Gillis B. Spinks

Descendants of Gillis B. Spinks

Generation 2

1. GILLIS B.² SPINKS^{1, 2, 3} (William¹) as born in 1829 in Kentucky. He died on August 19, 1858^? in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He married Nancy Jane Jarvis, daughter of Edward Jarvis and Mary Forrester on August 30, 1850 in Kentucky⁴. She was born in May 1830^{5, 6, 7} in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She died after Aft. 1900 in probably-Hopkins County, Kentucky⁵.

Gillis B. Spinks and Nancy Jane Jarvis had the following children:

i. ELIZA JANE³ SPINKS^{7, 8, 9, 10, 11} was born in December 1850 in Kentucky. She died between 1900-1910 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She married Reason C. Cash, son of Reison Cash and Rhoda Unknown in 1870 in Kentucky. He was born in 1847 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He died after Aft. 1910 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

ii. DANIEL SPINKS² was born in October 1855² in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He died on December 05, 1855 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (7 weeks²).

iii. RACHEL D. SPINKS^{7, 12, 13} was born on February 16, 1857 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. She died on September 14, 1935 in Webster County, Kentucky (Browder’s Church Cemetery, Hopkins County, Kentucky³). She married (1) JAMES LONEY, son of Hugh M. Loney and Elizabeth America Tyson on November 11, 1872 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. He was born in December 1852 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He died on March 10, 1878 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She married (2) WILLIAM Y. SLATON on December 08, 1879 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. He was born on February 04, 1837 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. He died on April 01, 1922 in Hopkins County, Kentucky (Browder’s Church Cemetery, Hopkins County, Kentucky).

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Sources

1. Spinks, Gillis, 1850 – Kentucky, Muhlenberg (United States. Bureau of the Census. Sixth Census), Ancestry.com, Roll: M432_214; Page: 176A.
2. Spinks, Daniel (Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953), Ancestry.com, Image.
3. Staton, Rachel D. Spinks Loney (Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953), Ancestry.com, Certificate of Death, File No.: 23493; Registered No.: 45. Image.
4. Spinks, Gillis – Gibbs[sic]; Jarvis, Nancy, USGenWeb Archives, Marriage Register Book 2: Page: 61; No.: 765. William Bennett.
5. Stanley, Howard; Nancy, 1900 – Kentucky, Hopkins, Madisonville (United States. Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census), Ancestry.com, Roll: 528; Page: 11A. Image.
6. Stanley, NJ (Nancy), 1880 – Kentucky, Muhlenberg, Summers (United States. Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census), Ancestry.com, Roll: 435; Page:62C. Image.
7. Stanley, Lewis, 1960 – Kentucky, Muhlenberg, District 1 (United States. Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census), Ancestry.com, Roll: M653_388; Page: 604. Image.
8. Melanie McDowell Sookey, Family Group Sheet, hardcopy, supplied by Sookey, 1998.
9. Cash, Della (Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953), Ancestry.com, Certificate of Death, File No.: 25562; Registration No.: 2D, Image.
10. Spinks, Eliza Jane, Genealogy.com, Spinks Family Genealogy Forum; Posted by: Jeff Rodgers, April 06, 2003. (Research Notes).
11. Cash, Isaiah (Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953), Ancestry.com, Certificate of Death, File No.: 25019; Registered No.: 165; Volume: 51. Image.
12. Muhlenberg GEDCOM.
13. Patty Tyson Wilson, Tysons of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Greenacres Publishing Company, 2003), Family History, Page 58.

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Extended Research By:  Harriet C. Anderson, work in progress, 2019 – 2021.