Gideon Rathbun ^{1 2 3 4}

   Cause of his death was Drowning.

   Other names for Gideon were Gideon Rathbone and Gideon Rathburn.⁶

  General Notes:

Extracted from the Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 3, Number 2, April 1983, Page 29.
Gideon Rathbun, born October 3, 1766, at Exeter, and moved with his parents to Tyringham, Mass., and then to Delhi, N. Y. Like his brothers, he was a miller. Delhi tax records show that in 1798 he paid taxeson 200 acres, a mill and a home 20 x 24 feet. He married about 1795,Anna Newberry, born March 25, 1777, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Newberry. Jonathan Newberry was a great-grandson of Jonathan Birchand Mary Rathbun. Gideon moved to Belpre, Washington County, Ohio, in 1807. An early county history calls him "the eccentric character among the settlers of 1807. he first settled on an eight-acre lot ... When he sold this he moved down on Little Hocking (River). His only source of revenue was the fur-bearing animals he was enabled to capture. For a time he owned a pony on which he was accustomed to go to Marietta with a small grist of corn and skins to barter for necessities of life. As he grew older, his luck at hunting turned and then to addmisfortune to misery the old pack horse died and Gideon was compelledto carry corn to the mill on his own back. One day as he was sweltering under his burden, a neighbor made friendly inquiry concerning his circumstances. Gideon despondingly replied, 'Oh, I haint got nothin' to get nothin' with nor I haint got nothin' to bring nothin' home.' The latter part of his life was not free from want... He was one of those eccentric characters so frequently met with in pioneer history who are content as long as they have anything to eat and a place to sleep." This depiction of Gideon may not be entirely accurate. When he died on June 5, 1838, he left his wife, Anna, 'the plantation on which we now reside...containing about 120 acres...and all horses, cattle, sheep and hogs." Anna lived another 28 years, and died Sept. 18, 1866,at the home of her son, John, in Jay County, Indiana.

The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 5, Number 1
Drowning took the live of Gideon Rathbun in 1838.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 1790, Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. ⁷

• Occupation: Miller, 1798, Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States. ⁸

• Residence, 1800, , Washington, Rhode Island, United States. ⁹

• Residence, 1807, Belpre, Washington, Ohio, United States. ⁵

• Military Service: Private, Capt Shaver's Rifle Co., Ohio Militia; War of 1812, 1812-1815. ¹⁰

• Residence, 7 Aug 1820, Warren Township, Washington, Ohio, United States. ¹¹

• Residence, 1830, Warren Township, Washington, Ohio, United States. ⁶

• Probate: Abstract of Probate Records, 1838, Belpre, Washington, Ohio, United States. ¹²

Gideon married Anna Newberry, daughter of Jonathan Newberry and Elizabeth Knapp, in 1795 in Hoosick, Rensselaer, New York, United States. (Anna Newberry was born on 25 Mar 1777 in Delhi, Ulster, New York, United States,^{1 5 13} died on 18 Sep 1866 in , Jay, Indiana, United States ^{1 5 14} and was buried after 18 Sep 1866 in Portland, Jay, Indiana, United States ¹⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage, Abt 1795, Delhi, Ulster, New York, United States. ^{1 5}