Samuel P. Gilmore    

SAMUEL P. GILMORE, farmer, P.O. Blooming Valley, was born in Woodcock Township, this county, March 15, 1840; son of John Y. and Jane (Burnside) Gilmore, the former a native of Susquehanna, Penn., a soldier of the war of 1812, and a son of Thomas Gilmore, a native of Ireland, who settled in this township in 1801 and was father of six children: John Y., Nancy, William, Margaret, Polly, and Samuel, all deceased but Nancy. Mrs. John Y. Gilmore was a daughter of William and Anna (Graham) Burnside, natives of Ireland and early settlers of Linesville, Penn. Our subject’s parents had eleven children: Thomas; William; Melissa, wife of James Scott; Ann E., wife of T. J. Odell; Caroline E., deceased wife of William Darrow; James B.; George L.; John Y.; Samuel P.; Charles M. and an infant son (deceased). The father died in 1854 aged sixty; his widow lives with her son Samuel P. Our subject was married, October 6, 1866, to Sarah E., daughter of Christian and Sarah (Bossard) Barr, of Blooming Valley, this county. By this union there are five children: Lynn, Lyle, Harry, Hugh and Grove. During the late war of the Rebellion, Mr. Gilmore enlisted, August 30, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, participated in the battle of Gettysburg; received a shot through the jaw at the battle of the Wilderness, and was honorably discharged July 18, 1865. He is a member of the A.O.U.W. and the G.A.R.; in politics is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.  View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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