Caroline Ellis Gibbs
 

Carroll married Beulah Strickland in Newton County and they moved to Texas hoping her consumption (tuberculosis) would improve. She died about five months after they were married and is buried in the Marak Cemetery in Milam County, Texas.

On September 17, 1904, Carroll married Maxie Lou Underwood at the Baptist church in North Elm, Milam County, Texas. She was born on February 4, 1887 and was the daughter of Jefferson Andrew and Sarah Amelia Lee Barrett Underwood. Carroll and Maxie were married before the church congregation by Brother Pretty. They made their home in the Milam County community of Yarrellton and it is there that their twelve children were born. They had six sons and six daughters:

Jewel & Ivan Cleek
 

Jewel & Gracie

Gracie & Bill Glauser
50th Wedding Anniversary

Gracie & Bill while he was in the Army

Carroll and his brother, Joe Frank Gibbs, lived across the road from each other and after the death of Joe's wife, Ida Louise Jones Gibbs in 1921, "Aunt Maxie" helped with the Joe's seven children all she could having seven of her own which needed care. The children said it was often hard to tell to which house the children belonged.
 

In the 1940s, Carroll, Maxie and their two youngest sons, Kenneth and Harrell, moved to Matagorda County to make their home in Bay City. One daughter, Lucille, had already moved to Bay City after having married Walter Morris Richardson from Hasima. Two of Maxie's sisters, Vades Underwood Richardson and Ruby Underwood Hargett, were already living in Matagorda County with their families. Vades and Ruby had moved to Matagorda County from Milam County to teach school and held positions in schools in Cedar Lane, Hasima, Van Vleck, Citrus Grove and Sweeny in Brazoria County. Kenneth and Harrell both attended and were graduated from Van Vleck High School where their aunt, Vades Richardson was principal.

Carroll and Maxie's home at 2220 Ave B. in Bay City.

Pictured left to right

Carroll, Carol Sue Gibbs,

Morris, Donald & Lucille Richardson.
 

Of the twelve children born to Maxie and Carroll, five lived in Matagorda County for a short time, and three others made Matagorda County their permanent home.

Carroll ran three service stations in Bay City at three different locations and times. Maxie worked at the cafeteria at Matagorda General Hospital and then decided to go to nursing school following in the steps of her sister. She became a Licensed Vocational Nurse (License # 1297) on November 24, 1951, at the age of sixty-four. For the next twenty years, she worked primarily as a private nurse and as a nurse in the hospital nursery where she had the opportunity to care for two of her grandchildren.

Carroll and Maxie celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary on Sunday,
September 19, 1954.
Their children hosted an open house
at their home at 2220 Avenue B in Bay City.

After moving to Bay City, Carroll transferred his membership and became an active member of the Bay City Masonic Lodge # 865. Many masons in Yarrellton and Bay City learned their Masonic work from Carroll, who was an instructor in Blue Lodge Masonic work. He received his fifty year pen in 1963 and was approaching his fifty-fourth year as a Master Mason when he died on January 10, 1967. He was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park in Van Vleck, Matagorda County, Texas.

Maxie continued working for about two years after her husband's death and her son, Joe Taylor "Pete," lived with her until his death. At the time of her death on May 25, 1976, she had thirteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Her death ended a life of service to her family as well as to others. She was buried at Roselawn beside Carroll.