Gaston, Indiana - see Elizabethtown and New Corner

Georgeville, Indiana - one of the oldest plats on the book, save that of the county seat town of Muncietown, which is referred to elsewhere, is that of the town of Georgeville, which was laid out on the east bank of the Mississinewa river in section 32, township 22, range 11 (Niles civil township), by John G. Deeds and William Batterall on September 28, 1832. This prospective town was laid out as a tract of six blocks, with Main street (the only one given a name on the plat) 66 feet wide and the cross streets 49 feet, the alleys 12. The neighboring Granville settlement a bit farther down the stream, and on the other side which took on a new impetus about that time proved too much in the way of competition for Georgeville and the latter subsided.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimaugh, 1924, Vol 1, page 400)

Gibson, Diana - see Absalom Brown

================================================================================================ Gibson, Garret  --------------------Last Will and Testament--------------Date 14 November 1857

Be it remembered that on the 5th day of October 1869, the following will and proof thereof we find: Indiana towit Delaware County.
I Garrett Gibson, of said county do hereby ordain and publish the following as my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me any time made. I direct therefore that at my death everything belonging to my esate both of real and personal property be sold by my Executor for the best price he can get except such articles as my wife may choose to select out of the personal property for her own use during her natural life, and as fast as money comes into his hands, I wish him to pay my little? debts which thank God are not much, and also to pay my daughter, Sarah Gibson, now living in Iowa, five dollars, and to each of my Grand Children, Calvine, James and Mathew Grissom, one dollar--As fast as any money comes to his hands then after the payment of the debts and these legacies I wish my executor to invest the money so as to make the most profit he can of it and pay to my said wife, Sarah, the interest or profit of the money for her support during her natural life, and this fund is to be and remain pledged for her support (being?) for as long as lives, and the two girls, Sela and Rebecca, until they are of age or married. The fund aforesaid is to be so used that the interest or profit of it is to be paid yearly, and I hereby invest my said Executor with power to sell my land and to make the conveyances fully as I could myself do were I living. If the interest arising from the fund is? said be more than may be neccessary for the support of my said wife, I desire it to added to the fund and to become principal. After the death of my wife Sarah, then any property which she leaves is to be by my executor, converted into money and it and the fund aforesaid after the burial of my wife and payment of all costs and expenses is to be equally divided share and share alike between my son James Riley Gibson, and the two daughters aforesaid towit, Sela and Rebecca Gibson, and the descendants of any of them who may be dead, but if either dies without descendants, then the share or shares of the deceased goes to the survivor or survivors. And I hereby appoint my excellent friend Patrick Carmichael, the Executor of this will, and if he dies wiout having closed up this business, and does not appoint his successor-herein which I hereby authorize him to do--then in such case I direct the Judge of the Delaware Circuit Court appoint a trustee to manage the same. In testimony whereof I sign my name hereto Nov. 14th, 1857.
Garrett Gibson (his x mark)
Attest
Thomas J. Sample
Tom J. Brady
Indiana towit Delaware County
I Garrett Gibson the Testator aforesaid do hereby republish the forgoing last will and testament done in a sane and sound mind this 20th day of June (date 1857 or 1859?)
Garrett Gibson (his x mark)
(Source: Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana - Bracken Library - Archives and Special Collections) ================================================================================================

Gibson, William  ------------------------Last Will and Testament-----------------Date 12 April, 1852

I, William Gibson of Delaware County and State of Indiana, being weak in boddy,(sic) but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, thanks be to Almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner form following that is to say, First, it is my will that my funeral expences(sic) and all my just Debts be fully paid, Second, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Rahael (sic) Gibson, in Lieu of her dower a full and competent maintainance(sic) during her natural life time from the rents and proffits(sic) of the plantation on which we now live, situated in the County and State aforesaid containing about Eighty Acres, and that at the death of my said wife all the above described property be Equally divided among the following named heirs - Nancy Ogle, Valentine Gibson, Lucinda Ogle, Patsy Turner, John Gibson, Abigail Shockly and Isaac Suite. And lastly, I hereby constitute and appoint Jonas Turner and my son, John Gibson to be the Executor for this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me made and ratified and confirmed this and no other to be last will and testament. On testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and Seal this twelfth day of April Eighteen hundred and fifty two. Signed: William Gibson (his x mark)
Witnessed by us:
James H. Rosebrough
William R. Turner (his x mark)
(Source: Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana - Bracken Library - Archives and Special Collections) ================================================================================================

Gipson, John - see Thornburgh
Gipson, William - see Thornburgh
Gipson, Valentine - see Thornburgh
Gilbert, Goldsmith - see Yorktown

Gilman, Indiana - Gilman, though treated by the cartographers and gazetteers as of the neighboring county of Madison, really may be said to belong to Delaware county, for the original plat of this townsite, on the county line where the Lake Erie & Western railway passes out into Madison county, covers Delaware county lands, though the village seems to have developed on the other side of the line. Gilman was laid out on June 15, 1893, by the Gas Center Land Company, by George L. Bradbury, president, and W. E. Hackedom, secretary, under direction of the company's board of directors, John Miller and John Parker, owners of the legal title to part of the land included in the plat, concurring therein. The plat covers a part of the north half of the southwest quarter of section 36; part of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the same section, part of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 25 and part of the south half of the southwest quarter of this latter section, all in township 21, range 8 (Harrison), where the Lake Erie railroad passes out of Delaware county westward. The plat was drawn on somewhat pretentious lines, the proprietors evidently being expectant that a city would grow up around the gas development then being projected there, but like so many of the projects of that period, the greater part of their hopes were blasted. Main street is the chief east and west street of the plat, beginning at the railroad crossing, and the other east and west streets are Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth, the north and south streets being (from the east), White, Harvey, Hill, Neely, Jacobs, Bradbury, Central, Jay, Parker, Hackedom and Huffman.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimbaugh, 1924, Vol 1, page 408)

Ginn, John - see William Heal
Graham, John - see William Heal
Graham, Mary - see William Heal

Granville, Indiana - Granville, the old river settlement on the left bank of the Mississinewa in the southwest corner of Niles township (section 31, town 22, range 11), was platted as a townsite by John Gregory, David Shideler and Peter Thomas, joint proprietors, May 9, 1836. The original plat covers twelve blocks lying south of the river, with Water street on the north, the other east-and-west streets being Market, Jackson and South. The north-and-south streets are Thomas, Walnut, Main and Gregory. Granville in the old river days was an excellent trading center and its "boomers" felt that the county seat ought have been located there and worked to that end, but the Muncietown influence was too well directed for them to overcome.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimbaugh, 1924, Vol 1, page 401)

Green, Havilah - see Pitts Burg

Green, William H., Green was of English stock. His father emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War and became a soldier in the Colonial army. William H. was born in New York State, and while a young man came to Athens county, Ohio. He served in the war with England in 1812. Came to Delaware county and entered the north half of the northwest quarter of section 6 (this being the northwest corner of the township) on August 4, 1836 We understand that Mr. Green had a very correct family history, running back for many generations, but shortly after settling in his new home his cabin was destroyed by fire, and these, with many other important papers, were lost. Some time after this he lost his wife by death, and afterwards married the Widow Duddleston (mother of Isaiah Duddleston, the present trustee of Niles township), with whom he lived until his death, which occurred about 1856. Mr. Green was the father of the late Jackson Green, of Hamilton township, and grandfather of Dr. George R. Green, of Muncie.
(Source: Our County, Its History and Early Settlement by Townships, John S. Ellis, 1898 - Delaware Township, pages 44/5)

Greenwalt, Joseph - see Selma
Gregory, John - see Granville
Grim, Nicholas and wife, Susanna Jones Grim and children, Rebecca, Caroline, Samuel, Benjamin, David, John, and Thomas - see Absalom Brown