What do the Gibbs and Johnson families have in common?
Elizabeth (Bessie) Margaret Johnson married Harold Ray Gibbs, April 4, 1942.
Bessie and Ray are the center figures of the ancestor/descendant hour glass from my perspective. I am Betty Gibbs, oldest of the ten children of Bessie and Ray. Elizabeth (Bessie) Margaret Johnson, daughter of Anna/e (Josephine Lawless) and Oliver Victor Johnson, married Harold Ray Gibbs, son of Cornelia (Catherine Estes) and Bernard Scott Gibbs.
The Gibbs Johnson Family History stories are built on family letters, films and photos, and genealogy collected by Victor Johnson (Bessie’s older brother) and Gibbs researchers. Other resources used to compile the stories include census records, maps, FindAGrave, newspapers, FamilySearch, and old books.
To see more information on each family choose the family from the menu. You will find links to videos, chapters for individuals, and books that have been created by family members.
BS Gibbs Family
Virginia 1942
Oliver Johnson Family
South Dakota 1941
Who will be interested in this Web site?
The information in this Web site will be of most interest to any descendants of Jens Jensen, father of John Johnson (Johannes Jensen) who settled in Nebraska in the late 1800s, and descendants of the Gibbs family whose origin is a Gibbs who settled in Jamestowne, Virginia beginning in 1619.
Family names also include Christiansen, Lawless, Renzi, Lichty on the Johnson side; Richele, Reardon, Eldhart and others on the Gibbs side.
How the families fit together. See the interrelationships between and within the families. This is a guide for identifying the people in the videos.
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