Indiana Family Group Sheet for the William Albert Van Bibber Family *********************************************** Copyright Beverley Gillihan. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Beverley Gillihan Email address: Husband: William Albert Van Bibber Birthdate: abt. 1857 Birthplace: Indiana Death date: Place of death: Burial: Father: Isaac Van Bibber Mother: Missouri Ann Sutton Marriage date: July 5, 1880 Marriage place: Indiana Wife: Ann Mary Sutton Birthdate: June 2, 1864 Birthplace: Warrick Co. Indiana Death date: Place of death: Burial: Father: Michael J. Sutton Mother: Martha J. O. Van Bibber CHILDREN Child No. 1: Lillian Van Bibber Sex: F Birthdate: October 1879 Birthplace: Indiana Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: September 18, 1900 Marriage place: Indiana Spouse's name: Sigmund Eichel Child No. 2: Ethel Van Bibber Sex: F Birthdate: April 1882 Birthplace: Indiana Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: William Crow Child No. 3: Olive Van Bibber Sex: F Birthdate: January 22, 1884 Birthplace: Indiana Death date: October 2, 1961 Place of death: Lake City, Wa. Burial: Acacia Cemetery Marriage date: January 1906 Marriage place: Spouse's name: Henry Tafel Child No. 4: Martha Van Bibber Sex: F Birthdate: Birthplace: Indiana Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Jack Mahon Child No. 5: Raymond Van Bibber Sex: Birthdate: December 1888 Birthplace: Indiana Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Burial: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: The 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Indiana, Warrick County, Boon Township, Boonville City, Ward 4 (ED-147, Page 194 B, Line 79) has the following person in the "Orphan's Home" at 322 Locust Street: Vanbiber, Raymon, white, male, 11 years old, born December 1889 in Indiana, and both parents born in Indiana. His relation to head of the "head of the family" (Matron of Home) appears to read "Dep". Ten years later on April 15, 1910 in Portsmouth, Virginia, at the U.S. Navy Yard (ED-101, Page 28 A, Line 49), the Census Enumerator recorded the following Sailor in the U.S. Navy: Vanbibber, Ray J., white, male, twenty something years old (hard to read but appears to be 21), born in Indiana and parents born in Indiana. The "head of the family" is reported as William F. Halsey, Jr., 27 years old, who later became Fleet Admiral and famous in WWII as "Bull Halsey". MY ANSWER TO THE QUESTION. Raymond J. Van Bibber was the son of William Albert VanBibber and Mary Ann Sutton. William was the son of Isaac VanBibber and Missouri Ann Sutton. It appears all the children of William and Mary were orphaned out. Raymond was living in New Madrid County, Missouri on the 1920 census in the home of Elza and Elizabeth Moser. He is listed as a boarder and his occupation was a tie maker. This is no doubt a railroad tie maker. It states he and his parents were all born in Indiana. I don't ever recall finding him on the 1930 census.