Name: Robert Gibson
Enlistment Date: 25 Feb 1864
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Pennsylvania
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company D, Pennsylvania 4th Cavalry Regiment on 25 Feb 1864.Mustered out on 01 Jul 1865 at Lynchburg, VA.
Sources: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
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From Find A Grave contributor Mona S:
Robert Gibson was a farmer and dealer in poultry and cream, and a valued citizen of Rockwell and of Cerro Gordo county, where he lived from 1875 to his death in Feb, 1930. He was a Civil war veteran and belonging as he did to the Army of the Potomac, saw some of the hardest service. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1844, but he is Irish in extraction, both of his parents being natives of the Emerald Isle. Their names were Alexander and Jane (Hammond) Gibson. Robert Gibson and his wife, Susie McDowell, had nine children: William D. was a stock buyer; Bar died at the age of one year; Robert Elmer died at nineteen; ; Gertrude became the wife of A. L. Saylor; Winnie married Frank Johnson; Hattie died in infancy; Jennie married Leo Zeidler; and Lu Edna married Avery Geer. Our Myrtle Estella ,"Myrtie", became the wife of Charley R. Saylor.
Taken from a Robert Gibson biography by Kay Ehlers.
Name: Robert Gibson
Enlistment Date: 25 Feb 1864
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Pennsylvania
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company D, Pennsylvania 4th Cavalry Regiment on 25 Feb 1864.Mustered out on 01 Jul 1865 at Lynchburg, VA.
Sources: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
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From Find A Grave contributor Mona S:
Robert Gibson was a farmer and dealer in poultry and cream, and a valued citizen of Rockwell and of Cerro Gordo county, where he lived from 1875 to his death in Feb, 1930. He was a Civil war veteran and belonging as he did to the Army of the Potomac, saw some of the hardest service. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1844, but he is Irish in extraction, both of his parents being natives of the Emerald Isle. Their names were Alexander and Jane (Hammond) Gibson. Robert Gibson and his wife, Susie McDowell, had nine children: William D. was a stock buyer; Bar died at the age of one year; Robert Elmer died at nineteen; ; Gertrude became the wife of A. L. Saylor; Winnie married Frank Johnson; Hattie died in infancy; Jennie married Leo Zeidler; and Lu Edna married Avery Geer. Our Myrtle Estella ,"Myrtie", became the wife of Charley R. Saylor.
Taken from a Robert Gibson biography by Kay Ehlers.
Family Members
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William Dennie Gibson
1867–1950
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Robert Elmer Gibson
1872–1891
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Myrtle Estella "Myrtie" Gibson Saylor
1874–1958
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Elizabeth Gertrude "Lizzie" Gibson Saylor Crandall
1876–1967
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Winnie Gibson Johnson
1879–1974
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Bar Gibson
1883–1883
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Hattie Gibson
1884–1885
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Jennie Gibson Zeidler
1885–1928
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Lu Edna Gibson Geer
1887–1972
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