Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Gill, William Gardner 1819 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM GARDNER GILL, M.D., son of Daniel and Catherine (Threat) Gill, was
born in Franklin County, Tenn., April 24, 1819. He was reared on a farm,
educated at the common schools, and at the age of nineteen attended school in
Athens, where he undertook the study of medicine. He graduated with the highest
honors from the Louisville Medical College March 4, 1843, and practiced in
Somerville until 1871, when he removed to Decatur, and has practiced there ever
since. Dr. Gill was president of the Morgan County Medical Association four
years, and is now its vice-president. He has served as United States Medical
Examiner for North Alabama eight years.

  Before the war Dr. Gill owned a plantation of nearly five thousand acres, and
had many slaves. He was a man of great influence in his community, and was
administrator of a number of large and important estates.

  He was married November 19, 1845, to Miss Catherine, daughter of Joseph and
Rachel (Boyd) Kolb, of South Carolina, and they have  had born to them seven
children, namely: Margaret C., Rachel C. (now dead), Martha E., Nancy Elloise,
William, Etta (now dead) and Elizabeth J. (now dead).

  Mrs. Gill died April 1, 1857, and Dr. Gill was again married November 19,
1857l, to Miss Elizabeth J. Evans, of Christian County, Ky., daughter of Maj.
Isaac Evans. Eight children were born to the second marriage, and all died in
infancy, excepting three sons: William Robert, Clarence and Eugene. William
Robert was killed by a fall of a house.

  Mrs. Klizaheth Gill died October 13, 1878. She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, of which denomination her husband has been a member
fifty-four years, and a steward forty-five years.

  Daniel Gill was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., March 4, 1793, and his wife in
1798. He was a blacksmith by trade; served in the war of 1812, and afterward
located in Williamson County, Tenn. In the latter part of his life he became a
farmer. In 1822 he went to Bainbridge, and in 1826 to West Tennessee. In 1848 he
settled on a farm near Somerville, Morgan County, Ala., where he remained until
his death, in 1858. His wife was a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier who lost
several sons in the war of 1812. They reared seven children.

  James Gill, grandfather of Dr. W. G. Gill, was a soldier of the Revolutionary
War, served with four brothers under General Washington, and was present at the
surrender of  Lord Cornwallis.

  The ancestors of this family were among the founders of Jamestown, Va., and
the name Gill, which is derived from the French, was originally spelled Gillae.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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