Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of JOEL W. T. GIBSON 

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JOEL W. T. GIBSON, a son of Jacobus and Sarah (Freeman) Gibson, is a leading 
cotton merchant at Newnan, Coweta Co., Ga., and was here born Feb. 20, 1843. 
His father was a son of James H. Gibson, a pioneer settler of Georgia, was 
born in 1805 and endured all the privations attendant upon a pioneer life. 
He first settled about six miles from Newnan, to which place he removed in an 
old-fashioned oxcart. He lived to be sixty-nine years of age and was a 
devoted and earnest worker and member of the Baptist church. Joel Gibson was 
reared on the farm and attended the country school. The first schoolhouse in 
their neighborhood that had glass windows and a brick chimney was built in 
1855. In 1859 he attended school at Newnan and afterward attended school at 
Cave Spring and came back to Newnan, where he remained until May 7, 1861, 
when he enlisted in Company A, under Capt. John B. Wilsoxon. He remained 
with the company until after the battle of Seven Pines, when he was 
transferred to the Macon light artillery, with which he remained until the 
close of the war. He was at the Appomattox surrender and was in all the 
battles in which his company was engaged. After the war he returned to 
Newnan, farmed the first year, taught school the next and has been connected 
with business in a general way since. In 1867 he married Louisa Faver, 
daughter of Chas. Sanders and Carolina (Davis) Faver, who were of French 
descent, to which union eight children have been born: Joel G., John S., Ada, 
Mary, Brenda, Sarah, Hattie and Carry. Mrs. Gibson was born and reared in 
Wilkes county, Ga., and both she and her husband are members of the Baptist 
church. Mr. Gibson began life after the war without anything, but is now a 
man well able to enjoy the remainder of his life. He has always been a 
democrat, but would never allow his name to be used for office. He and his 
family are universally respected by all who know them.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.