James Gibson Jr. (abt. 1782 - 1835)

Born about 1782 in Pennsylvania, United States

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Descendants

Died 1835 at about age 53 in Gibson fording, Mahoning River, Ohio

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gibson Name Study.

James Gibson, Jr. and Robert D. Gibson . . . with their teams and wagons, were in the war of 1812, and served two years along the lakes and the Canadian border, conveying provisions, ammunition and other supplies for the American army in the war against England. After the war, in addition to their farming, they hauled freight by wagon from Pittsburg to Youngstown and Cleveland, with ox teams sometimes, and sometimes with horses.

Capt. James Gibson and Anna Belle, his wife and their descendants : pioneers of Youngstown, Ohio [1]

James Gibson, son of James and Anna Bella Gibson, was drowned while trying to ford the Mahoning River at the Gibson fording in the year 1835. With his nephew, Samuel, son of his brother, Robert D. Gibson, he went to the Village of Youngstown to attend to some business at the Gibson fording. They rode horses and on the way in they forded the river. It was raining and the river was rising. Samuel went home before his uncle and crossed the river on a bridge which then spanned the Mahoning a short distance west of the mouth of Dry Run. His uncle later attempted the ford. The horse came home without its rider. The stirrup strap on the right side was across the seat of the saddle. The body was taken out of the river near the mouth of Crab Creek. No one saw the accident. It was supposed that the horse stumbled over a stone in the fording and threw its rider into the swift current. He left a widow whose name before her marriage was Jane Riddle, and one child, a daughter, whose name was Isabel. Isabel married James McElhaney. James and Isabel McElhaney had four children, Robert, Mary, Orinda and Irene. Of these Mary and Irene are now living. Robert was a soldier in the war of 1861. He enlisted as a recruit in a Pennsylvania regiment and got his first experience as a soldier at the battle of the Wilderness.

Capt. James Gibson and Anna Belle, his wife and their descendants : pioneers of Youngstown, Ohio, pp. 38-39. [2]

James was born about 1782. James was the child of James Gibson and Annabella Dixon. James passed away about 1850. ^[1]

Sources

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

• 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.

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by David McCORMICK, Sunday, March 8, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Steven Marsden for starting this profile.