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down to view the following: Thomas A. Gatewood;
Winslow Pilcher
William Lewis & wife Hannah (Washburn)
Pilcher; David Washburn & wife Esther
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| Entrance to the
Winslow Pilcher Cemetery - Fayette Co., IL |
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| Thomas A. Gatewood |
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| Born
in Fayette County Kentucky in 1806 and married
Nancy Woolsey in Fayette Co., IL on 06 April
1837. They were the parents of William, John Kay,
Joseph, Richard, Robert, Williamson, Nancy,
Claytone & Ephriam Gatewood. |
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| Winslow
Pilcher |
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Winslow
and Averilla (Gatewood) had been buried in
unmarked graves in the Pilcher Cemetery. This
marker honors his service as a private in the
Virginia Militia under Captain G. Smith in the
War of 1812.
Winslow
was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1794 and
died in Brownstown, Illinois on 05 Aug 1866. He
and Averilla were married in Henry County,
Kentucky in 1820. The first five of their
nineteen children were born in Kentucky before
the family along with Thomas Gatewood came to
Otego Twp. (then Cumberland) in about 1827.
(William, Thomas, Margarette, Sarah, Robert)
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remaining children, all born in Fayette Co.,
Illinois were: Mary Ann, Winslow, Octavia, Eliza,
Elizabeth, Louisianna, Joshua, Richard, Jonathan,
Joseph, Josiah, Charles, Averilla, and Cordelia.
A letter written by Charles
Benjamin Pilcher in 1897 or 1898 to Ed and Warren
Pilcher discussing his siblings and ancestry, is
in the possession of Patricia Davidson-Peters.
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| Hannah
(Washburn) & William Lewis Pilcher |
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| Hannah was the
daughter of David Washburn of Dartmouth,
Massachusetts & Esther (Griffith) of New
York. She was born in Catskill, New York in 1829
and died in 1907. Married in 1847 in Fayette
County, IL to William Lewis Pilcher. William was
the eldest child of Winslow and Averilla
(Gatewood) and was born on the 20th of November.
He and Hannah were the parents of eight children:
Louisa, Winslow, Clara, Mary, Lewis, John, Laura
and Robert Pilcher. (Headstone of Hannah's
parents below) |
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| David
Washburn |
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| David Washburn
was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on 13 August
1785 and died in Fayette Co., Illinois on 13
March 1852. His wife was Esther Griffith of New
York. They were enumerated in the 1850 census for
Fayette County, Illinois. |
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| Esther
Griffith |
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| Esther Griffith
was born in New York in 1789 and died on August
2nd 1856. She and her husband Davids Washburn
were the parents of fifteen children: Isaac,
Reuben, Philip, Cyrene, Leonard, Harvey, David,
Ezra, George, Daniel, Hannah, Almon, Eli, Leroy,
and Ira Washburn. |
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