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Submitted: 1/31/11 • Approved: 6/1/18 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R456743-G456743-S3
James
1851 - 1935
Leila
1856 - 1933
James Harvey Gill, farmer, was born in Union County, Ark., August 9, 1851, being the fourth child born to James N. and Elizabeth Gill, who removed to Arkansas from Alabama, at an early day, becoming in time the parents of five children, three of whom are living: Mary J., Ellen, Arabella E., James H. and a child that died in infancy, before being named. The early days of James Harvey Gill were spent in the county of his birth, and there he attended the common schools, but owing to their inferiority, he obtained a somewhat limited education. From his very earliest youth he has applied himself to agricultural pursuits, but since he attained his twenty-second year he has been doing for himself, his time prior to that being given to his father. He is now the proprietor of a finely improved tract of land, comprising 120 acres, and some of the finest crops in the State are raised on the sixty acres he has under cultivation. In the year 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Lila Norsworthy, the fourth child born to Hingus and Julia Norsworthy, who were residents of Union County, Ark, and there reared a large family of children, all of whom are deceased, with the exception of Mrs. Gill. She is the mother of an interesting family of six children: Julia A., Lillie A., John B., James H., Edwin W., and an infant (unnamed). Mr. Gill always votes the Democratic ticket and he and wife are earnest and consistent members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a leading member of one of Bradley County's subordinate Wheels. He is a liberal contributor to the building of churches and school houses, and is ever found ready to promote the interests of the community in which he resides.
(Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)
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