Gilkison, Etta

Hiram married Maize, Mary E. on 16 Nov 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

From Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, pp 275-276, is a sketch regarding an old Indian warrior and his daughter who were making their way toward Upper Sandusky. The Indian's name was Toby. The little daughter had been living with the Greentown Indians, who were being removed by the Government, and Toby came to take her home; he met her at Mansfield. She was under guard, so he could not get her away openly; however he succeeded in getting her through the guards. A company of soldiers started in pursuit of the Indian fugitives, and after overtaking them, they immediately fired, wounding the father. He ran to a stream and fell in it. Two of the soldiers reported what they had done, and the company under the command of Sergeant J. C. Gilkinson, subject of sketch, went to look for the Indian. They found him still alive and lying in the stream. Toby lifted his hands and begged for mercy but there was none. Then one soldier took his tomahawk and handed it to another, telling him to get revenge for his brother's blood, who had been killed by an Indian. McCulloch took the tomahawk from Morrison, and in spite of Gilkison's entreaties to prevent this inhuman deed, sunk the tomahawk into the Indian's skull up to the handle. Nothing could be done to punish the two men for the crime as there was a standing order that all Indians found in the woods should be shot. The daughter escaped and lived several days on
berries before arriving safely at Sandusky. Gilkison showed mercy, which, no doubt, returned to him from the Father above.

John C. Gilkison and his father-in-law were among the first settlers in the town of Mansfield. John
C. lived for awhile in George Coffinberry's log house, and his first son was born there. He and his
brother James were chosen as Bishops by the Church of Christ in Mansfield about 1834. For
awhile a select school was taught in John C.'s two-story log house. Judge Stewart's school was in the upstairs, and a special stairway was erected on the outside of the building for this purpose. "He only taught there one winter, as the children made so much racket over Mrs. Gilkison's head, that she concluded to dispense with the school." (Information for this paragraph was gleaned from the same book by Graham, pp 447, 448, 474 and 482.

John Creyton's household was included in the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 Censuses of Richland Co, OH. From a feature story of a local newspaper in Mansfield, John Gilkison arrived in Mansfield from eastern Ohio about 1810. The Gilkisons figured prominently in the early life of that city, and John Creyton and his son, Mansfield, were described as "excellent citizens". John was a printer and had the first newspaper in Mansfield, known as The Olive. Later he was editor of The Gazette. Stories have been handed down through his family that John and his brother James became lost as young boys and were found and returned by Indians.

John married Coffinberry, Sarah in 1808. Sarah (daughter of Coffinberry, George Lewis and Little, Elizabeth) was born on 20 Jun 1791 in Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate; died in 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Nancy and her. sister, Sarah, married brothers, James M. to Nancy and John C. to Sarah.)

Other Events:

• Residence: 1787, Fayette Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1790, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1800, Fleming, Kentucky, United States
• Residence: 1810, Flemingsburg, Fleming, Kentucky, United States

Notes:

Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:

From: Coffinberry. Genealogy of the Coffinberry family, Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry, 1760-1851, & His Wife Elizabeth (Little) Coffinberry, with rlated families Coffenberry, Gilkison, Keasy, Platt, comp. by B. B. Scott. 64 p. 1927.

[James Gilkison] the father of James M. Gilkison had four half-brothers and two sisters. Their names were Joseph, Mathew, Alick and Stephen Curren; the two sisters were Aunt Sallie Coffinberry and Mrs. Bradshaw. His wife's name was Jennie Williams. Jennie Williams Gilkison had a sister who has a daughter by the name of Mrs. Cazzard, also a daughter by the name of Mrs. Blue. Mrs. Cazzard had a daughter by the name of Mrs.Prowty of Columbus, Ohio, and a son named Johnnie Cazzard. A mention is made of Joseph and Mathew Curren in the Township of Springfield in Graham's History of Richland County.

Graham, The History of Richland County, Page 420

"In the spring of 1816 Mathew and Joseph Curren came and erected a cabin upon Mathew's land. (The Currens came 1815.) This is said to have been the first cabin in the township of Springfield. Shortly after the Currens erectedanother cabin. They had encamped where they intended erecting the cabin and were cooking dinner by a large log out in the open air for workmen who were to erect the cabin. One of Curren's children, a little boy, attempted to walk across the log in sport, made a miss step and fell into a large kettle of boiling coffee, scalding him to such an extent that he died the first death of a white person in the Township of Springfield." A. A. Graham says the Currens were Irish.

Joseph Curren's children: Joseph, Miller, Mrs. Jones of Shelby, Ohio; Mrs. Burgoin, formerly of Plymouth, Ohio. There was another daughter, but do not know her name.

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From Massie, Evelyn Booth, Gilkerson (Gilkison.Gilkeson) Genealogical History and Archives (Chelsea, MI, Bookcrafters, 1996), pages 562-575.

James GILKISON1 was born by 1753, based on an early tax list. Burton in Botetourt County, Virginia, It's Men 1770-1777gives a tithable list that includes a JAMES, JOHN, AND WILLIAM Gilkison in 1774. This suggests that James was 21, born by 1753.

James died in 1807 in Scioto County, Ohio, where an appaisment of his personal property, and the sale of those items are recorded in Case No. 4692. A copy of the record is included in this chapter.

James Gilkison's parentage has not been proven. The John Gilkison who settled in Fleming County (early Mason County) in 1798, is, reportedly, the son of a William Gilkison . Since the three Gilkisons--JAMES, JOHN and WILLIAM--were so closely connected in the early Greenbrier county records in 1780's, and later in Fayette in the in 1790, (and all three were in the eastern Kentucky counties in the decade following) it is possible that they were related. And perhaps James of this sketch and John of Fleming County were brothers and sons of William. However, since the John Gilkison who married Nancy Davis was married in the same county, and by the same Baptist preacher as this James, it seems to suggest that James of this sketch was closely related to THAT John Gilkison, perhaps a brother. No records have been located that would prove any of these theories. Jayne Murphy stated in her letter, "Three brothers came over in 1776, Patrick, Andrew and James." Was that James the subject of this chapter? Please note again that James paid taxes in 1774 (two years before the James came with brothers Andrew and Patrick) in Botetourt County, Virginia married in 1783 and the location for his land was in what later became Greenbrier County: the county where James and Elizabeth were married in 1783. In regard to the Andrew, Patrick and James being brothers, another record fact is that a James Gilkison was a defendant in a court case in 1782 in Greenbrier County, and ANDREW Gilkison was his security. Was there a close relationship, or did the name Gilkison tie them together for any need they had? The Gilkisons are known to be a cohesive group.

On 9 September 1783, in Greenbrier County, Virginia, James married Elizabeth Currens . They were married by Elder John Alderson, pastor of the Greenbrier Baptist Church. Their marriage is recorded in William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 8, Series 2, page 198. Please note again that John Gilkison was married to Nancy Davis in the same county and by the same minister, four years prior; both Gilkisons were associated with the same Church.

Several entries were made for James Gilkison in the Greenbrier County Court records, and land records. In 1781 he and William Fullerton were defendants in case with William McClung ; in August 1782 he was assignee of Thomas Edgar for 100 acres of land by part of a state warrant for 1000 acres ; in 1782 he was a defendant in a court case concerning the estate of Matthew Arbuckle, and Andrew Gilkison was James' security; in June 1782 he was given allowance for one bay horse 13 hands high; again in 1783 James was defendant, and the case regarding William McClung , was set aside: in September 1783 he was an appraiser for the estate of James McCaslin ; and in 1785 the court ordered the clerk to grant a certificate to James Gilkinson and John McFerrin, agreeable to their claims in hands of Col . Donnally. Information for this paragraph is from Helen Stinson’s Land Entry
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and Greenbrier county (West) Virginia Court Orders 1780-1850: also from Larry G. Shuck's Greenbrier County (West) Virginia Records, Volume 1.

James served in the American Revolution and was listed on page 33 of Reddy's West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors, as a Greenbrier county veteran. James Gilkison was also listed in Gwathmey's Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, page 307, in Gist 's Regiment. Virginia state Library, List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913, by H. J. Edkenrode, lists James Gilkison on page 42.

In 1787 he appeared as a tithable in Fayette County, Virginia, per Yantis, 1787 Census of Virginia, Now Kentucky; and again in 1790, per Heinemann, First Census of Kentucky 1790. Fayette County later became a part of Kentucky. In 1791 he was in Woodford County as a tithable (Woodford was formed from Fayette). In 1792 and 1793 he appeared in Bourbon County; in 1794 through 1797 he was on the Harrison County tax lists. In 1800 he was included in Mason County as a tithable, per "Second Census" of Kentucky 1800, by Clift. In 1804 he paid taxes in Fleming County (Fleming was formed from Mason in 1798, and he probably did not change geographical locations); and in 1806 he was on the Greenup County tax list. These counties were all in Kentucky.

His name appeared several times in the Harrison County court records in the 1790's. He was actively engaged in the civil affairs of the county: he was a juror several times, as well as an overseer of
the road. In January 1795 he appeared as a defendant in a court case, and in March he was a plaintiff. In 1796 he was on several cases as a juror, and again in 1798. In 1800 Alex Currens, assignee of James Gilkison, brought suit against Michael Isgrig. Alexander Currens was a member of the jury several times in Harrison County records. Please note that James married Elizabeth Currens, and Alexander Currens was, no doubt, a relative; he gave bond for Elizabeth to be administratrix of James' estate in 1807. Alexander was a recorder of Scioto County, and his name appears on many deed records (Evans, A History of Scioto County, Ohio; also, Genealogical Abstracts of Scioto County Ohio Deed Books ABC 1803-1812, prepared by Ohio Genealogical Society). Some have thought that Alexander Currens may have been the son of Elizabeth by a previous marriage. He seemed to follow James and Elizabeth in their travels, in Kentucky and on to Ohio. If not her son, he was probably Elizabeth's brother. He married Elizabeth Barns in Harrison County, Kentucky, 27 November 1797. Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, on pages 385, 391 and 481, gives the following accounts about him: Alexander Curran purchased at public auction a hewn-log house in December 1816 in Richland County, Ohio, for $56.40; in 182 he was named as county Commissioner of Richland County; and Alex also taught school in Mansfield for one winter.

Deed Book C, page 402, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, includes the sale of a black girl by James Gilkison to William Harriss. James was a resident of Harrison County, and Harriss was of Bourbon County. The girl, named Feller, was sold for sixty pounds in June 1795.

On 9 June 1797, in Mason County, a commission was issued to James Gilkerson as an Ensign of the 15th Regiment. The citizens of that county kept a powerful militia unit to protect them against the
Indians. The county had a fine harbor for boats coming down the Ohio, and they also had a large wagonroad to Lexington per History of Maysville and Mason County, Vol 1, by Clift.

In 1804 James Gilkison sold a rifle gun and livestock to John Gilkison, per Fleming County Deed Book A-2, page 164. You will notice in a previous paragraph that James was a tithable in Fleming County that year, paying on 100 acres on Locust Creek, and no livestock; perhaps he sold his livestock before moving into the county of Greenup. In 1806 James Gilkison was a resident of Greenup County where he was included on the tax list.

James married Currens, Elizabeth on 9 Sep 1783 in Greenbrier Co., VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
by Elder John Alderson, Baptist Church

Notes:

According to the records of Ruth Dunlap, George Lewis Coffinberry was part of the Revolutionary War.

George Coffinberry (1760-1851) enlisted from Berkeley County at the age of sixteen in Captain Culbert Anderson's company. He was in service in the Carolinas under General Nathaniel Greene. He was born at Martinburg, West Virginia and was a pensioner when he died near Mansfield, Ohio.

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Rev War pension W6726. While residing near Martinsburg, he enlisted in the autum of 1780 and served six months as private in Captain Colbert Anderson's company, Colonels Lucas or Glenn's Virginia Regiment. He was allowed pension on his application executed Oct 25, 1832 while a resident of Springfield Township Richland County, Ohio. He died there July 13, 1851.

"a lawyer elected to Legislature in VA about 1790 & while in that capacity petitioned to change name from Kaufenbaerger to Coffinberry"

Source: Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family. Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry, 1760-1851 (Revolutionary War Soldier) and His Wife, Elizabeth (Little) Coffinberry, Mrs. Beatrice B Scott

Birth:
note:Frederick County at the time

George married Little, Elizabeth on 5 Dec 1785 in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Klein, George and Truggat, Elizabeth) was born in 1769 in Strasburg, Alsace-Loraine, Germany; died on 23 Jun 1854 in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family: Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry (1760-1851) Revolutionary War Soldier (published 1927), pages 8-11:

[George Lewis Coffinberry] married December 5, 1786, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. Married Miss Elizabeth (Klein) Little, who was born near Alsace Loraine about 1769. Elizabeth Little believed herself to be a descendant of royalty. She was gifted with language and from her pen came forth at command prose and poetry, and her writings, if they had been cared for and published, most certainly would have made her known as a lady of letters in the western world.

An item of interest to those of this present generation was the fact that in the days of Elizabeth Little, false teeth or plates were unknown and so she made her own teeth, by taking a cow’s horn and soaking it in water until flexible, then carefully shaping it to her mouth and by filing teeth in it, made a very serviceable set of lower and upper teeth. The only fault with these kind of teeth was the fact that they wore out too soon and the same performance had to be gone through with again.

Elizabeth Little had a brother that we know of. A Mrs. Cope of Chattanooga, Tennessee, claims to be a descendant of this brother.

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Springfield Township was organized in 1816. Its name was suggested by Mrs. Coffinberry, one of its earliest settlers, on account of the numerous springs within its limits.

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ELIZABETH LITTLE COFFINBERRY, wife of George Lewis Coffinberry, was a blonde with blue eyes. Her hair kept its golden tinge until she was quite an old lady. Her father was George Kline (Little) and her mother was Elizabeth Truggat. They were both born in Strasburg, in Alsace, early in the eighteenth century, and were married there. They came to the town of Chambersburg in the colony of Penn, where they both died within six months after their settlement, leaving George Little, 2 years old, and Elizabeth, 6 months old.

These children were taken to Martinsburg, Va., by their mother’s sister, who reared them and where George was married to Caroline Roush, and Elizabeth to George Lewis Coffinberry. The name of her family was originally Kline, but was later changed to Little. The word Kline means “little” in the German language. Elizabeth Little Coffinberry always told her children that some day they would come into a great heritage through her people, but just what this was I do not know.

Buried:
Spring Mill Cemetery