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I am trying to find a link to Kiah Gibson. I am told that is where my indian ancesters came from. Gibson, and Gipson. Kiah was from Virginia, Any help would be appreciated.
Welcome to the forum,
We have some people with GIBSON/GIPSON ancestors on the forum.
Did your family ever say what Nation Kiah Gibson belonged to?
Is Kiah a male or female?
Bill
Kiah was a man, I don’t know what nation he was from. I am trying to find these things out. I have a paper where he applied for his indian statis. but it doesn’t say what nation. I was told once cherokee.
Was the application dated? That would give us some starting point. If it wasn’t, do you have any idea of when Kiah & Kissiah might have lived?
Bill
Kiah was born 1837 he married Maragrett Hensley .
Kizziah was born 1836
Their Father Broyson Gibson 1765-1865
Their Mother Fannie Green Gibson 1765-1870
The certificate on Kizziah was dated 1908 in
I can’t make it out, –alyorsville, Ky
Some of the writting on the documents that I have are hard to read. So I may be wrong on spelling.
It’s Salyersville, in Magoffin Co., Ky, created from Floyd Co., Ky, and “Kiah” and his brother Squire are on the 1870 Magoffin Co Ky census (Magoffin Co was created from Floyd Co in 1860). They were in 1850 Floyd Co (wouldn’t have had to move, the county lines just changed) where we find Kesiah (Kizziah) and “Kiah” (nickname for Hezekiah) living with their parents and other their other siblings Dicy, Jefferson, Ira and Squire – Ira and Squire’s wives were living in the same house.
In 1833 they were on the Claiborne Co Tenn Tax Lists.
Broyson is Bryson/Brison Gibson.
Fannie Green is Francis Green, Bryson’s wife.
I doubt they were Cherokee – altho some descendants may have gotten listed with them – The Cherokee applications were rejected – the Gibson ancestors came from central Virginia which was not Cherokee country in the early 1700s altho they raided there.
Bryson/Brison Gibson is probably (I’m still working on that) a son or grandson of Thomas Gibson, a.k.a. Wilburn, of Goochland Co and Orange Co and descended from the earlier Thomas of Hanover Co., Va., d. 1734, some of my earlier ancestors.
I’ll post what I have, once I recuperate from mowing the grass in 90 degree weather !
Bill
thanks Bill, I am so excited to be finding this out, but I want to find the indian connection. My Mother always told me that her Grandmother was an indian. My Mother looks the part. I do not.
I am proud to have the indian blood in me and want to know for sure.
I know what you are talking about in the heat. I am around three hours south of you. In southern Ill. Our humidity is terrible.
I am gonna see if I know how to attach a file. It is a photo of Jonathan Wayland, b. 1813 Russell/Scoot county, in SW Va, d. 1884 Arkansas. I found this photo in “A Centennial History of Methodism in Arkanss, 1815-1935”. His family moved to Arkansas when he was 2, in 1815 and they organized the first Methodist Church in Arkansas and I am sure that is why his photo was in teh book. I was surprized and thrilled to find it. His dad was Nevil Wayland and his grandpa was also named Nevil Wayland (1754-1807). It was Nevil Sr.’s wife we think was Cussiah (Kezziah or Kessiah) Gibson. i am descfended from William, son of Nevil Sr, through his daugher Sarah Ann. So Jonathan (the man in the photo) and Sarah (my great great grandma, 1829-1857) were cousins.
There was a Thomas Gibson, d. 1780 whose wife “Marey” and daughter “Cusiah” are mentioned on his will. There was a Mary Gibson at the same church my ancestors went to and we think it might be Kezziah’s mother. Can’t prove it tho.
She would have been too old to be the Cussiah you are talking about, and Kezziah Wayland went to Arkansas and she died there.
Bill, you mentioned theat “Horse and Hound’s” Kiah and Kezziah Gibson was descended from a Thomas Gibson, but one that died before the one I’m trying to find out more about who died in 1780. S clearly this is a different Kezziah and a different Thomas, but maybe they are related.
Yeah, watch out for that heat. My dad survived 16 years after a quadruple bypass, but was taken out in the Chicago heat wave of ’95 I believe was the year. One of the first to go, my mom told him not to bother cutting the grass, it was too risky, but he was one of the Great Generation of WWII vets who was bound and determined to never live long enough to be frail. As far as he was concerned, what’s the point in living if you can’t cut your own grass? He went out there anyway, finished, came in, told my mom, “See I told you I’d be okay,” laid down for a nap and woke up to see him mom over on the Other Side, not his wife, still on this side. Must have really surprised him.
I read later that Heat Wave killed more people than any other natural disaster in history, we just don’t perceive heat waves as such. They had so many dead homeless and poor people they had to stack the bodies in refrigerated RR cars till they could be buried. The irony was, if those folks had been allowed into those refrigerated cars BEFORE they’d died, they would have survived.
“Kiah” GIBSON/Gipson
(sorry it took so long to post this)
1870 Magoffin Co., Ky Census, Salyersville Precinct # 1.
27 August, p.345B, dwelling & family # 188.
GIPSON, Kiah; 35, m(ale), Mu, Farmer, $0,$0, (born) VA.
HENSLEY, Margaret; 21, f(emale), Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Mallens (?), 16, f, Mu, Ky (name very difficult to read)
(ditto), Savoy; 14 , f, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Christina; 11, f, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Bobby; 7, m, Mu, Ky.
next door at dwelling/family # 189:
GIPSON, Squire; 45, m, Mu, Farmer, $0, $0, Ky.
(ditto), Perlina; 28, f, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Harrison; 14, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Jefferson; 12, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Frankey; 9, f, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), James; 5, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Tyrly; 4, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Kiah; 1, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Nancy J.; 3 months, “Feb.”, f, Ky.
(ditto), Ninnet; 1 , f, Ky.
FLETCHER, George; 8, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Garfield; 5, m, Mu, Ky.
(ditto), Lucresia; 3, f, Mu, Ky.
HARMAN, Nancy; 37, f, Mu, Servant, Ky.
(ditto), Sebby; 28, f, Mu, Servant, Ky.
(Squire Gibson married Perlina Fletcher on 15 Sept 1869 in Magoffin Co., Ky, per county marriage records.)
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1860 Magoffin Co., Ky Census, P.O.: Licking Station, Ky.
22 July, p.498, at 504, 504:
Squire GIBSON, 28, m, – , Farmer, #0, #15, Va.
Nancy Hamon, 23, f, – , Cook, Ky.
Jeff, 1, m, – , Ky.
Harrison, 4, m, – , Ky.
Sevy, 20, f, – , Cook, Ky.
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Will post the rest later.
Bill
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