Gilfillan, Amaziah

GILFILLAN

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/5/2021 at 13:37:37

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.738

GILFILLAN, AMAZIAH, farmer, Linn Township, Sec. 6; P. O. Commerce; born in Ross county, Ohio, July 19, 1816; and lived in Ohio till twenty-two years old, then emigrated to Clinton county, Indiana, and remained till he came to Madison county, this State, and from there to this county in the spring of 1856; was married in Ohio to Miss Belle Bailey, a native of Virginia, in 1837, September 24th; have a family of eleven children living: Adam E., Drusilla (wife of Henry Wooden), William, Elizabeth (wife of David Pettit), Eliza J. (wife of Benjamin F. Burkhead), Caroline, Mary A. (wife of Elihu Ellis), Jasen, Melissa (wife of John Spencer), Rosetta and Thomas; three deceased, Lillian D., Ida B., and an infant; owns a farm of 237 acres.