Individual Details
Isaac Gillham
(17 Oct 1757 - 16 Sep 1845)
Isaac Gillham was born 10 Nov. 1757 in Augusta Co., VA, and died 16 Sep 1845 in Madison Co., Illinois. Together with Isaac's brother Thomas and his family, Isaac and Jane emigrated to Illinois, arriving there according to family tradition on the last day of 1799, thus becoming among the earliest American settlers in the Prairie State.
Gillham served in the South Carolina militia in the American Revolution.* According to sources he enlisted in Camden District, December 1777, under Captain Robert Macupfee and Colonel Thomas Neel. He is supposed to have participated in the battles of Rocky Mount and Fishing Creek in South Carolina. A bronze tablet erected in the Edwardsville, Illinois courthouse includes Isaac Gillham in it's list of Revolutionary War veterans of Madison County, Illinois.
In the Kirkpatrick account published in 1901 there is this recollection of Isaac Gillham: "Isaac Gillham also served in the Continental Army and was once left for dead upon the field; he always bore the sabre scars upon his head, though he attained a vigorous old age in Illinois. The subject of this sketch well remembers a visit which he paid to Iowa County (Wisconsin) in 1836, at which time he was over one hundred years of age."**
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*SC Audited Account #250, Book I, 260 days of militia duty, paid in 1774. Archives of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
** Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, 1901, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, p.650, in a profile of James Cochran Kirkpatrick.
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Affidavit given by Isaac Gillham in support of his Step-Mother-In-Laws application for Widows Pension:
That said Deponent formerly lived in York County South Carolina during the time of the Revolutionary War and was personally acquainted with Thomas Kirkpatrick in said York County who was married to one Margaret Watson now Margaret Dodds - That the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was drafted from the Militia and went into the service f the United States and served several different Tours of Fifty Days each previous to his being taken Prisoner at his own Residence by Capts Houck and Adamson British Officers and went to Charleston South Carolina on parole where he was put on board a British Vessel and kept there untill he was nearly dead and then was discharged and died in a few Days - That the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was a Major in the Army and was so at the time of his death That he died in the summer of 1780 And said Deponent says that he lived only about Four Miles from said Thomas Kirkpatrick and Married one of his Daughters A.D. 1787 and was personally acquainted with the Family of the said Thomas Kirkpatrick during the War of the Revolution and personally knew the said Thomas Kirkpatrick to be an acting Major in the service of the United States and that Margaret Kirkpatrick the Widow of the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was Married to one Francis Dodds A.D, 1781 or 1782 and further this Deponent saith not ---
(signed) Isaac Gillham
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 19th Day of May A.D. 1843
(signed) John Ives J.P.
Attst
John Ives
Isaac Gillham
Gillham served in the South Carolina militia in the American Revolution.* According to sources he enlisted in Camden District, December 1777, under Captain Robert Macupfee and Colonel Thomas Neel. He is supposed to have participated in the battles of Rocky Mount and Fishing Creek in South Carolina. A bronze tablet erected in the Edwardsville, Illinois courthouse includes Isaac Gillham in it's list of Revolutionary War veterans of Madison County, Illinois.
In the Kirkpatrick account published in 1901 there is this recollection of Isaac Gillham: "Isaac Gillham also served in the Continental Army and was once left for dead upon the field; he always bore the sabre scars upon his head, though he attained a vigorous old age in Illinois. The subject of this sketch well remembers a visit which he paid to Iowa County (Wisconsin) in 1836, at which time he was over one hundred years of age."**
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*SC Audited Account #250, Book I, 260 days of militia duty, paid in 1774. Archives of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
** Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, 1901, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, p.650, in a profile of James Cochran Kirkpatrick.
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Affidavit given by Isaac Gillham in support of his Step-Mother-In-Laws application for Widows Pension:
That said Deponent formerly lived in York County South Carolina during the time of the Revolutionary War and was personally acquainted with Thomas Kirkpatrick in said York County who was married to one Margaret Watson now Margaret Dodds - That the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was drafted from the Militia and went into the service f the United States and served several different Tours of Fifty Days each previous to his being taken Prisoner at his own Residence by Capts Houck and Adamson British Officers and went to Charleston South Carolina on parole where he was put on board a British Vessel and kept there untill he was nearly dead and then was discharged and died in a few Days - That the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was a Major in the Army and was so at the time of his death That he died in the summer of 1780 And said Deponent says that he lived only about Four Miles from said Thomas Kirkpatrick and Married one of his Daughters A.D. 1787 and was personally acquainted with the Family of the said Thomas Kirkpatrick during the War of the Revolution and personally knew the said Thomas Kirkpatrick to be an acting Major in the service of the United States and that Margaret Kirkpatrick the Widow of the said Thomas Kirkpatrick was Married to one Francis Dodds A.D, 1781 or 1782 and further this Deponent saith not ---
(signed) Isaac Gillham
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 19th Day of May A.D. 1843
(signed) John Ives J.P.
Attst
John Ives
Isaac Gillham
Events
| Birth | 17 Oct 1757 | Augusta Co., Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 1784 | South Carolina - Jane Kirkpatrick | |||
| Death | 16 Sep 1845 | Madison Co., Illinois | | ||
| Burial | Wanda Cemetery, South Roxana, Madison Co., Illinois | |
Families
| Spouse | Jane Kirkpatrick (1769 - ) |
| Child | Thomas Gillham (1785 - 1844) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Gillham (1787 - 1851) |
| Child | John Gillham (1789 - 1844) |
| Child | William Gillham (1791 - ) |
| Child | Isaac Gillham Jr. (1793 - ) |
| Child | Margaret Gillham (1795 - ) |
| Child | James Gillham (1796 - 1870) |
| Child | Susannah Gillham (1797 - ) |
| Child | Jane Gillham (1799 - 1843) |
| Father | Thomas Major Gillham (1710 - 1790) |
| Mother | Margaret Peggy Gay Campbell (1725 - 1785) |
| Sibling | Sarah Gillham (1743 - 1828) |
| Sibling | Susannah Gillham (1747 - 1831) |
| Sibling | Thomas Gillham (1749 - 1828) |
| Sibling | William Gillham (1750 - 1825) |
| Sibling | James Clemons Gillham (1753 - 1813) |
| Sibling | John Gillham (1756 - 1835) |
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