Joseph Gill

Name: Joseph GILL

Sex: M

Birth: 15 DEC 1815 in Territory of Indiana; now Sullivan Co., IN

Death: 1 NOV 1895 in Dent Co., MO of pneumonia

Occupation: Cabinet- maker, Farmer-Teacher-State Rep.

Occupation: 10 APR 1852 Established WINSTON Post Office in the Gill Home on the Meramec.

Occupation: 11 OCT 1859 Renamed Post oOffice in his home--TWANE. This was ransacked by Bushwhackers during the Civil War

Occupation: 4 JUN 1872 Re=establioshed Twane Post Office in his home on the Meramec

Burial: Copeland Cemetery, Dent Co., near Salem, MO Judge Young officiating.

_ELEC: 1864 Joseph Gill represented Dent Co., in the 23rd General Assembly in Jefferson City, MO

Event: Parents (Facts Pg) s/William GILL-Mary Anna McREYNOLDS

Census: 1860 Resided Spring Creek Twp., Dent Co., MO; age 44

Census: 1870 Resided Meramec Twp., Dent Co., MO age 52

Census: 1880 Resided Meramec TWP., Dent Co., MO age 64

COMM: Built his home on the Meramec Farm and it stood in splendor until it was destroyed by a tornado in 1957.

COMM: A descendant of George and Mary Lewis GILL of Fishing Creek, Chester, SC

COMM: Came to the Dent Co. MO area and owned a farm near Antioch. Later, he moved to a farm near Union Cemetery. Still later he bought a farm on the Meramec near the Henderson farm owned by his brother-in