Ralph Kinney Giberson 1842-1917 Mary Elizabeth Ebbett 1847-1927

Ralph Kinney Giberson and Mary (Ebbett) Giberson

Ralph Kinney Giberson
Parents William O Giberson and Temperance Kenny
Born 2 Nov 1842 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation:  Farmer (1881)
Married Mary Elizabeth Ebbett 4 Sep 1864 Bridgewater, Aroostook, Maine
Died 25 May 1917 New Brunswick, Canada
Buried:  Barker Cemetery, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Ralph and Mary's headstone

Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Family Bible owned (in 1971) by child #16, Mary Bell. The bible was to go to Haddie Ackart, daughter of child #8 (Rachel)
1871 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 24) Page 74 line 8 family 256
1881 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 38) Page 36 family 153
1891 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 47)

Picture of the couple: found among my mother-in-laws pictures at her death
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94669517/ralph-kinney-giberson

Mary Elizabeth Ebbett Giberson

Mary Elizabeth Ebbett
Parents Joseph Ebbett and Rachel Hutchinson

Born 28 Jul 1847 New Brunswick, Canada
Died 24 Sep 1927 New Brunswick, Canada
Buried:  Barker Cemetery, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Obituary: Observer 5 Oct 1927
On September 24th at 6:30pm Mrs. Mary E Giberson, Age 80 years, widow of the late Ralph Giberson, died of cancer of stomach. Tended by daughter and granddaughter Mrs. Maude L Carr, RN. Six months sick. Married 63 years Sep 3. Husband died 10 years ago. Leaves to mourn six children, Mrs. Alonzo Giberson, Mrs. Carrie B. Hodgon, Mrs. George Kearny, Mrs. Asa Davenport, Ransford C. Giberson, Mrs. Melvin Elliott; Eighteen grandchildren and thirty great-grandchildren. Funeral by Rev. G.A. Giberson. Pallbearers were four grandsons, Ralph K. Giberson, Lee A. Giberson, P.Giberson and Ralph K. Kearney. Flowers: Mrs. Eldridge Grass, Mrs. Elmer Lee, Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Harley Shaw, Maude L. Carr, Lee & Ralph Kearney, Donald & Clarence Giberson

Mary E Giberson
shared by Judith Anne Darrach
on ancestry.com and titled it "Little Gram"

Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Obituary: The Observer, issue: 5 Oct 1927

1851 Census of Wicklow - she was listed as Mary Abbott, age 4, and living in her grandparents' (John Hutchinsons) household
1871 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 24) Page 74 line 9 family 256
1881 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 34) Page 36 family 153
1891 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94669035/mary-elizabeth-giberson

CHILDREN

Mary Giberson
Born 1865 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died young of cholera
Sources
Family Bible owned (in 1971) by Mary Giberson Bell
Memorial:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94692246

Lois Maude Giberson

*Lois Maude Giberson
Born 4 Mar 1867 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Married George Alonzo Giberson 31 Mar 1882 Holmesville, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Children:  Ralph, Glasier, Janet, Caroline
Died 30 Dec 1930 Holmesville, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

COD: Uterine Cancer

Informant on Death Certificate: her husband (Alonzo Giberson)

Buried: 1 Jan 1931 Holmesville, Canada

Headstone for George and Lois Maude

Sources
Her granddaughter, Bessie
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34, 145
1871 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 4) Page 74 line 10 family 256
1881 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 14)
1891 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 24)
1901 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 34)
1911 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 43)

1921 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (age 55)

Death Certificate 

Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91429807/lois-maude-giberson

Alma Giberson
Born 25 Feb 1868 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died young
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94717886/alma-giberson

Carolyn Brown Giberson Hodgson

Carolyn Brown Giberson
Born 17 Mar 1869 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation: Book Binder

Married Josiah Starbird Hodgson 4 February 1893 Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine

Marriage record - Josiah's second, her first

Children:  Zippora, Marion, Ralph, Gordon, Ella

Died: 18 October 1859 Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine
Buried: German Protestant Cemetery, Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34

Marriage to Josiah: Maine Vital Records

1871 Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadian Census (age 2) 
1881 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 12)
1891 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick (age 22)
1910 US Census Presque Isle, Aroostook Maine (age 41)

1930 US Census Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut (age 61, widow)

1940 US Census Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine (age 71)

For a wonderful view of her handwriting:  http://www.heirloomsreunited.com/2012/08/1880s-autograph-album-of-caroline-brown.html

Carolyn's headstone

Headstone: 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94691747/caroline-brown-hodgdon

Memorial
created by Eileen Lentz

Martha Giberson
Born 5 Oct 1870 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1871 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94718899/martha-giberson

Temperance Elizabeth Giberson
Born 9 Apr 1872 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Married George Whitfield Kearny 23 Feb 1892 New Brunswick, Canada

Marriage Certificate
for Temperance and George

Children: Hilkiah, Maude, Mary, Catherine, Lee, Ruth, Ralph, Murray, Mary
Died 9 May 1934 Holmesville, New Brunswick, Canada

Headstone for Temperance and George

 

 Buried: Free Will Baptist Church, Holmesville, New Brunswick, Canada

Death notice in paper 

Obituary: Observer 26 Apr 1934
Died: Mrs. George Kearney at age 62 years, nee Temperance Elizabeth Giberson. Leaves to mourn: husband, three daughters, Mrs. Haley McLaughlin (Maude) of Fort Fairfield, Mrs. Harley Shaw of Westfield, Maine(Ruth), & Mary at home; three sons Lee and Ralph of Maple Grove, Maine, and Murray at home; Three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Hogdon of Waldoboro, Maine, Mrs. Albert Bell & Mrs A. Davenport of Gordonsville & one brother Rainsford Giberson

Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
New Brunswick Provincial Marriages

Death notice: Fort Fairfield Review, page 10, issue 9 May 1934

1881 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (age 10)

1891 Canadian Census Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (age 19)

1901 Canadian Census Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (age 28)

1911 Canadian Census Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (age 31)

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92936659/temperance-elizabeth-kearney

Benjamin Giberson
Born 5 Oct 1873 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1881 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial created by Eileen Lentz:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114299785/benjamin-giberson

Rachel Levina Giberson

Rachel Levina "Hammie" Giberson
Born 16 Jul 1875 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 1) Frederick Dibble Giberson 13 Jun 1896
2) David Creighton Bell 13 Apr 1899
Children: Harriet, Mary
3) Asa Kinney Davenport 23 Jun 1902
Children: Creighton
Died 5 Sep 1964 Fielding, New Brunswick, Canada
Buried:  Pine Tree Cemetery, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

OBITUARY 

FIELDING LADY PASSES AWAY

Many friends and relatives learned with the regret of the death of Mrs. Rachel Levina Davenport which occurred at her home in Fielding, Sept. 5, [1964] following an illness of several months. She was 89 years of age. Born at Giberson Settlement, N. B., she was a daughter of the late Ralph E. and Mary (Abbott) Giberson. She had lived in Fielding the past sixty years.

Rachel Giberson Davenport Davenport headstone
and Mary Giberson Bell, her sister

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Ackart (Harriet), East Orange, N. J.; and Mrs. Harry Dyer (Mary), Fielding; one son, Creighton Davenport of Fielding; one brother, Ransford Giberson, and one sister, Mrs. Albert Bell, both of Gordonsville. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, nine great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held from the home to the Primative Baptist church, Fielding, with Rev. Philip Giberson, Bath, officiating, assisted by Rev. A. Hatfield and Rev. T. J. Gordon. Hymns rendered by Saunders Giberson and Armand Giberson were "In The Sweet Bye And Bye", "Pearly White City" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". Mrs. Roy Haynes was organist. Pallbearers were Arnold Giberson, Bordon Giberson, Douglas Bell, Wilbert Curtis, Charles Sutherland,, and Merton Allaby. Interment was in the Pine Tree Cemetery, Bath. There were many beautiful floral tributes, also donations to the Gideon Bible Society and the Cancer Fund. Relatives attended from Hamilton, Ont.; Halifax, N. S.; Fredericton, Aroostook, Perth, and parts of Maine. 
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34, 38-40
Obituary from the Observer, 1964

Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86122827/rachel-levina-davenport

Colwell B Giberson
Born 12 Nov 1877 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1881 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial created by Eileen Lentz: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114299130/colwell-b-giberson

Note: the memorial reads "infant" when (according to the CDC) infants are 0-1 year old

Alice M Giberson
Born 8 Nov 1880 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1881
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114300347/alice-m-giberson

William Giberson
Born 27 Jan 1881 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died April 1881 (age 3 months) Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34, 41
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114342920/william-giberson

Ralph K Giberson 
Born 4 Feb 1883 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1884 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
COD:  Cholera
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114301837/ralph-k-giberson

William Giberson
Born 2 May 1885 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1891 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
COD:  Cholera
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114342920/william-giberson

Thomas E Giberson
Born 29 Nov 1887 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died 1888 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
COD:  Cholera
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34
Family Search

ancestry.com

Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114343289/thomas-e-giberson

Ransford Charles Giberson

Ransford Charles Giberson
Born 24 Sep 1889 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 1) Annie B Holmes 17 Oct 1908 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Children: Donald, Clarence
2) Verna Ruth Kinney 26 December 1933 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Children: Henry, Ransford, Thomas, Ralph, Violet, Mary, daughter

Headstone for Ransford and Verna

Died 17 Mar 1965 Gordonsville, Canada
Buried: Free Baptist Cemetery, Bristol, New Brunswick, Canada
Obituary Observer 1 Apr 1965
Ransford Charles Giberson, Died at his home in Gordonsville on Mar 17, born at Giberson Settlement, son of Mary and Ralph Giberson, aged 75 years. Funeral March 1st, Saturday at Primitive Baptist Church, Fielding, by Rev. Lawrence Corey and Rev. Ziba Lockhart. Internment at Free Baptist Cemetery, Bristol. Pallbearers - 5 nephews, Creighton Davenport, Ralph Kearney, Bordon, Arnold & John Giberson & brother-in-law Clifford Kinney. Leaving wife, Verna Kinney, 4 sons - Henry, Ransford Jr., Thomas, of Gordonsville & Ralph of Hamilton; three daughters, Mrs. Violet Chase, Mrs. Robert (Mary) Lankey & Mrs. Thomas Murchison all of Ontario; two sons from a previous marriage, Donald of Bangor, ME and Clarence of England; one sister, Mrs. Mary Bell of Gordonsville.
Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34, 41
Pic and Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114344299/ransford-charles-giberson

Mary Elora Giberson Bell

Mary Elora Giberson
Born 13 Dec 1892 Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Married 1) Melvin W (Mev) Elliott 29 Mar 1911
No Children
2) Albert Asa Bell 7 Jul 1884 Gordonsville, New Brunswick, Canada
Children: she became stepmother to his six: Myrtle, Alberta, Doug, Edna, David, Clara
Died 9 Nov 1976 Bath, New Brunswick, Canada
Buried: Pine Tree Cemetery, Bath, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Obituary of Mary E. Giberson, b. 13 Dec 1893 at Giberson Settlement, NB, d. 9 Nov 1976 at Bath, NB, Buried Pine Tree cemetery; married Albert A Bell. Step-mother of his 6 children, Myrtle, Douglas, Alberta, Edna, David & Dollie Bell. One of 16 children of Ralph K. Giberson; she was the last surviving of 16 children. No children from her marriage to Albert A. Bell.

Mary Giberson Bell shares a headstone with her sister,
Rachel Giberson Davenport 

Sources
Book: John Giberson Loyalist by WFWaugh, 1999, page 34, 43
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86074822/mary-elora-bell