Emma Eudora Cullum

  General Notes:

[Note: is this Emma's husband?] - Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, p. 340.

CHARLES B. GILLESPIE, who for many years was connected with the political history of Dallas County. He was born in the State of Arkansas, in December 1854, and is a son of Constantine C. Gillespie, a native of Alabama. The mother's maiden name was Haynes, and she was from Tennessee. They emigrated to Arkansas early in the 1840s, where the father practiced medicine until his removal to Dallas in 1867, and lived there until his death in 1887. He was a man of rare intelligence and fine mental attainments, honored and respected by all who knew him. Charles B. attended the common schools, where his advantages were very limited; by close application, however, he acquired a fund of information that enabled him to take a position in the office of the County Treasurer in September, 1875. He remained there one year under M. V. Cole, winning a reputation for promptness and fidelity to duty that he has retained through a long official career. In September, 1876, he was made Deputy Tax Collector, and was three times re-elected, serving in all eight years. He was a courteous and obliging officer, and reflected great credit upon his constituency. In addition to the duties of this office he had collected data upon the natural resources of Dallas county, which are of unquestionable reliability.

Upon retiring from the office of Tax Collector, Mr. Gillespie formed a partnership with Mr. Cullum in the real estate business; into this enterprise he has carried the same methodical habits which characterized the work in the Collector's office, and has the most accurate and carefully prepared maps of Dallas county that have yet been made.

In 1882, Gillespie was married to Miss Emma Cullum, a native of Tennessee, but since here childhood a resident of Texas. Two daughters and a son have been born to them. Mr. Gillespie is a member of the Knights of Pythias, in which fraternity he has held numerous official positions. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, he is a stalwart Democrat. He is a man of the highest honor, and a citizen of whom Dallas County may well be proud. ========================================================================== =================================

Emma married Charles Bell "Charlie" Gillespie Jan 1, 1882.⁶⁷⁰ (Charles Bell "Charlie" Gillespie died in 1934 ⁴⁵¹ and was buried in Greenwood Cem., Dallas, Dallas Co., TX ⁴⁵¹.)