J. E. Gill, Union Parish, Louisiana
Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p444. .
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.

Submitted by Mike Miller



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Among the men of Union Parish, La., who have tilled the soil from boyhood,
and whose accumulations are the result of persistent toil and earnest
endeavor, may be mentioned J. E. Gill, who has a fine plantation of 1,040
acres, of which 450 acres are under cultivation devoted to the raising of
cotton and corn. He was born in Louisiana April 25, 1853, a son of W. M.
and Mary J. (Culbertson) Gill, who were born in Georgia and Alabama
respectively, the former's birth occurring in 1813. He received his
initiatory education in the state of his birth, and after reaching manhood
removed to Alabama and soon afterward to Mississippi, where he was married
March 4, 1840, and the year of 1841 found him in Union Parish, La., where
he at once engaged in the calling which he had followed throughout life,
planting, and soon became well to do. He was a useful and public-spirited
citizen, but was not particularly interested in politics and refused many
lucrative and substantial official positions. He was an earnest member of
the Baptist church for a number of years prior to his death, which occurred
at his home in Louisiana in Match, 1884, his wife's death occurring in
July, 1882. She was a daughter of John Culberson, of Alabama, and bore her
husband fourteen children, only two of whom are deceased: Mary A.; Martha
J.; Joseph B., who died in infancy; Sarah E.; Clementine B.; W. L.;
Napoleon B., who is the present assessor of Lincoln parish; John K.; B.
M.; Camella, who died in 1885; J. Ella; Henry F., who is deputy to his
brother Napoleon B.; Cary C., who is also his brother's deputy, and Zoe
Alma. These brothers and sisters are residents of Union and Lincoln
parishes. J. E. Gill was married on the 26th of November, 1874, to Miss
Martha B. Boughman, who was born in Louisiana in 1856, and their union has
resulted in the birth of six children: Ruel C., who was born in 1875;
Romma B. who was born in 1877; Avva was born September 9. 1880; Wilber C.,
August 30, 1884; Maud L., September 12, 1887, and J. E., January 80, 1890.
Mr. Gill is a worthy member of the Baptist church and is a liberal
supporter of schools and churches. His plantation is about eight miles
southwest of Farmersville in Union parish and everything about it indicates
that a man of thrift and enterprise has the management of affairs. He is
one of the leading men of the parish and his kindly and cordial manners and
his upright business methods have won him many friends.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p444. 
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.

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