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Submitted: 4/13/15 • Approved: 4/13/15 • Last Updated: 9/13/17 • R1069440-G0-S3
2 Aug 1851 - 26 Sept 1916
Son of James Lawrence Gatling (1816 - 1882) and
Mary Elizabeth Commander Gatling (1825 - 1896)
Husband of Elizabeth Gilliam Skinner Gatling (1856 - 1946)
Sister: Willie Etta Gatling Coffield (1860 - 1930)*
Children:
Olive Gilliam Gatling Leigh (1882 - 1956)
Louise Gatling Gilliam (1885 - 1966)
Thomas Nimocks Gatling (1887 - 1966)
John Williams Gatling (1887 - 1931)
Elizabeth Gilliam Gatling Bridgforth (1889 - 1989)
James Lawrence Gatling (1891 - 1971)
Dorothy Leigh Gatling (1897 - 1902)
*Obituary and notations
John W Gatling
BIRTH: August 2, 1851 - North Carolina
DEATH: September 26,1916 - Forrest City, Arkansas
SPOUSE: Elizabeth Gilliam
Father: James Laurence Gatling
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Commander
GATLING, JOHN WILLIAMS- AUG.2,1851 TO SEP.26,1916 John Gatling, an attorney of Forrest City, is of Scotch descent, his ancestors coming to this country many years ago. He is a son of James and Mary E. Gatling, natives of North Carolina, and was born August 2, 1851, in Perquimans County, N. C. His boyhood was spent on a farm and he attended school at an academy at Hertford until 1870, when he entered the University of Virginia, remaining there two years, and taking an academic course. After graduating he returned home, and in 1875 began the study of law in Raleigh, in the office of Moore & Gatling, where he continued about six months, then entering the Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. In January, 1877, he was examined by the supreme court of North Carolina, and admitted to the bar. He then returned to his native county and remained until 1881, when he came to St. Francis County and located at Forrest City, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession and enjoys a large practice. He was married in 1881 in Hertford, N. C., to Miss Elizabeth Gilliam. Mr. Gatling is a member of the K. of P., and a Democrat and now holds the position of United States commissioner. He has one of the finest libraries in this city, valued at about $1,000. Lisa Hamilton submitted the above data from Goodspeed's, 1884; she did so to help others, she is not researching the above person or families mentioned therein
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