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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Lucy Walker Gilmer: Birth: 26 AUG 1804 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 23 JUL 1881 in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois

  2. Frederick George Gilmer: Birth: 11 MAR 1806 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 24 DEC 1871 in Lincoln County, Missouri

  3. John Thornton Gilmer: Birth: MAR 1808 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 27 JUN 1866 in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois

  4. Peachy Ridgway Gilmer: Birth: 20 AUG 1810 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Death: 17 JUL 1899

  5. Daniel Harvie Gilmer: Birth: 10 SEP 1814 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 20 SEP 1863 in Walker County, Georgia

  6. Sarah Taliaferro Gilmer: Birth: 24 JAN 1818 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: 2 FEB 1888 in Greenfield, Greene County, Illinois

  7. Charles Meriwether Gilmer: Birth: 24 AUG 1819 in Christian County, Kentucky. Death: in Colorado


Notes
a. Note:   N3452 Dr. John Thornton Gilmer
 The Meriwethers and Their Connections, Nelson Heath Meriwether
  Dr. John Thornton Gilmer (first child of Mildred Meriwether and John Gilmer), b. Amherst Co., Va. Feb 29, 1774, went with his parents to Georgia, 1783. George Rockingham Gilmer… described Dr. John Thornton Gilmer as: "a very handsome, honorable, upright man, will educated for the practice of physic and devoted to it. He did not succeed, however, as most of. the Broad River (Ga.) people did in acquiring riches. He was like a musical instrument strung too high for the room in which it is played. His lofty gentlemanly bearing did not move in u nison with those on whom he depended for practice."
  Dr. John Thornton Gilmer married Martha Gaines Harvie, Oct. 4, 1803. (She was a daughter of Daniel Harvie and Sally Taliaferro.) Dr. John Thornton Gilmer and his wife moved to Christian Co., Ky. 1811, and from there in the 1830's to Quincy, Ill. Old settlers in Quincy remembered him primarily as a landholder rather than as a physician. His date of death is not proved, but is believed to have been 1866, when he was 92. It seems incredible that he survived the War Between the States but tradition says that he was a slaveholder and at the time of the war spent most of his money in aiding the Confederacy.
  Note that the George Gilmer Bible claims John and his other siblings born in Virginia were born in Rockingham County, not Amherst County.

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