Seventh Generation

106. Giles Oldham SULLIVAN⁴ was born in 1797 in Louisville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA.⁷² of Irish Descent. He was living on 6 January 1830 in St Francisville, Clark County, Missouri, USA.⁷³ He was living in 1831 in Sweet Home, Clark County, Missouri, USA. In 1833/4 Giles was a Trading Post in Nashville, Jackson County, Iowa, USA. He was living between 15 December 1834 and 1838 in Bentonsport, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA.⁷⁴ He appeared in the census in 1836 in Demoine County, Iowa, USA. Census of Western Part of Demoine County, Wisconson Territo ry by H Bateman Dpt Sheriff.
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SP Ros s 1 1 2 1 Giles was living in 1839 in Old Nashville, MIlam County, Texas, USA. He was living in 1840 in Cameron, Milam County, Texas, USA. Six Years later Present Townsite Was Laid Out And It Has been Growing Ever Since CAMERON. Nov. 10. If an ox team were to drive down Cameron’s main business street today , stop in front of a store and deposit merchandise hauled all the way from Galveston, its appearance would erea tea furore in the city. Cameron at one stage of its history, how ever, regarded this as an ordinary event in the course of a day, and it has been by steps so gradual that they are not even noticeable at present, that the city has supplanted its first crude commerce with communica ion by train and by fleets of trucks of today’s fast-moving business methods. In 1840 some 10 or 12 families who lived around the present site, came together and formed the village. These were Daniel Monroe, Josiah Tumham, Shapley P . Ross, Giles O. Sullivan, Mathew Jones, John and William Thompson, and their sister, Mrs. Frazer, names familiar in Texas, especially that of Ross, as his son, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, came to be an early governor of Texas. Laid Out in 1846 the present town of Cameron came into existence. It. was laid off by Munroe, Turnham and Israel Standifer . In the same year the name of Cameron was given to honor Captain Ewing Cameron, on of the Texas heroes, who died for his country . At first merchandise was brought to Cameron by ox teams , from Galveston. the nearest seaport.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58626179/ He died Y before July 1844 at the age of 47 in Texas, USA.⁷⁵ Giles was also known as Jiles O'Sullivan.⁷⁵ He has Ancestral File Number KCQR-T8Y. Giles Oldham Sullivan was: Nephew of John Sullivan, who located the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, which was very hotly disputed and came near a war in 1839; Uncle of Lawrence Sullivan Ross - TX Ranger, TX Gov, President of Texas A&M, Only Adjunct General in the Confederate Army, Freed Cynthia Ann Parker.

Early History of the Des Moines Valley: 1815 Cattle Drive from St. Louis MO to BC, Canada
Just south of the boundary line between the United States and Canada, on the site of the present city of Pembina, North Dakota, the Earl of Selkirk in 1812 established a colony of Scotch Highlanders for the prosecution of the fur business(Hudson Bay Colony). It was in fact another chapter in the history of the war of competition between two sets of Canadian merchants - the Hudson's Bay Company and the North-West Company. In the summer of 1815 two hundred more Scotchmen arrived at the Red River or Pembina settlement, an event which brought on armed conflict with representatives of the hostile North-West Company. To such hardships, besides the rigors of a northern wilderness region, were the pioneers of western Canada exposed until the competing companies effected a merger in the year 1821. After that time, to secure men for the extension of their monopoly in Canada and the United States, especially among the Indians of the Upper Missouri and the West, the promoters issued a prospectus by which they attracted from Europe "some good and credulous Germans and greedy Swiss".
Meanwhile, in the year 1815 after the close of the War of 1812, so run the reminiscences of an Iowa pioneer, Lord Selkirk arranged for the delivery of five hundred head of cattle at the colony, giving the contract to a citizen of New York. Since St. Charles, in Missouri Territory, was the nearest point at which the cattle could be obtained, the contract was sublet to "Old Dick Carr" and B. Lewis Musick. The story of their driving the herd through the Iowa country to Canada is related in the following words:
Carr and Musick were energetic men, and soon had their cattle collected, buying mostly on credit until they had completed the contract. Giles Sullivan was hired to assist in driving as far as Des Moines River. They came up the Mississippi bottom and crossed the Des Moines about where St. Francisville is now situated, and stopped for several days on the Sand Prairie, near the present village of Vincennes. Here Sullivan left them, and Carr and Musick, with other assistants, proceeded up the divide between Skunk and Des Moines Rivers, passing through String Prairie, toward Big Mound, and must have passed very near Absalom Anderson's present farm. The Indians troubled them to some extent, and succeeded in stealing some of their stock; but no serious loss was experienced. In due course of time, they reached Selkirk's settlement, where his agent, well pleased with the cattle, issued a bill of exchange for their value in the name of the original contractor. Carr and Musick made their way home, striking the Mississippi River about St. Paul, from which point they came in canoes. They handed over the draft to the contractor, who, by some sort of hocus pocus, cheated Carr and Musick out of every dollar.
John S. McCune, of St. Louis, the King of the steamboat trade, got his first start in the world by helping drive cattle from Louisiana, Mo. to the Selkirk settlement. Whether he went through with Carr and Musick, the writer is not advised; but it is certain that he made some two or three trips to the Selkirk settlement as a cattle-driver when he was quite a young man.
Other records substantiate the statement that commerce was carried on between the Selkirk colony on the Red River and the American frontier settlements in Missouri by way of the Iowa wilderness. Early in the fall of 1821 another "herd of cattle, mostly cows, arrived from the State of Missouri, in charge of a party of armed drovers, and were distributed in the Spring of 1822 among the Swiss settlers. This distribution of cattle, which had been contracted for by Lord Selkirk before his death, was all that had been done for the colonists in fulfillment of the pledges made them before their departure from Europe." On their return to Missouri the drovers were permitted to take along five disappointed families - indeed, their glowing descriptions of Missouri induced several other families to abandon Lord Selkirk's Colony in 1823. Another interesting reminder of the relations between the far-away Canadian settlement and the nearest American pioneers is a map of Iowa Territory showing "Dixon and McKnight's route to Pembina Settlements in 1822". These men ascended the valleys of the Des Moines and its tributary, the Raccoon, proceeded almost straight northward along the divide between Spirit Lake and the headwaters of the Des Moines to the sources of the St. Peter's Red rivers, and then descended the valley of the Red River to Pembina.

The history of Van Buren County, Iowa: Containing a history of the County. The first Board of Commissioners met in Farmington. It was composed of the following members : John Bending, Isham Keith and Enoch P. Blackburn. The first session was held May 4, 1837. The first work done was to elect the following officers: Recorder, William Welch; Clerk , Enoch P. Blackburn; Collector, Isaac J. Nowell; Coroner , Roger N. Cresap; Assessors, Giles O. Sullivan, William Nelson, William Judd; Road Commissioners, Sanford Burlingham, James Hall, Truelove Sparks; Overseers of the Poor, Asbil Van Sivauk, Robert McElhany;Fence Viewers, John Newport, Charles Davis, William Duncan; Poundmaster, Robert W. Magruder, was, as per entry on the docket, "Prosecution severed." The first case of kidnapping was in 1839, when indictments for the alleged crime were found against Shapely P. Ross, Shapely Walkfork, Benjamin B. Throop and Giles 0. Sullivan. The first child born in Bentonsport was Henry Sullivan. The first death recorded was of a colored woman with a slave name, "Aunt Mournin." She was brought here as a slave by Shapley Ross (Giles 1st Cousin).

Annals of Iowa - "When my father came to Iowa Territory there were only three little log cabins in town, Benton [Bending] occupied one, Sullivan and Ross the other two. All of them were on the Richards Block, he having bought the whole block."
The names Benton and Bending, after a lapse of years, have become confused with reference to the naming of the city. The founder of the city was John Bending but he did not give it his name. John Bending was also a member of the first (or early) board of county commissioners, 1837. According to the Honorable George G. Wright: "Bentonsport was settled in 1836 Or at least Giles Sullivan, Charles O. Sanford, and Ross (who kept the first hotel) settled there that year, coming from St. Francisville, driving their teams in the river, for there were no roads. The place was named for Thomas H. Benton, the great Missouri senator." Note: Giles O. Sullilvan was co-Founder of Bentonsport (drafted 1st Platt of town)

History of Northeast Missouri. Vol 1:
When The White Man Came To Remain Explorers, surveyors, hunters and possibly adventurers, visited Clark county long before the white man arrived to make this territory his permanent home. It was in September, 1829, when Jacob Weaver, his wife, Elizabeth, and their five children came from Kentucky. They settled upon the banks of the Des Moines, near the site of the present town of St. Francisville. It is not disputed that "General" Harrison, trapper, trader and interpreter, had invaded this territory prior to the coming of the Weavers; but they were first to locate. Only a little later the "General" did locate at Marysville, further northwest, on the Des Moines. Following soon after Weaver came John Sackett, then Jeremiah Wayland, George Haywood and Samuel Bartlett, all from the same neighborhood in Kentucky. All located at or near St. Francisville and the descendants of each are now honored citizens among us. The families of these sturdy men did not follow them until the following spring. The cabin built by Jeremiah Wayland on the first bottom, near the river, was swept away by the flood of 1832. He builded again, and better, within the limits of what is now St. Francisville. In 1830 Peter Gillis, Giles Sullivan and William Clark joined the little colony. The wedding of the last named to Elizabeth Payne, at the home of Jeremiah Wayland, was the first occurring in the county. Romance was added to this in the knowledge that the minister performing the ceremony was an impostor. Esquire Robert Sinclair later legally tied the knot and another dinner was in order.
The first white children born within the territory of the present county were John Weaver, Elizabeth Bartlett and Martha Haywood. The first death was that of the wife of Giles Sullivan, 1831; the second that of Mrs. Joseph Wayland

Encylopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference.
According to the most authentic record obtainable, the first settlement in the territory now Clark County was made in September, 1829, when Sackett and Jacob Weaver, who came from Kentucky, settled upon land on the Des Moines River, near the present site of St. Francisville. A year later William Clark built a log cabin near the present site of the town of Athens. Soon after a number of Kentuckians settled in the same neighborhood. Among them were Samuel Bartlett, Jeremiah Wayland and George Heywood. Wayland moved to where St. Francisville is now situated and there built a log cabin, which, in 1832, was swept away by a flood. In 1831 Giles Sullivan settled in the county about two miles above St . Francisville, and a few months later his wife died - the first death in the new settlement. The winters of 1830-1, so it is related in the traditions of the old settlers, were of great severity, and the snow was of such depth that travel was almost impossible, and Indians who occupied the bottoms along the Des Moines River lost nearly all their horses. Leticia Tane TOLBERT (TALBOT/TABBERT) and Giles Oldham SULLIVAN were married before 1821.

107. Leticia Tane TOLBERT (TALBOT/TABBERT)⁴ Alt. Birth in 1789 . She was born in 1795 in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA.⁵³ She died in 1831 at the age of 36. Leticia has Ancestral File Number 27S5-92R. Scottish Descent. Remembers many incidents of Black Hawk W ar, the place of her nativity. Her father had a block hous e at Sweet Home, and was an independent scout under Gen Dod ge, Father of A.C.Dodge. She is the only surviving member o f the family.

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