"West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRTS-CV9 : 11 February 2018), Samuel Black and Mary E Gibson, 1854; citing Lewis, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 825,112.
"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F11Y-VGW : 10 March 2018), Elizabeth Gibson in entry for Ella J. Rupert, 28 Feb 1952; citing Greenbrier, West Virginia, County Records, 4458, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 1,984,251.
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I came to this wiki from GEDMatch as I share a 13 cM connection with kit M151269. The name that jumps out at me is Gibson. I have been working on triangulation of my great great grandmother Jennie/Jane/Johannah Gibson from Ireland settled in NY, with another Gibson branch with descendants in Canada and Michigan. Please see my tree at ancestry (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/88824582/family?cfpid=76017110242&selnode=1&usePUBJs=true) which is where I do most of my work - and connect with GEDMatch kit M601689 (Canada Gibsons, ancestry http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/108779733/family) perhaps we can find the connection that our DNA match seems to point to.