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3116. Lorenzo
Columbus Gammill1877
was born on 5 Apr 1855 in Hardin County, Tennessee. He died on 16
Apr 1928 in Franklin County, Arkansas. He was also known as Columbus
Gammill.1877 He was a
teacher, a farmer, a county commissioner, and an assistant postmaster.
From History of Northwestern Arkansas, p. 1239:
"Lorenzo C. Gammill,a farmer and teacher of Franklin County, is a native
of Hardin County, Tenn., and was born April 5, 1855. His parents are Chesley
M. and Margaret S. (Milam) Gammill, with whom he came to Franklin County in 1857.
The money with which to pay his schooling he earned working on a farm, and he
received his education at Grand Prairie. He began his career as a teacher when
fifteen years of age, as assistant teacher under Prof. Green, at Hickory Point;
two years later he entered the public schools as a teacher, and continued this
occupation until the winter of 1887-88. He is one of the best known teachers
in Franklin County. Since 1880, during the school vacations, he has been engaged
in merchandising for his uncle, C. J. Milam, at Sub Rosa. In 1878 Mr. Gammill
married Miss Mary A. Smith, of Franklin County, who was born at Gammiel in 1860,
and is a daughter of Capt. Smith, of the Confederate army, who came from Alabama
to Arkansas in 1857, locating on a farm in Franklin County. Capt. Smith was a
wheelwright and cabinet-maker by occupation. To Mr. and Mrs. Gammill have been
born three children, viz.: Geneva, born July 20, 1879; Beatrice, born August
20, 1881, and Edith, born October 21, 1884. Mrs. Gammill is a member of the Baptist
Church. Mr. Gammill is a prominent Republican of Franklin County, and was candidate
for county clerk on the Republican ticket in 1880; in 1888 he was appointed one
of the commissioners of accounts of his county, and on April 17 was made notary
public. He is engaged in the study of law, and besides being an industrious and
enterprising young man, is now engaged with his uncle, C. J. Milam, in merchandising,
and is assistant postmaster at Sub Rosa, Ark."
Lorenzo Columbus Gammill and Mary Alabama Smith were married on 27 May 1878
in Franklin County, Arkansas. Mary Alabama
Smith (daughter of ? Smith) was born in 1861 in Arkansas. She
died on 14 May 1945. Lorenzo Columbus Gammill and Mary Alabama Smith
had the following children:
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