Alvin Tibbs
Alvin G. Tibbs was born in Indiana, in the year 1816. For three years he attended school at Oxford, Ohio, afterward dividing his time between farming and teaching school. In Indiana he held the office of justice of peace, and was twice elected to the legislature of that State from Dearborn county. He married Maria Snyder of Pennsylvania in 1838. He was a member of the Christian church; in politics was always a Democrat. He died in 1856, his wife surviving him. They have had seven children - Theodore, who died while an infant; Fannie, now living in Indiana; Warren, married to Ellma Laymen and residing in the same State; George B., of Indiana, also, married to Maria Gunkle; John H., whose wife is Sarah A. Keen, now of Hamilton county; Arthur G., now of Lawrenceburgh, Indiana; and James W., married to Emma Hillman of the same State.
From: History of Hamilton Co., Ohio, 1881; Compiled by: Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford; Publisher: L. A. Williams