Gordon GILL
Ancestral File, Version 4.19
Pedigree Resource File
Internet IGI 2005 , November
Ordinance Index, Version 1.02
Marriage Records of Lewis County, Missouri, (FHL#977.8345V25d)
NOTES:
1. Gordon was a native of Virginia. He and wife Margaret McIntyre Gill moved to Quincy Missouri about 1835, where he established a ferry, and occupied himself as a Ferryman. He died there in 1841
NOTES:
1. Margaret came with her parents when quite young to Ohio. They settled in Meigs County. She married Gordon and settled in Wood County West Virginia. They lost everything in the flood of 1832. Moved to Missouri where Gordon died. She was left with very limited means to raise her three children. She moved to California in 1863. She was baptized in the Christian Church in September.
Notes taken from Margarets diary.
2. Margaret's birth date listed on Ancestral File as 27 Jun 1806, Virginia; death date as 16 Aug 1857.
NOTES:
Hopland Feb. 12 1909
James William Gill was born august 20, 1831 in wood County, West Virginia. His Father, Gordon Gill was a native of Virginia. His Mother was born in Pennsylvania,Margaret MCIntyre. At the age of 4 years his father came to Quincy Illinois, he established a ferry there and died there May 6 1841.
In 1854 he came to California, crossed the plains with ox team.
James William Gill left Quincy Missouri in April 1854 crossing the plains with an ox team.. The Indians tried to run off their cattle and horses but were not otherwise molested. He teamed from Sacramento and Marysville until 1857 camping on the American River above Sacramento with others and cuting wood. Captain Rovert bought the wood and rafted
it to Sacramento and San Francisco, where he sold it. James drove team for Mr.
Milton for three summers to the mines. He then went to Colusa County where he farmed with
relatives and friends and there he and Margaret Catherine Jamieson were married
22 Jun 1858. They lived in Yolo, Colusa,Tahema and Shasta Counties in
California, farming, driving team and wagon, merchandising , and butchering. Written by J>W> Gill
Death certificate State of Calif. Vital Recods Registrar
RESEARCH NOTE:
It is possible that Eliza Iva GILL is the same individual as Eliza Jane GILL.
He married Margaret McIntyre 20 Jan 1824 at of Virginia . Margaret McIntyre was born at Heatler, Pennsylvania 9 Jan 1806 daughter of S. McIntyre and A. .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Blocked
Martha Ellen Gill
born 27 Dec 1827.
Deborah Gill
born Abt 1829.
James William Gill
born 23 Aug 1831.
Eliza Jane Gill
born 12 Mar 1840/44.
Blocked
Gordon Gill died 6 May 1841 at West Marion, Missouri .
Margaret McIntyre died 14 Dec 1886 at Tehama, California .


