Edna Powell Van Gundy said her grandfather's name was Francis Gipson.However the newspaper clipping she had with "his" obituary was for thes on of Calvin and could not possibly be her grandfather.
Residences:
9/27/1850 Dist 72, Pulaski Co, MO. At census time Calvin "Gibson"and brother Alfred, age 21 and 18 respectively, were living there withsister Catherine and husband Levi Currants. Catherine and thebrothers were born in TN. Levi was a farmer, Calvin and Alfred werelaborers. (The Current family is well documented and verifiesCatherine Current as a Gibson. Current's father lived in VermilionCo, IL.) In the same district was the family of James Gibson, 45,also born in TN.
He spent nearly the next decade amassing an estate totalling 692acres:
8/31/1852 Crawford Co, IL, was Calvin's residence when he received86. 66 acres in Jasper Co, IL, by warranty deed. The plot was locatedat S5 T08N R10E.
1/19/1853 Clay Co, IL. Calvin M "Gibson" had moved beforepurcharsing land at a Federal Land Sale, all in Clay Co: 2 plots:one with 80 acres at 03 05N 073 3 for $1.25/acre, the other at thesame coordinates with 73.98 acres, same price, for a total of $192.48. That same day he also received 2 more plots by warranty deed, 80acres and 78.30 acres, both at the same coordinates as those above.
3/3/1853 His address was unknown when he received 40 more acres bywarranty deed in Jasper Co at 08 05N 08E.
8/27/1853 Clay Co, IL, was still his address when he purchased moreland in Jasper Co at Federal sale for $1.25/acre. He paid a total of$11.93 for 9.54 acres for land located at S7 T05N R08E.
He bought serveral more plots of land: Name: Calvin M Gibson IssueDate: 15 Feb 1854 Acres: 73.98 Meridian: 3rd PM State: IllinoisCounty: Clay Township: 5-N Range: 7-E Section: 3 Accession Number:IL2760__.234 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Vandalia Canceled:No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 19105
Name: Calvin M Gibson Issue Date: 15 Sep 1854 Acres: 9.54 Meridian:3rd PM State: Illinois County: Jasper Township: 5-N Range: 8-ESection: 7 Accession Number: IL2780__.027 Metes and Bounds: No LandOffice: Vandalia Canceled: No US Reservations: No MineralReservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566) Document Number: 20713
1/4/1855 Clay Co, IL. He got a bargain on more Federal Land in ClayCo at 03 05N 073, paying only $0.12/acre for 80 acres, a whoppingtotal of $10.00.
Name: Calvin M Gibson Issue Date: 10 Feb 1858 Acres: 80 Meridian:3rd PM State: Illinois County: Clay Township: 5-N Range: 7-ESection: 3 Accession Number: IL2840__.380 Metes and Bounds: No LandOffice: Vandalia Canceled: No US Reservations: No MineralReservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566) Document Number: 23794
1859 Hidalgo, Jasper Co, IL He jumped back across the border.
1860 Crooked Creek Twp, PO Ste Marie, Jasper Co. The census takerfound Calvin, Gibson and his first family living with Hurst Markwell,21. No occupation was listed for either man but Calvin did haveproperty worth $200/$150. Calvin and his wife, Ann, were both 29years old and had 2 children, Randall, 4, and Francis M, 2. Calvinwas born in TN, Ann and Hurst in IN, both children in IL. John andFrances Gibson lived in Smallwood Twp, same county. (Hurst hadentered 80 acres of land in Cumberland Co at E 1/2 SE, on 10/4/1851but apparently didn't like it there and moved south.)
1861 Military Census Crooked Creek Township State of Illinois, JasperCounty To the Clerk of the County Court of said County: The followingis a complete list of all persons in the Town of Crooked Creek in saidCounty, subject to military duty:: Calvin Gibson
From U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 Name: Calvin Gibson TaxYear: 1864 State: Illinois, USA The original says he was taxed $1.00for a $75 one horse buggy. His place of residence was Georgetown butothers on the list were from his same area of the state. So where wasGeorgetown?
6/30/1870 Hidalgo, Crooked Creek Twp, Jasper Co, IL. The census thatyear listed him as a 40 year old farmer with property = $220/600.Second wife Malinda was 29 and children in the house were his, hersand theirs: his were Randall, 14; Francis, 12; and Manda, 9; herParker kids: George, 13; Benjamin, 11; and John, 9; and theirstogether, James (Jane), 3; and Margaret, 1. They lived betweenWilliam and Eli Connor, Malinda's relatives, next door to William wasthe Kilbourne family, future in-laws of son Francis.
He was 40 years old in 1870 making his birth year 1830.
Calvin is buried with his 1st wife. A child, Martin L Goodwin, son ofH & M Goodwin, died 3/17/1873 at 12 y 1 mo 10 d, is buried betweenCalvin and Ann with the same type of head stone and the same symbol(hand with index finger pointing upward). There is another spacebetween Martin and Calvin so possibly one other person is there also.
Calvin's stone states:
A light from our home is gone
A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our hearts
That never can be filled.
