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GIBSON HOMES
LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA

From: "Old Home Places of Louisa County"

My critique and challenge of the information written under the pictures
as it would relate to the descendants of my Gilbert Gibson, my 6th great-grandfather.

This page is not finished YET. I'm working on it -- 22 June 2003.

 

 

I saw this house and took a picture of it, but alas, but the picture didn't develop. It is quite beautiful in a dramatic countryside setting.
The house is located inside the gated "Shenandoah Crossings Resort." We were only allowed access because of a cousin's escorting us.
Regarding this paragraph on the page above:
Major William Gibson, believed to be the son of Gilbert and Sarah Gibson, owned this property as early as 1788 most likely having inherited it from his father, who died in 1764. In 1824 after William Gibson’s death, William Gooch purchased Ben Lomond.

This above information does not quite fit together.
1) William Gibson, son of Gilbert and Sarah (Turner) Gibson, was a Private and a Drummer, whose pension started in 1833, 9 years after the stated death above of 1824.
2) There are no Gibson's called Major that I have found.
3) William Gibson wasn't mentioned in Gilbert Gibson, his father's will, of 1756. William might not have been born yet in 1756. William Gibson was mentioned in Gilbert Gibson, his father's will in 1760. William is to inherit in this 1760 Will: "land on South Anna River." On 1 July 1788, William himself deed 6.75A on the South [Anna] River In On 2 Mar 1790, as William Gibson "Drummer," he sold an additional 61.25A "on Pamunkey" to Robert Michie.
4) William Gibson, Drummer, was involved in court records regarding his theft of corn from a neighbor.

 

 

 

COTTAGE HILL
From "Old Home Places of Louisa County" (p. 185).

Located on the north side of Route 22 near the waters of the South Anna River and Lickinghole Creek.
Cottage Hill stands on land which belonged to the Gibson family in the early days of the county.

GEORGE GIBSON probably inherited the property from his father, Gilbert, in 1764, and lived there with his wife, Susannah, until his death in 1800. He left his home and one-fourth of his land to his daughter, Catharine,who that same year married John Lowry. In 1828, after Catharine's death, the property was sold...

Cottage Hill, which is no longer standing, was a one-story, six-room frame dwelling constructed over a fully raised brick basement. The house had a large, enclosed, central brick chimney, a raised front porch, and outside entrances to both the main floor and to the basement. A one-story brick wing was added to the back of the house at a later date.

It states above that George Gibson proably inherited the property... and lived there with his wife, Susannah.
In Gilbert Gibson's will of 1756, he states: I lend to George Gibson the plantation he now lives on during his and his wife's life, but not to rent it nor any parts thereof, but to pay the sum of 5 shillings per year.
In Gilbert Gibson's will of 1760, he states: To son George land he lives on now and must pay 10 shillings per year.
George Gibson d. February 8, 1798.

It states above that "He left his home and one-fourth of his land to his daughter, Catharine,who that same year married John Lowry. In 1828, after Catharine's death, the property was sold...

There are two evidently two Catharine Gibson's:
1) Catharine Gibson who m. John Lowry in 1800.
2) Catharine Gibson who never married and Catherine, apparently never married, who was taxed on 54 acres in 1800 on her portio of her father's estate. Her estate sale was held Apr 1826.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GIBSON HOUSE
Remarks:
As stated above:
"There is a quarter-acre cemetery located near the home where many members of the Gibson family are buried."
I was at this home twice. Both times I visited the graveyard behind the house. I took a picture of it and the gravestone, but alas, the picture didn't develop. Most of the stones are not readable.
As stated above:
In 1885, after George's death, his estate was divided, and the house and five acres were assigned to Hardena and Kate Gibson.
Gilbert Gibson {m. Unknown}>
>George Gibson 1711-1798 {m. Susannah Unknown}>
>William Gibson 1743-1823{m. Mary Adams Napper}>
>George Gibson 1800-1875 {m. Salina Dalton}>
>Hardena Gibson {m. John Tazewell Gibson) & Kate Gibson (sisters)
As stated above:
Somehow, possibly through his second marriage to Sarah C. Gibson, George W. Gibson acquired the old home.
As stated above:
After his death it passed to Littleton R. Gibson, believed to have been a grandson of the first George Gibson.
As stated above:
Littleton R. Gibson, son of Thomas G. and Harriet Gibson, married Roberta E. Gibson, daughter of George and Kate Gibson.
Littleton died in 1942 and seven years later his heirs sold Gibson House to William A. Cooke.

 

 

Map and Places below provided by a cousin who lives in the area and has all this life.