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William W. Gilbert and Nancy (Taylor) Gilbert |
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William W. Gilbert and Nancy (Taylor) 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 Robert 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. Pocahontas (Powhatan) Rolfe 
~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 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) (John and Dillion being, literally, the first two settlers there). Dillion was a close friend of, and a good a woodsman as, Daniel Boone. Through that association, Dillion became the first tollgate keeper of the Cumberland Gap. Dillion and his uncle, Dillion Blevins (for whom the younger Dillion was named), were two of the original "Kentucky Long Hunters" (in this instance, referring to men who went from NC to the hunting grounds of KY on "long hunting trips" that took weeks). During one of these trips, Dillion Asher met and married Mary Davis, but fathered children by both Mary and her sister, Sarah "Sally" Davis, both cousins of Jefferson Davis, the first/only President of the "Confederate States of America." 
Jefferson DavisDillion Blevins was the brother of Dillion Asher's mother, Martaret "Peggy" (Blevins) Asher. The two Dillions (an Asher one, a Blevins one) are at or near the roots of many the GILBERT/ASHER/BLEVINS/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? Daniel Boone 
 George Washington
And oh, by the way, a relative of George Washington's is 
Robert E. Lee.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 
Zachary TaylorJefferson Davis's first wife was the oldest daughter of Zachary, but she died young and there were no children from that marriage. 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." | |
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reprints of some very interesting chronicles from the 1800's. To visit our website section called "Sandra's Notefiles" CLICK HERE |
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Mariah (Hignite-Hammons) Gilbert, is the niece and namesake of his 1st wife, Mariah (Hignite) Gilbert. Mariah-#2 was previously married (on 23 Feb, 1888)to Samuel Hammons, son of Wiley & Sarah (Bingham) Hammons. Between 1888 and 1898, Samuel & Mariah had seven children. Clickon Wiley/Sarah to find the list. On 28 May 1900, Samuel had remarried, to an Amanda Bailey-Hawn. At the time of the 1900 Knox Co, KY Census, all of Samuel's & Mariah's children were living with assorted relatives. |
Ruby (Gilbert) Slusherby SANDRA (ASHER) TILLER about Milly Jane (Bingham) Asher, daughter of Joshua & Mary (dePriest) Bingham |
when I was about 12 years old. She was up in her 80's and lived on the side of a mountain (estranged from her husband, John) in southern Kentucky. You had to cross this swinging rope-bridge that was just wide enough to walk "Indian-style" on. She seemed to be six feet tall, had pitch-black hair (she'd probably dyed with walnut stain?), and she smoked a pipe. She was AWESOME! She left an impression on me! (The Ashers, for example, weren't that tall. Pa and Dad were both only about 5'8" tall, if that.) She lived to be over 100 years old. Through her mother, Mary (dePriest) Bingham, her Asher-Bingham descendants are related to President Zachary Taylor (the 12th USA President). |
of Bertha Lou (Melton) Asher | |
Bertha is a cuz of Daniel Boone. Alexander's ancestral cousin, Mary (Milton) Maugridge (wife of John Maugridge), is the mother of Mary (Maugridge) Boone (wife of George Boone), George & Mary (Maugridge) Boone are Daniel's grandparents. |
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Bertha is a cuz of President George Washington. Maude's ancestral cousin, Mary (Ball) Washington, is George's mother. |
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this "John & The Two Mariah's" branch was generously provided to us by Sandra (Asher) Tiller who also provided the info for "Gilbert Connections with Historical Figures" THANKS, CUZ SANDY, FOR SHARING! |
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