Sarah Ann "Sally" [Israel] Gilliam
Married Mary Crawford
August 31, 1820
Ray Co., Missouri
Served in Black Hawk War
Killed on his way home from Cayuse Indian War.
Gilliam was appointed colonel of a regiment of volunteers to avenge the November 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and others at their mission. After engaging the Cayuse Indians in a battle near present-day Walla Walla, Washington, Gilliam started back to report to territorial officials. On March 24, 1848, at a camp at Upper Well Spring on the Oregon Trail, Gilliam was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a loaded gun that caught on the rope he was pulling out of a wagon.
(Upper Well Spring is now in present day Morrow Co.)
Sarah Ann "Sally" [Israel] Gilliam
Married Mary Crawford
August 31, 1820
Ray Co., Missouri
Served in Black Hawk War
Killed on his way home from Cayuse Indian War.
Gilliam was appointed colonel of a regiment of volunteers to avenge the November 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and others at their mission. After engaging the Cayuse Indians in a battle near present-day Walla Walla, Washington, Gilliam started back to report to territorial officials. On March 24, 1848, at a camp at Upper Well Spring on the Oregon Trail, Gilliam was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a loaded gun that caught on the rope he was pulling out of a wagon.
(Upper Well Spring is now in present day Morrow Co.)
Inscription
Second stone reads Col Cornelius Gilliam 1798/1848
Family Members
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America Gilliam Grant
1823–1896
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Margaret Louisa "Louisa" Gilliam Gage
1826–1876
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Washington Smith Gilliam
1829–1909
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Rebecca Jane Gilliam Gage
1831–1862
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Marquis De Lafayette Gilliam
1834–1868
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Sarah Ann Gilliam Hobart
1836–1902
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Martha Elizabeth Gilliam Collins
1839–1925
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Henrietta Gilliam Coad
1842–1875
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