Amanda M. Gibbons

b. circa March 1898
  • Amanda M. Gibbons was born circa March 1898 in Pennsylvania according to the 1900 census.
  • James G. Gibbons and Rachel E. Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Other members of the household included Amanda M. Gibbons, Thomas J. Givens, Gilbert James Givens, Valentine Trout Gibbons and Sarah M. Gibbons. The family appars to bes enumerated under the surname "Girons."
  • James G. Gibbons and Rachel E. Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, at Laurel-Guinston Road. Other members of the household included Amanda M. Gibbons, Gilbert James Givens, Valentine Trout Gibbons, Sarah M. Gibbons, Elizabeth P. Gibbons and Minnie T. Gibbons. The family is enumerated under the surname "Gibbons."
  • She married Thomas C. Johnson circa 1925.
  • Thomas C. Johnson and Amanda M. Gibbons appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in York, York County, Pennsylvania, at 821 Edison Street. Also in the household were adioted son James W. Harris (age 12) and one young male boarder.
  • She was employed as a housekeeper by a private famly, according to the 1930 census.
  • The following appeared on 19 July 1938 in The Gazette & Daily: Thomas Givens, 17 East Charles avenue, died at 9:30 o’clock yesterday morning at the York hospital, where he had been a patient last week. He was aged 61 years. Surviving are a son, William Givens; two brothers, Valentine and Gilbert Givens, and three sisters, Mrs. Amanda Johnson, Mrs. Eliza Wilson and Mrs. Minnie Dorsey, all of York. The funeral will be held Wednesday, with services at 10:30 a.m., from the J. Milton Bricker funeral home, 210 West Jackson street. Rev. A. J. Pagan will officiate. Interment will follow in Upper Chanceford cemetery.
  • Amanda M. Gibbons appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in York, York County, Pennsylvania, at 151 North Duke Street enumerated as housekeeper in the household of Clarence Harris and his son James. In 1935 she was living in the same house.
  • Valentine Trout Gibbons registered for the draft in 1942 in Harford County, Maryland, while living at 616 Girard Street in Havre de Grace, and employed by Sheener Construction Company in Aberdeen. Contact: his sister Amanda Johnson, 151 North Duke Street in York, Pennsylvania.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2015

Family: Thomas C. Johnson b. circa 1888