When Margaret Ann Gillespie was born on 17 May 1889, in Iredell, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Pinkney Gillespie, was 51 and her mother, Laura Etta Drye, was 33. She married Samuel Emmett Holton on 31 August 1916. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Cool Springs, Iredell, North Carolina, United States in 1910 and Cool Spring Township, Iredell, North Carolina, United States in 1930. She died on 25 April 1978, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Providence Methodist Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States.
Scottish and Irish (Donegal): shortened Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Easbuig, borrowed into Irish as Mac Giolla Easpaig, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
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