Annabella (Dixon) Gibson (abt. 1748 - abt. 1836)

Born about 1748 in Path Valley, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Descendants

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Biography

The Dixons came from Ireland and settled in Connecticut. From Connecticut they came to Pennsylvania where they had purchased land from the Indians as members of the Susquehanna Company. [1]

Gibson Spring: "In pioneer days it was a favorite resort for deer and turkey. Anna Belle Gibson, the pioneer Mother, it is said, stricktly enforced the law as to shooting of Sunday; and the deer and turkeys seemed to know that they were safe on that day, for their visits seemed more frequest on Sundays than on any other day of the week, to the great vexation of the men of the family." [2]

Buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Mahoning County, Ohio (Youngstown)

Research

Annabella's name

In the Errata page of Capt. James Gibson and Anna Belle His Wife and Their Descendants : Pioneers of Youngstown^[1], it indicates that "Anna Belle" on the cover should be "Anna Bella."

Additionally, John Dixon's last will & testament refers to her as “my beloved daughter Annabella intermarried with James Gibson.” ^[2] She also had a sister, Ann (Dixon) (Carson) Campbell, who was referred to in the will as “my beloved daughter Ann Dixon alias Carson” and also as “my daughter Ann” several additional times, making it even less likely that Annabella would commonly use the nickname Ann alone.

Sources

1. ↑ Gibson, W. T. Capt. James Gibson and Anna Belle His Wife and Their Descendants : Pioneers of Youngstown, Ohio, 1908. www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/67487.
2. ↑ “Page 16-18, Image 323-324; John Dixon Will;Lancaster Wills 1771-1784 Vol C-D; Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994,” November 13, 1780. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-JGTF?i=322&wc=9PMZ-T3N%3A268493801%2C268527101&cc=1999196.

• Capt. James Gibson and Anna Belle, his wife and their descendants : pioneers of Youngstown, Ohio [3]

• Pennsylvania Genealogies Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German - https://ia800205.us.archive.org/28/items/cu31924028856900/cu31924028856900.pdf

• Ancestor Chart submitted to the Murray Clan Society of North America, David A. McCormick, Falls Church, Virginia, 10 Aug 1986. Held in the archives of Clan Murray.

• Records in the archives of Clan Murray, held by the U.S. Genealogist of the Clan, Michael Thomas

• The Gibson Family, by William T. Gibson, 1908, DAR Library, Washington, D.C.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Steven Marsden for starting this profile.