Darlene Small Gilligan
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Foothills Of the Adirondacks, Upstate New York, United States |
| Introduction | MS Gilligan was Kansas born, a descendant of a 1774 immigrant from Dresden, Saxony, to Baltimore, Maryland. Following the American Revolutionary War, this immigrant family, with their first four little ones, hiked over "The Blue Mountain" through Virginia to settle in Southeast Ohio. By the third generation it was time to "Go West, Young Man" and the destination was Kansas; the purpose was homesteading. In three more generations, the author's parents returned to the East to recover from the 1930's depression on the Kansas prairie. Their return to Ohio brought them to within 25 miles of Freeport, Ohio, old settlement of the generations of her SPECK family. Elementary and secondary schooling for her and her siblings occurred in Coshocton and Muskingum Counties. While she and her husband raised their family of four children and she worked outside the home, she also organized and administered the Sunday School for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Amsterdam, New York for 20 years. Ms Gilligan and her husband are retired and live in the Foothills Of the Adirondacks in Upstate New York. |
| Interests | Genealogy Research, Desktop Publishing, Graphic Arts |