John Allison Gibson

Son of shoemaker William C. Gibson, in 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and siblings at Valley Head, DeKalb County, AL. He enlisted on 21 May 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 30 September, was furloughed on 5 November 1862, and was absent on furlough to at least January 1863. He was found disabled for field service and detailed to the "Medical Department" - probably assisting the regiment's Surgeons - in March 1863, and served as such to at least December 1864. He was surrendered at Citronelle, Al on 4 May 1865 and paroled at Meridian, MS on 9 May.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Paulding in Jasper County, MS. In 1880 he was a farm laborer in Smith County, MS and by 1900 and to at least 1920 had his own farm there. In 1930 he was retired and living with his only daughter Hester and her family at Mize, Smith County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, as J. Allison Gibson. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his marker has him in Company G.

He married Mary Jane Suggs (1851-1893) and they had 9 boys and a girl between 1868 and about 1890. He married again, Sofronia Charlotta Melissa Wolford (1842-1926) in 1893.

05/12/1842 in TN

02/28/1931; Smith County, MS; burial in Clear Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, MS