William Henry Tibbs

William Henry Tibbs (born June 10, 1816 in Appomattox , Virginia , † October 18, 1906 in Dalton , Georgia ) was an American hotelier and politician .

Career

William Henry Tibbs was born in Appomattox County about a year and a half after the end of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. At some point he moved to Tennessee . There he married Mary McSherry in Bledsoe County in 1838 . The couple had two children. About four years after his wedding, his wife died in Mississippi . Tibbs married on February 2, 1843 his second wife Celina Augusta Hardwick (1821-1888) in Cleveland ( Bradley County ). The couple had at least six children together: Lucretia Clay (* September 1844), John (* February 1847), Mary Belle (* 1849), William (* 1853), Horrace M. (1856-1865) and Augustus F. (1860 -1882). Tibbs owned and operated his own thriving hotel, The National, on the corner of Crawford Street and Hamilton Street in Dalton, Georgia. The hotel was demolished in 1890 to make way for the Dalton Hotel to be built. At the height of the Civil War , he acquired the prestigious Chief Vann House in Spring Place, where he lived for nine years. He was a director of the Knoxville and Dalton Telegraph Company. In 1857 he ran unsuccessfully in the 8th constituency for the Senate of Tennessee . He challenged the lost election, but his appeal was rejected. After the Tennessee Secession and the outbreak of the Civil War , he sat as a delegate for the East Tennessee District in the first Confederate Congress between 1862 and 1864 . After the war was over, Tibbs served as director of the Dalton and Morgantown Railroad in northern Georgia. He died in Dalton in 1906 and was buried there in West Hill Cemetery .

Honors

The Tibbs Bridge, which spans the Conasauga River in Murray County , was named in his honor. The first Tibbs Bridge was likely built in the 1880s. This was then replaced by a steel bridge between 1913 and 1918, which in turn was replaced by a concrete structure around 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celina A Tibbs in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 17, 2015.
2. ^ William Henry Tibbs on the familytreemaker.genealogy.com website
3. ↑ ^{a b c} James Tibbs, great-great-great-grandson, [e-mail]
4. ↑ Horrace M. Tibbs in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 17, 2015.
5. ^ Augustus F. Tibbs in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved January 17, 2015.
6. ^ Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the First Session of the Thirtieth General Assembly for the Years 1853–54, Nashville: McKennie & Brown, 1854, p. 253
7. ^ Richard N. Current: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 0-13-276049-5 , p. 1596
8. ^ Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia Passed in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Called Session, Beginning July 4, and ending October 6, 1868, Atlanta: Burke & Co., 1868, p. 103
9. ^ William Henry Tibbs in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 17, 2015.
10. ^ Dalton Cemetery