Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky.  Recorded in the 1870's and
beyond.  Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, No 8 February, 1996,
p. 81. By permission. Clay County.

ABIJAH GILBERT, July 12, 1898.

     I was born Feb. 25, 1815, in Clay County, Kentucky.  My father was
John Gilbert.  He was born in N. C.  His brother-in-law Stewart was in the
Revolutionary War.  My father had Stewart's discharge when he died.  He
brought (bought) it with the expectation of getting a pension on it.  Some
attorney wrote proposing to work it up and I sent the paper to him but
never got it back.  My father's father was in the Revolutionary War. 
Jarvis Jackson, I think or some other Jackson from London came to my
father's and wrote a sketch of his life.  I do not know what became of it.
 I have heard my father say often that he was a youth when the
Revolutionary War was on.  He claimed to be 111 years old when he died. 
He was the first settler in Clay County.  He came as a trapper, hunting
beaver.  He caught the beaver at the mouth of Long Creek where there was a
dam.  His brother Felix and William Hudson came to Clay County a little
later.  He gave them both land.  I do not know when he came to Kentucky. 
My father lived near Cumberland Gap in Tennessee before he came to
Kentucky.

Gilbert Stewart Jackson Hudson
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NC London-England TN

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