TRAVIS GIBSON
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 54-W: 28
Department: Campbell County, Tennessee, S.O.
End of Watch: August 3, 1858
Cause: NIFE
Age: 39
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Sheriff Gibson and Sheriff Sampson Queener were stabbed after they arrested two suspects on counterfeiting charges. The suspects were placed on horseback behind each officer, without a prior search or restraints. The suspects attacked both Deputy Gibson and Sheriff Queener and stabbed them to death with a concealed bowie knife. The suspects escaped but were later arrested, tried in a court of law and executed.
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