YOUNG GILL
Young Gill (some records show name as Thomas Young Gill) was born abt. 1765 in North Carolina (some records show place of birth as Mecklenburg County, Virginia) and died 1854 in Walton County, Georgia. Buried in the Nancy Myers Cemetery on Carver Drive, Social Circle, Georgia. (Grave was located and marked by the John Clark Chapter, DAR)
Information from the Greene Family Tree on ancestry.com indicate he married Ann Singleman, born abt. 1766, in 1784 in North Carolina. I have been unable to find a date or place of her death.
DAR Genealogical Research Databases show that Young and Ann Gill had one child, a daughter named Meeky born in 1787 and that Meeky married a Zebulon Lewis. Eyman Family Tree on ancestry.com indicates that Meeky was born Oct 31, 1787 in Stokes County North Carolina and died June 5 1861 in Salem, Macon County, Alabama.
Young Gill enlisted in the North Carolina Militia as a Private and was in the Battle of Guilford in 1781.
Young Gill resided early on in Stokes County, North Carolina. He is listed in the 1790 census for Stokes County with one male over 16 and three white females, no ages given, total of four in household.
By the 1820 census he is living in Walton County, Georgia, one male over 45, one person in household.
In the 1840 census he is residing in District 280 in Morgan County, Georgia and one person in household.
In the 1850 census he is listed as age 89, in Division 88 of Walton County, birthplace North Carolina, living in the household of Mernnon and Amey Herrindon, with six Herrinon children and an Elonzo Consyr, age 2. His relationship with this family is unknown.
I have been unable to located any definitive information on the parents of Young Gill. The possibilities seem endless and confusing. In a booklet written by H. Grady Wilson, Jr, "Leaves of the Tree - History of the Spears and Allied Families", there is speculation that Young Gill "might" be the son of Sally Spears and Joseph Gill. The Spears and the Gills lived close together in Jasper County, Georgia over the years. I find that Sally Spears being Young's mother is unlikely since she and Joseph married in 1808 and Young Gill was born in 1765. Possibly Joseph had a wife before Sally Spears. I can find no record of that.
There is a Thomas Young Gill born 1815 in Georgia in the 1830 and 1850 census for Wilkes County, Georgia, married to a Martha J. with 8 children.
And finally, click HERE for an analysis of the various lineage of William Gill.
