More About Selah Mumford: Burial: Unknown, Randolph County, MO.92
More About Selah Mumford and Bright Gilstrap: Marriage: January 10, 1797, North Carolina.92
Marriage Notes for Selah Mumford and Bright Gilstrap: [Ron Gilstrap's Gedcom Files Ungerged.FTW]
Kentucky Land Grants - Grants South of Green River 1797 - 1866
Grantee Acres Survey Date County Water Course Bright Gilstrap 200 7-26-1799 Pulaski Grassey Valley Philip Gilstrap 100 7-25-1807 Wayne Otter Creek
Kentucky Land Grants Wayne County 1816 - 1873 Page 566 Acres Survey Date Water Course Lewis Gilstrap 50 12-15-1822 Beaver Creek Bright Gilstrap 50 3-20-1822 Beaver Creek Bright Gilstrap 50 1-17-1825 Beaver Creek Lewis Gilstrap 50 1-12-1829 Otter Creek Philip Gilstrap 50 2-8-1831 Otter Creek Philip Gilstrap 50 5-9-1831 Otter Creek
Records Of Deeds: 1800 Record Books; Wayne County, KY Page Volume Amount Acres Date Bright Gilstrap 538 D $ 50.00 25 1826 Bright Gilstrap 445 D $150.00 200 1828 Bright Gilstrap 95 F $200.00 200 1831 The act of Randolph and Macon Counties govering this group of grants opened for sale at $20.00 per 100 acres, all the vacant lands to anyone in Kentucky, except an alien.
Marriages and Vital Records - Wayne County, Kentucky
Lewis Gilstrap and Rhoda Dabney, Surety Henry Dabney, were married March 5, 1820 by J. Jones.
Elizabeth Gilstrap and Russell Shoemaker, Surety Lewis Gilstrap were married on May 16, 1824 by Henry Trggle.
Polly Gilstrap and Daniel Barrow, Surity Bright Gilstrap, were married January 2, 1823 by William Summers - witnessed by David Barrow.
David Gilstrap and Hannah Reid [Reed], Surity Bright Gilstrap, were married March 1, 1813.
Will of Bright Gilstrap The State of Missouri, Randolph County December 23, 1835
Myself being determined to make this my last will and testament after giving my body to the grave and my spirit to God who gave it viz; Whereas I give to my wife Selah my Negro woman named Salsa during her lifetime then the said Negro woman to be sold and the money equally divided between my heirs share and share alike. I also give and bequeath unto my wife Gilstrap the benefit of the east H of the South west qr. Sec No. one Range 15 Township 54 and forty acres of the Eighty acres lying north of the aforesaid eighty acres or so much as lies south of the branch leading through the cleared land by or near the spring also my grist mill all to the benefit of my wife during her lifetime then at her death to be sold and the money to be divided among the heirs share and share alike. I give and bequeath unto my wife Selah all my household and kitchen furniture also my clock with all the beds and bed clothing all that is included for her use and benefit in said house household and kitchen then the balance of the estate to be administered upon according to law as other estates there are no will made this my last will and testament whereunto I have set my hand and affixed my seal the day and date above written.
My will is that there shall not be any alteration nor change made so as to distress for such a note I Bright Gilstrap hold on Phillip Gilstrap for $90 until such a time as he can get his money from Kentucky.
Be it known that I Bright Gilstrap hereby appoint and constitute Lewis Gilstrap & Selah my lawful Administrators of my estate. Bright Gilstrap [Seal] Attested Joseph Turner Moses Summers
Randolph County, MO Court - 15 June 1836 [pages 128-129]
Selah Gilstrap, exrx. and Lewis Gilstrap, exr., produced will of Bright Gilstrap, deceased. Will dated 23 December 1835. To wife, Selah, all property, including a grist mill....to be equally divided among the heirs at her death. [names not given] Exrs, Lewis Gilstrap and Selah Gilstrap. Wit: Joseph Turner and Moses Summers. Recorded 29 June 1836.
Children of Selah Mumford and Bright Gilstrap are:
+Lewis Gilstrap, b. September 23, 1798, Rowan County, KY92, d. January 09, 1866, Pleasanton, Linn, KS92.
Selah Mumford (b. Abt. 1777, d. 1835)
Marriage Notes for Selah Mumford and Bright Gilstrap: