Biographical Sketch of R. C. Gillespie, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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R. C. Gillespie, P. O. Bates City, Missouri.  Was born in 1834, in 
this county, and here raised and educated.  His parents, George and
Sarah Gillespie moved from Sumner county, Tenn., to this county in
the fall of 1833, and lived here the balance of thier lives.  Mr.
R. C. Gillespie has lived here all his life, engaged in farming,
except two or three years spent in the far west.  On the 23rd of
January, 1861, he was married to Miss Emma Handley, of this county,
by whom he has had nine children, seven of them now living.  In the
fall of 1864, he joined the confederate army under Gen. Price, and 
remained to the surrender.  He is a ruling elder in the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.

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