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

Date Of Photograph: September 6, 2009
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This photo provides an overview of the Elias Sabin Gibbs lot at the front of 
the Indianfields Township Cemetery in Caro, Michigan.

Elias Sabin Gibbs (July 11, 1846 – July 20, 1915) was the eldest son of Melvin 
Gibbs and his second wife Clarissa (Crowell) Gibbs.  Elias married Mary Eliza 
(Peck) Gibbs (July 19, 1853 – November 5, 1925), daughter of Elias and Julia 
E. (Andrews) Peck.  Elias and Mary had seven children:

Edwin E. Gibbs (August 30, 1878 - December 8, 1878);
Emma Estelle Gibbs (October 21, 1879 - May 1, 1960), who married Robert Kelly 
Orr;
Charles Arthur Gibbs, (September 14, 1881 - June 1, 1960), who married 
Julia “Voila” Jones;
Myra Gibbs (August 17, 1883 -  September 28, 1883);
Lizzie Gibbs (September 20, 1884 - January 11, 1963), who married William 
John “Jack” McAlpine;
Anna Gibbs (December 24, 1888 - December 23, 1954), who married Rupert 
Cleveland “Cleve” Neal; and
Melvin Elias Gibbs (July 19, 1898 -  June 28, 1973), who married Violet 
Freeman and, after her death, married Ernestine Brock.

In addition to the Gibbs family monument on this lot, there are four grave 
markers.  Viewed from left to right in the photo, they mark the resting places 
of Edwin E. Gibbs, Myra Gibbs, Mary (Peck) Gibbs, and Elias S. Gibbs.

Note:  Mary Eliza (Peck) Gibbs and her sister Emma Jane (Peck) Keiff were born 
in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.  Their mother, Julia E. (Andrews) Peck (June 18, 
1824 – December 11, 1856), originally from Newbury Township, Geauga County, 
Ohio, died in Lind, Wisconsin at the age of 32.  Mary and Emma were cared for 
by separate families until about 1867 when their uncle David Andrews and his 
wife Rachel (Sutton) Andrews brought them to their home in Caro and raised 
them to adulthood.

After Julia’s death, Elias Peck (1815 – March 23, 1881) moved from Wisconsin 
to Olmsted County, Minnesota, where he married Mary E. (Clark) Peck.  They 
lived in Rochester near David Peck, Elias’s son by his first marriage, who 
lived in nearby Winona County with his wife, Mary Ann (Page) Peck, and their 
children.  David and his wife moved to Iowa in about 1878 and raised their 
family of twelve children there.


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