Gillespie, Mattie C.

Female 1859 - 1866  (7 years)


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  • Name Gillespie, Mattie C. 
    Born 1859  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • The date of birth is calculated from a reported date of birth and age at death. It has been assumed that the birth took place in Illinois.
    Gender Female 
    Died 22 Jun 1866  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • It has been assumed that the death took place in Illinois.
    Buried Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Address:
    Woodlawn Cemetery 
    • She and family members were buried in Section II, lots 105-106.
    Person ID I8122  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 26 Nov 2017 

    Father Gillespie, David,   b. 30 Sep 1828, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Aug 1881, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Barnsback, Minna A.,   b. 12 Nov 1834, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1888, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married 8 Oct 1855  Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
    • According one biographical sketch of David, published in 1899, he and his wife were the parents of six children, four of whom survived him. At this time, this genealogical history has details of only four children.
    Census (family) Jun 1880  Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10

    •      According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration, the household in Ward 2 consisted of David Gillespie, a 51 year old lawyer, his wife, Minna Gillespie, age 45, keeping house, and their four children: Julia Gillespie (age 23); Edwin Gillespie (age 18); Henry Gillespie (age 15), and Mary Gillespie (age 10). There were two single boarders: Carrie Houck (age 23) and Clay H. Lynch (age 32), a grain dealer. Also living in the home were two single servants: Mary Mansfield (age 18), born in Maryland of Irish parents; and William Meek (age 26), a farm laborer, he and his parents were born in Bohemia.
           The next household enumerated in this census consisted of Moses Sherman (age 42, a grain dealer), his wife, Isabella Sherman (age 38) and their daughter, Martha Sherman (age 12). Also living in the household was a servant, Mary Childres (age 16).
           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.
    Family ID F1327  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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 84. Cemetery Section II; lots 105-106.
      Mattie C. Gillespie; daughter of David and Minna; died 22 June 1866; age 7 years, 3 months, 18 days.
           Calculating from this information, Mattie C. Gillespie would have been born on 4 March 1859.

    2. [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 84. Cemetery Section II; lots 105-106.
      Mattie C. Gillespie; daughter of David and Minna; died 22 June 1866; age 7 years, 3 months, 18 days.

    3. [S104] Personal communication, Post-em to WorldConnect database from Geli Buchta on 15 November 2003.
      In two notes posted to my genealogical databased available at RootsWeb.com, Geli Buchta reported that on the 1882 marriage license for Edward William Fiegenbaum and Julia B. Gillespie, Julia's mother was identified as Marina Barnsback.

    4. [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; David Gillespie household, dwelling 162, family 188, lines 8-27. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in October 2008, March 2012 & November 2017.
           In the household was: 18) Gillespie, David; white; male; age 51; [head]; married; and, 19) Gillespie, Minna; white; female; age 45; wife; married.
           For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for these individuals.

    5. [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-Barnsback marriage.
      Accessed on March 2012. David Gillespie and Minna C. Barnsback were granted a marriage license or were married on 8 October 1855. Madison County, Illinois marriage license 282; volume 6, page 132.

    6. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), page 359.
      "[David Gilespie] was married to Miss Minna A. Barnsback, October 8th, 1855. She was the daughter of the late Julius L. Barnsback."

    7. [S270] Portrait and Biographical Album of Coles County, Ill., Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with.... Reprint edition by the Coles County, Illinois Genealogical Society; 1978? (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1887), biographical sketch of Henry C. Barnsback; page 209.
      Minna C. Barnsback, child of Julius Louis Hans Barnsback and Mary M. Gonterman, was married on 8 October 1855 to David Gillespie.

    8. [S271] The Bench and Bar of Illinois; Historical and Reminiscent, edited by John M. Palmer (Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1899), volume 2, page 697.
      Biographical sketch of David Gillespie by Judge H. S. Baker.
           "David Gillespie was married October 8, 1855, to Miss Minna Barmback, of Madison county, Illinois, by whom he had six children, four of whom, with his widow, survive him."

    9. [S273] Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System, Marriage record for E. W. Fiegenbaum and Julia B. Gillespie, 1882.
      Southern Illinois University, Morris Library, Carbondale, Illinois. Marriage records for Madison County, Illinois, 1882. Two photocopied images from microfilm. Marriage license 188 was issued on 12 May 1882. The bride was Julia B. Gillespie, a resident of Edwardsville, age 26, white, born at Edwardsville, a child of David Gillespie and Minna Barnsback.

    10. [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; David Gillespie household, dwelling 162, family 188, lines 8-27. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in October 2008, March 2012 & November 2017.
           The household consisted of: 18) Gillespie, David; white; male; age 51; [head]; married; lawyer; born in Illinois; father born in New York; mother born in Ireland. 19) Gillespie, Minna; white; female; age 45; wife; married; keeping house; born in Illinois; father born in Hanover; mother born in Kentucky. 20) Gillespie, Julia; white; female; age 23; daughter; single; at home; born in Illinois; father born in Illinois; mother born in Illinois. 21) Gillespie, Edwin; white; male; age 18; son; single; goes to school; attended school in the census year; born in Illinois; father born in Illinois; mother born in Illinois. 22) Gillespie, Henry; white; male; age 15; son; single; goes to school; attended school in the census year; born in Illinois; father born in Illinois; mother born in Illinois. 23) Gillespie, Mary; white; female; age 10; daughter; single; goes to school; attended school in the census year; born in Illinois; father born in Illinois; mother born in Illinois. 24) Houck, Carrie; white; female; age 23; boarder; single; at home; born in Illinois; father born in Illinois; mother born in Massachusetts. 25) Lynch, Clay H.; white; male; age 32; boarder; single; grain dealer; born in Illinois; father born in Ireland; mother born in Kentucky. 26) Mansfield, Mary; white; female; age 18; servant; single; domestic servant; born in Maryland; father born in Ireland; mother born in Ireland. 27) Meek, William; white; male; age 26; servant; single; works on farm; born in Bohemia; father born in Bohemia; mother born in Bohemia.