My Gibsons come from Virginia, Tennessee and SE Kentucky by way of England. I may have a direct line Gibson ancestor born in SC, if I remember correctly, James Thomas Gibson (Married Sarah Roark or Sumner), I think. Oddly enough, my Gibsons, even up to the more recent generations also have hearing problems, from me not being able to hear the phone ring from the next room, to cousins and grandparents wearing hearing aids in both ears, turned up high. I did not continually listen to loud rock music or play music in bars or concerts, but since I have approached and passed the age of 50, I have noticed some hearing loss in myself, in spite of trying to protect my hearing. My great aunt Mollie Gibson Jones once told us that the Eustachian tubes in our ears were uncommonly narrow (?), and that was why we had hearing problems in the family. But the one explanation of neural damage sounds more plausible. I have an uncle that is only eight years older than me, that has bad hearing problems but won't admit it. I wonder if our Gibson lines are connected somehow? Anita B. At 08:20 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: >Classification: queries > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.gibson/2820.3/mb.ashx > >Message Board Post: > >this is my husbands family they lived in pacolet s.c. tllman wa his >father,ben his gfather who lived in a cave at the old quarry on tillman >sr.land.ben was born in union co.he had several bro. one was charles who >died young. ben and charles mother was never married[out of wedlock] her >name was francis gibson.her father was john gibson of union co. > >To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] >Quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the >rest of any other messages from your reply. >CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE to the content of your reply. >~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ >Links to search and browse the archives, or unsub/sub, are at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/GIBSON.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 8:22 AM