Our Reunion Shirt Story

Hibbert Family Reunion · Celebration, July 2026

A Legacy Worth Celebrating

The story behind our reunion T-shirt, told one detail at a time.

Front of the gold reunion shirt: family members waving Jamaican and Panamanian flags above the words Hibbert Family Reunion, A Legacy Worth Celebrating, with a Jamaican-flag heart, a palm tree and two bees. Numbered arrows point to the colors, the flags and the bees. 1 2 3
The front. Tap a number to jump to its story.

The front

The colors

Gold, green and black. The colors represent the Jamaican flag and our family’s Jamaican roots.

The flags

At the top, family members wave flags in the spirit of our Celebration theme, with the energy and movement you might see during Carnival.

Look closely and you will count eleven flags: eight Jamaican and three Panamanian. They represent our eleven family lines. The three Panamanian flags honor the lines of Icilda, Violet and Uncle T, who migrated to Panama in the early 1900s.

Our tree has branched across countries and continents, but the roots are the same.

Close-up of the eleven flags waved at the top of the shirt: eight Jamaican and three Panamanian. 1234567891011
8 Jamaican 3 Panamanian = 11 family lines

The bees

And of course, the bees. They represent Solomon Hibbert’s profession as a beekeeper, and they have become a symbol of who we are: many branches, working together as one hive.

Now turn the shirt around

Back of the shirt: Solomon and Elizabeth's children, with each child's name and birth year from Icilda in 1893 to Sydney in 1916, a QR code labeled Visit our site, and the words Celebration July 2026. Numbered arrows point to the list of children and the QR code. 4 5
The back. Tap a number to jump to its story.

The back

Nanna and Pappy’s children

On the back we listed each of Nanna and Pappy’s children, along with the year each was born. This is the generation from which our family lines grew.

  1. Icilda Panama1893
  2. Violet Panama1895
  3. Herman1900
  4. Huntley1902
  5. Hazel “Mother May”1904
  6. Lucille “Aunt Culu”1906
  7. Ann “Hannah”1908
  8. Joslyn1910
  9. Theophilus “Uncle T” Panama1913
  10. Rudolph1915
  11. Sydney “Uncle Munez”1916

The QR code

And finally, a QR code that brings past and present together. Scan it and you land on the Hibbert family website, where our history and our connections continue to live.

Visit hibbertfamily.com

So it was never just a reunion T-shirt.

It told our family story.

Descendants of Solomon & Elizabeth Hibbert