Five Generations

This was taken this past June when Karen and her family flew down to Los Angeles to vacation, we drove the motor home down and surprised the California tribe, except for one member of the tribe, that's because she was part of it.


Front row: Hailey DYGAS. Behind her: Me, Connie GIBBS Giltz, I am holding Mya DYGAS. Next to us: Karen Dygas GILTZ, Janice GIBBS, Martha Lahoma GIBBS Underwood.

Daisy Mildred GIBBS Massengale

I am very late in post this, no excuses.
September 11, 2008 we lost Aunt Daisy. She had just turned 94 on August 31st.

This is the Obituary that can also be found at the Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home website
by entering Daisy Massengale in the search field, there you can also sign and read the guest book:

Daisy Mildred Massengale, age 94 of Sand Springs, passed away on Thursday, September 11, 2008 in Sand Springs.

Daisy was born on August 31, 1914 in Claremore to James Frank and Lizzie (Davis) Gibbs. She graduated from Sand Springs High School in 1931 and married Ira T. Massengale on December 25, 1939 in Okmulgee.

Daisy worked for Commander Mills in Sand Springs and moved to California to work for AT&T for thirty-three years as a Traffic Supervisor. After retirement she moved and resided at Grand Lake for 20 years. She returned to Sand Springs in 1999. Daisy loved traveling, lighthouses and collecting Princess Diana and Shirley Temple Dolls. Daisy was loved by family and friends. She was of the Baptist faith.

She was survived by her sister Lahoma Underwood of Long Beach, California, nine nieces and nephews Sandy Null, Stuart Wayne Gibbs, Janice Gibbs, Karen Carper, Sally Gibbs, Paula Amemeya, Katherine Anna Money, Tom Underwood and James Gibbs. A multitude of Great nieces, nephews and great-great nieces and nephews. Daisy is preceded in death by her parents, brothers Ed, John Davis and James Frank Gibbs Jr., sisters Mary Gibbs and Agnes Stewart, a brother-in-law, Doc Underwood, nieces and nephews Eddy Gibbs, Victorine Anderson, John Underwood and Richard Gibbs.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday,1:00 p.m. September 16, 2008 at Mobley-Dodson Chapel with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore at 3:15 p.m. Officiating will be Reverend Craig Gibson.

Online memorial may be left for the family at www.mobley-dodsonfuneralservice.com

Arrangements are Entrusted to the care of Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service of Sand Springs

Gibbs Family Plot

What do you do on a snow day? You work on a project and my project is organizing
photos. Today I came across photos from Aunt Agnes's collection and found these photos of the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Woodland Cemetery link will take you to a map of Claremore with the cemetery marked, in the upper right hand corner on the map click on satellite to get a birds eye view of Claremore Oklahoma. The above picture is of Frank and Lizzie Gibbs headstone, don't know when this was taken, it could be around the time of James Gibbs Funeral judging by the flowers and the older cars. This is a photo of Joseph Lewis Gibbs Crypt, Joseph was the father of James. You can find a more recent picture of the crypt here

Jewel Austin Underwood

Uncle Doc

July 10, 1917 - Nov. 25, 2007
Born July 10, 1917 in Carolton, Missouri to George and Nellie Underwood.
Photo taken Dec. 20, 2002
Married Martha Lahoma Gibbs June 30, 1945. Celebrated their 62 Anniversary this year.
Photo taken Dec. 25 2005

Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose: Claremore, Oklahoma Obit.

Received this photocopy by email from a Louise in response to a query I left on a message board looking for an obituary for Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose. The Obituary for Martha is the very last one. I've transcribed the piece about Martha below the image, including spelling errors.

Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 8:22 pm
Subject: Obit for Martha Gibbs Rose

Connie,

I am a genealogy volunteer at the Will Rogers Library in Claremore, Rogers Co., OK. I received your request on October 26, 2007, and did some microfilm work this evening and found a 'blurb' in the Claremore Messenger, dated Friday, March 5, 1920. The Claremore Messenger was a weekly paper at this time and has not been in existence for some time.

I am scanning the portion of the page that had the 'item' regarding Mrs. Rose's death. I looked through the rest of March to see if there was any other mention of Mrs. Rose, i.e. a Card of Thanks, etc., but did not find anything else. I hope that it will be of some help to you.

Mrs. Rose, mother of Joe Gibbs, of this city, who died at her western home las week, wa buried in this city Sunday and the funeral was largely attended by friends of the family: Chas A. Gibbs, of Sapulpa, Frank Gibbs and family of Sand Springs, Mrs. Etta Snyder of St. Louis, Mrs. Tony Matney, of Kansas City, Mr. Russell of Muskogee, Mrs. Etta Snyder of St. Louis, Miss Victorine Fry of Edmund and Miss Mary Fry of Pittsburg, Kansas.

Frank Gibbs

Tulsa World: Paid Obituaries: "James Frank Gibbs Jr. GIBBS - James Frank, Jr., 96, passed away Thursday, October 4, 2007 in Tulsa, OK . Retired tank car brake repairman for DX Sunray Refinery. He grew up in Sand Springs, OK. Longtime resident of Cherokee Lake Estates at Grand Lake, OK. Member of Tijuana Volunteer Fire Department. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and had a great interest in steam locomotive history. Preceded in death by: his parents; wife, Audrey; brothers, Ed Gibbs and John Gibbs; sister, Agnes Stewart and infant sister, Mary; daughter-in-law, Carol Ann Gibbs. Survived by: his son, Stuart Gibbs and wife, Pamela of Tulsa, OK; grandchildren, Randy Gibbs and wife, Gina and Leslie Swafford and husband, Shannon, both of Broken Arrow, OK; great- grandchildren, Caleb James and Seth Morgan Gibbs, Chase Eric, and Grayson Wayne Swafford; sisters, Lahoma Underwood of Long Beach, CA and Daisy Massengale of Sand Springs, OK. Service will be 2:30 p.m., Monday, October 8, 2007 at Mason Chapel-Asbury United Methodist Church with interment at Memorial Park Cemetery. Moore's Southlawn Chapel, share memories at www.moorefuneral.com, (918)663-2233. James Frank Gibbs, Jr. VIEW AND SIGN THE ONLINE GUEST BOOK: www.legacy.com/tulsaworld Published in the Tulsa World on 10/7/2007. Guest Book • Flowers • Gift Shop • Charities"

1850 Census for Malitda Gibbs

The letter that Charlotte wrote with family history has been like finding a buried treasure for me, I have started to "dissect" it hoping to learn more about this family.

Today I used the letter Charlotte wrote to try and find a young Joseph Lewis Gibbs in the census.I started with the 1850 census as it is the first census to list everybody in a household. In 1850 Joseph would be about 15 years old. Charlotte says that his mother, Nancy Donahue passed away in Feb of 1840, the 1840 census only lists the names of the head of a house hold with marks under age groups for both male and female, this is why I wanted to start with the 1850 census which lists each person in a household by name. I did locate Joseph in the 1860 census.

I haven't had any luck with Joseph so I decided to try Matilda Gibbs I was happily surprised when a Matilda Gibbs showed up in the results and even more so when I saw who she was living with. I found them in Deerfield Ohio Ross County. After I found them I went through each of the 32 pages of census records for Deerfield, I found a few more Donahue's that could or could not be related, Hannah's husbands name was Amos, he passed away in 1849, I found an Amos Donahue age 25 living close by.

The page I found Matilda on is located at Ancestery.com under U.S. census > 1850 United States Federal Census > Ohio > Ross > Deerfield image 22 line 14.

To Be Found on the Internet

Several years ago I submitted a Family Group Sheet for James and Lizzie to the RootsWeb Rogers County Genealogy page. Since I submitted the information we lost Davis Gibbs, so I need to see about submitting an update.

If you surf around on the site, in the history of Claremore you might notice that here it says that the first hotel in the town was owned and managed by Mrs. Creighton. But there is also a source, "Rogers County History" that says Joseph and Martha were the first owners of the first hotel. I imagine the only way to know for sure would be to be able to find some records.