James Gillpatrick

Data from SWOK Gene. Society Tree Tracers Publication Vol. X #4 Fall 1988

Information: Gilbert Bolt states that James Logan Gillpatrick is his great grandfather.

dated 21 December 1898 Vernon, Texas

Rebecca Jane Bilyeau (this is the spelling in the document)

James Logan Gillpatrick where married 12 August 1866 in Overton, Logan Co., TN and that he, James Logan Gillpatrick, never picked up his licensce.

1914 Manitou, OKlahoma; The Affiants,R.W. and Elanda E. Gillpatrick of Minitou, Tillman County, OK ( *post office established 29 Jan 1902) state that Rebecca Jane is the lawful wife of James Logan Gillpatrick and that they have visited James Logan until his death.

The James Logan Gillpatricks lived in Overton and moved to Vernon, Texas in 1881 and then to Grady County, OK.

James and Rebecca are buried in Naples Cemetery near Alex Oklahoma.

James Logans father also James fought in the Civil War with

22ND (Murray's) Tennessee Infantry Battalion Also called 2nd Tennessee Infantry Battalion.

Murrays Unit of the TN Volunteers. Father and son fought on opposite sides of the war.

• Oklahoma Place Names 2nd Ed.

Manitou, in Northern Tillman County.

Post Office establised 29 Jan. 1902.

The name is an Algonquian word for God or guardian spirit.