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Hi Val,
Your paper is a magnificent achievement with much valuable detail. You must have worked on it for years. I do have a comment though. It seems certain that Gibeon Gibson who died at Woodville, Mississippi in 1792 came from the Pee Dee area of South Carolina whether there are records or not. See the following except from the 1878 letter from Rev. J. G. Jones to McKinley Gibson I uploaded to this site in 2003:
"There were three branches of the Gibson connexion which settled in Mississippi at an early day: The parents of Rev. Randall Gibson [Gibeon Gibson and Mary O'Connell] near Natchez about where the old town of Washington now stands; the family of Samuel Gibson - the founder of the Town of Port Gibson, in this vicinity; and that of Rev. Tobias Gibson in what is now Warren county in the vicinity of Warerntown. So far as I know these families all came from the valley of the Great Pee Dee river in South Carolina. Some time in the sixteenth century three ship loads of Portuguese Hugenots voluntarily exiled themselves from Portugal rather than renounce their Protestant faith, and settled in South Carolina, then the Colony of Carolina, in the very region of county where our Gibsons are first found, and, from their elevated intellectuality, morality, religion and enterprise, I have long believed that they were the descendants of those refugee Huguenots, though I do not remember ever to have heard but one of the connexion refer to this as a tradition of the family. I wish we now had the means of demonstrating this theory.
I will now write, from memory and a few scraps of memoranda, what little I know of these three leading Gibson families. First; the parents of Rev. Randall Gibson came to the Natchez county (as it was then called), about 1781. In order to avoid the hostile Indians in what is now Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama, immigrants from the Carolinas travelled over land to the Holston river in East Tennessee, where they built family boats and descended the Holston and Tennessee rivers, etc. Randall Gibson was then about fifteen years old, and I have heard him relate this fact in connection with an attack made on their boat by hostile Cherokee Indians. From the family Bible of Randall Gibson I once obtained these records by the hands of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Louisa Barnes (nee Nailer) now living near Warerntown: Randall Gibson was born September 1766 and died April 3, 1836. Harriett McKinley was born June 29, 1771, at Mount Royal Forge, Maryland and died October 6, 1837: Randall Gibson and Harriett McKinley were married February 7, 1792. They died and are buried in Warren county."
The Jones to Gibson letter is published in a bound volume entitled "Funeral Sermons of Rev. Randal Gibson and Mrs. Harriet Gibson by Rev. William Winans." The book was published at Lexington, Kentucky. There is no publication date or copyright notice. There is a handwritten date, 1907, on the inside front cover.
There is a handwritten note in the back of the book about Samuel Gibson as follows:
“Samuel Gibson who settled where Port Gibson is was my great grandfather. I find by showing your letter to a sister of mine, that a young school mate of hers told her she was also related to the Gibsons who were related to me. This Col. Samuel Gibson who settled Port Gibson was a first cousin to Maj. Gibson and his brother Samuel Gibson who settled on the “Big Black” river which is the dividing line of Claiborne & Warren Co. Miss. Maj. David Gibson was my Grand Mother Martha Williams’ father. Samuel Gibson who lived on the “Big Black” about three miles North of Rocky Springs, a small village and P.O., was his brother. Tobias Gibson who founded the Methodist Church in Natchez was a brother."
This handwritten note follows a handwritten copy of a letter from J. J. Miller to Louisiana Breckinridge Hart
Gibson (1848-1877). It may be a postscript to his letter or something else. I believe the handwriting to be that of my great grandmother, Sarah Gibson Humphreys Chenault. This material was uploaded to this site in 2003 for those who may want to see more. Bill LaBach (Gibeon Gibson, Rev. Randal Gibson, Tobias Gibson (1800-1872), Sarah Thompson Gibson who married Dr. Joseph Alexander Humphreys, Sarah Gibson Humphreys who married Christopher David Chenault, etc.)
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