LESLIE GIBSON DIED SATURDAY---Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Gibson Died of Typhoid Fever.---Leslie Gibson, the seventeen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Gibson, who live in Wakefield's Addition, died Saturday afternoon at 5:30, of typhoid fever. A brother of the boy is seriously ill also.The funeral services were held by Rev. Engle Sunday afternoon and the body was interred in the Ellison cemetery. On account of the illness of his brother the services were short.The family moved here last year from Rose, Kansas, where they had lived for several years. They have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavment(sic).
This is actually a pretty significant find for me. I am one of those poor unfortunate souls who got serious about genealogy and family history after my grandparents had passed, so I didn't get to ask them very much. But my grandparents did offer me some info about Leslie. Showing me a page from the family Bible I was told that Leslie was one of three sisters of my grandfather Bruce Gibson (1902-1994) who did not live to adulthood. They could not tell me anymore. They obviously were mistaken, "she" was a "he."
Notes
1) That should read "C.L." Gibson, not "C.O."
2) The family Bible says Leslie was born in 1894, that would make him thirteen, not seventeen.
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