Christopher Fred Gillespie and Catherine E. Zuendel

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Husband Christopher Fred Gillespie ¹

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           Born: 31 Mar 1827 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Gillespie (Abt 1788-1862) 1 2
         Mother: Rebecca Hays (1791-1847) 3 4

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       Marriage: 22 Sep 1853 1

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Wife Catherine E. Zuendel ⁵

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         Father: Henry Zuendel (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Dorothy [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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1 M Franklin Gillespie ¹

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2 M Robert Zuendel Gillespie ⁵

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           Born: 13 Oct 1856 - Ross Run, PA 5
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         Spouse: Alma P. Hoyt (      -      ) 6

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3 M Henry Edward Gillespie ¹

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4 M William Samuel Gillespie ¹

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5 M Fred White Gillespie ¹

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6 F Katie Elizabeth Gillespie ¹

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         Spouse: Albert Lightner (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Christopher Fred Gillespie

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When a child, his parents removed to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, residing at Brownsville, where he grew to manhood. When about nineteen years of age, he went to Franklin, Venango County, where he learned the trade of a puddler in the rolling mill. Owing to a strike, he discontinued that line of work and undertook farming. He afterward went to Nebraska, Forest County, and entered the employ of George Lacy, working in the lumber business for three or four years. He then went to Tionesta, where for a time he followed plastering and bricklaying. From Tionesta he went to Ross Run, where he lived for fourteen years. He had a contract with Hamilton Stow for cutting and hauling logs, sawing them into lumber, and delivering the lumber on Tionesta Creek, at the mouth of Ross Run. While at Ross Run, he purchased a tract of land on German Hill, comprising 700 or 800 acres. Later he sold this property and purchased three farms on Whig Hill, in 1865. Two years later he built the house where he lived most of his remaining years. He also went into lumbering for himself, purchasing a saw mill at Tylersburg, Clarion County, which was operated by Gillespie & Root.

When a young man, he had a christian conversion, and while at Ross Run he took up Christian duty and became an active worker in the cause. He died an adherent to the Methodist faith, and it was his daily declaration that he was ready to go when God should call. His last illness, extending over a period of more than three years, was of such a nature as to produce great distress, but he died as peacefully as a child falls away to sleep. He was a trustee in the Methodist Church in three different towns. In connection with Eli Berlin he built the first church on Whig Hill, and gave ground for the school house and for the cemetery. He was a valued member of Tionesta Lodge, No. 369, I. O. O. F., whose members attended the funeral and participated in time funeral exercises according to the ritual of the order.
His Scotch-Irish descent would indicate a man of strong prejudices and convictions, and such he was. His likes and dislikes were strong. As a friend, there was no better. His was a logical mind, and he was not only big-hearted, but tender-hearted. Better advantages in early life would have shown him to be a man of more than ordinary powers and possibilities. As it was, his character made itself felt and his personality left a deep impression wherever and whenever he chose to exert it in any direction. In politics, he was a Republican, and was the first postmaster at Whig Hill. He took quite an interest in local public affairs, and was enthusiastic on the subject of good roads. He served as road-commissioner for thirty-three consecutive years, and his roads were the best in Forest County. He took pride in doing any work intrusted to him in a creditable manner.

1 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 534.

2 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 457.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 558.

4 Newton Edward Brightwell, DeWoody Records (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), Pg 36.

5 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 532.

6 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 533.