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Hancock County, Tenn-1850

Kisiah Gipson    30    Female    TN  [ Born 1820]
Wallis Gipson    13    Male        TN
Amlis  Gipson    11    Male        TN
Roley Gipson        9   Male        TN
Milla Gipson          6   Female   TN
Parriade                1   Female    TN

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1860 Not Found

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 Magoffin County -1870 
Kiziah Gibson  age 40  [Born 1830]
Isaac   19
Fanny    100

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1880 Not Found

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Magoffin County-1900

Harvey Porter    Sept 1871
Rosa            April 1874      wife
Pearlie        Aug 1892    dau
Clarence     Jan 1895    son   
Nellie         Jan 1897    dau
Julia        Jan 1897    dau
Kessire Gibson     Apr 1824    grandmother

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Magoffin County-1910
Mariar Murphy
Jeff Murphy        27 son
Dulcina                21  dau
Isaac                   18  son
Hobart Blair          4 grandson
Curtis                       grandson
Kessire Gibson      90 mother in law   Va [Born 1820]

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Magoffin County-Salyersville -1920
Isaac Murphy    28
Cassia        28
Orivlle         4
Troy         2
Kizzie Gibson     98  grandmother  [Born 1822]

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Aunt of 31695 and claims through the same source

[31695 is Christina Cole, daughter of Hezekiah Gibson]

How old are you [1837] born in Tennessee

Are you married No

To what tribe of Indians does he or she belong? Cherokee

Father and Mother; Bryson Gibson and Fannie Gibson

Where were they born?
Father; in Virginia or Tenn
Mother; '' ''

Where did they reside in 1851 Don't know [Hezekiah/Kiah Gibsons
application says they lived in Morgan Co., Ky.]

Father died 1865
Mother died 1867

Brothers and sisters
Tyra Gibson
Polly Gibson
Dice Gibson
Alex Gibson
Betty Gibson
Ava Gibson
Burl Gibson
Kiah Gibson

State English and Indian names of your grandparents
Thomas Gibson
Polly Gibson

August 23rd, 1907

Personally appeared T. J. Arnett and J. J. Pace who being duly sworn
on oath depose and say that they are well acquainted with Kizziah
Gibson.......
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Kiziah Gibson being duly sworn and examined, deposed and says;

My name is Kizziah Gibson; I was born in Wise Co/Va., in 1836  I claim my Cherokee blood thru both my father and mother.  I think my father was bron in Wise Co., Va., about 1785; he died in 1870;  in 1835 I and my father and mother lived in Wise Co., Va.  In 1851 I and the ancestors thru whom [I claim] lived in Floyd Co., Ky.  In 1835 the grandparents thru whom I claim lived in Wise Co., Va. In 1835 my parents and grandparents thru whom I claim lived among the Cherokees in Wise Co., Va.  I don't know whether they lived as members of the tribe or not; none of the ancestors thru whom I claim were ever held in bondage; none of the ancestors thru whom I claim were ever enrolled that I know of and ever received any money or land as an Indian; none of my ancestors ever had an Indian name that I know of;

I never heard my grandparents say how much Indian blood they had; they always told us that we belonged to the Cherokee generation.  my father was a voter.  In the community I have always been regarded as having Cherokee Indian blood.

Kizziah Gibson

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 29th day of July, 1908 at Salyersville, Ky.

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Kezziah or Kizzie Gibson filed application in 1908 and gives her dob as 1837
born in Tenn. In 1900 she is living with Harvey and Rosa Porter,
grandmother born in Apr 1824. In 1910 she is living with daughter in law Mariah Murphy and in 1920 she is
living in the household with Isaac and Cassie Murphy as grandmother age 98.  So this must be her death certificate;

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Death Certificate KESIRE GIBSON
Magoffin County
July 9, 1921
female, white, widowed
born July 1, 1821-  Virginia

FATHER; JASPER GIBSON
MOTHER; MARY HUDSON

Buried May Cemtery  July 10, 1922
Undertaker; Patrick Prater

This has to be Kezziah... was Bryson's middle name Jasper? Was Mary Hudson
his first wife?

In the place of 'Informant' it is blank.-- Someone guessing?