About Byrd Gibbens
Lived 1936 – 2023 (aged 86–87). Byrd Gibbens was an American historian.
Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens (June 5, 1936 – December 20, 2023) was an American historian and professor.
Life Gibbens was born in Tyler, Texas, on June 5, 1936, and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a young woman, she became a nun in the Sisters of St. Joseph, leaving the religious order in 1977 to pursue higher education. She subsequently earned a PhD in literature and American Studies with an emphasis on folklore. She also taught at the University of Arkansas. Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (2002, U of Nebraska Press:
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American historian and academic
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Byrd Gibbens was born in 1936.
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Byrd Gibbens died on 20 December 2023.
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