Sabra Ann Wilbourne Gibbs

Marker in Huntsville, TX for Sabra Wilbourn Gibbs

Sabra Wilbourn Gibbs was my great great great grandmother.  Her children were Dr. Jasper Gibbs, Thomas, Mary Ann, William, Lucinda B. Gibbs Rogers, Sandford St. John, Angelina, and Hiram Gibbs.  Lucinda (Luci) Gibbs married George W. Rogers, and they were mentioned before, my great great grandparents. (A post about their home Here.)

The connection from the Gibbs and the Rogers family is entwined through several siblings marrying to the other family...a brother of Lucinda's married her husband's sister.

I've shared about many of these people in the last week...but don't want to leave off the Matriarch who was first a daughter, then wife and mother.

Daughter of Elijah Lige Wilbourne, (1763-1819) who served in the Revolutionary War. She was daughter also of Molly Rountree Wilbourne (1772-1851). Sabra Ann was the second of 11 Wilbourne children in the household, living in Union District South Carolina.  As the children grew and married, most of them moved to other territories.

When Sabra Ann was 17 she married Hiram Gibbs, who was 24 at the time.  Their first son was born within the next year, and he went on to become a medical doctor of great success.  He was Dr. Jasper Gibbs, who moved off to northern Louisiana and had property and a medical practice and had a town named after him, Gibsland, LA.  I've spoken of him before.

Luci Gibbs Rogers and George Washington Rogers built this mansion in Huntsville, Walker County, TX.

Quite a few of the neighbors and family of Hiram and Sabra Gibbs moved to Louisiana.  But Sabra went further, with several of her children, to Texas.  She may have lived with, or near to the Rogers in their large home (above).  Her daughter Luci apparently spent much of her time in Gibsland LA.  Sabra Ann lived a long life and died in 1864 at age 72 in Walker County Texas.

The Gibbs family plot in Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County TX, Sabra is on far right front.

Historic marker Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville TX

 All but 2 of her children outlived her, and one died later the same year that she did, in another Texas county.  Her children's children were -

Jasper had 11 children, Thomas had 5 who lived past childhood; Mary Ann had 1; Luci had 4; Sanford St John had 8; William had none; Angelina had none; Hiram Jr. had 3 children.  So Sabra was grandmother to 32 grandchildren (and a dozen more who didn't live very long.)

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