McLennan Co. TX - Obit for Major Thomas Coffee Tibbs

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   Waco Times Herald
   Tuesday January 2, 1906
   Major  T.C. Tibbs of West died today at Provident Sanitarium. Formerly
   of  Waco,  Thomas  Coffee Tibbs was born in Scott Co., Miss., November
   18,  1939,  son of William C. Tibbs, a pioneer of Mississippi. He died
   when  T.C. was fourteen. C.S.A., 20th Miss., Co. K. Dec. 1862, married
   to  Louisa  Leonora Bennett. She survives. To Texas in 1879. Member of
   Waco  City  Council,  1st  ward  for  6  years. Moved to West in 1898.
   Surviving children: Mrs. W.H. Moser of Dallas, Mrs. Austin Robinson of
   West,  Thomas  C.  Tibbs  of  Colorado City, Mrs. Robert L. Summers of
   Boston,  Mass.,  Miss Carolina, Miss Bessie of West. Funeral tomorrow,
   Fifth Street Methodist Church.