Photo: Jim Thribling

Franklin Parish, La. 

Submitted by: Submitted by: DeWanna Robinson Lindo

Oct. 2005



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Jim Thribling was born in Kentucky in 1851.  At the age of five, 

he was sold at auction, 

along with his mother, aunt, and grandfather, and was moved to Gibson, 

Mississippi, with 

the Coleman family. During the Civil War when federal troops invaded Mississippi, 

Mrs. Coleman decided to visit relatives in Louisiana; and she was accompanied by 



Jim and other household servants.  When they arrived in Vicksburg, they heard the 

news that the war was over. 

 

Jim was eighteen years of age at this time. He and his family chose to stay with the 

Colemans, who went to visit the Crows in Louisiana. Jim Thribling attached himself to 

the Crow family and worked for them as long as they lived in the area. In later years he 

visited Crowville each day, riding  a little black mule. 



Jim lived to be over 104 years of age.