Gillespie, Edwin David

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• Census: Jun 1880, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Census:

     According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration of the household in Ward 2, Edwin Gillespie, age 18, single, attending school, lived with his parents, David Gillespie (age 51) and Minna Gillespie (age 45), and his three siblings: Julia Gillespie (age 23); Henry Gillespie (age 15), and Mary Gillespie (age 10).
     Also living in the home were two single borders: Carrie Houck (age 23) and Clay H. Lynch (age 32), a grain dealer. There were also two single servants: Mary Mansfield (age 18), born in Maryland of Irish parents; and William Meek (age 26), a farm laborer whose parents were born in Bohemia.
     A short distance from Edwin Gillespie's home where two families of relatives. These included Isabella J. (Gillespie) Sherman, her husband, Moses Sherman, and their daughter, Martha Sherman; and also Elizabeth Eleanor "Nellie" (Gillespie) Brink, her husband, Wesley R. Brink, their two daughters, Florence Brink and Julia Brink.
     Living in the Brink household was Martha A. (McGrew) (Hynes, or Hinds) Gillespie, the second wife of Matthew Gillespie. She was the mother of Elizabeth Eleanor "Nellie" (Gillespie) Brink and Isabella J. (Gillespie) Sherman, and the step-mother of David Gillespie, who was the son of Matthew Gillespie and his first wife, Nancy Gordon. She was therefore a grandmother to all the children in these three households.

Buried:
He and family members were buried in Section II, lots 105-106.

Died:
The place of death is not known at this time.