Susannah HOLBROOK ¹

   Other names for Susannah were Sousanna HOLBROOK and Susan HOLBROOK.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Obituary: GIBSON, Susana Holbrook, 1918, Floyd County, KY. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyfloyd/flobits/flobit-g.htm
GIBSON, Susana Holbrook B: 1844 Letcher Co., Ky. D: 3-2-1918 d/o Benjamine & Nancy Holbrook, w/o Miles Gibson 1861, 2 boys & 7 girls

• Obituary: New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ: Floyd County, KY. Stone Coal Church
Garrett, Floyd County Kentucky
September 26,27, 28, 1919

Gibson, Sousanna ~ It is with a very sad and unworthy feeling that I this lonesome Saturday evening after spending the most of the day indoors having to stay away from meeting on account of rain and high waters, that I attempt to write a short obituary of a dear and precious good old sister in the Lord whom I was very well acquainted with, to-wit: Sousana Gibson. She was born about the year 1844 in Letcher county, Kentucky, died March 2, 1918, aged about 74 years and was the daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Holbrook; she was married to Miles Gibson in the year 1861, and unto them was born nine children, two boys and seven girls of which two girls preceded sister Gibson in death. Sister Gibson joined the Caney Fork Church of Old Regular Baptists about the year 1869, where she lived a faithful and pious Christian life and was a bright and shining light to her church. Children and neighbors where she lived for a period of about fifty years. Her husband, Bro. Miles Gibson, was ordained as a deacon of the Caney Fork church and for many years he and the subject of this sketch took sweet counsel together and walked to the house of God in company. Old Bro. Gibson preceded her in death about twenty-seven years, but Sister Gibson always felt it a pleasure to bake the bread for the sacrament at her communion meeting, and I can remember very well being at her son's Bro. Leonard Gibson's and seeing her preparing this bread. I guess the last time she ever took the sacrament here on this earth with her brethren and sisters. I can remember seeing those good precious tears streaming down her cheeks and seeing her rejoice during that communion service; but now she is gone to where her soul is feasting around the altar of God where she can see the blessed Savior who instituted this supper that the saints of the most high God find pleasure in keeping up until we end our pilgrimage here on earth and then we can go and live and eat with Christ forever and dine at his table forevermore. Now while it is an evident fact that she is greatly missed by all those who visit the church to which she belonged and she has left two sons and five girls to mourn their loss together with a very large number of grand children and other relatives and host of friends, but all we can say is that "our loss is her eternal gain." The two boys and three of the girls are members of this good old church to which their mother belonged, as above mentioned, for the long period of fifty years, and I trust that hope should they be spared to live as long as their dear old mother that they will also hold out as faithful as she did, that they and all the rest of her children may die the death she did and their last days may be like hers, and of course, there isn't any use quibbling about it as to whether one will hold out faithful or not, if they are born again they are sure to hold out unto the end, for the Bible is plain "that the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord." I hope that the remaining ones of the family of Sister Gibson that haven't yet made their peace calling and election sure with God children who have obtained a hope in Christ meet mother again. Sister Gibson's funeral is set to be preached the fifth Saturday in July and the first Sunday in August, 1920, at the Gibson graveyard on Caney Creek, Knott county, Kentucky. Preachers requested are Elders J. D. Mosley, J. C. Mosley and E. V. Hopkins Written by E. V. Hopkins
[http://www.knottkentuckykinfolk.com/orb_new_salem/1919.htm]

Susannah married Miles GIBSON, son of Leonard GIBSON and Nancy THORNSBERRY, on 12 Sep 1861. (Miles GIBSON was born on 13 Nov 1839 in Floyd County, KY and died on 20 Mar 1901.)