GIBSON CEMETERY, Bledsoe Road, LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mapping the Location

Overview Photo of the Gibson Cemetery: 1469X
View of the nearby Hannah Gap Baptist Church of Christ***: 1469Z
Views of the McAdams Cemetery about one mile south of here: 1470X/1471X/1472X
GIBSON, Thomas, Jul 12, 1791 - Dec 19, 1869 1472/1473
GIBSON, Mahala Cain Bagley, Aug 10, 1795 - Jul 2, 1861 (box tomb, inscription lost but probably belongs to the wife of Thomas b. 1791) 1471
GIBSON, E. A., Broken top of upright tombstone. Base is on the end with dates. Thomas, Dec 6, 1839 - Sep 5, 1892 Other part is a base inscribed as Dec 6, 1839 Died Sep 5, 1892. I think these two parts should be together or the tombstone of E.A. Gibson with these dates and wife of Thomas Gibson. 1470/1474/1476/Graphic restoration: 1476X **
GIBSON, Nathan F., Jul 28, 1863 - Jul 31, 1910 1480
GIBSON, Elizabeth, Aug 6, 1827 - Jun 23, 1889 1479
GIBSON, Josiah B., Jan 20, 1848 - Jan 17, 1929 1492/1493
GIBSON, Mary Jane Edge, Feb 20, 1849 - Aug 1, 1928 1492/1491
GIBSON, Josiah B., Dec 18, 1819 - Sep 7, 1856 1469
GIBSON, Loue D., Jul 25, 1859 - Feb 13, 1913 1482
GIBSON, M. J., Apr 20, 1865 - Jul 15, 1866 (photo by Louis & Gordon) 1477X
GIBSON, Mahalie C., Oct 18, 1850 - Apr 16, 1936 1485
GIBSON, Nathan F., Jul 28, 1824 - Sep 14, 1870 1477/1478
GIBSON, Thomas W., Aug 18, 1854 - May 17, 1913 1483/footstone T.W.G. lying on box tomb. 1475
GIBSON, Emily E., Feb 10, 1857 - Apr 5, 1925 1484
GIBSON, Jessie, 1889 - 1952 1488/1489
SMITH, John T., 1884 - 1946 (R.H. Beasley (stone-crafter) 1486/1489
SMITH, Tennie, 1885 - 1951 (R.H. Beasley (stone-crafter) 1487/1489

Unknown footstone no initials: 1481

** I cannot absolutely prove the above information but my theories are usually right. I do not think this is the tombstone for Thomas Gibson 1839-1892, but instead E. A. Gibson w/o Thomas Gibson)
*** Church began in 1827. A man by the name of Mr. Hannah who lived in the gap of a hill about 1/2 mile from church site is believed to be a charter member and so they named the church after him. This was to show the location indicating a passage gap in the hills near this place. It was originally a log building and served as a school for the area ,too. The original building was not located where the church sits now but this building was built sometime around the centennial in 1927. Names of former deacons-Harve & WT Sorrells, WS Gilbert, John Marsh, JR & Mosie Nichols, JK Scott, JM Lambert, Joe Stephenson, GL Redd. There are also men by name of Wagster, Barham, Gibson, Pierce, Soloman, Cashion, Arnold and others by the name of Nichols <Sheila Pack Upchurch 9:53pm Dec 30, 2017 Chestnut Ridge Cousins Face book.>

Photographed on a Saturday evening 19 Dec 2017 in the presence of Bobby Prosser & Terry Tudor. The inscriptions were updated with exceptions found or known by C. Wayne Austin. This publication culminated from various sources. Listed on page 1 of the book Lincoln County County Cemeteries by Tim & Helen Marsh, abt 1978. NOT ADDED YET as of 27 Dec 2017.