My father, J. Vern Gibbs, was born in 1870 at Oskaloosa, Kansas. My mother,
  Pearl Londer Gibbs, was born in 1879 at Rosendale, Missouri. When she was
  small, she and her parents moved to the Lonker ranch on Cedar Creek, west of
  Medicine Lodge. Later she met my father, who was teaching school in Barber
  County. They were married in 1898 and went at once to their new home on some
  school land seven miles east of Alva, Oklahoma. I was born there in 1899, and 
  six years later my father brought his family to a new home on the fifth block
  on North Main in Medicine Lodge.
     He continued to teach in Barber County, but I attended the old grade school
  in Medicine Lodge. My mother always told me to never loiter on the way to
  school as Professor D.W. Major had eyes in the back of his head and could see 
  me - which I really believed so I was never late.
     A few years later, we moved to Deerhead, Kansas, where my father taught a
  few years and then bought the old general store.
     I have one brother, Arnold Gibbs, living in Lakewood, Colorado. He was born
  in Medicine Lodge and attended high school there.
     I was married to Chester Larkin of Deerhead. We had two children, a son
  Ethan, and a daughter, Helen - both of whom are deceased.
     When Chet and I slipped off to Pratt, Kansas, and were married, I had told
  my mother but not my dad. The telephone lines in those days were "something
  else" - barbed wire or whatever. So, after a couple of days, I called my dad
  and asked if he wanted me to come home. Due to bad connections I couldn't 
  hear, but the neighbors told me later he said "Yes, if I had no place else to
  go.: I guess he didn't want me to think I was indispensable.
     Chet passed away in Wichita after 10 years of marriage.
        My immedidate family are all gone now. My father passed away in Wichita
  on his 76th birthday. Mother lived with me until her passing in 1957.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 193 
     Submitted by: Irene Gibbs Larkin