William Henry TIBBS

June 10, 1816 (age 90)

Appomattox, Virginia, United States, United States

He was noted as a firebrand States" Rights advocate and Southern secessionist. The couple had two children. However, she died four years later in Mississippi. Tibbs then married Cilena Augusta Hardwick on February 2, 1843 in Cleveland, Tennessee. They were to have four more children of their own. Lucretia Clay in September 1844, John in February 1847, Mary Belle in 1849 and William in 1853 Tibbs owned and operated a prosperous hotel in Dalton, Georgia called The National located at the corner of Crawford and Hamilton Streets. The hotel was torn down to make way for the Hotel Dalton which was built in 1890. At the height of the Civil War he also owned and lived in the famous Chief Vann House in Spring Place where he lived for nine years. He was a director of the Knoxville and Dalton Telegraph Company. Tibbs unsuccessfully ran for the 8th Senatorial District"s seat in the Tennessee State Senate in 1857. He filed a formal claim for the seat, but his appeal was denied. Following the state"s ordinance of secession and the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a delegate from his East Tennessee district in the First Confederate Congress from 1862-1864. After the war, Tibbs was a director of the Dalton and Morgantown Railroad in northern Georgia. Colonel Tibbs is buried in West Hill Cemetery in Dalton, Georgia. The Tibbs Bridge, spanning the Conasauga river in Murray County, Georgia, was named after him.The first Tibbs Bridge probably was built in the 1880s. lieutenant was replaced by a steel bridge between 1913 and 1918. The steel bridge was replaced by a concrete structure around 1980.

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TIBBS, William Henry was born on June 10, 1816 in Appomattox, Virginia, United States, United States.

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He was noted as a firebrand States" Rights advocate and Southern secessionist. The couple had two children. However, she died four years later in Mississippi.

Tibbs then married Cilena Augusta Hardwick on February 2, 1843 in Cleveland, Tennessee.

They were to have four more children of their own. Lucretia Clay in September 1844, John in February 1847, Mary Belle in 1849 and William in 1853 Tibbs owned and operated a prosperous hotel in Dalton, Georgia called The National located at the corner of Crawford and Hamilton Streets.

The hotel was torn down to make way for the Hotel Dalton which was built in 1890. At the height of the Civil War he also owned and lived in the famous Chief Vann House in Spring Place where he lived for nine years.

He was a director of the Knoxville and Dalton Telegraph Company.

Tibbs unsuccessfully ran for the 8th Senatorial District"s seat in the Tennessee State Senate in 1857. He filed a formal claim for the seat, but his appeal was denied. Following the state"s ordinance of secession and the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a delegate from his East Tennessee district in the First Confederate Congress from 1862-1864.

After the war, Tibbs was a director of the Dalton and Morgantown Railroad in northern Georgia.

Colonel Tibbs is buried in West Hill Cemetery in Dalton, Georgia. The Tibbs Bridge, spanning the Conasauga river in Murray County, Georgia, was named after him.The first Tibbs Bridge probably was built in the 1880s.

lieutenant was replaced by a steel bridge between 1913 and 1918. The steel bridge was replaced by a concrete structure around 1980.

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"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.

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Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.

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colleague:: East Tennessee, William

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