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* Gibson Cemetery *
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Gibson Cemetery is shown near the southeast corner of the U.S.G.S. Holladay quadrangle (1987). It is reached by turning south on Raymond Ballenger Road from Horney Head Creek Road. The access drive is the first gravel road to the right. The road leads downhill through the woods. Gibson is a wonderful little cemetery to visit. It is well maintained. It also retains much of the appearance of a nineteenth century cemetery. Thirty two graves are marked by pairs of upright fieldstones, something you rarely see now. The cemetery is surrounded and shaded by cedar trees. Gibson Cemetery is an excellent example of what the old cemeteries once looked like and anyone in the area should visit this cemetery once just to see this. In addition to the 32 fieldstone pairs, there is one unpaired fieldstone and one wooden stake marking unidentified graves. David Donahue recorded this cemetery December 27, 1992 and checked and updated it November 6, 2003.
Margaret Alexander recorded this cemetery July 25, 1976. Her record appears in Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records produced by the Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons, Tennessee, 1984, p. 228. Bettie Wilson of Lorton, Virginia, compiled a list of people known to be buried in Gibson Cemetery and included a copy in a letter to Anne and Leo Donahue, Nashville, Tennessee. Her list is referenced extensively in the notes below. She also provides the following description/memory of the cemetery: "I went to the burial of Lem Gibson in 1931. I was 7. At that time I had a strong feeling that it was nowhere to be found, seemed to take us forever to get there out in a field of leaves — very desolate, but didn't know the word of expression at that early age." |
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SPOUSE | PARENTS |
| GIBSON, Alex A. | Dec 1875 | Emanuel and Margaret A. (Quinn) Gibson | ||
| GIBSON, Alphas Derlene | 14 Feb 1920 | 25 Apr 1921 | ||
| GIBSON, Elizabeth | 1839 | Emanuel Gibson and Elizabeth Tubbs | ||
| GIBSON, Harriet | 1858 | Lemuel Gibson adn Unicy Ann Quinn | ||
| GIBSON, John W. | 10 Aug 1860 | 21 Apr 1940 | ||
| GIBSON, Jackson | 03 Jun 1867 | 01 Dec 1897 | Henry Gibson and Susan Anner Tubbs | |
| GIBSON, James | 1845 | Manuel Gibson adn Elizabeth Tubbs | ||
| GIBSON, L.A. | 12 Dec 1859 | 11 Feb 1932 | ||
| GIBSON, Lemuel A. | 29 Jun 1861 | 24 Mar 1931 | ||
| GIBSON, Malinda | 1833 | Manuel Gibson adn Elizabeth Tubbs | ||
| GIBSON, Manuel | 1803 | Possible son of Roger Gibson | ||
| GIBSON, Margaret A. | 25 Dec 1844 | 1891 | Robert M. and Polly Daugherty Quinn | |
| GIBSON, Martha (Taylor) | 18 Jun 1861 | 23 Mar 1948 | ||
| GIBSON, Margone Jane F. (Myra) | Sep 1888 | 1916 | Lemuel A. Gibson and Martha Taylor | |
| GIBSON, Nancy | Feb 1843 | 1921 | Manuel Gibson ane Elizabeth Tubbs | |
| GIBSON, Nancy A. Elizabeth | 1871 | Manuel Gibson and Margaret A. Quinn | ||
| GIBSON, Obie | 23 Mar 1912 | 1912 | Alton Gibson and Bonnie Quinn | |
| GIBSON, Paralee | 1857 | Lemuel Gibson and U'nicy Ann Quinn | ||
| GIBSON, Sarah | 1832 | Manuel Gibson and Elizabeth Tubbs | ||
| GULLEDGE, John Lane | 01 Jan 1855 | 31 Aug 1936 | ||
| GULLEGE, Maggie (Gibson) | 1857 | 1919 | ||
| QUINN, Dee | 16 Nov 1955 | |||
| QUINN, Francis Louvena | 23 Mar 1917 | 08 Jul 1917 | ||
| QUINN, Infant | 12 Oct 1928 | 14 Oct 1928 | ||
| QUINN, Ralph | 21 Apr 1944 | |||
| QUINN, Susan Jane | 26 Aug 1893 | 01 Jan 1983 | ||
| QUINN, Woody | 08 Jan 1909 | 13 Sep 1910 | ||
| TUBBS, Elizabeth | 1803 | Manuel Gibson | Jeremiah and Susan Tubbs |
