TINKLING SPRING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
	FISHERSVILLE. VIRGINIA

October 1. 1953

Mrs. Wade H. Whitley
525 Vine Street
Paris, Kentucky

Dear Mrs. Whitley,

        Thank you for your letter. We appreciate your suggestions of 
prospects for our proposed book.

        The Frame and Gibson family baptisms are copied from a Photo
print of the original as follows: 	

        John Frame baptized children:
           Mary          21 February  1742
           William        8 September 1745
           John             Decenber  1748
        William Frame baptized children:
	   Esther        23 March     1746
           Jennet        19 July      1747
           Elisabeth      2 July      1749
        Alexander Gibson baptized children:
           James          7 August    1744
           Christian        August    1746
           Mary          15 September 1748
        Robert Gibson baptized children:
           Mary          15 March     1743
           Elisabeth     19 March     1745
           William        3 May       1747 (a twin)
           Isabella       3 May       1747 (a twin)
           James         19 March     1749

There was a James Frame listed on Tinkling Spring subscription lists 
1761 and 1766. James Frame bought of William Beverley 220 acres of 
land about five miles west of Tinkling Spring on 22 February 1749. 
Robert Gibson purchased two tracts, 370 and 190 acres, from William 
Beverley in 1754. This land was located about a half mile south of 
the Tinkling Spring.  A fresh-water cave on that land is still 
called "Gibson's Hole".

The one volume of Rev. John Craig's Record of Baptisms, 1740-1749, 
is the only such found. Whether he discontinued the record or kept 
a record that was lost is not known. The churches here have no 
other baptismal records until after 1840. We have here only 
subscription lists and fragmentary minutes between 1750 and 1840.

I do not find in the Record of Baptisms 1740-1749 any mention of 
David Gibson, either as father or child.

The Transylvania Presbytery was organized, I believe, about 1780,and 
before that Hanover Presbytery of Virginia handled the churches in 


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Mrs. Wade H. Whitley

the Carolinas, Kentucky and Virginia..

     In our old cemetery there is a marker to "Elizabeth Ray Gibson,
Our Mother, Wife of Overton Gibson, Born April 21, 1804 /Died/ 
May 29, 1864.

     I am sorry not to be able to help you more. These facts may 
help you, but they do not answer your question about Elizabeth
Frame born about 1780.

     Thank you for the stamps.

                                            Sincerely

                                            (signed)
HMW/pp	                                    Howard M. Wilson