Robert E. Gibboney Biography & Pics

'Robert E. Gibboney: A Life Etched in Stone and Storm,' written by his 3rd gr. grandson Brian Paul Kaess, former member of the Military Order of Stars and Bars (MOS&B). Notes Gibboney's roots in Northern Ireland, and later emigration (with family) in 1815 to America via the Port of New York. The Gibboney's settled in bucolic Wytheville, Virginia and there Robert Gibboney (1810-1867) became known as a sheriff, land owner, slave owner, banker, etc., entrenching himself in Wytheville's antebellum social elite. During the Civil War, Gibboney rose as a CSA Prices Commissioner, an appointed office, and helped secure Wytheville as a major Confederate supply depot. The conflict saw some of the Gibboney's properties destroyed but some are still around, such as the Haller-Gibboney Rock Museum. Gibboney was active in the postwar period as a delegate to the Virginia Assembly and walked in the same footsteps as the man who designed the building where the delegates sat- Thomas Jefferson. Brian had fun doing the extensive research that 'put Gibboney in the lights' and made him a traceable ancestor to the Military Order of Stars and Bars. Also included is one image. Submitted to the Kegley Archive at Wytheville Community College.