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Gibson, Bunyon "Bee"
Submitted by: Rikki Gibson
great-great-granddaughter to Bunyon "Bee" Gibson & Margaret Locklear kezia45@hotmail.com
I will start with my great-great-grandfather, B. Gibson.
B. Gibson......headstone in cemetery is incorrect b/c his own children did not know much about him as he was considered to be "hiding from the law" after moving to the Grice community. (Milton Dacus writes about this in the Bryansite.com website. Dorothy Riggs, Milton Dacus, & others in the Grice community said he was a cousin to the outlaw Jesse James & had been running in his gang, but wanted to settle down & raise a family.) B. Gibson was called "Bee" by people who knew him.....& no one (even his own children) were sure of his real name, his birthdate, who his parents were, or where he came from. After LOTS of research and interviews & miles traveled from courthouse to courthouse, (with the help of Dorothy Riggs of Grice & a lady named Ruby Finch of Palo Pinto, Co, Tx) my aunt Connie Gibson Hunter & I have finally pieced our puzzle together enough to at least have a sense of belonging to "something" other than the INITIAL "B." His name was Bunyan Allen Gibson, born 1860-61 in Pope Co, Ark. His parents were William Peter Gibson & Angeline Reasoner/Reznor. The moved to the Palo Pinto/Erath area when Bunyon was a baby. His mother died when Bunyon was 6 years old giving birth to twins (who died also). His father remarried soon after his mother's death to Lucinda Highsaw. This marriage made Bunyon a step-brother to James Monroe Highsaw (aka Jim Highsaw, another cattleman turned outlaw). The Gibson family of Palo Pinto were census documented neighbors to Oliver Loving of the Goodnight-Loving ranching outfit. Jim Highsaw was the ranch foreman to John Chisum. In 1877, he killed Dick Smith in a heated argument while trying to retrieve stolen jingle-bob-cattle taken from the XIT.......this incident is what initiated the Pecos County war & stirred up tensions in the Lincoln county New Mexico war.
I honestly believe that the talked about "B. Gibson - outlaw" relationship was not to JESSE JAMES, but instead to Jim Highsaw. Relationship to Jim Highsaw is proven & documented through court records in Palo Pinto & Erath counties. I have these copies. Although family stories handed down from generation to generation persistently say B. Gibson ran with Jesse James's gang. I cannot prove nor disprove this claim, although I have tried very hard to.
Somewhere between 1880 & 1887, B. Gibson hopped on a train to Hopkins County to find work. While working for a gentleman by the name of Middleton Locklear (who would later become the grandfather to Ormer Locklear the pilot & airplane stuntman/wing-walker & also the great-great grandfather to the actress Heather Locklear), B. Gibson married Margaret A. Locklear (Middleton's daughter). They married on Aug. 29, 1889 in Delta County.
The "A" in Margaret Locklear Gibson's name stands for "Aquilla." Her death certificate was filled out & signed by Eustus Gibson (my great grandfather). His handwriting was big & loopy, making his cursive "A" to look like a big lower case "a." Therefore the transcriber in the Upshur County courthouse has mistaken the lettering to be a capital "C" followed by an "o" and next an "f," which in fact is actually "Aq".......and then correctly transcribed by the following "uilla." I have been to the courthouse myself and seen this transcription & compared it to the original death certificate (which I have a copy of as well). It's so sad that these simple little mistakes can really throw family historians down long goose chases & ultimately to a dead end. This is why it's so important to actually go to the courthouse and look at the documents as proof.
So......Margaret Aquilla Locklear Gibson was born on Aug. 14, 1866 in Hopkins County in the community of Arbala. Her father was a Lumbee Indian of South Carolina. She was an aunt to Ormer Leslie Locklear, the airplane stuntman & pilot who died while filming a movie in Hollywood in 1920. She would also be a great aunt to the actress Heather Locklear. She died on Nov. 24, 1917 of pellagra, an illness caused by vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency common in the early 1900's.
Bunyun & Margaret Gibson had the following 7 children:
Eustus "Huse" Augustus Gibson.......b. Nov. 3, 1890 in Cooper, Tx d. Oct. 23, 1941; married Annie B. Bell (d/o Robert E & Emma Lee Bell, sis/o Euell Bell, sis/o Daisy S. Bell)
Grady "Babe" Clarence Gibson......b. Oct. 18, 1893 in Cooper, Tx d. Jan. 2, 1973; married Daisy Sophronia Bell (d/o Robert E & Emma Lee Bell, sis/o Euell Bell, sis/o Annie B. Bell
Bessie Gibson Cox.....b. April 1895 d. unknown; married Henry Cox......unmarked graves in Grice Cemetery
Roy Buckner Gibson.........b. Oct. 17, 1897 -- d. Sept. 9, 1991; married Lillie Lois Allen
Prudie Beatrice Gibson Burnett.......b. Aug. 21, 1900 -- d. Oct. 13, 1950; married Ira Burnett (had 1 child, Devon Burnett)
Vera Lou Gibson Mullinix Tillery........b. Sept. 10, 1905 -- d. July 26, 1987 buried at Sunset Memorial Cemetery Gilmer Tx; married (1) Percy Vanwick Mullinix (2) unknown Tillery
Ruby Gibson Davidson........b. 1912 -- d. unknown; married Thomas "Knot" Abraham Davidson in 1928, both are buried in the Grice Cemetery
Children of Eustus Augustus "Huse" Gibson & Annie B. Bell:
Emma Margaret Gibson Gunn b. 1920 d. 1958
Robert E. "Sport" Gibson b. 1924 d. unknown
Wesley Eustus "Wink" Gibson b. May 23, 1928 still living
W.E. "Wink" Gibson is my Paw-Paw. He married my grandmother, Leah Bell Terrell (d/o Marion Ardis Terrell & Dorothy Helen Dodd)......Wink & Leah Gibson (my grandparents) have grave markers in the Grice Cemetery but both are still living.
Wink & Leah's children are:
Connie Marshell Gibson Hunter (b. 1953, living)
Ricky Wesley Gibson (b. 1954, living) ---> my father
Roni Marie "Beanie" Gibson (b. 1956, living)
Karen Gibson Schmidt (b. 1958, d. 2012)
Leann Gibson Johnston (b. 1962, living)
GLASCO, JESSE MARTIN (1818-1886)
Jesse Martin Glasco, legislator, surveyor, and naturalist, was born on May 12, 1818, in Giles County, Tennessee. Records show that he and his wife, Louisa Earp, daughter of James Earp, were married in Earpville, Upshur County, (now known as Longview) on December 16, 1846. Over the course of the next four decades he held a variety of appointive and elective offices. For many years between 1850 and 1886 Glasco served as Upshur county surveyor and later as deputy surveyor. Most of the original field notes of Upshur County in the General Land Office are in his handwriting. He also surveyed the Upshur County school lands located in Throckmorton and Baylor counties. In 1873, he was appointed by the General Land Office to settle a boundary dispute between Upshur and Gregg counties. He also surveyed the route to be followed by the road from Gilmer to Longview, for which he was paid fifteen dollars. In 1858 and 1862 records indicate he served as deputy county clerk. In 1860 he served as postmaster of Gilmer, Texas. In 1866 he was elected to represent Upshur County in the Eleventh Legislature. In 1877 the Upshur County Commissioners' Court hired him to work with the tax assessor. Glasco was initiated into the Masonic Lodge in 1851 and served as worshipful master between 1856 and 1886. In 1852 he became a trustee of the Masonic Female Institute and was a signer of the charter to establish the Gilmer Male Academy in 1854. He served in the Mexican War in 1847, serving under Col. John Coffee "Jack" Hays, and in the Civil War in 1861, in the Seventeenth Cavalry, Company G, under Capt. William E. Simpson. Glasco wrote articles for the Texas Almanac in 1861, 1867, and 1871. He had a lifelong interest in science, botany, mineralogy, and engineering. From 1859 to 1861 and again from 1867 to 1873 he was meteorological observer for Upshur County for the Smithsonian Institute. He was also an avid naturalist and assembled examples of local reptiles, insects, and Indian pottery for the Smithsonian's collections. Glasco and his wife had eight children. He died on December 17, 1886, and was buried in the Grice Community Cemetery, with a hand-carved tombstone in the shape of a surveyor's corner marker, which was later replaced with a marble stone.
GOODWIN, John Lester (1871-1946)
b. 12 March 1871 in Upshur County, Texas d. 10 May 1946; son of
Sarah Jane and John W. Goodwin; married Ella ____.
GREENING, Nannie Lou (Baird) (1917-1984)
b. 15 April 1917 in Upshur County, Texas; d. 4 June 1984 in Nacogdoches,
Texas; daughter of Mary
Green and George W. Baird; Baptist; married Charles F. Greening
on 22 November 1932. Brother: W. H. Baird; Mrs. Corene Casley.
Jot Gunter, lawyer, land dealer, and businessman, was born in North Carolina in 1845. His family moved to Georgia and from there to Upshur County, Texas, where Jot attended school at Gilmer. About 1861 he joined the Confederate Army and served under Richard W. (Dick) Dowling. After the Civil War Gunter studied law in the office of Oran M. Roberts and, on June 3, 1869, married Rosana Ford. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law until about 1878, when he became a partner with William B. Munson, Sr., in buying land certificates and locating land claims. Gunter, Munson, and John S. Summerfield began ranching in 1880 and operated the T Anchor Ranch until about 1885. In 1888 Gunter moved to Dallas and dealt in real estate. About 1895 he moved to Sherman to administer his property near the town of Gunter, which was named for him. In 1901 he entered the real estate business in San Antonio, where the Gunter Hotel and the Gunter Office Building were named for him. He died at San Antonio on July 19, 1907, and was buried there in City Cemetery No. 6.
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