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Name: Thos Harbison
Residence: Gibson, Indiana
Minor civil division: Patoka Township
Age: 45 years
Estimated birth year: 1815
Birth place: S C
Gender: Male
Page: 13
Family number: 81
Film number: 803260
Digital GS number: 4215027
Image number: 00505
NARA publication number: M653
Collection: 1860 United States Census
http://www.rootsquest.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibcem/pat_archer.htm
HARBISON, Thomas M. Section 1, Row 6 8-Jun-1813 15-May-1895 81 yrs. 11 mos. 7 dys. Husband of Mary Ann HARBISON
Note: Page 54 of "The Revolutionary Soldiers of Catholic Presbyterian Church Chester, South Carolina", 1978, by Mary Wylie Strange, says that he was living in Gibson Co., IN, in 1836 when his brother, James Harbison, Jr., died.
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch
Names Patentee: THOMAS HARBISON
Survey State: INDIANA Acres: 42.4 Gibson County
SENE 4/ 3-S 9-W No 2nd PM IN Gibson
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer Issue Date: 2/1/1839 Land Office: Vincennes
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Numbers Document Nr.: 15815 Accession/Serial Nr.: IN2140__.212
BLM Serial Nr.: IN NO S/N
Patentee: THOMAS HARBISON
Survey State: INDIANA Gibson County Acres: 40
SESE 35/ 1-S 10-W No 2nd PM IN Gibson
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer Issue Date: 10/1/1840 Land Office: Vincennes
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Patentee: THOMAS HARBISON Survey NENE 27/ 16-N 1-E No 2nd PM IN Hendricks County
State: INDIANA Acres: 40
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer Issue Date: 3/30/1837 Land Office: Crawfordsville
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Patentee: THOMAS HARBISON Survey NENE 26/ 16-N 1-E No 2nd PM IN Hendricks
State: INDIANA Acres: 40
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer Issue Date: 9/10/1838 Land Office: Crawfordsville
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Helped smuggle slaves across the Ohio River at Evansville, Indiana after his neighbors and friends promised to hang him if he continued to hold slaves himself.
1880 United States Census
Thomas HARBINSON Self M Male W 67 SC Farmer IRE PA Nancy HARBINSON Wife M Female W 30 IN Housekeeper KY IN Frank SIMONSON SSon S Male W 8 IN OH IN Census Place Princeton, Gibson, Indiana Family History Library Film 1254279 NA Film Number T9-0279 Page Number 356C Individual Record 1880 United States Census
Thomas HARBINSON Household
Male Birth Year <1813> Birthplace SC Age 67 Occupation Farmer Marital Status M <Married> Race W <White> Head of Household Thomas HARBINSON Relation Self Father's Birthplace IRE Mother's Birthplace PA Census Place Princeton, Gibson, Indiana Family History Library Film 1254279 NA Film Number T9-0279 Page Number 356C http://www.rootsquest.com/~jmurphy/gibson/gibsmisc.htm
HARBINSON, R. J. - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBINSON, S. M. - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBISON, G. - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBISON, HUGH - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBISON, J. - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBISON, SYRENA - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
HARBISON, THOS. M. - IN CENTER TP, NAMES FROM A MAP (? DATE)
http://www.rootsquest.com/~jmurphy/gibson/stormont/Stormont_0366.htm
At that time Francisco bade fair to become quite a place, but the canal was found to be too expensive to keep up and compete with railroads, then in operation and being established. It was making no money for its stockholders and gradually began to run down. When we consider that it took two days to make the trip by canal to Evansville from Francisco it is not to be wondered at that it was not a popular mode of transportation. I can just remember seeing the boats pulled along by two horses hitched tandem to a big cable fastened to the boat, the horses on the tow-path and the small boy riding one of them. Think of traveling that way now.
Among some of the families living near Francisco in the early fifties I can mention the following: Living west was Thomas Harbinson and family, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, the mother of Squire James Sprowl, of Princeton; James Hussey, Dustin Mills, the Lawrence family, while north of Francisco lived Thomas McKedy, James Aydelotte, Thomas Johnson, James McClelland, Vardiman Yeager. David Johnson and Fleming Farmer. To the east lived Jackson Malone, Calvin Drysdale, McGrady Downey and Thomas Burchfield, while south there lived Charles Cross, who was a Methodist minister for that circuit; Porter Carnahan, Hardy Beasley, William Davis and several families of the Reavis'. Southeast lived the McConnells, one of whom was "Aunt Nancy," or better known as Granny McConnell, who was in those days famed the county over as a doctor. There was no practicing physician anywriere in the county who had a larger practice or better success than had "Granny" McConnell. She was one of the first and greatest charity workers that Gibson county ever had. She refused no call from the suffering; the night was never too dark, the weather too bad, the roads--which, after all, were often only cattle paths through the woods--too muddy or rough for her to travel to help those who needed her aid. Her pay was small, very often nothing at all and in cases of obstetrics her charges were only two dollars and fifty cents, her aim and sole object in life seemingly to be to do good to her fellow beings.
There are a few incidents in my life in Francisco that stand out more vividly in memory's book. In November of 1857, when I was but a small child, a tornado started near the head of the old reservoir and, coming northeast through the heavy timber that covered nearly all the intervening country, it struck our little home, completely demolishing it. My mother and grandmother were most seriously injured, but through some dispensation of Providence, though the bed I was lying upon was torn to fragments, I was not injured, but the recollections of that day--or rather moming--are indelibly stamped upon my memory. Several other buildings were wrecked, but no one was killed. The Methodist church near our house was wrecked, but none of the buildings were so completely demolished as was ours.
http://www.findagrave.com
Thomas M. Harbison
Birth: Jun. 8, 1813
Death: May 15, 1895
Inscription: 81 yrs. 11 mos. 7 days husband of Mary Ann Harbison
Burial:
Archer Cemetery
Princeton
Gibson County
Indiana, USA
Plot: Section 1, Row 6
Record added: Feb 17 2007
By: Randy Fuhrman
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