THE GIBBS SURNAME DNA PROJECT
Y-Line 7: James Gibbs of Rutherford County, North Carolina (b. 1774 in South Carolina)
As Submitted By: Christine Gibbs Searcy
This page was updated on: 3/16/04
Basic Information
 Born 1774 - South Carolina (exact location unknown)
 Died 1820-21 - Rutherford County, North Carolina
Parents
 Father: Unknown
 Mother: Unknown
Marriages and children
 Married : July 21, 1803 in Rutherford County, NC, to Jane Dunham, (b. 1784 in Rutherford Co, NC;
d. Oct. 5, 1849 in Rutherford Co, NC), d/o Henry H. Dunham and Elizabeth Medlin; with issue (see notes below).
Notes
Generation No. 1
 James1 Gibbs was born in 1774 somewhere in South Carolina, and died in 1820 or 1821 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
He married Jane Dunham, daughter of Henry H. Dunham and Elizabeth Medlin. She was born in 1784 in Rutherford Co, NC,
and died October 5, 1849 in Rutherford Co., NC.
Children of James1 Gibbs and Jane Dunham are:
 i. John2 Gibbs, born ca. 1804; died July 15, 1885 in Polk Co., NC. He married Elizabeth (Betsy) Spivey.
 ii. William Gibbs, born ca, 1807
 iii. Mary Gibbs, born ca. 1808
 iv. Henry Gibbs, born ca. 1811
 v. Nancy Gibbs, born 1813
 vi. Andrew J. Gibbs, born 1814
 vii. Elizabeth Gibbs Dimsdale, born 1816; m. Nesbitt Dimsdale (b. 1814; d. 1895).
She died in 1880 and is buried in Coopers Gap Church Cemetery, in Polk Co., North Carolina (Row 8, Sect. A)
 viii. Thomas Gibbs, born December 2, 1821; died June 6, 1910.
Additional information is available for all of these children except Nancy.
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