Joel, Andrew, Thomas, Archibald, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Tyre Gibson aling with Valentine Collins, lived on Cranberry Creek. Zachariah and Job Cole lived on Meadow, a tributary of Cranberry.
About 1801 Thomas, Sheppard Gibson and David Collins land was sold at Sheriff's Sale for taxes. Archibald followed in 1812, possibly following Ezekiel to Kentucky where Ezekiel joined a Ky., Company in War of 1812.
Dec 1801 Nancy Gibson and Valentine Collins are the first to show up at the Stony Creek Church, to be followed by Thomas, Charles, Reuben [his mother] Henry, James, wife Ruth, Fanny, Anny, Frances and Mary Gibson. HERE
Wilkes Co., NC. Joel and Thomas were first settlers of Cranberry Creek, Joel Moore and Joseph Nichols who witnessed will of Thomas Gibson 1780 Henry Co., were neighbors of Joel Gibson.
Joel, Andrew, Thomas, Archibald, Ezekiel, Zachariah and Tyre Gibson aling with Valentine Collins, lived on Cranberry Creek. Zachariah and Job Cole lived on Meadow, a tributary of Cranberry.
About 1801 Thomas, Sheppard Gibson and Valentine Collins land was sold at Sheriff's Sale for taxes. Archibald followed in 1812, possibly following Ezekiel to Kentucky where Ezekiel joined a Ky., Company in War of 1812.
Dec 1801 Nancy Gibson and Valentine Collins are the first to show up at the Stony Creek Church, to be followed by Thomas, Charles, Reuben [his mother] Henry, James, wife Ruth, Fanny, Anny, Frances and Mary Gibson.
Henry Gibson and Bryson Gibson both died in Morgan Co., Ky., the part that became Magoffin, they both had sons Tyre, Reuben's son Henry had a son Tyre, Bryson and Reuben both married to a Green, probably from Lewis Green. Bryson's descendants filed Cherokee Apps, said grandparents were Thomas and Mary Gibson. Henry Gibson, Bryson's brother death record states he was born in NC in 1787, father was Thomas Gibson. Kezziah, Bryson's daughter stated; "In 1835 the grandparents thru whom I claim lived in Wise Co., Va. In 1835 my parents and grandparents thru whom I claim lived among the Cherokees in Wise Co., Va. I don't know whether they lived as members of the tribe or not" - she states her father [Bryson and mother [Fanny Green] were born 1785 in Wise County [Washington County at the time].
Bryson's son Tyre married Sally Coker, Henry, son of Reuben married Honor Coker and his son Tyre married Polly/Mary Coker. There is much research on the Coker families on the internet. Thomas Coker of Yellow Creek, Kentucky can be found HERE.
Many years ago I began researching the Green and Gibson family as Henry and Bryson were found in Morgan County fairly near where my William K. Gibson lived, though found out later they are not related.
I found the story of Lewis Green and 'the bear' indexed in the Lyman Draper Index and found a copy at the Fort Wayne Library Indiana. I was flabbergasted when 'The Revenant' came out with Leonardo DiCaprio portraying Hugh Glass as it was clearly the same story as Lewis Greens, which precedes the one of Hugh Glass by a few decades.
[Wikipedia] Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833)[1][2][3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter, and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear.
No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in Pennsylvania to Irish, possibly Scots-Irish, parents.[4] Glass became an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River, in present-day Montana, the Dakotas, and the Platte River area of Nebraska.[5] His life story has been the basis of two feature-length films: Man in the Wilderness (1971) and The Revenant (2015). They both portray the survival struggle of Glass, who (in the best historical accounts) crawled and stumbled 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies or weapons by fellow explorers and fur traders during General Ashley's expedition of 1823. Another version of the story was told in a 1966 episode of the TV series Death Valley Days, titled "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear".
Despite the story's popularity, its accuracy has been disputed. It was first recorded in 1825 in The Port Folio, a Philadelphia literary journal, as a literary piece and later picked up by various newspapers. Although originally published anonymously, it was later revealed to be the work of James Hall, brother of The Port Folio's editor. There is no writing from Hugh Glass himself to corroborate the veracity of it. Also, it is likely to have been embellished over the years as a legend.
There is much to be found on the internet of the Green family.
LEWIS GREEN AND EASTER GILGORE HERE
Zachariah Green, the son named in the will, was a surveyor and went with Daniel Boone on one of his first expeditions as far as the Ohio River. An account which he gave of a fight of his father with a bear is found in the Draper Papers owned by the University of Wisconsin.
LEWIS GREEN CLAWED BY A BEAR HERE
Lewis Green came about 1773 and settled on the Clinch someplace between Dungannon and Fort Blackmore. While living here he went out on a hunting trip and was almost clawed to death by a bear.
In 1854, Captain John Carr who had formerly lived on Carr's Creek in Russell County, Virginia, and who had moved to Sumner County, Tennessee in 1784, wrote the particulars of this event to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, saying:
"I did not know Green who was clawed by the bear, but frequently heard the particulars related by Green's son, Zachariah Green, and my brothers. Green lived on Clinch. He and two more men were hunting on the headwaters of Kentucky on Sandy River, where the circumstances took place. He was nearly torn to pieces by a bear. His company or comrades had no idea of his living and ungratefully came off and left him. They reported he was dead on arriving in the settlements. They had left plenty of meat at the camp and by the kind attention of his only companion, a faithful dog who licked his sores, he recovered, and after some months he came to the settlement, contrary to the expectations of every person who was acquainted with the circumstances, and to the disgrace of the two men that were with him, whose names I have forgotten
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