Samuel Chriswell Gill, son of Captain Thomas Gill, the revolutionary soldier, and grandson of the Irish waif, was born in the state of South Carolina in the 22nd day of November, A.D. 1788.  Very little is known of his boyhood.  He was raised on a farm, and in those times that meant a great deal more than it does today.  The farms had to be cleared of heavy forests and stumps had to be grubbed, and vast cane brakes to be cut with an old fashioned heavy hoe.  The boy became innured to all these various branches of farm labor.  The ground was plowed with the ancient wooden mold-board plow, a peculiar kind of an agricultural implement, which not only tested a boy's strength, but his temper and religion also.  This plow, which will be remembered by a few old people, was a very slight improvement upon the plow used by the ancient Romans.  During the winter, the young man perhaps spent a few days at some old log school house, endeavoring to obtain the foundation for the business education which he after wards completed by his own exertions without a teacher.  His hardy life on a frontier farm resulted in a vigorous and healthy body.  At an early age, during every harvest, he was distinguished for his ability to handle the reap hook and bind grain.  He always exhibited such skill and endurance that his co-laborers ever yielded to him the post of honor, which was "to lead the field."   On the 23rd day of September, 1807, Samuel Chriswell Gill was united in marriage to Sarah Malone. She was the daughter of Johnathan and Mary Malone. This old lady lived to the great age of nearly one hundred years.  This family of Malones came from the state of Tennessee in very early times and settled in Montgomery county , Kentucky.  Sarah Malone had a sister named Leah, who married James Casseldine. Another named Ruth Malone, married Dom Craig.  Ruth lived until the year 1891.  She died in Boone county, Indiana.  She outlived all her brothers and sisters and expired at about the age of 85 years.  There were three other sisters, Polly, Betsy and Rachel.  Polly Malone married William McClintic, and Betty married John Hendrix.  Rachel married Andrew Dunlap.  They settled in Adams county, Illinois.Sarah Malone had three brothers, Steven, Thomas and Obadiah.  These sons married and settled in Adams county, Illinois, where many of their descendants reside at this time.   The young couple, Samuel Chriswell and wife, were very poor, their entire stock of this world's goods consisted of one bay pony, eleven dollars in money and a feather bed, possibly made with feathers which the young bride had plucked from wild fowls.  They packed all that they possessed on the back of the little pony and went into the mountains where land was cheaper, and finally settled on Licking river in what is now known as Bath county, Kentucky.  Samuel C. Gill was a far-seeing man, and early in life possessed the genius of making money.  He foresaw that he was in a pretty good part of the country and that it would not be long before there would be more people hunting for lands in that region.  He knew that these people would be very poor and that the first thing they would create a demand for would be bread.  This suggested to him the idea of building a mill.  Already some mountaineers had constructed a brush dam across the Licking river and had obtained sufficient water power to run a small pair of buhrs. These crude Bahrs were Kentucky stone.  They were perhaps hammered out by old Tom Donathan, who was a rough stone-mason.  Samuel C. Gill succeeded in making a trade with the owners of the mill site.  He agreed to pay the owners fifty dollars for their mill and mill site.  He at once went to work and constructed a log dam, cutting all the timber and hauling the logs to the river himself.  As was one of the customs of the time, the neighbors helped him to raise the mill house and put in the dam.  To the intense delight of the neighborhood, the little mill was soon grinding corn. The bay pony was undoubtedly used for the delivery of flour and meal, ground at the mill. In a short time, he attached a saw to water power "the foundation of his fortune."  He was able to buy "popular"and pine at "his own price," and supplied lumber to the surrounding countryside and rafted it downstream "where he found a ready market." He acquired a 500 acre homestead, several tracts of timber, and others in the immediate area.  When the territory of Indiana was opened, he made trips there to enter land, and made "innumerable entries in Putnam, Montgomery, Boone and Hendrix Counties and Coles (now Douglas) County, Illinois. He acquired the reputation of shrewdness and an unfailing eye at the selection of excellent farm sites so that it was said after wards, in the case of a prospective buyer, "If it is one of Sam Gills entries it must be a good one."  In Bath county, Kentucky he served as Justice of the Peace for 25 years, a Justice of the County court and Sheriff.  Samuel acquired sufficient land that he was able to give each of his sons and daughters upon their marriage or attaining age, 240 acres of Indiana or Illinois land or what he regarded as its equal value.
Source: The Gill Family History, by Thomas F. Gill

Old Cem. 31- Marcus Gill Cem. - Tracto. 800-C -
This site was a little more than halfway between Caney and Cave Run creeks still
going back Licking River Rd
1728 - GILL, Samuel C. 1854