Jonathan Catlett GIBSON III

October 10, 1918.

My Dear Miss Trabue:

I received your last letter two days ago, with the beautiful and very acceptable present of the Coat of Arms of the Gibson family. It is particularly interesting now that the English Colonies have all rallied to the support of the Mother Country.

We are proud of being descended from a family that produced Bishop Edmund Gibson, and such a superb literature. Thank you again for your ingenious copy; you must be an artist. And now to business. My grandfather married a Miss Mallory he had five sons: John, Jonathan, Thomas, Edwin and William. You know how Col. Jack and Jonathan, my father married. Thomas and William both married sisters, Miss Grays. Edwin married his first cousin, Hannah Mallory, a good deal of this kind of thing was done in Eastern Virginia at that time.

My memory does not extend any further back than my grandfather's immediate family. Grandfather Gibson had four daughters. Frances and Nancy, Betsy married a Terrell. The two latter married planters, the two first did not marry at all. They were thoroughbred ladies, all, and would have appeared well in any society. They lived to a good old age, except Susan Wishing that I could really have helped you, I am truly your friend,

Lucy E. Buckner.⁵