Wayne County

Mrs. Mary Gimmeson

1884 Biographical Sketches of Barnhill Twp

MRS. MARY GIMMESON, Fairfield, was born October 21, 1834, in Washington. Penn. She was a daughter of Samuel Black, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and followed the carpenter trade in Pittsburgh, where he died. Her mother was Lydia (Burten) Black, a native of Pennsylvania. She was the mother of but one child, which is our subject, Mary (Black) Gimmeson, who was joined in matrimony to Samuel Gimmeson, a native of Stark County, Ohio. He was a fine, industrious man, whose place it will be hard to fill in the community, he died February 10, 1878, in this county, mourned by all who knew him.

Mrs. Gimmeson is the happy mother of three children now living, viz.,

  1. Elizabeth A., born February 10, 1853, wife of David Shoefield
  2. Uriah T., born November 17, 1855 — he is married to Louisa Carter
  3. John W., who was born June 30, 1865. He is a fine, promising youth, who looks upon honor as the first principle of manhood. He is now at home managing his mother's farm of 160 acres.

Mrs. Gimmeson is well known in the community where she lives as an open-hearted and a kind-hearted lady. She is religiously connected with the Presbyterian Church.

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