Charles Leo Gibbs
May 2, 1879 - December 12, 1934
Following obituary was found in the Hyde County Messenger, Fairfield Monthly, Fairfield, North Carolina, January 1935
Chapter of Sorrow
Funeral services were held for C. Leo Gibbs at Amity Methodist Church on
Friday at 2 o’clock. The rites were conducted by Rev. J.L. Stanford, pastor of
the Methodist Church of which the deceased was a member. Interment was in
Amity Cemetery. Mr. Gibbs was found dead on the Swan Quarter-Engelhard highway
early Wednesday morning. The deceased was born, reared, and lived near
Middletown and was a farmer and merchant. The pallbearers were: S.M. Fisher,
DeWitt Lavender, J.E. Swindell (discovered the body), J.D. Silverthorne,
Murrell Gibbs and Ernest Gibbs. He is survived by his widow who was the
former Miss Dora Cox of Wysocking; two sons: Cecil and Russell of Lake
Landing; three daughters: Mrs. Joe Swindell of Middletown, Miss Claudine Gibbs
of Newport News, Virginia, and Miss Sidney Gibbs of Lake Landing; two
brothers: O.B. Gibbs of Lake Landing and Jule Gibbs of Farmville; and his
mother, Mrs. Margaret Gibbs of Lake Landing.
(Photo and information kindly submitted by Christopher Gibbs, great-grandson of Charles Leo Gibbs)
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