When Gilbert John Phebus was born on 16 December 1894, in Monon, Monon Township, White, Indiana, United States, his father, John Thomas Phebus, was 41 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth McDonald, was 38. He married Grace Jewell Nelson on 4 December 1919, in White, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Princeton Township, White, Indiana, United States in 1910 and East Chicago, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1894. He died on 6 February 1979, in Peru, Peru Township, Miami, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Osborne Cemetery, Rensselaer, Marion Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States.
English and possibly also Dutch: apparently a humanistic name, an adoption of the name Phoebus, the chief epithet of the Greek sun god Apollo. It is not found in Britain or the Netherlands, anymore. Compare Febus and Phoebus .
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