Charles Mortimer Gilkison
1900 - 1967 (66 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Charles Mortimer Gilkison was born on 4 Dec 1900 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois (son of William Isaac Gilkison and Sarah Adeline "Addie" Cox); died on 1 Jun 1967 in Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois. Other Events:
- Census: 1930, Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois
- Census: 1940, Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois
Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65910374/charlie-m_-gilkisonCharles married Clara Goldie Eaton on 11 Nov 1922 in Covington, Fountain County, Indiana. Clara (daughter of George Eaton and Betty Tucker) was born on 18 Mar 1901 in Sidell, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 24 May 1972; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Betty Jeane Gilkison was born on 31 Oct 1926 in Catlin Township, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 27 Nov 2013 in Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois; was buried in Danville National Cemetery, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Ruth Gilkison was born on 20 Sep 1927 in Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 25 Jan 2001; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Charles Richard Gilkison was born on 13 Mar 1935 in Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 4 Feb 1995 in Riverside County, California; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Joseph Mortimer Gilkison was born on 22 Jan 1939 in Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 26 Nov 2001; was buried in Madden Cemetery, Miller County, Missouri.
2. William Isaac Gilkison was born on 13 Aug 1871 in Rowan County, Kentucky (son of Sanford Lewis Gilkison and Rosannah Sarah Hedges); died on 10 Aug 1960 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois. Other Events:
- Census: 1900, Carroll, Vermilion County, Illinois
- Census: 1910, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois
- Census: 1920, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois
- Census: 1930, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois
Notes:
MHR note: Willie Gilkison was a strong and long-enduring young man and could cut (with a knife) and shock 1000 socks of corn when 50 was an ordinary man's work. He could lift a horse weighting 100-1100 lbs by crawling under and grasping one fore and one hind leg. He once lifted his cousin, John Hedges, onto the coal house by taking John's wrists in one hand and the slack of John's pants in the other. John was only 10 or 15 pounds lighter than Willie.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65910446/william-i._a.-gilkisonWilliam married Sarah Adeline "Addie" Cox on 15 Feb 1900 in Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois. Sarah (daughter of John Henry Cox and Mary Elizabeth Ratcliff) was born on 3 Feb 1882 in Counts Cross Roads, Carter County, Kentucky; died on 5 Aug 1958 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Sarah Adeline "Addie" Cox was born on 3 Feb 1882 in Counts Cross Roads, Carter County, Kentucky (daughter of John Henry Cox and Mary Elizabeth Ratcliff); died on 5 Aug 1958 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois. Notes:
MHR note: Addie fell and broke her hip in May 1958. She left 3 brothers: Charles Cox, Portsmouth, Ohio; Lewis Cox, Bluffton, Indiana; and William Cox, Daytona Beach, Florida. Addie had lived in Vermilion County, Illinois since she was 12 years old and in Catlin Township for 51 years. She belonged to the Catlin Church of Christ.
Names of parents and grandparents of Addie come from a page in the back of the Hedges Reunion Book. Also the names and birth dates of her six children.
MHR gives Addie's parents names: John Henry Cox and Mary Elizabeth Ratefill.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65910424/addie-gilkisonChildren:
- 1. Charles Mortimer Gilkison was born on 4 Dec 1900 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 1 Jun 1967 in Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Cena Lois Gilkison was born on 24 Oct 1902 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 17 Apr 1986 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Sanford Lewis Gilkison was born on 11 Jul 1904 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 12 Dec 1987; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Iris Rose Gilkison was born on 2 Mar 1907 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 13 Jul 1988 in Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Oakridge Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Miriam Lucille Gilkison was born on 24 Apr 1909 in Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois; died on 15 May 1991 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Dorothy Nell Gilkison was born on 18 May 1911 in Indianola, Vermilion County, Illinois; died in Feb 1995 in Crofton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; was buried in Parklawn Memorial Garden, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Generation: 3
4. Sanford Lewis Gilkison was born on 2 Jan 1834 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky (son of William Gilkison and Unknown Fawin); died on 10 Feb 1884 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Census: 1870, Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1880, Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky
Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39193024/sanford-lewis-gilkisonSanford married Rosannah Sarah Hedges on 31 Jan 1860 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky. Rosannah (daughter of William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Russell Cassity) was born on 1 Nov 1835 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 27 May 1924 in Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 30 May 1924 in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Rosannah Sarah Hedges was born on 1 Nov 1835 in Fleming County, Kentucky (daughter of William Ribelin Hedges and Malinda Russell Cassity); died on 27 May 1924 in Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 30 May 1924 in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Census: 1910, Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky
Notes:
MHR note: A red-headed M. E. preacher (one of the Ohio cousins) had a charge near the William Ribelin Hedges home and proposed to Rosanna when a widow. She called him her father's 2nd cousin.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39193083/rosannah-sarah-gilkisonChildren:
- Lillian Mayfield Gilkison was born on 26 Oct 1860 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 16 Feb 1922 in Bradley, Kankakee County, Illinois; was buried in GAR Cemetery, Homer, Champaign County, Illinois.
- Pembroke Rousseau "Rous" Gilkison was born on 8 Oct 1864 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 6 Jan 1931 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Mary Frances "Fannie" Gilkison was born on 7 Apr 1866 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 31 Aug 1886 in Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- 2. William Isaac Gilkison was born on 13 Aug 1871 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 10 Aug 1960 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Thaddeus "Mortimer" Gilkison was born on 7 Aug 1878 in Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 27 Oct 1955 in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois; was buried in St. Marys Cemetery, Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois.
6. John Henry Cox was born in 1851 in Kentucky (son of William Cox and Delsena Armstrong); died on 25 Jan 1931 in Scioto County, Ohio; was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. Other Events:
- Census: 1880, Carter County, Kentucky
Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121711344/john-h-coxJohn married Mary Elizabeth Ratcliff on 24 Sep 1873 in Carter County, Kentucky. Mary was born about 1852 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Mary Elizabeth Ratcliff was born about 1852 in Kentucky. Children:
- 3. Sarah Adeline "Addie" Cox was born on 3 Feb 1882 in Counts Cross Roads, Carter County, Kentucky; died on 5 Aug 1958 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois.
Generation: 4
8. William Gilkison was born on 26 Jul 1807 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 May 1883 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
- Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1870, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1880, Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky
Notes:
LKH note: MHR give William's parents as William Gilkison and Sarah (Walton) Gilkison. She also lists two brothers, Mark and French Gilkison. So far I can not find records for them.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23932811/william-gilkisonWilliam married Unknown Fawin in Apr 1826. Unknown was born about 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Unknown Fawin was born about 1809. Notes:
LKH note: I can find no other information on her. I have estimated her birth year. MHR gives her parents are John and Elizabeth Fawin, but I have not yet found any records for this family.
Children:
- 4. Sanford Lewis Gilkison was born on 2 Jan 1834 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 10 Feb 1884 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Malvina Gilkison was born on 30 Sep 1832 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 5 May 1900 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in White Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Robert Milton Gilkison was born about 1835 in Fleming County, Kentucky.
10. 
William Ribelin Hedges was born on 14 Mar 1798 in Montgomery County, Kentucky (son of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin); died on 28 Nov 1885 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky. Other Events:
- Occupation: farmer
- Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
- Census: 1850, Fleming County, Kentucky
- Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1860, Rowan County, Kentucky
- Census: 1870, Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky
Notes:
MHR note: Ida Cronkhite said (in pink letter of 28 December 1949) she thought that “Aunt Betty” Hopper (Eliz. B.1820) who was found with the William Ribelin Hedges family in the 1870 census, was a distant cousin through the Armstrongs. She cared for her mother who died when Betty was about 25 years old. Malinda Hedges needed help, so Betty made her home with them. She got board and room and one third of the wool. Betty was so shy she put on her sunbonnet before coming downstairs and few ever saw her face. Lonely widowers found her not only unresponsive, but unwilling to talk to them. When 81 and nearly blind, she fell downstairs and died shortly thereafter. She helped rear the second generation and “Uncle Will” said she'd been a second mother.
MHR Note: Letter from Melissa Lucinda Hedges, to her brothers, William R. Hedges, James A. Hedges and Levi M. Hedges and sister Philora (Allen) Hedges telling of their father's death. This letter was in the possession of Anna (Hedges) Bagley, Purdin, Missouri when Mary (Hedges) Reiner visited her in 1940. The heading “at home” refers to the home of William R. and Malinda R. Hedges on the bank of the Licking River at the mouth of the Bluebank, Fleming County, Kentucky, in the part of Fleming County.
At home, December 1, 1885.
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
It is with a sad heart I take up my pen to write the sad news of our dear father’s death. He departed this life Saturday, Nov. 28, at 25 minutes after six o’clock in the morning. After a serious illness of 12 day. He suffered more than tongue can tell. He lay in an unconscious state for several hours. He suffered greatly from the time he was taken. The doctor had to draw his water from him. Oh it was so hard to see him suffer so, but it had to be. Rose came to see him; staid several days then went home; came back after he was down. Ike got here after he was dead. Uncle Jesse staid with him all the time. We laid him in the old graveyard where sister Mary was laid, there to slumber till Gabriel’s trump and the voice of the Lord shall awaken the dead from the old churchyard.
I sent postals to you all when I found he was so bad, but I suppose it was not so any of you could come. He never talked about any of his children, but thought he could not live from the start. We done all we could for him but nothing done any good. He has done paid the debt we all have to pay and we can go to him; he cannot come to us; Oh how we miss him. Mother sits around and looks so sad. I can hardly bear it. She is not well. She send her love to you all.
My love to you all. Write soon as you all are very close together. I want this letter to be read by all. I would love to see you and talk to you face to face but we are far apart. Yes we are scattered – we are scattered, though a joyous band were we. Now this letter is for one and all of you. Write as often as you can.
You sister, M. L. Stenrod
1850 US census, enumerated 20 August 1850
Division 2, Fleming County, Kentucky
William R Hedges, age 52, farmer, real estate $3000
Malinda R, age 44
Addison W, age 24, farmer
Viana J, age 22
Peter T, age 19, laborer
Levi M, age 17, laborer
Rosannn S, age 14, attending school
Malissa L, age 12, attending school
William R, age 9, attending school
James A, age 6, attending school
Isaac A, age 4
Mary Ann Crouch, age 26
Peter L Crouch, age 2
William N Cassity, age 18, laborer
1860 US census, enumerated 15 Aug 1860
Rowan County, Kentucky
W R Hedges, age 62, farmer, real estate $3000, personal property $1060
Malinda R, age 54
Viana J, age 31
Malissa I, age 21
William, age 19
James, age 16
Isaac, age
Elizabeth Hopper, age 40, domestic
1870 US census, enumerated
Cross Roads, Rowan County, Kentucky
William Hedges, age 72, farmer, real estate $5000, personal property $1000
Malinda, age 64, keeping house
Melissa Demere, age 30, domestic servant
Malinda Demere, age 5
Elizabeth Hopper, age 50, at home
In the 1870 census, four household are listed next to each other: William Ribelin Hedges and three of his sons: Levi, William R. and James Hedges.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939177/william-hedgesWilliam married Malinda Russell Cassity on 22 Dec 1822 in Rowan County, Kentucky. Malinda (daughter of Peter Thompson Cassity and Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong) was born on 14 Oct 1805 in Montgomery County, Kentucky; died on 12 Sep 1887 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. 
Malinda Russell Cassity was born on 14 Oct 1805 in Montgomery County, Kentucky (daughter of Peter Thompson Cassity and Mary "Polly" Melissa Armstrong); died on 12 Sep 1887 in Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky. Notes:
MHR note: Stories told by Ida M. (Hedges) Cronkite to Miriam Hickman. Malinda, daughter of Peter and Mary (Armstrong) Cassity married William Ribelin Hedges. "They used to say 'she lifted the limb of a tree it took two men to lift.' This is the true story. She and a small boy with his mother were hurrying to get home from a storm. Part of a tree blew down and caught the boy and pinned him down. Malinda lifted till the mother could drag him out. Next day two men went to clear the road and it took two men to lift it from the ground. This was my father's mother and he told me he had seen her lift an anvil off the block with one hand. She could weave four yards of jeans then walk four miles up hill to spend the night with a neighbor. When she was seventy, she was still spinning and weaving. The year she was eighty-two, 1887, your grandmother came with her to Illinois. They were two days on the train. There were four sons, two grandsons, and one granddaughter to visit, all in Vermilion County, but hard trips between in horse and buggy days. Then a train to Montezuma, Indiana to visit two nieces. Then to Louisville, Kentucky, where the youngest son met her with a lumber wagon to take her over a corduroy road sixteen miles to his home. Back again to Louisville and then the train on home at the mouth of Blue Bank on the Licking River near Farmers, Kentucky.
"About a week later she heard there was to be preaching at Slaty Point. This was about three miles away. There she had gone to church all her life. They had no conveyance but hadn't they always walked? So she went. At the church she got sick and they took her to the nearest neighbor and a day or two later she died. She was eighty-two years old. At the age of seventeen she went from her father's home to her husband. She moved from the old house to the new and lived sixty-five years on the same farm."
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939547/malinda-russell-hedgesChildren:
- Mary Ann Hedges was born on 26 Nov 1823 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 22 Sep 1854 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Three Lick Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Addison W. Hedges was born on 13 Feb 1826 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 9 Aug 1863 in Rockwall, Rockwall County, Texas.
- Vianna Jane Hedges was born on 4 May 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried on 24 Jan 1911 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Cranston, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Peter Thompson Hedges was born on 29 Jan 1831 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 12 Jun 1924 in Tilton, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 15 Jun 1924 in Forest Grove Cemetery, Canton, Lewis County, Missouri.
- Levi Marion Hedges was born on 30 May 1833 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 28 Jan 1907 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried in Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
- 5. Rosannah Sarah Hedges was born on 1 Nov 1835 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 27 May 1924 in Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 30 May 1924 in Siloam Cemetery, Bluestone, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- Melissa Lucinda Hedges was born on 17 Mar 1838 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 Mar 1899 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky; was buried in Slaty Point Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky.
- William Riley Hedges was born on 10 Mar 1841 in Farmers, Rowan County, Kentucky; died on 25 Oct 1925 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; was buried on 26 Oct 1925 in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri.
- James Alva Hedges was born on 14 Sep 1843 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died on 3 Nov 1921 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; was buried on 5 Nov 1921 in Fairfield Cemetery, Newman, Douglas County, Illinois.
- Isaac Armstrong Hedges was born on 4 Mar 1846 in Fleming County, Kentucky; died in 1930 in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California.
12. William Cox was born on 31 Jan 1829 in Virginia; died on 28 Jan 1905; was buried in Greenview Cemetery, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois. Other Events:
- Religion: Center Point Church
- Census: 1850, Carter County, Kentucky
- Census: 1860, Carter County, Kentucky
- Census: 1870, Carter County, Kentucky
- Census: 1880, Hillsboro, Fleming County, Kentucky
- Census: 1900, Jamaica, Vermilion County, Illinois
Notes:
Member of Center Point Church
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214322203/william-coxWilliam married Delsena Armstrong on 15 Jun 1849 in Grayson, Carter County, Kentucky. Delsena was born in Jan 1833 in Virginia; died in Jul 1904; was buried in Greenview Cemetery, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Delsena Armstrong was born in Jan 1833 in Virginia; died in Jul 1904; was buried in Greenview Cemetery, Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois. Notes:
Name:
daughter of John W. Armstrong and Nancy Jane Green
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214322228/delsena-cox
Second Addition, Lot 81Children:
- 6. John Henry Cox was born in 1851 in Kentucky; died on 25 Jan 1931 in Scioto County, Ohio; was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio.
- Lucy Amanda Cox was born on 15 Jan 1867 in Carter County, Kentucky; died on 6 Feb 1919 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; was buried on 8 Feb 1919 in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri.