Send them to the Gibson group I just posted, I would love to meet any Gibson/Gipson descendants from the area. Mine settled there and in all the surrounding counties. Thanks Robin -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeannie Gregory-Fairchild" <looking4myfamily@insightbb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:47 PM To: <kylogan@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [KYLOGAN] Migration > I knew a lot of Gibson and they were from Glasgow, KY Barren Co KY > They worked with my dad. > > -----Original Message----- > From: kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Robin Holt > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:33 PM > To: kylogan@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [KYLOGAN] Migration > > Our Gibson's and related families migrated to that area from South > Carolina > where they had settled from NC and Virginia, from what I have read & seen > they came up from Tn. There was an old wagon trail from Knoxville to > Nashville, then up through what is now the Hopkinsville area so I am > figuring mine probably came up that route from the best I can tell. Thanks > Robin > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: <gpinkerton@gt.rr.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:26 PM > To: <kylogan@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [KYLOGAN] Migration > >> Find this book! It is amazing. Will tell you all you need to know. >> >> Founding of the Cumberland Settlements, The First Atlas 1779-1804, >> Showing > >> Who Came, How They Came, and Where They Put Down Roots >> >> Magnificent book. >> >> ---- Linda Holley <ljholley@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thank you so much. My family came in 1812 or so. Quite a bit earlier! >>> I am glad I didn't have to make that trip. >>> >>> >>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Jeannie Gregory-Fairchild wrote: >>> >>> > I know my mother came to Logan County in a Covered wagon in 1925 age >>> > with >>> > her parents to visit her mothers, mother and father and uncle Bill and >>> > family >>> > It took them 7 days to make the trip Bailey Peyton Cassity, Callie >>> > Beatrice >>> > Climer Cassity, 6 children, Oakley, Aline, Manson, Hester, Laura Etta >>> > and >>> > Viola, also on the trip was William Stanton Climer and Wife Bessie >>> > and >>> > their children and she was pregrant at the time. They visited James >>> > Manson >>> > Climer and Viola Virgina Hughes Thomas Climer, and also visited Uncle >>> > William Jefferson Thomas Hughes and Margaret Isabell Duke Hughes >>> > >>> > I know some said it would tale about 2 or three months from Jackson >>> > County >>> > Tn by water to the red river meets the Cumberland close to Clarksville >>> > TN >>> > and then take a covered wagon and follow the red river to Logan >>> > County. >>> > >>> > As far coming from PA and VA, Sometimes they would stay in a place >>> > for > >>> > a >>> > while and then move on. Other times they kept traveling and it took >>> > months. >>> > >>> > This is the best I can tell you from my research >>> > Jeannie >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com >>> > [mailto:kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >>> > Behalf Of Linda Holley >>> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:55 PM >>> > To: kylogan@rootsweb.com >>> > Subject: Re: [KYLOGAN] Migration >>> > >>> > Do you have any idea how long the trip took them? >>> > >>> > >>> > On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Jeannie Gregory-Fairchild wrote: >>> > >>> >> I know my families from VA PA came into ky took the Cumberland river >>> >> to an >>> >> area near Clarksville tn and took the red river into logan county. I >>> >> am >>> >> sure they used the Cumberland gap and came into Logan some families. >>> > Others >>> >> came the Ohio andup the Cumberland and red river. Lots of familes in >>> >> tn >>> >> also followed the red river in tn to logan, and Simpson counties KY >>> >> Jeannie >>> >> >>> >> -----Original Message----- >>> >> From: kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com >>> >> [mailto:kylogan-bounces@rootsweb.com] >>> > On >>> >> Behalf Of Linda Holley >>> >> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 3:54 PM >>> >> To: KYLOGAN@rootsweb.com >>> >> Subject: [KYLOGAN] Migration >>> >> >>> >> Just wondering if pioneers moving into Logan Co. in the early 1800's >>> >> used The Cumberland Gap to travel from MD? >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! >>> >> >>> >> Linda >>> >> >>> >> ------------------------------- >>> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> >> KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> > quotes >>> >> in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ------------------------------- >>> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> > KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> > quotes >>> > in the subject and the body of the message >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ------------------------------- >>> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> > KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> > quotes >>> > in the subject and the body of the message >>> > >>> > >>> > ------------------------------- >>> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> > KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >