Settlers of Highlands East
Absalom Gibson
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Name Absalom Gibson Birth 4 Jun 1891 Essonville, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Death 28 Nov 1956 Burial Glamorgan Community Cemetery, Glamorgan, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
Person ID I1186 Settlers of Highlands East | 1901 Census of Canada - Monmouth resident Last Modified 5 Dec 2025
Father James D Gibson, b. 17 Aug 1857, Ontario, Canada
d. 2 Mar 1928, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
(Age 70 years) Mother Mary Anne McCrea, b. 5 Jun 1856, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada
d. 1 Mar 1937 (Age 80 years) Family ID F250 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Madill, b. 18 Apr 1895, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
d. 7 Apr 1977 (Age 81 years) Marriage 25 Apr 1912 Kinmount, Somerville, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
[4] Children + 1. Mary Violet Gibson, b. 25 Aug 1913, Tory Hill, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
d. 9 Nov 2004, Bobcaygeon, Verulam, Victoria, Ontario, Canada
(Age 91 years)+ 2. Gertrude Ellen Gibson, b. 11 Feb 1915, Tory Hill, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada 
3. William Roy Gibson, b. 28 Jan 1920, Ontario, Canada
d. 20 Jan 1991 (Age 70 years)4. Margret Alberta Gibson, b. 17 Jan 1925, Tory Hill, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
d. 11 Jan 1981, Tory Hill, Monmouth, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada
(Age 55 years)Family ID F978 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Oct 2020
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Photos 
Logging Camp 1906 showing men from Essonville and Tory Hill area
several names are listed
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Sources - [S1] Census of Canada, 1901, District: ON PETERBOROUGH (East/Est) (#106) Subdistrict: Monmouth S Page 9, Family 75.
- [S9] Census of Canada, 1921 , 1921, Ontario/Victoria - Haliburton/38 Monmouth Township page 6 family 56.
- [S18] Ontario Canada Births, Reg# 11895-93, MS 929.
Born in 1891, birth registered in 1893 - [S20] Ontario Canada Marriages, Reg# 18197-12, MS 932.
- [S1] Census of Canada, 1901, District: ON PETERBOROUGH (East/Est) (#106) Subdistrict: Monmouth S Page 9, Family 75.
