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William Gabbert (1814-1863) was a son of your William's older brother Thomas Gabbert. Thus he was William's nephew. Interesting family! I found this mention of William Gabbert in a modern history:
<< "Like Cole Younger, a great many bushwhackers had not shown a penchant for bloodthirsty criminality. Many bushwhackers were young men born to families of southern heritage who were generally wealthier and more likely to own slaves than the typical Missouri farmer. As the eldest sons of families that had experienced some degree of upward mobility, these guerrillas were not the backward savages described in northern newspapers but instead were the progeny of respectable southern families, committed to the defense of economic status and privilege. The Gabberts of Montevallo showed that bushwhacking could indeed be a family affair. A wealth-off Kentucky-born farmer in his mid-forties, William joined his sons John and Peter, in conducting raids into nearby Cedar County. His eldest daughter, Elisa, was an effective bushwhacker spy and informer. Many such bushwhackers saw themselves as defenders of family and community, and regarded their guerrilla warfare as necessary resistance against the invasion carried out by Unionist Kansas and the federal troops who now occupied their neighborhoods."
Neeley, Jeremy. "The border between them: violence and reconsiliation on the Kansas-Missouri line." University of Missouri Press, 2007.
page 109 >>
George Gabbert (c. 1757-1821) was a Rev War vet. Like his younger brother Michael Gabbert (c. 1765-after 1832), he probably served in the Virginia militia. All of George's children were born during or after the Rev War. George and Michael apparently married sisters, daughters of Michael Reed. Nobody has been able to find much about the Reed family, except that they moved to Virginia from Pennsylvania.
What I have says George Gabbert died about 1821 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. George's will was probated 8 October 1821 by his widow Anne Reed Gabbert. Maybe George didn't get a Rev War pension, and the pensioner was some other relative.
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