Gilmor's wife was Mentoria Nixon Strong, daughter of Jasper Strong, a West Point graduate and an officer of the United States Army from 1819 to 1823. After resigning his military commission, he became a planter in Florida, where Mentoria was born. At the start of the American Civil War, Strong had a hundred slaves. Her father was a prominent citizen of antebellum Pensacola, who was a major contractor during the construction of Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas. He married his partner's widow. After her death, he married her sister, Eliza Julia Nixon. Her parents would have six children together and she was number five. He was a signatory of a May 25, 1840 petition to annex Escambia County, Florida to Alabama. At the start of the American Civil, he relocated from Florida to Vermont and died in 1865. A street in Pensacola was name in his honor.
Contributor: Linda Davis (46609907)
Contributor: Linda Davis (46609907)
Gilmor's wife was Mentoria Nixon Strong, daughter of Jasper Strong, a West Point graduate and an officer of the United States Army from 1819 to 1823. After resigning his military commission, he became a planter in Florida, where Mentoria was born. At the start of the American Civil War, Strong had a hundred slaves. Her father was a prominent citizen of antebellum Pensacola, who was a major contractor during the construction of Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas. He married his partner's widow. After her death, he married her sister, Eliza Julia Nixon. Her parents would have six children together and she was number five. He was a signatory of a May 25, 1840 petition to annex Escambia County, Florida to Alabama. At the start of the American Civil, he relocated from Florida to Vermont and died in 1865. A street in Pensacola was name in his honor.
Contributor: Linda Davis (46609907)
Contributor: Linda Davis (46609907)
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