George Washington Gibbs (1811 - 1880)

Born 1811 in Knox, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Betsey (Bayless) Gibbs — married 5 Oct 1831 in Knox County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 1880 at about age 69 in Arkansas, United States

Biography

George Washington Gibbs, born in 1811 in Knox, Tennessee, was a son of Daniel Gibbs (1786–1852) and Sarah Sallie Sharp (1790–1881).^[1] His Gibbs ancestors had settled in Orange North Carolina in the mid 1700s prior to establishing their home in Tennessee.

George, at age 19 married Elizabeth Betsey Bayless (17) (born about 1813 in Tennessee; daughter of John Bayless and Elizabeth (Jones) Bayless) on 5 October 1831 in Knox County, Tennessee.^[2]

In 1880, George W (68) Gibbs was living in Warm Springs, Randolph, Arkansas, ^[3] where he died in 1880 at age 68.

Their children were:

• Dorcas Ann Gibbs (13 June 1828 – 13 December 1881)
• Lucinda Gibbs (1832 – unknown)
• Sarah Gibbs (1834 – unknown)
• Louisa Gibbs (1836 – unknown)
• Isaac Gibbs (1838 – unknown)
• Martha Gibbs (1840 – unknown)
• John Gibbs (1842 – unknown)
• Susan Gibbs (1845 – unknown)
• Libby A. Gibbs (1848 – unknown)
• Rebecca Gibbs (1857 – unknown)
• George Gibbs (1857 – unknown)

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD2-6SM : accessed 10 January 2016), George W Gibbs, Knox county, part of, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing family 1207, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ43-R2J : accessed 10 January 2016), George W Gibbs and Elizabeth Bayless, 05 Oct 1831; citing Knox, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 155, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,020,951.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNWL-ZQ2 : 13 January 2022), George W. Gibb, Warm Springs, Randolph, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8M-WM9 : 18 February 2021), George Gibbs, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M46B-53L : 29 May 2021), G W Gibbs, 1870.