Thomas Gibson Cemetery Hart County, Kentucky Located on highway 569, Powder Mills Road about 1.1 mile east of Gardner Road. Fenced and well maintained by descendants of the Gibson Family. According to Roy Cann's statement in his book, Thomas was the last person to operate the old mills. |
Death Certificates, Photos, notes and stories provided by Dee Tapp - transcription provided by Edith Bastin |
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8 Jun 1822 |
23 Mar 1887 |
h/o (1) Nancy (Whitlow) Gibson & (2) Julia A. Gibson; s/o Thomas & Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson; f/o William J., Mary J., Martha, James H., Charles L., John M., George W., Albert, Lafayette & Annice |
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Mar 27, 1838 |
Sept 16, 1906 |
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Gibson, Frances |
2 Oct 1825 | 22 Sep 1917 |  Spinster d/o Thomas & Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson. No stone found. |
Jan 29, 1832 |
Aug 30, 1922 |
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Jonathan & Caroline B. (Hudgins) Gibson Family |
Alfred Gibson |
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Gibson, Mary Polly (Martin) |
7 May 1798 |
5 Apr 1883 |
w/o Thomas Gibson; d/o Frederick & Elizabeth (Brown) Martin. No stone found. |
Gibson, Mease |
1810 |
25 Apr 1883 |
Black servant of the Thomas Gibson family. No stone found. (See story below) |
Mease/Meece Gibson was omitted from the initial cemetery listing, however, she was the faithful black servant girl who was given to Caroline B. (Hudgins) Gibson as a wedding gift from her mother-in-law, Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson. After the Emancipation Proclamation, Mease was told that President Lincoln had freed all the slaves and that she was free to leave. She said: “This here’s my home, where would I go?” And so, she lived out the rest of her life there on the farm. She was given the Gibson family name, and her death was recorded in the family Bible just like the rest of the family. She was a member of the Knoxes Creek Baptist Church as early as 1834, and her name was listed among the “colored people’s names 1834 – 1872” as belonging to Thomas Gibson.
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Gibson, Nancy (Whitlow) |
1828 |
Abt 1870 |
1 st w/o Alfred Gibson |
12 Jun 1798 |
5 Sep 1867 |
h/o Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson; f/o Alfred Gibson, Jonathan Gibson, Frances Gibson, Mary Jane (Gibson) Hodges, Nancy Harlan (Gibson) Watkins & Katherine H. (Gibson) Martin |
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Thomas Gibson was the last operator of the old gunpowder mill at Powder Mills on Lynn Camp Creek which was located just a short distance from the Gibson homestead. It ceased its gunpowder-making operation around 1865 just after the Civil War during which time gunpowder was sold to both the North and South, and thereafter was used at various times as a lumber mill, a grist mill, a woolen mill and lastly a carding machine operation – all powered from a huge overshot waterwheel at the base of the large spring which provided water for the entire town of Powder Mills. The town ceased to exist around 1945 when Schuyler Best, the last operator of any mill operations passed away. At one time, the town consisted of several houses, a doctor’s office, a telephone exchange, a general store, and a post office. Now, only the doctor’s office and post office remain.
Thomas Gibson Cabin |
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20 Jan 1841 |
11 Oct 1883 |
w/o William M. Hodges; d/o Thomas & Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson |
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Sep 1842 |
19 Jul 1923 |
h/o (1) Martha E. Kessler & (2) Sarah Adair (Gibson) Kessler; s/o Henry & Elizabeth (Goff) Kessler; f/o Ira Kessler (1876 – 1957) (by Martha) who married Mattie (Cardwell) on 2 May 1907. |
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6 Nov 1851 |
1 Nov 1878 |
1 st w/o Alexander Elliott Kessler; M/O Ira Kessler |
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1804 |
1879 |
MORTALITY SCHEDULE. h/o Elizabeth (Goff) Kessler; s/o Daniel & Eve Phoebe (Koontz) Kessler; f/o Alexander Elliott Kessler & Eunice (Kessler) Riley |
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1811 |
1892 |
w/o Henry Kessler; d/o Elijah (b. 27 Feb 1785 in Hardyville, VA – d. 3 Nov 1875 in Green County, KY) and Unity (Rodgers) (b. 1 Jan 1777 ) Goff, both of whom are buried in the Macedonia Church Cemetery in Donansburg, Green County, Kentucky |
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Mar 26, 1859 |
May 20, 1940 |
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Kessler, Sarah Adair Gibson |
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| Martin, Henry Clay | Jan 3, 1838 | Apr 8, 1911 |
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2 Oct 1827 |
20 Jul 1883 |
d/o Thomas & Mary Polly (Martin) Gibson; w/o (1) Thomas Hodges & (2) Henry C. Martin |
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Sep 29, 1871 |
Mar 28, 1896 |
d/o Henry C. & Katherine H. (Gibson) Martin |
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| No relationship to the Gibson and Kessler families except that he lived among them and they gave him a home until he died. Tin marker. KDIndex: Name: John F. Quisenberry Death Date: July 30, 1955 Death Place: Barren Co Age: 076 Residence: Barren Volume: 31 Certificate: 15060 |
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Mar 1, 1830 |
Feb 18, 1915 |
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Jul 20, 1914 |
Feb 11, 1941 |
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Jan 28, 1941 |
Nov 5, 1941 |
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Feb 19, 1910 |
Nov 14, 1960 |
h/o (1) Caroline Beatrice (Morales) Whitlow & (2) Marjorie L. Spencer |
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Whitlow, Marjorie L. |
1925 |
1968 |
2nd w/o Ford Whitlow. m/o Helen (Spencer) Jewell & Elza Spencer. Tin marker |
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| Kessler, Infant Oct 15, 1908 - Oct 20, 1908 |
| Kessler, Sissie M. 1881 - --- |
| Sissie Kessler should be Narcissa "Sissie" Myrtle (Jeffreys) Kessler. She is buried alongside her husband Alva Rufus Kessler in the Houk Cemetery in Metcalfe County, Kentucky, according to new information obtained from her descendants. (The Kessler infant may likely be the child of Sissie & Rufus?) |
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