JAMES C. GILLIAM and wife Caledonia Blasingame, Bolivar County, MS
I am seeking to communicate with descendants of this family, dau. Ella Gilliam mar. Jeremiah (Jerry) V. CROOK.She d. Memphis, TN Dec 1948.
James and Cal.'s son Edward Gilliam had 2 wives:Zona?, and second wife Cecilia? Major, mar. 3 Sep 1909, Bolivar Co., MS.I believe they had no children?
Both Ella and Edward were born in ARKANSAS.
My specific question was whether their father James C. Gilliam was born in 1838 in AR, or was he born May 1852?There is a cemetery marker in the Old Cleveland Cemetery, Bolivar Co., MS--reads J.C., May 20, 1952 with death date unreadable; and there is one for Calla D., w/o J.C. Gilliam, May 20, 1850, died 1888.
There is also a marker for J.C. Gilliam, b. June 12, 1838, d. Mar. 20, 1918.
James C. Gilliam had a second wife--Angeline Guice--mar. 24 April 1882.Therefore if Calla D. (Caledonia, wife of J.C. Gilliam) died in 1888, how could J.C. Gilliam marry Angeline in 1882?
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