Thomas Gibbons III
Birth 14 Sep 1734
Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Death 26 Feb 1812 (aged 77)
Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Carters Valley Community Cemetery
Surgoinsville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
Thomas Gibbons III (Sr.) was born on Sept. 14, 1734 in Charles Parish, York, VA and Christened on Oct. 20, 1734.* His family moved to Surrey County, now Sussex County, VA in 1746. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and one of the co-founders of the town of Rogersville, TN in Hawkins County; one of 5 appointees to survey and to lay out the town. He was also one of the city's first elected officials. The first court of the State of Franklin met in his house in 1785; the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions met there on June 4, 1787. His home, 6 miles east of Rogersville, served as the courthouse under the jurisdictions of both the State of Franklin, County of Spencer, and later as Hawkins Co., North Carolina before it became Tennessee.
County Court Clerk 1785 to 1788.
Thomas Gibbons served as Captain of the Militia of Hawkins County and participated in the Great Indian Uprising of 1795.
Thomas married Ann Eppes ca. 1762;they had 11 children:
Mary Gibbons Fitzgerald
Rebecca Gibbons Bell
John Gibbons
Thomas Gibbons IV (Jr.)
Nancy Gibbons Hord
Elizabeth "Betsy" Gibbons Chisum
James Gibbons
Edmond Gibbons, Sr.
William H. Gibbons
Sarah Gibbons Gillenwaters
Eppes Gibbons
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