Worth-Lowndes-Brooks County GaArchives Biographies.....Gill, Andrew 1854 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   ANDREW GILL, who is road-master for the Gulf Line Railroad at Sylvester.
Georgia, was born on February 10, 1854, near Troupville, (Lowndes) now Brooks
county. Georgia, on the farm of his father, John Gill. His mother was Nancy
(McLeod) Gill, a native of Virginia, while his father was a native of South
Carolina. Both were of Scotch ancestry. John Gill served in the Volunteer army
of the Confederate states of America during the Civil war and saw much active
service throughout its duration. He was wounded at Gettysburg and came home in
January, 1865.

   Until he was nineteen years of age, Andrew Gill assisted with the work of the
farm, his actual school attendance in those years not aggregating nine months.
After leaving the farm he went to work as a track hand, beginning October 3,
1873, in the employ of the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, remaining thus employed for
four months. At the end of that time he was promoted to the position of section
foreman, a post which he held for sixteen years with that road and its
successors, the Plant System and the Atlantic Coast Line. In 1890 he was
promoted from the position of track foreman to that of conductor of a
construction train, and he served three years in that capacity. In 1893 he was
made supervisor of the Fifth Division of the Plant System, serving thus for nine
years, after which he was promoted to the position of road-master, in which
important position he continued for two years, making his entire service with
this company, as measured by time, to cover a period of thirty years. In 1904,
Mr. Gill quit the railroad service and engaged in business for himself as the
operator of a naval store, and in this enterprise he continued through a period
of seven years. In October, 1911, he took service as superintendent of
construction with the Cotton State Construction Company in railroad building,
the work being in connection with the Gulf Lane Railroad where he is at present
employed as road-master.

   Mr. Gill has been twice married. On March 9, 1875, he was united in marriage
with Sarah Martin, the daughter of A. V. Martin of Georgia. She died on October
20, 1877, leaving two children,—Mary, who died in her nineteenth year of life,
and W. D., who died in infancy. On January 22, 1879, he was married to Mollie
Foster, the daughter of Hampton C. Foster, a native of Tennessee, and Sarah
(Smith) Foster, of Georgia. Of this latter union ten children were born, of
which number nine are living. They are: Andrew W.; Fannie L.; Hampton C.; Lewis
M.; Anna Vashti; M. W. Roy; Katie; Peter, and Robert L. Mr. Gill had two
brothers,—Daniel and Angus, both of whom are deceased, and his sisters, Jane and
Laura, are both married and make their homes in Georgia.

   The Gill family is one held in high esteem in their community, where they
have been well known for years. They have no definite church affiliations, but
attend all churches impartially. Mr. Gill is a Mason of the Royal Arch degree.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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