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Ann Gibson

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Brad Pitt — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 49 
  • Father:
  • James H. Gibson 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Ann Dowdle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Oct 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • Tennessee 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Sep 1859 
  • Death Location:
  • Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lee Cemetery, Verona, Lawrence, Missouri 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elijah Boyd Hillhouse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1835 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Tennessee 
  • Child:

  Elijah Boyd Hillhouse Jr. (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  • Notes: 

  • In her book Finding Your Famous {& Infamous} Ancestors, in a section titled Researcher Beware (pp. 190-192), Rhonda McClure points out some mistakes she made by accepting erroneous death dates found online for Elijah Hillhouse and his wife Ann Gibson. She explains how she discovered the error and corrected the dates using his will. She gives what she believes was the corrected information in an ahnentafel chart on page 195.

    Ironically in correcting the mistake for Elijah Hillhouse, Rhonda goes on to make another mistake, this time with regards to the death date of Ann Gibson. It turns out that Rhonda's original death date for Ann Gibson was in fact correct. When correcting the erroneous death date for Elijah, she also changed the correct death date for Ann to an incorrect date. In fixing one error, she caused another.

    Elijah Hillhouse's will, written August 26, 1895, mentions a wife named Ann. The original death date given by Rhonda McClure for Ann Gibson was September 1859 prior to the will being written. Rhonda apparently assumed that Ann was still alive when he made the will which would make the original date she found incorrect. But the Ann mentioned in the will was Elijah's second wife.

    In another twist of irony and in partial defense of Rhonda McClure, this second wife was also named Ann Gibson, an apparent cousin to Eliijah's first wife of the same name. The census records should have tipped Rhonda off that something was amiss. The 1860 census shows Elijah without a wife and the wife Ann who appears in the 1870 census is younger than the first Ann. The tombstones for each of Elijah Hillhouse's wives have the following inscription on them, "Wife of E. B. Hillhouse."

• Sources for Ann Gibson

  • ¹ Federal Census, MO, Lawrence County, 1850, District 47, Image 49 of 112.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/16/2014).
  • ³ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Marriage record for Elijah Boyd Hillhouse and Ann Gibson.
  • ⁴ McClure, Rhonda R., Finding Your Famous {and Infamous} Ancestors, Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books (2003), 190-191, 195.
  • ⁵ Reynolds, William R., Jr., Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 52, 210, 347.
  • ⁶ Sharp, E. M., Pickens Families of the South, Memphis, Tennessee: Published by E. M. Sharp (1963), 23.