Kessiah GIBSON

   Other names for Kessiah were Kesiah GIBSON, Keziah GIBSON and Kizziah GIBSON.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Legal: ECA, 1908, Magoffin County, KY. Aunt of 31695 and claims through the same source

[31695 is Christina Cole, daughter of Hezekiah Gibson]

How old are you [1837] born in Tennessee

Are you married No

To what tribe of Indians does he or she belong? Cherokee

Father and Mother; Bryson Gibson and Fannie Gibson

Where were they born?
Father; in Virginia or Tenn
Mother; '' ''

Where did they reside in 1851 Don't know [Hezekiah/Kiah Gibsons
application says they lived in Morgan Co., Ky.]

Father died 1865
Mother died 1867

Brothers and sisters
Tyra Gibson
Polly Gibson
Dice Gibson
Alex Gibson
Betty Gibson
Ava Gibson
Burl Gibson
Kiah Gibson

State English and Indian names of your grandparents
Thomas Gibson
Polly Gibson

August 23rd, 1907

Personally appeared T. J. Arnett and J. J. Pace who being duly sworn
on oath depose and say that they are well acquainted with Kizziah
Gibson.......
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Kiziah Gibson being duly sworn and examined, deposed and says;

My name is Kizziah Gibson; I was born in Wise Co/Va., in 1836 I claim my Cherokee blood thru both my father and mother. I think my father was bron in Wise Co., Va., about 1785; he died in 1870; in 1835 I and my father and mother lived in Wise Co., Va. In 1851 I and the ancestors thru whom [I claim] lived in Floyd Co., Ky. 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; none of the ancestors thru whom I claim were ever held in bondage; none of the ancestors thru whom I claim were ever enrolled that I know of and ever received any money or land as an Indian; none of my ancestors ever had an Indian name that I know of;

I never heard my grandparents say how much Indian blood they had; they always told us that we belonged to the Cherokee generation. my father was a voter. In the community I have always been regarded as having Cherokee Indian blood.

Kizziah Gibson

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 29th day of July, 1908 at Salyersville, Ky.

• Note: Death Certificate, 1921, Magoffin County, KY. NAME CERTIFICATE DEATH INFORMATION
LAST NAME FIRST NAME MI VOL CERT YR MO DA AGE VOL

GIBSON KESIRE 033 16411 22 07 09 101 22

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Death Certificate KESIRE GIBSON
Magoffin County
July 9, 1921
female, white, widowed
born July 1, 1821- Virginia

FATHER; JASPER GIBSON
MOTHER; MARY HUDSON

Buried May Cemtery July 10, 1922
Undertaker; Patrick Prater

(Note: by location, and dates, this does appear to be Kessiah...why her father is listed as Jasper Gibson is beyond me...perhaps Bryson's middle name or first given name was Jasper? Was Mary Hudson a 1st wife of his? This Hudson name seems to connect to the Crace surname...and the Crace's were regular neighbors of this line of Gibson's in Magoffin Co, KY. I believe a Jasper Hudson MD a Crace gal or vice versa on one tree I parused. )