My great-great grandfather Robert Paxton Gilmer moved with his wife, Mary Anne, and seven daughters to Burrough Valley in 1882. They built a house near Little Dry Creek at the very east part of Burrough Valley, just where the creek begins to flow down the canyon to Watts Valley. The foundation of the house can still be seen from the road. Robert was a 2nd lieutenant in Company G of the 4th Iowa Cavalry and fought at Vickburg under Sherman. In 1864, when the 4th was garrisoned at Memphis, Nathan Bedford Forrest raided the city on a foggy morning and took some Union prisoners. Company G got credit for chasing Forrest's troops out of town.
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