Brief Life History of Robert L
When Robert L Gibbons was born on 17 May 1864, in West Virginia, United States, his father, John William Gibbons, was 50 and his mother, Martha Jane Rhodes, was 26. He died on 23 December 1881, in Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Robert Gibbons in household of John Gibbons, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Gibbons - Government record: Census record: birth: about 1864; West Virginia, United States
- Robert L Gibbons, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): variant of Gibbon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Mayo): in Ireland, the name is frequent and has been Gaelicized as Mac Giobúin. It is also found as a variant of Fitzgibbon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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