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     Adelgis Count of Parma was born circa 769 at Parma, Italy. He died in 836 at Spoleto, Umbria, Italy.

     Bryant Percival was born circa 1849 at New York, USA.¹ He married Minnie Ferry, daughter of William Whitney Ferry and Mary Elizabeth Gilladette, circa 1878.¹

     Edward Thomas Spencer is the son of Edward H. Spencer and Dorothy Green.

     Charles Edward Henry was born circa 1865 at New York, USA.³ He married Ora May Ferry, daughter of William Whitney Ferry and Mary Elizabeth Gilladette.¹ Charles Edward Henry died on 28 July 1897 at New York, New York, USA.^1,3

     Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry was born on 4 December 1887 at New York, New York, USA.^1,3,2 He was the son of Charles Edward Henry and Ora May Ferry.¹ Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry married Marian Agnes Cooper, daughter of John K. Cooper and Agnes (?), on 10 November 1909 at Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA.^4,5 Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry died in November 1973 at Missouri, USA, at age 85.⁶

     Marian Agnes Cooper was born on 19 April 1887 at New York, USA.^3,4 She was the daughter of John K. Cooper and Agnes (?) Marian Agnes Cooper married Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry, son of Charles Edward Henry and Ora May Ferry, on 10 November 1909 at Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA.^3,5 Marian Agnes Cooper died on 27 October 1984 at Lee, Florida, USA, at age 97.⁴
     Marian Agnes Cooper was also known as Maria Cooper.³

     John K. Cooper married Agnes (?)

     Agnes (?) married John K. Cooper.

     Mariam A. Henry was born on 22 April 1911 at Kansas City, Missouri, USA.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry and Marian Agnes Cooper.¹ Mariam A. Henry died on 26 February 2002 at age 90.²

     John Kerry Henry was born on 29 December 1913 at Kansas City, Missouri, USA.^1,2 He was the son of Thomas Franklin Andrew Henry and Marian Agnes Cooper.¹ John Kerry Henry died on 28 June 1993 at age 79.²

     Miles Sherman Gillidette was born on 15 August 1841 at Dutchess, New York, USA.^3,4 He was the son of William Gilladett and Rebecca Halleck. Miles Sherman Gillidette married Mary J. Rathbone, daughter of Gideon Rathbone and Eliza Howell, on 7 January 1866 at Eldora, Hardin, Iowa, USA.^3,4,5 Miles Sherman Gillidette died in 1931.⁶
     Miles Sherman Gillidette was also known as Sherman M. Gilladett.² Miles Sherman Gillidette was also known as Sherman Small.⁷ MILES SHERMAN GILLIDETT, retired farmer and minister of Plains, with which region he has been actively identified since April 1, 1901, has spent a long and active career and is one of the surviving veterans of the Civil war.

He was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 15, 1841. He was a small child when his father died and cannot remember the latter, William Gillidett, who was born in Delaware County, New York. The Gillidett ancestors were of French lineage. William Gillidett married Rebecca P. Halleck, and her only child was Miles Sherman. Rebecca Halleck's father was Jesse P. Halleck, a soldier of the War of 1812 and a distant relative of Major General Halleck of the Civil war. Jesse P. Halleck married a Miss Hopkins, member of a wealthy family of Litchfield County, Connecticut, who was disinherited because of her marriage with a comparatively poor man. Rebecca Halleck, who was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, July 26, 1821, after the death of her first husband, William Gillidett, married William J. Small. She reared the following children by her second husband: Dr. Frederick Small, of Central Missouri; Helen, who married Martin H. Hamlin, of Harrison County, Missouri; Fannie, who married Allie Williams, of Harrison County, Missouri; Mrs. Rebecca Small, who died at Athelstan, Missouri, March 22, 1889, and is buried there.

Miles Sherman Gillidett spent his boyhood in his native county until he was sixteen years old. His mother then moved to Illinois and settled in Carroll County in 1856. From that locality on October 6, 1862, Mr. Gillidett enlisted in Company C, Ninety-Second Illinois Infantry, under Captain William Stouffer and Colonel Smith D. Adkins. The Ninety-Second Illinois was in some of the hardest fighting of the war. It rendezvoused at Rockford, Illinois, and during the late fall of 1862 followed the trail of John Morgan's Army in Kentucky and Ohio. The first winter was spent at Danville, Kentucky, and thence it was ordered to Fort Donelson, reaching there at the close of the second battle. It was then sent on to Nashville and Franklin and took part in the battle at Duck River. After the winter and spring spent at Franklin in building fortifications the regiment was sent to Tullahoma, Tennessee, where it was mounted and attached to Wilder's Cavalry Brigade. Mr. Gillidett and his comrades took part in the battle of Chickamauga, in various raiding campaigns around Chattanooga, was at Lookout Mountain, and during 1864 fought in the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Altoona, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesboro and shortly before the fall of Atlanta the Ninety-Second Regiment was made a part of General Kilpatrick's Cavalry and was thus in the magnificent raid around Atlanta, cutting communications, tearing up railroads and destroying property on all sides of that Confederate stronghold. After the fall of Atlanta the Ninety-Second went with Sherman's Army on its march to the sea, fighting the Confederates almost daily and reaching Savannah, Georgia, in December, 1864. From Savannah the march northward through the Carolinas began on January 28, 1865, and the Ninety-Second Illinois was in the vanguard of that march. Again they were fighting the diminishing forces of General Johnston, and participated in the battles of Aiken, South Carolina, at Goldsboro, New Hope Creek, and Mr. Gillidett and his comrades witnessed the surrender of Johnston's Army near Raleigh. In that locality the Ninety-Second Illinois was kept for guard and patrol duty until August, 1865. Going north, it traveled by train to City Point, Virginia, thence by water to Baltimore, by rail to Chicago, where the regiment was mustered out and given its honorable discharge after three years of strenuous work and service. Mr. Gillidett in spite of the many obvious hardships of service was never wounded nor captured.

During the war his mother had moved to Iowa and Mr. Gillidett joined her there, locating in Hardin County. Having been reared on a farm and having acquired a country school education, he took naturally to farming and continued that vocation in Iowa, until June, 1867. He then removed to Harrison, County, Missouri, and for a number of years was a well known and prominent citizen of that locality. Much of his time there was taken up with the trades of wagon maker and blacksmith. His shop and home were at Bethany, the county seat. He served as deputy sheriff eight years and sheriff four years and for several years was marshal of the Town of Bethany. In 1880 Mr. Gillidett spent some months in Leadville, Colorado, and was on the police force during the Mike Mooney strike. He raised a company of militia for the defense of the city, was its captain and with the company was mustered into the Colorado National Guard. In the fall of 1880 he returned to Bethany and there raised Company I of the Second Missouri National Guard and was its captain two years and then re-enlisted and served another two years.

After retiring from the sheriff's office, Mr. Gillidett returned to his farm in 1886 and continued farming as his principal vocation until he left Missouri to come to Kansas. He had become acquainted with Kansas in the early '70s while selling horses and mules to settlers over this northern region of the state. It was those early visits which finally influenced him to make his permanent home in this state.

For some years after settling in Meade County Mr. Gillidett was engaged in the hotel business at Plains. He erected the Plains Hotel, the first hotel of the town, and was also proprietor of the first livery stable there. He has been identified with farming and with the rural development of the county, and has been a man of action and leadership in politics, religion and other affairs.

His first presidential vote was cast for Mr. Lincoln while in the army in 1864. He has never missed a presidential election and has never deviated from his first choice of party affiliations. Both in Missouri and Kansas he has attended numerous conventions and helped nominate Governor Hoch in this state. About 1872 he joined the Grand Army as a charter member of Bethany Post and was elected its second officer. He has attended national encampments at Chicago, St. Louis, Pueblo and Portland, Maine.

While living at Bethany, Missouri, Mr. Gillidett was converted to religion and about the time he reached his middle years he took up work as a preacher. He attended theological school at Kimberlin Heights, Tennessee, and was regularly ordained at Bethany by Elder John S. Allen and W. H. Hook. As a pastor he labored in Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa, also Eastern Kansas, and was a member of the Grand River Association of the Christian Church and served it as district evangelist. Some of his evangelistic work was done in Southern Kansas before he moved to the state. After coming to Meade County he was pastor of the churches at Plains, Fowler, Minneola and Liberal.

In Hardin County, Iowa, January 7, 1866, Mr. Gillidett married Miss Mary J. Rathbone. She was born in McLean County, Illinois, May 20, 1845, daughter of Gideon and Eliza (Howell) Rathbone. Her mother when a girl lived in Spencer County, Indiana, and was a schoolmate with Abraham Lincoln, both sitting on the same bench of one of the backwoods country schools of that section. Gideon Rathbone was born in Ohio August 6, 1809, and lived in Sangamon and McLean County, Illinois, and was a pioneer in Hardin County, Iowa, where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. Gideon Rathbone's mother was Deborah Taylor, a first cousin of General and President Zachary Taylor. Gideon Rathbone was twice married, his first wife being Mrs. Lucy Howell.

Mr. and Mrs. Gillidett have been married more than half a century, and have a large number of children and grandchildren. Their oldest child is Charles W., a resident of Chillicothe, Missouri. He married Minnie Boatright and has two sons, Walter L. and Clarence. Gideon, the second child, a resident of Maryville, Missouri, married Lillian Brazelton, and their children are Everett, Earl and Roberta Mae. George W., of Arkansas City, Kansas, married Sophie Dibble. Emma has twice married and is now the wife of James A. Nere of Colorado and has children named Lee, Charles, Carl, Otto, Raymond and Mary M. By her first husband she was the mother of James Niren Gillidett, now an adopted son of Rev. Mr. Gillidett. The next child in age is Miss Anna Mae, of Plains. Homer lives at Chillicothe, Missouri, and Everett, postmaster of Plains, married Mae McCall and has a son, Dwight Ivan. The youngest of the family is Laura B., wife of Fred R. Johnson, of Monument, Colorado.

Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves of plates): ill., maps (some fold.), ports; 27 cm.⁴ Miles Sherman Gillidette was also known as Miles S. Gilladett.³ He appeared on the census of 21 August 1850 at Washington, Dutchess, New York, USA.⁷ He appeared on the census of 6 July 1860 at Wysox, Carroll, Illinois, USA; Rebecca Small Age in 1860: 36 Birth Year: abt 1824 Birthplace: Connecticut Home in 1860: Wysox, Carroll, Illinois
Gender: Female Post Office: Milledgeville
Household Members: Name Age
Wm Small 49
Rebecca Small 36
Sherman Small 18
Helen Small 8
Fred Small 4.⁸


He began military service on 10 February 1862 at Milledgeville, Carroll, Illinois, USA.⁹ He appeared on the census of 1880 at Bethany, Harrison, Missouri, USA.¹⁰ He appeared on the census of 1900 at Jefferson, Harrison, Missouri, USA.³ He appeared on the census of 15 April 1910 at West Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA.² He appeared on the census of 1925 at West Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA.¹¹ He appeared on the census of 7 April 1930 at West Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA.¹

     Mary J. Rathbone was born on 20 May 1845 at Stautis Grove, McLean, Illinois, USA.^1,3 She was the daughter of Gideon Rathbone and Eliza Howell. Mary J. Rathbone married Miles Sherman Gillidette, son of William Gilladett and Rebecca Halleck, on 7 January 1866 at Eldora, Hardin, Iowa, USA.^1,3,4 Mary J. Rathbone died in 1923.⁵

     Gideon Gilladett was born on 27 December 1867 at Jefferson, Harrison, Missouri, USA.^1,2,3 He was the son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹ Gideon Gilladett married Lillian Brazelton, daughter of Thomas Brazelton, circa 1904.⁴ Gideon Gilladett died on 14 July 1938 at Cook, Illinois, USA, at age 70.⁵

     Anna Mae Gilladett was born on 8 October 1874 at Missouri, USA.^1,3 She was the daughter of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹

     Everett Gerald Gilladett was born on 9 November 1878 at Missouri, USA.¹ He was the son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹ Everett Gerald Gilladett married Mae A. McCall circa 1906.³ Everett Gerald Gilladett died on 27 September 1953 at San Bernadino, California, USA, at age 74.^2,4

     Laura Browder Gilladett married Fred R. Johnson. Laura Browder Gilladett was born on 17 March 1886 at Bethany, Harrison, Missouri, USA.^1,3 She was the daughter of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹

     Homer Gilladett was born on 20 July 1876 at Missouri, USA.^1,2 He was the son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹ Homer Gilladett married Emma (?) Homer Gilladett and an unknown person were divorced before 1920.

     George Winfield Gilladett married Sophie Dibble. George Winfield Gilladett was born on 9 June 1870 at Missouri, USA.² He was the son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.² George Winfield Gilladett died on 3 November 1929 at Anderson, McDonald, Missouri, USA, at age 59.²

     Lillian Brazelton was born circa 1876 at Illinois, USA.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Brazelton. Lillian Brazelton married Gideon Gilladett, son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone, circa 1904.²
     Lillian Brazelton was also known as Lillian Spencer.

     Earl Granvil Gilladett was born on 11 December 1911 at Burlington Jct., Nodaway, Missouri, USA.¹ He was the son of Gideon Gilladett and Lillian Brazelton.¹ Earl Granvil Gilladett died on 17 April 1923 at age 11.¹

     Charles Walter Gillidett married Minnie Boatright, daughter of Bolden Boatright and Nellie Patton.² Charles Walter Gillidett was born on 17 October 1866 at Iowa, USA.^3,4,1 He was the son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.³ Charles Walter Gillidett died on 5 November 1947 at Placer, California, USA, at age 81.^5,6
     Charles Walter Gillidett was also known as Charles Walter Gilladette.

     Emma Gillidette married James A Nere. Emma Gillidette was born on 26 September 1872 at Missouri, USA.^1,2 She was the daughter of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹

     Rebecca Halleck was born circa 1822 at New York, USA.¹ She married William Gilladett, son of Thomas Gilladett and Roxanna Green, circa 1840. Rebecca Halleck married William Small circa 1847.¹

     Gideon Rathbone married Eliza Howell.

     Eliza Howell married Gideon Rathbone.

     Minnie Boatright married Charles Walter Gillidett, son of Miles Sherman Gillidette and Mary J. Rathbone.¹ Minnie Boatright was born on 26 May 1867 at Iowa, USA.^2,3,4 She was the daughter of Bolden Boatright and Nellie Patton. Minnie Boatright died on 1 February 1931 at Chillicoth, Livingston, Missouri, USA, at age 63.⁵

     Walter L. Gillidette was born on 28 January 1891 at Bethany, Harrison, Missouri, USA.¹ He was the son of Charles Walter Gillidett and Minnie Boatright. Walter L. Gillidette married Helene J. Carr on 13 May 1917 at Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, USA.²

     Clarence Walker Gillidette was born on 3 August 1898 at Missouri, USA.² He was the son of Charles Walter Gillidett and Minnie Boatright. Clarence Walker Gillidette died on 8 June 1974 at Placer, California, USA, at age 75.¹

     Everett Gilladett was born circa 1908 at Kansas, USA.¹ He was the son of Gideon Gilladett and Lillian Brazelton.

     Roberta Mae Gilladett is the daughter of Gideon Gilladett and Lillian Brazelton.