Identifier: historyofdaviess00leop (find matches)
Title: History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Leopard, John C Hillman, Mary McCammon McCammon, Robert McMillen, 1842-1922
Subjects: Daviess County (Mo.) -- History Gentry County (Mo.) -- History
Publisher: Topeka : Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t wasamong the earliest settlers of Iowa, and became an extensive farmer andstockman, raising high grade stock. He owned 900 acres of land in Jeffer-son County, Iowa. Mr. Gillett was a Democrat. He died Dec. 28, 1868 andhis wife died in May, 1905. They are buried in Abington Cemetery, Iowa.Mr. and Mrs. Gillett were the parents of 13 children, as follows: Ellen,deceased; one child died in infancy; Penolope, the wife of James D. McCoy,both deceased; James, deceased; Orlin H., dceased; Eliza, the widow ofJohn Pollock, resides in California; Zacharias T., deceased; Fillmore, de-ceased ; Jeanette, deceased, was the wife of William Wells; William R.,farmer, resides in Iowa; John R., the subject of this sketch; Edward M.,banker. Sterling, Colo.; Lester banker, resides in Washington state. John R. Gillett was reared on his fathers farm in Iowa, and receivedhis education in the district schools. He began life working on a farmfor $12 per month. Later, he with his brother, William, rented their
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MR AND MRS. JOHN R. GIT.LETT THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILUEN FOUNDATIONS HISTORY OF DAVIESS AND GENTRY COUNTIES 937 fathers farm for three years, after which Mr. Gillett purchased a farm of200 acres in Iowa. He remained there for five years, after which he cameto Missouri in 1887, settling on a farm of 80 acres, in Grundy County.Mr. Gillett moved to Lincoln Township, Daviess County, a year later, pur-chasing his present farm. Mr. Gillett now owns 760 acres of land inLincoln, Washington, and Grand River Townships, and is one of the big-gest and most successful stockman of the county. He specializes in thebreeding of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. John R. Gillett was married on Oct. 7, 1886, to Emma V. Wells a nativeof Brookville, Iowa, and a daughter of Rufus Morgan and Mary (Groves)Wells, natives of Virginia and Indiana. To John R. Gillett and wife sevenchildren were born, as follows: Earl, deceased; two children died in in-fancy ; Edith, a graduate of James

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