GILBERT GIBSON
of Louisa County, Virginia
(See possible parentage url below)

Gilbert Gibson b: Bef. 1700 d: 1764
married first
Unknown Unknown

Their children are:

1) Frances Gibson m. Benjamin Bramham, Sr. 1794
I am a direct descendant of Frances Gibson and Benjamin Bramham, Sr.

2) George Gibson b: Abt. 1711 d: February 8, 1798 m. Susannah Unknown
I am a direct descendant of George Gibson and Susannah Unknown.

3) Gilbert Gibson, Jr. m. Phebe Unknown

GILBERT GIBSON
AND
SARAH TURNER LEMAY, 2ND WIFE
[Sarah was m. 1st to Pierre Lemay 1682-1742 ]
Probably marrried Gilbert Gibson Aft. 1745/1746

Their children are:

1) Gideon Gibson
2) Jordan Gibson
3) Tabith Gibson
4) Mary Gibson
5) David Gibson
6) Jane Gibson
7) William "Drummer" Gibson

Gideon Gibson m. Susannah Bramham
[d/o above Frances Gibson & Benjamin Bramham, Sr.]
I am a direct descendant of Gideon Gibson and Susannah Bramham.

See Wills of Gilbert Gibson

GEORGE GIBSON AND SUSANNAH UNKNOWN
I descend from George Gibson and Susannah Unknown immediately above.
Their children are listed here:

I descend from William Gibson and Mary Adams Napper.

See link below to Will of William Gibson with Mary Adams Napper and their children.

See Will of George Gibson
See Will of Gilbert Gibson, s/o George Gibson

George Gibson and his sons in the American Revolution

In "Public Service Claims of Louisa County" there is a notation that
George supplied oats to Captain Carter Page's troop horses.

WILLIAM GIBSON AND MARY ADAMS NAPPER
I descend from William Gibson and Mary Adams Napper immediately above.
Their children are listed here:

Their children:

..... 2 Loucy Gibson married John Gibson May 23, 1815
..... 2 Richard Gibson
..... 2 Sally Gibson common-law-wife of David Lemay [s/o John Lemay & Annis Bramham]{Annie Bramham is the d/o Benjamin Bramham, Sr. and Frances Gibson}
..... 2 Stephen Gibson married January 10,1825 Tabitha Napper
..... 2 Nathan Gibson b: 1793 in , Louisa County, Virginia d: Abt. 1863
.........married in Louisa County, Virginia, November 16, 1815
...................Lucy Shepherd b: 1788 in ,Louisa County, Virginia
...................[Lucy Shepherd is the d/o Philip Shepherd &
........................ Susannah Thomson m. 2-21-1786 in Louisa County, VA]
..... 2 Lightfoot Gibson m. July 9, 1821 Martha Moody
..... 2 George Gibson b: 1800 d: June 6, 1875, Forest Hill, Louisa Co. VA
.............m. December 22, 1824 Salina Dalton b. Bet. 1809-1811, d. Bef. June 6, 1875
..... 2 Burrell Gibson b. Abt. 1810 m. Mary Unknown
..... 2 William Gibson b: 1807 d. Bef. 1880
..................married December 28, 1830 Jemina C. Loury
................. married 2nd, March 25, 1859 Mary Napper b. Abt. 1831 in Louisa Co., VA
..................{This date could be January 10, 1859.}

I descend from Nathan Gibson and Lucy Shepherd.

See Deed between Nathan Nappier and William Nappier

See Will of William Gibson

EMMA TURNER has supplied me and/or confirmed all the above Gibson data.
She has supplied me with various documents. You can assume any errors are mine.
Emma Turner is the descendant of
George Gibson m. Salina Dalton, brother to my Nathan Gibson who m. Lucy Shepherd.

NATHAN GIBSON AND LUCY SHEPHERD
I descend from Nathan Gibson and Lucy Shepherd immediately above.

Their children :

..... 2 Henry F. Gibson d: Bef. 1850 m: in Louisa Co., VA July 18, 1839 Nancy Groome b. Bet. 1805-1818
..... 2 William Gibson b: Aft. 1815 d: Bef. 1880 m. September 10, 1845 in Orange Co., VA Martha Jane Krise
..... 2 Eliza Gibson b: November 9, 1820 in , Louisa County, Virginia d: March 25, 1904 in .........Leopold, Doddridge Co. , West Virginia married March 20, 1847 in Louisa Co. VA
.........Pinkard Brannon b: September 18, 1827 in Charles Trevillians, Louisa, Virginia d: .........January 4, 1915 at his home in Troy District, Gilmer, West Virginia, Buried in
......... Brannon Cemetery near Conings, Gilmer, West Virginia
..... 2 Mary Ann Gibson b: 1822 d: Aft. 1880 married July 12, 1841
.............Nathaniel Kennon b: February 9, 1800
..... 2 Nathan Jr. Gibson b: April 16, 1828 Louisa Co., VA, d: March 13, 1896, Braxton ...........Co., West Virginia
............m. November 5, 1854 in Orange County, VA
..................Mary Jane Gibson [d/o Burrell Gibson]
..... 2 John L. Gibson b: 1831 d: Bef. 1880
.........married May 4,1854 in Louisa Co., VA, Mary Jane Atkins [d/o Rebecca Adkins]
..... 2 Philip Gibson b: 1835 d: Bet. 1861 - 1862
..... 2 Susan Gibson b: 1823 d: Bef. 1863

See Gibson v. Kennon mentioning ELIZA GIBSON.
Gibson vs. Kennon document was provided by Emma Turner.

I descend from Eliza Gibson and Pinkard Brannon. Click here for their children.

GIBSON'S MILL AREA,
LOUISA COUNTY, VA 1859

This map is cropped from the
"Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865."

Pinkard Bramham b. 1827,
Trevillian Station, VA
married
Eliza Gibson.
See current map below.
See Gibson property on map.

Map below.

At the intersection of Forest Hill Road and Hwy. 33 is the Forest Hill Road Church. In death records it states that George Gibson died at Forest Hill. I went to the cemetery of the Forest Hill Church and found some gravestones of Gibson's and Sprouse's. The older gravestones were mainly just stubs. It was sad to see the gravestones in such disrepair. There is no way of reconstructing who lies under these stubs of stone (green from layers of mold). Unless there is a church record including the Gibson family, there is little way of finding if any of my ancestors are buried in this churchyard cemetery versus being buried on their own land. I have no information that they attended this church, nor information that would lead me to believe that it was a separate cemetery from the church where townspeople were buried.

As you continue down Forest Hill Road, not too far from Hwy 33, Forest Hill Road becomes Shenandoah Crossing Road. I believe the beginning of Shenandoah Crossing Road is probably at the point where the road makes a "nose" on the map. Shenandoah Crossing Road runs into the body of water, gray on this map, Isaak Lake. At the "nose" point on Forest Hill Road one can go no further because it is now Shenandoah Crossing Resort and is a gated community. The guard there knew nothing of any landmarks except that he stated there was a lake in the area. I assume he was referring to Isaak Lake. Regarding finding any way into the area of Shenandoah Crossing from the west side, it is impossible by land. You cannot reach it by going the Old CC Road so I am told. The area that includes Oakmont Drive is only reachable thru the gated Shenandoah Crossing Resort. It is my opinion that the Gibson Mill is probably at the mouth of Lickinghole Creek where it was probably dammed up to make the Isaak Lake. The lines of this map where there are no street names are creeks and rivers, with the exception of the Oakmont Drive streets. It is difficult after even being there to reconcile these two maps.

I didn’t take pictures of the land to the west of Forest Hill Church and Forest Hill Road which is proably the old Gibson property. I did take a picture of the Forest Hill Church and a few gravestones, but I don't know who they are.

The trees are dense and the land while not pristine is unattended. It looks to me that there is no property developed on the west side of the road all the way to the Resort although the gentleman said there was a Gibson who did live in that area.

TUCKAHOE INDIANS

The gentleman I met at Boswell Tavern intersection said that there was a Tuckahoe Creek that ran through the Gibson property. This gentleman said with a smile something like this, "You know there's a Tuckahoe Creek on the Gibson property," I decided to check my maps further, USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Midlothian, Topozone, Terra, VDOT and AAA. The closest Tuckahoe Creek that I could find is on the Midlothian USGS Map at the intersected corners of Goochland, Chesterfield, and Powhatan counties 37.565 77.654. If this Tuckahoe Creek flows to Louisa County, I see no indication of it.

On meeting the next year with a cousin knowledgeable who grew up around of all the Gibson property, is a Gibson himself, has never heard of a Tuckahoe Creek.

Regarding the Tuckahoe's definition; description; location; town, village or waterway; family; tribe; history;, rootsweb lists; I have spent countless hours in dialog and researching possibilities of exactly what Tuckahoe means to various historians and researchers. There are an infinite variety of stories and opinions.

Referring to my own distant cousin's referral to a Gibson relative (of the Gibson Mill ancestors) she related a story to me that a child had come home from school after discussing the Indians in a class that day and asked her mother if they were "Tuckahoe Indians" and her mother smiled and said "Yes."

Also, referring to research with a distant cousin in the Gilmer-Doddridge counties area, (where my gg grandmother Eliza Gibson relocated from Louisa County, VA) he says that there were "Tuckahoe" in the area and I believe he said that my relatives (paternal or maternal, I don't know) were considered Tuckahoe.

We did an exhaustive research regarding this, but I never did turn up anything regarding "Tuckahoe" applying to my relatives on my maternal side (Gibson.) I believe that he was not referring to the WV Guineas who are considered my relatives on my paternal side (Croston, Dorton/Dalton, Pritchard).

Roger, Two Knife said in an email:

My people were the Shawnee, Blackfoot, Cherokee,
Tuckahoe and others.

I have researched the people named Tuckahoe and have
come to this conclusion from everything I have found.  Tuckahoe was not
the name of a tribe or nation of Indians.  It was applied to mostly
Indians for several reasons that I have found.  Usually a band of
Indians who ate a tuberose pithy like potato that we call "Old Man 'O'
The Woods".  They were referred to as Tuckyhoe as a lower class of
people by other Indian tribes.  There was also a Tuckahoe River and
there is still a place in VA called Tuckahoe.  And it's inhabitants
years ago being Indians were referred to as Tuckyhoe.  There are two
instances where this reference was made of my family but I think it was
more of a description of a type of Cherokee or other Indian tribe.
Something like some people might call West Virginians..Hillbillies

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