Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky.  Recorded in the 1870's and
beyond.  Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4  September, 1997,
p. 89. By permission. Jackson County.

JOHN H. GILBERT
     I was born in Clay County, January 12, 1842.  My father's name was
Felix G. Gilbert.  My mother's name was Jemmimma Snavely of Smith County,
Georgia.  My father was born in Tennessee.  He was a son of Felix Gilbert,
one of the early settlers of Clay County.  He came here a few years after
my uncle, John Gilbert, came.  I have heard my aunt, Mary Ann McCollom,
say that when my grandfather came to Red Bird, there were only two
families on the creek, viz: Dillon Asher and Rev. John Gilbert, my great
uncle.  My grandmother's name was Wallace of Tennessee, Scotch-Irish.  The
Gilberts are English.  My father died in October 1855.  (Will is in
Manchester).  He was five years the junior of my uncle John.  I am sure of
this.  He was 95 years old (John Gilbert made his will August 17, 1860. 
The same was probated April 1, 1868.  See record in Clay County court. 
This would put Rev. John Gilbert's birth in 1755 and age at 113 years at
his death.) at time when he died.  It was in winter time when my
grandparents came.  My grandfather had children as follows:  John, Mary
Ann, Felix, James, William, Wallace, Hamilton, and Haywood, the youngest,
Jennie, younger who married Sam Jones.  Their descendants live in Knox
County.  May Ann married Isaac McCollum.  My uncle (or great uncle)
married Mollie Bowling, sister of James Bowling, and early settler of this
county.  James Bowling had a brother, whose name I do not remember, who
was the father of "Hungry" John Bolling [sic], still living on Sinking
Creek, Knob County; "Hungry" James, dead; and Mrs. John Holland, mother of
Anderson Holland of Martin's Creek, this county.  She still lives.  
     I have heard my uncle, Rev. John Gilbert, say that he came when peace
was first made at the close of the Revolutionary War.  He was born in
1755. He would have been 28 years old in 1782 or 1783 when peace was made.
 I heard both my grandfather and my great uncle, John Gilbert, say that my
grandfather was 95 years old when he, the latter, died.  There were salt
wells bored in Red Bird.  John Gilbert made salt there and sold his works
to Dire.

Gilbert Snavely McCollom Asher Wallace Jones Bowling Bolling Holland
=
Smith-GA TN Knox-KY

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