Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Gillam, Thomas 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

THOMAS GILLAM.

   Thomas Gillam was born in Pennsylvania and came to Carroll county, Indiana,
in April, 1829, and located on land near the town of Radnor. Mr. Gillam was one
of the early associate justices. At the first meeting of the Old Settler's
Society, held in 1855, Mr. Gillam made the following statement: "Eight children
had gone out into the woods to hunt ginseng and became lost and remained out all
night. The neighbors were aroused next morning, and with guns and horns searched
the woods. One of the children suggested to the others that they pound on a tree
with a club that they might be found. The searching party heard the pounding and
soon rescued the lost little ones." Mr. Gillam died about fifty years ago.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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