{"id":3870,"date":"2016-12-28T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T08:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:46:23","slug":"deacon-gibson-marries-in-1755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"Deacon Gibson Marries in 1755"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s two reasons why I nearly overlooked this 1755 marriage for Timothy Gibson in Stow, Massachusetts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was approximately seventy-six when he married in 1755. His first wife had died early in 1754 and frankly I didn&#8217;t think he married again. I&#8217;m well aware that some people do marry at that age, but really didn&#8217;t think about it.<\/li>\n<li>He was not listed as Timothy Gibson. He was listed as Deacon Timothy Gibson. Those titles can sometimes cause problems. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deacon-gibson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3871\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deacon-gibson.jpg\" alt=\"deacon-gibson\" width=\"525\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deacon-gibson.jpg 525w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deacon-gibson-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finding the marriage was a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Submit Gibson left a will after her death that named some of her step-children. That&#8217;s something I would not have uncovered if this marriage had not been discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s two reasons why I nearly overlooked this 1755 marriage for Timothy Gibson in Stow, Massachusetts: He was approximately seventy-six when he married in 1755. His first wife had died early in 1754 and frankly I didn&#8217;t think he married again. I&#8217;m well aware that some people do marry at that age, but really didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-timothy-gibson-1679-1757"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}