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About Thomas Gillespie, Sr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21347030/thomas-gillespie
The origins of Thomas Gillespie are unknown. Various family trees include speculative parents, but they are entirely unproven. See Wikitree - Thomas Gillespie Sr. (1719 - 1796) for further analysis.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor #: A044835
Thomas Gillespie and wife Naomi Thompson reported to have both died on 12/12/1797.
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Thomas Gillespie, Sr. (1719-1797) and his wife Naomi (1728-1797) were the first white settlers west of the Yadkin River in Rowan County, North Carolina. Among their ten children was a daughter Lydia (1753-1826) who in 1722 married Captain James Knox (1752-1794). They had four children among whom was a daughter Jane (1776-1852) who married Samuel Polk (1772-1827) on Christmas Day in 1794 at Hopewell Church in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and they became the parents of the eleventh President of the United States, James Knox Polk.
Thomas Gillespie, Sr. was given a Revolutionary Land Grant of some 4000 acres in Williamson County, TN, but he never occupied it himself. On December 12, 1797 at two P.M., Naomi Gillespie died and eight hours later she was followed in death by her husband Thomas. In one of the most remarkable scenes ever witnessed, the six Gillespie sons bore their parents in a singe casket to a grave in the old Thyatira Church in Rowan Co. where they were buried within ten feet of John and Jean Gracy Knox, other kin of President Polk. Also buried nearby was Robert Gillespie who had been scalped by the Indians at Ft. Dobbs. http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/biggar/bireland5.html
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This was printed in the North Carolina Journal Halifax NC 09 January 1797
Died at 2 PM on Tuesday, the 13th December, Mrs. Naomi Gillespie aged 69; and at 10 the same evening, Mr. Thomas Gillespie aged 78. They were the first settlers in Rowan (County), on the West-Side of the Yadkin River, and had lived in the bridled bonds of love and matrimonial friendship; For the space of 55(?) years. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21347030
Thomas Gillespie, Sr. was given a Revolutionary grant of some 4,000 acres in Williamson County, but he never came here to take it up himself. On December 12, 1797 at two p.m., Naomi Gillespie died and eight hours later, her husband followed her in death. In one of the most remarkable scenes, many of their pioneer neighbors had ever witnessed, the six Gillespie sons bore their parents in a single casket, to a grave in the o1d Thyatira churchyard, in Rowan County, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2820317&...
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Thomas Gillespie, Sr.'s Timeline
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1719
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Ireland
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1738
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Bath, Augusta, Virginia, United States
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| 1741 |
1741
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Bath, Augusta, Virginia, United States
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1744
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McDowell, North Carolina, United States
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1746
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Bath, Augusta, Virginia, United States
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1747
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Augusta, Virginia, United States
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1747
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Rowan, North Carolina, United States
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July 22, 1751
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Rowan County, North Carolina, United States
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August 2, 1753
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Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, Colonial America
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