Eleanor Churchill Gibbs

Eleanor Churchill Gibbs (October 3, 1840 – July 13, 1925) was an educator from the state of Alabama, who taught in Livingston, Selma, Rome, and Anniston. A writer of the American South, she was also a paid contributor to various periodicals. Churchill Gibbs was born in the plantation home of her parents, "Oak Shade," near Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama,

Eleanor received her early education largely at home, being taught by her mother and a private tutor. She completed the course at Livingston Female Academy (now University of West Alabama), in Livingston, Alabama. There, she was a charter member of the Primrose Club, the club having been formed after a group of young women had been studying literary work under Gibbs for several months. She continued her studies in higher mathematics and science under Dr. Henry Tutwiler, in the middle of the year, in 1870, she was elected principal of the institution. In 1875, she resigned that position in order to take charge of high school work at the Dallas Academy in Selma, Alabama. During the 12 years from 1887, she was head of the department of English in Shorter College, Rome, Georgia.

Death Eleanor Churchill Gibbs died in Memphis, Tennessee, July 13, 1925. Interment was in Anniston, Alabama. "In a Cotton Field", Fetter's Southern Magazine, 1894 "Aunt Vilet", Herald and Review, 1916 "The Solcer's Fun'ral (Granny Ann's Cuyous Tales)", Our Southern Home, 1924