Parents : 
Father : Samuel B. McKibben
Mother : Melinda Godfrey

Date of Birth : August 9 1839
Place of Birth : Near Stockport, Morgan Co. OH.⁶

Spouse : 
Name : Mary Brokow
Date of Marriage : February 4 1864
Place of Marriage : Morgan Co. OH.
Died : December 7th 1921
Notes : 

Date of Death : 1929
Place of Death : 
Cause of Death : 
Burial Information : Stockport Cemetery, Windsor Twp., Morgan co., Ohio ⁵
Tombstone Inscription : Jesse M McKibben, GAR Co F 77th Reg 1839 1929 ⁵

Military Service : Civil War - 77th OH Infantry Co. F ²
Residence not listed; 22 years old.
Enlisted on 10/26/1861 as a Private and mustered into "F" Co. OH 77th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 3/14/1866 at Columbus, OH.

Regiment Organized: Camp Tupper, Marietta, OH on 11/1/61
Re-enlisted As Veteran
Mustered Out: 3/8/66 at Brownsville, TX

Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 2
Officers Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 2
Enlisted Men Killed or Mortally Wounded: 68
Enlisted Men Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 208
(Source: Fox, Regimental Losses)
 

From	To	Brigade	Division	Corps	Army	Comment
Mar '62	May '62	3	5		District and Army of West Tennessee
May '62	Jul '62	2	5		District and Army of West Tennessee
Jul '62	Nov '62	2	5	District of Memphis	District and Army of West Tennessee
Aug '63	Jan '64	1	3		Arkansas Expedition
Jan '64	Mar '64	1	3	7	Department of Arkansas
Mar '64	May '64	2	3	7	Department of Arkansas
May '64	Feb '65	2	1	7	Department of Arkansas
Feb '65	Feb '65	3	3	Reserve	Army and Dept of the Gulf
Feb '65	Jul '65	3	3	13	Army and Dept of the Gulf

Seventy-seventh Infantry. - Cols., Jesse Hildebrand, William B. Mason; Lieut.-Cols., Wills De Hass, William E. Stevens; Maj., Benjamin D. Fearing.  This regiment was organized at Marietta, Columbus and other places in Ohio from Sept. 28, 1861, to Jan. 5, 1862, to serve for three years.  The original mem- bers (except veterans) were mustered out by companies at different dates from Dec. 10, 1864, to Jan. 3, 1865, by reason of expiration of term of service.  The organization, composed of veterans and recruits, was consolidated into a battalion of six companies on Jan. 17, 1865, and retained in service until March 8, 1866, when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the war department.⁴

The following is a list of battles in which this regiment bore an honorable part, as given in the Official Army Register;  Shiloh, Falling Timber, Siege of Corinth, Little Rock, Okolona, Prairie d'Ane, Marks' mills, Jenkins' ferry, Spanish Fort.  So reduced was the regiment by the losses in its first engagement at Shiloh, and by sickness, details and straggling, that it numbered but a little over 200 men, with 13 officers, the loss in the battle and the subsequent affair at Falling Timber being 50 killed, 114 wounded and 56 missing - total, 220.  Gen. Sherman commended the conduct of the regiment in its determined and protracted struggle for the position at Shiloh church and in baffling the enemy in all his attempts to capture Taylor's battery.  The regiment took part in all the active operations of Sherman's division during the siege of Corinth, constructing field-works, roads and bridges, picketing, skirmishing and fighting, until the division rested beyond Corinth, returning from pursuit of the enemy.  From Aug., 1862, until July, 1863, it was in charge of the military prisons at Alton, Ill.  A portion of the regiment was captured at Marks' Mills, and those not captured lost at Jenkins' ferry, in killed and wounded, more than half their number.  Its strength at time of muster out was 365. ⁴

Ocupation: Farmer

Family : 
Czarena Melinda Mckibben¹
Milford McKibben⁶
Fayetta McKibben⁶
Nettie May McKibben⁶
Lucy Isabel McKibben⁶
Clarence McKibben⁶
Winnibert McKibben - An invalid, died young⁶
They had 4 others, that died young⁶