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a. Note:   . He also drove a truck for the state when they built highway 19 from Salem to Cuba Mo. He worked for Purex Bottling Co in St.Louis until he was drafted into the Army. He worked for the Potosi Tie Co. in the 1940's and 50's, he and a crew of six other men carried rail-road ties on their shoulders from the yard into rail-road cars to be shipped to the cresote plants. The work he is best rembered for was driving an eighteen wheeler for Dodds Trucking Co. It was said he was the worst driver on the road, but he always got there first. In his later years he had strong religous leanings and was a member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist at Doss. MO.
Note:   Gib was a strong man from a strong family, as a young man he got in as much or more trouble than most. After he and Mom were maried he straightened up and flew right. He spent some time in the CCC group helping to build a dam near Ogden, Utah
b. Note:   84 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America 82 years old on the first day of Y2K
 80 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
 78 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
 77 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
 75 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
 73 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
 72 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
 68 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
 66 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
 66 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
 64 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
 62 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
 59 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
 57 years old when President Nixon left office
 55 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
 52 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
 51 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
 48 years old during the Watts riot
 46 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
 42 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
 40 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
 36 years old at the end of the Korean War
 28 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
 24 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
 17 years old in the year radar was invented
 12 years old when the American stock market crashed
 9 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture


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