Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
William Henry Harrison Gilley
Washington Democrat
Saturday, October 27, 1906
Wm. H. H. Gilley is Dead
Daviess County Veteran of Civil War Dies from Kidney Trouble
William Henry Harrison Gilley, veteran of the civil war, died from kidney
trouble at his home in the Logan property on east Van Trees street at
2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Gilley enlisted in the union army in September,
1861. He was a member of Company G, Forty ninth regiment and saw three
years of services. He was an active member of the local G. A. R. post.
Mr. Gilley was born near Hudsonville and with the exception of a few
years that he spent in Illinois he spent all his life in Daviess County.
He returned to Daviess County from Illinois about fifteen years ago.
He followed the occupation of a farmer but during recent years had lived
in this city. Mr. Gilley married the daughter of John McCracken. She
survives him. Mr. Gilley was a member of the Baptist church, of the order
of Red Men and in politics was a republican. He leaves two sons, Austin
and Charles.
Note: William Henry Harrison served in the forty second regiment, not the forty ninth, and he married Margaret Alice McCracken, a daughter of William McCracken, not John McCracken.
Contributed by: Sandra E. Johnston