 from "Sandra's Notefiles" This article documents that John Gilbert was the first settler in Clay Co, KY, and that Felix Gilbert arrived there at a later time.  ~Sandra |
from "Sandra's Notefiles" This article documents that John Gilbert was the first settler in Clay Co, KY, and that Felix Gilbert arrived there at a later time. ~Sandra |
Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, No.8, February, 1996, p.81. By permission. Clay County |
 July 12, 1898 I was born Feb. 25, 1815, in Clay County, Kentucky. My father was John Gilbert. He was born in N.C. His brother-in-law Stewart was in the Revolutionary War. My father had Stewart's discharge when he died. He brought (bought) it with the expectation of getting a pension on it. Some attorney wrote proposing to work it up and I sent the paper to him but never got it back. My father's father was in the Revolutionary War. Jarvis Jackson, I think or some other Jackson from London came to my father's and wrote a sketch of his life. I do not know what became of it. I have heard my father say often that he was a youth when the Revolutionary War was on. He claimed to be 111 years old when he died. He was the first settler in Clay County. He came as a trapper, hunting beaver. He caught the beaver at the mouth of Long Creek where there was a dam. His brother Felix and William Hudson came to Clay County a little later. He gave them both land. I do not know when he came to Kentucky. My father lived near Cumberland Gap in Tennessee before he came to Kentucky. ~~~~~~ (Gilbert Stewart Jackson Hudson=NC London-England TN) |
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