Margaret Salina Milam

Photo submitted by: Dani Clark

Margaret Salina Milam (1832-1916)
Husband, Chesley Mack Gammill

Margaret Salina Milam
(in front of homeplace)

Descendants of Margaret Salina Milam

1. MARGARET SALINA MILAM (THOMAS FERRILL⁵, COLEMAN⁴, THOMAS³, JOHN², UNKNOWN FATHER OF THE VIRGINIA¹ MILAMS) was born November 06, 1832 in Alabama, and died September 14, 1916 in Meg, Franklin County, Arkansas. She married CHESLEY MACK GAMMILL December 23, 1853 in Hardin County, Tennessee, son of SAMUEL GAMMILL and ELIZA BUTLER. He was born March 28, 1832 in Bedford County, Tennessee, and died December 25, 1905 in Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas.

Notes for MARGARET SALINA MILAM:
Nan told this story many times. She told of hardships, trials, and sufferings she endured while her husband was in the Civil War. He was conscripted 1 January 1864 into Company E, 18th Iowa Infantry. After the region was overrun by the Union Army, every able bodied man in Franklin County was forced to serve or be shot. This also happened to Nan's brothers, Lucas Coleman Milam and Calaway Jackson Milam.

All of Nan's children came down with Smallpox because Union doctors vaccinated many people, especially Confederate sympathizers, with the live pox and the live virus of the disease. The morning after her baby girl had died in the night, Nan got on her small pony to go to the neighbor's to borrow corn for their next meal. On the way, she met two soldiers and called to them to ask them if they would dig a grave to bury the girl. Upon hearing "Smallpox" they spurred their horses and she thought they were running away. Instead of leaving, they surrounded her and put the wind at their backs and blowing toward her. They asked for the desired location of the grave and where to get tools. They left and she hurried on to the neighbors to get the cornmeal. When she arrived home, they had dug the grave and were gone. She fixed a coffin as best she could and buried her child. She always said that no one knows what real trouble and heartache are until one had to bury a child alone.

The other children survived, but were badly scarred from the pox. ---Dani Clark

Notes for CHESLEY MACK GAMMILL:
VMR: held office as Tax Collector of Hardin County, Tenn.

Children of MARGARET MILAM and CHESLEY GAMMILL are:

i. LORENZO COLUMBUS GAMMILL, b. April 05, 1855, Hardin County, Tennessee; d. Aft. 1920, Wekumka, Oklahoma; m. MARY ALLIE SMITH, May 27, 1878, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. Aft. 1920, Wekumka, Oklahoma.

Notes for LORENZO COLUMBUS GAMMILL:
VMR: "at 15 became assistant teacher at Hickory Point under Professor Green and at 19 was a licensed teacher, one of the best in Franklin county."

ii. ALONZO GAMMILL, b. 1858, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. Bef. 1888, Franklin County, Arkansas.

iii. AMANDA ALICE GAMMILL, b. January 19, 1860, prob Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas; d. November 11, 1878, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas.

iv. STERLING PRICE GAMMILL, M.D., b. March 28, 1862, Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas; d. May 1930, Charleston, Arkansas; m. ANNA BELL MCGEE, March 08, 1885, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. December 10, 1868; d. Charleston, Arkansas.

Notes for STERLING PRICE GAMMILL, M.D.:
VMR: became a medical doctor in 1886, licensed at Little Rock, Arkansas.Persistent stories of his death as suicide are not true. Died of a stroke.: William Gammill of Annapolis, MD 10-11-2001.

v. LILLIE BELL GAMMILL, b. 1863, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. 1864, Franklin County, Arkansas.

vi. MARTHA ELLEN GAMMILL, b. November 1865, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. 1934, Franklin County, Arkansas; m. HENRY ARTHUR SMITH, February 10, 1884, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. February 1856, Jackson County, Alabama; d. 1926, Franklin County, Arkansas.

Notes for MARTHA ELLEN GAMMILL:
VMR: She died of breast cancer. She and Henry took over the Mary Smith homeplace, built a store, and established a post office in it, which name they changed from Gammiel. The name was meant for Gammill, named for Columbus Gammill who was then teaching school at the Abijah Burcham Cemetery and Schoolhouse, but the name got misspelled in recording it.

Mattie Ellen Gammill Smith used the initials "MEG" of her maiden name in renamimg the post office. This how Meg, Arkansas got its name.

Notes for HENRY ARTHUR SMITH:
VMR: 5th child of Capt Arthur and Mary Smith

vii. FRANKLIN GAMMILL, b. 1868, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. Oklahoma; m. WILLIE RHODES, December 23, 1888, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. 1872; d. Oklahoma.

viii. WILLIAM CHESLEY GAMMILL, b. April 20, 1870, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. May 21, 1928, Branch, Arkansas; m. (1) KATIE DELL MCGEE, December 16, 1888, Franklin County, Arkansas; b. February 02, 1874, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. August 08, 1918, Franklin County, Arkansas; m. (2) ANNA KING, Aft. 1919; b. December 15, 1888; d. April 05, 1931, Franklin County, Arkansas.

Notes for WILLIAM CHESLEY GAMMILL:
VMR: Merchant in Branch, Ark

ix. JAMES ORVILLE GAMMILL, b. September 11, 1876, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. July 22, 1903, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas.

x. SALINE CONSUELO GAMMILL, b. July 25, 1878, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. August 01, 1878, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas.

xi. INFANT, b. 1880, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas; d. 1880, Sub Rosa, Franklin County, Arkansas.