The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-03-31
no. 10.l
THE GIBBS.
Pioneer Families Of Mason
Connty-Their Ancestors and
DesCelidnnls,
ny WHO'LL 5. LEwn.

his descendants we're sea faring
people, one Of them, Captain Gibbs
commanding a vessel plying be.
tween New York and Newport,
Rhode Island, as early as l757.-
About that time one branch Of The
family removed southwark and
found a home near the village Of
Midway, on the dividing line be.
tween Augusta and Rockbridge
counties, Virginia. With IL came
a beardless youth, Lumau the def.
mite ancestor Of the Gibbs, Of Mas.
on. Born amid the Green Noun.
!aius about the year 1865, he arriy.
ed in Virginia just 10 time to en-
list 10 the army Of General Lewis,
then organizing for the campaign
of 1774. In IL be enlisted and with
it marched to the mouth Of the
Great Kanawhs, where be partioi.
pated 10 the desperate battle fought
on the memorable 10th Of October.
The yirginians we're determined
to permanently secure the advan.
tages thus gained over their say.
age and relentless foe and accord.
ingly at once erected the walls Of
old Fort Randolph, upon the bloody
field. When the garrison TO be left
within II was detailed, Luman
Gibbs was among the number. He
soon became a noted scout, and for
twenty one long, dark and gloomy
years, he served in that capacity,
wandering over the neighboring
hills with his rife in his hands
aud the love Of his fellowmsn in
his heart; rarely was it, if ever that
the saVages reached the Kanawha
Valley without their every move.
ment being watched by his I'm.
wearied eye. Weekly he sailed
forth from the stockade, and pro.
ceeded up the Kanawha River to
the mouth Of Eighteen Mile Creek,
thence across the country 10 Letart
Falls, and thence down the Ohio to
Point Pleasant, where his report Of
"All is we'll" dispelled for the time
the fear of massacre from thosocon.
fined within the fort. So well was
his route known, that by the early
settlers it was called Gibbs Trace"
The year 1875 witnessed Wayne's
Treaty with the Indians, and they
no more visited the Southern banks
Of the Ohio; then i! was that Cap.
tain Gibbs went out into the hills,
and near the banks Of a tributary
ever since called Gibbs Greek Of
Old Town Creek, he reared his cab.
in, and there continued to reside
until his death in 1899, 10 the Saith
year Of his age, and was buried
near by. In the immediate vicin.
ity repOse the remains Of three Of
the soldiers who participated in the
battle of Point Pleasant, 1774.-Lu.
man Gibbs, Isaac Robinson aud
James Ball. Captain Gibbs mar.
ried late in life, and had issue;
!, Shelton, whomarried and rear
ed family at PomerOy, Ohio.
II, Human, married and settled
on a farm near Hartford City,
where he died a few years since;
three Of his sons, Shelton, George,
Andrew aud q grand son Junius N,
served in the 18th West Virginia
Infantry during the late war.
III Samuel, who married Susan
Stephenson nee Edwards, and re.
moved to 81. Francis county, Mis-.
.Ouri, where he died some years
since leaving issue two sons.
", Zebulon, who carried Maria
Van Matre, March 10, 1881, and
reared a'large family, He died in
Robinson District a few years since.
v, Simeon, born 1911, married
Harriet Steele (born 1879 Febru.
airy Q, 1882, and had issue several
children, among whom are Thomas
Gibbs Of Cooper District, and L. L.
and B. F, Gibbs of Point Pleasant.
VI, Jacob, who married Catham
Richard, September II, 1885. -Four
Of his sons-ArChibald, Michael,
John and AbbeIeno served in the
Federal army, the latter a member
Of Company E. 9th West Virginia
Infantry, was killed at Floyd Noun.
tain, May 8, 1864.
VII, Margaret, who married
James Van Matre, and removed to
Ohio many years ago.
WIN, Eunice, who married Cy.
rus Blake.
Several members of the family
still continue to reside a, and near
the ancestral home in the Valley of
Virginia one of themost prominent
and one whose inventive genius