Josiah Gideon

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Josiah married Margaret Harrison on 10 Aug 1892. Margaret was born on 16 Nov 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Wealthy Hull on 2 Jan 1849 in Clinton, Dewitt, Illinois, United States. Wealthy was born on 5 Oct 1830 in Ohio, United States; died on 19 Jan 1889 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Clinton Public
(DeWitt County, Illinois)
January 25, 1889

Mrs. Wealthy GIDEON, wife of Peter W. GIDEON, formerly of Clinton, died in Minneapolis, January 19, 1889, where she had gone for treatment of disease from which she had been suffering for a number of years. Mrs. Gideon's maiden name was HULL, and she came from Madison county, Ohio, to this county with her father, Benjamin HULL, in the fall of 1847, she then being 17 years old. Perhaps many who read this will remember her as their young teacher, as she followed teaching county schools after coming to this county until she was married to Peter Gideon, in the winter of 1848. A few years after her marriage, and after she was the mother of three children, she moved with her family to Hennepin county, Minnesota, and settled on Lake Minnetonka, near Excelsior, where her body will repose, while we trust her spirit has returned to the God who gave it.
-Courtesy of Judy Simpson

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"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]

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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]