William Camp Gildersleeve

• BIRTH 6 Dec 1795 Midway, Liberty County, Georgia, USA
• DEATH 4 Oct 1871 (aged 75) Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
• BURIAL Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 41.2586800, Longitude: -75.8718900
• PLOT 950 MEMORIAL ID 176679962 Photos by Joan Cavanaugh

Mr. W. C. Gildersleeve, was a pronounced and fearless Abolitionist who operated one of two Underground Railroad stations in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Here he hid runaway slaves in his home and store, secretly transporting them at night to the next station on the Underground Railroad. He at one time was mobbed and ridden on a rail through the streets of Wilkes-Barre, for sheltering fugitive slaves in his home. He lived to see slavery abolished. He was born and raised in Liberty county, Ga., and through his mother, who was a Norman, was connected with some of the leading slave holding families of Georgia. He was a half-brother of Thomas Quarterman. [2]

Parents
Cyrus Gildersleeve 1768–1837
Amarinthia Norman Gildersleeve 1771–1807

Spouses
Nancy Spencer Riggs Gildersleeve 1789–1829 (m. 1817)
Hannahretta B. Mitchell Gildersleeve 1802–1888 (m. 1856)
Mary Reeve Gardiner Gildersleeve 1794–1856

Siblings
Cyrus Gildersleeve 1793–1817

Half Siblings
Thomas Quarterman 1788–1857
Caroline Matilda Gildersleeve Davis 1812–1884
Francine Ann Gildersleeve 1815–1819
Thomas Spencer Gildersleeve 1817–1818
Frances N Gildersleeve Laverty 1822–1895

Children
Cyrus Norman Gildersleeve 1819–1836
Anna Elizabeth Gildersleeve Parke 1822–1900
Mary Gildersleeve Sayre 1826–1920

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176679962/william-camp-gildersl...

[2] History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania; H. C. Bradsby, Editor, S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893

Links

• Wikipedia

Sources

• Scranton Wochenblatt 12 Oct. 1871. Chronicling America. Web.