Be wary of genealogies that have photos of people who died BEFORE photography advanced enough to make photos...like before the 1840s!
Chances are it is NOT the person they are purporting it to be.

For those opposed to the use of things to aid in reading old stones, they should know that an unreadable rock is ....a rock.

My Gibbs ancestors came to Whitley County, KY in the 1860s from Claiborne County, TN. They had moved to Livingston County, Mo and back to Claiborne County before coming to Whitley County. Before Claiborne County, they lived in SW Virginia, specifically Montgomery, Wythe and Lee counties, in that order. This is proven. No Guthrie connection!!

Franklin Lafayette Gibbs, son of William Gibbs and Barbara Sutton, son of James Gibbs 1785 and Elizabeth last name not known but not Guthrie..that is someone else in another location; James 1785 was a son of James who died about 1785 in Montgomery Co., VA, who I believe may have been a son of a James who died in Ireland in the 1790s. This Montgomery county James who died in 1785 had a brother named Michael, who settled in Warren County, Tennessee.

This James Gibbs born 1785 was a son of a James Gibbs. James 1785 sued his mother Sarah Sloan and Stepfather David Sloan for not delivering to James 1785 money bequeathed to him by his grandfather of Ireland..name NOT KNOWN but probably John or James Gibbs County Antrim, County Down, or County Tyrone, now Northern Ireland, then the Kingdom of Ireland.

The James Gibbs and Elizabeth Guthrie lineage is well documented at FAG and one can see NO CONNECTION WHATEVER to James of Claiborne Co., Tn, Livingston Co., MO and Whitley County, KY. James Gibbs 1786-1872 and wife Elizabeth Guthrie 1878-1875 are buried in Shelby County, Kentucky. My James and Elizabeth Gibbs are buried in Livingston County, Missouri.

My knowledge comes from about three decades of courthouse research, census research, state archive research, not from one afternoon of collecting at Paste a Tree.

My Y-DNA which I do not understand might have these Ky Gibbses NOT being Gibbs at all but Bennett.

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

Be wary of genealogies that have photos of people who died BEFORE photography advanced enough to make photos...like before the 1840s!
Chances are it is NOT the person they are purporting it to be.

For those opposed to the use of things to aid in reading old stones, they should know that an unreadable rock is ....a rock.

My Gibbs ancestors came to Whitley County, KY in the 1860s from Claiborne County, TN. They had moved to Livingston County, Mo and back to Claiborne County before coming to Whitley County. Before Claiborne County, they lived in SW Virginia, specifically Montgomery, Wythe and Lee counties, in that order. This is proven. No Guthrie connection!!

Franklin Lafayette Gibbs, son of William Gibbs and Barbara Sutton, son of James Gibbs 1785 and Elizabeth last name not known but not Guthrie..that is someone else in another location; James 1785 was a son of James who died about 1785 in Montgomery Co., VA, who I believe may have been a son of a James who died in Ireland in the 1790s. This Montgomery county James who died in 1785 had a brother named Michael, who settled in Warren County, Tennessee.

This James Gibbs born 1785 was a son of a James Gibbs. James 1785 sued his mother Sarah Sloan and Stepfather David Sloan for not delivering to James 1785 money bequeathed to him by his grandfather of Ireland..name NOT KNOWN but probably John or James Gibbs County Antrim, County Down, or County Tyrone, now Northern Ireland, then the Kingdom of Ireland.

The James Gibbs and Elizabeth Guthrie lineage is well documented at FAG and one can see NO CONNECTION WHATEVER to James of Claiborne Co., Tn, Livingston Co., MO and Whitley County, KY. James Gibbs 1786-1872 and wife Elizabeth Guthrie 1878-1875 are buried in Shelby County, Kentucky. My James and Elizabeth Gibbs are buried in Livingston County, Missouri.

My knowledge comes from about three decades of courthouse research, census research, state archive research, not from one afternoon of collecting at Paste a Tree.

My Y-DNA which I do not understand might have these Ky Gibbses NOT being Gibbs at all but Bennett.

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."