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JOHN C. GIBSON
John
C. Gibson, was born in 1840, and is the eldest of thirteen children born
to Constantine and Jane (Champion) Gibson, who were born in 1818 and
1826 respectively, and died in 1881, there being only about five weeks
difference in the time of their deaths.
John C. Gibson immigrated from the State of Mississippi to
Missouri in 1868, locating in Madison County. A year later he married
Victoria D. Toler, who is of Welsh descent, born in Warren County, Mo,
in 1843.
She and Mr. Gibson are the parents three children: Lucy J.,
Robert W., and Emily D.
Mrs. Gibson is a daughter of William B. and Lucy W. Toler, who
were born in 1811 and 1814 respectively.
They came to Missouri in 1839, and located in the St. Charles
County.
They were the parents of six children, Mrs. Gibson being the
fifth of the family. Mr. Toler died in Madison County in 1877, and his
wife in Warren County in 1845.
During the war Mr. Gibson was a resident of Mississippi and
espoused the Southern cause.
He was under Gen. Van Dorn, and Sterling Price, and afterward
under Pemberton.
He was in the siege of Vicksburg, and was wounded by the
explosion of a shell, which unfitted him for duty. He afterwards
attended school, and has taught school at intervals ever since.
He owns 160 acres of land, and he and family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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