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GILLESPIE A D. Mr. A. D. Gillespie was born in Mobile, Alabama, in
1846, the son of George Washington C. and Virtue (Turner) Gillespie, the father
born in Tennessee and the mother in England, from which country she came to
America with her parents) George and Mary Turner, who located in Philadelphia
where they lived for a period of ten years, then moved to Alabama.
The paternal grandparents lived and died in Tennessee. The parents of the subject came to Iowa in
1848 and located at Burlington, coming to Knoxville, Marion County, in 1851, and
in 1864 they moved to Jasper County, locating on forty acres, which they
purchased in Rock Creek Township. Here
the elder Gillespie set to work with all his courage and soon had a good home
and a comfortable income, adding to his original purchase from time to time
until he became the owner of two hundred acres of excellent land on which he
lived until his death in 1891, his widow surviving until 1906 when she passed
away at the age of eighty-two years. They were high respected in this part of
the County and in fact, wherever they were known. Their family consisted of
eight children, six of whom are living. Political
the father was a Republican. A. D. Gillespie was reared on the home farm, which he worked when boy, and attended the public schools in the winter months, later taking a course at Grinnell Academy. He has spent his active life on the home place, having been about eighteen years old when he came here, and he and his sister Mary are still operating the homestead, having kept it well improved and well tilled. He raises a diversity of crops and raises considerable livestock. Mr. Gillespie has remained unmarried. Politically he is a Republican. The
Past and Present of Jasper County, Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-in-Chief,
1912, B. F. Bowden & Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. |
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