William K. Gibson and Rebecca Ann Gibson

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Husband William K. Gibson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 15 Aug 1841 - Plum Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: John A. Gibson (      -1861) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Jane Kennedy (      -Abt 1847/1848) 2 3

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       Marriage: 1865 or 1866 3 4

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Wife Rebecca Ann Gibson ^{1 4}

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           Born:  - Butler Co, PA
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           Died: 12 Apr - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA
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         Father: James Gibson (1813-1856) 1 5 6 7
         Mother: Jane Sloan (      -Aft 1898) 1 5

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Children

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1 M Lawrence Gibson ³

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           Born:  - Boggs Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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2 M John Harney Gibson ^{3 4}

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           Born:  - Pine Furnace
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3 F Maud Gibson ^{3 4}

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           Born:  - Boggs Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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4 F Ella Gibson ³

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            AKA: Ellen Gibson 4
           Born:  - Goheenville, Armstrong Co, PA
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           Died: Bef 1912
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General Notes: Husband - William K. Gibson

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During his childhood and youth he attended the public schools near his home, and remained under the parental roof until after the outbreak of the Rebellion. He enlisted in Armstrong County, August 15, 1861, in Company A, 78th P. V. I., for three years or during the war, and was sworn into the United States service at Kittanning, the following October, the regiment becoming a part of the Middle Division, Army of the West. He participated in the battles of Stone river and Murfreesboro, Tallahoma, Dug Gap or Bailey Cross Roads, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek and Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Jonesboro. He was one of forty detailed to do scout duty, of whom only fifteen or sixteen were left at the close of the war. For some time he was confined in a hospital with smallpox, and was finally honorably discharged in November, 1864. Returning to Kittanning, he remained a resident of Armstrong County until 1885, when he came to New Bethlehem, where he then made his home. He engaged in contract sawing in Clarion County, met with a fair degree of success, and furnished employment to five men. He held membership in Putneyville Post, G. A. R., at Putneyville, Armstrong County. Politically he was identified with the Republican party, and at one time was a candidate for post-master of New Bethlehem. [CBRCP-CCJC, 1510]

He was but six years old when his mother died. He passed his early years in his native township and received his education in the public schools there. At the age of fourteen he went to live with an uncle, S. M. Peart, an old settler of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Allegheny river in Boggs township. When the Civil war began he went to the defense of the Union, enlisting Aug. 15, 1861, at Camp Meade, in Company A, 78th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He served three years, and was actively engaged in many important battles, including those at Green River, LaVergne, Stone River, Shelbyville, Tracy City, Chattanooga; going to Florence, Alabama, they crossed the river and took part in the engagements of Raccoon and Sand Mountains; the operations in the valley of the Chickamauga and the battle. Returning to Chattanooga they were in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Dalton, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek and Kenesaw Mountain. After the battle of Atlanta he returned home, and he was mustered out Nov. 4, 1864, at Kittanning. While in the army he contracted smallpox, and suffered from the effects ever after. Going back to the Peats farm in Boggs township, he was married in that township in the fall of 1866 and then settled on the Peats "eighty" there, living at that place for two years. He then moved to a sixty-five-acre tract near Pine Furnace, in Boggs township, where he made his home for three years, spending the next three years at Wells Furnace, on the Mahoning river. He then removed to the Stillhouse property on Scrub Grass creek, in Armstrong County, where he remained for another three years, thence going to the Baum property in Boggs township, near Oscar station. After two years' residence there he moved to Goheenville for five years, and then located on a farm at New Bethlehem, upon which place he continued to live for seventeen years. His wife dying, he moved from there to Mosgrove, settling on the place about one and a half miles north of that town. He took considerable interest in the affairs of the locality, having served several terms as supervisor, and he filled minor offices of a public nature. In political connection he was a stalwart Republican. [HAC 1914, ]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1331.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1510.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 864.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1511.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 523.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 447.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 528.