Brief Life History of Thomas Willey
When Thomas Willey Gilmore was born on 19 November 1859, in Bladen, Ohio Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States, his father, John Curt Gilmore, was 50 and his mother, Sarah "Sallie" Trotter, was 44. He married Varinda John Trowbridge on 3 December 1882, in Swan Creek, Ohio Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Ohio, United States in 1941. He died on 29 December 1941, in Chesapeake, Union Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Proctorville, Union Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States.
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- F W Gilmore, "United States Census, 1930"
- Thomas W. Gilmore, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Thomas W Gilmore, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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