Date of Death: January 10, 1913
Interment source:
Bay View Cemetery Association, Corpus Christi, Texas. Record of Interments
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Biography
Anna A. Lucas was born Anna A. Petzel in Texas in September of 1854 (according to 1900 census E.D. 130 p. 4). Her parents had come from Schlewig-Holstein according to the 1880 census (E.D. 116 p. 17). Mary Berg/Bergh (the first Mrs. Henry Busch) who is also buried in Old Bayview came from that same area. Historically this referred to a large area that is the northernmost part of Germany on the Jutland peninsula that lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The northern section was the Duchy of Schleswig (at times an integral part of Denmark), and the southern section was the former Duchy of Holstein. Multiple wars were fought because the Germans in the portion that fell under Denmark wanted to be a part of the German Confederation. Anna married Henry H. Lucas on 4 August 1871 (Nueces County Marriage Records, volume C page 555), and they had two children. Their son John Henry Lucas was born 3 December 1872 and died 16 May 1903. A short while before his death, he moved to Beaumont with his engineering job, and there he married and fathered two children. He died young, and his remains were returned to Corpus Christi for burial in Old Bayview Cemetery near his father. His father who was born 16 August 1829 in Prussia had died on 30 March 1892 in San Diego where he had moved about 4 years prior to his death in order to manage the Sidbury Lumber Co. there. The child who survived her father, mother, and brother was Hattie E. Lucas. She married Edward Fife Gibbon on 8 November 1894 (Nueces County Marriage Records, volume F). Anna A. Lucas lived next to the Gibbon family until her death in January of 1913 (see her listing with her son and a niece in 1900 census of Nueces County, E.D. 130, page 4). Edward was superintendent of the early Ice and Electric Co. in Corpus Christi and was the first to install an electric lighting plant in the city. Later he accepted a post with the city gas department. At the time of the death of E. F. Gibbon in 1927, the children of Hattie and Ed were Mrs. T. J. Gensler of Desdemonia (Texas), Miss Gladys Gibbon of Corpus Christi, E. F. junior of Waco, and W. H. Gibbon of San Antonio (Caller of 4-22-1927 p. 8 and Times of 4-21-1927 p. 4). Hattie died at her home 1321 Fifth Street in 1946 and was survived by her daughter Gladys (a teacher in the public school system in Corpus Christi), her son W. H. Gibbon of San Antonio, and a grandson Robert William Gibbon of San Antonio (Caller of 11-18-1946 p. 1) and Times of 11-18-1946 p. 2). Her daughter Gladys Alphia Gibbon never married and remained a teacher in the local school system for 44 years. She had served as principal at Evans Elementary and taught also at Furman and Zavala before retiring in 1961. She died in 1963 (Caller of 6-21-1963 p. 16C) and was survived by her nephew Robert W. Gibbon of San Antonio and her cousin (daughter of John Henry Lucas) Anna Lucas-Gayle. Anna Lucas-Gayle whose father and Lucas grandparents are buried in Old Bayview died in 1983. She was a retired clerk who had worked 52 years for CCNB, and she was survived by only a stepson, Sam L. Gayle of Edna, Texas (Caller of 2-7-1983 p. 16B).
Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell