STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1903, page 1, column 6 DAVID S. GILLESPIE, 14 Apr 1835 - 12 Mar 1903 David S. Gillespie was born in Lorain county, Ohio, April 14, 1835, and died at his home in Wolcottville, Ind., March 12, 1903, aged 67 years, 10 months and 28 days. When a child his parents settled at New Lisbon, Ohio, and from thence moved to Mount Union, Ohio, and during the summer of 1848, the family located in Jackson township, Steuben county, Ind., on the northeast quarter of section 33 which place continued to be the home of the subject of this sketch until he married and established a home of his own, on the northwest quarter of section 5 in Salem township where he lived almost continuously until a few months before his death. In 1854, he was married to Helen M. Butler. To this union were born five children, three boys and two girls, Lester J., William, Orla, Nellie and Maud, all of whom survive together with three brothers, John, Joseph and Rufus. The wife and mother, Helen M. died Oct. 10, 1887; on Jun 9, 1897, Mr. Gillespie was again united in marriage with Mrs. Mary Reniff, who with his children most faithfully and lovingly cared for him through his long and helpless illness. In the summer of 1862, Mr. Gillespie, then a student in the Orland high school, gave up home, family, friends and all the possibilities of the future and with his brothers, Capt. Joseph W. and Rufus R., enlisted in Co. B of the 100th Regt. Ind. Vol. Infantry, serving his country faithfully in Grant's Army of the Mississippi at Vicksurg, Colummbia and among and along the malerial swamps and bayous of the Yazoo, until worn out and exhausted by exposure, hardships and disease, he was discharged from the service to return to his home and family with health ruined for life. In the community where he lived so long, he was loved, honored and respected for his upright and blameless life, his patience and cheerfulness through extreme affliction and his kindness as a neighbor and constancy as a friend. For months before he died, being helpless and most of the time speechless, there were no murmurings from his lips nor discord in his heart but perfect peace, for he was hopefully and cheerfully looking forward and upward to a brighter and better inheritance, a better house, a house of many mansions in the city of our God-eternal, in the heavens. Services and burial from the Block church, in Salem township. The Baptist minister, from Wolcottville, officiating. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: David S. Gillespie, 14 Apr 1835 - 12 Mar 1903 (Daniel on the marriage license), married 1st on 24 Dec 1854, Helen M. (Butler) Gillespie, 1836 - 10 Oct 1887, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Prentice) Butler. David and Helen are buried at Block Cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana. Son: Orla Fast Gillespie, Jul 1866 - 1949, married Addie Belle (Wilson) Gillespie, Dec 1876 - 1953. They are buried at Block Cemetery. David married 2nd, Mrs. Mary J. Reniff, no dates or place of burial. "Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990", by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol. 1, page 728. "History of Steuben County, IN - 1885", page 745, biography of David S. Gillespie. Submitted by: Mona Hilden-Beckwith e-mail: hilbeck123@att.net