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Madison (a sailor who drowned in Lake Michigan in 1886), Byron A. and Fannie McQueen, who was the wife of Capt. Thomas Wilford, a well- known ship captain from Black River. Evaline died in 1850 after which time Alanson married Emma Lynch. After Emma died in 1863, Alanson married for a third time to Sarah Burnham Manton. He built the following vessels at Black River: sloop Lorain (1834), scow- schooners Rocky Mountains (1852) and Aunt Ruth (1863), schooners Peoria (1854) and C. F. Allen (1862) and scow John F. Prince (1864). Alanson also built the side-wheeler Constitution (1837) with Edmund and Hansing Gillmore and the steam propeller Delaware (1846) with George W. Jones and Thomas Cobb. His brother, Edmund Gilmore, was also a noted shipbuilder. Alanson Gillmore passed from this earth on February 1, 1895 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Lorain, Ohio. He had lived a long and interesting life as attested to in his obituary: ALANSON GILMORE - Mr. Alanson Gilmore died at Lorain Friday night, of old age, after many long months of helplessness and patient suffering. For months his body has been rapidly wasting away, although he retained his full mental vigor to the last, and arranged with the undertaker all the details of his funeral. When the end came he dropped into a quiet sleep, holding the hand of his son-in-law, Capt. Thomas Wilford, the well known master of the steamer Samuel Mitchell. Mr. Gilmore was nearly ninety years old, having been born April 12, 1805, at Chester, Mass. He was the sixth in a family of eight children, seven of whom were boys. His father pre-empted land two miles west of what is now Lorain, and brought his family out in 1812. Mr. Gilmore clearly remembered having heard the firing in the famous battle of Lake Erie. In 1827 he went to work in a shipyard, and assisted in building a small sloop. The following year he built the sloop Lorain in company with Capt. Washington Jones, who died in Cleveland recently. He built the brig Indiana. Later he built the Rocky Mountain, afterward used in constructing the Conneaut bridge, and the schooner C. F. Ellen, which was the first vessel built at what was then known as the Globeville dock. In 1863-4 he built the schooner John H. Prince and the scow Aunt Ruth. The last is the only one of all those named which is now afloat. In 1858, Mr. Gilmore was married to Miss Emma Lynch, who died in 1863. In 1865, he married Mrs. Sarah Manton, who survives him. He was the father of five children, Simon A., Joel M., Byron A. and Mrs. Adelaide E. Gilmore and Mrs. Fanny M. Wilford, all but one of whom are still living. The funeral services were held Monday in the Lorain Disciple Church, and the interment took place at North Amherst. Q. A. Gilmore of Elyria; Q. A. Gilmore of Cleveland; O. Gilmore, H. Gilmore, W. E. Gilmore and C. F. Bartenfield, of Lorain, acted as pall bearers. 186