William Craig Gillis

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1810

Death Date

c1887

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White

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"William Craig Gillis" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00006247, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Whitley County, Kentucky, politician. Kentucky native. Married to Violet Dickerson Gillis in 1833. Father of Joseph G. Gillis, Henry S. Gillis, William Gillis, James H. Gillis, Mary E. Gillis, Emily Gillis, Elizabeth Jane Gillis, Edward E. Gillis, Anner Gillis, and Silas A. Gillis. Farmer in Whitley County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Whitley County from 1855 to 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, District 2, p. 28. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, p. 117. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, Wats Creek, p. 13. Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry, Kentucky, 1833. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 758. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Ancestry, Whitley County, Administrative and Executive Bonds, 1867-1906, 1887.

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