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Transcribed
by
Ann Selvig, from:
Allerton, Iowa Centennial, GIBBS
FAMILY
Jim and Alice Gibbs Family, 1938 on their 60th
Wedding Anniversary.
Children from the left: Ella, wed
Vernon Sprow children Ken and Robert. Dolph (D),
wed Susie Wells (D) children J. C. (wed Dorothy
Schoenbahm) and Glennys. Remarried
Irene Gibbs (D).
Lenna, wed George Binau see Binau page. Zed, never
married. Bertha
(D), wed Will Robertson children Marvin (wed Fern
Bennett) and Loris.
Ben (D), wed Lena Binau (D), - children Rex
(wed Violet Way) and Lenore (wed Marvin Hart KIA
remarried Paul Freeman), - Remarried Hilda Barbour). Will (D),
wed Ivy Savely (D) children Wilbert (D) and
Earnest. Roy
(D), wed Ethel Francisco (D) one child, Lester.
In 1868 Solomon Gibbs, the father of Jim
Gibbs, came to Iowa from Penn. and bought a farm two
miles north of Allerton. Later he
moved his family of Oramil, Newman, Jane, Jim,
Cameron, Lewis, Oliver and Elmer to this new raw
farmland.
Jim Gibbs grew up here and married Alice
Hughes, whose parents lived west of Corydon. They
bought their first farm near New Zion Church and in
the 71 years they enjoyed married life, they saw the
eight children in the above picture grow into
adults.
Death and time have separated the children,
and time and the expanding world have separated the
grandchildren and the great-grandchildren. Many have
chosen to live in different places.
This page is a tribute to Jim and Alice Gibbs
and their children.
They pioneered new land, and helped develop a
way of life we all enjoy today.
Solomon Gibbs, a farmer, and Jacob Lash, a
blacksmith, of Butler County, Pennsylvania, who were
great friends, decided in the fall of 1868 to see
Iowa. (They
had been reading about the new prairie land in
Iowa.) Billy
Hughes, who lived west of Corydon about two miles,
was in Chariton in the Tavern Hotel when he
overheard Gibbs and Lash discussing the buying of a
farm but not liking some they had seen. Hughes
volunteered to show them land near him, located two
miles north of Allerton, where they later located. Gibbs took
the west quarter section and Lash the east quarter
section which they bought for $8.25 per acre. The Lash
family moved to Iowa at once.
In September 1872, Solomon and Rebecca Gibbs
and their family of eight children, who were
reluctant above the move, came to Allerton, Iowa. Allerton
was too new to be on the map so could not buy
tickets there but did bill their goods to come
through and purchased train tickets for Chariton,
Iowa. The
family stayed with the Hughes and Lash families
until they could build a new home but moved in
before it was completed in December.
The Gibbs family retained the Pennsylvania
farm until it was determined whether they could find
water in their new location. While the
well was being dug all the children were hoping it
would be a dry hole and they could return to
Pennsylvania. But
since there was plenty of water, they remained and
in the spring of 1873, farming was begun, fences
were made and a big orchard was set out.
The children of Solomon and Rebecca Gibbs
were: Oramil,
Newman, Jane, James, Cameron, Lewis, Oliver and
Elmer. Oramil
married Catherine Sollenberger. Their
children were:
Frank, Jennie, Elmer, Mary, Pearl, Martha,
and Maude. Newman
married May Allen.
Their children were: John,
Margaret, Henderson, Olive, Horace, Fleta, Louise,
and Elizabeth.
Jane married C. W. Kimple and had two
children, John and Myrtle.
James married Alice Hughes. Their
children were:
Wilbert, Roy, Bertha, Lenna, Dolph, Ben,
Ella, and Zed.
Cameron married Grace Smith. Their
children were:
Linnie, Ethel, Blanche, Mary, David, Lewis,
Leo and Earl.
Lewis Gibbs was never married.
Oliver married Hattie McCart. Their
children were:
George, Ray, Lillie, and Nell.
Elmer married Mertha Glackemeyer and had one
daughter, Marie, who married Clarence Richard and
their daughter was Gweniverre.
This farm has been occupied by only three
generations of the Gibbs family. First,
Solomon, then his youngest son, Elmer and his
daughter, Marie.
There have been many deaths, births and
marriages making the total Gibbs descendants extend
through six generations. |