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Bryson Gibson was born between 1775 and 1782 Washington County, Virginia to Thomas and Mary Gibson. This Thomas and Mary are believed to be the same Thomas and Mary found in Stoney Creek Church Records. Thomas and Mary Gibson along with Charles, Reubin and Henry are found in the early church records with Valentine Collins. A Henry Gibson died in Morgan County, Ky., in 1857, son of Thomas Gibson. Since Bryson was also in Morgan County in 1857 it is believe that Henry and Bryson are brothers.
Bryson Gibson was found in Warren County, Tennessee tax list in 1812. In 1811 Jacob Mooney of McMinnville went by flatboat up the White River with four slaves and ‘four Melungeons to Baxter County, Arkansas where they built a store and two cabins. The slaves, and presumably ‘the Melungeons,’ spent that summer tanning deer hides, making paw paw brandy and “managed to improvise a crude smelter where they fasioned bars of lead and occasionally of silver.”
By 1820 Bryson Gibson is in Lee County, Virginia and 1830 at Mulberry Creek, Claiborne County, Tennessee, neighbor of David Denham. In 1840 Bryson is not found but Zion Gibson was living next door to David Denham. Zion married in Hawkins County, Tenn., to Mary Katherine Sexton, moved to Scott Co., Va., and Letcher County, Ky. Bryson's son's Alexander, Burwell [Burl] and Tyre are in Knox County, Ky., in 1840 as his a Henry Gibson, possibly brother of Bryson. Alexander and Burrell are in Breathitt County and then moved to Morgan County, Ky., as did Bryson and Henry Gibson.
The descendants of Bryson Gibson intermarried with the descendants of Valentine Collins, John Cole, the Perkins etc., and lived as an Indian community in Magoffin Co., Ky, later moving on to Highland Co., Ohio where they were known as 'Carmel Indians." These families are listed on census records as 'Indian' -filed Cherokee applications and identified themselves as Cherokee.
Magoffin County Indians
http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/mag_indians.html
Most of these families never 'whitened up' and many still carry the features of their Native American ancestors. I would like to hear from anyone who is researching these families and will be happy to share.
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