GILLETTE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GILLETTE, M. R. - b: 1832 Henry Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 701
residence: Big Creek Twp

M. R. Gillette, farmer and stock dealer, section 10, is one of the substantial men 
of Big Creek Township, and was born in Henry County, November 18, 1832. Captain 
George H. Gillette, his father, was a native of Lincoln County, Kentucky, and was 
born April 8, 1803. He came to Missouri when a young man, and was one of the 
pioneer settlers of St. Charles County, removing from there to Jackson. County, 
and thence to Texas, where he spent but a short time. Returning to Missouri he 
located in Saline County, where he was married to Miss Frances E. Hayes, of 
Tennessee. After his marriage he came to Henry County, which at that time was a 
part of Rives. He entered a section of land in Shawnee Township and improved a 
farm, upon which he lived until his death in 1857. He was captain of a militia 
company during the Mormon troubles. M. R. Gillette spent his youth on a farm in 
this county, and was married in the fall of 1860 to Miss Sybbellow B. Huston, a 
Kentuckian by birth, but who was reared in Scotland County, Missouri. She was a 
daughter of John A. Huston. They have one daughter, Florence Belle. Mr. Gillette 
enlisted in the Confederate service in the fall of 1861, in Colonel Hunter's 
Cavalry Regiment, and served one year as General Hindman's escort. After this he 
was transferred to the St. Louis Legion, where he served until after the Helena 
fight; then joined General Hunter's regiment, in which he remained until the close 
of the war. He participated in a number of important engagements, among which 
were the fights of Lone Jack, Booneville and Springfield, Missouri, and at Pea 
Ridge and Helena, Arkansas. After the surrender of his army at Shreveport he 
returned to Missouri, and has since devoted his attention to farming and raising 
and dealing in stock. Mr. Gillette has 315 acres of land, with 280 acres in 
cultivation.

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