OBITUARY OF MRS. McD. GIBBS
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On Friday morning at 8:30 a... June 6, 1913, Plainfield lost by d… another of its oldest and most respected residents in the person of …McD. Gibbs, who has been a residen… Plainfield for thirty-six years. …death occurred at the result of th…paraletic strokes the first occurring the evening of May 15, 1913, and … last on May 31, 1913, and on Fr… morning following she quietly …peacefully passed away.
Miss Sarah P. Lane was born M… 28, 1842, at Freemain, Maine. …came with her parents to Wisco…in in 1854. She was united in marr… to Harry McDonald Gibbs at Waut… February 14, 1867. Preceeding(sic)… marriage she was engaged for so… time as school teacher in what … then know as the Joint School …trict No. 3 of the towns of Oasis … Deerfield.
Mrs. Gibbs' death has created … loss that will be realized in … ways. She was a charter member … the Order of the Eastern Star. …many years in Plainfield has bee … means of extending her acquainta… to a lage(sic) circle of friends by wh… she will be missed. Also her loss … be realized by the member and frie… of the Baptist church and the Bapt…
…and two sons, Frank O. Gibbs Plainfield, and Alton Gibbs of Gra… Rapids, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Gibbs was preceded in dea… by her husband by two years, and… her daughter, Miss Altie Gibbs, … year and three months.
The funeral service was held at t… Baptist church Sunday afternoon… June 8, 1913, at 2 p.m., Rev. …W. Ambrose, pastor of the churc… officiating, assisted by the choir, w… rendered some very beautiful and a… propriate music for the occasion. T… remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the Plainfield cemetery.
The pall bearers were the follow(i)ng: Messrs. Henry Ferguson, Buchanan Johnson, Jay Bardwell, Frank Fox. Among the mourners were the following relatives and friends from a distance, Sidney Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Lo… Briggs, Mrs. Wilbur Gibbs, and daughter, Mrs. Jeffers and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. S. Booth, all o… Hancock and Mr. and Mrs. Alto… Gibbs of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Mar…Ostrum and mother.
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OBITUARY OF MRS. McD. GIBBS
(Note: both edges are cut off as noted by the ellipse)
On Friday morning at 8:30 a... June 6, 1913, Plainfield lost by d… another of its oldest and most respected residents in the person of …McD. Gibbs, who has been a residen… Plainfield for thirty-six years. …death occurred at the result of th…paraletic strokes the first occurring the evening of May 15, 1913, and … last on May 31, 1913, and on Fr… morning following she quietly …peacefully passed away.
Miss Sarah P. Lane was born M… 28, 1842, at Freemain, Maine. …came with her parents to Wisco…in in 1854. She was united in marr… to Harry McDonald Gibbs at Waut… February 14, 1867. Preceeding(sic)… marriage she was engaged for so… time as school teacher in what … then know as the Joint School …trict No. 3 of the towns of Oasis … Deerfield.
Mrs. Gibbs' death has created … loss that will be realized in … ways. She was a charter member … the Order of the Eastern Star. …many years in Plainfield has bee … means of extending her acquainta… to a lage(sic) circle of friends by wh… she will be missed. Also her loss … be realized by the member and frie… of the Baptist church and the Bapt…
…and two sons, Frank O. Gibbs Plainfield, and Alton Gibbs of Gra… Rapids, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Gibbs was preceded in dea… by her husband by two years, and… her daughter, Miss Altie Gibbs, … year and three months.
The funeral service was held at t… Baptist church Sunday afternoon… June 8, 1913, at 2 p.m., Rev. …W. Ambrose, pastor of the churc… officiating, assisted by the choir, w… rendered some very beautiful and a… propriate music for the occasion. T… remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the Plainfield cemetery.
The pall bearers were the follow(i)ng: Messrs. Henry Ferguson, Buchanan Johnson, Jay Bardwell, Frank Fox. Among the mourners were the following relatives and friends from a distance, Sidney Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Lo… Briggs, Mrs. Wilbur Gibbs, and daughter, Mrs. Jeffers and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. S. Booth, all o… Hancock and Mr. and Mrs. Alto… Gibbs of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Mar…Ostrum and mother.
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12/11/2013 - C Bohn provided links to parents; thank you!
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