About this restoration
Four overlapping photographs were aligned, cropped, and given one warm archival treatment so the chart reads as a single continuous image. Harvey’s handwriting and the chart’s family information were not redrawn.
A family artifact · signed December 17, 1979
H. G. Gillespie Jr.’s written tree
Harvey George Gillespie Jr. was born September 10, 1926, in Amonate, Virginia, the son of Harvey George Gillespie Sr. and Barbara Emmons Hurt Gillespie. He graduated from Virginia Tech in mechanical engineering in 1948, served with the Army at White Sands, worked for Norfolk & Western, and spent a long career with American Electric Power at Clinch River, Radford Arsenal, and Glen Lyn. He died in 2015.
The Gillespies · 1742–1976
Explore Harvey’s chart
Harvey arranged the family across generations in a careful, engineering-like hand and signed the chart “H. G. Gillespie Jr., 12/17/79.” Scroll through the image or use the controls to examine the names and branches.
How to use this source
A family chart is an invaluable guide to names and relationships, but it is a research lead rather than proof by itself. Its claims should be compared with birth, marriage, death, land, church, census, and probate records.