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Confederate Pension Applications - Miscellaneous Alabama Counties
Microfilm at Birmingham Public Library
E551.4 .C66 1987

Roll 89 - Gilchrist, James - Gissendaner, William T.

Gillespey, Thomas, pensioner Gillespey, Jane, Coosa Co, pvt co b 59th reg
husb died 17 Jan 1885, witnesses: J. M. Gillespy, Wiley Cowart, owned household & kitchen furniture $10, goods wares and merchandise $15, total $25 on 22 Apr 1899

Gillespie, David, Jefferson co, pvt co A. 21st Regt
owns 80 acres Jefferson co value $160, 1 horse/mule value $25, 27 May 1899. Enlisted 21 sep 1862 at Talladega, AL, discharged 4 July 1865, can't do manual labor due to old age, postoffice address is Morris, AL. Signs his own name. Witnesses: Ples Farley, J. H. Belcher. Has now become disabled by reason of sickness and old age, po is Morris, business of farming, taxable property consists of land. Copy of check #8537 for $11.88 dated 1 Oct 1899 from auditors office. Endorsement on back of check - Durrut not --- being delivered by June 1, 1900 was returned by Judge of Probate Jeffreson County and sum is hereby cancelled, June 21, 1900, W. P White State Auditor.

Gillespie, David Anderson, pensioner, Gillespie, Emily Catherine, coosa co, Pvt Co C, 59th Regt.
220 acres land Coosa co, improvements 100 acres cleared, value $330, owns 1 cow & calf, $18, 4 hogs, $4, 1 watch $2, household & kitchen furniture $25, bicycle & vehicles -written in loagon or wagon, mechanical & farm tools & implements $5, total $64. Husband was killed 1894, witness: J. M. Gillespie, J. R. Logan. Widows po Rockford Route 1, pension roll #15978, living w/J. B. Waites, born Hamilton, Perry Co, GA on 1 Apr 1837 (now is 1922, she is about age 85), name of father Stephen Thomas, decd, he died Rockford, AL. Husband was David Anderson Gillispie, married Rockford Al 1866, he died Rockford, AL, was living with him prior to his death, never divorced from him. She has been married more than once, first husband William Henry Gillespie, in 1860, Rockford, AL. Not on another pension roll. Lived in GA as a child, perry county. Lived Hamilton 8-10 years, doesn't remember when moved to Alabama, was a child, husband enlisted Rockford Coosa Co, under Colonel Hall, Captain L. H. Crumpler(?), husband was wounded, never captured, he did not apply for pension or draw one from another state. She has no real estate. Yearly income nothing except 3rd class pension, signed 7 aug 1822.

Gillespie, George A. Autauga Co, Pvt Co H, 1st Regt Inf.
Po prattville, AL age 76 yr, 9 mo, 13 days, lived alabama all his life, enlisted mar 1864 Notasulga AL, in infantry, captain C. C. Knowles, colonel I. G. W. Steadman, served about 18 months, not wounded, was taken prisoner, captured Dec 15, 1864 in Nashville, Tenn, confined in Camp Douglas, Illinois, paroled by taking oath of allegiance, was paroled about 26th 1865 at Camp Douglas, because war closed. Parole not attached, he lost it. Married in 1880, wife is dead (15 Sep 1923). Doesn't remember if his name was taken in last confederate soldier census, belongs to Camp Wadsworth a camp of United Confederate Veterans. Register voter at precinct 1 autauga co, al, living at his home. Witnesses: D. B. Chambliss, R. E. Savage, both living Prattville, AL.

Gillespie, James L, pensioner Gillespie, Mrs. Elizabeth A., Marsahll co, co C, 56th GA Regt.
Gillespie, James M., pensioner Gillespie, Mrs. F. C, coosa co, pvt co B, 59th Regt., enlisted near Rockford, AL. Witnesses: Wily Cowart, Albert Robinson.

Gillespie, John C, Jeffrson co, Co C 58th regt.
Wounded 31 Aug 1864 at Jonesborough Ga., lost his right eye.

Gillespie, stephen, pensioner Gillespie, Sarah E, Lawrence, Cpl, co C, 35th Regt.
Widow, husband died 29 apr 1900. Witnesses: W. V. Aldridge, David McCulloch.

Gillespie, W. P. Pensioner Gillespie, Mrs. M. F., Jefferson Co, pvt co B, davenports batallion. Application says Nellie Frances Gillespie, she is widow, husband was private in Capt Truss Co of volunteers, he died of disease, her po is North Birmingham, taxable property is 1/2 acre. Signed with her mark, name Nellie F. Gillespie. Other pages say M. F. Husband died 1 Dec 1895. Witnesses James Higginbotham 12 Jun 1899, A. T. Vaughn 12 Jun 1899. She has 1/2 acre in Blount co value $40, 2 cattle $30, household & kitchen furniture $25, total $55. She signs several pages herself, M. F. Gillespie.