Garrett GIBSON

   Another name for Garrett was Jarett GIBSON.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Land, 1831, Madison County, IL. IL0140__.021 GIBSON, GARRET 3/7/1831 1476 IL 3rd PM 003N - 007W E½SE¼ 14 Madison

• Biography, 1853, Tarrant County, TX. In 1853 Garrett and James Gibson, along with other family members, came to Tarrant County and established 160 acre homesteads in a settlement that came to be known as the Gibson community. Each brother donated land at this site for use as a cemetery. The earliest marked grave is that of Garrett Gibson's infant grandson, James Truitt (D.1866). All but two of the seventy three marked graves, many of which have only fieldstones, are for relatives of the Gibson family. The cemetery now serves as a reminder of one of Tarrant County's earliest settlements.

The cemetery is 4.5 miles northwest of Mansfield. West on FM Road 1107, turn north on Newt-Patterson Road, left on Gibson Cemetery Road. The cemetery is off the road on the left.

http://files.usgwarchives.org/tx/tarrant/cemeteries/gibson.txt

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/tarrant/cemeteries/gibson.txt

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtarran/cemetery/gibson.htm

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Tarrant/cemetery/gibson.htm

• Alt. Birth, 12 Jun 1805, TN.

• Land, 1840, Fayette County, IL. IL2590__.323 GIBSON, GARRET 10/10/1840 9549 IL 3rd PM 007N - 003E W½NE¼ 17 Fayette

• Tax List, 1860, Tarrant County, TX. Gipson, J. J.
Gipson, J. W.
Gibson, Danl
Gipson, Garrett abstract no: 276, original grantee: G. Gipson, arces:160, value: 480
Gipson, Mac
Gipson, James

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtarran/tax/1860-g.htm

• Tax List, 1863, Tarrant County, TX. Gibson, Arron
by J.Gibson
Gibson, J.J.
Gibson, James
Gibson, Jarett

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtarran/tax/1863txd.htm

• Tax List, 1864, Tarrant County, TX. Gibson, James
Gibson, Jarett
Gibson, Mc
by Jarett Gibson

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtarran/tax/1864txd.htm

• Military Service: Confederate Soldier. His widow applied and recieved a pension on him. Pension was filed for in Oklahoma.

• Cemetery: Gibson Cemetery, 1875, Tarrant County, TX. Mansfield, Tarrant County, TX

GIBSON, Garrett, Jan. 3, 1805 - Sept. 20, 1875


http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Tarrant/cemetery/gibson.htm

Garrett married Mary "Polly" REECE, daughter of Daniel REECE and Mary VANHOOSER, on 18 Feb 1826 in Madison County, IL.¹ (Mary "Polly" REECE was born on 7 Oct 1808 in Madison County, IL and died on 14 Sep 1879 in Tarrant County, TX.)

  Marriage Notes:

Garrett Gibson & Polly Riece, 2/1/1826, Vo. 6, pg. 14, lic. #529, Madison Co.