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0-Ryan Brower/Eileen Ethington
Ryan Brower Family1-Our Parents
Elbert Richard Brower FamilyJerry D Ethington Family2-Ryan's Grandparents
Orene L Brower FamilyArlo B Lee Family3-Eileen's Grandparents
Leonard M Ethington FamilyCharles W Arnett FamilyArnett Genealogy
Thomas William Arnett FamilyEzraLorenzo Liljenquist FamilyBrower Genealogy
Elbert Ariah Brower FamilyRichard Smith Bennett FamilyEthington Genealogy
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Thomas Raney Lee FamilyMarion Vinson Gibbons Family|
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| Marion Vinson Gibbons / Mary Jane Hatch |
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| FATHER: Marion Vinson GIBBONS | MOTHER: Mary Jane HATCH |
| FATHER: Marion Vinson (M.V.) GIBBONS B: 22 Nov 1888 P: St. Johns, Apache, AZ M: 11 Jun 1915 P: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT D: 25 Jun 1966 P: Springerville, Apache, AZ --Son of Andrew Vinson GIBBONS & Sarah Ella HARRIS --His GRANDPARENTS: Andrew Smith GIBBONS/Rizpah KNIGHT (see ASGibbon's "Squaw Fight" site at http://www.pinkie.net/a_squaw_fight.htm) --His GRANDPARENTS: John Smith HARRIS Sr/Nancy Lydia ALDRIDGE --His G-GRANDPARENTS: William Davidson GIBBONS/Molly (Polly) HOOVER (see Gibbons Genealogy: http://www.cybertrails.com/~dollyp/pafg07.htm) --His G-GRANDPARENTS: Vinson KNIGHT/Martha McBRIDE (see D&C 124:74,141) (see Vinson in http://scriptures.lds.org/query?words=vinson+knight) (see Martha in http://www.datamgt.com/dmckay/Genealogy/Larsen/67.htm) (see Martha's site at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6552/marthamcbride.htm) --His G-GRANDPARENTS: Moses HARRIS/Frances SMITH --His G-GRANDPARENTS: William ALDRIDGE/Elizabeth(Betsy) VanBLARICUM HISTORY of MARION VINSON GIBBONS History of Arizona, pg 43 In one of the greatest callings to which a man can devote his efforts, Marion V. Gibbons, of St. Johns has achieved distinctive success being generally regarded as one of the ablest and most efficient educators in the school history of Apache County. He is a native of this locality where he was born on the 22nd day of November 1888, and is a son of Andrew Vinson and Ella (Harris) Gibbons. His father, who came to Arizona in 1880 was a successful farmer, while his mother was a daughter of John and Nancy (Aldridge) Harris of Dixie Utah. Marion V. Gibbons who is the third in order of birth of the four children born to his parents, attended the public schools of St. Johns and after his graduation from high school spent a half year in the State Normal School. He then engaged in teaching, which profession he has followed for nineteen years in Navajo and Apache counties. Since 1928 he has been principal of the school at St. Johns and has rendered a quality of service which has gained for him the uniform commendation of the people of this community. His first graduating class numbered twenty and since that time three hundred and fifty pupils have graduated here. The enrollment is now two hundred and twenty five and the schools, which are in every respect well equipped, are maintained at a splendid degree of efficiency. Mr. Gibbons has been engaged to continue with the school during the coming year. He is a member of the Apache County Bar, having been admitted to practice in 1928 and has earned the reputation of being a learned, capable and successful attorney. Mr. Gibbons has been married twice, first in 1912 to Miss Leah Gardner, who died in 1914. In 1915 he married Miss Mary Hatch, a daughter of John and Jane Hatch of Taylor Arizona. To the second union have been born seven children: Helen, Marion, Katy, Lavelle, Norma, Jack and Max. Mr. Gibbons is an active and devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and stands for those things which are right and good. He has shown himself a man among men and commands the admiration and respect of all who know him. USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. submitted by burns@asu.edu |
MOTHER: Mary Jane HATCH B: 27 Oct 1893 P: Taylor, Navajo, AZ D: 12 Feb 1974 P: Springerville, Apache, AZ Bur: St. Johns City Cemetary --Daughter of John Hanson HATCH & Mary Jane STANDIFIRD (see JHatch/MJStandifird marriage: http://www.carolyar.com/UtahM.htm) (See website: http://members.cox.net/~jameshistory/jo_hatch.html) --GRANDPARENTS: Lorenzo Hill HATCH/Alice HANSON --GRANDPARENTS: John Henry STANDIFIRD/Mary Ann ARGYLE (see LHHatch at http://www.math.byu.edu/~smithw/Lds/LDS/Early-Saints/LHatch.html) (see LHHatch at http://members.aol.com/ssimonsays/hatch.htm) (see LHHatch at http://www.ida.net/users/lamar/Web/WakleyD/Warg2448.htm#53600) (see Sen.OrrinHatch re:LHHatch at http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/speeches/speech008.html) (see AHanson at http://www.et.byu.edu/~cymerej/genology/pafg05.htm#18) (read about the Hatch home: http://www2.state.id.us/ishs/Sites.html#anchor1239546) (see JHStandifird at http://members.aol.com/ssimonsays/standifi.htm) (see JHStandifird at http://www.neonramp.com/pepper/genealogy/standifor) (see JHStandifird at http://www.carolyar.com/Ephraim.htm) (see Standifird/Whitaker Line at http://couchgenweb.com/family/whitaker.htm) History: http://members.cox.net/jameshistory/gp_hatch.html |
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| 1) Helen GIBBONS B: P: M1: Neil SULLIVAN M2: John CAMPBELL 2) Marion GIBBONS B: P: M: Joanne 3) Katy GIBBONS B: 13 Jan 1920 P: Taylor, Navajo, AZ M: Arlo B LEE, 10 Aug 1940, St. Johns, Apache, AZ (sealed in the St. George Utah Temple) 4) LaVelle GIBBONS B: P: M1: Virgil WHITING M2: Melvin DESPAIN 5) Jack GIBBONS B: P: M: Della DAVIS 6) Norma GIBBONS B: P: M: Richard "Dick" JOHNS 7) Robert "Bob" or "Pete" GIBBONS B: P: M: Yvonne Lost Stories of the Gibbons/Hatch Family: Biography of John Hatch (Father of Mary Jane Hatch Gibbons) (By Daryl James: From 'JAMES/HATCH ONE MINUTE HISTORIES' (1994)--see online at http://members.cox.net/jameshistory/jo_hatch.html) John Hatch was born into a Mormon polygamist family Oct. 26, 1860, in Lehi, Utah. His mother was Alice Hanson, the fourth wife of Lorenzo Hill Hatch. When John was about 3, the Church called his father to serve as bishop in Franklin, Idaho, and John moved with his parents to the town. He spent the early part of his life working on the family farm there. By age 6 he was employed as a regular hand. One day while working with a pair of mules and a peg tooth harrow, he caught the line under one of the mule's tails. The harrow turned over and pinned little Johnny under. The mule then dragged him around the field until he fell into a ditch. Friendly neighbors found him unconscious in the ditch and carried him home. John's education in Franklin was limited because school lasted only three months per year. At 17 he came to Arizona. He and his brother Ezra took turns driving a team and 30 head of cattle. They crossed the Colorado River on ice and arrived in Woodruff, Ariz., on Feb. 8, 1878, where John's parents had resettled. In 1879 John moved to nearby Taylor, Ariz., where he worked as a guide for companies moving through the area. He occasionally had problems with Apaches. One time he was riding through a grove of cedars looking for lost cattle when he found t he bodies of three prospectors killed by Apaches several days earlier. John met Mary Jane Standifird in Taylor and married her in the St. George Temple Oct. 21, 1885. Like John, Mary came from a Mormon polygamist family. She was the second of 23 children. John served in the Northern States Mission of the Church from June 1898 to April 1900. During this time Mary supported him by doing various chores in Taylor. She husked corn, boarded school teachers, did janitorial work, and sold fruit from the family orchard. Together John and Mary had nine children--six sons and three daughters. On July 16, 1905, they lost their seven-year-old daughter, Katie, on a camping trip in the White Mountains. Teams searched the area for 20 days before finding Katie's body across a river and several miles from the original campsite. This was the great sorrow of John's and Mary's lives. In the spring of 1910 John loaded freight with his father-in-law in Holbrook, Ariz. While he was carrying a heavy block of salt down a slippery flight of stairs, he slipped and fell on his back, and the block fell on his stomach. He was sick for the next 11 days, and finally his family gathered to pray for him. "While they were praying around my bed," says John, "my spirit left my body. A black hole opened up through the ceiling of my room. Up I went and entered into a space. In that space it was light as noon day sun as far as I could see." John saw his deceased father beckoning him, but an angelic guardian stopped him from going. "You can't go," the guardian said. "If there is faith enough here in this prayer to keep you on this earth, you'll have to stay." John and the guardian waited while John's family took turns praying over his body. Finally John's 8-year-old son, Sterling, took a turn. "You'll have to go back," the guardian said. "That boy has more faith than the rest put together." This incident took place when John was 49; he lived 36 more years and died at 85. In 1916 when he was 55, the Church sent President Joseph F. Smith to the Snowflake Stake to call a new Patriarch. "They had conferred through Saturday and Sunday morning but had not made a decision," says John's son, George. "As President Smith was sitting on the stand waiting for time to start the meeting, Daddy Hatch came in the door. President Smith looked at him and then tapped the stake president on the leg and said, `There is your Patriarch.'" John was ordained after the meeting by President Smith on Aug. 13, 1916. He traveled all over the stake the rest of his life giving blessings. According to one record, he gave 1,696 Patriarchal Blessings. John and Mary enjoyed 61 years together before John died Aug. 16, 1946, in Taylor. Mary died early the next year. -- Sources: 1. Typed history by Afton HATCH Flake (printed below). 2. Descendants of George Palmer and Phoebe Draper, pps. 445-461 (On record at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah). Superstitious First Meeting of Joseph Argyle, Sr and Rebecca Finch (Mary Jane Hatch Gibbons' maternal great grandmother) (SOURCE: http://members.cox.net/jameshistory/j_argyle.html) It was in the fall of 1840 that he started his work. For lodgings he was directed to an inn owned by William and Rebecca Finch. On Halloween night he went to bed, little dreaming what superstitions and pranks of that night would mean to him. On this night Jane Finch, daughter of the Innkeeper, and her girl friend came home from a Halloween party and decided to find out who their future husbands would be. The superstition was that a young lady could blindfold herself, walk backwards to her bed, and the first man she saw afterwards would be her future husband. Entering her room, Jane put on the blindfold and carefully walked backwards to her bed. Reaching it she stretched out her hand toward the pillow and felt a mass of curly hair, which startled her so that she screamed, arousing Joseph Argyle from his peaceful sleep in her room, where he had gone by mistake. For once a superstition came true. The following December, on Christmas Eve, just two months from that eventful Halloween, Jane Finch married this tall lodger with his black curly hair, who had so innocently gone to sleep in her room. |
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