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Warren Gibbs Head Stone
Warren Gibbs Headstone
WARREN GIBBS
died by arsenic poison
Mar. 23, 1860
AE. 36 yrs. 5 mos.
23 dys.
Think my friends when you see
How my wife hath dealt by me
She in some oysters did prepare
Some poison for my lot and share
Then of the same I did partake
And nature yielded to its fate
Before she my wife became
Mary Felton was her name.
Erected by his Brother
W.M. GIBBS.
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2001.085Description:
The burial stone of Warren Gibbs called the Poison Oyster Stone. William Gibbs feels that Warren's wife Mary Felton Gibbs purposively poisoned her husband with the oysters to kill him off. The headstone relates the story.WARREN GIBBS
died by arsenic poison
Mar. 23, 1860
AE. 36 yrs. 5 mos.
23 dys.
Think my friends when you see
How my wife hath dealt by me
She in some oysters did prepare
Some poison for my lot and share
Then of the same I did partake
And nature yielded to its fate
Before she my wife became
Mary Felton was her name.
Erected by his Brother
W.M. GIBBS.