expbul1a.gif (699 bytes) Doctor Franklin "Doc" Gibson

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Front:  Lillian Pearl & Leona Aleene        Seated: Doctor Franklin & Hester Minerva
Back: Thomas Baron, Edward Lee, Daniel DeKalb, Upshaw Franklin

born:   24 May 1869 in Abanda, Chambers County, Alabama
died:  31 July 1962 in Dothan, Alabama
Occupation:  Farmer, trader, Mayor of Lineville, Alabama
1900 Tallapoosa County Alabama Census (Beat 17 Daviston): D. F. Gibson 31, "Ester A." 26, Eddie L. 11, Daniel 8, Baron 6, Upshaw 3, Pearl 1.  Also in household: Charles? Crouch, 35, white male day laborer. 
1920 Clay County Alabama Census (Lineville): Doc F. Gibson 51 (real estate agent), Sarah 40, Baron 25 (preacher of gospel), Leona 18, Sarah 7, Frank 2-1/2, Lucy 73 (listed as illiterate). 
1930  Clay County Alabama Census (Lineville): D. Frank. Gibson 60 (occupation lumber mill), Sarah E. 51, Sarah E. 17, Frank 12. 
Writings of D. F. Gibson
Photograph of D. F. Gibson's 90th Birthday

Father:  John S. Gibson
Mother:  Lucy Jane Knight

Spouse:  Hester Ann Minerva Williams
married: 4 December 1887, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
MARRIAGE LICENSE


Children:
1.  Dr. Edward Lee Gibson, M.D. (m. Elizabeth Hutchinson;  Theola Metcalfe)
2.  Daniel DeKalb Gibson (m. Irene Stodgill, Alice Cary Pick)
3.  Rev. Thomas Baron Gibson (m. Mary Youngblood)
4.  Upshaw Franklin Gibson (m. Alice Gertrude Harris)
5.  Lillian Pearl Gibson
6.  Leona Aleene Gibson (m. John Willis "Dutch" Boazman)

Spouse:  Sarah Estella Arnett

Children:
1.  Doctor Franklin Gibson, Jr. (m. Gladys Wilson)
2.  Sarah Elizabeth Gibson (m. Thomas Lecroy;  Abner William Perry)

Spouse:  Ada B. Smith