Valentine GIBSON

  Noted events in his life were:

• Cemetery: Rees Cemetery, 1845, Delaware County, IN. GIBSON Valentine 04/07/1845 56y ?m ?d Fairview Cem, Monroe
GIBSON Catherine 01/25/1869 76y 3m 15d w/Valentine Fairview Cem, Monroe

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• Reference: History of Wayne County, Indiana, 1872, Wayne County, IN. Perry Township p311
A church, called Christian Friends, was formed about the year 1837, and a house built near the north-east corner of the township, on the north line. It is said to have been formed by Valentine and Wm. Gibson, of Delaware Co., Ind. Hence the members were called Gibsonites. This church had a brief existence.

• Reference: History of Delaware County, 1890, Delaware County, IN. During the year 1828 Valentine Gibson entered the west half of the southeast quarter of section 2; Robert Gibson with west half of the northeast quarter of section 12 [Monroe township].
[Title: Our county : its history and early settlement by townships : entry of public lands, present owners, reminiscences of pioneer life, etc., with original poems
Authors: Ellis, John S.
p124]

Valentine married Eliza FRAZER on 16 Oct 1807 in Jefferson County, TN. (Eliza FRAZER was born ca. 1790.)

Valentine next married Catherine HARROLD, daughter of Jonathan HAROLD and Charity BEESON, on 31 Jan 1809 in Jefferson County, TN. (Catherine HARROLD was born on 20 Oct 1792 in Stokes County, NC and died on 25 Jan 1869 in Muncie, Delaware County, IN.)