Our great grandmother* (see relationship notes below) Mary Frances Gilland was born on January 23, 1884, in Indiana. Her father, Joseph W, was 26 years old, and her mother, Anna (Clancy) Gilland, was 19. She married Lemuel Fuller on January 19, 1901, in Blackford, Indiana. They had seven children.
She died of childbirth complications with her last two (death certificate here); our grandma Anna (Fuller) Merrick and her twin brother, Andrew. He also died, on January 3, 1919, in Gideon, Missouri. She was 34 years old and is buried in Muncie, Indiana. (link here)
This is her DNA story.
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| Mary Frances Gilland Jan 1884- Jan1919 |
This is her DNA story.
Lydia Gilland: Third Cousin
Lydia Gilland from Huntsville, Alabama, is a third cousin Ancestry DNA match. Ours is a not-so-unique family relationship. We are cousins, twice-over. Yeah, that has no real meaning in family relationship terms, but it should.
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| Lydia Gilland |
It means her great grandmother, Henrietta 'Etta' Fuller was the sister of our great grandfather, Lemuel. Grandaunt Etta married Thomas Gilland, the brother of our great grandmother, Mary Frances Gilland. Mary Frances married the brother of Etta Fuller, Lemuel. He ran moonshine. (link here)
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| Henrietta 'Etta' (Fuller) Gilland |
SO, our DNA matches up both family lines. We share the:
Joseph Franklin FRYE DNA Circle
Henrietta NUSZ DNA Circle
Isaac FRY DNA Circle
Price London FULLER DNA Circle
Harriett 'Amanda' FRY DNA Circle
Ancestry DNA Match
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Price London Fuller: Revander
Our second great grandfather, Price London Fuller, was born on December 31, 1848, in Guernsey, Ohio. The ninth of fifteen children born to Allen (Al) and Rachel (Kimble) Fuller (marriage record here), he married Harriett 'Amanda' Fry on January 7, 1876, in Blackford County, Indiana (marriage record here).
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| Price London Fuller |
His marriage, and several censuses, records list his name 'Revander.' We've always assumed he meant 'Reverend.' Perhaps he thought himself a 'preacher,' but we've found no church records for him.
The Gilland Siblings
John Thomas, Sr. and Mary Frances
John Gilliland, Sr: Delaware County, Indiana Pioneer
Our fourth great grandfather, John Gilliland, born in 1780 in North Carolina, was a Delaware County, Indiana pioneer. (land record here) He married Anna Elizabeth Turner in 1824.
Our fourth great grandfather, John Gilliland, born in 1780 in North Carolina, was a Delaware County, Indiana pioneer. (land record here) He married Anna Elizabeth Turner in 1824.
There were no entries of the public domain in section 4 until 1836 in which year there was one 80 and two 40 acre tracts taken up by Joseph Gobie and John Gilliland.
Deleware County: its history and early settlement by townships Harrison township - page 170
John Gilland, Jr: Quaker
John Gilland, Jr., was born on December 27, 1824, in Ohio. He married Lucinda, known as Lizzie, Wilson on March 21, 1850, in Delaware County, Indiana. (record here)
John Gilland, Jr., was born on December 27, 1824, in Ohio. He married Lucinda, known as Lizzie, Wilson on March 21, 1850, in Delaware County, Indiana. (record here)
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According to Mom, grandma Merrick was taken in by an older, disabled woman named Wilson because her mother died. But her grandmother, Lizzie Wilson, died twenty years before (link here).
By 1864, grandpa John Gilland had remarried and started a new family. Thirteen years later still he requested membership in the Quaker church. It's recorded in the minutes U.S., Quaker, Indiana Grant Deer Creek, Monthly Meeting Records. (link here)
It's generally challenging to trace down maiden names, and grandma Lizzie is no different. Still, we expect someone in her family to turn up as grandma Merrick's caretaker.
*Note: Relationships, such as grandmother, 2nd great, etc., are expressed from the perspective of the grandchildren of Leon Arthur and Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick.
Terms of relationship - grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc. - are used here generically to include relatives such as fourth great grandfathers, great grand uncles, second cousins twice removed, etc.
It's generally challenging to trace down maiden names, and grandma Lizzie is no different. Still, we expect someone in her family to turn up as grandma Merrick's caretaker.
*Note: Relationships, such as grandmother, 2nd great, etc., are expressed from the perspective of the grandchildren of Leon Arthur and Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick.
Terms of relationship - grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc. - are used here generically to include relatives such as fourth great grandfathers, great grand uncles, second cousins twice removed, etc.
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