Bio: David Gibson, Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County WV
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Price, William T., Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County WV, 1901 by Price Brothers, pg. 195-197.
DAVID GIBSON


DAVID GIBSON, a pioneer of Pocahontas county, and progenitor of
the Gibson connexion in our county, came from Augusta county, near
Waynesboro, Virginia, about 1770. He located near Gibson's Knob, two miles
south of HIllsboro, now in possession of Isaac McNeel. He reared a large
family, but few of their names are known to the writer. One of his sons,
John, moved to Indiana, where his descendants now live; a daughter, Mary,
died in youth; Sally married Sampson Ochiltree and lived near Buckey, where
Henry Lightner now lives; Elizabeth married Joseph Buckley and lived on the
neighboring farm, now owned by Levi Gay; Jennie married a Mr. Blake.

David Gibson, another son, located on the Old Field Fork of Elk about
1823, and began life in the woods. The Hannah brothers had preceded him a
year or two. David Gibson's wife, Mary, after whom Mary's Chapel is named (a
neat house of worship on Elk), was a daughter of the late William Sharp, near
Edray. Her mother was Elizabeth Waddell, daugher of Alexander Waddell, a
pioneer settler near Millpoint, the place now occupied by Joseph Smith and
others.

The Gibson family on Elk consisted of five sons and three daughters.
William, the oldest, lived on Elk. His wife was Polly Gay, daughter of the
late Samuel M. Gay, near Marlinton; John married Margaret Townsend, near
Driftwood; David, a well-known physician, married Elizabeth Stalnaker,
daughter of Warwick Stalnaker, of Randolph; James Gibson married Jennie
Friel, daughter of John Friel, who was killed in battle on Alleghany
Mountain, December 1861; Jacob Gibson married a Miss Wamsley of Randolph, and
was killed during the same war near Huttonsville in a skirmish with Jenkin's
Cavalry; David Gibson's daughter, Elizabeth became the wife of James McClure,
near Edray; Mary married Rankin Poage, at Edray; Nancy became the wife of
Samuel M. Gay, on the Indian Draft.

Mr Gibson built up a comfortable home, in which he was assisted by his
industrious sons and daughters. The habits of thrift learned from their
parents have been successfuly kept up, and prosperity attends them in their
affairs, and all have comfortable homes and are prospering. His home was open
to the stranger that might come along. His confidences were sometimes abused
and imposition practiced upon him, but that made no difference with his
treatment of others. For years his home was at the service of the preachers,
and thus most of the preaching on Upper Elk was at this house. It was a great
undertaking to locate in the unbroken forest and build up a home and rear the
family these worthy people succeeded so well in accomplishing. All such
should be remembered and their services gratefully appreciated, and the story
of their lives told for the instruction and encouragement of the generations
following. The righteous, the honest and industrious should be held in
lasting remembrance.