Biography of Henry Kilgore
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 893
HENRY KILGORE, famrer, P.O. London, was born in Madison County, Ohio, September 14, 1828. He is a son of James and Sarah (Hutson) Kilgore, natives of Kentucky, the former of Scotch and the latter of English descent. The former was a Captain in the war of 1812. Our subject was reared on a farm and received a limited education. In 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He has followed farming during life, and now owns 116 acres of good land. He was married in 1872 to Martha Ellsworth, by whom he has two children -- Simon G. and Charles H. Mr. and Mrs. kilgore are members of the Christian Church. He is a Republican in politics. We append herewith a sketch of his mother, written by a member of the family: * * * * Sarah Kilgore was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in the year 1789, and was married to Jonathan Denton in the year 1806. During the few years they were permitted to live together, their lives were full of suffering and danger, they finally being driven by the Indians from their home to the fort. Here she remained, and at the risk of her life, rode home each day to attend to the stock they were obliged to leave behind. But a short time elapsed until her husband was killed in a skirmish with the Indians, and with her three small children she was forced to flee to her parental roof. In the year 1814, she was married to James Kilgore, who still survives her. She departed this life November 2, 1872, in her eighty-fourth year leaving behind a family of eight children thirty-eight grandchildren, forty-three great-grandchildren and one of the fifth generation. She united with the Methodist Church at the early age of sixteen years, and the prayer and class meeting, in which she assisted as leader for many years, were her delight. When she united with the church there was no house of worship but the cabin of the early settler. The cares of domestic life, and the privations of the pioneer did not cause her to falter in the path of duty. With a cheerful and brave heart she did what she could and her children rise up and called her blessed, and though her family and friends mourn her absence here, yet they rejoice in the prospect of a re-union on the evergreen shore.
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