Emily Kathleen Gibson

Emily married Richard Thomas Jones, 2 on 5 Oct 1939 in Portsmouth, Commonwealth of Virginia. Richard (son of Wilbur C Jones and Laura Rissler) was born on 24 Apr 1916 in Crofton, Knox Co, Nebraska; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Portsmouth is an "independent city" which is a city that is not in the territory of any county or counties and is considered a primary administrative division of its state. Independent cities are classified by the United States Census Bureau as "county equivalents" and may also have similar governmental powers to a consolidated city-county.

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, all municipalities incorporated as "cities" have been "independent cities", also called "free cities", since 1871, when a revised state constitution took effect following the American Civil War and the creation of West Virginia.

Three older Virginia counties, whose origins go back to the original eight shires of Virginia formed in 1634 in the Colony of Virginia, have or had the word city in their names; politically, however, they are counties. The independent cities were formed to centralize trading and legal matters as the older system of merchant ships cruising from plantation to plantation was inefficient