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Millsap, Gideon T.
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| LAST: Millsap
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FIRST: Gideon
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MID: T.
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 17 Jun 1862
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DIED: 21 Feb 1885
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| BIRTH PLACE: Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Fairfield, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1870 OR CENSUS - Gideon Milsap, age 6, b. Oregon, is enumerated with W. E., age 41, occupation farmer, b. Arkansas, and Malinda, age 30, b. Tennessee, along with Mary, age 15, b. Oregon, Elizabeth, age 14, b. Oregon, Albina, age 9, b. Oregon, Wm age 7, b. Oregon, and Byron, age 3, b. Oregon.
1880 CENSUS - Gideon Millsap, age 16, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father Wm. Millsap, age 51, occupation farmer, b. Arkansas, and Melinda, age 47, b. Tennessee, along with William, age 17, Byron, age 14, Berie, age 8, and Mertie, age 5, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family are Mathew Duke, identified as boarder, age 50, b. Ireland, and Alexander Foshay, identified as servant, age 38, farm laborer, b. Oregon.
NOTE: Millsap in most records, Millsaps on marker.
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OBITUARY:
At the home of his father, Wm Millsap, near Fairfield, on Saturday afternoon February 21, 1895, G. Millsap, age about 21 years.
The deceased was well known to this city. He has been sick for some time, and died of an abscess on his lungs.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 27 Feb 1885 8:4
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INSCRIPTION:
G. T. Millsaps
Born
May 14, 1864
Died
Feb. 21, 1885
Parents, sisters, why these tears
O'er our dull and lifeless clay?
Could you see our present bliss
Tears to Joy would pass away
(shares marker with Wm. R. Millsaps)
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., pg 112)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, ED 83, pg 81A)
WOS 27 Feb 1885 8:4
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