Fayette County, TN Genealogy

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Fayette County Biographies

Rev. S.S. Gill

Surnames: GILL, SCOTT, WEBB

Rev. S.S. Gill, pastor of the Presbyterian Church under the Memphis Presbytery, was born December 5, 1829, in Haywood County, Tenn., and is of a family of seven sons and one daughter born to David and Maria (Scott) Gill. The father was a native of North Carolina and the mother of South Carolina. They came to Tennessee in childhood and were married in Giles County, Tenn., and located at Brownsville, where the father was a house carpenter for seven years; they then moved to Chulohoma, Marshall Co., Miss., where he worked at his trade two years, then located on a farm in same county, where he remained twelve years, and in 1851 located on a farm near Horn Lake, DeSoto Co., Miss., where the mother died, and in a few years after the father moved to Graves County, Ky., where he died in 1879. Our subject graduated at the University of Mississippi in 1851, after completing the preparatory course under John A. Rousseau, near Horn Lake. He then spent three years in the theological seminary at Danville, Ky., and was licensed to preach in the presbytery of northern Mississippi in 1857, and labored in that field until 1860, having been ordained in 1859. In 1860 he moved to Fayette County, taking charge of Hickory Withe and Macon Churches, which he has retained ever since with the exception of an interval of ten years, during which he had other work in place of Macon Church. December 22, 1864, he married James Anna Webb, a native of Somerville, Fayette County, who is a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1878 Mr. Gill located at his present home, consisting of 108 acres one mile north of Hickory Withe. He is a Democrat in politics, and as a minister has greatly endeared himself to the members of his church. Mr. Gill has been an earnest worker in the church and has done a great deal for the town and county, and is a cultured man and a true Christian.

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