This picture was taken in 1915 of the Hugh H. J.
Gillick family,
who were living in Western Mound Township. About the time that this
picture
was taken, Nancy (the mother) Gillick did carpet weaving and many
residents
of Carlinville bought many of her rag rugs. Hugh Gillick was a farmer
most
of his life.
Family members are as follows: (back row, left to
right) Mittie
(married
Harold Ladley and lived in Hettick); Maudie (married Wilber Nevins,
then
Clarence Rehn, lived in Carlinville her later years); Jessie (married
Joseph
Binford, Jr.and lived in Washington state); Alvin P. (married Elsie
Brown
and ran a broom making business in Hettick in the 1920's {blind});
Nellie
(married Frank McDuffee - both blind, Frank also had a broom making
business,
but in Wayne City); Joseph (married Marie Rafferty and farmed in
Western
Mound township his entire life). Seated: Nancy Coonrod Gillick, Elmer
(killed
by lightning as a young man), Hugh Henry James Gillick. Front row:
Helen
(married Earl McDuffee and lived near Rantoul); and Mary (first married
Virgil Wheeler, and in later years married Harold Ladley. Mary taught
school
for many years, and lived in Hettick all of her adult life.) This
picture
was published in the the Carlinville Democrat newspaper on 26 April
1962
with an article about the family. To obtain further info, or to share
further
info, please contact Susie Gillick at SMompop4@aol.com
