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Lydia Bone Gillespie

Female 1753 - 1828  (74 years)


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  • Name Lydia Bone Gillespie 
    Born 2 Aug 1753  Rowan Co NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 18 Feb 1828  Maury Co TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1514  MyTree
    Last Modified 9 Sep 2009 

    Father Thomas Gillespie,   d. 15 Dec 1796, Rowan Co NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Naomi Thompson,   d. 15 Dec 1796, Rowan Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1745  prob NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2363  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Capt. James Knox,   b. Abt 1752, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1784, Hopewell, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 32 years) 
    Married 4 Nov 1772  Rowan Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Robert Knox,   b. 18 Aug 1774, Rowan Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Maury Co., TN Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Jane Gracie Knox,   b. 1776, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1852, Mecklenburg Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F5122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
      Name: James Knox
      Gender: male
      Birth Place: NC
      Birth Year: 1752
      Spouse Name: Lydia Gillespie
      Spouse
      Birth Place: NC
      Spouse Birth Year: 1754
      Marriage
      Year: 1772
      Marriage State: NC


      Thomas Gillespie, b. 1719 in Cecil Co., MD, d. 12 December 1797 in
      Rowan County and is burried at Thyatira Presbyterian Church. The
      Augusta Co., VA Court Minutes for Sept. 1747 show that he was about to leave that colony. He can be identified in the Rowan County area on
      Sills Creek adjoining the Catheys prior to 1752 and was probably there
      earilier. His will, written 15 Nov. 1796, prb. Court 1797 recorded in
      Will Book G:2 names his wife Naomi, sons James, Isaac, Robert, George,
      Thomas, David, and Alexander. Daughters Martha Allison, Lydia Knox, as
      well as several grandsons. Naomi Gillespie died at 2 P.M. on Tuesday
      the 13th of December, aged 69. A notice printed in The North Carolina
      Journal said that they were the first settlers on the West side of the
      Yadkin River. They were buried in the same grave in the same coffin,
      survived by sixty-five descendents, of whom six sons carried them to the place of internment. See Raymond Parker Fouts, "Abstracts from the
      North Carolina Journal", pp137-8. The tombstone says they both died on
      the 12th, Thomas aged 78, Naomi, 69. The Gillespie tombstone is within ten feet of the graves of the immigrants John Knox and his wife Jean
      Gracy, all of whom were great grandparents of the eleventh president
      of the United States, James Knox Polk, Thomas and Naomi's daughter
      Lydia Gillespie having married Capt. James Knox, the Rowan County

      Marriage Bond dated 4 November 1772-see KNOX below