R.C. GILLHAM JR. MARCH 24, 1910 FRONT PAGE ALSO HAS A PICTURE. AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL WEEKS R.C. GILLHAM DIED LAST EVENING AT 5:30 AT HIS RESIDENCE ON SPRINGER AVE. THE END WAS PEACEFUL AND CALM A GRADUAL SINKING TO REST. IT HAD BEEN FORSEEN FOR SOME DAYS, AND IN FACT FOR TWO WEEKS PAST THE FAMILY HAD BEEN PERPARED FOR THE IN IVITABLE. MRS GILLHAM AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN WERE PRESENT. THE FUNERAL WILL BE TOMARROW, FRIDAY AT 12: O'CLOCK AT ST. JOHNS M.E. CHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISH OF MR. GILLHAM HE WILL HAVE A KNIGHTS TEMPLE FUNERAL THE FULL SERVICES OF THE GRAND COMMANDERY BEING EMPLOYED. EMINENT SIR KNIGHT SMYATH CROOKS OF CHICAGO PAST GRAND COMANDER OF THE GRAND COMMANDERS OF ILLINOIS WILL ARIVE HERE TOMARROW MORNING AND WILL ACT AS PRELATE DURING THE CEREMONIES. THE EXERCISES WILL BE IN DIRECT CHARGE OF THE BELVIDERE COMMONDERY NO 2 KT OF ALTON. THE ALTON AND GRANITE CITY KNIGHTS WILL ARIVE HERE AT 11: O'CLOCK EDWARDSVILLE LODGE 99 AF AND A.M.WILL ACT AS ESCORT ON THIS OCCASION, AND THE MASTER, GEORGE L. MOORMAN HAS HALL ISSUED NOTICE FOR ASSEMBLING AT THE HALL AT 11: O"CLOCK, THE MASONS WILL PROCEED TO THE RESIDENCE AT 11:30 AND WILL ESCORT THE BODY TO THE CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE AT THE WANDA CEMETERY. RYDERUS CLARK GILLHAM ARE ONE OF THE PIONEER FAMILES OF THIS VICNITY. THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY THOMAS CAME FROM IRELAND IN 1730. THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TO SETTLE IN ILLINOIS. WAS JAMES THE FOURTH SON OF THOMAS, WHO CAME TO THIS STATE IN 1794 AND WAS PLEASED WITH ITS ADVANTAGES THAT HE WROTE TO HIS BROTHERS AND IN 1802 JOHN AND WILLIAM FOLLOWED. THEY SETTLED ON THE WEST BANKS OF COHOKIA CREEK IN WHAT IS NOW EDWARDSVILLE TOWNSHIP . AMONG THE CHILDREN OF JOHN GILLHAM WAS R.C. GILLHAM SR. WHO WAS BORN CHARLESTON S.C. AND CAME WITH HIS PARENTS ONE HUNDRED A 8 YEARS AGO. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING UNTIL HIS DEATH WHICH OCCORRED ON THE OLD HOMESTEAD NOV. 12 1846. HIS SON R.C. WHO DIED LAST EVENING WAS BORN ONE MILE SOUTH OF OLD SALEM NEAR WHAT IS NOW THE LINE BETWEEN EDWARDSVILLE AND CHOUTEAU TS. JULY 3 1836 AND WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE FAMILY. MR GILLHAM WAS EDUCATED IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND FINISHED WITH A YEAR AT MCKENDREE COLLEGE AT LEBANON.
R.C. GILLHAM JR. MARCH 24, 1910 FRONT PAGE ALSO HAS A PICTURE. AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL WEEKS R.C. GILLHAM DIED LAST EVENING AT 5:30 AT HIS RESIDENCE ON SPRINGER AVE. THE END WAS PEACEFUL AND CALM A GRADUAL SINKING TO REST. IT HAD BEEN FORSEEN FOR SOME DAYS, AND IN FACT FOR TWO WEEKS PAST THE FAMILY HAD BEEN PERPARED FOR THE IN IVITABLE. MRS GILLHAM AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN WERE PRESENT. THE FUNERAL WILL BE TOMARROW, FRIDAY AT 12: O'CLOCK AT ST. JOHNS M.E. CHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WISH OF MR. GILLHAM HE WILL HAVE A KNIGHTS TEMPLE FUNERAL THE FULL SERVICES OF THE GRAND COMMANDERY BEING EMPLOYED. EMINENT SIR KNIGHT SMYATH CROOKS OF CHICAGO PAST GRAND COMANDER OF THE GRAND COMMANDERS OF ILLINOIS WILL ARIVE HERE TOMARROW MORNING AND WILL ACT AS PRELATE DURING THE CEREMONIES. THE EXERCISES WILL BE IN DIRECT CHARGE OF THE BELVIDERE COMMONDERY NO 2 KT OF ALTON. THE ALTON AND GRANITE CITY KNIGHTS WILL ARIVE HERE AT 11: O'CLOCK EDWARDSVILLE LODGE 99 AF AND A.M.WILL ACT AS ESCORT ON THIS OCCASION, AND THE MASTER, GEORGE L. MOORMAN HAS HALL ISSUED NOTICE FOR ASSEMBLING AT THE HALL AT 11: O"CLOCK, THE MASONS WILL PROCEED TO THE RESIDENCE AT 11:30 AND WILL ESCORT THE BODY TO THE CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE AT THE WANDA CEMETERY. RYDERUS CLARK GILLHAM ARE ONE OF THE PIONEER FAMILES OF THIS VICNITY. THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY THOMAS CAME FROM IRELAND IN 1730. THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TO SETTLE IN ILLINOIS. WAS JAMES THE FOURTH SON OF THOMAS, WHO CAME TO THIS STATE IN 1794 AND WAS PLEASED WITH ITS ADVANTAGES THAT HE WROTE TO HIS BROTHERS AND IN 1802 JOHN AND WILLIAM FOLLOWED. THEY SETTLED ON THE WEST BANKS OF COHOKIA CREEK IN WHAT IS NOW EDWARDSVILLE TOWNSHIP . AMONG THE CHILDREN OF JOHN GILLHAM WAS R.C. GILLHAM SR. WHO WAS BORN CHARLESTON S.C. AND CAME WITH HIS PARENTS ONE HUNDRED A 8 YEARS AGO. HE ENGAGED IN FARMING UNTIL HIS DEATH WHICH OCCORRED ON THE OLD HOMESTEAD NOV. 12 1846. HIS SON R.C. WHO DIED LAST EVENING WAS BORN ONE MILE SOUTH OF OLD SALEM NEAR WHAT IS NOW THE LINE BETWEEN EDWARDSVILLE AND CHOUTEAU TS. JULY 3 1836 AND WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE FAMILY. MR GILLHAM WAS EDUCATED IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND FINISHED WITH A YEAR AT MCKENDREE COLLEGE AT LEBANON.
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