Re: Kibbe, Kibby, Kibbee, Kibbey
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Re: Kibbe, Kibby, Kibbee, Kibbey
annette blanchard 6/06/09
Dear Annette,
Thanks for such a quick response!I got to the cafepress.com place, which you gave me, but was unable to figure out how from it to secure a copy of the Kibbe "Bible," of which I should like a copy; for if it comes down to Lucius Kibby, it comes down as far in my line as I should hope (actually to Matilda Ann's generation, my great great grandmother's).I have quite a bit on the Kibbe and Buell families and their antecedants in New England and Old England through some primary documentation and many old secondary sources (mostly Higginson Book Company reprints of histories of related families; but it would be good to have the documentation that I assume that Mrs. Hanna provides.Thank you for Scott Prentice's e-mail address.I shall write directly to him.I have come to be fascinated with gr.gr.gr. grandfather Lucius and in fact the whole Kibbe family, of which I am glad to be a descendant although the surname stops in my line with gr. gr. grandmother Matilda.One of the few things that my sweet little East Texas grandmother knew about her Papa's family was that his mother was a Kibbe.
I re-established a connexion a few years ago with a Kibbe widow in Port Arthur, Texas, with whose mother-in-law my late great aunt Mattie (named, I assume, for Matilda) put me in touch years ago.The daughter-in-law remains more interested in her late husband's Kibbes than in her own family and used to tell the children at the school where she worked for years as a secretary that, when they went to visit the battleground at San Jacinto (sacred ground, as the Alamo is), they should look for the name of her husband's Kibbe ancester, who was, I believe, a physician and who served there in that battle that won for Texas her independence.We established that her late husband and I were kindred Texans through our Kibbe lines but must go back to Connecticut, as I recall from our charts, to tie into the common line.
I'll probably e-mail you directly but wanted to post this here in case it may be of any use to others doing research on the Kibbe family.I also want you to have my e-mail.
Sincerely,
Bill Fuller