Daughter of Martha "Patsy" Gibson and Thomas Gibson. Patsy was a great-granddaughter of Mary Bennett and Ziba Gibson.
Jane's birth year is approximate and based on census record information.
She attended school in the Hitchcock Free School District, which taught children from homes north of Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. Jane and five siblings are listed as a group on a March 1842 student list of children ages 5-20 as "Eliza Gibson, Jane Gibson, George W. Gibson, Mary T. Gibson, Martha Gibson and James P. Gibson".
By 1850, the Gibson family had moved to Cumberland County. They are found in the US Federal Census at dwelling #679. In the same county census, John Baxley, born 1829, was living nearby with the Job Culbreth family in dwelling #699 and working as a laborer.
Jane Gibson and J. W. Baxley were married in Cumberland County on March 8, 1853. They had two sons, Thomas Baxter Baxley and Allen Lane Baxley. In 1860, they were living and working a farm in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, North Carolina.
John enlisted in the CSA, Company A, North Carolina 31st Infantry Regiment on March 10, 1863, in Charleston, South Carolina. In June 1864, he was captured by Union troops at Gaines Farm, possibly in Maryland. John was killed during a transport of Confederate POWs to Elmira (NY) Prison Camp in a train collision at Shohola, Pike County, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1864. Initially, he was interred in Shohola with other casualties. Some years later, the graves were moved to Elmira, New York.
In June of 1870, Jane sold property in Robeson County to pay taxes. In August, the widowed Jane, her two sons and her widowed mother, Martha Gibson, were enumerated in Howellsville, Robeson County, sharing a dwelling among other Baxley households.
By 1880, Jane had moved to the town of Roberdell in Richmond County with her two sons. Her brother, James P. Gibson, was living nearby. Their mother appears to have died in the interim.
Jane died suddenly in 1892 while en route to visit relatives in the nearby community of Gibson Mill.
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A family pedigree was prepared by her grandson, Elisha Rowland Baxley, in 1977. He left the following narrative:
"Jane Gibson Baxley was born and reared in the Gibson Mill community, Richmond County, N. C. After her marriage to John Wesley Baxley, she made her home in Robeson County. She resided there until the end of the Civil War and as her husband did not return home, she brought her two small sons, Thomas B. and Allen L., eight and seven years of age, back to her former home where she could better live among her own relatives. There is no available information as to the date of her death [see clipping from The Wilmington Morning Star, Wed, May 11,1892] but information is that she died of a heart attack while on her way to visit some of her relatives in the Gibson Mill community. She is buried in the Bear Branch cemetery and in an unmarked grave."
May 28, 1977
ERB
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Note: Son Thomas Baxter Baxley's family plot is at the entrance to the cemetery off Hall Road. Son Allen Lane Baxley and his wife are in the larger Elisha C. Terry family plot closer to the entrance off Bear Branch Road. The latter plot contains several known unmarked graves. Since Allen died in the same timeframe as his mother, it is likely that her unmarked grave is in the Terry plot near Allen.
The Baxley and Terry families were closely related via marriage. Thomas was married to Elisha C. Terry's daughter, Cornelia Ann Terry. Allen married Elisha's stepdaughter, Cornelia Ann Covington.
The four attached photos are an overall view of the Elisha C. Terry plot, moving from left to right. The tall white marker of Allen Lane Baxley is in front and to the right of Elisha's larger marker, visible in the first two photos.
FYI - All four photos with captions have been copied into a public tree on Ancestry.com. Please do not recopy into Ancestry. Search on Elisha C Terry 1834-1911.
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Bio by: JTerry ღ
Jane's birth year is approximate and based on census record information.
She attended school in the Hitchcock Free School District, which taught children from homes north of Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. Jane and five siblings are listed as a group on a March 1842 student list of children ages 5-20 as "Eliza Gibson, Jane Gibson, George W. Gibson, Mary T. Gibson, Martha Gibson and James P. Gibson".
By 1850, the Gibson family had moved to Cumberland County. They are found in the US Federal Census at dwelling #679. In the same county census, John Baxley, born 1829, was living nearby with the Job Culbreth family in dwelling #699 and working as a laborer.
Jane Gibson and J. W. Baxley were married in Cumberland County on March 8, 1853. They had two sons, Thomas Baxter Baxley and Allen Lane Baxley. In 1860, they were living and working a farm in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, North Carolina.
John enlisted in the CSA, Company A, North Carolina 31st Infantry Regiment on March 10, 1863, in Charleston, South Carolina. In June 1864, he was captured by Union troops at Gaines Farm, possibly in Maryland. John was killed during a transport of Confederate POWs to Elmira (NY) Prison Camp in a train collision at Shohola, Pike County, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1864. Initially, he was interred in Shohola with other casualties. Some years later, the graves were moved to Elmira, New York.
In June of 1870, Jane sold property in Robeson County to pay taxes. In August, the widowed Jane, her two sons and her widowed mother, Martha Gibson, were enumerated in Howellsville, Robeson County, sharing a dwelling among other Baxley households.
By 1880, Jane had moved to the town of Roberdell in Richmond County with her two sons. Her brother, James P. Gibson, was living nearby. Their mother appears to have died in the interim.
Jane died suddenly in 1892 while en route to visit relatives in the nearby community of Gibson Mill.
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A family pedigree was prepared by her grandson, Elisha Rowland Baxley, in 1977. He left the following narrative:
"Jane Gibson Baxley was born and reared in the Gibson Mill community, Richmond County, N. C. After her marriage to John Wesley Baxley, she made her home in Robeson County. She resided there until the end of the Civil War and as her husband did not return home, she brought her two small sons, Thomas B. and Allen L., eight and seven years of age, back to her former home where she could better live among her own relatives. There is no available information as to the date of her death [see clipping from The Wilmington Morning Star, Wed, May 11,1892] but information is that she died of a heart attack while on her way to visit some of her relatives in the Gibson Mill community. She is buried in the Bear Branch cemetery and in an unmarked grave."
May 28, 1977
ERB
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Note: Son Thomas Baxter Baxley's family plot is at the entrance to the cemetery off Hall Road. Son Allen Lane Baxley and his wife are in the larger Elisha C. Terry family plot closer to the entrance off Bear Branch Road. The latter plot contains several known unmarked graves. Since Allen died in the same timeframe as his mother, it is likely that her unmarked grave is in the Terry plot near Allen.
The Baxley and Terry families were closely related via marriage. Thomas was married to Elisha C. Terry's daughter, Cornelia Ann Terry. Allen married Elisha's stepdaughter, Cornelia Ann Covington.
The four attached photos are an overall view of the Elisha C. Terry plot, moving from left to right. The tall white marker of Allen Lane Baxley is in front and to the right of Elisha's larger marker, visible in the first two photos.
FYI - All four photos with captions have been copied into a public tree on Ancestry.com. Please do not recopy into Ancestry. Search on Elisha C Terry 1834-1911.
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Bio by: JTerry ღ
Daughter of Martha "Patsy" Gibson and Thomas Gibson. Patsy was a great-granddaughter of Mary Bennett and Ziba Gibson.
Jane's birth year is approximate and based on census record information.
She attended school in the Hitchcock Free School District, which taught children from homes north of Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. Jane and five siblings are listed as a group on a March 1842 student list of children ages 5-20 as "Eliza Gibson, Jane Gibson, George W. Gibson, Mary T. Gibson, Martha Gibson and James P. Gibson".
By 1850, the Gibson family had moved to Cumberland County. They are found in the US Federal Census at dwelling #679. In the same county census, John Baxley, born 1829, was living nearby with the Job Culbreth family in dwelling #699 and working as a laborer.
Jane Gibson and J. W. Baxley were married in Cumberland County on March 8, 1853. They had two sons, Thomas Baxter Baxley and Allen Lane Baxley. In 1860, they were living and working a farm in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, North Carolina.
John enlisted in the CSA, Company A, North Carolina 31st Infantry Regiment on March 10, 1863, in Charleston, South Carolina. In June 1864, he was captured by Union troops at Gaines Farm, possibly in Maryland. John was killed during a transport of Confederate POWs to Elmira (NY) Prison Camp in a train collision at Shohola, Pike County, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1864. Initially, he was interred in Shohola with other casualties. Some years later, the graves were moved to Elmira, New York.
In June of 1870, Jane sold property in Robeson County to pay taxes. In August, the widowed Jane, her two sons and her widowed mother, Martha Gibson, were enumerated in Howellsville, Robeson County, sharing a dwelling among other Baxley households.
By 1880, Jane had moved to the town of Roberdell in Richmond County with her two sons. Her brother, James P. Gibson, was living nearby. Their mother appears to have died in the interim.
Jane died suddenly in 1892 while en route to visit relatives in the nearby community of Gibson Mill.
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A family pedigree was prepared by her grandson, Elisha Rowland Baxley, in 1977. He left the following narrative:
"Jane Gibson Baxley was born and reared in the Gibson Mill community, Richmond County, N. C. After her marriage to John Wesley Baxley, she made her home in Robeson County. She resided there until the end of the Civil War and as her husband did not return home, she brought her two small sons, Thomas B. and Allen L., eight and seven years of age, back to her former home where she could better live among her own relatives. There is no available information as to the date of her death [see clipping from The Wilmington Morning Star, Wed, May 11,1892] but information is that she died of a heart attack while on her way to visit some of her relatives in the Gibson Mill community. She is buried in the Bear Branch cemetery and in an unmarked grave."
May 28, 1977
ERB
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Note: Son Thomas Baxter Baxley's family plot is at the entrance to the cemetery off Hall Road. Son Allen Lane Baxley and his wife are in the larger Elisha C. Terry family plot closer to the entrance off Bear Branch Road. The latter plot contains several known unmarked graves. Since Allen died in the same timeframe as his mother, it is likely that her unmarked grave is in the Terry plot near Allen.
The Baxley and Terry families were closely related via marriage. Thomas was married to Elisha C. Terry's daughter, Cornelia Ann Terry. Allen married Elisha's stepdaughter, Cornelia Ann Covington.
The four attached photos are an overall view of the Elisha C. Terry plot, moving from left to right. The tall white marker of Allen Lane Baxley is in front and to the right of Elisha's larger marker, visible in the first two photos.
FYI - All four photos with captions have been copied into a public tree on Ancestry.com. Please do not recopy into Ancestry. Search on Elisha C Terry 1834-1911.
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Bio by: JTerry ღ
Jane's birth year is approximate and based on census record information.
She attended school in the Hitchcock Free School District, which taught children from homes north of Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina. Jane and five siblings are listed as a group on a March 1842 student list of children ages 5-20 as "Eliza Gibson, Jane Gibson, George W. Gibson, Mary T. Gibson, Martha Gibson and James P. Gibson".
By 1850, the Gibson family had moved to Cumberland County. They are found in the US Federal Census at dwelling #679. In the same county census, John Baxley, born 1829, was living nearby with the Job Culbreth family in dwelling #699 and working as a laborer.
Jane Gibson and J. W. Baxley were married in Cumberland County on March 8, 1853. They had two sons, Thomas Baxter Baxley and Allen Lane Baxley. In 1860, they were living and working a farm in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, North Carolina.
John enlisted in the CSA, Company A, North Carolina 31st Infantry Regiment on March 10, 1863, in Charleston, South Carolina. In June 1864, he was captured by Union troops at Gaines Farm, possibly in Maryland. John was killed during a transport of Confederate POWs to Elmira (NY) Prison Camp in a train collision at Shohola, Pike County, Pennsylvania on July 15, 1864. Initially, he was interred in Shohola with other casualties. Some years later, the graves were moved to Elmira, New York.
In June of 1870, Jane sold property in Robeson County to pay taxes. In August, the widowed Jane, her two sons and her widowed mother, Martha Gibson, were enumerated in Howellsville, Robeson County, sharing a dwelling among other Baxley households.
By 1880, Jane had moved to the town of Roberdell in Richmond County with her two sons. Her brother, James P. Gibson, was living nearby. Their mother appears to have died in the interim.
Jane died suddenly in 1892 while en route to visit relatives in the nearby community of Gibson Mill.
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A family pedigree was prepared by her grandson, Elisha Rowland Baxley, in 1977. He left the following narrative:
"Jane Gibson Baxley was born and reared in the Gibson Mill community, Richmond County, N. C. After her marriage to John Wesley Baxley, she made her home in Robeson County. She resided there until the end of the Civil War and as her husband did not return home, she brought her two small sons, Thomas B. and Allen L., eight and seven years of age, back to her former home where she could better live among her own relatives. There is no available information as to the date of her death [see clipping from The Wilmington Morning Star, Wed, May 11,1892] but information is that she died of a heart attack while on her way to visit some of her relatives in the Gibson Mill community. She is buried in the Bear Branch cemetery and in an unmarked grave."
May 28, 1977
ERB
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Note: Son Thomas Baxter Baxley's family plot is at the entrance to the cemetery off Hall Road. Son Allen Lane Baxley and his wife are in the larger Elisha C. Terry family plot closer to the entrance off Bear Branch Road. The latter plot contains several known unmarked graves. Since Allen died in the same timeframe as his mother, it is likely that her unmarked grave is in the Terry plot near Allen.
The Baxley and Terry families were closely related via marriage. Thomas was married to Elisha C. Terry's daughter, Cornelia Ann Terry. Allen married Elisha's stepdaughter, Cornelia Ann Covington.
The four attached photos are an overall view of the Elisha C. Terry plot, moving from left to right. The tall white marker of Allen Lane Baxley is in front and to the right of Elisha's larger marker, visible in the first two photos.
FYI - All four photos with captions have been copied into a public tree on Ancestry.com. Please do not recopy into Ancestry. Search on Elisha C Terry 1834-1911.
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Bio by: JTerry ღ
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