 1790 - 1859 (68 years)
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| Name |
Elisha Bibbins [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Birth |
16 Jul 1790 |
Hampton, Washington Co., NY  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
6 Jul 1859 |
Scranton, PA |
| Burial |
Orwell Cemetery, PA. |
| Person ID |
I6062 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
14 Jan 2008 |
| Family |
Alice Lathrop, b. 8 May 1791, Lisbon, Connecticut d. Jan 1877, Newark (Kendall) Illinois (Age 85 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Sep 1814 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F3019 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
Elisha Bibbins
Photo courtest of Nancy Gavin |
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Was a circut preacher on the Tioga Circuit in Orwell, Pa., in 1815.
Was a state legislator in Illinois at one point.
| Elisha Bibbins |
Boys by the name of Bibbins were enrolled in the Orwell Center Sunday School 1834-35. His grave is in the Orwell Cemetery. "At the time of his death he was visiting his old friend Dr. George Peck. After an afternoon and evening spent in charming conversation he retired at ten o’clock. While frail, nothing unusual or alarming was noticed in his condition. Before the dawn of another Day He was gone. He is said to have been a good preacher and a great soul winner."
(History of Orwell Churches) |
| History of Bradford, County, Pennsylvania |
A quarterly meeting of the circuit held at Windham, Sept 30, 1815; the name of Marmaduke Pearce appers as presiding elder, and Elisha Bibbins is the preacher,
Mr.. Bibbins died suddenly at Scranton, July 6, 1859, of heart desease, aged sixty nine years and was buried at Orwell. |
In 1842, in Kendall Co., Ill, he presented a remonstrance to the Legislature of Illinois against having LaSalle county set off into Kendall Co., He also presented, as an off-set, a petition from the citizens praying for a continuance of the county as it had been organized. (History of Kendall County)
| Children | | Edward Paine Bibbins b: 16 MAY 1815 | | Joseph Slocum Bibbins b: 1 NOV 1821 | | Robert Kendall Bibbins b: 21 APR 1823 | | Andrew Tracy Lothrop Bibbins b: 12 AUG 1826 | | Tracy Lothrop Bibbins b: 12 AUG 1829 |
| Census: 1850 Big Grove, Kendall Co. Ill | | name | age | occupation | born in | | Elisha Bibbins | 59 | Clergyman | New York | | Alice Bibbins | 58 | | Connecticut | | Joseph Bibbins | 28 | | Pa | | Tracy Bibbins | 21 | | Pa | | Catherine Bibbins | 21 | | Pa |
In 1860, his wife Alice, was living with their son Joseph in Big Grove, Ill.
Officiated in Rathbone, Steuben Co., NY in 1822. Officiated at the marriage of Myron Burdick and Martha Griffen in Black Creek, NY in 1862.
Resources: - Sketch of the life of Elisha Bibbins
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S1078] Victor Charles Detty, Pastor Federated Church 1930-1943, A HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES OF ORWELL, PENNSYLVANIA, (http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/detty/chapt09.htm).
- [S1089] Craft, David, History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia. L.H. Everts & Co.. 1878.).
- [S1090] Clayton, W. Woodford, History of Steuben County, New York, (Philadelphia. Lewis, Peck & Co.. 1879.).
- [S1121] Hicks, E. W, History of Kendall County, Illinois, from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time, (Knickerbocker and Hooder, 1877.).
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