepared 25 MAY 2014 in part by Bill Boggess and obituary researched by I Remember When.
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