Jessie Ellen Gilmour, the youngest of nine children, was born 1 Sep 1866 in Young America (re-named Kirkwood in 1874), Illinois. Her mother Mary Robinette was the daughter of Virginia plantation owner Robert Brooke Taliaferro and Cecelia Ellett and her father Whit the son of Kentucky pioneer doctor James Gilmour and Polly Whitley. Her parents met when her father was escorting the Taliaferro's from their home near Williamsburg, Virginia to their new home in western Illinois in Warren county. Her grandmother Polly Whitley Gilmour, according to Jessie's daughter Mildred in her book "Men of Many Trails", purchased the railroad hotel in Young America as soon as they arrived to have a place to live. Whit was the first postmaster of Kirkwood.
After the Civil War, with economic changes affecting their lifestyle, the Gilmours again set out west, this time following the CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy) railroad to its terminus in central Kansas, where other family members had already settled. Whit and Mary Robinette homesteaded outside the town of Minneapolis, Kansas, and this is where Jessie Ellen grew up. After her father died in 1883, her mother was persuaded to move with Jessie to Lake City, Colorado, leaving behind Jessie's two brothers Hedron and Liberty.
In Lake City already were many relatives: her brother James, her sister Mary, and for a time her sister Effie. Her mother's sister, Jessie's favorite aunt Mildred Taliaferro Kennedy (affectionately called "Aunt Mit") had established a prosperous lifestyle there with her husband Peter Kennedy. Her mother's brother, John Brooke Taliaferro, was also living there with his family. Other relatives also came and went over the years.
When a new doctor, George Cummings, came to town to set up a new practice, her life again changed. Daughter Mildred describes their wedding:
"On Wednesday, January 26, 1890, friends and kinsmen gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Kennedy to witness the ceremony performed that made this happy couple one. At half past eight, at the playing of the wedding march by Mary Edgerton, the couple entered down the stairway and stood under the beautiful floral decoration to be united by Reverend J.R. Cooper.
The bride had been a resident here for three years and lived most of the time with her Aunt and Uncle, the Kennedys. The bride wore a dress of her own creation of cream Chine silk and carried a corsage of orange blossoms.
The groom, Dr. George David Cummings, had arrived in Lake City on March 1, 1889 after graduating from Bellevue Medical College in New York City in 1888.
After the ceremony, guests were given an elegant spread gotten up by the bride's Aunt "Mit" Kennedy. The couple were recipients of handsome presents--silver, vases, table and bed linens to use in their cozy little cottage on Bluff Street where they made their home next to the Edgerton home."
Not having his naturalization papers yet and thus not being allowed to practice medicine in Colorado, the young couple set out for Kalispell, Montana to sell Peter Kennedy's holdings and open a new drug store. Their first daughter, Fay, was born in Kalispell. The next year, Jessie contracted malaria (per daughter Mildred's book) and was finally sent to Denver to recover. Her husband, now a naturalized citizen, decided to make the move there and gain some advanced medical training. While in Denver, their second daughter Mildred was born. After four years, they moved to what would become their main home for most of the rest of their years in Florence, Colorado.
When their daughters were grown, married, and had their own families, the Cummings retired to Littleton, Colorado to be nearer to daughter Mildred. After George died in 1933, Jessie went to stay with daughter Fay in California. She died there 1 Apr 1936 and her body was brought back to Littleton to be interred next to her husband.
She was survived by her two daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren.
After the Civil War, with economic changes affecting their lifestyle, the Gilmours again set out west, this time following the CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy) railroad to its terminus in central Kansas, where other family members had already settled. Whit and Mary Robinette homesteaded outside the town of Minneapolis, Kansas, and this is where Jessie Ellen grew up. After her father died in 1883, her mother was persuaded to move with Jessie to Lake City, Colorado, leaving behind Jessie's two brothers Hedron and Liberty.
In Lake City already were many relatives: her brother James, her sister Mary, and for a time her sister Effie. Her mother's sister, Jessie's favorite aunt Mildred Taliaferro Kennedy (affectionately called "Aunt Mit") had established a prosperous lifestyle there with her husband Peter Kennedy. Her mother's brother, John Brooke Taliaferro, was also living there with his family. Other relatives also came and went over the years.
When a new doctor, George Cummings, came to town to set up a new practice, her life again changed. Daughter Mildred describes their wedding:
"On Wednesday, January 26, 1890, friends and kinsmen gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Kennedy to witness the ceremony performed that made this happy couple one. At half past eight, at the playing of the wedding march by Mary Edgerton, the couple entered down the stairway and stood under the beautiful floral decoration to be united by Reverend J.R. Cooper.
The bride had been a resident here for three years and lived most of the time with her Aunt and Uncle, the Kennedys. The bride wore a dress of her own creation of cream Chine silk and carried a corsage of orange blossoms.
The groom, Dr. George David Cummings, had arrived in Lake City on March 1, 1889 after graduating from Bellevue Medical College in New York City in 1888.
After the ceremony, guests were given an elegant spread gotten up by the bride's Aunt "Mit" Kennedy. The couple were recipients of handsome presents--silver, vases, table and bed linens to use in their cozy little cottage on Bluff Street where they made their home next to the Edgerton home."
Not having his naturalization papers yet and thus not being allowed to practice medicine in Colorado, the young couple set out for Kalispell, Montana to sell Peter Kennedy's holdings and open a new drug store. Their first daughter, Fay, was born in Kalispell. The next year, Jessie contracted malaria (per daughter Mildred's book) and was finally sent to Denver to recover. Her husband, now a naturalized citizen, decided to make the move there and gain some advanced medical training. While in Denver, their second daughter Mildred was born. After four years, they moved to what would become their main home for most of the rest of their years in Florence, Colorado.
When their daughters were grown, married, and had their own families, the Cummings retired to Littleton, Colorado to be nearer to daughter Mildred. After George died in 1933, Jessie went to stay with daughter Fay in California. She died there 1 Apr 1936 and her body was brought back to Littleton to be interred next to her husband.
She was survived by her two daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren.
Jessie Ellen Gilmour, the youngest of nine children, was born 1 Sep 1866 in Young America (re-named Kirkwood in 1874), Illinois. Her mother Mary Robinette was the daughter of Virginia plantation owner Robert Brooke Taliaferro and Cecelia Ellett and her father Whit the son of Kentucky pioneer doctor James Gilmour and Polly Whitley. Her parents met when her father was escorting the Taliaferro's from their home near Williamsburg, Virginia to their new home in western Illinois in Warren county. Her grandmother Polly Whitley Gilmour, according to Jessie's daughter Mildred in her book "Men of Many Trails", purchased the railroad hotel in Young America as soon as they arrived to have a place to live. Whit was the first postmaster of Kirkwood.
After the Civil War, with economic changes affecting their lifestyle, the Gilmours again set out west, this time following the CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy) railroad to its terminus in central Kansas, where other family members had already settled. Whit and Mary Robinette homesteaded outside the town of Minneapolis, Kansas, and this is where Jessie Ellen grew up. After her father died in 1883, her mother was persuaded to move with Jessie to Lake City, Colorado, leaving behind Jessie's two brothers Hedron and Liberty.
In Lake City already were many relatives: her brother James, her sister Mary, and for a time her sister Effie. Her mother's sister, Jessie's favorite aunt Mildred Taliaferro Kennedy (affectionately called "Aunt Mit") had established a prosperous lifestyle there with her husband Peter Kennedy. Her mother's brother, John Brooke Taliaferro, was also living there with his family. Other relatives also came and went over the years.
When a new doctor, George Cummings, came to town to set up a new practice, her life again changed. Daughter Mildred describes their wedding:
"On Wednesday, January 26, 1890, friends and kinsmen gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Kennedy to witness the ceremony performed that made this happy couple one. At half past eight, at the playing of the wedding march by Mary Edgerton, the couple entered down the stairway and stood under the beautiful floral decoration to be united by Reverend J.R. Cooper.
The bride had been a resident here for three years and lived most of the time with her Aunt and Uncle, the Kennedys. The bride wore a dress of her own creation of cream Chine silk and carried a corsage of orange blossoms.
The groom, Dr. George David Cummings, had arrived in Lake City on March 1, 1889 after graduating from Bellevue Medical College in New York City in 1888.
After the ceremony, guests were given an elegant spread gotten up by the bride's Aunt "Mit" Kennedy. The couple were recipients of handsome presents--silver, vases, table and bed linens to use in their cozy little cottage on Bluff Street where they made their home next to the Edgerton home."
Not having his naturalization papers yet and thus not being allowed to practice medicine in Colorado, the young couple set out for Kalispell, Montana to sell Peter Kennedy's holdings and open a new drug store. Their first daughter, Fay, was born in Kalispell. The next year, Jessie contracted malaria (per daughter Mildred's book) and was finally sent to Denver to recover. Her husband, now a naturalized citizen, decided to make the move there and gain some advanced medical training. While in Denver, their second daughter Mildred was born. After four years, they moved to what would become their main home for most of the rest of their years in Florence, Colorado.
When their daughters were grown, married, and had their own families, the Cummings retired to Littleton, Colorado to be nearer to daughter Mildred. After George died in 1933, Jessie went to stay with daughter Fay in California. She died there 1 Apr 1936 and her body was brought back to Littleton to be interred next to her husband.
She was survived by her two daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren.
After the Civil War, with economic changes affecting their lifestyle, the Gilmours again set out west, this time following the CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy) railroad to its terminus in central Kansas, where other family members had already settled. Whit and Mary Robinette homesteaded outside the town of Minneapolis, Kansas, and this is where Jessie Ellen grew up. After her father died in 1883, her mother was persuaded to move with Jessie to Lake City, Colorado, leaving behind Jessie's two brothers Hedron and Liberty.
In Lake City already were many relatives: her brother James, her sister Mary, and for a time her sister Effie. Her mother's sister, Jessie's favorite aunt Mildred Taliaferro Kennedy (affectionately called "Aunt Mit") had established a prosperous lifestyle there with her husband Peter Kennedy. Her mother's brother, John Brooke Taliaferro, was also living there with his family. Other relatives also came and went over the years.
When a new doctor, George Cummings, came to town to set up a new practice, her life again changed. Daughter Mildred describes their wedding:
"On Wednesday, January 26, 1890, friends and kinsmen gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Kennedy to witness the ceremony performed that made this happy couple one. At half past eight, at the playing of the wedding march by Mary Edgerton, the couple entered down the stairway and stood under the beautiful floral decoration to be united by Reverend J.R. Cooper.
The bride had been a resident here for three years and lived most of the time with her Aunt and Uncle, the Kennedys. The bride wore a dress of her own creation of cream Chine silk and carried a corsage of orange blossoms.
The groom, Dr. George David Cummings, had arrived in Lake City on March 1, 1889 after graduating from Bellevue Medical College in New York City in 1888.
After the ceremony, guests were given an elegant spread gotten up by the bride's Aunt "Mit" Kennedy. The couple were recipients of handsome presents--silver, vases, table and bed linens to use in their cozy little cottage on Bluff Street where they made their home next to the Edgerton home."
Not having his naturalization papers yet and thus not being allowed to practice medicine in Colorado, the young couple set out for Kalispell, Montana to sell Peter Kennedy's holdings and open a new drug store. Their first daughter, Fay, was born in Kalispell. The next year, Jessie contracted malaria (per daughter Mildred's book) and was finally sent to Denver to recover. Her husband, now a naturalized citizen, decided to make the move there and gain some advanced medical training. While in Denver, their second daughter Mildred was born. After four years, they moved to what would become their main home for most of the rest of their years in Florence, Colorado.
When their daughters were grown, married, and had their own families, the Cummings retired to Littleton, Colorado to be nearer to daughter Mildred. After George died in 1933, Jessie went to stay with daughter Fay in California. She died there 1 Apr 1936 and her body was brought back to Littleton to be interred next to her husband.
She was survived by her two daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren.
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