Capt. Alexander Gillespie and Minerva Stoolfier

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Husband Capt. Alexander Gillespie ¹

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           Born: Abt 1820
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           Died: 1879 1
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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1842 1

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Wife Minerva Stoolfier ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1883
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         Father: Joshua Stoolfier (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Nancy Garvin (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Nancy C. Gillespie ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: Sep 1844 4
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           Died: 12 Dec 1905 4
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         Spouse: John C. Kelley (1840-      ) 5
           Marr: 1865 3 4

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2 M Joshua M. Gillespie ¹

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         Spouse: Margaret "Maggie" Dunlap (      -1887) 1 6
           Marr: 1870 1

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Alexander Gillespie

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Cranberry Twp, Butler Co, PA
He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion during the years of 1861 and 1865. He was among the first to respond to his country’s call, and enlisted in 1861, in Gen. John N. Purviance’s Company of “nine months’ men.” At the expiration of the stipulated time, he re-enlisted and continued in the army until his failing health gave him an honorable discharge, which was in June, 1865. He died of consumption induced by exposure at Nashville, TN, while in the barracks.
He and his wife had four children; only two were still living in 1883.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 229.

2 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 228.

3 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 835.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 688.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 687.

6 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 672.