Stewart, Luella (b. ABT 1875, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Canada, Labette, Kansas

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Canada, Labette, Kansas

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Liberty, Mercer, Pennsylvania

Note: BIOGRAPHY: Silvanus4 Gibbs (Benjamin,3 John,2 Thomas1), born 20 April1702, died in December 1749 (Sandwich Town Records).

BIOGRAPHY: He married in Sandwich 5 July 1730 Bathsheba4 Pope, daughter of Seth3 and Hannah (Bourne) Pope of Sandwich. She was born 2 Dec. 1713 and died after 4 Sept. 1753.

BIOGRAPHY: A deed dated 11 Aug. 1722 states that Silvanus Gibbs "of SandUwich" paid Ð200 to Samuel Sprague "of Rochester" for land there (PLCD, 35:28). Next we have an all-too-rare opportunity to glimpse an episode of human interest in the life of the subject: "Abner West of lawfull age testifieth that some time in October or November in ye year 1733 then Mr. Silvanus Gibs came to my house and told me he had order to receive two canoes which Mr. Joseph Burges Junr. of Rochester left with me to sell & allsoe told me he had order from sd. Burges to carry them to Nantuckett to sell them there, upon which I delivered the sd two canoes unto the sd Gibbs & he carryed them away [but] brought them to me again the Spring following & he told me he could not sell them agreeable to the order that the sd Burges had given him & when he the sd Gibbs carried them from me they were both whole but when he returned them to me one of them was Broke at one end, and further saeth nought." Attest, Dukes Co., Tisbury 15 Aug. 1735 in the case of Joseph Burges vs Silvanus Gibbs (Superior Court Records, Suffolk Court House Annex, Boston, Docket 39562).

BIOGRAPHY: Silvanus Gibbs also owned property in that part of Plymouth which became Wareham, as we find by a deed dated 8 July 1745 that Israel Fearing (the husband of his sister Martha) "of Wareham, gentleman and Silvanus Gibbs of Sandwich, Yeoman" agreed to divide land which they held in common-e.g. Fearing a 5/6th share and Gibbs the other l/6th (PLCD, 38:50). That he was engaged in some seafaring activities we learn through record of another lawsuit which also gives us insight into the financing of the shipping industry at that period-something genealogical research seldom reveals:

BIOGRAPHY: "To the Sheriff of our County of Barnstable Greeting - We command you that you summon Silvanus Parker of Falmouth dealer (if he may he found in your Precinct) to appear before our Justices of our Superiour Court of Judicature to be holden at Bamstable on the third Tuesday of July next to answer unto Silvanus Gibbs of Sandwich mairiner In a plea of review of Covenant broken commenced in our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas October AD 1741 in the words following, vizt: In a plea of Covenant broken for that the Deft at Falmouth aforesd on the fifth day of June AD 1739 by his Deed of that date ... for a valuable consideration sold & delivered unto the said Silvanus Gibbs two thirds parts of a certain Sloop called the Woods Hole then riding in said Woods Hole with two thirds of the rigging and appurces thereunto belonging ... Now the plaint saeth that at the time of the Defts sale of two thirds parts of sd Sloop there was due to the Royal hospital at GreenUwich for disabled Seamen according to the Act of Parliament in that Case proUvided from sd two thirds of sd Sloop the sum of Fifteen shillings sterling amountUing at the rate of bills of exchange in this currency to the sum of four pounds two shillings & six pence which sum the plaint was obliged to pay before he could get sd Sloop cleared out to Sea by the officers of His Majestys customs . To the damage of the said Silvanus Gibbs (as he saeth) the sum of eight pounds."

BIOGRAPHY: The Inferiour Court rendered judgment for four pounds two shillings and six pence damages and costs of suit. The defendant appealed the judgment and the case was still unsettled 3 May 1744 (Superior Court Records, Suffolk Court House Annex, Docket 58678).

BIOGRAPHY: From the foregoing we suspect that this Silvanus Gibbs may have died at sea. He was certainly dead before 25 Feb. 1749/50 when Elisha Tupper of Sandwich was granted administration of the inUtestate estate of "Silvanus Gibbs of Sandwich, yeoman, deceased" (Barnstable County Probates, 7:166). The estate was appraised 6 March 1749/50 by Samuel Tupper, Esqr., Nathan Perry & Zaccheus Burge: "Purse & Apparrell-Ð229. Goods ... boards molasses, etc. - Ð59. Bedding & Furniture Ð240. Real Estate - Ð1,150" (ibid., 8:285).

BIOGRAPHY: "Bathsheba Gibbs of Sandwich, widow" was appointed guardian unto John, Silvanus, Bathsheba, Caleb, Hannah, Seth, Job, and Deliverance Gibbs, each described as a minor child of "Silvanus Gibbs, late of Sandwich, yeoman, deceased" (ibid., 7:317-323).

BIOGRAPHY: A problem remains here which requires further search in the records of Tolland and Windham County, Conn., and Berkshire County, Mass. The Sandwich town records show the marriage, 4 Sept. 1757, of a Bathsheba Gibbs to Amasa West "of Tolland". This was Amasa4 West (Francis,3 Samuel,2 Francis1), bapt. 27 March 1704, the widower of Amy Hatch, by whom he had had ten children at Tolland (see The Register, 60:146, April 1906). He had by this second wife, Bathsheba Gibbs, a son Levi, born 27 April 1760. If she was Bathsheba (Pope) Gibbs she would have been 45 years of age at the birth of her child by him. Furthermore, we find that real estate belonging to the estate of a Silvanus Gibbs was set off 27 Dec. 1787 to his widow Bathsheba (recorded 9 July 1790, Barnstable County Probates, 24:325). On the other hand we can find no other suitable Bathsheba Gibbs to have married Amasa West; moreover the younger children of Silvanus4 Gibbs disappear from the Sandwich records. It would be consistent with the facts if the widow had taken her smaller children with her to Tolland after her marriage to West. Furthermore, a Seth Gibbs turns up at Lee, Mass., in 1781 at a time when several of the family of Amasa West came there from Tolland. [Thomas1 Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass. (ca. 1615-1693) by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, NEHGR 123, 1969]

Note: BIOGRAPHY: Benjamin3 Gibbs (John,2 Thomas1), born December 1673, died,testate, at Sandwich between 22 Aug. and 27 Sept. 1757.

BIOGRAPHY: He married in Sandwich 4 [January?] 1698/9, Mr. Rowland Cotton officiating, Anne3 Tupper. They are called "both of SandUwich" (May. Desc., 29:31). The published "intention" is dated 27 Dec. 1698 (Sandwich Town Records[A]). She was a daughter of Capt. Thomas2 and Martha (Mayhew) Tupper of Sandwich, born 14 Dec. 1679; she died before the date of her husband's will.

BIOGRAPHY: By a happy and most unusual chance we learn from a sworn stateUment of this Benjamin Gibbs, himself, that "from the time I was two years old," as he has been told, until his marriage at 26, he "lived with my grandfather Blackwell" (Deposition, Superior Court of Judicature, docket 2687, Court House Annex, Boston). Therefore we know why it was that his maternal grandfather in his will, dated 29 Nov. 1709, gave him a special bequest: "I Michael Blackwell of Sandwich" give "unto my grandson Benjamin Gibbs, one half part of all my upland at Mayonsett ... lands in Sandwich adjoyning land formerly belonging to John Gibbs and other lands in Sandwich and lands I formerly bought of Robert Bartlett in Plymouth townUship " (Barnstable County Probates, 3:82-84; The Register, 117:183, July 1963).

BIOGRAPHY: "Benjamin Gibbs, of Sandwich yeoman ... for Ð75 paid by [his brother-in-law] Eldad Tupper" of Sandwich, conveyed by a deed of 13 Feb. 1732/3, "all that my lot of Cedar Swamp in Plymouth being near the dividing line between the town of Plymouth and Sandwich ... it being the 3rd lot in the Great Cedar Swamp ... near my own dwelling house" (Plymouth County Deeds, 28:170). We can thus understand, despite the destruction of the Barnstable County records, how it happened that this Benjamin Gibbs came to have land and live in Sandwich, while his older brother, John, lived across the line in Plymouth. The will, dated 15 July 1737, of his uncle Joshua2 Blackwell of Sandwich, gives "to my son Samuell Blackwell ... all my part of the ... upland lying in partnership with Benjamin Gibbs" (The Register, 117:187, July 1963). Benjamin Gibbs' deposition, above referred to, taken about 1750, describes him as then in his 78th year (ibid., p. 191).

BIOGRAPHY: The will, dated 19 May 1757, of "Benjamin Gibbs of Sandwich yeoman, being far advanced in years" gives "To John, Silvanus, Caleb, Seth, Job, Bathseba, Hannah and Deliverance Gibbs, the children of my son Silvanus Gibbs, deceased ... To my son Benjamin Gibbs" [who is named executor] "all my uplands in Sandwich, Wareham and Plymouth, except what I have given to the children of Silvanus . . . To my son Job Gibbs all my wearing apparrell also whatsoever he already received of me and what he owes me. To the children of my daughter Martha Fearing, deceased, viz.: John, Benjamin, Noah, David, Anna, Elizabeth, Martha and to my great grand children the children of my grandson Israel Fearing, deceased, the son of my daughter Martha Fearing, deceased, viz.: Israel and Sarah To the children of my daughter Abigail Swift, deceased, my grandchildren Abigail and Jabez Swift To my daughter Elizabeth Gibbs, the priviledge of living in my house while unmarried and two-sevenths parts of my personal estate. To my daughter Jane Hascall, one-third of one-seventh part of my personal estate. To my daughter Reliance Tobey, one-seventh part To the children of my daughter Jedidah Burge, deceased, my grand children James, Elisha, Samuel, Benjamin, Mary and Abigail and Jedidah Burge, one third of one-seventh part." Signed, and witnessed by Joshua Blackwell, Elisha. Bisbee, [the Rev.] Abraham Williams (Barnstable County Probate, 9:315).

BIOGRAPHY: The executor died very shortly after the above instrument was signed, necessitating the drafting of a codicil which is also of rare genealogical value:

BIOGRAPHY: "Whereas God in His Holy Providence hath taken out of this world my son Benjamin Gibbs, I do now bequeath to my grandson Silvanus Gibbs, the eldest son of my son Benjamin Gibbs, deceased, two-thirds of all my lands and meadows and swampy grounds and buildings which be in Sandwich, Plymouth and Wareham, excepting what is in the aforesaid will given to the children of my son Silvanus Gibbs, deceased and legacies to Hannah and Anna and Experience Gibbs, mentioned in this codicil. I give to my grandson Benjamin Gibbs the son of my son Benjamin Gibbs, deceased, one-third part of all my lands To my grand daughters Hannah, Anne and Experience Gibbs to each of them 40 shillUings when they come of age. I give to my grand son Jabez Burge, son of my daughUter Jedida Burge, deceased, an equal share with his brethren and sisters in the one-seventh part of the one-third of one-seventh part of my personal estate willed to his brethren and sisters. I give to my daughter-in-law Johanna Gibbs the widow of my son Benjamin Gibbs, deceased, the improvement of my Real Estate herein given to her sons Silvanus and Benjamin till they respectively are at the age of twenty and one years, provided that she continues my son's widow ... I give to my daughter-in-law Johanna [also] to enable her to support her children two-thirds of what rye and wheat lies now in my barn and also of my flax and also one half of my Indian corn now growing and all my hay and grass this year growing, and my will is that my daughter Elizabeth and my daughter-in-law Johanna take what is [here] given them before [the division] ... to my daughUters and grand children also to my daughter-in-law Johanna, liberty to live in my dwelling house as long as she continues my son's widow" [he makes her his sole executor]. Signed 22 August 1757. Witnessed: Josiah Swift, Thomas Smith, Jr. [his physician], and Abraham Williams [his minister].

BIOGRAPHY: The inventory with total real estate in the county Ð553, dated 24 Oct. 1757, was presented by Johanna Gibbs as administratrix and the will and codicil were submitted for probate 7 March 1758 (ibid., 7:485/6; 9:317).

BIOGRAPHY: This probate is presented at great length because there are a numUber of relationships that would not be known otherwise, especially in view of published errors in identification of several of the persons herein named.
[A] In this and other studies of Sandwich, families we have made we have tried to distinguish between the records which George Eliot Bowman copied and pubUlished in the Mayflower Descendant, which we show as "Sandwich Vital Records", and the unpublished records to be seen in the Sandwich town hall, which we show as "Sandwich Town Records." [Thomas1 Gibbs of Sandwich, Mass. (ca. 1615-1693) by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson and Maclean W. McLean, NEHGR 123, 1969]

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Liberty, Mercer, Pennsylvania

Note: Obituary: Funeral Services for Thelma M West, of 11 Hemlock St., who died Monday morning in Bradford Hospital, were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Koch-Chatley Memorial Chapel, with the Rev. W.B. Ruddock, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Willow Dale cemetery. Bearers were James Van Houtte, John Benedict, Maurice Price, Daniel Quinn, Chester Slack and Anthony Giordano.

Obituary: Mrs Thelma West, Bradford Era May 5, 1977
Mrs. Thelma M. West, 72 of 111 Hemlock St., a well-known lifetime resident of the community, died at 4:20 a.m. Monday at Bradford Hospital, where she was admitted Saturday.

Born Dec 6, 1904 at Olean NY., she was the daughter of the late George C. and Mary Collins Oakley. She came to Bradford when a small girl and attended local schools, graduating from Bradford High School in 1922

On Oct 27, 1926 she married Chester West who survives.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Bradford.
Surviving in addition to her husband, are a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Van Houtte, Bradford; two sons Dale and Lawrence West, both of Bradford; seven grandchildren and two great grand- grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. Ovedia Rowles of Bradford, Mrs Harriet Campbell of Warren and Mrs. Dorothy Swanson of Jamestown, NY

Friends will be received after 3 p.m. today at the Koch-Chatley Memorial Chapel, where services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. W.B. Ruddock officiating. Burial will be in Willow Dale Cemetery.

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Graduation: Date: 1922
Place: Bradford Area High School, Bradford, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Place: Phone Operator Until Married

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Bradford, Mckean, PA

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Bradford, McKean County, Pennsylvania

Note: South Pond Cemetery, Long Pond Road, Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360, is located in the South Plymouth section of the town.

The cemetery was established at least as early as 1793.

JENNIE M.
May 4, 1879
Sept 8, 1971
MINNIE M.
May 4, 1879
Aug 29, 1977
footstones: MINNIE; JENNIE; HARVEY; RUTH; ISAAC

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass

Note: South Pond Cemetery, Long Pond Road, Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360, is located in the South Plymouth section of the town.

The cemetery was established at least as early as 1793.

ARTHUR BURGESS
1870-1958

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass

Note: The Bishop of Derry

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Text: 4 DEC 2002