GIBBONS, WILLIAM
by Julia Munro
JUEL ID/KEY: P44626
William Gibbons, male, a prominent individual in the Charlottesville community. Spouse of Isabella Gibbons (P44625). William was employed by Prof. William McGuffey (P43668), who lived in Pavilion IX (PL8470) from 1845 to 1873, and was owned by Henry Howard (P43670).
Details about her later life (marriage, residence, death) are not as clear. William Gibbons was the Minister of the First Baptist Church, Charlottesville after 1863; in 1868, he was the Minister at the Zion Baptist Church in Washington D.C. ("Behind Her Eyes"). William Gibbons was buried at Charlottesville's Oakwood Cemetery; Isabella Gibbons is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave near her husband (accordingly, Isabella is not listed as a person buried at Oakwood; William's gravestone is below):
William D. Gibbons gravestone, Oakwood Cemetery
FURTHER INFORMATION
New residence at UVA, Gibbons House, named for Isabella and William Gibbons, dedicated June 2015.
William Gibbons Tombstone, Oakwood Cemetery, Charlottesville, findagrave.com
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"Enslaved African Americans at the University of Virginia"
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