The descendants of Calvery and Lucretia Gibson held their annual family reunion on Sunday, September 15, at the Bethel Baptist Church Activities Building on Hurricane Creek Road. The union of Calvery and Lucretia produced four sons (Marion, William Thomas, John and James) and one daughter (Mary Elizabeth Billups). Many of Calvery’s and Lucretia’s descendants continue to live in the Hurricane area. Betsy Allen, member of the Hurricane Breeze family, is a great-great-great-great-grandaughter of Calvery and Lucretia through the line of Mary Elizabeth.
The activities building at Bethel is located approximately 100 yards from the spot where Calvery was murdered by Confederate bushwhackers during the Civil War. Calvery’s son James Jefferson escaped the bushwackers by hiding in a ditch. Years later, James Jefferson donated the land to Bethel Baptist Church upon which the present church sits.
