John GULLEDGE (GULLAGE)

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• FamilySearch ID: GJM6-66S
• _UID: 3267A12036A54C9188DF27E58194EEE56D84
• Census: 1850, Simpson County, Mississippi

Notes:

Very little is known about the background of the Gullage Family. Most of the information that could be found came from a journal that John Gullage kept on his journey from around Cheraw and Society Hill, South Carolina. The earliest date found in the journal of John Gullage was July 1, 1825; therefore, he must have been born in the early 1800's or the very late 1790's.

John Gullage married Nancy McCall
John's sister Mary? Gullage married ????McCall
William Gullage was John's brother
John Gullage two sisters: Caroline Gullage Wilkes and Margreat Gullage Byrd
And a niece Frances Byrd

Note: Letters from family and friends are on file. Also, there is a little history included.

Late in the evening on a Christmas Eve, probably in the year 1847, some of our McCall ancestors (John Gullage's family) arrived at their first home in Mississippi. They had traveled for 44 days by wagon train through rain, snow, hail, and flood from Society Hill, South Carolina.
The entries in this journal made after 1862 are believed to have been made by Thomas Gullage McCall.

All the information in this research is the work of several persons: Dr. D.A. McCall and his wife Margie Parks McCall who preserved the John Gullage journal; Thomas Joseph and Florrie Jones McCall for their encouragement and for much of the supporting data and information; John Cullum Halbrook, Jr. for beginning this genealogy which is so important to all of us; and ?Mugga? (Ernestine McCall Halbrook) to whom family was so important and instilled that same love of family in her children.

Note: This journal is in a handwritten journal. The earliest date in it is July 1, 1825 and the latest is 1875. It lists receipts for payments and work done, mail route expenses, and postage charges; it also relates brotherhood signs and signals, church meetings, and ?cures for charbon and flusk.? It was begun by John Gullage and continued by his nephew Thomas Gullage McCall. Thomas Gullage McCall was remembered by one son Duncan Dent McCall as being a small man who in later life had a slight limp. He was a good mechanic and blacksmith who could cut grooves in a log to make the big screw for the press that baled cotton after it was ginned. It was said that he had a mail route somewhere between Mobile, Alabama, and Laurel, Mississippi, and during the Civil War was at times given special shoes with messages hidden in them. On July 18, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Second Regiment of Mississippi State Troops which is noted in ?A History of Simpson County to 1865? (p. 161) as Barwicks County, Fourth Cavalry of Company D, Second Quinns State Troops.

Family/Spouse: Nancy MCCALL. Nancy (daughter of Duncan MCCALL) was born in 1800 in South Carolina; died after 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]