Person:Walter Gibson (3)

Biography*: Our earliest record of Walter Gibson finds him in AugustaCounty, VA, in the 1750's, sending a petition to the King (Augusta Original Court Records, p. 40). Walter moved to Anson County, NC, and is found in deed records there at least by 1760. The book "Some Neglected History of North Carolina" by William Edward Fitch, mentions Walter, Sylvanus, James, and William Gibson, as among the Regulators of Anson County who sent a petition to Governor Tryon (p. 135-6). After the Revolution, Walter and his family moved to Wilkes Co, GA, and was granted 200 acres on Clarks' Ford of Long Creek in March 1785. Walter died in Wilkes County in 1791. In his will, he gave "all estate to wife Judah should she be the longest liver. At her death, an inventory of all household goods, horses, tools and a psalm book to son Sylvanus Gibson. To daughter Mary Hogan, the tract of two hundred acres on which I live, cattle, household goods, Hymn Book and Bible. To daughter Piety Davis, feather bed and cattle. To granddaughter Elizabeth Hogan, a bay horse and 5 pounds. Son Sylvanus Gibson and son-in-law Griffin Hogan, executors." Additional information on the Gibson descendants can be found in "The History and Genealogy of some pioneer Northern Alabama Families" compiled by Mary Novella Gibson-Brittain, Marie Britain Craig, and Marjorie Craig Churchill.