John Charles Fremont GillespieAge: 72 years1857–1929
- Name
- John Charles Fremont Gillespie
- Given names
- John Charles Fremont
- Surname
- Gillespie
 Birth | May 6, 1857 |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 3 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 11 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
 Marriage | Anna Elisabeth Epler — View this family January 26, 1878 (Age 20 years) |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Nita Belle Gillespie July 9, 1878 (Age 21 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 20 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 1, 1880 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Laura Una Pearl Gillespie November 26, 1880 (Age 23 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John Aleck Barnett — Nita Belle Gillespie — View this family October 22, 1897 (Age 40 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Enid A Barnett May 16, 1898 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 40 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Edith Anna Barnett July 20, 1899 (Age 42 years) |
| Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 43 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Aleck Gillespie Barnett April 7, 1901 (Age 43 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Thomas Russell Wilson — Laura Una Pearl Gillespie — View this family June 4, 1903 (Age 46 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | Helen Elizabeth Wilson July 23, 1907 (Age 50 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 58 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 59 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 60 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 72 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
 Death | October 13, 1929 (Age 72 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Shaffer Cemetery |
| Family with Anna Elisabeth Epler |
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John Charles Fremont Gillespie Birth: May 6, 1857 — Kosciusko, Indiana, United States Death: October 13, 1929 — Fulton, Indiana, United States |
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Anna Elisabeth Epler Birth: August 3, 1859 — Kosciusko, Indiana, United States Death: October 26, 1929 — Kewanna, Fulton, Indiana, United States |
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Marriage: January 26, 1878 — Washington, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States |
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5 months daughter |
Nita Belle Gillespie Birth: July 9, 1878 21 18 — Kosciusko, Indiana, United States Death: 1945 — Kewanna, Fulton, Indiana, United States |
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2 years daughter |
Laura Una Pearl Gillespie Birth: November 26, 1880 23 21 — Kosciusko, Indiana, United States Death: April 5, 1963 — Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States |
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| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - John Charles Fremont Gillespie - Household
Prairie, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States
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| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - John Charles Fremont Gillespie - Household
Wayne, Fulton, Indiana, United States
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| Name | Nita Bell Barnett (nee Gillespie) Obituary and Family Listing
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Monday, August 27, 1945
Nita Bell Barnett
Final rites for Mrs. Nita Bell BARNETT, 67, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the residence, Kewanna, with the Rev. Douglas B. STARKE officiating. Interment will be made in the Barnett cemetery near Kewanna.
Nita Bell [GILLESPIE], daughter of J. C. and Anna (EPLER) GILLESPIE, was born on July 9, 1878, in Kosciusko county, where she resided until about six years of age, when she removed with her parents to Fulton county. In October, 1897, she became the bride of John BARNETT and with him established a home in Kewanna, where she has since resided. For the past 20 years she has been employed as a librarian in the Kewanna public library. Her death occurred at the Ewing nursing home in Rochester at 3:40 o'clock Sunday after an illness of several months.
Surviving are the husband; two daughters, Miss Edna [BARNETT], and Mrs. Edith COSTELLO of Kewanna; one son, Alex [BARNETT] of Evansville; two sisters, Mrs. Una WILSON, Kewanna, and Miss Barbara GILLESPIE of Roann; three brothers, Freemont [GILLESPIE] of Fort Wayne, Jack [GILLESPIE] of Roann and Ted GILLESPIE of Winslow, Ariz.; two granddaughters, Helen Louise [COSTELLO] and Anna Marie COSTELLO of Kewanna.
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| Name | Una Pearl Wilson (nee Gillespie) Obituary and Family Listing
Published in the Rochester(IN) Sentinel, Saturday, April 6, 1963
Funeral rites will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the Kewanna Methodist church for Mrs. Una Pearl WILSON, 82, Kewanna, who died Friday morning at the Lafayette home of a daughter, Mrs. Helen GRIFFIN. The Revs. Earl HEIMBERGER and Ralph GWIN will officiate and burial will be in the Kewanna I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the Harrison funeral home in Kewanna after Sunday noon and at the church an hour before the service. Mrs. Wilson was born Nov. 26, 1880, the daughter of J.C.F. and Anna EPLER GILLESPIE. She was married June 4, 1903, to Thomas R. WILSON, who preceded in death. She formerly was a school teacher. Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Kewanna Methodist church, Eastern Star and Rebekah lodge. Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Griffin; two grandsons, Tom GRIFFIN, Lafayette, and Edgar GRIFFIN, Los Angeles; a sister, Miss Barbara GILLESPIE, Cleveland; a brother, Ted GILLESPIE, Winslow, Ariz., and several nieces and nephews.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1963.htm
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