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Members of the GILLETT Family who
FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR (1)


1 ELIJAH WALTRIP See Great-Great Grandfather G402 4th generation

ELIJAH WALTRIP was born October 7, 1815, in Hardinsburg, Breckenridge, Kentucky, the son of Luke and Susannah (Vantress) Waltrip.

He was farming in Barry County, Missouri, with his second wife, Delila Hanes, and four of their children when the Civil War began. He also had four children by his first wife before she died. At the time he was about 46 years old.

Little is known of his participation except that it was listed in "The History of Barry County, Missouri" that Elijah and his brother, James, fought with the Union Army during the War.


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