{"id":943,"date":"2007-01-07T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/07\/the-death-of-arnold-gibson\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T02:03:28","slug":"the-death-of-arnold-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/943","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Arnold Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the Gibson family genealogy report yesterday without any sources, so today I&#8217;ll post one source .\u00a0 I knew from my cousins that their father, Clark Gibson, was born in Fairfield, Vermont and that his parents were Arnold Gibson and Hattie Fadden .\u00a0 I don&#8217;t qualify to obtain Clark&#8217;s death certificate, since New York State, where Clark died, restricts death records for 50 years .\u00a0 Instead, I was able to obtain a copy of the Certificate of Death for Clark&#8217;s father, Arnold Gibson.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"The Death Record for Arnold Gibson\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/VRD-Gibson-Arnold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image945\" style=\"width: 454px; height: 512px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/VRD-Gibson-Arnold.jpg\" alt=\"The Death Record for Arnold Gibson\" width=\"454\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Certificate of Death for Arnold Gibson<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>SOURCE: The State of Vermont. Department of Health. Certificate of Death. 1928. Arnold Gibson. FHL US\/CAN Film 2022665, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a PDF copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/VRD-Gibson-Arnold-R-1928.pdf\">Certificate of Death for Arnold Gibson &#8211; 1928<\/a> .\u00a0 The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Arnold Gibson was a white male, born on 17 Aug 1859 in Island Pond, Vermont;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was a farmer, married to Hattie Fadden;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His parents were Clark Gibson and Maryetta Olds, both born in Canada;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Arnold died at 5 AM on 14 Mar 1928 at the age of 68 years, 6 months, and 27 days in Worcester, Washington County, Vermont;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">There was no medical attendance at the time of his death and the cause of death was reported as &#8220;unknown natural causes&#8221; and &#8220;sudden death;&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The circumstance of Arnold&#8217;s death were reported to the State Attorney who authorized a Certificate of Death without autopsy;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Arnold was buried in Worcester, Vermont on 16 Mar 1928 by Barber &amp; Lavier of Montpelier, Vermont;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Mrs. Arnold R. Gibson of Worcester, Vermont provided the personal and statistical particulars;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Clarence H. Burr, M.D. of Montpelier signed the Certificate of Death on 14 Mar 1928;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Jessie M. Putnam, Town Clerk filed the record on 15 Mar 1928.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">The information about Arnold&#8217;s birthplace on this Certificate of Death disagrees with that in some other sources, which state that Arnold was born in Alburg, New York .\u00a0 Discovering Arnold&#8217;s place of birth may require additional investigation .\u00a0 This record provides very useful information on finding further records for Arnold and his parents.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Of interest is the place of death at the top of the page .\u00a0 The words &#8220;City (or) town&#8221; are struck through .\u00a0 I assume this was done because Worcester, Vermont did not have the status of a city or town .\u00a0 The 1920 US Federal Census listed Worcester as a township.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As I post source documents on the Gibson family, I&#8217;ll hyperlink the Gibson genealogy report listed in the pages in the sidebar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the Gibson family genealogy report yesterday without any sources, so today I&#8217;ll post one source .\u00a0 I knew from my cousins that their father, Clark Gibson, was born in Fairfield, Vermont and that his parents were Arnold Gibson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,47,105],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fadden","category-gibson","category-olds","tag-worcester-vermont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}