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Group portrait of Braxton Davenport Gibson (sitting, left) of Charles Town, West Virginia with three men and a woman.

1. Braxton Davenport Gibson and Friends

2. Three Women, 'Mother, Frankie and Gibbie'

3. Two Men, 'Henry and Drake'

4. Portrait of Actress Pauline Hall in Costume

5. L. W. Morgan of Reader, Wetzel County, W. Va.

B. D. Gibson, "Port", at age 21, weight 180 lbs.

6. B. D. Gibson, 'Port'

John T. Gibson, born in 1851, a soldier of the Confederacy with Mosby. The latter said of him, "a brave - gallant child, whom I love."

7. John T. Gibson, Age 13

8. B. D. Gibson

"For W. Va. Div. U. C. V.'s, ... Genl. Robt White, Comdg. . . use return to General Geo. Moor-... Adjt. Genl. & Chief of Staff U. C. V.'s Common Street, New Orleans, La."

9. Zan Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.

10. B. D. Gibson

11. Frances Davenport Packette. Age Seven Months, Charles Town, W. Va.

12. Portrait of Braxton D. Gibson in Uniform

13. Portrait of Annie Gibson of Charles Town, Jefferson County, W. Va.

Annie Gibson Packette, wife of William Bainbridge Packette, daughter of Frances D. Gibson and Col. John Thomas Gibson

14. Portrait of Annie Gibson Packette of Charles Town, Jefferson County, W. Va

15. Portrait of Two Men, Graddy and Gibson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Portrait of John Thomas Gibson sitting on the front porch of his Charles Town, W. Va. home. Mr. Gibson is sitting in his father's (James Gibson) chair.

16. Portrait of John Thomas Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.

17. Portrait of Braxton Davenport Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.

18. Portrait of Jesse Roach

19. Portrait of Woman and Child, 'Mama and Weeny'

"The Three Faires" and "Alton Villa"

20. Portrait of Zan Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.; Agnes Bury of Montreal, Canada; Georgia Bube, Monticello, N. Y.

21. Portrait of John Corcoran

22. Portrait of R. G. Hammett

23. Portrait of 'Uncle Taylor'

24. Portrait of Aaron Morgan of Porter's Falls, Wetzel County, W. Va.

This photograph was taken from a daguerreotype of Mary Davenport Chenoweth,  daughter of John Davenport and niece of Major Abraham Davenport. Mary Chenoweth was also the great aunt of Frances Williams Davenport (Frances Packette Todd's grandmother). Frances W. Davenport married John Thomas Gibson at Mary Chenoweth's ancestral home, Altona, in Jefferson County, in 1855. Refer to back of the photograph for more information.

25. Portrait of Mary Davenport Chenoweth of Charles Town, W. Va., Age 95

26. Portrait of John Thomas Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.

27. Portrait of John Thomas Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va.

28. Portrait of Braxton D. Gibson of Charles Town, W. Va

29. Portrait of John S. Magill

Frances Davenport Packette posing on a rocking horse, on a front porch

30. Portrait of Frances Davenport Packette

Location of house, 1510 Kanawha St, Charleston, W. Va., "Rab's Home"

31. The Henry B. Davenport House in Charleston, W. Va.

Pictured: Edgar Bury, Lillian Mc Shane, Zan Gibson, Agnes Bury, W. Bury and Edmund Bury; taken at 84 University St., Montreal

32. Group Portrait of Young Women and Men Posing on Ladders

Marker on the Gibson property, site of John Brown's execution

33. John Brown Execution Marker, Charles Town, W. Va.

The outside cover of John Brown's jail house Bible

34. John Brown's Bible

The inside leaves of John Brown's jail house Bible,including an inscription written by Brown to John Blessing. Before Brown's Execution, he presented the Bible to Blessing as show of gratitude for Blessing's acts of kindness.

35. John Brown's Bible

Frances D. Packette and her pet cat, Schley-Puss, on a see-saw.

36. Frances D. Packette and 'Schley-Puss'

Margaret Holliday Gibson sitting on the floor of a front porch

37. Margaret Holliday Gibson, Age 2

Two girls, Frances Packette and Margaret Gibson, holding hands.

38. Portrait of Frances Packette and Margaret Gibson

View of Harper's Ferry showing the old engine house called John Brown's Fort

39. John Brown's Fort

Small boy sitting in a chair

40. Poot Gibson

"Billy Packette", taken Christmas, 1900

41. Portrait of Willie B. Packette

"Supposed to be daughter of Edward and Elina", Photograph from an old daguerreotype, December 20, 1928, R. S. Franklin

42. Portrait of Priscilla Strode

Rutherford and his family worked with a young George Washington, surveying the lower Shenandoah Valley ca. 1750. Rutherford also served under Washington during the French and Indian War.

43. Portrait of Robert Rutherford of Eastern Panhandle in (West) Virginia

44. Horse Show, Charles Town, W. Va

The young girl holding a teddy bear is Frances Davenport Packette. The older boy is possible her brother, Willie.

45. Portrait of Frances Davenport Packette and Older Boy

46. Portrait of Henry B. Davenport of Altona, Jefferson County, W. Va.

Four young women and a boy in costume. The two women standing are possibly Ann and Zan Gibson.

47. 'Two Old Fashion Girls, The Lovers and The Page'

A horse harnessed to a "gig" owned by Ferdinand Fairfax, nephew of Lord Thomas Fairfax. Ferdinand lived at Shannon Hill on the Shenandoah River in Jefferson County, Virginia, later West Virginia.

48. Old Fairfax 'Gig', Jefferson County, W. Va.