She was born in Hannibal, Missouri, daughter of Isaac Shields and Bethania Mitchell. She married William T. Gibson, son of Johnson McDowell Gibson and Temperance Ann Perkins, on March 18, 1849 in Crawford County, Indiana.
"About the 15th of January 1893, Malinda was sewing on a dress and stuck her finger deeply with a needle. She poured Kerosene from the lamp on her finger, an old pioneer remedy. That night it began to swell and red streaks ran up to her elbow. The doctor removed her arm at the shoulder. In all she suffered nine weeks and three days and died." Her husband died less than eleven months later. "She and her husband were members of the Christian Church and are buried near the little white church on the hill." [Information from the papers of Belva Gibson Miller, desceased, and transcribed by her daughter Geraldine Miller Lobert, now deceased.]
"About the 15th of January 1893, Malinda was sewing on a dress and stuck her finger deeply with a needle. She poured Kerosene from the lamp on her finger, an old pioneer remedy. That night it began to swell and red streaks ran up to her elbow. The doctor removed her arm at the shoulder. In all she suffered nine weeks and three days and died." Her husband died less than eleven months later. "She and her husband were members of the Christian Church and are buried near the little white church on the hill." [Information from the papers of Belva Gibson Miller, desceased, and transcribed by her daughter Geraldine Miller Lobert, now deceased.]
She was born in Hannibal, Missouri, daughter of Isaac Shields and Bethania Mitchell. She married William T. Gibson, son of Johnson McDowell Gibson and Temperance Ann Perkins, on March 18, 1849 in Crawford County, Indiana.
"About the 15th of January 1893, Malinda was sewing on a dress and stuck her finger deeply with a needle. She poured Kerosene from the lamp on her finger, an old pioneer remedy. That night it began to swell and red streaks ran up to her elbow. The doctor removed her arm at the shoulder. In all she suffered nine weeks and three days and died." Her husband died less than eleven months later. "She and her husband were members of the Christian Church and are buried near the little white church on the hill." [Information from the papers of Belva Gibson Miller, desceased, and transcribed by her daughter Geraldine Miller Lobert, now deceased.]
"About the 15th of January 1893, Malinda was sewing on a dress and stuck her finger deeply with a needle. She poured Kerosene from the lamp on her finger, an old pioneer remedy. That night it began to swell and red streaks ran up to her elbow. The doctor removed her arm at the shoulder. In all she suffered nine weeks and three days and died." Her husband died less than eleven months later. "She and her husband were members of the Christian Church and are buried near the little white church on the hill." [Information from the papers of Belva Gibson Miller, desceased, and transcribed by her daughter Geraldine Miller Lobert, now deceased.]
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