James J. Gilmore,Farmer, section 30, postoffice Agency, was born April 9,
1818, in Tennessee. His parents emigrated to Rush Creek, Clay County,
Missouri
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James J. Gilmore,Farmer, section 30, postoffice Agency, was born April 9,
1818, in Tennessee. His parents emigrated to Rush Creek, Clay County,
Missouri, when he was an infant, and in connection with others, were
obliged to build a fort for protection against the Indians. James remained
there until 1837, when he moved with his parents to Agency Ford, Buchanan
County, where his mother died in the spring of 1850, aged fifty-two years.
His father died in the fall of 1858, at the age of sixty-five. Mr. Gilmore
was married April 10, 1839, to Miss Sophia N. Miller, a native of
Kentucky. She was born November 12, 1820. They had eight children, Mary
Jane, Robert M., James A., H. S., Eliza, Jennie, Margaret, and Jefferson
D. Mr. G. owns ninety acres of land under cultivation. His wife and son-
in-law, D. A. Yates were drowned November 22, 1879, in Pigeon Creek. Mr.
G. has been school director for several years, and was deputy collector
and sheriff of the county. He is a Master Mason, holding membership in
Agency Lodge, No. 10, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
in which he is an elder.

Taken from History of Buchanan County, Missouri, 1881 page 977 Contributed
by Andrew Evans