JASON GIBBS, one of the most substantial and well-to-do citizen of Riley township, Sandusky county, was born Aug. 31, 1825, and is a son of Jonas and Rachel (Daniel) Gibbs.
JONAS GIBBS was born in 1762; he was married, in Vermont, to Rachel Daniels, who was born in 1794, and in 1808 they located at the mouth of Pipe creek, in Huron county, Ohio, bought 300 acres of land, and lived there twelve years. They then removed to Riley township, Sandusky county, here purchasing a thousand acres of land, and two years later five hundred acres more. Here they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Gibbs dying in 1834, Mrs. Gibbs in 1848. They had seven children, a brief records of whom is as follows: Isaac died at the early age of eighteen, unmarried. Cynthia married Joseph H. Curtis, by whom she had three children, and they lived in Riley township; subsequently she married William Pierson, by whom she had eight children. Boa married Mr. Dean, and they had eight children; they lived in Riley township. Jonas married Rosina Linsey, and they had two children; he died in 1852, she in 1876. Jeremiah married Jane Conrad, and they lived in Riley township. Jason is the subject of these lines. Luther married Emma Buskirk, and they had four children; they lived in Riley township. Rachel married Lewis Barkheimer, and to their union had come one child; they there also residents of Riley township.
After his father's death, Jason Gibbs remained with his mother on the farm until his twenty-first year. On March 28, 1846, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Conrad, who was born in Sandusky county, where she has always lived, daughter of John and Sarah (Tuttle) Conrad, who were the parents of eleven children. John Conrad was born in Ohio in 1795, and died in Sandusky county, February 3, 1869; his wife died June 11, 1883, aged eighty-four years, nine months, sixteen days. Mrs. Gibbs' paternal grandmother was born in 1784; her maternal grandfather, Van Rensselaer Tuttle, was born in 1772. After this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs moved to Riley township, where he bought a thousand acres of land. They became the parents of four children, as follows: Albert married Amelia Wright and they have two children - Charles and Burton P. - one of whom, Charles, died young. Luther married Almira Beebe, and they have had ten children; they live in Riley township. Burton married Jane Beebe, and they also live in Riley township; they have had two children - Charles A. and William J. John married Laura Botsford, and they have had six children; they make their home in Riley township.
Mr. Gibbs has been very successful in his dealings, and is well liked. He cleared 300 acres of his land himself, which took him nearly five years, and has been engaged in general farming, the raising of fine hogs, and for several years has also operated in general farming, the raising of fine hogs, and for several years has also operated two sawmills. Besides his property here he has 847 acres of valuable land in Tennessee, on which his oldest son reside. In 1893 Mr. Gibbs retired. He attends the Lutheran Church, is a Republican in politics, and has been honored with public office, having been supervisor for twenty years. One of Mr. Gibbs' uncles, Luther, was killed at Huron, Ohio, by the falling of a block from a ship's mast; another, Jerry, was killed by Indians at Sandusky (the night before his murder he dreamed that the Indians came to his home and killed him).
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 229
