Gibson family papers, 1869-1955

Family correspondence, photographs, and military records documenting the lives of family members of Francis M. Gibson. Gibson's military service in the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army in Montana in the Battle of the Little Bighorn is particularly well documented. The papers include Gibson's military and family records, including his marriage certificate to Kate Garrett, Army promotion certificates, and burial plot records for Washington National Cemetery, 1869-1894, with a letter from Katherine Gibson Fougera about the marriage certificate, circa 1940; letters from Donald McIntosh to Mary Garrett McIntosh, 1876; letters from George Armstong Custer's widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, to Katherine Garrett Gibson, circa 1919 and undated; letters from General George H. Cameron to Francis Marion Gibson and Kate Garrett Gibson, 1916-1919; and letters concerning Gibson family history from E. S. Luce, Superintendent of the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, to Katherine Gibson Fougera, 1941-1955, with four photographs of the park enclosed. Accompanied by later genealogical material compiled by descendants and transcript of notes made by Kate Garrett Gibson in 1924, circa 2013

Box 1 contains the correspondence, photographs, family records, the bulk of the military records, and the circa 2013 genealogical material and typescript. Box 2 contains Francis Marion Gibson's Army promotion certificates