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 1827 - 1915 (88 years)
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| Name |
Gilkison, Eben Sturgis [1] |
| Born |
29 Mar 1827 [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
31 Mar 1915 |
Josephine Co., Oregon, USA  [1] |
| Buried |
Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, USA [1] |
- Pine & Rose Sts., Granite Hill Cemetary
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| Person ID |
I18432 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Father |
Gilkison, James M., b. 1 Jun 1788, Kentucky, USA , d. 1856, Michigan, USA (Age 67 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Coffinberry, Nancy, b. 13 May 1793, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate , d. 11 Jul 1861, Lagrange, Indiana, USA (Age 68 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
17 Nov 1808 |
Fairfield, Ohio, USA [2, 3, 4] |
| Documents |
 | Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
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| Family ID |
F6935 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Neal, Elizabeth Mary "Nancy", b. 27 Jan 1843, Dallas, Missouri, USA , d. 7 Apr 1918, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
4 Jul 1861 |
Linn Co., Oregon, USA [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Gilkison, James Martin, b. 24 Jun 1862 [natural] |
| | 2. Gilkison, Nancy Jane, b. 13 Apr 1864, d. 6 Aug 1945, Grants Pass, Josephine Co., OR (Age 81 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Gilkison, Rose Anne or Rosa Ann, b. 19 Oct 1866 [natural] |
| | 4. Gilkison, George Gallard, b. 10 Sep 1870 [natural] |
| | 5. Gilkison, Minnie America, b. 28 Feb 1876, d. 24 Feb 1877 (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Gilkison, Pietta Rutiny, b. 4 Apr 1879, d. 7 Jun 1977, Portland, Washington Co., Oregon, USA (Age 98 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Gilkison, Clarence Eben ("doc"), b. 11 May 1882, d. 16 Mar 1955, Multnomah, Oregon, USA (Age 72 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F7432 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Whitley, Rachel C. (Catherine?), b. 1 May 1830, Illinois, USA , d. 3 Jun 1860, Marion Co., Oregon, USA (Age 30 years) |
| Married |
2 Aug 1855 |
Linn Co., Oregon, USA [1] |
| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F7431 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:
1860 Census, Linn Co., OR Dwelling #1127, the following persons are listed:
Parents Birthplace
Samuel WHITLEY 70 M VA farmer
Catherine WHITLEY 69 F KY
E. S. GILKERSON 34 M KY Harness maker
Catherine GILKERSON 30 F IL
1870 Myrtle Creek, Douglas Co., OR census: In addition to direct family members, the following persons were listed in the household :
William NEALE 21 M MO miner 1849
George NEALE 19 M MO school 1847
Angeline JACKSON 11 F OR school 1859
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The following letter was sent to me by M. E. (Moe) Gilkison, 310 11th Street, Altoona, IA 50009, in the year 2000. I am fairly certain that the Oregon cousin who is mentioned is our Eben Sturgis Gilkison.
Keating, Oregon
Jan. 28, 1932
Dear Allie:
Your letter, mailed the 17th inst. was read yesterday. We have 46 inches of snow here and it is hard to get in or out. Do not get our mail very often and yesterday was the first we had heard of Murry's death. Well in his condition, the poor man is better off.
I am glad that you have taken on the task of finding out all you can about your Grandfathers ancestors and I suppose that I can give more information about that than anyone now living, so I will tell you all I know and you can file it away for future generations.
The original line of Gilkisons were Danes, but in the 9th or 10th century when the Danes overran England and north of Ireland, there was a young General in the Danish army by the name of Gilkison. He fell in love with a young Irish colleen and married her and settled in Dungannon, In the north of Ireland. This part of our history I got from and old educated Dane that was [with] the Oregon Lbr. Co. on Tucker flat, in the 80's. He knew Danish history from the earliest civilization. His name was Charly Baker, a big fat old Dane. No doubt that your father and Mark will remember him. He was their log scaler. But our line has been Irish for the last 100 years. Between that date and 1812 1 know nothing but as to our progeny from then on.
In your Great Great Grandfathers family in Ireland, there were three sons. John, James and William, they were drafted in the British navy quite young. John was killed in the battle on Lake Erie in 1812. James and William deserted from the British navy and made their way to Ohio the same year. They settled in Jefferson County when it was mostly woods, wild animals and Indians. James was your Great Grandfather not John. He was 20 when he left the British navy, so according to that he was born in 1792. He married a girl by the name of Blair, and they had three sons and three daughters. John my father was the oldest, then William, who died in Illinois long years ago and your Grandfather James. The daughters were Isabelle who married Elias Sutton, and died in Champaign, Ill. and Martha, who married Lewis Walton, and died in Iowa. Your grandfathers brother William, first married in Ohio. Her name was Warren. They lived at Chanclersville, Muskingham Co. She died there. They had three children, John W., Bruce, and Mina. Bruce and Mina stayed with their grandparents, Warren after their mothers death. Both married and were still living there a few years ago- In the early 60s William. your grandfather, Martha, and the Suttons with Grandmother Gilkison, all went to Illinois. William and your Grandfather settled near Mattoon, and the Sutttons, near Champaign. I have not the date of your great Grandfathers death, but he died in Ohio several years before they went to Ill. William married again after he went there and they had a large family of boys, who settled in that state. As to my father's family and your Grandfathers, well they are all in Oregon except my sister Marda, who lives in Cambridge, Ohio. William Hutchinson went to California in the 50s. They had two children. James and Clara. James married in Ohio and went to Florida, and in the early_______ Hutchinson sent for his wife and daughter, and Clara married David Horn. Mark knows the history of the Horn family as well as I do. Elias and Isabell Sutton had a large family of boys and one girl. The boys were all railroad men and James visited this county with Aunt Susan in 1887. The daughter, Florence. married a man by the name of Jefferies, they visited all of us about 22 or 23 years ago. The Jefferies lived at Fort Pierre, South Dakota.
Florence Jeffries was a very prominent woman in the Woman Suffrage movement of South Dakota. She was President of that organization and was on a trip to Seattle to attend a national meeting of the same when she and her husband visited us. As to Martha Walton, your Grandfather's youngest sister, and her family, I have no record of them after they moved to Iowa long years ago.
Your Great Grandfather's brother, William, who came to Jefferson County, Ohio in 1812, married and settled down there and had a large family of boys and about the time I came to Oregon in 1885 there was on whole Township of Gilkisons in Jefferson County.
Mark has the names wrong. John was the one that was killed on Lake Erie and James was your Great Great Grandfather and William your Great Great Uncle. Now I know I am correct about this for I got it from my Mother and my oldest sister, Martha Barrett, and they knew the history of the Gilkisons, perfectly, from the time of their coming to America in 1812. As to the Gilkison in Ireland. I have no history, except that there was a cousin of my Grandfathers that settled in Mansfield, Ohio and he had a son that came to California in 49 and drifted north to Oregon in 56 and 25 years ago was living at Cottage Grove in southern Oregon. I corresponded with his son, James M. Gilkison, who at that time was managing a furniture plant in Albany, Oregon.
There was another of the old cousins from Ireland that settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. But they got their name twisted and spelled it Gilkerson, but all the Gilkisons in America, That came from Ireland are direct descendants of the Danish General.
The only Gilkison that I ever heard of in Ireland, was a great Aunt of mine, who was said to be the handsomest woman that ever walked the streets of Dungannon. Perhaps some time she will have a relative in America that will pattern after her, but so far I have failed to find them.
The John W. son of Uncle William, was a rambler. He left Illinois in his younger days and was last heard of in Trinindad, Colorado. I think your Aunt Clara Maharry corresponded with him at one time, but that was years ago.
This letter will no doubt, be interesting to all of the North Powder Gilkisons. If I should run onto any more data concerning the name, I will give it to you. I may have some among my old papers in my home at North Powder, and the first time I am over there I will try and see you and I may be able to help you out some more.
I just looked out and it is snowing. We only have 46 inches but we may get the 4 feet yet.
Yours very truly,
John M. Gilkison
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| Sources |
- [S148] Gilkison Family Research, Maureen (Molly) McGuire Colson, (Name: GEDCOM Import;).
Date of Import: Mar 26, 2001
- [S142] Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family: Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry (1760-1851) Revolutionary War Soldier, compiled by Mrs. Beatrice Berman Scott b. 1893, (Name: published 1927;), page 31.
- [S1635] Gilkerson (Gilkison.Gilkeson) Genealogical History and Archives, Massie, Evelyn Booth, (Name: Bookcrafters; Location: Chelsea, MI; Date: 1996;), pages 562-564.
- [S1632] Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;).
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