Tuscola County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Gibbs, Melvin 
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Cemetery:           Indianfields Township Cemetery
Name:               Melvin Gibbs

Date Of Photograph: October 27, 2007
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Melvin Gibbs (August 27, 1812 - May 8, 1891) was the son of Joel and Elizabeth 
(Root) Gibbs of Benson, Rutland County, Vermont.  Melvin and his first wife 
Mary E. Benson lived in Howard Township, Steuben County, New York, where she 
died in 1845.  Melvin then married Clarissa Crowell, daughter of Theodore and 
Anna (Collins) Crowell, also of Howard Township, and they moved to Tuscola 
County and settled in Indianfields Township in 1852.  

Additional Comments:
Melvin Gibbs owned and operated Gibbs House, which was the first hotel in Caro 
(then called Centerville) and the first frame building in the village.

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