Eugene Roane Gill
| Nickname: | E.R. or Eugene R. |
| Born: | April 2, 1876, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Died: | August 28, 1945, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Buried: | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Residence: | 401 Quietdale Drive NE |
| Son of: | Isaac W. Gill |
| Brother of: | James McAnelly Gill (b1880) |
| Husband of: | Sallie Crutcher Mastin Gill |
Notes:
• President of McAnnelly Hardware Company, #2 West Side of Square in 1922. - Record
• Huntsville, Ala.: J. H. McAnnelly Bros. have reorganized their Hardware business under the style of The McAnnelly Hardware Co. The members of the new corporation are hustling young business men, all of whom are well and favorably known in Huntsville. Eugene R. Gill is president; James M. Gill is vice-president, and E. R. Matthews is secretary and treasurer. They have begun making extensive improvements and will have a thoroughly modern Hardware store, carrying a complete and well assorted stock. - Hardware Dealer's Magazine
• "Beginning on the west side of the Whitesburg pike and extending in an easterly direction, skirting the rim of the mountain, five subdivisions have been recently platted and will be offered for sale within the next twelve months. These are: Jackson Terrace, owned by Harry Rhett, 26 acres; Scenic Heights, owned by I. A. Burdette, D. C. Monroe and Charlie Lane, 40 acres; College Hill, owned by Eugene R. Gill, Ben Matthews and R. L. Lytle, 160 acres; Gwyn Home Sites, owned by C. R. Gwyn, W. A. Conner, Milton Lanier and Miss Rachael Tomlinson, 80 acres; Hollywood Heights, owned by Dr. Carl A. Grote and I. A. Burdette, (about 12 acres)." According to a map found on page 4, the College Hill plats were east of California and probably just south of Governor's Dr. (presuming Governor's Dr. was then known as Big Cove Pike).
"College Hill owners have announced that they are planning to spend $50,000 on the improvement of their property before it is placed on the market next year." - HHQ
• Charter member of Huntsville's Rotary Club. - Easterling
• Original minutes from the historic first session of Huntsville's Rotary Club.
"After several preliminary meeting, nineteen citizen were asked to meet at Hotel Twickenham, Nov. 12th, at 7 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of more permanently organizing a Rotary Club for Huntsville. Aside from a delightful social hour and luncheon, the only matter of business was election of the following officers: Dr. Francis Tappey, President; Mr. Eugene R. Gill, Vice President; and Prof. R. C. Johnston, Secretary-Treasurer." - Easterling
• Gill, along with several other charter members, later became President of Huntsville's Rotary Club (for E. R. 1918-19) "setting standards for a line of distinguished successors who helped formulate and carry out civic programs that played vital roles in advancing Huntsville from mill village status to world leader in space age technology." - Easterling
• Chairman of the Hardware (Retail) Section - International Rotary
• Eugene Gill spoke at the Huntsville Rotary Club's Silver Anniversary program to celebrate the organization's 25 years of service. - Easterling
• There is not much about E.R. Gill in Huntsville's Elk history book other than he was a member and that he died in 1945. - Elks
• Listed as playing the E-flat Bass for Pratt's Military Band, D. C. Monroe Director. - 1896-7 City Directory
• Eugene R. Gill and Sallie C. Martin obtained a marriage license April 23, 1924 in Madison County, Alabama. - MCRC
• The Madison County Records Center has Sallie's middle name as Martin. But Chapman thanks her for her help constructing information on the Mastin family so that seems to be the most likely spelling. - Editor's Note
• "The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira P. Jones, located near Meridianville Pike, is one of the more interesting old homes of Huntsville. It was built by Mrs. Caroline Moore Robinson around 1854, after the death of her husband, William, but according to his plans. The home was sold in 1885 to Alexander Erskine Mastin, and passed on to his daughter Sally and son-in-law Eugene Gill in 1924. Some years later it was purchased by Guy Bishop." - AAUW
Related Links:
• 1896-7 City Directory - Huntsville City Directory 1896-97, by Huntsville Directory Company, 1896-1897, page 10.
• AAUW - Glimpses Into Antebellum Homes of Historic Huntsville, Alabama, Ninth Edition, by American Association of University Women, Huntsville Branch, Huntsville, Alabama, 1999, page 68.
• Ancestry.com - Page owned by Julie Gage and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16298212/person/1621291890.)
• Carrington - Article titled "Quietdale" by Virgil Carrington (Pat) Jones originally published in a book title "True Tales of Old Madison County" reprinted in the Historic Huntsville Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, #3-4, Fall-Winter, 1993, Historic Huntsville Foundation, pages 75-82.
• Easterling - 75 Years of Service: A History of The Huntsville Rotary Club, by Bill Easterling, 1992, pages 11, 13, 36.
• Elks - Great Elks in Madison County?? You Better Believe It!! A History of Madison County, Alabama, Elkdom, by James Record, 1972.
• Find A Grave - Page created by Heather.
• Hardware Dealer's Magazine - Hardware Dealer's Magazine, Vo. 40, James H. Kennedy, Editor, 1913, pages 385 and 602.
• HHQ - A newspaper article titled "Residential Developments Are Under Way" in the Historic Huntsville Quarterly, Vol. VIII, #4, Summer, 1982, Historic Huntsville Foundation, page 5.
• International Rotary - Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, Kansas City Missouri, June, 24-28, 1918, page 562.
• MCRC - Madison County Records Center
• Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume II, by James Record, 1978, page 547.
• Taylor - Commemorative Album, Celebrating our City's Sesquicentennial of Progress, Huntsville, Alabama, by James E. Taylor, General Chairman, 1955, page 198.
The Following Pages Link to this Page:
• 1896-7 City Directory
• 401 Quietdale Drive NE
• Carrington
• HHQ
• Isaac W. Gill
• James McAnelly Gill (b1880)
• Record
• Sallie Crutcher Mastin Gill
• Taylor