Gillespie, Isabella J.

Female 1841 - 1920  (78 years)


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  • Name Gillespie, Isabella J. 
    Born 13 Nov 1841  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    • The place of birth is not known at this time.
    Gender Female 
    Died 10 Jan 1920  [2, 4
    • The place of death is not known at this time.
    Buried Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Address:
    Woodlawn Cemetery 
    • She was buried in Section II, lot 85.
    Person ID I8105  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2018 

    Father Gillespie, Matthew,   b. 1807, City of New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1861, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Mother McGrew, Martha A.,   b. 17 Sep 1815, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jun 1883, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 10 Mar 1839  [5, 6

    •      This was a second marriage for both Matthew Gillespie and Martha A. McGrew, whose first husband had been a Mr. Hynes or Hinds. The marriage license was issued in Fayette County, Illinois. Further details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Family ID F2616  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sherman, Moses B.,   b. 4 Dec 1837, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Nov 1900, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married Y  [7, 8
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Census (family) 1880  Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9

    •      According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration, the household in Ward 2 consisted of Moses Sherman, a 42 year old grain dealer, his wife, Isabella Sherman, age 38, keeping house, and their daughter: Martha Sherman, age 12 and attending school. Also living in the home was Mary Childres, black, age 16, a domestic servant born in Missouri.
           The household enumerated in this census just before the Sherman's was the home of David Gillespie (age 51, a lawyer), his wife, Minna Gillespie (age 45) and their children: Julia Gillespie (age 23), Edwin Gillespie (age 18), Henry Gillespie (age 15), and Mary Gillespie (age 10). Also living in the home were two boarders: Carrie Houck (age 23) and Clay H. Lynch (age 32); and two servants: Mary Mansfield (age 18), and William Meek (age 26).
           And the dwelling enumerated after the Sherman's was the home of Wesley R. Brink (age 30, a publisher), his wife, Nellie Brink (age 26), and their two daughters, Florence Brink (age 3) and Julia Brink (age 1). Also living in the household was Wesley's mother-in-law, Martha Gillespie (age 64, a widow), and Louisa Bernius (age 20), a servant.
           What the 1880 census does not reveal is the close family ties woven through these three homes and foreshadowing extended family associations. Wesley Brink's mother-in-law, Martha A. (McGrew) (Hynes, or Hinds) Gillespie, the second wife of Matthew Gillespie, would have been the mother of Wesley's wife, Elizabeth Eleanor "Nellie" (Gillespie) Brink. Martha was also the mother of Isabella J. (Gillespie) Sherman and the step-mother of David Gillespie, who was the son of Matthew Gillespie and his first wife, Nancy Gordon.
           In 1882, Julia B. Gillespie, daughter of David and Minna (Barnsback) Gillespie, became the first wife Dr. Edward William Fiegenbaum. Clay Hardin Lynch, one of the boarders living in the Gillespie home in 1880, married one of Dr. Fiegenbaum's sisters, Martha Lizette Fiegenbaum, in 1884.
    Children 
     1. Sherman, Martha,   b. Abt 1867–1868, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Sherman, Daniel C.,   b. 17 Nov 1868, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1872, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2618  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
      Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "...he [Matthew Gillespie] again married March 10th, 1839, Mrs. Martha Hynes, nee McGrew, a lady of Scotch parentage. Only three children of this marriage grew to man and womanhood; Isabella J, wife of Moses B. Sherman; Nellie, wife of W. R. Brink, both residents of Edwardsville, and Joseph J. living in San Francisco."

    2. [S104] Personal communication, from Thomas G. Allen to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 3 November 2017 via email.
      "Isabella J. Gillespie, dau. of Matthew and Martha, was born 13 November 1841 and died 10 January 1920." The places of birth and death were not mentioned.

    3. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Moses Sherman household, dwelling 163; family 189; lines 28-31. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           In the household was: 29) Sherman, Isabella; white, female, age 38; wife; born in Illinois; father born in New York; mother born in Ohio.
           By calculation from the information provided, Isabella Sherman would have been born about 1841-1842. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for this person.

    4. [S286] Woodlawn Cemetery, St. Louis St., Edwardsville, IL; An Inventory of the Five Original Sections Recorded by Members of the Madison County Genealogical Society, 1995-1998. Compiled and indexed by Marie Thompson Eberle. (Edwardsville, Illinois: Madison County Genealogical Society, 1999), page 80. Cemetery Section II; lot 85.
      Isabella G. Sherman; born 13 November 1831; died 10 January 1920.

    5. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
      Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "His wife [Nancy (Gordon) Gillespie] dying, he [Matthew Gillespie] again married March 10th, 1839, Mrs. Martha Hynes, nee McGrew, a lady of Scotch parentage. Only three children of this marriage grew to man and womanhood; Isabella J, wife of Moses B. Sherman; Nellie, wife of W. R. Brink, both residents of Edwardsville, and Joseph J. living in San Francisco."

    6. [S110] Illinois State Archives, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 [online database] (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/marriage.html - last confirmed in March 2012), Gillespie-Hinds marriage.
      Accessed in July 2013. Mathew [sic] Gillespie and Martha Hinds were granted a marriage license or were married on 10 March 1839. Fayette County, Illinois marriage license [number not provided]; volume 00A, page 0013.

    7. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
      Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "His wife [Nancy (Gordon) Gillespie] dying, he [Matthew Gillespie] again married March 10th, 1839, Mrs. Martha Hynes, nee McGrew, a lady of Scotch parentage. Only three children of this marriage grew to man and womanhood; Isabella J, wife of Moses B. Sherman;...."

    8. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Moses Sherman household, dwelling 163; family 189; lines 28-31. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           In the household was: 28) Sherman, Moses; white; male; age 42; [head]; married; and, 29) Sherman, Isabella; white, female, age 38; wife; married.
           For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for these individuals.

    9. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Moses Sherman household, dwelling 163; family 189; lines 28-31. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
           The household consisted of: 28) Sherman, Moses; white; male; age 42; [head]; married; grain dealer; born in Rhode Island; father born in Rhode Island; mother born in Rhode Island. 29) Sherman, Isabella; white, female, age 38; wife; married; keeping house; born in Illinois; father born in New York; mother born in Ohio. 30) Sherman, Martha; white; female; age 12; daughter; single; goes to school; born in Illinois; father born in Rhode Island; mother born in Illinois. 31) Childres, Mary; black; female; age 16; servant; domestic servant; cannot read; cannot write; born in Missouri; father born in Miss- [sic]; mother born in Missouri.