Interred in Gibson Family Cemetery, Burr Hill, Orange, VA (on private property).

Married to an Ann Gibson

From headstone rubbing:

In the memory of

John Gibson

who departed this life

in his 69th year

He died as he had lived an honest

man and when summoned to meet

his God he received the mandate

without the murmor

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Info below from Mark Hale:

John was born around 1764 presumably in Fauquier Co., Virginia. His marriage in 1783 to Ann Eustace is said to have been recorded in Fauquier. [Alice E. Trabue in "The Gibson Family," pp. 71-72, Virginia Historical Magazine (Jan. 1, 1920). He and his brother Thomas were probably the soldiers named in Revolutionary War rosters from Fauquier County.

The 1773-74 will of his grandfather Thomas Harrison 2nd in Fauquier Co., named grandson John Gibson among his heirs; John was also an heir named in the 1788 will of his father. [both wills abstracted in John K. Gott, Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia Wills Inventories and Accounts 1759-1800, 1976, Harrison's on pp. 55-58 and Gibson's on p. 204]

Ms. Trabue identified no offspring for John. (Bio by Mark Hale)

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Info below from Janet Blum Lynch:

Born: 1764

Died: 26 Nov 1833 (in his 69th year)

Wife: Ann Eustace Gibson of Fauquier County, VA,

married on 24 MAR 1783 (age 25)

John & Ann Gibson's Orange Co. VA estate on Mine Run was named Spring Hill (built betw.1740-1750 by a "John Gibson", assumedly John Gibson's grandfather, Jonathan "John" Gibson, Jr./II who moved to Orange Co. ca 1740). Spring Hill encompassed 1000 acres but by the mid-1850s was down to 410.25 acres and adjoined the lands of Oliver Bartley. John and Ann Gibson's elderly, unwed daughters, Anna G. ("Nancy") and Frances E. Gibson, with grandsons, John Gibson and Robert "Beverly" Gibson (youngest sons of Edwin Eustace Gibson and Hannah Mallory), owned Spring Hill. The two elderly sisters resided there for a time, likely raising their two nephews whose mother died in 1833 while they were very young. Anna and Frances appear in the 1850 Census at their widowed sister-in-law Frances Muschett Gibson's estate, Fleetwood, in Pr Wm Co. During the Civil War, Spring Hill (referred to as Gibson House) was used as Lee's Winter Headquarters in 1863-64, Near Mine Run/Wilderness. A network of Civil War earthworks remains preserved on the property. The Gibsons (Anna, Frances, John and Robert B.) lost the property to neighbor Benjamin Sisson, Jr. (& wife, Susan Roach) when they were unable to repay a $1,700+ Interest loan (23 Jan 1862).

Sisson succession is unclear in the Deed Records as Benjamin Sisson, Jr died in 1869, during the legal battle. Joseph "Quinton" Sisson and Mildred Tinsley Sisson (Susan Roach Sisson's niece) came to own Spring Hill (96.5 acres). Mildred was widowed in 1904. Years later, Nephew Edward ("Eddie") Lewis Tinder and his wife Nina Singleton Tinder moved to Spring Hill and helped "Aunt Millie" with the farm. The couple lived in the mid-1700s home with his widowed Aunt until her passing in 1932, and were the last and highest bidders for the real estate, which had been left in Mildred's Will to a long list of heirs (nephews and nieces). The Tinders continued living in Spring Hill while they built a 1945 farm house approximately 20 feet from the original plantation home. The new home faced West while the old plantation house faced North and would have fronted the old Sisson Road which is no longer in existence. Eddie and Nina Tinder's son, John Lee Tinder, said that the Gibson House was used as a goat & chicken barn when he was a child and was eventually torn down in the mid-1960s. John Tinder remembered that there was some brick on the inside of the Gibson house and that the brick was removed and used in the construction of Dawson's Exxon in Orange, VA.

In April 1937, Nina Tinder had provided info about the historic Spring Hill home to the WPA Virginia Historical Inventory Project. The report describes a 2.5 story log & frame home with a cellar (1st story nearly all stone, then log, then frame) with a gabled roof, 2 stone chimneys, 11 windows, 2 winding enclosed staircases, a single door entry, 2 mantles (1 fancy, 1 plain), 10-inch heart pine flooring, painted & paneled walls, H. & L. Hinges, & common iron locks. The rooms were all large and the house in Poor condition. A spring, said to have been dug by the Indians, was still in use.

In 1964, Spring Hill (90.5 acres) was sold to Herbert Lee ("Tuck") Carter, whose daughter, Doris Carter Long, subdivided the property. Today, 42 acres of the original Gibson Spring Hill estate remains.

John Gibson Great-Grandparents:

Jonathan Gibson, I (1st cousin of Edmond Gibson, Bishop of London; owned tobacco warehouse at Port Royal)

B: 26 Dec 1668 Westmoreland Co England

D: 1729 King Geo. Co., VA

M: Elizabeth Thornton Conway on 3 Mar 1699 Richmond, VA -- (She was the great-grandmother of President James Madison & widow of Edwin Conway, II - they had one son, Francis Conway who M Rebecca Catlett)

John Gibson Grandparents:

Jonathan "John" Gibson, Jr./II (Born at Belle Grove Plantation, same site as President Madison's birth; 1721 Justice of St George Parish, 1733-34 Sheriff of St Geo. Parish; 1736 Sheriff -- Tobacco Inspector at warehouses on Rapp. River in Caroline Co; 1736-38 "a controversial Burgess" of Caroline Co; ca. 1740 moved to Orange Co, VA; 1740-45 1st County Clerk of Orange; 1741 built Mine Run Bridge)

B: 1700 Richmond Co, VA

D: 1745 Orange Co, VA (accidental poisoning)

M: Margaret Catlett abt 1725 Fauquier Co, VA

John Gibson Parents:

Jonathan Catlett Gibson, III (1st cousin to Eleanor Conway Madison, mother of President James Madison; one of James Madison's godfathers; long time resident of Elk Run, Fauquier Co)

B: 1725/29 Orange, VA

D: Sep 1791 Fauquier, VA

M: Susanna(h) Harrison abt 1755

John Gibson's siblings: (John Gibson was 2nd born)

Col. Thomas Harrison Gibson M: Charlotte Chilton Beale

Ann Grayson Gibson Blackwell M: Col. Jos. Blackwell

Capt Jonathan Catlett Gibson M: Elizabeth Mallory; M: Lucy Shumate

Mary Gibson Mallory M: William Mallory, Sr.

Susanna "Susan" Harrison Grayson Gibson Taylor M: Major Wm. Berry Taylor

John Gibson & Ann Eustace Gibson Children:

Col. John "Jack" Gibson, Lawyer (law offices 1st in Dumfries; "very handsome, immaculate dress")

B: 1784 Orange, VA

D: 21 Sep 1845 Pr. Wm. Co. (Fleetwood Plantation) – died in a fall

M: Frances "Fanny" B. Muschett in 1806

Childless; Did help raise many nephews; (widowed "Fanny" willed Fleetwood Plantation to former slave, Wm. H. Chinn, after Civil War

His headstone says son of John & Ann Gibson of Orange VA

See Harrison V Gibson, 64 Va 212, 23 Gratt (1873) Court Case --- This John Gibson worked for his father John Gibson (D 1833) -- as Harrison family trustees

Anna G. Gibson/ "Nancy"

B: 1787 Orange, VA

D: 20 Nov 1874 Orange, VA

Single

William E. Gibson

B: abt 1790 VA

D: Bef 1842 Culpeper Co, VA

M: Eliz. Finny Gray on 9 May 1816 (her sister Purifee married Wm's brother, Thomas; widowed & 2nd M to Thornton Stringfellow, Clergy)

2 Sons: Wm. E. Gibson, John "Jack" Francis Gibson, Lawyer (died in fire at Uncle's Plantation, Fleetwood --- drunk/passed out on hearth rug that caught fire)

Jonathan Catlett Gibson, Sr., Lawyer – owned Plantation Dandridge (War 1812 with brother John Gibson; studied Law under bro. John in Dumfries; farming & Law in Culpeper Co; 1 of 3 commissioned to build bridge across Rapidan; in 1824, Major Gibson escorted Gen Lafayette at Montpelier)

B: 17 Nov 1793 (2

D: 7 Dec 1849 Culpeper

M: Martha Dandridge Ball abt 1816 (2 daus); M: Mary William Shackleford (5 sons; 6 daus) -- all 5 of his sons were Confederate Soldiers; UVA grads, medical doctors or attorneys/ judges -- impressive lot)

......it is possible that this Jonathan Catlett Gibson was really a NEPHEW of John & Ann Gibson as John Gibson's brother, Jonathan Catlett Gibson, first wife died the same year that this Jonathan Catlett Gibson was born. Lucy Buckner (?) says this was her grandfather and that his parents were Jonathan Catlett Gibson and a Miss Mallory. She also combines John & Ann Gibson offspring as siblings whereas they would have been first cousins. (Jonathan Catlett Gibson was married to Eliz. Mallory B approx 1770 D after 1793; He then married Lucy Shumate in 1797. He died in 1809 & Lucy died in 1814 at age 33.) But Gibson Wills do refer to "JC Gibson" as child/grandchild/sibling.

Thomas Gaspin Gibson, Farmer

B: 1795 VA

D: 1863 TN (lived in Culpeper)

M: Purifee Gray in 1817 (5 sons --Confed. soldiers, farmers, medical doctor, 3 daus) -- her sister Eliz. married his brother Wm

Edwin Eustace Gibson

B: 17 May 1800 Orange, VA

D: 18 Oct 1851 Orange, VA

M: Hannah Mallory on 11 Dec 1833 (4 sons: Wm Mallory Gibson, Farmer in KY; Dr. Frederick Hancock Gibson, MD in KY; John Gibson, Attny in Orange Co, Robert "Beverly" Gibson, Farmer Orange Co)

Eliz. "Betsy" Eustace Gibson Terrill

B: 9 Apr 1801 Orange Co, VA

D: 21 Aug 1890 VA

M: John Calvin Terrill on 8 Jun 1835 (4 sons, 1 dau)

Susan "Susie" H. Gibson

B: abt 1806 Orange, VA

D: bef. 1841 in KY

No Children

Frances E. Gibson

B: 1808 Orange, VA

D: 25 Jan 1892 VA

Single