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Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin; published in 1891; page 289.


                       W. G. KIBBE, M. D.
                         Abbeville, LA
Dr. W. G. Kibbe is a native of what is now Vermilion parish, born
January 25, 1842. His father, William Kibbe, was a native of
Minehead, Vermont, born in 1813. When a boy his parents
removed to Louisiana, where Wm. Kibbe married Miss Louise S.
Campbell.  They became the parents of four children, of whom the
subject of this sketch and Frances L., wife of Delmas Dubois, now
residing in Houston, Texas, are the only surviving, members. Mrs.
Kibbe died in 1844, and the Doctor's father Afterward married
Miss Kisiah Campbell, a cousin of his former wife. There
were born to their marriage five sons and one daughter.
William Kibbe was a well-known attorney, and was, at the time of
his death in 1878, parish judge.  Dr. W. G.  Kibbe received a
good business education in the schools of the locality in which
he was reared. He pursued a medical course at the medical
school of what is now Tulane University from which he
graduated. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Confederate
States Army, and was in the first battle of Fort Jackson, in
which he received a slight wound. From that time until the close
of the war, he was engaged in hospital service, principally
in New Iberia and Shreveport. After the war, in 1865, Dr.
Kibbe located at Lake Charles. Louisiana where he practiced
medicine for five years. He married in 1863 Miss Sophie Walker, a
native of Kentucky. Though her parents moved to St. Mary parish,
Louisiana, when she was a child. At the time of her 
marriage she was  a resident of Nacogdoches, Texas, where her
parents had removed as refugees during the war. To this union
nine children were born, five sons and four daughters, six of
whom are living, viz: Joseph E., M. D.; Mary Lou, Nora Lee,
Fannie E., M. U. Payne, Charles W.   Dr. Kibbe moved from Lake
Charles to Perry s Bridge in 1870. and in 1878 to ,Abbeville.
where he has practised  his profession  since.