Biographical Note

Lucie Ligon Gibboney (1917-2007) was born on April 3, 1917, to Jacob Haller and Lucie (Ligon) Gibboney in South Carolina. In Monroe, West Virignia, in 1936, she married James Montgomery Graham, Jr. (1916-1976), who graduated from Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in 1938. They had at least two children, Caroline R. and David H. James worked as a draftsman and later as a mechanical engineer for the federal government, while Lucie worked as a homemaker.

After her first husband's death, Lucie married widower Charles Newell Sanders (1914-1990) on June 16, 1979, in Wytheville, Virginia.

All three are buried in Graham Cemetery in Grahams Forge, Wythe County, Virginia.

External sources:

U.S. Federal Censuses, 1930-1950

"James Montgomery Graham Jr.", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183824/james-montgomery-graham, accessed on June 5, 2023.

"Lucy Gibboney Graham Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96183897/lucy-gibboney-sanders, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Ligon Gibboney" in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/10562046:2538, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Lucie Gibboney Graham" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, findagrave.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/29106745:9279, accessed on December 12, 2023.

"Charles Newell Sanders", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96150599/charles-newell-sanders, accessed on December 12, 2023.

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