Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Gibson, L. B. April 1 1863 - living 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:45 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) L. B. GIBSON, a farmer and merchant of Gibsonville, Ala., is a son of Col. L. A. and Rebecca (Sample) Gibson. Abel Gibson, the father of Col. L. A. Gibson, lived in Fairfield district, S. C., until 1834 when he moved with his family to Troup county, Ga., settling near La Grange, where he lived until his death. His son, Col. L. A. Gibson, was born July 3, 1820, and was consequently fourteen years old when he was taken to Troup county, Ga. He grew to manhood and married in that county, his marriage occurring October 23, 1845. In 1850 he came to Alabama and settled in the southern part of Talladega county (now Clay county), in what is now known as the Bluff Spring neighborhood. He lived there until 1870, when he moved to and settled on the place upon which Mr. L. B. Gibson now lives. Here he died January 13, 1888. He was a farmer and a merchant and was industrious, energetic and thrifty. He accumulated considerable property and represented the county in the legislature in 1876, having been nominated and elected without any effort on his part. He was a man of strong religious convictions, and a deacon of and an active member of the Missionary Baptist church. He was also a Mason. He reared a family of eleven children, seven of them to maturity, and five of whom still survive, viz.: Annie, single and living at home; Sarah, wife of Dr. J. L. Simpson, of Anniston, Ala.; L. B.; Lauritis, wife of E. J. Smith, merchant of Sylacauga, Ala.; Joseph A, a physician of Olive, Texas. The mother of these children is still living on the old homestead with L. B. Gibson. Both the Gibsons and the Samples are of Irish decent. Mr. L. B. Gibson was born April 1st, 1863, in Tallapoosa county, Ala. He received a liberal education, and at twenty-one years of age, bought his father's interest in the store he was then managing and has since conducted it. He was married October 7, 1890, at Lineville, Clay county, Ala., to Miss Mittie Nichols, of an old and highly respected family. Politically Mr. Gibson is a democrat and he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He and his family have always been highly esteemed by the community in which they have lived. To show the estimation in which Col. L. A. Gibson was held at the time of his death, the following short obituary notice, taken from the Clay County Watchman, of February 17, 1888, is here introduced. "Thus to the grief of all has passed away one of the best, truest and noblest of men. No eulogy can enter the still, cold ear of death; but we would fain say something in praise of one who so quietly and unostentatiously shed an influence for good over every life he touched. As a husband he was faithful and true; as a father, devoted and tender; as a friend upright and stanch, and as a Christian, conscientious and truthful." The first child born to L. A. and R. E. Gibson was Mattie Elizabeth, a woman of superior mental endowments who was married to Mr. J. R. Gilbert, a merchant of Pinckneyville, Ala., in 1866. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive her: Minnie wife of Dr. A. L. Harlan of Alexander city, Ala. Cora wife Prof. J. M. Leverette of Waverly. Ala.; Annie wife of J. R. Irvin, a merchant of Millerville, Ala; Albert E. who is still with his father; Georgia B., wife of Byron Bryant of Reagan, Texas; Pearl, single and still at home. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 646-647 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb