Gay the Gilmore name fits. The reference I ran into was via Jeptha. Just a short blurb saying he returned to Bates County after the war from Texas were he and siblings had removed to. I suspect that after Benjamin's murder, Milla Simpson decided that raising a house full of kids in Bates county was not the thing to do. Given the time proximity with the Kimberlin incident and the burning of Dayton I wonder if Milla didn't hitch her team up and move to Texas with any number of other female headed family units, returning to home after the war was over 3-4 years later. Obviously they still managed to maintain ownership of the farm property as Jeptha farmed it well into the 20th century. Just supposition and I can't prove it but she certainly would not have been alone in that trek.

John R.