CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Gilliam
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Gilliam

  First record of Gilliam name in Brunswick county (divided to form Lunenburg)
was in 1745.

  John Gilliam in 1756 patented land on the south side of Roanoke river
(Staunton) adjoining property already in his possession. In 178O Zachariah
Gilliam patented 562 acres on both sides of Difficult creek, the north branch of
Goose creek.

  In 1796 Charles Gilliam was one of the administrators of Stephen Perrow's
estate. In 18O7 Archibald and Sarah Boiling sold Richard Gilliam 1OO acres of land.

  Gilliams had settled in Buckingham and Prince Edward counties; Richard was the
son of Epaphroditus and Elizabeth Gilliam: Epaphroditus died in 1789; his son,
Richard, born in 176O, married Elizabeth Glover, born in 1775, whose son, Dr.
Glover D. Gilliam was born in 18OO. There is a family connection between these
Gilliams and Glover Davenport who married Ann P. Slaughter.

  In 1827 Dr. Glover Davenport Gilliam of Prince Edward county married Elizabeth
Boiling, the daughter of James S. Jones. In 1837 he purchased of William and
Lucy F. Robinson several tracts of land lying on Falling river and its branches,
one tract including a grist and saw mill, was bounded by the lands of Freeman
Moore and John Cobbs. Another tract of 386 acres had been sold to Robinson by
Publius Jones and Thomas Rudd, together with 98 adjoining acres; 4-18 acres lay
on both sides of Hickory creek, a tract which had been sold Rudd by John Paul
Redd, and 28O acres Rudd had bought of Samuel Morris' heirs, and Thomas and
David Jones, formerly belonging to Harfield, on Hickory creek, a branch of
Falling river. By various purchases Dr. Gilliam acquired a large landed estate.
His place of residence, about 2 miles from Naruna, is called Landover,, and is
situated on Falling river. Several generations of the family were born there.
Dr. Gilliam's will, recorded in 1852, mentions daughters:

-Eloise G., m. Richard Booker;

-Eliza B. m. _____ Price of Texas;

—Amanda J., m. Richard Adams;

—Olivia F. m. Thos. Woodring;

—Martha Virginia m. _____ Epperson; son, Glover E. Epperson, served in the C. S.
army. 

Sons:—James R., m. Annie Davenport, his son, James R., Jr., m. Jessie Johnson,
was a successful financier of Lynchburg; whose son, James R., 3rd (Sec. and
Treas. Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank), resides in the Peakland addition of
Lynchburg.

—Edward G-, m. Emma Gilbert.

—Walter Floyd m. Virginia Hamlet; lived at Landover, near Naruna; his dau.,
Rosa, is the principal of Naruna High School.

—Thomas West m. Fannie Diuguid; he was a successful financier of Lynchburg; his
dau., Elsie, served as a missionary. 

—Emma m. George Gilbert.


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