Per Rikki Gibson (great-great-granddaughter of B Gibson) kezia45@hotmail.com B. Gibson......headstone in cemetery is incorrect b/c his own children did not know much about him as he was considered to be "hiding from the law" after moving to the Grice community. (Milton Dacus writes about this in the Bryansite.com website. Dorothy Riggs, Milton Dacus, & others in the Grice community said he was a cousin to the outlaw Jesse James & had been running in his gang, but wanted to settle down & raise a family.) B. Gibson was called "Bee" by people who knew him.....& no one (even his own children) were sure of his real name, his birthdate, who his parents were, or where he came from. After LOTS of research and interviews & miles traveled from courthouse to courthouse, (with the help of Dorothy Riggs of Grice & a lady named Ruby Finch of Palo Pinto, Co, Tx) my aunt Connie Gibson Hunter & I have finally pieced our puzzle together enough to at least have a sense of belonging to "something" other than the INITIAL "B." His name was Bunyan Allen Gibson, born 1860-61 in Pope Co, Ark. His parents were William Peter Gibson & Angeline Reasoner/Reznor. The moved to the Palo Pinto/Erath area when Bunyon was a baby. His mother died when Bunyon was 6 years old giving birth to twins (who died also). His father remarried soon after his mother's death to Lucinda Highsaw. This marriage made Bunyon a step-brother to James Monroe Highsaw (aka Jim Highsaw, another cattleman turned outlaw). The Gibson family of Palo Pinto were census documented neighbors to Oliver Loving of the Goodnight-Loving ranching outfit. Jim Highsaw was the ranch foreman to John Chisum. In 1877, he killed Dick Smith in a heated argument while trying to retrieve stolen jingle-bob-cattle taken from the XIT.......this incident is what initiated the Pecos County war & stirred up tensions in the Lincoln county New Mexico war. I honestly believe that the talked about "B. Gibson - outlaw" relationship was not to JESSE JAMES, but instead to Jim Highsaw. Relationship to Jim Highsaw is proven & documented through court records in Palo Pinto & Erath counties. I have these copies. Although family stories handed down from generation to generation persistently say B. Gibson ran with Jesse James's gang. I cannot prove nor disprove this claim, although I have tried very hard to. Somewhere between 1880 & 1887, B. Gibson hopped on a train to Hopkins County to find work. While working for a gentleman by the name of Middleton Locklear (who would later become the grandfather to Ormer Locklear the pilot & airplane stuntman/wing-walker & also the great-great grandfather to the actress Heather Locklear), B. Gibson married Margaret A. Locklear (Middleton's daughter). They married on Aug. 29, 1889 in Delta County. The "A" in Margaret Locklear Gibson's name stands for "Aquilla." Her death certificate was filled out & signed by Eustus Gibson (my great grandfather). His handwriting was big & loopy, making his cursive "A" to look like a big lower case "a." Therefore the transcriber in the Upshur County courthouse has mistaken the lettering to be a capital "C" followed by an "o" and next an "f," which in fact is actually "Aq".......and then correctly transcribed by the following "uilla." I have been to the courthouse myself and seen this transcription & compared it to the original death certificate (which I have a copy of as well). It's so sad that these simple little mistakes can really throw family historians down long goose chases & ultimately to a dead end. This is why it's so important to actually go to the courthouse and look at the documents as proof. So......Margaret Aquilla Locklear Gibson was born on Aug. 14, 1866 in Hopkins County in the community of Arbala. Her father was a Lumbee Indian of South Carolina. She was an aunt to Ormer Leslie Locklear, the airplane stuntman & pilot who died while filming a movie in Hollywood in 1920. She would also be a great aunt to the actress Heather Locklear. She died on Nov. 24, 1917 of pellagra, an illness caused by vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency common in the early 1900's. Bunyun & Margaret Gibson had the following 7 children: Eustus "Huse" Augustus Gibson.......b. Nov. 3, 1890 in Cooper, Tx d. Oct. 23, 1941; married Annie B. Bell (d/o Robert E & Emma Lee Bell, sis/o Euell Bell, sis/o Daisy S. Bell) Grady "Babe" Clarence Gibson......b. Oct. 18, 1893 in Cooper, Tx d. Jan. 2, 1973; married Daisy Sophronia Bell (d/o Robert E & Emma Lee Bell, sis/o Euell Bell, sis/o Annie B. Bell Bessie Gibson Cox.....b. April 1895 d. unknown; married Henry Cox......unmarked graves in Grice Cemetery Roy Buckner Gibson.........b. Oct. 17, 1897 -- d. Sept. 9, 1991; married Lillie Lois Allen Prudie Beatrice Gibson Burnett.......b. Aug. 21, 1900 -- d. Oct. 13, 1950; married Ira Burnett (had 1 child, Devon Burnett) Vera Lou Gibson Mullinix Tillery........b. Sept. 10, 1905 -- d. July 26, 1987 buried at Sunset Memorial Cemetery Gilmer Tx; married (1) Percy Vanwick Mullinix (2) unknown Tillery Ruby Gibson Davidson........b. 1912 -- d. unknown; married Thomas "Knot" Abraham Davidson in 1928, both are buried in the Grice Cemetery Children of Eustus Augustus "Huse" Gibson & Annie B. Bell: Emma Margaret Gibson Gunn b. 1920 d. 1958 Robert E. "Sport" Gibson b. 1924 d. unknown Wesley Eustus "Wink" Gibson b. May 23, 1928 still living W.E. "Wink" Gibson is my Paw-Paw. He married my grandmother, Leah Bell Terrell (d/o Marion Ardis Terrell & Dorothy Helen Dodd)......Wink & Leah Gibson (my grandparents) have grave markers in the Grice Cemetery but both are still living. Wink & Leah's children are: Connie Marshell Gibson Hunter (b. 1953, living) Ricky Wesley Gibson (b. 1954, living) ---> my father Roni Marie "Beanie" Gibson (b. 1956, living) Karen Gibson Schmidt (b. 1958, d. 2012) Leann Gibson Johnston (b. 1962, living)