CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. P. GIBSON - Cherokee County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

J. P. GIBSON

J.P. Gibson, of Rusk, was born June 26th, 1846, two and a half miles 
from Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas.  Has lived in and near Rusk all his 
life.  Enlisted in the Confederate army in 1863, in Co. D., commanded 
by Capt. John B. Syndor, in Scott Anderson's Cavalry Regiment. 
 
The regiment was re-organized soon after it entered service, and John 
P. Border was elected Colonel.  He served with the regiment until the 
close of the war and was discharged at Navasota in April 1865, when 
the command disbanded.  After the war Judge Gibson attended school 
for several years, then read law under Hon. Sam A. Wilson and was 
admitted to the bar in 1872.  He served several years as county 
surveyor and 13 years as county judge of Cherokee county.  He is now 
actively engaged in the practice of law at Rusk and doing a lucrative 
law business.  He was married in December 1872, to Miss Jeanie B. 
Martin, a daughter of Capt. R. B. Martin of Rusk.  Both are living 
and have four children.  Hon. Frank Gibson, the oldest son is the 
present county attorney of Cherokee county; Geo. W. Gibson is official 
court stenographer for the 2nd judicial district.  The two daughters 
Ruth and Mae, are unmarried and reside with their parents.  Judge 
Gibson is a man of much force of character, a splendid lawyer, and 
very popular with the people he has lived so long with.  A native 
Texan, born among the red hills of old Cherokee county, that gave to 
Texas so many illustrious men.