Historical records matching Elizabeth Ann Gibson
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About Elizabeth Ann Gibson
About Squaw Creek Cemetery.
Elizabeth Ann (Lambeth) Gibson is buried at Squaw Creek Cemetery. On their way west from Arkansas to California about 1856, the family of Francis Marion Nixon and his wife, Catherine Elliot, was forced to detour south from the North Texas Plains to this area to obtain water and forage for their livestock. After first camping on a hill near the Mason/Gillespie County line, thereafter referred to as Nixon Point, they settled in this section of Gillespie County during the 1860s. The Nixon's son, Andrew Jackson Nixon, and his wife, Lurana Wooten, built their home in this vicinity and with their fourteen children formed the nucleus of the community of Squaw Creek. Marriages by their descendants added the names Baethge, Ratto, Strackbein, Mund, Faught, and Gibson to the extended Nixon family line. The Squaw Creek Cemetery grounds were a part of a 110-acre conveyance from A. J. Nixon to his brother-in-law, Henry Strackbein, in 1872. The first recorded interment is that of Elizabeth Gibson in 1873. The first legal mention of the cemetery occurs in a deed executed by Adolph Strackbein in 1914. Of the approximately 60 interments here, most are members of the extended Nixon family. The burials include those of American Civil War and World War I veterans.
Elizabeth Ann Gibson's Timeline
1829 |
April 24, 1829
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1855 |
April 6, 1855
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Blanco, Blanco County, Texas, United States
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1861 |
May 10, 1861
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1866 |
April 28, 1866
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TX, United States
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1873 |
October 1873
Age 44
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1878 |
June 28, 1878
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Gillespie, TX, United States
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Squaw Creek Cemetery, Squaw Creel, Gillespie County, Texas, United States
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