BIO:  ROBERT GIBBS - SHELBY CO., KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 
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GIBBS,   TRUMAN,   ROOKSBY,   BLEVINS

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
JEFFERSON TWP.
PAGE 789

ROBERT GIBBS, farmer, P. O. Pleasantville, was born in Shelby
County, Ky., March 3,1823, son of James L. and Catharine (Truman)
Gibbs, and came to this township in the year 1849.  His educational
advantages were limited, but in its stead our subject is possessed
of a full share of good common sense.  He was married March 12,
1846, to Elizabeth Rooksby, and ten children have been born to
them, seven of whom are living--Alexander, born December 16,
1846;  Richard, April 14, 1848;  Mary E. and Helen (twins), May
29, 1852;  Rhoda, December 11, 1856;  Lucy, February 22;
Mortimer, August 18, 1868.  Mr. Gibbs is a member of the Mis-
sionary Baptist Church, and has been for thirty years.  He has
been Supervisor of his district three terms, and is an advocate
for good roads.  He came here when the country was tolerably
wild, and built him a log house, in which he lived until 1861,
when he built another, which he sold out afteward and moved
to the Blevins farm, where he lived for sixteen years, and then
bought where he now lives.  Mr. Gibbs has been considerable
of a hunter, and can tell some very interesting stories of his
adventures.  He has seen as many as eighteen deer within
sight of his house.  He is a Democrat.

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