George William Gideon

George married Lydia Kidder on 14 Jan 1834 in Woodstock, Champaign, Ohio, United States. Lydia was born in 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Nathan Emory Gideon was born on 6 Aug 1834 in Woodstock, Champaign, Ohio, United States; died on 28 Oct 1883 in Missouri, United States; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, Dewitt, Illinois, United States.

George married Angeline Rowley on 8 Sep 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Peter Heinrich Gideon of Bavaria in company with his wife and one year old son, Peter, started for the new world about 1749. The wife died en voyage but Peter Heinrich and his son, Peter, arrived safely at Philadelphia. Peter Heinrich Gideon remarried and had other children. Both father and son fought in the Revolutionary War. Peter Gideon located in Maryland but later removed to Loudoun County, Virginia where he followed farming until his death in 1844 at the age of 96 years. He had seven children, the oldest son being George.

"George Gideon was born in Maryland in 1788 and married Elizabeth Miller of Virginia in 1812. During the War of 1812 he served in the Virginia Militia. Their three children were with them when they pioneered into Champaign county, Ohio in 1817. The Gideon family came to Clinton in the spring of 1847 when Clinton consisted of only a dozen or so houses. The trip from Ohio to Illinois was made overland in eight large prairie schooners. George Gideon conducted a hotel in Clinton and laid out the Gideon addition to Clinton. He died at the age of 92 years in 1880. His wife died at the age of 72 years in 1864. They raised a family of ten children: George William, Sarah, Catherine, Armstead M., Peter Miller, Ann, John Wesley, Samuel Hitt, Jacob Boucher and Elizabeth." - Clinton 1835-1985, Dewitt County, Illinois 1839-1985; IL (Dewitt) HIS 1985, pp.227-228; Bloomington-Normal Genealogical Society Library, 201 E. Grove St., Bloomington, IL 61701

George married Elizabeth Miller on 19 Aug 1812 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. Elizabeth was born in 1792 in Virginia, United States; died in 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Peter's Ancestor, Peter Heinrich Gideon
"Peter Heinrich Gideon of Bavaria in company with his wife and one year old son, Peter, started for the new world about 1749. The wife died en voyage but Peter Heinrich and his son, Peter, arrived safely at Philadelphia. Peter Heinrich Gideon remarried and had other children. Both father and son fought in the Revolutionary War. Peter Gideon located in Maryland but later removed to Loudoun County, Virginia where he followed farming until his death in 1844 at the age of 96 years. He had seven children, the oldest son being George."

"Peter Gideon, his wife and son, Peter, emigrated from Holland before the Revolutionary War and settled in Loudon County, Virginia. Mrs. Gideon died aboard ship. Both Peter and his son served in the Revolutionary War.

"The son, Peter, married Catherine McGlacoflin in 1755 [?] and they were the parents of ten children. Their son, George W. and wife moved to Ohio before 1820 settling in DeWill County [Dewitt County] before 1850."
- Clinton 1835-1985, Dewitt County, Illinois 1839-1985; IL (Dewitt) HIS 1985, pp.295-296; Bloomington-Normal Genealogical Society Library, 201 E. Grove St., Bloomington, IL 61701; submitted by Mary Robb Kolp

Peter married Mary Catherine Ernst in BEF. 1788 in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. Mary was born on 12 Jan 1774 in Bavaria, Germany; died on 13 Aug 1836 in Hillsboro, Loudoun, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]