There is a biography of Sarah Gibson Humphreys, Sarah G. Humphreys: Antebellum Belle to Equal Rights Activist, 1830-1907, published in the Filson Club History Quarterly, Vo. 65, No. 2 (April, 1991) by Mary G. McBride and Ann M. McLaurin. A few lines from this follow: "Although the biography of Sarah Thompson Gibson Humphreys seems to illustrate the development of a daughter of the planter class from antebellum belle to equal rights activist, by her own account Sarah was never intended by circumstances of heredity or education to be a conventional belle. Descended from a distinguished Southern family, Sarah was the daughter of Tobias Gibson of Mississippi and Louisiana Breckinridge Hart of Kentucky. In an undated autobiographical fragment written late in her life, Sarah described her mother, daughter of Nathaniel Hart and Susan Preston of "Spring Hill," Woodford County, Kentucky, as a woman of "masculine intellect, great force of character and strength of will." Of Tobias Gibson, Sarah wrote:
My father Tobias Gibson came of a long line of clergymen who were the pioneers of Methodism in the South. My father was a man of accurate education, of unusual culture and of broad ideas, far in advance of his time. For more information see my web site at http://members.tripod.com/~labach/.
My father Tobias Gibson came of a long line of clergymen who were the pioneers of Methodism in the South. My father was a man of accurate education, of unusual culture and of broad ideas, far in advance of his time. For more information see my web site at http://members.tripod.com/~labach/.
There is a biography of Sarah Gibson Humphreys, Sarah G. Humphreys: Antebellum Belle to Equal Rights Activist, 1830-1907, published in the Filson Club History Quarterly, Vo. 65, No. 2 (April, 1991) by Mary G. McBride and Ann M. McLaurin. A few lines from this follow: "Although the biography of Sarah Thompson Gibson Humphreys seems to illustrate the development of a daughter of the planter class from antebellum belle to equal rights activist, by her own account Sarah was never intended by circumstances of heredity or education to be a conventional belle. Descended from a distinguished Southern family, Sarah was the daughter of Tobias Gibson of Mississippi and Louisiana Breckinridge Hart of Kentucky. In an undated autobiographical fragment written late in her life, Sarah described her mother, daughter of Nathaniel Hart and Susan Preston of "Spring Hill," Woodford County, Kentucky, as a woman of "masculine intellect, great force of character and strength of will." Of Tobias Gibson, Sarah wrote:
My father Tobias Gibson came of a long line of clergymen who were the pioneers of Methodism in the South. My father was a man of accurate education, of unusual culture and of broad ideas, far in advance of his time. For more information see my web site at http://members.tripod.com/~labach/.
My father Tobias Gibson came of a long line of clergymen who were the pioneers of Methodism in the South. My father was a man of accurate education, of unusual culture and of broad ideas, far in advance of his time. For more information see my web site at http://members.tripod.com/~labach/.
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