FATHER

John Gilmore

MOTHER

Aurilla Church

WIFE

Minerva Cully     b. abt. Dec 3 1845     d. 18 Dec 1885     Buried: Memorial Chapel Cemetery, Vermillion Co., IN

In Memory of Minerva Wife of R. F. Gilmore Died Dec 18, 1885 aged 39 yrs 11 mo 15 d (her death certificate says she was 44)

Permelia Emaline (Emma) Wade
    b. 4 Apr 1860 Vermillion Co., IN

Hoosier State, Feb 11, 1875  "Richard F Gilmore, residing 3 miles South-west of Newport, will sell all his personal property at auction on Saturday February 27, 1875

Hoosier State, Nov 18, 1875 "R. F. Gilmore returned from Eaton Rapids, Michigan, on last Thursday evening, where he has been during the last two months.  He comes back looking considerable improved."

Hoosier State, March 23, 1876  "R. F. Gilmore makes a bow to our readers this morning and emphatically denies in the beginning of his article of being a candidate, but rather leaves the impression at the tail end of his effusion that it would not take an extra amount of persuasion to get him to consent to be set up as a political target to be shot at on the second Tuesday in next October.  Richard denies there being a caucus, and afterwards admits of one being held, but not in the office intended to be implicated.  The information on which we based our article on Knownothngism was obtained from a reliable and responsible citizen of this place, and one who has never voted any other than the Democratic ticket.  His word is just as good for one hundred dollars as his note,.  He is a man in whom we have implicit confidence and know to be truthful.  He said there was a caucus, (but it was on Monday night instead of Saturday night as reported in the Hoosier.)  He named the men on the ticket the midnight caucus had nominated and we think he knew what he was saying.  Mr. Gilmore says he has not attended a caucus of any description this winter.  We never said he had.  We gave no names in our notice, and either did we say that the consent of the several candidates had been obtained to allow their names to be placed on this new fangled ticket.  Our information if from a reliable source and we gave it t our readers just as we got it.  If we were misinformed it was by one of the best Democrats in Newport.  And we will just add that a number of other Democrats, equally as good in every respect as our informant, substantiate his report on the Knownothing caucus, as given in the Hoosier State.":

Richard wrote a letter to Milo White in 1901 referring to a possible Law Suit over the estate of his father, John Gilmore..  Below is a copy of this letter as well as a typed transcription with as much I can decipher.  Richard's sister, Etta, had died shortly after the birth of her son, George.  Her husband, John Asbury, was trying to get more money for his son from the estate of John Gilmore.

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Wade family, Monongalia County Virginia, now West Virginia by Franklin Marion Brand, 1927
pg 73
"Permelia Emaline Wade born in Vermillion County, April 4, 1860, married Richard F. Gilmore, son of Dr. John Gilmore, in Decatur County, Ill., November 14, 1900. He died on the 2oth day of March 1918, and she afterwards, April 5, 1919, married James B. Mackay, who was born in Scotland. Mr. Mackay died on the 17th day of June, 1921, at Hutchinson Kansas. Permelia Emaline lives at 925 N. Washington."

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