Birth
Death
Parents
Thomas Gilmore and his first wife
Step-Mother, Mary Grace Hord (1782-1860)
Spouse
William Deputy
Children
Cynthia Deputy Whitmore (1812-1879)
Abraham Deputy (1813-1860)
Elizabeth Deputy (1822-1895)
John Deputy (1830-1863)
Robert G Deputy (1833-1886)
Siblings
Elizabeth Gilmore Koogler
Sarah Gilmore Lindsey
John Gilmore 1783
Burial
Notes
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1812
William Deberty, Mary Gilmore, February 8, 1812
Source:
Marriages from 1795, to 1825. Virginia Valley Records: Genealogical and
Historical Materials of Rockingham Virginia. By John Walter Wayland.
1965. Page 24.
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1817
George Koogler and Elizabeth his wife, William Deputy and Mary his wife,
and Philip Lindsey and Sarah his wife to John Gilmore, Deed, Rockingham
Co, VA Deed Book 3, p. 416, dated 7 June 1817 (recorded 7 Jun 1817)
FHLC 33,458. "Three undivided 1/13 parts of moiety in a mill seat &
water right and the said Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah have intermarried as
aforesaid and their husbands who are sons in law of Thomas Gilmore."
"...which was formerly held in copartnership between Thomas Gilmore in
his lifetime & his brother Gad Gilmore...".
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(Step-Mother) Mary Hord (21 Jul 2016)
Birth: 1782 Rockingham Co, VA
Death: 1860 Marion Co, OH
Excerpt from Find A Grave:
Mary had been previously married to Thomas Gilmore; they were married June 18, 1801 and had five children: David, Joshua, Zebulon, Ruth and Alcinda (Lindy) Gilmore. Mary was the second wife of Thomas Gilmore; he and his first wife had a total of nine other children: John, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Henry, James, Catherine, Thomas and Sally Gilmore. One of these children must have died in childhood leaving a total of 13 Gilmore children living when Thomas died in 1813. Thomas had a partnership with his brother Gad; together they owned 17 3/4 acres of land that had a Merchant Mill on it, located on Muddy Creek. When Thomas died Mary inherited the standard 1/3 of his estate including a share of the farm they lived on at the time and 1/2 of the Merchant Mill located on Muddy Creek. Obviously, Thomas was the sole owner of the Merchant Mill since the other half of it was left to all thirteen of his children who inherited 1/13th equal shares in it. Gad, the brother of Thomas filed a law suit against all of the Gilmore heirs of Thomas Gilmore, however, the purpose and outcome of that law suit is unknown.
Numerous legal records, some on file at the Duke University library, are available that provide a window into the life of Nathaniel and Mary between 1815 and 1829 when they lived in Rockingham, Virginia near Muddy Creek. Before Nathaniel and Mary were married, Mary was living with her children on the property owned by she and her previous husband, Thomas Gilmore. Nathaniel lived nearby. The records on file reveal that a very hostile relationship existed between Mary and Nathaniel and some of the children from the first marriage of Thomas Gilmore, especially John Gilmore, the oldest son who was about a year younger than Mary. Surprisingly, three years after the death of Thomas, John Gilmore was named the legal guardian of all five children of Thomas and Mary. At this time the three boys had been hired out to other families to learn a trade and earn their "victuals and clothing" and seldom lived at home even though they were in their early teens. When John Gilmore tried to obtain custody of the two girls, Ruth and Lindy Gilmore, Mary stood her ground and refused to release them to him.
Later, Nathaniel and Mary, filed a lawsuit against John Gilmore requesting support for the children since he had been named their legal guardian. In the depositions preceding the trial in this lawsuit, which were held in James Duff's tavern in Harrisonburg, John Gilmore and some of his siblings tried to characterize Nathaniel and Mary as unfit parents. However, neighbors, teachers and individuals that periodically lived with Nathaniel and Mary testified that the children were treated as well as could be expected. The family lived well below the poverty level at the time as did most all farm families in the area. To say they were poor would be an understatement. Sometime after the trial, Rockingham County provided Nathaniel and Mary with a subsistence allowance to help support their family. The children born to Nathaniel and Mary: Strother, Peyton, Napoleon and Alzira were part of the family by this time although they were not mentioned in any of the legal documents.
By 1825, John Gilmore had fallen on very hard times and was deeply in debt. Somehow, he had become the owner of the 17 3/4 acres of land in Muddy Creek where the Mill was located. At this time, he sold this property to his sister, Elizabeth and her husband, George Koogler to help pay some of his debt. However, it was not enough because several months later he was imprisoned in the Harrisonburg jail for an unknown period of time for failing to pay his debts. Subsequently, in 1826, the Kooglers, the Hords and the two oldest sons of Mary, David and Joshua, sold their interest in the 17 3/4 acres and Merchant Mill at Muddy Creek to an individual named David Thompson. It is unknown who David Thompson was but part of the reason that John Gilmore went to jail is for debt that he owed to him. It appears that the land and property where John Gilmore and his family lived was sold on the Rockingham County Court steps, the proceeds of which were then given to David Thompson. Then in 1828, a year and a half later, Nathaniel and Mary sold Mary's remaining dower interest to a step son, Henry Gilmore. Afterward, they left Rockingham and moved to Zanesville, Ohio. It is unknown if any of Mary's Gilmore children moved with them although the youngest girl, Lindy was only about 18 years old at the time. It can be said without doubt that Nathaniel definitely wished that he had never heard of the Gilmore family, except for Mary and her children. About a year later, John Gilmore moved his family to Licking County, Ohio where Nathaniel's brother, Peter Hord III, had moved. Rest assured that Nathaniel warned him about the Gilmores.
It was not very easy to travel more than 300 miles to Zanesville, Ohio from Rockingham, Virginia in a horse-drawn wagon especially with young children in the middle of the winter. It is reasonable to believe that the family did not live in Zanesville very long, if at all. From there they moved to Franklin County, Ohio where again they lived only a short time, maybe only one or two years, because in 1833 Nathaniel was elected treasurer in Marion County and later in 1834 purchased a 40 acre farm near Bucyrus, Marion County, Ohio. The children were in their teens then so they probably all moved with the family to Bucyrus.
Maintained by: Harold L. Hord Jr.
Originally Created by: Phil Mullen
Record added: Sep 20, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 136158038
