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From: Richard Pence <>
Subject: Re: GILMORE/GILMER Rockingham Co
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 04:14:56 -0400


At 07:34 PM 6/23/97 -0400, you wrote:

>My husbands gggmother was mary Gilmore Hord w/o Nathaniel Hord. I think
>Mary was a widow, but I do not know her husbands name. They were
> married in Rockingham Co Va after 1810.

DeliaL

This may get you started:

From: John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr., _Rockingham County, Virginia,
Marriages, 1778-1850_ (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1984), page 120:

Hord, Nathaniel & Mary Gilmore, 13 May 18l5; min- Wm Cravens

A possible clue to Mary's maiden name can be found in the following
marrriage, page 100:

Gilmore, Thomas & Mary Grace 18 Jun 1801; b- Wm Craven, d of James
(dec) min- Benjamin Erwin

[b = bondsman; d = daughter; min = minister]

This is the only marriage of a Gilmer/Gilmore to any woman named Mary.

Note that Wm Craven(s) was the bondsman for the first marriage and the
minister for the second; this may not be significant, but ....

P.S.: I am sending a copy of this to the list because it illustrates the
point I made in my message of a day or two ago (and to which some took
offense): If folks include the names of specific people and places and dates
(even if approximate), it is a lot easier for others to help. If your
message had lacked "Rockingham County" I wouldn't have even begun looking -
I simply can't check every book I have on the off-chance one of them _might_
contain a plertinent record.

I do hope this helps.
Regards,
Richard A. Pence
3211 Adams Court
Fairfax, VA 22030-1900
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