Anna Florence (Murphy) Gibson  was born on September 20, 1883 in Lake Ridge, Michigan as the daughter of Jenne (Anderson) and Thomas Murphy.

She graduated from Tecumseh High School and from Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University) in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She taught school in Elsie High School in Clinton County, Michigan.

On November 14, 1910, she married Alexander Gibson.

They had two children:

  1. Margaret Lavina Gibson

  2. Helen Estelle Gibson