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Eighth Generation
1233. Elizabeth
Gammill470 was born
in 1850 in Hardin County, Tennessee.1097
She died in an influenze epidemic in 1927 in Charleston, Franklin County, Arkansas.1097 Elizabeth Gammill and William
Jones Sr. were married in Hardin County, Tennessee.1097 William Jones Sr.470 was born in 1844 in Hardin County,
Tennessee.1097 He died
in 1937 in Charleston, Franklin County, Arkansas.1097
King, p. 36, quotes grandson W. Carroll Bumpers as saying: "Grandfather
operated a general store, the only store in Anice, Franklin Co., AR. They reared
their children there, and they lived there until Grandfather retired and they
moved to Charleston, approximately ten miles away. I remember Grandfather quite
well. He wasa born in 1844 in Hardin County and married Grandmother there.
They moved to Franklin County around 1879 and he lived until 1937. When I was
a little boy, he told me he had loved near the Shiloh Church and that he walked
through the battlefield two days after the Battle of Shiloh and had to hold a
handkerchief to his nose because of the stench of death. He said there was a
great deal of Southern sentiment in Hardin County but that the Union Forces gained
dominance early and generally held it throughout the Civil War." Elizabeth
Gammill and William Jones Sr. had the following children:
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