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

Date Of Photograph: September 16, 2005
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Harriet (Watts) Gibbs (January 14, 1827 – December 28, 1863) was the first 
wife of Sabin Gibbs (October 3, 1823 – March 25, 1905), the son of Joel and 
Elizabeth (Root) Gibbs of Benson, Rutland County, Vermont.  Harriet was the 
daughter of William and Rachel (Horner) Watts of Norfolk, England.  In 1836 
Harriet emigrated to Washtenaw County, Michigan with her parents and siblings, 
one of whom was Elizabeth Watts who married Orren A. Gibbs, a brother of Sabin 
Gibbs.  Sabin and Harriet had three children:  Helen E. Gibbs, who married 
Jeremiah Hooper; William A. “Ami” Gibbs, who married Emma C. Swinehart; and 
Cora B. Gibbs, who never married.

This photo is a close-up of one side of the family monument on which the 
inscription reads:  “In memory of Harriet, wife of Sabin Gibbs, Born in 
Gresham, ?? [illegible] Jan. 14, 1827, Died in Tuscola, Mich. Decem. 28, 1863 
aged 36 Years, 11 Months, ?? [illegible] Days”.  There is also a small 
headstone on the lot on which only the name “Harriet” is inscribed.


Additional Comments:
After Harriet’s death, Sabin Gibbs married Adaline C. (Black) Hewes (November 
12, 1832 – October 4, 1892), the widow of Nelson Hewes (July 1, 1829 – March 
1, 1864) of Tuscola.  Sabin and Adaline had no children, but Adaline had a 
daughter, Flora A. Hewes, by her first husband. 

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