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Robert Gibbons Story

Robert Gibbons (top)

No date, no citation. This clipping was in Claire Gibbons St.Clair’s scrapbook. She sure was proud of her siblings!

The article celebrates Robert Gibbon’s story being included in the Best American Short Stories of 1949. Notable in this clipping in the references to Uncle Bob’s short stories, some of which are named by title: The Departure of Hubbard, A Loaf of Bread, Time’s End.

Robert Gibbons (top)
Robert Gibbons (bottom)

For further information about the career of Robert Faucett Gibbons, see:
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3117

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Cheaha Group Photo

Cheaha Group Photo

Can you help me identify the folks in this picture?

Cheaha Group Photo
Cheaha Group Photo
Year ????
Cheaha Group Photo Outline
Outline

Here’s what I think I know.

  1. ___?___
  2. Bud Gibbons
  3. Susie Hebden
  4. Margaret Marston
  5. Bob Marston
  6. Henry Marston
  7. Mark Gibbons
  8. ___?___
  9. ___?___
  10. John St.Clair
  11. Howard Ross
  12. James Gibbons
  13. ___?___
  14. ___?___
  15. Casey McLean
  16. Pam McLean
  17. Royal Grey
  18. Sam McLean
  19. Claire St.Clair
  20. Doria Gibbons
  21. Milanne Sundell
  22. ___?___
  1. Miriam Grey
  2. Jack Sundell
  3. ___?___
  4. ___?___
  5. ___?___
  6. Bob Gibbons
  7. Betty Gibbons
  8. ___?___
  9. Harriet Smith
  10. ___?___
  11. ___?___
  12. Anne Eisner
  13. Anne Marston
  14. George Marston
  15. Pat St.Clair
  16. Mary Anne Gibbons
  17. ___?___
  18. ___?___
  19. Niketti Gibbons
  20. Leo Holden
  21. Aileen Holden
  22. Sheila Holden

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Marriages

John & Claire St.Clair

I will be posting wedding photos that I come across in Claire’s photo archives (a great big pile of photos!). I’d love to get a wedding (or other couples) picture from everyone in the St.Clair/Gibbons/Walsh family tree. Email (jstclair3@gmail.com) is best as Facebook compresses images.

Claire Gibbons St.Clair Family

John & Claire St.Clair
Claire Gibbons & John St.Clair
March 30, 1946
David & Dorothy Essex
Dorothy St.Clair & David Essex
September 16, 1978
Susie & Richard McCoy
Susanne St.Clair & Richard McCoy
Pat & John St.Clair
Patricia Trisler & John St.Clair
August 21, 1971
Susie & Jim Hebden
Susanne St.Clair & Jim Hebden
December 22, 1984

John St.Clair, Sr. Family

Bill & Emily St.Clair
William Travis St.Clair & Emily Smith

Harriett Gibbons Smith Family

Margaret Marston
Margaret Smith (& Henry Marston)

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Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh Gravestone

Someone in the family visited Ireland. If I knew who, I would give them credit for this picture which was included in the massive number of photos in my mother’s estate.

The photo is inscribed on the back with the message:

grandfather Michael Walsh buried with his first wife – His name is near the bottom of the tombstone

  • Michael Walsh Gravestone
  • Photo back

Text shone on gravestone pictured above:

IN YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR
THE SOUL OF
MARGARET
THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
MICHAEL WALSH OF DUNDALK
WHO DIED 15TH JUNE 1884
AND OF HIS BELOVED MOTHER
BRIDGET WALSH, DIED AT SHELAGH
6TH NOVEMBER 1881 ALSO FOUR OF HIS CHILDREN
WHO DIED YOUNG.
AND HIS FATHER PATRICK WALSH
WHO DIED 3RD DEC 1886
ALSO THE ABOVE MICHAEL WALSH,
WHO DIED 20TH MAY 1897
AGED 48 YEARS.

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