Catherine "Caty" Gibbs

Catherine "Caty" Gayle or Gale.

She married Julius Gibbs as his second wife. His first wife Aggy Davis bore him two children and died about 1782. Thereafter - about December 2, 1785 he married Catherine Gale. She bore him seven children.

Some researchers believe she was Catherine Bohannon, formerly the wife of Samuel Herndon, but other researchers doubt it.

Caty and her husband Julius were among the 16 founders of the Great Crossing Baptist Church just west of Georgetown, Kentucky in 1785.

"At a church meeting held at the Big Crossing, on Saturday and Sunday, the 28th and 29th of May, 1785, present, brethren Lewis Craig, John Taylor, Richard Young, Samuel Deadmon, as helps called for, who proceeded to constitute the following members into a church, to be called the church at the Great Crossing, when the Philadelphia confession of faith was adopted: Wm. Cave, James Suggett, Sr., Robert Johnson, Thomas Ficklin, John Suggett, Julius Gibbs, Robert Bradley, Bartlett Collins, Jemima Johnson, Susanna Cave, Sarah Shipp, Caty Herndon (or Bohannon), Jane Herndon, Hannah Bradley, Betsey Leeman. Betsey Collins."

They occupied a home now on Ironworks Road in southern Scott County, Kentucky. The home still stands (2001) and has an historical marker in the front yard. They lived there from about 1792 until Julius' death in 1834.

After Julius' death in 1834, Caty went with some of her sons and a daughter Polly to live in Callaway County, Missouri where she received a widow's pension.

Controversies

The Gayle family website confuses her with (her cousin?) Catharina Helvey. She might have been related to Catharina's mother Susannah Helvey (Gale) and uncle William Nathaniel Gale.

Some sources give her parents as Dr. William Gale and Margaret Pitts, but she seems to have been of their same generation. The idea she was their daughter probably originated because it would make her a great granddaughter of the famous Rev. Elijah Craig (1738-1808), However, the dates are impossible.

Another website erroneously says she was christened 15 August 1766 at Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, daughter of Thomas Gayle and Joyce Hall. However, that confuses her with a different Caty Gayle, who married Josiah Foster.

Some sources say she died in 1796 in Culpeper County, Virginia.

Sources

• http://genforum.genealogy.com/gale/messages/579.html
• http://genforum.genealogy.com/gale/messages/580.html
• http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=4669:849&ref2=46...
• http://gale-gaylefamilies.com/other-gayle-families-of-kingston-pari...
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 4 2017, 22:17:20 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 4 2017, 22:09:22 UTC