Wilcox-Irwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gibbs, William M. July 10, 1916
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The Abbeville Chronicle, Thursday, 13 July 1916, page 1
W. M. Gibbs
     W. M. Gibbs a prominent citizen of Pleasant Grove died Monday and was 
buried Tuesday at Pleasant Grove church with Masonic rites.  The attendance 
was large as he was well known all over the country.  Mr. Gibbs had held 
several offices of honor and trust.  He was Ordinary for three terms about 
thirty years ago.  Later he was sheriff of the county for four terms.
     He leaves several children, one of whom is L. E. Gibbs, who is the presnt 
[sic] sheriff.  He was 72 years old and a Confederate veteran.  He was raised 
in Wilcox county and he had seen it grow from a wilderness to one of the 
finest farming counties in the state.

A Good Soldier Has Gone to Rest
     Abba, Ga., July 1916.
     William M. Gibbs was born 12th of May 1843 in Irwin County now Wilcox 
County, was raised a farmer boy, was a great cattle and sheep driver, his 
father being a large stock owner.  He received a common school education in 
the schools of the county, he volunteered to go to the civil war March 4th 
1862 at Abbeville and was a member of Co. E. 49th Ga. Regt. and was a good 
soldier, was in sevral [sic] battles beginning with Seven Pines in three of 
the battles of the Chickahomny around Richmond, the battle of Frasiers Farm, 
the second battle of Manasas Cender Run and the surrender of Harpers Ferry in 
1862, in the battle of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness 1863 there he was 
wounded and was away from the Company about ninety days in Hospital and on a 
short furlough home he rejoined his company and was with it continuously until 
the surrender of Lee on the Appomotax [sic].  He walked home from Virginia in 
about eighteen days, got home about the first of May 1865, helped his father 
and brothers to finish the crop and then began to work for himself.  Married 
Nancy Mixon 1867 and to them twelve children were born, ten boys and two 
girls.  He joined Union Church by Baptism and then Pleasant Hill by letter.
     He was elected Ordinary of Wilcox County in 1881 and made a good record 
as an officer.  Some years afterwards he was elected Sheriff of Wilcox County 
for three terms in succession, after that he was appointed Notary Public, he 
was a good servant of the people.
     He joined the Masons when quite a young man and proved himself worthy of 
every trust reposed in him by the fraternity.  He served Abbeville Lodge as 
secretary for four years, Junior Warden two years and then Irwinville Lodge 
three years as Worshipful Master, then a member of Rebecca Lodge when he died.
     A public servant is gone, a good man has fallen, he passed awao [sic] 
quietly at his home July 10th, 1916, surrounded by his family and was laid to 
rest at Pleasant Grove church by a large crowd of friends and relatives.
John A. Tomberlin.

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