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Descendants of James Anderson

5. EDMOND⁴ GIBBONS (ANN³ EPPES, MARY² ANDERSON, JAMES¹) was born 1779 in TN, Hawkins Co., USA, and died 1879 in TN, Overton Co., USA. He married MARGARET MACY. She was born November 19, 1788 in IRE, and died Abt. 1855 in TN, Overton Co. USA.

Notes for EDMOND GIBBONS:
Information on the line of Edmond Gibbons comes from Nelda and Michael Teakell, Lafayette, Louisiana. Michael is a descendant.

Descendant Michael Teakell of Lafayette, LA says that Edmond is believed to be the 6th child, of 11, I show him as the 5th.

Edmond lived to be 100 years old. He died in 1879 and is buried in the Clay Springs Cemetery in Overton Co. Edmond married Margarett Macy, who was born in Ireland on Nov 19, 1788 and died in 1885. Edmond and Margarett also had eleven children, most of whom were born in Overton Co.

Edmond, Sr. bought his large tract of land after the government acquired thousands of acres of "hunting ground" from the Indians. The purchase price was 25 cents per acre. When Edmond and James married, their father gave large tracts of land and several slaves each. The Gibbons family owned a rather large number of slaves and at one time there was as lave cemetery near the Clay Springs Cem. The slave cabins were still standing in the early part of this century.

More About EDMOND GIBBONS:
Burried: Clay Springs Cem, TN, Overton Co., USA

Notes for MARGARET MACY:
Togin Cassell says 11 children, information via internet.

Children of EDMOND GIBBONS and MARGARET MACY are:

21.	i.		EDMOND M.⁵ GIBBONS, b. March 1820, Overton Co. TN; d. March 27, 1911.
22.	ii.		JAMES M. GIBBONS, b. February 01, 1824, Hillham, TN, Overton Co., USA; d. June 16, 1899, Montague, TX, Montague Co., USA.

6. LORETTA "SALLIE"⁴ GIBBONS (ANN³ EPPES, MARY² ANDERSON, JAMES¹) was born March 09, 1787 in Virginia. She married JOELL GILLENWATER. He was born 1764 in Amherst, VA, USA, and died in TN.

Notes for LORETTA "SALLIE" GIBBONS:
Information on the first name and nick-name come from Nancy Myers .

1008 North Drive, Alma, AR 72921.
This is her husbands line, letter received 5/2/95
The name of husband Joel Gillenwater was also received.

By 1800 they were in Hawkins TN.

Notes for JOELL GILLENWATER:
From Group sheet of Nancy Myers

1830 TN, HA p. 57

Several sources say Joell's wife was Henrietta

He was Rev War Soldier

BRB Gillenwater Bk. p. 273-276

P. 273 Joell (like written in will) named in his father's will, to share 123 acres of land on Bollings Creek in Amherst VA with his brother, Elijah. Joell and Elijah sold land the lst day of Feb 1784.

Joell served in the Rev. War in Amherst militia, E.

There is a controversy about who Joell was married to, The VA Hist. Mag. Vol. 33 p. 305, says he m. Sally Gibbons, d/o Thomas and Ann. Mr. Neil's manuscript ( Neal, Harbison, Snodgrass, Miller and Rel. Fam. ? by Thomas H. Neal 197? says he m. "Ritta" probably Henrietta . Also said he had 6 sons and some daughters.

March 2, 1784, Robert Coyle (Kyle) was granted ? acres of land next to Joel. (Deed Bk 2 p. 214 Hawkins, TN)

1786 Deed to Joel from Marshall Bacombe. Wit. were Thomas Gillenwater and James Simmons (deed bk 2 pg. 293,297 Hawkins, TN Reg. 1797)

Dec 1 1797 Joel, a sheriff of Hawkins Co., sold land to Christopher Wilflee (Deed bk l page 206)

Rebecca Cross, wife of Edward, Decd. made a deed will in Hawkins Co., naming her children. Among other parcels of lands, she gives a tract of land, 40 acres, that had been purchased from Joel. (deed bk 2 p g 336,337 Reg. Aug 1, 1801)

From the book by Barbara R. Brown, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Thomas, Elijah, Joell and younger children. This will has been the only early Gillenwater will found, and because of this many earlier
researchers have said:

Thomas and Martha are the parents of James, Thomas, Elisha, John , Joshua, Elijah, Joell, Keziah Wright, Elizabeth Simmons, and the wife of Robert Cross.

I contend, because of proven ages on some of these people, there were at least two different families.

Tennessee Cousins page 87

Joel Gillenwater and his family of Hawkins Co.,

The name of Joel Gillenwaters appears first on the records of Hawkins Co. as a member of the Grand Jury in 1810. The name of Gillenwaters appears on the records of South Carolina and it is not improbable that the Hawkins Co. family came to the Watauga Valley from there.

Source Warren Harrison, researcher
Joel and Sallie moved to Rogersville TN, where they had a son William in 1785 (and several others too) who was my GGG-grandfather.

Children of LORETTA GIBBONS and JOELL GILLENWATER are:

ELIJAH C.⁵ GILLENWATER, d. November 1858, Monroe, KY, USA; m. REBECCA SNODGRASS, 1815, Hawkins, TN, USA.

Notes for ELIJAH C. GILLENWATER:
Elijah may have been born in Hawkins TN or VA.

Elijah may have been born in Hawkins TN or VA.

ii.

DAVID GILLENWATER, b. Hawkins, TN, USA; m. KEZIAH WILSON.

Notes for DAVID GILLENWATER:
Group sheet from Myers: date of death April 1867 in Monroe KY of 1856 in TN

Group sheet from Myers: date of death April 1867 in Monroe KY of 185 6
in TN

iii.

JOHN C. GILLENWATER, b. Hawkins, TN, USA; d. 1843, Effingham, IL, USA; m. ELIZABETH SURGOIN.

Notes for JOHN C. GILLENWATER:
John Gillenwaters and his wife left Tenn and migrated to Effingham Co., Illinois, where in July of 1842, their son William P. Gillenwaters was born. Both John and his wife were born in Hawkins Co. and John died in Illinois in 1843, and his wife a few months later, and the son William P. Gillenwaters returned to Hawkins Co. and to the home of his grandfather, where he worked for a year or more with his grandfather in the saddle shop , and then went to Strawberry Plains to school after which he taught for several seasons and studied law, and finally returned to Hawkins Co and became one of the leading lawyers of Rogersville, William P. Gillenwaters married in 1865, Miss
Amanda Sexton, by whom he had several sons and daughters, whose descendants are scattered.

John Gillenwaters and his wife left Tenn and migrated to Effingham Co.,
Illinois, where in July of 1842, their son William P. Gillenwaters was
born.
Both John and his wife were born in Hawkins Co. and John died in Illinois
in
1843, and his wife a few months later, and the son William P. Gillenwaters
returned to Hawkins Co. and to the home of his grandfather, where he
worked for a year or more with his grandfather in the saddle shop , and
then went to
Strawberry Plains to school after which he taught for several seasons and
studied law, and finally returned to Hawkins Co and became one of the
leading
lawyers of Rogersville, William P. Gillenwaters married in 1865, Miss
Amanda
Sexton, by whom he had several sons and daughters, whose descendants are
scattered.

Notes for ELIZABETH SURGOIN:
Elizabeth Surgoin's parents lived at a place by the name of Surgoinville, in !Hawkins Co., her father being the owner of a saddle shop there in an early day. Source: Tennessee Cousins page 87

Elizabeth Surgoin parents lived at a place by the name of Surgoinville,
in
Hawkins Co., her father being the owner of a saddle shop there in an
early day Source: Tennessee Cousins page 87

23.	iv.	WILLIAM GILLENWATER, b. August 14, 1785, Amherst, VA, USA; d. October 06, 1856, Hawkins, TN, USA.
24.	v.	THOMAS GILLENWATER, b. February 13, 1790, Hawkins, TN, USA; d. February 11, 1865, KY, USA.
	vi.	JOSEPH GILLENWATER, b. 1792, Hawkins, TN, USA.
	vii.	JOEL G. GILLENWATER, b. 1796, Hawkins, TN, USA; d. 1827; m. JANE "JENNY" SNODGRASS, 1818, Sullivan, TN, USA.