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- [S104] Personal communication, from Thomas G. Allen to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 3 November 2017 via email.
"Nancy Gordon, Matthew Gillespie’s first wife, was born in February 1809 (in Monaghan County, Ireland) and died 25 August 1837 in Madison County."
- [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "In February, 1827, when he [Matthew Gillespie] was twenty years of age, he, with his brother Joseph, proceeded to the Galena lead mines; from which he returned in the fall of the same year, when he married Miss Nancy Gordon, a sister of the Rev. Joseph Gordon, late of Vandalia. Of this union there was but one child who lived to maturity - the late Judge David Gillespie of Edwardsville."
- [S110] Illinois State Archives, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 [online database] (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/marriage.html - last confirmed in March 2012), Gillespie-Gordon marriage.
Accessed in July 2013. Matthew Gillespie and Nancy Gordon were granted a marriage license or were married on 13 December 1827. Madison County, Illinois marriage license 00000621; volume 006, page 0016.
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