John Samuel Gibbs
(1892-1917)
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Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs
Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs
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Photo Credit: ancestry.com
Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs, signature on WWI draft registration
Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs, signature on WWI draft registration
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio
Gravestone, Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gladys Poston Pickett, friend of Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs
1910 photo of East View Village, OH where the Gibbs family lived
Father, John Barnett Gibbs
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John Samuel Gibbs
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Birth: 11/30/1892, Warrensville Township, Ohio
Birth: 11/30/1892, Warrensville Township, Ohio
Address: 14105 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Candidate Officer Reserve Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair black
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not noted on registration form; enlistment date 8/29/1917; rank Second Lieutenant
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not noted on registration form; enlistment date 8/29/1917; rank Second Lieutenant
Service Number: no service number found
Deployment: died prior to deployment
Action:
Death: October 16, 1917 [less than one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 24 at the Base Hospital at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, OH; cause of death Acute Appendicitis
Death: October 16, 1917 [less than one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 24 at the Base Hospital at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, OH; cause of death Acute Appendicitis
Burial: 10/16/1917 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 24 Lot 332-0, alongside his parents buried later
Burial: 10/16/1917 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 24 Lot 332-0, alongside his parents buried later
Next of Kin: Mrs. J. S. Gibbs, mother, 14105 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs was the oldest child in his family. Some of his grandparents from England were living in Cleveland, In his last will and testament dated 5/9/1917, he bequeathed all his assets to his mother and upon her death the balance of the estate to his two siblings and to Gladys Poston of Columbus, OH, noted to be a friend. Friend: Gladys "Gladdie" Poston Pickett (1896-1985) was employed as a public school teacher, married and the mother of one child, and was buried at Union Cemetery, Columbus, OH.
Father: John Barnett Gibbs (1860-1936), born Warrensville, Ohio of English and Irish ancestry, married 1881, occupations Butcher, Farmer and Landowner, Foreman after moving to Lakewood, OH in the 1920s, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Carrie Smith Hughes Gibbs (1872-1948), born Whittlesey, England, emigrated 1881, address noted as "East View," Ohio [see 1910 photo of East View Village, a semi-rural suburb of Cleveland that reached as far east as 140th St. and attracted settlers from eastern and southern Europe], married 1881, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Brother Earl C. Gibbs (1895-1973), whose son John Allen Gibbs Sr. (1917-2004) was presumably the namesake of Second Lieutenant John Samuel Gibbs, as he was born three weeks after his uncle's death on 11/6/1917; Sister Ilva B. Gibbs Graeff (1897-1988).
Mother, Carrie Smith Hughes Gibbs
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