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Remus Gibson (Ohio County, Kentucky, grocer, jailer, and state representative)

b. 1813? d. 1882-01-30

Ohio County, Kentucky, grocer, jailer, and state representative. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza C. Williams Gibson in Ohio County, Kentucky, on August 15, 1850. Father to Reison C. Gibson, William A. Gibson, Carrie A. Gibson, Frank B. Gibson, Eliza C. Gibson, and Mary B. Gibson. Bar keeper in Ohio County in 1850. Grocer and jailer in Ohio County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Ohio County in 1860. Served in the Kentucky General Assembly as the representative from Ohio County from September 2, 1861 to March 3, 1863.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 49A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 784.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 156A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 504A.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, September 2, 1861 - March 3, 1863, Volume 1, (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1861), 5.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Ohio County Marriages, Film #001913021, p. 99.

"Sudden Death," Hartford Herald (Hartford, KY), February 1, 1882, p. 3, https://kentuckynewspapers.org/view.php?id=xt7mw6695018.

Citation

Gibson, Remus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280326 (November 12, 2026).

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