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Wallace W. Gilbert and Susan (Jones) Gilbert |
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and with the surnames ~ Asher, Bolling, Davis, Sizemore, Taylor ~ as per Sandra (Asher) Tiller | |
James Rondal &Bertha Lou(Melton) Asher | |
John &Mariah(Hignite-Hammons) Gilbert |
William W. &Nancy(Taylor) Gilbert | Wallace W. &Susan(Jones) Gilbert |
Felix Grundy &NancyJane(Wallace) Gilbert |
a half-brother to Felix Grundy Gilbert (b:1754 Scotland), is who talked Felix into moving to Kentucky, to around the same area as John. John and Felix are related to William Wallace (the Scottish hero), to Henry IV (King of England), to William The Bruce (King of Scotland), and to other Royalty. ~~~~~~~ John married Mary "Molly" Bolling, a direct descendant of John & Matoaka (Powhatan) "Pocahontas" Rebecca Rolfe, as are most of the BOLLING/BOWLINGS of that area ... ... who married GILBERTS of that area. ~~~~~~~ John was the man who found and buried legendary Chief Redbird, (a friendly Cherokee, for whom Red Bird River, in KY, is named) after Chief Redbird had been bushwhacked and murdered by some white men. Both John and Chief Redbird were close friends with, and as good a woodsmen as, Daniel Boone. Chief Redbird was a Sizemore, and through Sizemore-Bolling marriages, is at or near the roots of many GILBERT/BOLLING/SIZEMORE inter-marriages. ~~~~~~~ The first settler after John, on the Red Bird River of Clay and Knox Counties, KY, was Dillion Asher (b:1777). Dillion was the first tollgate keeper of the Cumberland Gap, and was one of the original "Kentucky Long Hunters" (veterans of the American Revolution, Tories escaped to the backwoods, refugees from the Whisky Rebellion, and Kentucky Mountain feudists). Dillion married Mary Davis and then Mary's sister, Sarah "Sally" Davis, cousins of Jefferson Davis, the first/only President of the "Confederate States of America." Dillion is at or near the roots of many GILBERT/ASHER/DAVIS inter-marriages of that area. A direct descendant of both Dillion Asher and Felix Gilbert, James Rondal Asher (b:1924), married Bertha Melton, daughter of Alexander & Maude (Ball) Melton. Alexander (b:c1889) is related to Daniel Boone, and Maude (b:1892) is related to President George Washington through his mother, Mary (Ball) Washington. Perhaps there are other such GILBERT/ASHER/BALL/BOONE/WASHINGTON connections? ~~~~~~~ SPECULATION: There were at least four Taylor brothers who fought in the Revolutionary War, obtained land grants in Kentucky, and were married into the Gilberts. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Taylor, who fought along with (literally) George Washington in that War, was the father of our 12th President, Zachary "Old Rough & Ready" Taylor. Zachary, brought as an infant from Virginia, was raised in Kentucky. Dillion Asher's first wife was the oldest daughter of Zachary. Per researcher Sandra (Asher) Tiller: "I've not found a blood-line (yet) between President Zachary Taylor, and the TAYLORS who married into 'our' GILBERTS, but . . . (grin) . . . I'm a working on it." |
Not certain that the following news excerpt is referring to this particular Gilbert child (William Gilbert). If you know for sure, one way or the other, please CLICK HERE to email me. -Webmistress (Cuz Bobbie Sue) |
"The Mountain Echo" Laurel County's First Newspaper FEBRUARY 1882 On last Wednesday evening a little son of Mr. Perry Gilbert's was instantly killed by a falling limb. |
is sometimes listed, by mistake, as Polly Taylor. Even an 1860 census listed her as "Polly," but her family and relatives never called her that. She was "Aunt Pop," and even her son, Sam Gilbert, was referred to by the old people as "Sam Pop," to distinguish him from other people named Sam Gilbert! Wallace and Pop both are buried at the Gilbert Cemetery on top of the mountain overlooking the former estate of the elder Wallace Gilbert, on Big Richland Creek, just as the creek branches off to Mt. Ararat in one direction and Tedders on the other. The above dob's and dod's were copied from their tombstones. |
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