Descendants of William * CHAMBERS

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  WILLIAM *1 CHAMBERS was born Abt. 1800 in Ireland;  Name found on death cert. of Daughter, Anna J., and died Abt. 1841 in Probably Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania ?.  He married ISABELLA * BEATTY Bef. 1826 in Probably Ireland.  She was born February 1802 in Ireland; see notes; 1st On 1850 Knox Co, OH census, and died August 30, 1885 in Knox Co, Pike Twp, OH; see scrpbk for ship record 1841.

 

Notes for WILLIAM * CHAMBERS:

The information I've put below is earlier thinking and study based on the assumption that the Chambers line in Jefferson Twp, Washington Co, IN were Mary Matilda's line.   It now appears their presence there was only coincidental with Mary Matilda's and that they probably were not related to her at all.   I leave them here to recognize the evolution of the study and to avoid the possible connection in the future.   We still don't know for certain Mary Matilda's fathers name but it is most likely William or John.    We have good information suggesting he died near Pittsburgh, PA - within 3 weeks of arrival to the U.S.- proably 1840 or 41.  See scrapbook notes on his descendants and wife.   We have obtained a wealth of information on Isabell since she arrived to the U.S. in 1841, but nothing solid on her husband - presumably from Ireland also.

 

OLD and Erroneous DATA here:

John Chambers  was on the 1820 census, Pg.205, in Washington Co., IN.  He listed 3 males under 10, 1 male between 26-45 (him), 2 females less than 10, & 1 female 10-15, implying that he probably didn't have a wife with him unless she was very young (15?).

  There were 3 other Chambers' on that 1820 census @ Washington Co., so it is not necessarily likely this would have been her Father.

 

Information obtained in Sept. 1999, shows that this is probably not the John Chambers that I thought and so I've discounted the likelihood that any of those Chambers people in Washington County besides Mary Matilda were here relatives.   See NOTES on Mary Matilda.

 

Below are two marriages of a man w. surname CHAMBERS and a wife with given name ISABELLA (her name was searched with Isabel - so includes all spellings   (Isabel,  Isabell, Isabelle,  & Isabella - almost all turned up as Isabella :

 

1.)  John CHAMBERS  married  Isabella  CUTHBERT   Sept. 18, 1816  - this

is in the GENUKI  index and is from Tyhemouth index  1813-1821

 

2.)  William CHAMBERS  married  in 1815 to  Isabella  McBRIDE   1815,

at  Durrow,  Laoighis,  Ireland - this from the British Isles  IGI.

 

JULY 2001 - see notes on Isabella - summary is that Gary Hines found an obituary on Isabella's daughter showing her parents names as Isabella BATEY &  William CHAMBERS.  -  This is probably accurate, although the information may have been given by Ann's grandaughter, making her William's Great-Grandaughter - perhaps making the information less than accurate.   I do suspect the BATEY name is spelled differently since I cannot find that spelling listed in surnames about Fermanagh County - there are these:   BEATTIE,   BEATEY,   BETTYE,  etc.

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BELOW are 3 references for William CHAMBERS from an Index on FTM CD# 354:

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1538-1940

       

Chambers, William       Place : Allegheny Co., PA

        Year : 1838

        Primary Individual : Chambers, William

        Source Code : 9695

        Source Name : WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Pittsburgh, compilers.  A List of Immigrants Who Applied for Naturalization Papers in the District Courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: the society. Vol. 1, 1798-1840. 1978. 109p. 6,360 names.

        Source Annotation : Much information given, including date of intention to acquire citizenship, date of naturalization, place of residence, country of birth, and name of sponsor.

        Source Page # : 17

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Chambers, William -  Place : Allegheny Co., PA

        Year : 1841

        Primary Individual : Chambers, William

        Source Code : 9696

        Source Name : WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Pittsburgh, compilers.  A List of Immigrants Who Applied for Naturalization Papers in the District Courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: the society. Vol. 2, 1841-1855. 1978. 139p. 7,800 names.

        Source Annotation : Much information given, including date of intention to acquire citizenship, date of naturalization, place of residence, country of birth, and name of sponsor.

        Source Page # : 15

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Chambers, William       - Place : Allegheny Co., PA

        Year : 1843

        Primary Individual : Chambers, William

        Source Code : 9696

        Source Name : WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Pittsburgh, compilers.  A List of Immigrants Who Applied for Naturalization Papers in the District Courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: the society. Vol. 2, 1841-1855. 1978. 139p. 7,800 names.

        Source Annotation : Much information given, including date of intention to acquire citizenship, date of naturalization, place of residence, country of birth, and name of sponsor.

        Source Page # : 15

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Now below are the details from the above references - found & notes here by Gary Hines - July 2001

Vol. 1, page 17 - CHAMBERS, William (1840), born in Scotland; Declaration of

Intent filed 12 Sep 1838; Naturalization filed 10 Oct 1840; sponsor, James

Scott.

 

Vol. 2, page 15 - CHAMBERS, William (1841), born in Ireland; Declaration of  <<<<<<<<<<  I agree with Gary -most likely

Intent filed 6 Feb 1841.

 

Vol. 2, page 15 - CHAMBERS, William (1845/46), of Allegheny County; born in

Ireland; Declaration of Intent filed 9 Oct 1843; Naturalization filed 13 Oct

184_; sponsor, John Welsh, of Pittsburgh.

 

Seems like the second one fits our profile best.  Assuming the ancestor

(possibly with John W.) came to the U.S. first, went to Pittsburgh, and died

within three weeks, we wouldn't expect to see his naturalization completed

(which required five years' residency at that time).  However, if he acted

right away, he might have filed his declaration of intent to become a

citizen.

 

Another indication that the ancestor was probably not naturalized is that

John W. Chambers was naturalized in Knox County, Ohio (see my email of 4 Nov

1999). When a father was naturalized, the minor children were usually also

considered citizens, provided that they were U.S. residents at that time.

 

The timing of the second one seems right also, as the declaration of intent

was filed before Isabella and the rest of the children arrived in New York.

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This found on the IGI

William CHAMBERS    Marriage(s):

 

  Spouse:

      Mrs Isabella CHAMBERS;   Marriage:  1825  Waterford, Ireland

 

Source Information:  Film Number:  6142814

 

More About WILLIAM * CHAMBERS:

Burial: Prob. came to US in 1841 (earliest 1840?)

 

Notes for ISABELLA * BEATTY:

SEPTEMBER 1999 - Isabella is found as a widow on the 1850 census, page 332 of Knox County, Pike Twp, Ohio.   In other sources she is shown spelled Isabelle or Isabell.   She is with these youngest 4 children then in 1850, showing the youngest age 11 born in Ireland implying that they were still in Ireland in 1839.    Living next door is John Chambers, who I presume to be her oldest son and he with wife and 2 sons.    He states he was born in Ireland like his wife Ellen.    This find was created by information given to me by Philis Ballew that her Grandparents Oliver Grant Gibbs and his wife had written about their knowledge of his Parents.    He also had written they were from Vernon, OH.   It so happens that Ohio has 2 Vernon towns in Ohio - but neither showed evidence of this family there.; I did luckily then look at Mt. Vernon, OH - the largest city in Knox Co.   Isabella was found on all census' between 1850-1880.  Each time shows born in Ireland.   This has to be more than coincidence.    John Sr. is not on those census and in 1850 she is shown as a widow.  Of course I don't know if Isabella's husband died in Ireland or in the U.S.    John earlier was the name I presumed as Mary Matilda father's name ( later found to be William - see below).   Besides not having the Mt. in front of the Vernon town, there were 2 other errors on that scrap of paper, but I believe are inconsequential.   2nd there was Mary Ann listed instead of Mary Matilda.   3rd the paper shows the name Chamberlaine in addition to Chambers... making it appear that Oliver or his wife wasn't quite sure of his Mother's correct names - Not too uncommon then or now and of course Mary Matilda died probably 50 to 60 years before that note was written.   Isabella is buried in the Pike Cemetery in Pike Twp. Knox County, NE of Mt. Vernon.   Also in that cemetery is her daughter, Eliza Hixenbaugh & son Robert Henry who she was living with in 1880.   And I later found her other daughter, Ann LOREE is also buried at the Pike Twp. Cem.

 

November 1999.  Mr. Gary Hines has created a miracle for me by contacting me after seeing a query I placed on the net.   He is a descendant of Isabella's oldest son, John W. Chambers (see the obituary for him - and the ship record image that Gary sent me showing Isabella with children but NOT either John the father or son).   Making it likely that both John's came to the U.S. at least a short time before Isabella (or after?).   The Obituary of John W. states his father died within 3 weeks after arrival to the U.S. AND that he died in Pittsburgh, PA.   Of course we don't know when John  or his Father arrived in the U.S. ( presumably they came ahead of the girls, but that is a presumption also).   The ship record of the Ship B. Amayr that departed Liverpool, England shows Isabella with her daughters and two sons is the first conclusive evidence I've found that shows Mary Matilda connected to Isabella and these Chambers siblings.   Their son John's obituary ties the John to be almost certainly the John living next door to Isabella on the 1850 census with his young family then.   Interestingly Isabella didn't stick much to the same birth year in all the places her age is shown.  One can only say she was born between 1800 & 1807 - I'll stick with born in 1802, but 1804 seems just as likely.    Please note the obituary of Isabella's son John W. as it spells out some details of his Father dying in Pittsburgh within 3 weeks of coming to the U.S.   Another descendant (Ed Turcotte) of John W. Chambers has contacted me and has corroborted the information on this line.

 

JULY 2001 - Gary Hines sent this happy surprise in the note below showing that Isabelle had moved to Knox County, OH at least by April 1842.

 

Knox County, Ohio, Deed Books, vol. Y, page 121 [FHL film 0314048] - 11 April 1842,

Ephraim Romans and wife Tacy of Knox County deed land to Isabelle Chambers

of Knox County, 80 acres in Pike Township.

 

JULY 2001 - Gary Hines sent the answer to our question of the maiden name of Isabelle and the first name of her husband - found in the obituary below of Mary Matilda's younger sister, Ann Jane  (the certificate is shown in entirety in the scrapbook section for Isabelle:

 

 [1] Anna Jane Loree, death certificate no. 54778 (1918), Ohio Department of

Health, Columbus, microfilm no. 1,984,442, Family History Library, Salt Lake

City, Utah:

 

Mrs. Anna Jane Loree

died 1 Sep 1918, Pike Township, Knox County, Ohio

age 85 years, 4 months, 17 days

female, white, widow

born 14 Apr 1833, Ireland

occupation, House-keeper

father, William Chambers, born Ireland                    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

mother, Isabela BATEY, born Ireland                         <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

informant, Mrs. Harley Leonard, Mt. Vernon, Ohio

recorded 6 Sep 1918

cause of death, chronic myocarditis, 10 years

buried 3 Sep 1918, Pike Cemetery

undertaker, Miller Bros., Mt. Vernon

 

[The informant Mrs. Harley Leonard on Anna Jane Loree’s death certificate in

1918 may have been the Marie G. Leonard recorded in the 1920 census.  She

may have been Ann Jane’s granddaughter.  See citation 5 below.]

 

[2] Knox County Marriage Book 1: 289, Probate Court, Mt. Vernon, Ohio,

abstracted in Richard DeLauder, Marriage Records of Knox County, Ohio,

1808-1875 (Mt. Vernon, Ohio: Knox County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society,

1995), page 163:

 

George C. Lorey & Ann Jane Chambers, married 22 Dec 1864, by Isaac Davidson,

deacon.

 

[3] George Loree household, 1870 U.S. census, Knox County, Ohio, population

schedule, Pike Township, North Liberty post office, page 473R, dwelling 15,

family 15; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1229:

 

Loree, George, age 29, male, white, occupation Farmer, $4280 real estate, $485

personal estate, born Ohio, U.S. citizen

“ , Annie, age 34, female, white, occupation Keeping house, born Ireland,

father and mother of foreign birth

“ , Eliza, age 3, female, white, born Ohio, mother of foreign birth

 

[4] Norman N. Hill, History of Knox County, Ohio (Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A. A.

Graham, 1881), page 722:

 

LOREE, GEORGE C., farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township,

and married Anna Chambers, who was born in Ireland in 1835, and came to

America when a child with her parents.  They have one daughter, Eliza D., born

July 12, 1866.  Mr. Loree received a severe injury by the discharge of his

gun, the shot injuring his right hand, crippling him so that he cannot engage

in farming.

 

[5] Harley E. Leonard household, 1920 U.S. census, Knox County, Ohio,

population schedule, Pike Township, enumeration district 115, supervisor’s

district 13, sheet 4B, dwelling 102, family 102; National Archives

micropublication T625, roll 1403:

 

Leonard, Harley E., head, renting home, male, white, age 29, married, able to

read/write, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, speaks English,

occupation Farmer, General Farming, employed on own account, farm schedule no.

72

“ , Marie G., wife, female, white, age 23, married, born Ohio, father born

Pennsylvania, mother born Ohio, speaks English, occupation None

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BELOW is the inventory of Isabella's belongings 6 months after her death (this also sent by Gary Hines):

 

Isabella Chambers inventory, Knox County probate file no. 2770, box 217,

Probate Court, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, recorded in Estate Records, W: 120-123;

microfilm no. 1,294,326, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah:

 

                    Isabella Chambers, deceased

                    Inventory and Appraisement

 

The State of Ohio ))

Knox County ss.   ))  In Probate Court

                                       Jany 21st 1886

 

Be it remembered that on this day Wm McClelland administrator of the

estate of Isabella Chambers deceased filed herein an Inventory and

Appraisement of the personal estate and effects of the said deceased

which said Inventory and Appraisement reads in the words and figures

following to wit

 

                     Order to Appraise

 

In the matter of the estate of Isabella Chambers, deceased

To J. F. Robinson John W. Phillips and W. W. Walker appraisers Greetings

 

You are hereby notified that you have been appointed by the Probate

Court of said county to appraise the personal estate and effects

belonging to the estate of Isabella Chambers late of Pike township in

said county deceased

These are therefore to authorize and require you well and truly to

appraise all the personal estate and effects of the deceased which shall

be presented to you by Wm McClelland Administrator of said estate and

also to (appraise upon actual view the real estate described in schedule

G and) perform all other duties required by law of you in the premises

as appraisers.  And you are further commanded to deliver this order with

your proceedings thereon to the said administrator that the same may be

returned to said court within three months from the date hereof

                              Witness my hand and the seal of

                              said Probate Court at Mt. Vernon Ohio

                              this 15th day of Dec AD 1885

                                        E. A. Pealer

                                              Probate Judge

 

                      Return of Order

 

To the Hon. E. A. Pealer Probate Judge

                                      The undersigned Wm. McClelland

admr of the estate of Isabella Chambers deceased makes return of the

foregoing order with the proceedings had in pursuance thereof together

with a copy of the notice given of the time and place of the making of

the within Inventory and Appraisement

Dated January 21st 1886

                       Wm McClelland

                                    Admr

 

                      Notice of Appraisement

               Estate of Isabella Chambers deceased

 

Notice is hereby given that an Inventory and Appraisement of the estate

and property of Isabella Chambers late of Knox County deceased will be

taken at her late residence in Pike township on the --- day of January

1886 commencing at 10 o’clock A.M. and continuing from day to day until

completed

Dated this --- day of December 1885

                                   Wm McClelland, Administrator

 

The State of Ohio ))

Knox County ss.   ))

                     Wm McClelland administrator of the estate of

Isabella Chambers deceased makes oath that copies of the above notice of

the time and place of the making the within Inventory and Appraisement

were posted up in two of the most public places in Pike township wherein

the said deceased last dwelt and were served on Eliza Hixenbaugh Ann J     <<>>>>>>>>>  NOTE - all 3 only surviving children in January 1886 -ed. MAG

Loree & Robert H. Chambers next of kin of said decedent residing in said

County at least five days prior thereto.

                                   Wm McClelland

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 21st day of

January AD 1886

                                   E. A. Pealer

                                               Probate Judge

 

                      Oath of Appraisers

 

The State of Ohio ))

Knox County ss.   ))

                     We the undersigned do make solemn oath that we will

truly honestly and impartially appraise the estate and property that may

be exhibited belonging to the estate of Isabella Chambers deceased and

perform the other duries required by law of us in the premises as

appraisers according to the best of our knowledge and ability

                                    W. W. Walker

                                    J. F. Robinson

                                    John R. Phillips

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me by the said J. F.

Robinson & John W. Phillips on the 4th day of January AD 1886

                                    Wm W. Walker

                                           Notary Public

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me by W. W. Walker on the

14th day of December AD 1885

                                    Wm McClelland

                                           Notary in & for Knox Co. O.

 

                   Inventory and Appraisement

              Estate of Isabella Chambers deceased

                           Schedule

                              D

                   Personal Estate and Chattels

 

                                               The following personal

goods and chattels belonging to the estate of the said decedent which

are assets in the hands of the said Isabella Chambers as exhibited to us

we appraise as follows

 

No. of                                     Appraised

Item    Description of articles appraised    Value

======  =================================  =========

  1     Cow                                    $22.50

  1     Bed & Bedding                      5.00

  3     Comforts                               2.00

  2     Spreads                                1.50

  2     Quilts                                    1.25

  3     Coverlids                              2.75

  1     Dinning Table                       3.00

                                             =====

        Amount Carried Forward      38.00

 

  -     Amount Brot Forward           38.00

  2     Tables old                              .10

  1     Stand                                     .10

  4     Chairs                                    .75

  1     Lot dishes                           1.50

  1      “  towels                                .25

  6     Table Cloths                        1.50

                                             =====

        Amount Carried Forward      42.20

 

  -     Amount Brot Forward           42.20

  1     Looking glass                         .25

  1     Carpet                                   1.00

 1/2    Interest in old buggy              .25

  “        “     Parler Sters                   2.00

                                             =====

        Amount Carried Forward       45.70

 

  -     Amount Brot Forward            45.70

  3     Pillows                                     .75

  1     Washboard & Pitcher               .25

  3     Blankets                                 2.00

                                             =====

        Total appraised value of personal

        goods and chattels              $48.70

 

Dated January 4th 1886

                       J. F. Robinson   )

                       W. W. Walker     ) appraisers

                       John P. Phillips )

 

                  Inventory and Appraisement

              Estate of Isabella Chambers deceased

                           Schedule

                              E

                              Statement of the amount of money in the

hands of said administrator belonging to said estate

 

U.S. Treasury Notes         None     $

National Bank   “                        2.00

Specie                       “

Total amount of money            $2.00

 

Dated January 4 1886.

                       J. F. Robinson   )

                       W. W. Walker     ) appraisers

                       John P. Phillips )

 

                           Schedule

                              F

                              The following is a particular statement of

the Bonds, Mortgages, Notes and other Securities for the payment of

money and other debts and accounts belonging to the said decedent

 

Robert H. Chambers    1 Due Bill dated August 12/84 for $8.60

                      Interest to Jany 4/86               .72

                      Subject to Set off

Total                                                   $9.32

Dated January 4 1886.

                       J. F. Robinson   )

                             “          ) appraisers

                                        )

 

                   Inventory and Appraisement

              Estate of Isabella Chambers deceased

                           Schedule

                              G

                              We the undersigned appraisers do on our

oaths aforesaid upon actual view thereof appraise the following

described real estate

All that piece or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Knox

and state of Ohio, and more particularly described as follows to wit:

Being the east half of the south east quarter of Section sixteen (16) of

township eight (8) and range twelve (12) of the unappropriated Military

lands offered for sale in the district at Chilicothe and state of Ohio,

being Eighty acres more or less, as follows to wit three thousand two

hundred Dollars

 

Dated January 4 1886.

                       J. F. Robinson   )

                       John P. Phillips ) appraisers

                       W. W. Walker     )

 

Recapitulation of the assets belonging to said estate

 

Total appraisement of personal

  Goods and chattels               As per schedule D $  48.70

Moneys belonging to the decedent   “   “     “     E     2.00

Total appraisement of Securities

  accounts & c.                    “   “     “     F     9.32

Total appraisement of Real Estate  “   “     “     G  3200.00

  “        “       “  Assets                         $3260.02

 

Dated January 4 1886.

                       J. F. Robinson   )

                       John P. Phillips ) appraisers

                       W. W. Walker     )

 

Fees of appraisers $1.00 each per day $3.00

 

                              Affidavit

 

The State of Ohio ))

Knox County ss.   ))

                     Before the subscriber the Judge of the Probate

Court within and for said county on the 21st day of January AD 1886

personally appeared Wm McClelland admr of the estate of Isabella

Chambers late of said county deceased and being duly qualified he did

depose and say that the foregoing Inventory is in all respects just and

true that it contains a true statement of all the estate and property of

the said decedent which has come to the knowledge of said affiant being

assets & c. and particularly of all money Bank bills and other

circulating medium belonging to the deceased and of all just claims of

the said deceased against the said affiant and all other persons

according to the best of his knowledge.

                               Wm McClelland

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me the day and year above

written

                               E. A. Pealer

                                           Probate Judge

_______________________________________________

The two paragraphs below are taken verbatim from two different websites:

 

"The names Beattie and Beatty in Ireland are usually of immigrant origin having been brought to the country

by settlers who arrived from Scotland especially during the seventeenth century. These names are also an

anglicized form of the Gaelic occupation 'Biadhtach' meaning 'public victualler' and exist as such as

Beatagh and Betagh in County Westmeath."

 

"Beatty

 " In Ulster, where it is found most frequently by far, this surname is generally of Scottish origin.  In Scotland

it originated as "Baty", a pet form of Bartholomew. The family were well known in Galloway and along the

Borders, where they were one of the infamous "rridingclans". After the destruction by James I of these clans,

 many Beatties migrated to Ulster during the Plantation. Their settlements were concentrated especially in

Co. Fermanagh, where they remain numerous. Some Beatties, outside Ulster, also have a separate Gaelic

 origin, from Mac Bhiathaigh, meaning "provider of food". The same original was also sometimes

transliterated as Betagh."

 

I also found a website showing name distribution by counties of Ireland from 1848-1864.  It shows County

Fermanagh by far had the most BEATTY households of any county.   It also showed by far the most common

spelling to be BEATTY, with BEATTIE being a distant 2nd, with 3rd being Beaty and 4th Beattey and

NO  Batey or Battey spellings at all.   So, from that I've arbitrarily changed Isabella's surname to BEATTY.

 

1830 BEATY, etc. census listings for Knox Co.:

82 BUTLER Twp. BATY     WILLIAM     "WILLIAM" LOOK UP      "1830P215"    "C.B.B.10-19-98"

83 BUTLER Twp. BATY     JAMES  "JAMES"      LOOK UP      "1830P216"    "C.B.B.10-19-98"

 

1850 census of Knox Co. - listings for:

BATY 396A

BEATY 250A-308A-364A-370A-388A-437B-2B

 

More About ISABELLA * BEATTY:

Burial: Pike Cemetery, Pike Twp., Knox Co, OH; BEATTIE ?

       

Children of WILLIAM CHAMBERS and ISABELLA BEATTY are:

2.                i.    JOHN W.2 CHAMBERS, b. March 21, 1826, Ireland; he is on the 1850 Knox Co, OH census; d. May 25, 1883, Van Wert Co, York Twp, OH - see obit. in scrabook..

3.               ii.    MARY * MATILDA CHAMBERS, b. April 9, 1828, Fermanagh Co, Ireland - both of her parents also Irish; d. December 16, 1882, Washington Co, IN.

4.              iii.    ELIZA CHAMBERS, b. July 25, 1830, Ireland; d. August 7, 1893, Knox Co, OH.

5.              iv.    ANN JANE CHAMBERS, b. April 14, 1833, Ireland - on 1870 census w. Geo. and Eliza; d. September 1, 1918, Pike Twp, Knox Co, OH; see Death Cert.-under Isabelle.

6.               v.    JAMES B. CHAMBERS, b. April 1835, Ireland - Could the "B" initial be for BATEY ?; d. 1908, Miami Co, Indiana - Allen Twp, near town of Macy.

7.              vi.    ROBERT HENRY CHAMBERS, b. July 5, 1839, Ireland; living with his Mother on 1880 census- Knox Co.; d. June 5, 1913, Knox Co, OH; date of birth given by 2nd wife on DeathCt..

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  JOHN W.2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born March 21, 1826 in Ireland; he is on the 1850 Knox Co, OH census, and died May 25, 1883 in Van Wert Co, York Twp, OH - see obit. in scrabook..  He married ELLEN COOKE March 31, 1847 in Knox Co, OH- Bk F, Pg. 16 - M.E. Church, daughter of EDWARD COOKE and ANN IRVINE.  She was born November 21, 1826 in Ire.; They are living next door to widow Isabell 1850, and died September 28, 1879 in Fredericktown, Knox Co, OH.

 

Notes for JOHN W. CHAMBERS:

Ed Turcotte & Gary Hines - both living descendants of this John W. Chambers have supplied a wealth of information on this line.   Philis Ballew (Grandaughter of Oliver G. Gibbs) has supplied several letters sent to her by 2 of John's sons,  Charles O. & William V. Chambers. -all from the 1920s.  These letters have corroborated information Gary has on the family - see data on these 2 sons.   Also see the scan of John's obituary that Gary Hines has sent me & included here in John's scrapbook.    All data on his descendants is from Gary Hines.

       

Children of JOHN CHAMBERS and ELLEN COOKE are:

                   i.    WILLIAM V.3 CHAMBERS, b. February 6, 1848, OH - he was Dean of a college in Mt. Vernon, IA; d. Aft. 1920, and before April 1930 -No Children; m. KATHERINE RUSH, June 30, 1906, Iowa; b. 1863, Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1930, possibly San Diego, CA- last found there 1930.

8.               ii.    EDWARD E. CHAMBERS, b. September 18, 1849, Knox Co, OH; d. August 21, 1928, Van Wert, Van Wert Co, OH.

                 iii.    JOHN T. CHAMBERS, b. August 10, 1851; d. April 25, 1881.

9.              iv.    MARY A. CHAMBERS, b. December 7, 1853; d. Abt. 1910.

                  v.    ISABELLA JANE CHAMBERS, b. December 7, 1853; d. May 7, 1873.

10.            vi.    ELIZA M. CHAMBERS, b. March 22, 1857, Knox Co, OH; d. May 23, 1929, Lima Allen Co, OH.

                vii.    FANNY L. CHAMBERS, b. July 10, 1861.

11.          viii.    ROBERT HENRY CHAMBERS, b. April 19, 1864, York Twp, Van Wert Co, Ohio; d. November 21, 1911, Fort Wayne, IN.

                  ix.    CHARLES O. CHAMBERS, DR., b. September 1866, OH- lived in Stillwater, OK- head of Botanical Dept A&M; d. 1930, Compton, CA-but bur.@Tomlinson Cem, Mercer Co,OH.

12.              x.    IDA E. CHAMBERS, b. December 8, 1868, Van Wert Co, OH -lived in Convoy, OH; d. December 19, 1949, Bur. @ Tomlinson Cem., Mercer Co, OH.

 

 

3.  MARY * MATILDA2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born April 9, 1828 in Fermanagh Co, Ireland - both of her parents also Irish, and died December 16, 1882 in Washington Co, IN.  She married GEORGE * GIBBS February 5, 1848 in Christ Episcopal Ch, Cincinnati, OH- (or 1847?), son of ALFRED GIBBS and MARY GIBSON.  He was born January 9, 1826 in Leicestershire Co, Eng; Bz. 3-5-27- Loughborough, and died January 26, 1903 in Foster, OH - Warren Co..

 

Notes for MARY * MATILDA CHAMBERS:

It has been very difficult to trace anything about Mary (CHAMBERS) GIBBS. - note most of the early information below, prior to 1999 was erroneous.

There is a Nathaniel Chambers Buried in the Walnut Ridge Cemetary in Jefferson Twp, Washington Co.IN; D:Feb 11, 1848, B: sometime in 1700s.

(one source says B: 1748, another 1762, another 1758-60.)  History of Washington Co. Text says Nathaniel arrived to Washington Co. in 1811 (page 692), but no other information about him is given.  Nathaniel is shown on the Washington Co. 1820 census as a farmer, he & wife over age 44 with children: 2 females 16-25, 1 male<10, & 1male 10-15. Mary should not have been born yet, and it would seem very unlikely to be her parents unless he had a 2nd wife by 8 yrs. later.

Cemetery notes say born c1748 that would seem unusually long longevity.  It also says he was husband of Mary.  That surely is not George Gibbs' 1st wife?  Needs more research to determine? Another source says she married George Gibbs in Feb 1846 instead of 1848.  If this was The same as Nathaniel's wife then she remarried immediately after Nathaniel died! if the 1848 marriage date is correct, making CHAMBERS her 1st married name and not her maiden name? Or was our Mary Matilda (CHAMBERS) GIBBS, Nathaniel's daughter, or Grandaughter??  The more likely possibility is that she was the Daughter of John CHAMBERS and Sarah "Sally" (BLANKENBAKER) CHAMBERS (he: b:April 4, 1788 d:Aug. 20,1866; She: b: June 1, 1793 d:Sept 1, 1856, and that also is likely that this John Chambers was a son of Nathaniel?  We do know that Nathaniel Chambers had the following children of he & at least one wife, Mary: John, William, Mary, Milly, Catherine, & James. John is shown on the 1820 census as a Farmer, with he & wife listed as being between 26-45,  &   children: 3 males<10, 2 females<10, 1 female 10-15. There is a John CHAMBERS shown owning a large piece of property on the 1860 platt map of Jefferson Twp. a few miles South,South East of G.Gibbs', and very close SE of L.Persinger's smaller piece of property ..but it is pure and simple speculation based on NO facts that our Mary Matilda was Johns daughter or even a relative of Nathaniels!  We do know for sure that she is buried next to George GIBBS in the Pollock Cemetary, in Washington Co., IN, as a letter from George's 2nd wife (Mary Logan) to George's son Oliver says that Will and Fred (Alfred) took Georges body back to lay with their Mother.  Mary LOGAN probably was buried & died in Ohio, somewhere near Cincinnati.

   The IL-IN early-1850 marriages shows a William H. CHAMBERS married an Elizabeth PERSINGER !! in Washington Co. on March 8, 1832.  There were 2 William Chambers' on the Washington Co. 1820 census Pages 201 & 208.  The first of these listed himself between 26-44 y.o., a presumed wife age 16-25, & children: 1 male & 1 female each < 10.  The 2nd Wm. (pg.208) listed himself between 26-44, a presumed wife 16-25, & children: 2 males<10.

   I believe I have already searched Obits. & death Cert. in Washington Co. on her and came up with nothing but I also could not find my notes saying that is so.  I will ask the Washington Co. Historical Museum for their help.   They have sent me materials on Nathaniel, that show him probably? being born in N.Carolina in 1762 and give the children's name I have given above & that he was a Revolutionary War soldier with the N.Carolina service, and that he died Feb 11, 1848.  Unfortunately they gave me two different stories of a Nathaniel another with children slightly different than those given above (Joshua is an addition the girls Mary, Milly, & Catherine, were not mentioned, but then it is likely that the male chauvanists back then would not necessarily include the females in the list), and it is likely that if Joshua died young, then he might not have been included in the other list. (These were also the two histories that listed different birthdates (1748 vs. 1762).

  My CD-ROM index for the 1860 census lists the following CHAMBERS in Washington Co., IN: Elihu, Page 168, Jefferson Twp.; Erwin G. Pg. 374, Monroe Twp.; James M. Pg. 254, Washington Twp.; John Pg.168, Jefferson Twp. & Sarah J. Pg. 168, Jefferson Twp.; However 1860 is probably too late to expect these to be her parents, possibly sibs?

Also CD-228 shows Washington Co. Marriage of Catherine CHAMBERS to Richard DALY July 12,1822.. could she be a sister or widowed Mother of Mary Matilda?

  To summarize the 4 Chambers' families in the County according to the 1820 census: Nathaniel, age>44, 2 named William both between ages 26-44, & John, age 26-44.  They all had presumed children & wifes then (see body of notes above.

 

  JULY 1999,  Philis Ballew has sent me what I believe to be an important NEW finding.   It is a piece of paper (see "clues from O.G. Gibbs in scrapbook here for Mary Matilda) that has some mention of her Grandmother Algie Gibb's ancestors, but the other words relate to her Grandfather Oliver Grant Gibbs suggesting names of Mary Matilda Chambers' parents as John & Isabella CHAMBER (w/o an "S"), but then under that has the word CHAMBERLAIN... ??   So we could be looking for her parents as CHAMBERLAIN, CHAMBERLIN, CHAMBERLAND, CHAMBER or as we thought we knew her as CHAMBERS.     It further has a location for John & Isabella as Vernon, Ohio.   I've found 2 Vernon cities in OH.   One in Trumball Co., just South of Lake Erie, near the Northern Pennsylvania border and another in Lawrence Co, quite a ways East of Cincinnati and finally a Mount Vernon in Knox Co.   I guess I would lean more toward Lawrence Co because of it's proximity to Cincinnatti, where we've been told George lived before moving to Washington Co.  but the one in the NE corner of Ohio would also be on the path from NY.    Thus neither of these seem to have a stronger likelihood than the other.   Thus far, I've found no evidence of either family name in either county.

     Fall 1999 - most of the above on Chambers in Washington Co. has been negated by pursuing the clue Philis Ballew offered as Mary Matilda and her siblings and mother are found conclusively in Knox Co, OH.   At least Mary Matilda was not with them as she had just married in Cincinnati - discovered at the Episcopaleon church there in 1848.   Mary is found with those same siblings and mother Isabelle on a ship record - see all this outlined in the information listed under notes for Isabelle.   As of Fall of 2000 we still haven't found the first name of Isabelle's husband  (Mary Matilda's father).

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   2001- Gary Hines has sent us confirmation of Isabella's maiden name (BATEY - but I believe probably BEATTY in Ireland) - and her husband's 1st name William.   This is discussed in detail under Mary Matilda's Mother, Isabella.

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This is a source for data on early activity at the Christ Church Cathedral 1818-1938 Cincinnati LDS (Mormon) Family History Center Microfilm 1955202

 

The date of February 5th, 1848 was obtained thru an Email contact of someone who searched that out for me - however in June 2002, the Christ Church archivist wrote me that she has confirmed the actual date as February 5, 1847.    This is confusing to me not only the fact that we have two dates exactly one year apart - but we have some evidence showing George was in Mexico at war during the late 1846 thru early 1847 period.   I need to find an explanation for why there are two dates discovered.   

                                                       

 

More About MARY * MATILDA CHAMBERS:

Burial: Pollock (Ratt) Cem., Jefferson Twp, Washington Co, IN

Event 1: another source says born 1827 in

Event 2: another source says born @ Frermanah, Ire.

 

Notes for GEORGE * GIBBS:

Family notes (I cannot determine the source {MAG}) however it states:  George Gibbs, a native of Leicestershire, England, was born January 9, 1826.    Many of the descendants have had copies of this note- apparently for many years:

He was one of 2 sons born to Alfred P. And Mary (GIBSON) GIBBS, both natives of England, from whence they came to New York City in 1826, (I suspect was after March 1827 instead of 1826, although there is one line of descendants who had handed down that George came to the U.S. at age 9y.o - that would be about 1835- {MAG}) with small son George.  Mr. A.P. Gibbs owned a shoe store in NYC.  They lived in various Eastern cities, but always looked upon New York as their home.

 

George was baptized at All Saint's Church in Loughborough, England (pronounced Luffborough) in Leicestershire County (pronounced Lestershire).

 

 There are 3 George GIBBS in the Ohio 1850 census index: 1.) Ashtabula Co., Williamsfield Twp, census page 358.  2.)Ross Co., Chillicothe Twp. census page 137.  3.) Huron Co. Norwalk Twp, page 77 - NONE of which appear to be ours.

 

   According to family handed down history, George Gibbs remained at home until 18 years old. He had learned the shoemakers trade early and continued it when he moved to Cincinnati @ 18 (about 1844) There he worked until June 1846, when he enlisted in the First Rifles, First Ohio Volunteers Infantry, I later learned this might have just been called the First Ohio Volunteers, in which George was in Company K.  He served with his regiment under Zachary Taylor, participating in the battles of Monterrey, Buena Vista & Matamoras, Mexico.    He was mustered out in August 1847,  according to family records, but books & Government records on the subject show he was mustered out June 12, 1847 and returned to Cincinnati.   I'll now give a short summary of his military involvement in the Mexican-American War:   The 1st Regiment Ohio Volunteers was organized at Camp Washington, near Cincinnati June 23, 1846 and received into the service of the United States by General Wool by transfer from the governor of Ohio.  George Gibbs is listed as a Private in Company K, organized June 4, 1846.   He entered service June 5.   The company was commanded by Capt. Wm. H. Ramsey.  After the regimental formation by the election of Colonel Alexander M. Mitchell, active preparations were made for the embarkmentation of the regiment to Mexico on the Steamer "NEW WORLD".   The regiment passed Vicksburg on July 6, 1846 and arrived at New Orleans the following Saturday after a "speedy, safe and pleasant voyage".   It then proceeded to Port Isabel, TX and to the "enemies country" - then marched to Camargo, Mexico.  Gen. Taylor arrived at this place Aug. 8, 1846 and on the 17th orders were issued for the troops to prepare to move in the direction of Monterey.   The 1st regiment left Camargo, Sept. 6, and arrived Monterey on Sept. 19th.  The regiment entered the town on the Right, being assailed by heavy fire from the enemy in front and flank.  Col. Mitchell and adjuvant Armstrong were wounded and Lt. Matthew was killed.  While the regiment confronted the enemies 2nd work, NO.3, Rincondel, Diablo -  the Battle of Monterey Sept. 21, 1846 was won.

  

 He may have remained in Cincinnati until June 1855.  In that year he first came to Washington Co., IN and bought a farm in 1856 upon which he resided until 1886.  He then moved to Seymour, Indiana in 1885 and from there to Foster, Ohio, Warren County in October 1891 according to notes on Mary's request for George's War Pension.

During the time he lived in Indiana he left for the Civil War.  In June 1861 he enlisted in Company G, 25th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until Oct 5, 1862, when in the battle of , (I suspect that George was in the Mexican-American battle of Matamoros but that was obviously before the civil war battle in Mississippi as there was no battle of Matamoras in Mississippi {MAG}) his right leg was shot off by a cannon ball.  he lay in the hospital @ Jackson, TN.  until April 7, 1863 when he was discharged.  He also participated in the battle of Shiloh in April, 1862.   Later I discoverd there is mention of George's battle sometimes being referred to as Metamora for the ridge so named Metamora,  just West of the Davis bridge across the Hatchie River. - this  is all in Tennesee but close - just North of the Mississippi border.

 

     After his return from the Civil War he resumed farming in Washington County.   He had already married 7 years previous in 1848 - He married Mary Matilda CHAMBERS, a native of Ireland (born either Dublin or Frermanah?).  She  died Dec. 16, 1882 leaving 8 children: Alfred P.(age 34 when she died),  William G., John F., Mary B.(married a REID), Lucy, Oliver G., James E. & Charles C..  He later married Mary L. Logan on June 14, 1884 of Franklin Co.  Georges' only brother was killed on Pope's retreat in the Shenandoah's.  He belonged to the famous Ellsworth Zouaves, (?) a famous NY civil war regiment. The British Isles IGI Cd shows an Edward & George born of the correct parents in Leister area, with George having the exact B.D. as we have, but no John, so whether he had 2 brothers, one was Named John Edward (Edward John), or unless one of the names John or Edward is wrong from the 2 different sources? 

     Contradicting the first few sentences (above), is the 1880 census in which George apparently stated he was born in NY.  His family is listed then in Jefferson Township of Washington Co. IN., Page 12, residence # 101.  He is listed as a farmer and all children but Alfred P. (oldest) are listed @ that home.  Coincidentally an Elizabeth Persinger is listed just above the Gibbs, as a housekeeper for a family by the last name of Gullet.   

     A Salem, IN obituary states he was killed when his wagon was hit by a train at a crossing, also killing both horses.  The obituary does not say where he died but it sounded like it was not near where he was buried, I suspect the accident may have occurred as far away as Foster, Ohio. He is buried with Mary Matilda and a few of their infant children @ the Pollock (aka- Ratt) Cemetary which I have visited.  The cemetary is in a beautiful heavily wooded location near the top of a very large hill just West of the 160 acres that George is shown owning on the platt map of 1860. I could not find Mary Logan, his 2nd wife.  Its interesting that he was buried with his 1st wife. Most likely this means that Mary Logan remarried after George died?  It may be only coincidental but worth noting that although there are no CHAMBERS names in the Pollock cemetary but there is a Nathaniel CHAMBERS B:c.1748,D:2-11-1848 in the Walnut Ridge Cemetery & 3 CHAMBERS in the Haley Cemetary.  When I visited the difficult to find Pollock cemetary, I was struck by the dense wooded beauty with plenty of wild yucca growing including one large yucca next to their grave, but more surprisingly a small but recent looking american flag stuck in the ground at George's grave only....  There was nothing else in that entire ancient cemetery that showed evidence of living man's presence, but several other ancient graves.   The flag is undoubtedly placed indicating that he was a War Veteran.   Another discovery was an obituary of Miss Lucy Gibbs from Jan 25, 1889 stating daughter of George Gibbs of SEYMOUR and sister  of A.P. Gibbs died @ Colorado Springs Jan 13, 1889 while visiting Mrs. H.I. Reid (her sister, Mary Belle).

 

      July 1994: I have just visited cousin Phillis Ballew, whom I was quite excited about discovering her living in Shattuck, Oklahoma, and who showed me a veritable treasure trove of old photos and letters including one actually written by George Gibbs himself in 1900, advising his son & daughter in-law (Oliver & Algie) to not move to Nebraska.  Another letter from his 2nd wife (Mary Logan) noting some of the facts of his death to son Oliver: "We kept your  Pa in the vault 5 days and then Will & Fred (Alfred) took him to Washington Co. and buried him beside your Mother they seemed to think that was the best.  Ralph went with them" She later went on to verify other things by adding "It was so sudden & unexpected that he should meet death in that way.  He had crossed that track so often; He had been so well all winter..had never had a cold.  That was so unusual for him. He had went to Foster three times that day.  The appraisement of the property was the 11th of this month.  The farm was appraised at $40 per acre." Then a P.S.: "Fred writes that Annie was married a few days ago."  I assume that Annie is actually Anna Matilda Gibbs McCammon and that Fred is my Great-Grandfather Alfred P. Gibbs and that Will is George's 2nd eldest Son.  The above verifies that George really is buried with the 1st Mary and I suspect that the 2nd Mary, the author of the letter, died, and is buried in Ohio.  I intend to search out other descendants of George, Especially of William, John, Belle, & their later family Nellie & Ralph.   A discovery in September 1994 at the McClean Co. Historical Museum CD-ROM IGI collection shows George was christened March 5, 1827 at All Saints, Loughborough, Leicester, England with parents Alfred & Mother Mary.  This is probably our George; same parents names as we already knew and the same location of birth as christened.     BE CAREFUL, George had the name MARY for BOTH of his WIVES, his MOTHER, and his PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER !!!

(i.e. all 4 of these important ladies in his life were ALL named Mary.)

 

1803 - George's Father Alfred P. born in Leicestershire County, England

1824 - George's Brother, John Edward believed born.

1826 -January 9, believe George born in Leicestershire, England

1827  - March 5, George Christened @ Ashby De La Zouch, Leicester.

1827  ??  came to U.S. as a small child (originally we learned 1826? - others believe could have been as late as 1835)

1844 - moved to Cincinnati from New York ? exact year/ date speculated - biography says at age 18

1846 - June 5 - joined Mexican-American War under Zachary Taylor 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteers Infantry  Company K. -fought and U.S. won the                         Battle of Monterey, Mexico Sept. 20-21, 1846.

1847 - June 12 - mustered out of the volunteers, moved back to Cincinnati.

1848 - February 5th- Married Mary Matilda CHAMBERS; December 4, Son Alfred Page Gibbs born - Cincinnati, OH - other records suggest 1847

1850 - WHERE is he ? - I cannot find him on a census  ?? - one in NYC & New Orleans - or he could be living with a different head of                                              household?   should be in Cincinnati ?

1851 -  April 4, son William George Gibbs born in Ohio, probably in Cincinnati.

1853 - Son Clarence born

1855  -Son Clarence died and is buried in Pollock Cem. proving George was in Washington Co. by 1855 !

1856 - September- George is shown as purchasing land in Washington Co. - but apparently was there a year earlier.

1857  -Son John F. Gibbs born - I cannot find him after 1880 - did he die young ? - or is he the Frank we've discovered mention of living in KY.

1859  -Daughter Mary Belle Gibbs born (later Mrs. Reid who moved to Denver, Colorado)

1860 - July 13, Census - Washington Co, IN - Jefferson Twp. Pg. 156B/ 78

1861 - March- Daughter Lucy Gibbs born;  June - Joined the Civil War Company G 25th Indiana Volunteers

1862 - Battle of Shiloh (TN) April 6-7 then on October 5, 1862, Right Leg shot (& soon after amputated) with cannoball @ the skirmish of Hatchie River                 (Battle at Davis Bridge) - apparently just on the south edge of Tennesee near Pocohontas - NW of Corinth, Missisiippi.  - it was fought                           between the Metamora Ridge and the Davis Bridge over the Hatchie River - this just about a mile south of Pocahontas, TN.

1863 - April 7 - discharged from Hospital in Jackson TN and from Military service.

1865 - May 4, Son Oliver Grant Gibbs born.

1866 - December 1, son James Gibbs born.

1870 - July 7 - Census, Jefferson Twp, Washington Co,- Page 77A & part of family on top of 77B

1880 - Census - Washington Co, Jefferson Twp - Page439B

1882 - December 16, 1st wife, (my GG GM), Mary Matilda Dies

1884 - June 14, Married Mary Logan;  August 2, Grandaughter Grace Gibbs (My Grandmother) born in Washington Co., IN

1885 - son, Ralph born

1886 - Left Washington Co - Moved North one county to town of Seymour, Indiana - Jackson County

1889 - Daughter, Nellie born, August 6, according to George's postumous pension records - see below.

1891 - Family moved to land they bought about 1/2 mile East of Foster, OH, Warren Co, in October.

1900 - I have a letter from Foster, OH- He & Mary wrote to his son, Oliver Grant Gibbs - given to me by OG's Grandaughter, Philis Ballew @                              Shattuck,  OK.

1903  January 26, died near Foster OH in train-horse carriage accident -body shipped back with sons, Alfred & William.    Buried in the Pollock                          (Ratt) cemetary at far North Central part of Washington County) with his 1st wife Mary Matilda CHAMBERS.   

 

NOTE new information contradicting previously suspected information above about 1st wife, Mary Matilda Chambers' family is found in her NOTES - that she is NOT related to those CHAMBERS' in Washington Co.    Also, a note from August 2002 below suggests that George may have moved to Daviess County, Indiana, just South-East of Sullivan County and may have been there in the early 1890s before going back to Ohio.

 

March, 2000 - I finally received Papers from the Government on George's Veteran Pension papers.   There is only brief mention of his Mexican War time, but quite a bit on his Civil War period.   The main points gained from those papers were:

He and his 2nd wife Mary Louisa Logan moved from Seymour, (Jackson Co) Indiana to Foster, OH about Oct. 23, 1891, where they apparently had lived from around 1885/86.   George is listed as being age 35 at time of enrollment in 1861 to the Civil War and was 5 Ft. 10 Inches tall, dark complected - but hazel eyes & brown hair.  - It corroborates his Leicestershire, England Birth place.    It states he enrolled in the War July 15, 1861 and discharged April 7, 1863 - as an invalid due to cannonball injury to his Right Leg between the Knee and his ankle.   It states the leg was amputed while in the field.   He was listed as a Cordwainer (shoemaker).   This injury apparently occurred at "The Battle of Hatchi River"  (another notation calls it "The Battle of Big Hatchie -or the battle of Matamora") on October 5, 1862.    He spent some time in the hospital at Jackson, Tennessee.   It then shows he married Mary Logan at Brookville, IN (Franklin Co) June 14, 1884.   These papers state their child, Nellie Gibbs was a minor when George died in 1903 and that she was born in Seymour, IN     There is no mention of son Ralph except once when it is stated he moved with the family from Seymour, IN  to Foster, OH  in the Fall of 1891.   A general affidavit for Pension application written by Henry Zollman, age 82 years in 1904, states he knew George since moved to Washington Co, IN - and says George cleared up a "hill farm" and set out a large Orchard.   When the War broke out he enlisted.   Finally the papers state Mary Louisa was never married previously.   

 

July 2000- A man on the internet has just responded to my query in Hamilton Co, OH that the Hamilton Co. restored marriage records show George Gibbs married Mary M. Chambers Feb. 5, 1848 at the Christ Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH. - thus proving that George did return to Cincinnati after the Mexican American War.  I wish I could find out why Mary Chambers was there from Knox Co. - quite a distance in those days.    Philis Ballew sent a message that was written by one of Oliver Grant Gibbs'  Daughters, Gladys, stating George immigrated to the U.S. when he was 9 years old.  That would have been about 1835 - and that Mary Matilda Chambers was from Dublin.   Dublin is not in Fermanagh County, so she may have moved there from the other county.

 

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR SERVICE:

The following from a very authoritative man I luckily found on the internet:

Probably the definitive reference for Ohio Volunteer service is: Official Roster of Soldiers of the State of Ohio.  Laning Co.  Norwalk, OH.  1895.  Though quite rare, you should be able to find this reference at the Ohio State Library, and perhaps elsewhere.  The 1st Regiment OH Volunteers was organized at Camp Washington, near  Cincinnati, June 23, 1846, and received into the service of the United  States by General Wool by transfer from the Governor of Ohio on that date.  The companies composing the organization were recruited at that time.

 

George Gibbs is listed as a Private, Company K, organized June 4, 1846 at Cincinnati.  He entered service on June 5 and served for one year, mustered out June 12, 1847.  The company was commanded by Capt. William H.  Ramsey.  [Ohio Roster,  op. cit., 406-407.]

 

After the regimental formation by the election of Colonel Alexander M. Mitchell, active preparations were made for the embarkation of the Regiment to Mexico on the steamer "New World", which was made a few days later.  The Regiment passed Vicksburg on July 6, and arrived at New Orleans the following Saturday after a speedy, safe and pleasant voyage.

 

It then proceeded to Port Isabel, TX, and to the enemy's country, marching to Camargo.  General Taylor arrived at this place August 8, 1846 and on the 17th orders were issued for the troops to prepare to move in the direction of Monterey.  The First Regiment left Camargo September 6 and arrived before Monterey on the 19th.  The Regiment entered the town to the right, being assailed at every step by heavy fire, from the enemy in front and flank.  Col. Mitchell and Adjutant Armstrong were wounded and Lieutenant Matthew was killed, while the Regiment confronted the enemy's second work NO. 3, Rincondel, Diablo.  The battle of Monterey, September 21, 1846, was won.

 

Nothing more was heard of the regiment until February 24, 1847, when two companies of this regiment, under command of Captains Bradley and Vandever, Cos. F and I, went to Marin to the relief of Lt. Col. Irvin of the 2nd Ohio Vols.

 

On March 4, Maj. Giddings was ordered to march from Monterey to Camargo to escort Mr. Crittenden and Maj. Coffee (bearers of dispatches from headquarters) with three companies (apparently not including your ancestors's Co. K).  They were subsequently engaged in an embarrassing skirmish at Ceralvo on March 7.

 

The Regiment returned to New Orleans and was mustered out June 12, 1847.   Also some soldiers "re-upped" - I was not able to find Gibbs listed again so he probably decided he had had enough of difficult conditions he endured while in Mexico.

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Next is a summary of the CIVIL WAR Battle of Big Hatchie River - or Matamoras, Tennessee - where we believe George lost his Right leg by cannonball fire.

      Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Confederate Army of West Tennessee retreated from Corinth on October 4, 1862. Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans did not send forces in pursuit until the morning of the 5th. Maj. Gen. Edward O.C. Ord, commanding a detachment of the Army of West Tennessee, was, pursuant to orders, advancing on Corinth to assist Rosecrans. On the night of October 4-5, he camped near Pocahontas. Between 7:30 and 8:00 am the next morning, his force encountered Union Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut's 4th Brigade, Army of West Tennessee, in the Confederates's front. Ord took command of the now-combined Union forces and pushed Van Dorn's advance, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Army of the West, back about five miles to the Hatchie River and across Davis' Bridge. After accomplishing this, Ord was wounded and Hurlbut assumed command. While Price's men were hotly engaged with Ord's forces,  Van Dorn's scouts looked for and found another crossing of the Hatchie River. Van Dorn then led his army back to Holly Springs. Ord had forced Price to retreat, but the Confederates escaped capture or destruction.  Although they should have done so, Rosecrans's army had failed to capture or destroy Van Dorn's force.

              Result(s): Union victory

              Location: Hardeman County and McNairy County

              Campaign: Iuka and Corinth Operations (1862)

              Date(s): October 5, 1862

              Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Edward O.C. Ord and Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut [US]; Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn [CS]

              Forces Engaged: Detachment [US]; Army of the West [CS]

              Estimated Casualties: 900 total (US 500; CS 400)

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The information below sent by Email from another Email contact who volunteered his free research to our family:

Western Star Newspaper - Thursday, February 5, 1903  - Fosters-

 

"Fred and Will Gibbs of Sullivan, Indiana, sons of the late George Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Hagermeyer, of Norwood (n.b., Norwood is a Cincinnati suburb), attended the funeral of George Gibbs which took place from the M.E. Church at Maineville on Thursday at 1:30 PM. The remains were placed in the vault at Maineville Cemetery to await future burial. The bereaved widow and children have the sympathy of the entire community."

 

OBITUARY:   Western Star - Thursday, January 29, 1903   - Front page -

 

"Another Fatality at Foster's Crossing- Aged Veteran of Two Wars Run Down by New York Express"

 

"Coroner Carey was called to Fosters on Monday afternoon last by telephone which informed him that the railroad crossing there had been the scene of another fatality. The coroner reached there at 4 PM and found that the person killed was an old veteran of two wars. His name was George Gibbs. He was 82 years old and lived at the Gillis farm near Fosters.   He was going to mill in a one-horse jolt wagon and had a few sacks of corn with him. When he neared the crossing, a freight train was standing on the side-track near the crossing with the locomotive headed to the east. The engine frightened his horse and while he was trying to get it across the track, the fast express no. 7 was coming west on the other track. His attention being fixed on the freight train, he failed to notice the approach of the express and just as his horse crossed the track the engine struck his wagon tearing it in to hundreds of pieces and hurling the old veteran to his death. The train after running nearly half a mile before it could be stopped, then it backed up to the depot and the deceased was found fast on the cowcatcher. His death was instantaneous, his skull being badly mashed and his bones broke."

 

"The evidence showed that the proper signals had been given and that as the train approached the crossing the danger signal was given. It is indeed a sad case, that an old veteran of two wars, having lost his right leg in the war of the rebellion, should survive them both, only to lose his life by being run down by a railroad train near his home.  He leaves a wife and family of grown children."

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Here is the IGI listing on http://www.familysearch.org

George GIBBS -

Christening:  5 Mar 1827  All Saints, Loughborough, Leicester, England

  Parents: 

      Father:  Alfred GIBBS 

      Mother:  Mary

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I just discovered this listing for George on the Ancestry.com website:

 

Served Indiana  Enlisted G, Co. 25th Inf Reg. IN disch wounds on 07 April 1863  (Leg Amputated)       

  Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana;    Abbreviation: INRoster

                            Published by Holloway on 1865-66

 

 

Oct./Nov. 2001 - I've finally reached descendants of George's youngest child, Nellie =  Siblings Patricia & Jack ARBINO, children of Mary Gertrude BURKE & also have found Lee TOMLIN, husband of Mary Gertrude's sister - deceased Ethel BURKE  - Patricia & Jack live in the Cincinnati area and Lee lives in Whittier, California.   Jack has told me a few interesting stories although hasn't any photos of George.    He adds a note to the trauma death of George - that the horse carrying George and his wagon was not killed, but that horse would never cross railroad tracks after that wreck.    He says Nellie was a well educated woman and was a pianist as was his mother, Mary Gertrude.

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August 2002:   Just visited the historical museum at Salem, IN - found many interesting bits of newspaper clippings - mostly on Alfred P. Gibbs, son of George - however found this one mysterious sentence about George himself:    April 3, 1896 - George Gibbs returned to his  home in Daviess County last week after visiting here this past winter."    -

     This above is a strange note - it defies what we thought we knew about George's late life last move from Jackson Co, IN to Foster, Ohio in Warren County about 1891.   This would suggest that before he came to Ohio he moved to Daviess County which is just adjacent to Sullivan County ! - this may be why mention is made of Alfred's brothers Charles & Edward being at Sullivan County in the early 1890s.

    On that same visit I was most astounded to find a large painting at the museum which the staff there feel was with the museum for many years before they moved to their new building.    At this time, staff had no history on the painting by Ray COURTNEY - nor anything about the painter.    Near the bottom of the painting it reads (with some minor spelling modifications):    TITLE  " The Old Gibbs Hill"     Then under that reads:    As it was known then, the house of George Gibbs and family, they built in the 1850s of black walnut logs covered with yellow poplar siding.  The well was 50 feet deep thru limestone, good cold water.    He had every kind of fruit and berries that would grow in this climate.    At the time it was said to be the most beautiful place in this part of the state, especially when all the trees were in bloom.    The portion of the road shown at the time was the main route between Salem and Seymour.

 

Now, this last sentence about the road to Seymour from Salem, doesn't make a lot of sense as it would be quite a trip West and back East again coming from Salem to Seymour if the main road went past George's property, plus the fact that I have maps of 1860 & 78 that don't show that degree of main thoroughfare past the Gibbs property.     Neverthelss this was an amazing find for me -  apparently I'd passed it up before, because I'd been to the museum twice before.   On the same trip I visited an area I believe to be where this land was but it will require considerable more research to determine for sure.   I hope to do some searches with a metal detector to see if anything of historical value can be found there.

 

More About GEORGE * GIBBS:

Burial: Pollock (Ratt) Cem,. Washington Co, IN (w. 1st wife)

Event 1: October 5, 1862, leg shot off with a cannonball @ The Battle of Hatchie River

       

Children of MARY CHAMBERS and GEORGE GIBBS are:

13.              i.    AL"FRED" * PAGE (2)3 GIBBS, b. December 4, 1848, Cincinnati, Ohio (or one source says Knox Co, OH); d. December 28, 1913, Shattuck (Ellis County), OK.; see Notes & Scrapbook.

14.             ii.    WILLIAM GEORGE GIBBS, b. April 4, 1851, Ohio; lived @ Newman, IL- Douglas Co. 1910-21; d. March 6, 1928, Indianapolis, Indiana- Robert Long Hosp.-Lip Carcinoma.

                 iii.    CLARENCE GIBBS, b. November 14, 1853; d. October 22, 1855, Buried at Pollock Cem, Washington Co, IN-less than 2yr..

                 iv.    JOHN FRANCIS GIBBS, b. 1857, Indiana - may have been born 1856; d. 1888, KY? - did he go by Frank ?.

 

Notes for JOHN FRANCIS GIBBS:

I've found 3 newsclippings - see brother Alfred's notes - that suggest Fred's brother, Frank was in Kentucky with a wife in the 1880s and died in late July or very early August 1888.  - "Aug. 3, 1888:  Word received this day that Frank Gibbs a former resident of this place (Oak Grove) was killed Saturday in Kentucky by a falling tree."   We know that George's son, John F. was on the 1880 census  in Washington Co, with George, age 23 then.   Don't know if married in KY or IN ?  Will be very difficult to figure out where John F. was in KY or if Frank is in fact John Francis, as I suspect - since he wasn't yet in KY in 1880 and died in 1888.   Won't be on any KY census and if spent less than 8 yrs. there, probably didn't leave much of any history behind.   Would like to find descendants of him.

 

a John R. Gibbs mg 9-11-1875 in Jackson Co, IN- I doubt there is a connection to our line ?

 

More About JOHN FRANCIS GIBBS:

Burial: he was 23 y.o. still living with parents in 1880

 

15.             v.    MARY "MAGGIE" BELLE GIBBS, b. 1858, Indiana; also went by "Belle" - census show Mary B.; d. December 1905, lived in Colorado Springs- was there by 1889.

                 vi.    LUCY GIBBS, b. March 28, 1861, never married; d. January 13, 1889, Colorado Springs, CO (While visiting sister Mary Reid).

 

Notes for LUCY GIBBS:

There is a Lucy Gibbs listed in the 1880 census living in the city of Seymour, IN; it states she is 27 y.o. & widowed, living with 2 children:

Eliza (or Elva), 12 y.o. & Frederick, 9 y.o. This age and name fits but nothing else could be traced.  It does however add confusion as to her and/or our heritage in that it states her Father was from Michigan & her mother from Indiana.  According to our records, her Father should be shown from England? & Her Mother from Ireland?  Probably a different Lucy GIBBS ?

There is an obituary for our Lucy Gibbs in the Salem Republican Leader - Jan. 25, 1889:

"Miss Lucy Gibbs, Daughter of George Gibbs, of Seymour and a sister of A. P. Gibbs of this County, died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Jan 13th.  Miss Gibbs had gone to Colorado to visit her sister, Mrs. H.I. Reid and had been there about four months. 

 

 

More About LUCY GIBBS:

Burial: Evergreen Cem. - Colorado Springs, CO - lot # T011

Event 1: 1880, there is a Lucy Gibbs (widowed) in census

Event 2: Jackson Co., city of Seymour 27 y.o.

 

                vii.    NANCY GIBBS, b. 1863, She is with the family on the 1870 census - Page 77B.

16.          viii.    OLIVER GRANT GIBBS, b. May 4, 1865, Washington Co., IN; moved from IN in 1902; d. December 20, 1953, Shattuck, Oklahoma (Shattuck Hospital) at 89 yrs..

                  ix.    JAMES E. GIBBS, b. December 1, 1866.

                   x.    CHARLES C. GIBBS, b. December 29, 1868, Washington Co. Indiana; Possibly b:12-9-68; d. July 20, 1953, Lathrop, Missouri; left IN in 1900; see notes; m. AUGUSTA LOUISE HERGEMUELLER, Aft. July 1910, no children; b. August 30, 1884; d. May 7, 1967, She is the sister of Malvina, Arthur A. Gibbs 2nd wife.

 

Notes for CHARLES C. GIBBS:

According to an obituary he spent most of his life on a farm, lived for many years near his nephew Arthur Anthony Gibbs.  He left Indiana in 1900 for Oklahoma; after a short time there he farmed at Hickman Mills, MO and near Elmira, MO.  Later he moved to Lathrop, MO and spent his last 22 years there.  Memorial services were held July 23, 1953 at Crunk Funeral Home with Rev. Harry Ezell conducting.  Cremation at Kansas City followed the service.  I suspect he is what encouraged Arthur Anthony to settle near him in Missouri.

 

August 2002 - I've found some interesting newsclippings from the Salem/ Washington County Newspaper showing Charles Gibbs lived in Sullivan County, IN in the 1890s.... and also another man Edward Gibbs was in Sullivan IN - could he be James Edward ? - they are both said to be brothers of A.P. Gibbs of Washington County.   Also have discovered he was in Harper County, Oklahoma, Adams Twp, on the 1910 census - still not married yet at age 41.

 

More About CHARLES C. GIBBS:

Burial: He had  NO  children

Event 1: Obituary states he lived on the old Watt

Event 2: farm for 22 years, southwest of Lathrop,MO

 

 

4.  ELIZA2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born July 25, 1830 in Ireland, and died August 7, 1893 in Knox Co, OH.  She married (1) GEORGE IRVINE April 1851.  He was born Abt. 1828 in He was Eliza's 1st husband, and died in name seen variously also as Irwin, Irvin, Erwin.  She married (2) HENRY B. HIXENBAUGH Aft. 1880.  He was born 1820 in Pennsylvania - 1870 census spelled Hicksenbaugh.

 

Notes for ELIZA CHAMBERS:

This below from Gary Hines:

Other than the marriage certificate (with no return date), I haven't found any

records with Eliza Chambers and George Irvine.  George was deeded the Irvine

land in Liberty Twp. by all the other heirs, but there doesn't seem to be a

record of him (or any other Irvine) deeding the land to anyone else.  But maybe

he somehow became separated from Eliza (death? divorce?) and Eliza deeded the

land under a different surname -- Hixenbaugh?  I'll have to check that out some

day!  George IRVINE and Eliza apparently had a daughter around 1859.  She appears as

"Charlotte Irwin" in Isabella Chambers's household in the 1870 census, age 11,

born in Ohio, parents of foreign birth.  She appears as "Lottie O. Irvine,"

niece, in Robert H. Chambers's household in the 1880 census, age 21, born in

Ohio, parents born in Ireland, single, a School Teacher.

 

More About ELIZA CHAMBERS:

Burial: Pike Cem, Pike Twp, Knox Co, OH-near Isabella

 

Notes for HENRY B. HIXENBAUGH:

Below two paragraphs are from Gary Hines:

 

    In 1860 he is "Henry Hixenbaugh"

and 1870 "Henry B. Hicksenbaugh," both times a head of household in

Liberty Township, Knox County (interestingly, in 1860 he is on the same

page as James Chambers, son of Isabella).  In 1880 he is "Henry

Hixenbaugh," head of household in Sparta, South Bloomfield Township,

Morrow County, which borders Liberty Township on the west.

 

    In all three cases, his wife is listed as "Mary," born about 1820 in

Ohio (and the 1880 census says her parents were born in Virginia).  Then

I found in the IGI that "Henry B. Hixenbaugh" married "Mary Baxter" 30

Nov 1841 in Carroll County, Ohio.

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Carroll County, OH is 3 counties East of Knox Co.

       

Child of ELIZA CHAMBERS and GEORGE IRVINE is:

                   i.    CHARLOTTE O.3 IRVINE, b. 1859, Ohio - went by "Lottie"; was a school teacher.

 

 

5.  ANN JANE2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born April 14, 1833 in Ireland - on 1870 census w. Geo. and Eliza, and died September 1, 1918 in Pike Twp, Knox Co, OH; see Death Cert.-under Isabelle.  She married GEORGE C. LOREE December 22, 1864 in Knox Co, OH, son of JOHN LOREE and SARAH RUSH.  He was born 1840 in OH- apparently really was at least 5 yrs. < than Ann, and died in sometimes seen as LOREY- lived at Mt. Vernon, OH.

 

Notes for ANN JANE CHAMBERS:

I've placed a photo of Ann's death certificate in her Mother's scrapbook (Isabella) - it was the first and only clue we'd had that showed William Chambers' full name and Isabella Batey's full name... prior to Gary Hines finding this information in July 2001, we had no idea of the name William nor Batey.

 

See Ann J. living in 1910 with two Grandchildren & Harley Leonard & Marie Leonard.   Ann was the latest living of Isabelle & William's children, dying 1918.

 

More About ANN JANE CHAMBERS:

Burial: Pike Cem., Pike Twp, Knox Co, OH

       

Child of ANN CHAMBERS and GEORGE LOREE is:

17.              i.    ELIZA D.3 LOREE, b. July 12, 1866, OH.

 

 

6.  JAMES B.2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born April 1835 in Ireland - Could the "B" initial be for BATEY ?, and died 1908 in Miami Co, Indiana - Allen Twp, near town of Macy.  He married (1) MARY E. CRIDER April 5, 1860 in Knox Co, OH - Bk.H, Pg. 278.  She was born Abt. 1836 in She is James' first wife - children ?, and died April 28, 1867.  He married (2) SARAH ELLEN LOREE October 13, 1872 in Knox Co, OH- Mg. Bk 2, Pg. 378-James' 2nd wife, daughter of JOHN LOREE and SARAH RUSH.  She was born August 1840 in Apparently went by Ellen, prob. bec. Mother was Sarah, and died 1924 in she is on the Knox Co 1880 census w. he and 5 y.o. child.

 

Notes for JAMES B. CHAMBERS:

JULY 2001 - From Gary Hines:

 

You are right that James B. Chambers is the last one we need a death date /

certificate / obituary / cemetery inscription for.

 

As you found in the cemetery inscriptions, Mary E. Crider, wife of James B.

Chambers, died 28 April 28 1867.  After this James B. seems to have

remained single for awhile.  He may be the "James Chambers," age 36, born in

Ireland, a farm laborer in George W. Yager's household in the 1870 census

 (M593, roll 1229, Knox Co., OH, Clinton Township, Mount Vernon post office,

 page 246, dwelling 124, family 115).

 

Recently I found another marriage for James B. Chambers.  According to Knox

County Marriage Book 2, page 378, he was married to Ellen Loree 13 Oct 1872

by H. B. Knight, minister.  Then in the 1880 census, Knox Co., OH, Pike Twp.,

page 135, is James B. Chambers, w, m, age 45, Farm laborer, born

in Ireland, parents born in Ireland.  With him are Sarah E. Chambers, w, f, 39,

wife, Keeping house, born in Ohio, father born in Pa., mother in N.Y.; and

Myrtie B. Chambers, w, f, 5, daughter, born in Ind., father born in Ireland,

mother in Ohio.

 

Who was this "Ellen" or "Sarah E." Loree?

 

Norman N. Hill, History of Knox County, Ohio (Mt. Vernon, Ohio: A.

A.Graham,

1881), page 722, contains this biography:

 

"LOREE, JOHN, retired, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born

in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, and was married in 1821 to Sarah

Rush who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1803.  They had seven

children, viz.: Clarissa R., born in 1823; John W., in 1826; Hannah, in 1828; Job in

1836;  Sarah E., and George C. (twins), in 1840; and William L., in 1844.

 

"Mr. Loree came from Pennsylvania when about fifteen years old and located

in Knox county.  After marriage he located on the farm where they now reside,

which at that time was all in timber.  He cleared up and improved most of this

farm.  Mrs. Loree has been a member of the Baptist church for twenty-eight years."

 

The names and ages in this biography are mostly confirmed by the 1850 census,

M432, roll 700, Knox Co., OH, Morris Twp., page 32A, dwelling 448, family 454:

 

John Loree , 53, m, Farmer, $2800 (?) real property, born in O.

Sarah     ", 46, f, O.

John W.   ", 24, m, "

Hannah K. ", 22, f, "

Job       ", 14, m, "

Sarah E.  ",  9, f, "

George S. ",  9, m, "

William L.",  5, m, "

 

Also, the will of Sarah Loree of Morris Township, Knox County, dated 19 Feb

1886 and recorded in volume H, pages 450-451, and other probate records, name

children Clarissa Hauk of Minnesota; Hannah Merrin of Clarence, Mo.; Job

Loree of Minnesota; Ellen Chambers of Indiana; George Loree of Mt. Vernon; Logan

Loree (= William L.?) of Mt. Vernon; and grandchildren (children of John W. Loree?).

 

So it appears that the Loree twins, George C. & Sarah Ellen, married

Chambers siblings, Ann Jane & James B.!  And maybe we should be searching Indiana

for a death record for James B.  He was married in Knox Co., OH, in 1872, and

appears in the 1880 census in Knox Co., but his daughter is listed as being born in

Indiana, and his mother in law's probate papers place "Ellen Chambers" in Indiana.

 

Could the "B." in James B. Chambers stand for "Batey"? -- Just speculating :-)

 

Dec. 2002 - have just found Sarah E. Chambers age 69, living with 35 y.o. daughter, Mertie in Miami County, Indiana on the 1910 census.   I've written Gary Hines who has since found James as a land owner in that county since 1877 (even though he was still living in Knox Co, OH in 1880), and that he died in Miami Co, IN in 1908.   We're now searching for an obituary, etc.   Also, will hope to find more on Mertie since she was living then as a single lady with her maiden name, presumed never married as of 1910.   

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FIVE CORNERS CEMETERY

 

Located on the south side of 1250N. between 400W and 500W in Allen Township, Miami County, Indiana.

The rows run north and south, are numbered from west to east, and the markers are read from north to sout

CHAMBERS - Section 2, Row 4

(1) James B., father, 1835-1908

(2) Ellen L., mother, 1840-1924

(3) Myrtle D., dau, 1879-1969

 

The birthdate on Myrtle above surely is not right as she is shown 5 y.o. in 1870 & 35 in 1910.

 

1900:

James B. Chambers household, 1900 U.S. census, Miami County, Indiana, population

schedule, Allen Township, Supervisor District 11, Enumeration District 93, sheet

10A (page 10), dwelling 219, family 226; National Archives micropublication T623,

roll 393.   The 1900 census gives the month and year of birth.  It's interesting that the

birthplace for James B.'s father is Un[known] and that no immigration or

citizenship information is given for James, even though he is clearly listed as

born in Ireland.

 

More About JAMES B. CHAMBERS:

Burial: Five Corners Cem, Allen Twp., Miami Co, IN

 

More About SARAH ELLEN LOREE:

Burial: Five Corners cem. - with husband & daughter

       

Child of JAMES CHAMBERS and SARAH LOREE is:

                   i.    MYRTLE D.3 CHAMBERS, b. July 1875, Indiana- spelled Mirtie on 1910 cen. age 35 single; d. 1969.

 

Notes for MYRTLE D. CHAMBERS:

Mirtie is living with her widowed Mother, Sarah E. on the Miami County Indiana census of 1910, Allen Twp, Roll 370, Page 161.   Her middle initial looks like "D" on this 1910 census - she is shown never having any children, her mother having only one child.    From the cemetery listing it would appear that Myrtle was her real name and that she never married.

 

More About MYRTLE D. CHAMBERS:

Burial: Five Corners Cem, Allen Twp, Miami Co, IN

 

 

7.  ROBERT HENRY2 CHAMBERS (WILLIAM *1) was born July 5, 1839 in Ireland; living with his Mother on 1880 census- Knox Co., and died June 5, 1913 in Knox Co, OH; date of birth given by 2nd wife on DeathCt..  He married MARY PHILLIPS Abt. 1866, daughter of JAMES PHILLIPS and MARY COCHRAN.  She was born September 3, 1841 in Ohio, and died October 10, 1869 in Ohio.

 

More About ROBERT HENRY CHAMBERS:

Burial: Pike Cem.-Pike Twp, Knox Co,OH-near Isabella's grave

 

More About MARY PHILLIPS:

Burial: Pike Cemetery -Pike Twp, - buried with Robert

       

Child of ROBERT CHAMBERS and MARY PHILLIPS is:

                   i.    EDWARD3 CHAMBERS, b. 1868, living with Mary's parents on 1870 census (his Mat.GPs).

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

8.  EDWARD E.3 CHAMBERS (JOHN W.2, WILLIAM *1) was born September 18, 1849 in Knox Co, OH, and died August 21, 1928 in Van Wert, Van Wert Co, OH.  He married ADA EMMA ROBERTS September 26, 1874 in M.E. Parsonage, Van Wert Co, OH, daughter of JOHN ROBERTS and MARY MITCHELL.  She was born November 2, 1855 in this info from Ed Turcotte's wife, and died August 22, 1924 in Van Wert, Van Wert Co, OH.

       

Children of EDWARD CHAMBERS and ADA ROBERTS are:

                   i.    WALTER CURTIS4 CHAMBERS, b. December 27, 1876, OH; d. March 29, 1957.

                  ii.    DAISY E. CHAMBERS, b. March 1877, OH; d. 1943, Churubusco, Whitley Co, IN; m. FRANK EDWARD HUFFINE; b. Abt. 1876.

                 iii.    OLIVE BELL CHAMBERS, b. January 1879, OH; d. WA.

                 iv.    LOUIS G. CHAMBERS, b. October 1881, OH.

                  v.    JOHN RUSSELL CHAMBERS, b. October 27, 1884, OH.

                 vi.    HAL E. CHAMBERS, b. November 1887, OH.

                vii.    WILLIAM C. CHAMBERS, b. October 1891, OH.

 

 

9.  MARY A.3 CHAMBERS (JOHN W.2, WILLIAM *1) was born December 7, 1853, and died Abt. 1910.  She married ELIJAH WESS HARTSOCK December 4, 1870 in Van Wert Co, OH.  He was born August 7, 1847 in Licking Co, OH, and died Abt. 1914.

       

Children of MARY CHAMBERS and ELIJAH HARTSOCK are:

                   i.    EDWARD4 HARTSOCK, b. Abt. 1872.

                  ii.    ELLA HARTSOCK, b. January 15, 1873; d. Abt. 1962, Alma, Gratiot Co, Michigan.

 

 

10.  ELIZA M.3 CHAMBERS (JOHN W.2, WILLIAM *1) was born March 22, 1857 in Knox Co, OH, and died May 23, 1929 in Lima Allen Co, OH.  She married EDGAR BUCHANAN LYBARGER December 25, 1878 in Van Wert Co, OH.  He was born October 1, 1856 in Van Wert Co, OH, and died February 7, 1923 in Marion Twp, Allen Co, OH.

       

Children of ELIZA CHAMBERS and EDGAR LYBARGER are:

                   i.    EDNA MAY4 LYBARGER, b. November 1, 1889.

                  ii.    CLARA LYBARGER, b. May 2, 1891.

                 iii.    RUSSELL S. LYBARGER, b. July 21, 1893.

                 iv.    IDA LYBARGER, b. May 27, 1895.

 

 

11.  ROBERT HENRY3 CHAMBERS (JOHN W.2, WILLIAM *1) was born April 19, 1864 in York Twp, Van Wert Co, Ohio, and died November 21, 1911 in Fort Wayne, IN.  He married ABIGAIL "ABBIE" MAE LYBARGER.  She was born September 3, 1866 in Ridge View Twp, Van Wert Co, Ohio.

       

Children of ROBERT CHAMBERS and ABIGAIL LYBARGER are:

                   i.    LULU HELEN4 CHAMBERS, b. December 27, 1888, Van Wert Co, OH; d. January 12, 1981, Cincinnati, OH.

                  ii.    DOYT CHARLES CHAMBERS, b. April 8, 1890, Van Wert Co, OH; d. June 9, 1914, Colorado Springs, CO.

                 iii.    FREDERICK RUSSELL CHAMBERS, b. October 9, 1891, Van Wert Co, OH; d. April 29, 1955, Lima, Allen Co, OH.

                 iv.    WINNIE A. CHAMBERS, b. October 22, 1893, Van Wert Co, OH; d. October 5, 1969, Van Wert, OH.

                  v.    EARL LEONARD CHAMBERS, b. August 31, 1896, Van Wert Co, OH; d. April 19, 1919, Van Wert Co, OH.

                 vi.    LLOYD OSCAR CHAMBERS, b. December 20, 1898, Van Wert Co, OH; d. January 25, 1985, Fort Wayne, Allen Co, IN.

                vii.    RAYMOND LEO CHAMBERS, b. March 21, 1901, Van Wert Co, OH; d. September 13, 1962, Berea, Cuyahoga Co, OH.

               viii.    MARTHA BERNICE CHAMBERS, b. August 25, 1903, She is Gary Hines' Grandmother; d. November 26, 1996, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

                  ix.    CARL O. CHAMBERS, b. September 21, 1906, Van Wert Co, OH; d. July 25, 1943, Van Wert Co, OH.

 

 

12.  IDA E.3 CHAMBERS (JOHN W.2, WILLIAM *1) was born December 8, 1868 in Van Wert Co, OH -lived in Convoy, OH, and died December 19, 1949 in Bur. @ Tomlinson Cem., Mercer Co, OH.  She married (1) WILLIAM G. PRICHARD June 11, 1887 in Van Wert Co, OH.  He was born April 15, 1864 in OH, and died 1898.  She married (2) W. P. CLAY, DR. 1911.  He was born 1864 in He is Ida's 2nd husband, and died 1934.

       

Children of IDA CHAMBERS and WILLIAM PRICHARD are:

                   i.    KATHRYN4 PRICHARD, b. May 1887.

                  ii.    CHARLES W. PRICHARD, b. December 1890.

                 iii.    CLYDE W. PRICHARD, b. March 1894.

 

 

13.  AL"FRED" * PAGE (2)3 GIBBS (MARY * MATILDA2 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM *1) was born December 4, 1848 in Cincinnati, Ohio (or one source says Knox Co, OH), and died December 28, 1913 in Shattuck (Ellis County), OK.; see Notes & Scrapbook.  He married (1) EMILY HARRIETT * PERSINGER January 24, 1870 in Washington Co, Indiana - Buffalo, IN - H 224, daughter of ALFRED PERSINGER and MARY ABBOTT.  She was born July 30, 1849 in Washington Co., IN -  "Emma", and died November 23, 1885 in Washington Co, IN.  He married (2) ELIZABETH CORA JOHNSON March 1, 1888 in each of their 2nd marriages-J 522-at her Father's home, daughter of JOHN JOHNSON and SUSAN EMPSON.  She was born July 17, 1857 in Indiana, as were her parents; died age 58; may be 1856, and died February 24, 1915 in Sullivan County, IN; see "More" -confusing hx.

 

Notes for AL"FRED" * PAGE (2) GIBBS:

Alfred Page GIBBS is listed in the 1880 census, living in Washington Co. IN with wife Emma H. & children Clarence W., Arthur A., & Annie M. (1 y.o.).  The 1900 census shows the family in Sullivan, IN and wife then Cora E.=B: July 1857 which corellates exactly as to what we know about Louis Wm. PERSINGER's wife except that on the 1880 census, his wife was listed as Elizabeth C.!  I assume this is the same person but it is difficult to be sure.  In 1900 the children living with them were his sons James & Alva, his stepsons Clarence & Asa Persinger (of Cora E.+L.W. Persinger), & daughter Grace (my Grandmother).  Asa (spelling?) is listed as a dentist @ age 20! & should have been born of Elizabeth C. PERSINGER. Alva must have been the only surviving child born of these two parents (2 girls died in infancy) since he is listed as born in 1893.  James & Grace's Mother was the late Emma H. PERSINGER.  As yet I have not discovered where Alfred, & Cora E.  are buried, but Malcolm insists that his mother took him to the Center Ridge Cemetary in Sullivan because that is where she claimed the step-Father &/or Mother was buried; however he vaguely recalls they could not find the grave.  Alfred is also listed in the 1860 census in Washington Co. IN & says was born in Ohio which is consistent with other records; however that census says he was born in 1849 not 1848.  Since George allegedly was in Cincinnati I suspect this is Alfred's birthplace.  Beatrice (GIBBS) SUTTER says she thinks Alfred had TB and went to live his final days in Oklahoma with Oliver Gibbs & family and is likely buried there, probably near the town of Knowles or Shattuck.  Also he may have been in town of Elmwood, near Knowles or I have discovered an Obituary that says he died in Shattuck, OK which is in the next County to the East.  I doubt that Alfred was buried in Indiana but it is likely that both of his wives are. 

  Oct. 1992 - I have now located Emma's grave @ Walnut Ridge Cem. (Jefferson Twp. Washington Co.) (next to the grave of her brother Louis William Persinger); Interestingly the tall monument clearly has her name with the B&D dates but also has Alfred's name with no dates.  At the top of the monument is carved "OUR PARENTS".  I am certain that Alfred is not buried there.  I have found an obituary from the Salem Republican Leader Jan 9, 1914 which erroneously states he died when he was visiting his SON? O.G. Gibbs in Shattuck, OK. (Oliver G. was his brother not son) It also gives the birth year as 1844!  It also says his surviving 2nd wife is the daugh. of the late John Johnson of Jefferson Twp. who it says survived him. Funeral services were conducted in Shattuck, OK by Rev. W.F. Ribelin "an old friend of the deceased".  This is the 1st evidence suggesting the maiden name (JOHNSON) and heritage of his 2nd wife (presumably Louis Wm. Persinger's only wife)....but it would have to be questioned, if for no other reason then the fact that there were so many KNOWN errors in the obituary report (I wonder who supplied that information to the paper?)  I hope to visit Shattuck and the adjacent Beaver Co., OK soon.  Unfortunately there were at least 2 different John Johnson's in Washington Co. in that era and I'm having difficulty determining more details about Elizabeth Cora Gibbs-Persinger. (see PgDn on her name).

    July 1994 - Just visited Shattuck, Oklahoma & talked with Phillis Ballew, Grandaughter of Oliver Grant Gibbs.  She showed me the area of Oliver's home they have renovated where Alfred died.  Also she has many letters written about the time Alfred died...From George Gibbs' daughter Nellie and from Arthur Anthony Gibbs.  This letter suggests that Cora Elizabeth & Alfred P. were living in the Lathrop, MO area near or with Arthur Anthony Gibbs and then had been living in Topeka, Kansas in 1913 before Alfred spent some time in Oklahoma visiting between son James Gibbs in nearby Beaver County and with Alfred's brother Oliver.  It now is certain (according to the City Clerk who shows Alfred buried in the Odd Fellows/Shattuck Cemetary next to Oliver & family who all died much later....but there is no stone or any kind of marker at the gravesite, which probably relates to the fact that none of them had any money in that era, although I suspect later Oliver did gain a much better income (he died 40 years after his older brother Alfred).  So it appears that Cora & Alfred were both buried without a gravestone headmarker, but in different states.  I have later discovered that I now have 2 photos of Alfred, the 2nd one is with a wife a child of approximately one year of age.  I don't know which wife that is, but she looks very much like the photos of the first one which is Emma Harriet Persinger (my ancestor).  I might be able to determine this by researching the date the listed photographer was in business in Salem, IN.   I was not allowed to photocopy Alfred's Obit in Shattuck OK.  The pages were so faint they were barely legible and the staff at the historical center were fearful about anyone damaging it further.  So, I wrote it out in my own handwriting.:   From the Stattuck Monitor, Jan. 1, 1914.  - Alfred Gibbs, A brother of O.G. Gibbs, west of town who had been ill but a couple of weeks died at the home of his brother Sunday morning.  Remains were interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Frank Ribelin.

 

 

1900 -Sullivan Co, IN census page on the scrapbook.   He was in the city of Sullivan, Sullivan Co, IN - Enumeration District 130, Sheet 10, Line 24. -

              it reads:

        Gibbs,  Alfred P.   head -      Dec. 1849, 50, born Ohio,  Father born England, Mother in Ireland

                    Cora E.     wife   -      July 1856, 43,    Indiana           Indiana                 Indiana 

                    James      Son   -      Oct. 1881, 18     Indiana            Ohio                     Indiana

   Persinger, Clarence, St-Son      Mar. 1882 18    Indiana            Indiana                 Indiana

                     Asa          St.-Son     Feb. 1880  20    Indiana           Indiana                 Indiana

        Gibbs,  Grace     daughter    Aug. 1884  15    Indiana           Ohio                      Indiana

                     Alva          son         Mar. 1893    7    Indiana           Ohio                      Indiana

    

1910 -Still in the city of Sullivan, IN -sheet 18A/173, Enumeration District 172, City Ward 1, age 61, Laborer, with wife, Elizabeth C. age 53 & Alvy G. age 17 - he was the only child living with them then.

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August 2002:   Newspaper clippings from Salem, Indiana newspaper finally have given the answer as to when Alfred P. "Fred" Gibbs moved from Washington Co, to Sullivan County, IN >> in early April 1897.   Below is a list of several newspaper briefs mentioning Alfred from the Salem Republic-Leader Newspaper:

 

Jan. 6, 1888:  Frank Gibbs & wife of Kentucky are spending the week with A.P. Gibbs of this place (ed.-Oak Grove- is Frank his                          brother John Francis ?- mag)

Jan. 20, 1888:  A.P. Gibbs came near having a serious runaway this week.   While holding his little girl in his arms his horse                            became frightened and  started to run, dragging Mr. Gibbs quite a distance.  (ed.- Grace would have been 3 1/2                            then and Anna 9 1/2 yrs. old - probably Grace? - ag)

Mar. 9, 1888:   Married March 1 at the residence of John Johnson, Sr.  were A.P. Gibbs and Mrs. Lizzie Persinger.   A.P. Gibbs will shortly move to his Father's farm.    Lucy Gibbs                                 of Seymour came down Thursday to attend the wedding of her brother accompanied by Miss Anna Myers.

Mar. 30, 1888:   A.P. Gibbs has moved to his Father's farm.

June 8, 1888:     A.P. Gibbs bought his Father's farm and sold 50 Acres to John Johnson.  (ed. - John Johnson was is new wife's Father - mag).

Aug. 31, 1888:   A.P. Gibbs' team ran away Tuesday breaking his wagon and slightly crippling one horse.

May 31, 1889:   A. P.  Gibbs'  family have measles.

Aug. 30, 1889:   A.P. Gibbs will take a trip to Kentucky shortly.

May 9,  1890:    A.P. Gibbs had two horses supposed to be poisoned.   One of them died and the other is thought will die.

June 13, 1890:   A.P. Gibbs was circulating a petition last week to let stock run at large.

Dec. 12, 1890:   Edward Gibbs of Sullivan County is visiting his brother A.P. Gibbs for a few days  (could this be James E. Gibbs ?).

Mar. 10, 1893:   Born March 1st to A.P. Gibbs and wife, a son.

July 14, 1893:   A  Mr. Chambers of Kentucky is visiting A. P. Gibbs.

Aug. 25, 1893:   A.P. Gibbs is shipping Peaches to Seymour.

 

Nov. 10, 1893:   A.P. Gibbs and wife returned Saturday from a ten days visit at the World's Fair, and in Northwestern Illinois where they were visiting Mrs. Gibbs' brother, M.L.                              Johnson.

Feb. 2, 1894:     A. P. Gibbs and Company are putting up ice this week.

Aug. 24, 1894:   Arthur and Anna Gibbs visited their uncle O.G. Gibbs at Freetown last week.

Aug. 31, 1894:   A. P. Gibbs, A.J. Lee & George Booker received the contract for building the gravel road north of Sparksville.

Sept. 14, 1894:  A.P. Gibbs has gone to Jackson County with a force of hands to build gravel roads.

Sept. 27, 1895:  A.P. Gibbs went to Ohio last Friday to see his brother Charley who is dangerously ill

May 15, 1896:   A. P. Gibbs has two teams hauling on the Millport Gravel Road.

Sept. 11, 1896:  A.P. Gibbs returned last Saturday from a visit to Daviess & Sullivan County.

Sept. 11, 1896:  Charles Gibbs of Sullivan County, Indiana is visiting his brother, A.P. Gibbs.   It is reported that A.P. Gibbs will                              move to Sullivan Indiana next spring.

April 16, 1897:   A.P. Gibbs moved to Sullivan County, Indiana last week.

 

 

 

 

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More About AL"FRED" * PAGE (2) GIBBS:

Burial: Odd Fellows Cem., Shattuck, OK - unmarked grave

Event 1: Obituary says died in town of Shattuck, OK

Event 2: which is in Ellis Co.

 

Notes for EMILY HARRIETT * PERSINGER:

After She died in 1885 (At age 36!, I have always presumed this was likely from childbirth of another child that died but I can find no evidence of this - her daughter Grace Gertrude Gibbs was only 18 months old when her Mother died) then Alfred P. Gibbs remarried 2.5 years later to one of Emma's Brother's widows (Elizabeth C.) Apparently Elizabeth & Emma's Brother, William L. PERSINGER  had children making Grace & her sibs not only cousins but later raised as 1/2 sibs with the other family.  Apparently Grace only knew her step mother who was also her Aunt as her only Mother due to her real Mother's early death @ age 36.  Mrs Lewis (Alice) Smiley & I believe that Olive Persinger Dennis of Mt Pleasant MI & Malcolm Persinger of Rockville IN are descendents of Elizabeth C. & one of Emma's brothers, William L.

     I am now writing with new evidence (see Alfred's notes also) It is certain now that Alfred's 2nd wife was Elizabeth C(ora). who was previously married to Emmas' brother Louis.  Louis died at age 30. I have still been unable to determine where Elizabeth died and buried but Alfred's obit. states he was survived by his wife and since he died in Oklahoma I think it is likely that she did also, but after 1913.    The records in Sullivan Co, show Cora Elizabeth GIBBS died in Sullivan and is buried at Center Ridge Cem, but the gravestone is not present in the cemetery, so I assume she had a pauper's burial as did her 2nd husband, Alfred P. GIBBS.    Neither have gravestones.

 

 

More About EMILY HARRIETT * PERSINGER:

Burial: Walnut Ridge Cem., Jefferson Twp, Washington Co, IN

 

Notes for ELIZABETH CORA JOHNSON:

Many confusing things about this lady - the facts are sketchy- most of it culled from death records and census', since those who I believe are her grandchildren, seem to have no knowledge of her or their GrandFather Louis Persinger.  (Malcolm Persinger in Mecca, IN & Olive Dennis in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and Chester in Terre Haute, IN). The Death record index book in the Sullivan County Library shows her Birth & death date as shown here & apparently died in Sullivan Co.  However the index of Deaths there refers me to the County Public Health building which I visited in May, 1994.  This book is not copyable, the info was read to me by a clerk there from Book CH-16, page 6.  It says she was the daughter of John Johnson (born in Indiana as was Elizabeth Cora.) & that she died of T.B. (which we think is what killed her 2nd husband, (my Dad's GrandFather) Alfred Gibbs 2 years earlier.  It is not clear, but is likely that Her father - John Johnson is also the 2nd husband of Alfred Persinger's wife (Mary Ann Abbott Persinger-Johnson).  He was from the Washington County area also.   Alfred Gibbs' obituary from Shattuck, Oklahoma does imply that his wife was living at the time of his death, so I presume she was out in Oklahoma with him in 1913?  Now the biggest dilemma regarding Cora is that the death record in Book CH-16 says she was buried in Center Ridge Cemetary in Sullivan (as are most of my Griffith ancestors), but most of the cemetary records were destroyed by fire, and I have traipsed all over that cemetary and could not find evidence she is there, also none of the 5 volume cemetary books in the Sullivan county library show her being buried in Sullivan County!....So was she simply buried as a pauper with no stone? or was the death record book written wrong? ... perhaps at the last minute her son Clarence had her buried elsewhere ... (he and wife Farie were later buried at Palestine, IL...I will sometime try to research that possibility)  Malcolm Persinger seemed to vaguely recall visiting a Grandmother's grave in Sullivan.  We do Know that an Elizabeth C. Persinger was listed in the 1880 Washington County Census living with L.W. Persinger in Ewing (tiny town West of Brownstown), Indiana with children Heubert (age 1), and Asa C. (Carl - age 3 months - the dentist) and L.W.'s brother Amos W. (other son Louis Clarence was born 2 years later).  According to these records its sad to note that Louis William Persinger died while Elizabeth Cora was pregnant with his son Louis Clarence.  (L.W. died October 1881, and Clarence was born in March 1882)- That explains why Clarence's children whom I have spoken to know nothing about their GrandFather Louis William Persinger. (although I would have thought that Clarence would have passed down some information about his Mother Elizabeth Cora, since he was living in the area and was 32 years old when his Mother died.????  It appears from the fact that the 2 daughters that Alfred Gibbs & Elizabeth had together died in infancy and were both buried in Washington County in 1892; then the couple must not have moved to Sullivan County until after 1892.  Note that they are listed as living together in Sullivan in the 1900 census. (See also PgDn notes on Alfred Page Gibbs' & Louis W. Persinger)  I recall Malcolm remembering his Father Chester telling him that Chester didn't like living with those Gibbs', which of course is common with step-children, so I would presume it likely that he didn't see his Mother much after he was old enough to leave the household & therefore may not have been close to his Mother in order to avoid his Step-Father Alfred Gibbs??  I have been sent a letter by the head genealogist at the Sullivan Library; she feels certain that Elizabeth Cora is buried @ Center Ridge Cemetary  without a Headstone, presumably for lack of family money to pay for one.

July 94, I took a trip to Shattuck, Oklhoma.  While there I do believe I established with certainty that Alfred P. Gibbs died there in his Brother Olivers home and was buried there (Also with no headstone) in the same lot next his are his wife Algie and their two children.  There was much to be learned from Mrs. Phillis Ballew (now living in Shattuck) who has kept letters written to her paternal Grandparents (Oliver G. Gibbs and Algie Tucker Gibbs) from many of the Gibbs klan.  Apparently Alfred (they called him Fred....also a new revelation discovered while in OK) did die in Olivers house - see Alfreds details for more.  Alfred's son Arthur Anthony Gibbs (from Lathrop, MO) wrote in telegrams within a week before Alfred died that He has sent telegrams to Cora to get her to come to Alfreds deathbed but that she stated she was also in ill health and therefore unable to come to Shattuck.  Apparently she and Alfred had then been living in Topeka, Kansas.  Cora was working for a Mrs. E.C. Winters at the Progressive oil Company in Topeka.  Arthur also states that he has tried to get hold of Alva and makes derogatory suspicions about Alva using up his parents money.  Another interesting commentary comes from a letter (1918 from Cincinnati, OH) written by Oliver's half sister Nellie Gibbs Burks to Oliver asking "Where was Cora after Fred's death, before she died?" "Was she with you or some of the children?"  Too bad I don't have the answer to that letter.  As of 2000, I had no information as to the whereabouts or names of any descendents of Nellie or her brother Ralph Gibbs, but they might be a good resource to search for (did locate them in 2001).  Phillis also had a photo of Alfed P. & Cora holding a child (may be Alva or one of the girls that died very young).    Elizabeth, age 3 can be found on the 1860 census of Washington Co, Indiana with parents John Johnson & Susan M. (ages 35 & 27 resp), and siblings Nancy Ann 7, Lloyd 5,  Lafayette 2, and living in the same household was hired farm laborer, Hiatt POLLOCK.   This family is living next door to Isaiah Persinger, age 27 & wife, Juliann 24 & children Cornelius 5, James Franklin 4, & Betsey 2 months.    Even though this Elizabeth is not my direct ancestor, she certainly enters in the family  history heavily having first married into the Persingers and then my own Gibbs line - AND was the only Mother my Grandmother Grace ever really knew, since Cora Elizabeth would have raised Grace from a small child - her Father married Cora Elizabeth when my GM Grace was only 3 1/2 yrs. old.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More About ELIZABETH CORA JOHNSON:

Burial: Center Ridge Cem. -Sullivan, IN -unmarked grave?

       

Children of AL"FRED" GIBBS and EMILY PERSINGER are:

                   i.    DAUGHTER 14 GIBBS, b. November 24, 1870.

                  ii.    CLARENCE WINFIELD GIBBS, b. May 30, 1872, Washington Co., IN near Medora; disappeared many yrs; d. May 24, 1951, Seattle, WA- see NOTES - never married.

 

Notes for CLARENCE WINFIELD GIBBS:

Newspaper clipping from San Diego paper shows a reunion with long lost Clarence & younger brother James in 1949.  Clarence said he left Medora IN @ age 20 in 1892.  They met @ James' home, 1525  28th St. San Diego.  He had been lost for 57 years during which the family had given up on him for dead.  Clarence stated he was a retired restauranteur and mining man living in Santa Barbara, CA.  It also said that his Brother James had lived in San Diego since 1937.  Clarence said he had mined in Texas, the Klondike, Mexico & Guatemala.  He never married.  I wonder if the word restauranteur is not really supposed to have been entrepreneur?    Clarence was living at the YWCA in Seattle when he became ill and died shortly later at a Naval Hospital in Bremerton, WA.  

 

 

                 iii.    DAUGHTER 2 GIBBS, b. January 6, 1874; d. January 10, 1874.

                 iv.    ARTHUR ANTHONY GIBBS, b. November 9, 1875, Washington Co, IN; d. December 15, 1960, Bethany, MO; used to farm in Lathrop; m. (1) ROSE MARIE GILLIAM, March 5, 1905; b. Abt. 1880; d. May 31, 1916, this is Arthur's 1st wife & family; m. (2) MALVINA "MOLLY" KATHERINE HERGEMUELLER, November 15, 1917, Kansas City, MO; this was his 2nd wife; b. September 3, 1878, She is the sister of Augusta, Chas. C. Gibbs'  wife; d. November 29, 1960, this is Arthur's 2nd wife & family.

 

Notes for ARTHUR ANTHONY GIBBS:

Newspaper article .... unknown date:

 

THEIR DIVORCE SET ASIDE

 

Couple, Reunited, Preferred That Course to Remarrying.

 

Arthur A.  Gibbs Manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Kansas City, Kas.  and his former wife Mrs. Rosa Gibbs, filed a motion in the Wyandotte County  District Court yesterday to have set aside the decree of divorce granted Mrs. Gibbs Aptil 11, 1911. They disagreed originally  in regard to religion, she being a Catholic and He being a Christian Scientist. They said yesterday that they had agreed to forgive each other, set aside all differences and live together again. The motion was granted. They said they preferred having the decree  set aside to being remarried. They have a daughter 9 years old and will live at  2308 Farrow Avenue Kansas City Kan. 

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Regarding the above newsclipping that Bob & Grace Sanders sent me in August 2002:

We found an interesting news clipping an Arthur and his first wife Rose Gilliam. Al had it in Prescott when we were there this summer. It was badly damaged and I could not get a good copy from the commercial outfit that we took it to.   I typed it off and made a file of it. I will attach a copy for you. Apparently Arthur and Rose were legally divorced in 1911 but some time later decided to get back together so instead of remarrying they went back to the court and had the divorce annulled. There was no date on the clipping but calculating from the dates we have and the mention of the 9 year old girl we thought it would be about 1917. However the information We have is that Rose died in 1916.    Also Arthur and Malvina, Al & Graces mother were married in Nov. 15, 1917.

 

More About ARTHUR ANTHONY GIBBS:

Burial: Masonic Cem., Des Moines, IA

 

More About MALVINA "MOLLY" KATHERINE HERGEMUELLER:

Burial: Masonic Cem., Des Moines, IA

 

                  v.    MARY LUELLA GIBBS, b. December 22, 1876, Not to be confused with Alfred's other child, Mary Lucy; d. July 9, 1877.

 

More About MARY LUELLA GIBBS:

Burial: Walnut Ridge Cem., Washington Co, IN

 

                 vi.    ANNA MATILDA GIBBS, b. August 10, 1878, Washington Co. IN; d. December 9, 1948, Merom, IN - (or Dec. 8?); m. DUDLEY MCCAMMON, February 4, 1903; b. December 20, 1878, Sullivan Co.IN; d. July 17, 1942, Merom, IN - lived 3 doors from AP Gibbs in 1900.

 

Notes for ANNA MATILDA GIBBS:

Anna was listed in the 1900 census as a live-in housekeeper for the family of John L. Thompson on Washington St. in Sullivan, IN.  At this same time her sister Grace, brother James & half-sibs Asa & Clarence Persinger were still living with Alfred P. Gibbs & Cora (?Elizabeth) in Sullivan.  So one would suspect that Anna recently moved out of the Gibbs home to earn a living. 

 

McCammon,  D. R.   -  Dudley    -  Anna  M.  Gibbs    Sep. 20, 1915   Book CH-27,  Pg. 259    Vigo Co.

McCammon,  D. R.   -  Dudley    -  Anna  M.  Gibbs    Sep. 20, 1916   Book CH-27,  Pg. 269    Vigo Co.

                                                              

 

                vii.    JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD GIBBS, b. October 16, 1881, Washington Co. IN; d. March 4, 1955, San Diego, CA lived @ 1525 28th St.; m. HARRIET ANGELINE SMITH; b. March 4, 1890, West Virginia; d. November 16, 1970, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Notes for JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD GIBBS:

Apparently moved to Beaver Co. Oklahoma in the early 1900s in the panhandle of that state, near the town of Knowles;  then moved he and his family to Baca County, Colorado near the town of Two Buttes in the Southeastern corner of Colorado, at about 1918.  This information comes from Beatrice (GIBBS) SUTER.  The family were apparently among the true "dust-bowlers" of Oklahoma & adjacent territories of that time.  My Father Harold Griffith, and Beatrice Suter confirms that my Grandfather Will Griffith invested in the cattle farm that his brother-in-law James Gibbs was running, but eventually lost all the money.  Beatrice recalls that my Grandmother Grace (GIBBS) GRIFFITH saved up comics from the Terre Haute newspaper and mailed them to this impoverished family living in the dust bowl, and that the children were very joyous to receive such a gift.  Apparently after Beatrice married to Harold Suter they moved to California and then by the 1940s convinced her parents James & Harriet to also move there.  My parents, Harold & Marion recall visiting James when they lived in a home across the street from Balboa Park & Zoo in San Diego, CA. during the early 1950s.    My Father, Harold Griffith, recalls his parents taking a trip to visit James around 1919/20.  Recalls getting off the train at Lamar, CO and taking a covered wagon to the farm near Two Buttes.   The Gibbs' farm home had dirt floors according to my father.  He recalls dust storms and thuderstorms.   During one storm Dad recalls when he was only about 7 years old that everyone went to the "dug-out" to avoid the storm.  He said inside that during the storm was all the people, all the chickens, turkeys, dogs, etc.   It is quite to James' credit that he picked up his family after their farm was devastated by the ravages of weather and other forms of bad luck to get to California.   Then not only recover but seemed to raise a family of high producers and high intellect after such a difficult start out in the dust-bowl areas.

 

 

More About JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD GIBBS:

Event 1: Buried @ Greenwood Mem. Park, San Diego CA

 

               viii.    GRACE * GERTRUDE GIBBS, b. August 2, 1884, Washington Co. IN, South of Medora; d. May 12, 1967, Home @ 1356 Chestnut St. Terre Haute, IN; m. WILLIAM * "WILL" GRIFFITH, June 7, 1905, Sullivan, IN; b. January 31, 1886, Sullivan, IN; no middle name - Birth Book H-1, Pg. 242; d. November 10, 1947, Home @ 1354 Chestnut St. Terre Haute, IN.

 

Notes for GRACE * GERTRUDE GIBBS:

2001 - Aren't many people around to offer memories of Grace now.   My father, Harold is the oldest and her only living child after my Uncle Dick died 1994.   Her genetic grandchildren are only Four:  My cousins, Bill Heiny, Carolyn (now Jessup), my brother Art & myself.   Dick had one adopted child, Bill - but he had almost no contact with Grace.   My Father, relates the only early information - he relates stories about how frugal she was.   How she never sought luxuries and often reprimanded her husband for spending too much money.    The thing I recall the best, was her cooking - I recall that I was in a college class at Indiana St. Univ. when she was found dead in bed apparently died in her sleep - My mother discovered her dead in bed while I was in morning classes.    I don't ever recall her discussing her parents or other ancestors.

I regret so much not having been astute enough to question her about her life, and her ancestry.   I was even to stupid to realize that the recipes she never wrote down but now seems so unique were permanently lost at her death.   In fact, one recipe she called "Fried Skillet Bread" I loved so much - I've asked many people about has never surfaced to reality.  

 Griffith,  Herald M    -  William  -   Gibbs,  Grace -    Male  -   Dec. 23, 1912    Book CH-27 - Page 30 -   Vigo Co, IN

 Griffith,  Richard K.  -  William  -   Gibbs,  Grace -    Male  -   Oct. 23,  1908    Book CH-24 - Page 13 -   Vigo Co, IN

  

Grace's Mother, Emma Harriett Persinger died when Grace was only 15 months old.    Grace's Father, Alfred remarried Cora Elizabeth when Grace was only 3 1/2 yrs. old and was apparently raised by the step-mother and Alfred.  

August 2002:  Historical accounts from Washington County newspapers, suggest that Fred moved his family from Washington County, Indiana to Sullivan County, Indiana in early April 1897.    We don't why - presumably followed someone there.                                                                             

 

More About GRACE * GERTRUDE GIBBS:

Burial: May 15, 1967, Roselawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, IN

Comment 1: Believed to have moved to Sullivan with

Comment 2: her sister Anna Gibbs, and was housekeeper

Comment 3: for a local Physician before she met Wil

Comment 4: Griffith.

Event 1: moved to Sullivan, IN as a young adult

Event 2: May 15, 1967, Buried @ Roselawn Cemetary, Terre Haute,IN

 

Notes for WILLIAM * "WILL" GRIFFITH:

No Middle name apparently, friends called him "Will"

Born in Sullivan, IN in 1886. As a teenager sold ice cream in Sullivan.

Started working as a RR Car Inspector C&EI RR in Terre Haute, at the Union Depot approx. from 1910 to 1922.  He played Trombone in many local bands (Grotto, Shriners, etc.) He quit the railroad due to unwillingness to go on strike & fight or become a scab.  He then worked as electrical worker at Davis Gardens greenhouse in TH,I. for about 1 year.  He next worked for the Terre Haute City schools as a custodian (janitor) for about 2 years at Greenwood School at Voorhees & 2nd st.  Then he was transferred to the City School bookstore (6 1/2 & Walnut) where he kept track of the school books for the city school district from 1925 to 1947. There was no retirement plan through the school system then.  He died at home at 1354 Chestnut, age 61, presumably of a stroke, & is buried @ Roselawn Cem. in Terre Haute, IN with wife Grace.  His Mother Belle lived in the same house on the other side 1356 til sometime before he died, they then moved Belle back to Sullivan, IL by her daughter Marie.  Harold says his Dad never seemed to be able to get as good of a job as the railroad job.  While working for the railroad, he used his job fringe benefit to be able to take free trips by using passes given to employees to take Grace & the 3 kids on trips: 1918 or 1917 to Colorado to visit James Gibbs; 1919 California to British Columbia (on this trip Richard Kenneth met a sailor friend of Will's who inspired R.K. to go into the Navy at the age of 15 by lying about his age.  They never ate in the train diner. Harold says they never knew there was a diner... because Grace took a large basket of home-made bread & chicken which lasted much of the trip.  Will would occasionally get off at train stops & run down to a nearby grocery store to pick up drinks & more food.  Will smoked Camel cigarettes and drank lots of whole milk & coffee (from my father Harold's description I suspect he had Peptic Ulcer Disease or Gastritis as he also consumed many doses of baking soda- I suspect this might have been a factor in elevating his blood pressure, ultimately causing a CVA (speculation?).

 

Obituary in Terre Haute Star

GRIFFITH,  William     Nov. 11, 1947   -  61 y.o.  - Pg. 2,  Star

            

 

 

 

More About WILLIAM * "WILL" GRIFFITH:

Burial: Roselawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, IN

Cause of Death: CVA

Medical Information: High blood pressure, Stroke

 

       

Children of AL"FRED" GIBBS and ELIZABETH JOHNSON are:

                  ix.    SUSIE CLARE4 GIBBS, b. January 12, 1889; d. November 11, 1892, died @ age 3 years old.

 

Notes for SUSIE CLARE GIBBS:

There are two obituary notices in the Salem Republican Leader on Susie:

Nov. 18, 1892 - Kossuth items - We learn with regret of the death of A.P. Gibbs' little child with Diptheria.

Dec. 2, 1892 - McKinley items - Susie, Youngest child of A.P. Gibbs, died Nov. 9th of Diptheria and was buried at Monroe the next day.

 

More About SUSIE CLARE GIBBS:

Burial: Walnut Ridge, Washington Co, IN

 

                   x.    MARY LUCY GIBBS, b. December 25, 1890, Cemetary says born & died1 year prior each; d. June 24, 1891, died @ 6 Months; bur.@ Walnut Ridge.

                  xi.    ALVA G. GIBBS, b. March 1, 1893, Probably Sullivan,IN? lived in Mt. Morris, IL?; d. see NOTES showing discrepancey.

 

Notes for ALVA G. GIBBS:

Be careful; there is an Alva Gibbs listed in the social security records CD that shows him dying Sept. 14, 1993 in Monroe City, Missouri.  I thought this must be him even though it listed his birthdate March 12, 1903.  I sent our letters to Gibbs people in Monroe City, and I agree with them that this is not the same Alva Gibbs.  They have extensive genealogy info on their Gibbs' which show no connection to our line.

Alva was apparently alive when Alfred died in 1913 in that Arthur Gibbs mentioned him in a telegraph he sent to Oliver Gibbs as being a negative contributor to the family but probably living with his mother near Topeka, Kansas.   He is on the 1910 census with both parents in Sullivan, IN as Alvy G. GIBBS, age 17.    There is also mention a newspaper clipping from the Salem Republic-Leader of March 10, 1893 under Jefferson Twp. news:    Born, March 1st to A.P. Gibbs and wife, a son.    Name is not given there.    No trace of him after the telegram of 1913.

 

 

More About ALVA G. GIBBS:

Burial: He is listed as Alvy G. , age 17 w. Fred & Cora 1910

 

 

14.  WILLIAM GEORGE3 GIBBS (MARY * MATILDA2 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM *1) was born April 4, 1851 in Ohio; lived @ Newman, IL- Douglas Co. 1910-21, and died March 6, 1928 in Indianapolis, Indiana- Robert Long Hosp.-Lip Carcinoma.  He married (1) LOUISA JOHNSON August 7, 1874 in Washington Co, IN -this is Wm's 1st wife-H 629, daughter of HENRY JOHNSON and NANCY POLLOCK.  She was born May 30, 1851 in Indiana - this is William's 1st wife, she died age 27, and died October 17, 1878 in Washington Co, IN.  He married (2) LUCINDA JOHNSON September 17, 1881 in Jackson Co, IN; H439 - WPA 09276, daughter of HENRY JOHNSON and NANCY POLLOCK.  She was born March 1848 in Indiana - or 1847?- 1848 per 1900 cen.- Wm's 2nd wife, and died Aft. 1928 in did she go to live with daughter, Cora after 1928.

 

Notes for WILLIAM GEORGE GIBBS:

I first became more interested in William George Gibbs when I saw a letter written by other Gibbs cousins that Philis Ballew had - that mentioned William was living in Newman, IL.   Sure enough William is on the 1910 & 1920 Douglas County census living in the city of Newman.   Also in 1920 living within a block is George Henry Gibbs, who is almost certainly William's oldest child.   George is 44 years old in 1920, and living with a wife, Eva and two daughters Edith & Lois and one son, Paul W. Gibbs.    Also, I had a handed down note typed by some unknown cousin that showed William & George's birth & death dates - but didn't clearly show them as father and son, but had them in a group suggesting that.   It also showed a daughter, Cora and her birthdate- and then a woman, Eva Swank listed as Cora's daughter.

1860 census - Page 156B/78 - Washington Co, IN - only census that shows William's middle name is George, age 9.

1870 Census - Page 77B, Washington Co, IN - William living with all his sibs including soon to be married Alfred.

1880 census - Washington Co, IN - page 439 B - William, recently widowed, age 29 is living with siblings and parents George & Mary M. - Here George claims  he is born in NY- in contradiction to other reports that he was born in England.   William stays consistent with his father's inconsistent birth places then, but is correct as is Mary Matilda about her and her parents being born in Ireland.   What I cannot understand here is WHY is his son, George Henry from his first marriage not shown here -? George Henry should be 5 years old there and presumably William has moved back with his parents before he married Louisa's sister, Lucinda a few years later - but I cannot figure out why George Henry is not shown.   Perhaps the census taker got confused, or Geo. Henry was staying with other caretakers.    The 1880 census shows Henry Johnson with 5 of his children living with he and Nancy - including Lucinda (page 441A, Washington Co, Jefferson Twp) but George Henry is not with them either.

1900 census - all 4 in family living at Sullivan Co, IN, Turman Twp, Census sheet 9A, Enumeration Dist. 137.   William is shown as age 49 and occupation as Farm Labor.  He lists he and his parents correct BPs as Ohio, England & Ireland - but for some reason Cora & Lucinda are shown born in  KANSAS ?

1910 census: city of Newman - page 263, Douglas Co, - shows William age 58 (no middle name or initial) shows him born in Ohio and father born in England but the mothers birthplace is illegible.

1920 census: city of Newman - page 4B, Douglas Co- shows William, age 68 (but no middle initial or name) shows he born in Ohio)  BUT  both parents born in Ohio (obviously wrong and also contradicting what he said a decade before) - by 1920 he was only living with Lucinda - but his son George Henry is living also in Newman on the 1920 census - page 3B very near his parents. - George then has his 3 children with he and Eva - Edith age 14, Lois 12, & Paul W. 3+.

George & his Father William are listed as giving a $1.00 & $2.00 donation in 1921/22 to a church in Newman - the 1st Methodist Episcopal Church.

Nov. 29, 2000 - I believe I have finally located a descendant of this line - from William's Grandaughter, Edith.   That is Bob Lynn of Anchorage, Alaska - we are exchanging information as there are some differences of opinion as to George Henry's parents - but I believe the fact George on the 1920 census reports his father is born in Ohio makes it very likely we can connect to the William G. that I know is son of George, the immigrant -England> Cincinnati, Ohio> Washington Co, IN > Seymour, IN> Warren Co, OH.   Plus the fact that in 1910, William is in the city of Newman and says his father is from England and he himself is from Ohio.   I suppose the William in 1910 could be a different William Gibbs than is there in 1920, but the ages are consistent - but the parents birthplaces are not.   I did get a marriage certificate for both of William's children, George GIBBS to Eva McQUEEN, March 3, 1903 and  Cora B. GIBBS  to  George W. SWANK, July  21, 1903 > both of his children married within 3 months and both in Douglas County.    Cora was married in Tuscola and William in Murdock, IL.   Both marriages show the Father as William GIBBS and the mother as Lou JOHNSON on Cora's and Lucinda JOHNSON on George's - of course Lucinda was assuming the role of mother for both of them although she was not actually William's genetic Mother.    On that same trip I found a birth certificate showing George's oldest daughter, Edith Gertrude GIBBS - which shows Father as George Henry GIBBS- then adds he was born in Washington Co, IN ! - wish I could find him on the 1880 census - since he just isn't with William that year. 

 

January 2001 - I finally discovered where William died - his Death Certificate was obtained at the Indiana St. Board of Public Health.   It has at least a few errors and one major surprise - not yet proven however.   He did die on the exact date shown in my handed down papers, March 6, 1928, proving the one in Indianapolis is George's 2nd eldest son.   He died at the Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis -  It is on the Indiana Univ. Medical School Campus.   He died of Carcinoma of Lip (I bet he chewed tobacco ! ) -  His wife is listed correctly as Lucinda.   His father's Birthplace is correctly shown as England - but the reporters after his death gave William instead of George as the Father's name.   And listed William's Mother as unknown and her BP as Ohio.   Although Mary Matilda did spend her teenage years in Ohio, she certainly was born in Ireland.   His occupation is listed as "Expressman or Drayman" - same as earlier census reports.   The real surprise was where the body was supposedly sent for burial -  Shown clearly as   Pollock Cem. - Washington Co. !! -  Maybe but even though Will's first wife, Louisa and both his parents certainly are buried there - there is no evidence his body made it there.    I wonder if the descendants elected not to go to the trouble of sending him back there?    It is likely he is there in an unmarked paupers grave.    Will need to get records from Washington Co, - hopefully they'll have an obituary and possibly public burial records.    The reporter's name for the Death Certificate is left blank, but it implies they lived at RR #C, 823 Holt Road, Indianapolis - I presume that was George Henry's address.

 

More About WILLIAM GEORGE GIBBS:

Burial: Pollock Cem. - per the death Cert.? stone not found there.

 

More About LOUISA JOHNSON:

Burial: Pollock (Ratt) Cem.

 

Notes for LUCINDA JOHNSON:

Lucinda is on the 1850, 60, 70 & 80  census of jefferson Twp, Washington Co, with parents Henry & Nancy Johnson.   On the 1870 census they are on the same census page as Lucinda & her sister Louisa's future husband William G. Gibbs, then living with his parents, George & Mary Matilda.    Wm. 1st married the younger sister, Louisa and she died soon after their child George H. and then it appears Wm. married Louisa's older sister, Lucinda, with whom he was still living in 1920.   (they were living together on the 1910 & 1920 census in the city of Newman, IL- Douglas co.).    I would like to find out where they died to get an obit and find descendants but as of Oct. 2000 have been unsuccessful.    Louisa is shown living with her sister, Lucinda 3 years older in 1860 & 1870.    Louisa was not born by the 1850 census and was dead before the 1880 census - both of which Lucinda is on.

 

More About LUCINDA JOHNSON:

Burial: She lists age as 63 on 1910 census in Newman Twp.

       

Child of WILLIAM GIBBS and LOUISA JOHNSON is:

                   i.    GEORGE HENRY4 GIBBS, b. April 17, 1875, Washington Co,Indiana; on the 1920 census in Newman, IL; d. June 2, 1929, Indianapolis, IN; age 54- lived at 3921 Oliver St.; m. LILLIAN "EVA"LENA MCQUEEN, March 3, 1903, Murdock, IL - Douglas Co, IL- Reg.#3, Pg. 30; b. February 17, 1876, Douglas Co, Newman, IL; usually went by Eva.; d. March 9, 1947, Dexter, MO; body sent back to Indianapolis; age 71.

 

Notes for GEORGE HENRY GIBBS:

George is listed on the 1920 census in the city of Newman, IL - page 3B - June 1920. - It shows George age 44 - born in Illinois and Father born in Ohio & Mother born in Indiana - this is consistent with his Father being Wm. G. born in Cincinnati, OH.   I did find him buried at Floral Park Cem. in Indianapolis - States buried June 4, 1929, age 54 years.    In cemetery lot # I-102-39  (& Eva in I-102-38) - those Cemetery records show he and Eva were then living at the Indianapolis address of 3921 Oliver Ave.  - This is just 2 blocks South of Hwy 40, and 4 miles West of downtown Indianapolis, only 1.5 miles from Floral Park Cem.

 

Note the argument that some other researchers were uncertain George Henry's Father was William George, Son of our George.   I think one very compelling argument adding substance to the census records, etc. are the fact that his Maternal Grandfather was Henry Johnson and his Paternal GrandFather was George Gibbs, thus George Henry was his given names.

 

I cannot find George H. in the 1900 census nor in the 1910 census.

 

More About GEORGE HENRY GIBBS:

Burial: Floral Park Cem., Indianapolis; Cem. lot # I-102-39

 

More About LILLIAN "EVA"LENA MCQUEEN:

Burial: March 11, 1947, Floral Park, Indianapolis, Indiana- Cem. lot # I-102-38

 

       

Child of WILLIAM GIBBS and LUCINDA JOHNSON is:

                  ii.    CORA BELLE4 GIBBS, b. Abt. May 3, 1884, Indiana - per marriage Cert. -may have been born in KS?; d. Abt. 1964, Bismarck, MO; initially moved to Washington Co, MO; m. GEORGE W. SWANK, July 21, 1903, Tuscola, IL - per marriage cert., Reg.#3, Pg. 33; b. 1884, Indianola, Vermillion Co, IL - per Marrriage Cert.; or 1885; d. Abt. 1952, had a gas station in Bismark, MO.

 

Notes for CORA BELLE GIBBS:

This information about Cora and her daughter, Eva SWANK came from a set of notes handed down to me from other cousins - None of us have any idea who wrote them - on the same page was William Gibbs born April 4, 1851, died March 6, 1828 & George Henry Gibbs, Born April 17, 1875 & died May 1928.   This is the first and as of Sept. 2000, the only source I have for any of their critical dates.   See notes on William & George.  

November 2000, I discovered Wm. died in Indianapolis on the date shown above and that I found the grave of George Henry.

 

More About CORA BELLE GIBBS:

Burial: Bismarck Odd Fellows Cem. - No Stones

 

Notes for GEORGE W. SWANK:

Found these 3 listings for George SWANK - the 1st one has the right middle initial but the ages of 62 & 78 imply that probably neither is Cora's husband

the other I included thinking he may be a relative, but if ours was born in 1884/5 then he is  not the father.

 

Fountain County

Swank George W.   M  W  62 Dec 13 1918 Kingman H-17 48

 

Fulton County

Swank George L.    M  W  78 Mar 15 1919 Liberty Tp C-19 34

 

Bartholomew County

Swank George        M W -      Nov 11 1882 Ohio Twp HD- 1 11

 

Below is from 1870 census of Vermillion  Co, IL - Pg. 48b, Carroll Twp. - none of these would be our parents if his marriage cert. is correct that parents were W.J. & Mary.

 

27  237  227 Swank   Wm.        55    M    Farmer   4,000   900   Ohio                 

28  237  228 Swank   Rachel    41    F     Keeping house         Kentucky            

29  237  227 Swank   Geo. W.  25    M             .         .                Illinois        

30  237  227 Swank   Martha    24    F                 .         .            Illinois                

31  237  228 Swank   Wm.          4    M                  .         .          Illinois     

 

Below is also the 1870 Vermillion Co. census, this family straddles  Pages 42a & b.  This child, Wm. , age 12 seems likely to be the best possibility for our George's Father - he would be 26 yr. old by 1884 when we think George was born.

37  150  142 Swank    J. B.          35    M    Farmer    2,400   1,000   Ohio           

38  150  142 Swank    Elizabeth  33    F     Keeping house  .         .  Illinois       

39  150  142 Swank    Wm.          12    M    At school      .         .       Illinois         

40  150  142 Swank    Matilda     10    F     At school      .         .       Illinois         

 

CENSUS YR:  1870  STATE or TERRITORY:  IL  COUNTY:  Vermilion  DIVISION:  Carroll Township  REEL NO:  593-285  PAGE NO:  42b

REFERENCE:  Enumerated on 7 June 1870 by S. M. Brown

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LN  HN   FN  LAST NAME      FIRST NAME     AGE  SEX  RACE  OCCUP.       REAL VAL. PERS VAL.   BIRTHPLACE       FOREIGN BIRTH  MONTH     MONTH     ATT.   CAN'T CAN'T DEAF M-21yrs VOTE-    REMARKS

                                                                                                               FATHER MOTHER  BORN      MARR.     SCHOOL READ  WRITE              DENIED

===================================================================================================================================================================================================

 1   150  142 Swank    Luke        6     M      At school      .         .         Illinois           .      .     .         .           X      .     .     .    .        .    .

 2   150  142 Swank    Charles   5     M                .         .         Illinois           .      .     .         .           .      .     .     .    .        .    .

 3   150  142 Swank    Oliver      1     M              .         .         Illinois   

 

April 2001 - See information also on Eva SWANK / Cora GIBBS -  I finally received the tip (below) that sent me to Eva's son, George West who lives in Bismarck, Missouri - where apparenly Eva & George SWANK moved to - probably in the 1920s - although Mr. West will try to help us gather more details about that.   I have no access to census records from Missouri, but will try to get some from 1910 & 20 to see if they were there that early, since I can't locate Cora after she was in Sullivan Co, Indiana in 1900.    He says that George & Cora are in unmarked graves in Bismarck's Odd Fellows Cem.   And that Eva is buried there with her husband Chelsea WEST in a marked grave.

Below is the reply to one of my many internet inquries about George Swank that not only gave me much information on George SWANK, but also led me to Eva's son in Bismarck, MO.

 

Allan, When I recieved your e-mail I didn't think my swank line

connected with yours but tonight I was looking at queires posted

on the Vermillion co. IL Gen Web board and read in your Dec. post that

George Swank was the son of William Jesse and Mary Weaver.

William Jesse born Nov 16 1857 was a brother of my gr-grandfather

Luke Swank. He married Mary Elizabeth Weaver Dec 19 1880 and

he died April 2 1920. My grandfather Luke and his father John

Benjamin are both buried in Indianola along with many other Swanks.

Have you looked there? I still don't have any thing on George but I got

the above information from a lady in my hometown who was a cousin

to my grandpa, Ben Swank. This lady's mother was Bessie Elizabeth

Swank and I think she was a sister to William Jesse. Her name is

Mae Kunkle and she lives in Cayuga, In. I will try to see if she has

any info on George and you may wan't to contact her yourself. She

is a very nice lady.

William Jesse's father was John Benjamin Swank born July 23 1833

died Jan 4 1903, his mother was Elizabeth Smith Swank born May 6

1833, died Oct 3 1901. He was born in Pickaway co. Ohio and she

was born in verm. co. IL. John Benjamin's parents were David Swank

born abt 1797 in Pa.and Rachel Brasket born abt 1799 also Pa. They

married in 1818 in Pickaway co. Ohio. That's as far as I've gotten but

it should help quite a bit with your Swank side.

 

More About GEORGE W. SWANK:

Burial: Bismarck Odd Fellows Cem. - No Stones

 

 

15.  MARY "MAGGIE" BELLE3 GIBBS (MARY * MATILDA2 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM *1) was born 1858 in Indiana; also went by "Belle" - census show Mary B., and died December 1905 in lived in Colorado Springs- was there by 1889.  She married HERBERT ISAIAH REID April 24, 1884 in Washington Co, IN - J 214, son of ISAIAH REID and HANNAH LUSK.  He was born June 7, 1859 in Father probably Isaiah & Mother prob. Hannah LUSK, and died December 6, 1941.

 

More About MARY "MAGGIE" BELLE GIBBS:

Burial: December 28, 1905, Evergreen Cem. - Colorado Springs - Lot #T-011

 

Notes for HERBERT ISAIAH REID:

"Despite the threat of T.B. which eventually caused him to live permanently in Colorado Springs, he became a civil engineer;

was associated with Gen. Wm. Palmer, Winfield Scott Stratton and Spencer Penrose. He was city engineer for fifteen years, was engineer of the Colorado Springs Water System;  constructed the wagon road leading up to Pike's Peak.   Herbert Reid died Dec. 6,1941 from auto injuries." from a copy of a manuscript 'The Reid Line' written by Harriett Morris of Washington Co.,IN and a grand-daughter of Samuel Reid s/o Isaiah #1. 

 

The children I show here are estimated within one year from the 1910 census shown in the scrapbook.

 

More About HERBERT ISAIAH REID:

Burial: December 9, 1941, Evergreen Cem. - Colorado Springs

       

Children of MARY GIBBS and HERBERT REID are:

                   i.    FLORENCE4 REID, b. 1888.

                  ii.    RALPH H. REID, b. 1889; d. November 1926.

 

More About RALPH H. REID:

Burial: November 19, 1926, Evergreen Cem. - Colorado Springs, CO- lot T-011

 

                 iii.    HANNAH REID, b. 1893.

                 iv.    LUCY REID, b. 1895.

                  v.    MARGARET REID, b. 1896.

                 vi.    HERBERT REID, JR., b. 1900.

 

Notes for HERBERT REID, JR.:

two men fit this description in the SS death records - one born 1899 and one 1900, both applied for SS card in California and both died in California.   Could find none who got card in Colorado that were born around this time.   No luck finding more.

 

 

16.  OLIVER GRANT3 GIBBS (MARY * MATILDA2 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM *1) was born May 4, 1865 in Washington Co., IN; moved from IN in 1902, and died December 20, 1953 in Shattuck, Oklahoma (Shattuck Hospital) at 89 yrs..  He married ALGENETTE HAZELTINE TUCKER May 25, 1893 in New Philadelphia, Indiana, daughter of ABSALOM TUCKER and ELIZA COFFIN.  She was born September 18, 1867 in raised in New Philadelphia, IN, and died March 15, 1954 in Shattuck, OK.

 

Notes for OLIVER GRANT GIBBS:

Oliver, known in Shattuck, Oklahoma as O.G. spent much of his time in Oklahoma on lands he built up on the Northwest side of town.  All of my knowledge of him comes from his Grandaughter Phillis Ballew who I met in July 94 in Shattuck.  She has written a beautiful short story of the family and the childrens hard life on the farm and ranch; it is titled:  "From Schoolroom to Plumb Thicket".     Philis was also the source of the death information on Oliver's older brother Alfred Page.   Philis told me the story that she has always remembered her Grandfather telling her when pointing to one corner of the room in the house she now lives in - "that is where my brother died when he was visiting me".   Philis had old telegrams which I've got and are from Arthur Anthony Gibbs, Oliver's nephew discussing the imminent death of Alfred and how to deal with the body, etc.   Luckily Oliver kept these and other very helpful letters - unlike other members of the family (who didn't seem to keep anything in the way of family historical information) - I attribute this to the fact that Oliver was better educated than most of the other Gibbs family of that era.            

I found only one birth listed of GIBBS' in Washington Co, - this must be Geoffrey L. GIBBS - Olivers child - but the listing erred in Oliver's middle initial below.                                        

Gibbs, ______    -  O.E. Gibbs  -    Alge Tucker   -  Male  -    Oct. 19, 1901   -  Book H-5,  Pg. 11   - Washington Co, IN  

 

 

The biography below was sent to me by Oliver's Grandaughter, Philis Gibbs Ballew in September 2001

 

        Oliver Grant, or "Ollie", Gibbs as he was known then, was born May 4, 1865.  He left his home in Washington County Indiana at age 16 to go to the Academy at Mitchell, Indiana and then on to Valparaiso University.  After the session he was offered a position teaching the summer term at New Philadelphia Station just outside of Salem, Indiana.  One of his students that term was Algenette Tucker.

        Algenette, of the dark brown hair, found her teacher increasingly interesting and soon discovered herself to be in love with him.  And although he was the teacher, he was only two years her elder.  After much teasing they were wedded in her family home.  Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Grant Gibbs remained in Indiana where he taught and after learning telegraphy was the railroad agent in several different towns until 1902 when the call of the west became too strong.  Alge had cousins who had already moved to far away Great Bend, Kansas.  So the family put their furniture, including Alge's beloved pump organ, in the baggage car, along with a sewing machine and a fine looking trunk containing her wedding and graduations dresses.  Because the livestock needed attention, O.G. and their oldest son, Kenneth, age 7,  spent much of their time in the boxcar with the farm animals.  Algenette, Mary Eliza, age 5, and Geoffrey, age one year, traveled in the passenger section.

        Somehow Kansas didn't seem the right place.  And so, because O.G. had friends who'd recently moved on to Oklahoma Territory close to the farming community of Shattuck, he decided to go down and have a look.  Lee (Ollie) Denny and John Kirkpatrick continued to brag about the "wonderful farmland".  And although it was winter when O.G. arrived and snow covered the ground, undaunted, he dug down through the snow for a handful of soil and decided to move his family.

        Once again, in May 1903, Oliver loaded the family goods on the Santa Fe and headed south where he bought a relinquishment of 160 acres.  Kenneth remembers riding again with the livestock while the other members of the family went in the passenger section. The family horses and mules were brought down from Great Bend as well as the cows.                                                   

        For a short time Oliver acted as station agent at the Shattuck

Santa Fe depot when it was still in a boxcar, farmed, and also taught school several terms at Hembel School, about five miles a little southwest from their homeplace and at Ivanhoe School about 3 miles northwest across Wolf Creek or Wolf River as it was called then.  School was usually in session for only four or five months during the winter.  By this time Kenneth was going to school and he remembers his Dad riding a saddlehorse while he rode a donkey to the one-room schoolhouse at Ivanhoe every day for two years.  Kenneth's donkey would let two or three big 15 or 16 year-old boys on its back and run the length of the schoolyard where it dumped them off over his head.  School lunches were usually biscuits and cold sausage and sometimes smoked pork or crackers and cheese. A student was really fortunate if he had an apple for these came in on the train in the freight car from New Mexico.  In the wintertime lunch boxes that were set in the hall window would freeze before noon.

 

Clips from the Salem Rupublic-Leader: 

Feb 2, 1894:     O.G. Gibbs, telegraph operator at Alert, Indiana is visting

relatives in the county.  He has just recovered from an attack of pneumonia.

 

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Aug. 24, 1894:    Arthur and Anna Gibbs visited their uncle O.G. Gibbs at

Freetown last week

                                         

 

More About OLIVER GRANT GIBBS:

Burial: Shattuck Cem.

 

More About ALGENETTE HAZELTINE TUCKER:

Burial: Buried together in the Shattuck Cem.

       

Children of OLIVER GIBBS and ALGENETTE TUCKER are:

                   i.    KENNETH RUSKIN4 GIBBS, b. September 5, 1895, near Salem, Indiana; d. 1981, Keene, Texas; m. EDNA HARDIN, 1924; b. August 13, 1902; d. still lives in Keene, TX (1994).

 

More About KENNETH RUSKIN GIBBS:

Burial: Keene Cem.

 

                  ii.    MARY ELIZA "LILA" GIBBS, b. October 5, 1897; d. Aft. 1953; m. HENRY ENSMINGER; b. Abt. 1896.

                 iii.    FRANCES GIBBS, b. March 20, 1900, Indiana; d. 1901, in Indiana of Pneumonia @ age 1 year.

                 iv.    GEOFFREY LLWELLYN GIBBS, b. October 19, 1901, Washington Co, IN - Book H-5, Pg. 11; d. December 24, 1979, No children but raised two of Bess's Nephews; m. BESS SANDERS, January 16, 1937; b. Abt. 1902.

 

More About GEOFFREY LLWELLYN GIBBS:

Burial: the nephews were: Jerry & Douglas DANIELS

 

                  v.    GLADYS DOROTHY GIBBS, b. January 26, 1905; d. Aft. 1953, Shattuck, OK.

                 vi.    DWIGHT LORENZO GIBBS, b. March 19, 1907; d. 1927.

                vii.    KATHLEEN GIBBS, b. Abt. 1910; d. 1951; m. GLENN W. BALES; b. Abt. 1910.

 

 

17.  ELIZA D.3 LOREE (ANN JANE2 CHAMBERS, WILLIAM *1) was born July 12, 1866 in OH.  She married JOHN WALKEY LEONARD October 22, 1890 in Knox Co, OH.  He was born Abt. 1866 in or is this middle name Walker ?.

 

Notes for ELIZA D. LOREE:

Dec. 2002 - This message below and data courtesy of Sara Mitchell:

Hi Allen. You and I have corresponded before on some Phillips family research. I have an Eliza D. Loree who married John Walkey Leonard 22 Oct 1890 in Knox Co., Ohio. For their children if have Harley E. b. 25 Dec 1890, Kathryn b. 21 Sep 1892, a male b. 11 Dec 1893, and another male b. 23 June 1895. I would be interested in learning more about Eliza Loree's family. I will share whatever Leonard info you need.

 

Notes for JOHN WALKEY LEONARD:

There is a John LEONARD, age 9, on the 1870 census of Morris Twp, Knox Co, OH, Roll 1229, Page 406 - with Father, John 55, Penn. Harriett 29, she and all rest form OH.   Hannah 30, Phebe 23, Logan 17, Andrew 13, John 9,& George 7.

       

Children of ELIZA LOREE and JOHN LEONARD are:

                   i.    HARLEY E.4 LEONARD, b. December 25, 1890, SS # 269-26-0641 -death date from SS death records; d. June 1979, Knox Co, OH; m. MARIE GERTRUDE BARBER; b. April 8, 1896, Went by middle name, Marie; d. February 1978, Knox Co, OH.

 

More About HARLEY E. LEONARD:

Burial: Moundview Cem, Mt. Vernon, OH

 

More About MARIE GERTRUDE BARBER:

Burial: Moundview Cem. -Row 6, Section D, Lot 110

 

                  ii.    KATHRYN LEONARD, b. September 21, 1892, may be the Catherine that died @ Knox Co.11-29-1914.

                 iii.    UNKNOWN MALE LEONARD, b. December 11, 1893.

                 iv.    UNKNOWN MALE 2 LEONARD, b. June 23, 1895.