When Finley Gibson was born on 17 May 1807, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Sgt James Thomas Gibson Jr, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Finley, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 8 daughters with Jane Jennie Gatliff. He lived in Scott, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Kentucky, United States in 1870. He died on 14 January 1886, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ketchen Cemetery, Bryants Store, Knox, Kentucky, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Gibb (a pet form of Gilbert) + son, hence ‘son of Gibb’. The name is very common in Ireland, having arrived in that country in the 17th century. It is also occasionally adopted for Ó Gibealláin, see Giblin .
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