A free monthly electronic newsletter for the VAN BIBBER, VANBIBER, VAN BEBBER,
VANBEBER, VANBABER, VANBEVER, and VANBEVERS families.
Vol. 4 No. 10 - August 2001
Well, I made it to the summit of Mt. Borah (12,662 feet) and back so we will continue to have the Van Bibber Pioneers newsletter. Other than some sore muscles, a few scratches, blisters on the bottom of my feet and pretty much exhausted, I came away in fairly good shape. Of the fifty plus climbers, in four different teams, only twenty-two of us made it to the summit which took about four hours. Most of those who failed to make it to the top turned around at "Chicken out Ridge" which involved some scrambling (rock climbing using the hands) with two hundred foot drop-offs. The view was incredible as I walked around the summit, but I am sure it is something I will not be doing any time in the near future as I would like to be able to draw at least one retirement check from the U.S. government.
We reached a milestone this month with our 500th subscriber, with over 200 of them signing up for the newsletter during the last eight months. This means a lot of cousins out there are interested in the family history. In return, this also means we should continue to have quality information in our newsletter. For those of you who submitted information this issue, "great job."
You will find out in this issue I have attempted to add some photos in the newsletter. This is the first time I have attempted this and I'm hoping everything works out. We have always had quality information in the newsletter, I just thought it was time to liven things up a little bit. Let me know what you think.
Your Editor,
Gary R. Hawpe
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CONTENTS:
th New Member
NEW SUBSCRIBERS:
This month we have eighteen new subscribers to the newsletter. Of the eighteen, sixteen are descendants of the family. Last month we ended with 495 subscribers. I dropped four of them because of invalid addresses, so this now puts us at 513 who receive the newsletter. You will find out as you read on, I have put together an article on our 500th subscriber.
- Barbara Hanneman --
ADDRESS CHANGES:
- Bob Levoy --
INVALID ADDRESSES:
Of the four invalid addresses for last month, none of them have contacted me so their names have been deleted as a subscriber to the newsletter. The following were invalids when I sent out this month's submission letter.
- Daniel Carr --
Paula Key --
pkey@gxmi.com -- Temporarily over quota.If you change your address, once again it is important to let me know. If not, then as Anne Robinson on the Weakest Link would say, "goodbye!"
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
Gabriel VanBebber and Barbara Carlock
Marlena VanBebber and John McCrunnell Cawood
Barbara Cawood and David Brawley Alexander
William Hayes Alexander and Luna Crate Pruett
James Albert Alexander and Leatrice Joy Burke
James Patrick Alexander and Alice Faye Smith
5OOTH NEW MEMBER
Claiborne County, Tennessee Resident becomes
a Milestone Subscriber to the Newsletter.
The Van Bibber Pioneers newsletter reached a milestone this month by subscribing it's 500th new member. He is James "Jim" Patrick Alexander who lives in Speedwell, Claiborne County, Tennessee. This is the same part of Tennessee that Jim's 4th great grandparents, John Van Bebber and Margaret Chrisman, settled in the early 1800s.
Jim was born September 13, 1943, in Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky. He was the first child of seven, by James Albert Alexander and Leatrice Joy Burke. He was raised in Speedwell, attending Powell Valley Elementary and Powell Valley High School, which he graduated in 1961. After graduating, Jim farmed for awhile and after about a year went to Florida for a job on the F.W. Woolworth management training program. This only lasted a little over 6 months and he returned to Tennessee. On November 15, 1963, Jim married his high school sweetheart, Alice Faye Smith, daughter of Frank Smith and Oda Earl of Harrogate, Tennessee. (Her line goes back to the Kincaids that built all of the big Colonial Houses in Powell Valley.) They moved to Dayton, Ohio and Jim went to work at Chrysler Airtemp, auto factory. They lived there until 1966 when Alice's father turned ill and she wanted to move back so she could take care of him. They moved back to Harrogate in 1966 and Jim went to work for the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in a survey crew. They bought a house in Speedwell in 1967 and have lived there ever since. Jim was also a part time Deputy Sheriff in Claiborne County for 17 years. He is still with the TDOT and is in charge of a Bridge Inspection Crew and has an office in Harrogate. Alice was elected as Trustee of Claiborne County in 1998 and is still in that office. They have one son, James Brian Alexander, he was born in Dayton, Ohio, August 21, 1965. He is married to Denise Norman. Jim and Alice have two granddaughters, Whitney Denise, 16 years old and Holly Rebekah, age 11.
Jim and his son have the farm leased that his 3rd great grandfather on his Alexander side of the family once owned and has been passed down through the family. The Alexander cemetery is located on this land, and Jim along with an aunt oversee the care and upkeep of the cemetery. In March of this year, Jim started surveying the Alexander Cemetery. He has almost completed it, listing everyone known to be buried there, listing their spouses and their parents. Jim plans to put it in book form and offer it for sale, using the profits for the cemetery upkeep.
Jim first became interested in genealogy during 1966. He has a lot of information on his Alexander side of the family and is interested in learning more about his Van Bebber ancestors through his 2nd great grandmother, Marlena Van Bebber Cawood.
Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
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Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
Levicia Boone and William Cawlfield, Jr.
William Owen Cawlfield and Sarah E. Howard
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Ash Grove the Scene of a Tragedy Yesterday Morning.
The Killing Regarded as Justifiable
Yesterday the little city of Ash Grove was the scene of a murder that created the wildest excitement at the time of the tragedy as it occurred on a principal street and in the midst of the business center at a busy hour of the day.
The victim was W.O. Cawlfield, formerly constable of Boone Township, in this county, in which Ash Grove is situated, and his slayer was A.F. Van Pelt. Cawlfield on the 6th of last May while serving as a peace officer at Ash Grove had arrested a man named King for disorderly conduct and was conveying him to the lock-up when David King, a brother of the prisoner, attempted to rescue him. Cawlfield shot and instantly killed David. After a trial he was exhonerated and continued to serve as constable. This affair secured for him the reputation of being a fearless and resolute man, and whenever he was in his cups which was not infrequently, this reputation was increased to such an extent that people avoided him as dangerous. Not long after the killing of King, Cawlfield, in a drunken row with Van Pelt, the man who killed him yesterday, shot and seriously wounded him, and for this offense he was lodged in jail to await trail for assault with intent to murder. Here he remained for a considerable time before friends succeeded in putting up the heavy bail required to secure his liberty. Once released he surrendered his position of constable and left for the west, where he remained to take advantage of the rush into the Cherokee strip last summer and only recently returned to the old haunts in Ash Grove. Last Saturday, it appears, Cawlfield started on a spree, and memories of his old trouble with Van Pelt began to fire his brain. He hunted up his old antagonist with the avowed intention of "doing him up this time." It was not difficult to find him as Ash Grove is Van Pelt's home and the home of his people, who are highly respected citizens all around. When they met, Cawlfield pulled his pistol and fired two shots at Van Pelt but his aim was bad and Van Pelt quickly got out of the way. Since then Cawlfield continued his drinking and made numerous threats to kill Van Pelt. The latter heard of these threats through friends and finally resolved that he would stand it no longer and armed himself with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with buckshot, prepared to go out on the street and quickly attend to his necessary business affairs, and, in case he encountered Cawlfield, who he knew was hunting for him continually to settle him for good. That he did so most effectually appears from the testimony given before a jury empanneled by Coroner Diemer who was called to Ash Grove to hold inquest over Cawlfield's dead body. After the shooting Van Pelt walked leisurely away and later surrendered himself to the officers and after a preliminary examination was admitted to bail.
Coroner Diemer having reached the scene in the early afternoon, charged W.H. Turk, W.W. Robbins, G. William Kelley, J.M. Comegys, E.C. Myers and John Beck with the duty of inquiring into the cause of Cawlfield's death, and after hearing the evidence, the jury brought in a verdict that he came to his death at the hands of A.F. Van Pelt. The evidence, of course, only related to the bare facts of the killing, as witnessed by bystanders and summarized it was as follows:
"Judge Blackledge testified that he was standing on a street corner, and, looking up, heard the crack of a pistol or gun and saw Cawlfield fall. He then looked around again and saw Van Pelt take a gun down from his face, and after Cawlfield had fallen he shot again at the body. Van Pelt then walked away across to the opposite corner still having the gun in his hand. The weapon looked like a double barrel shot gun. Cawlfield fell face foremost and had his hands in his pockets. He was beyond Van Pelt and across the road when shot. This was about 10 o'clock in the morning. Witnesses had not heard any threats exchanged between the two men.
James G. Turpin, who is in the saddlery and undertaking business at Ash Grove, testified that he was on the sidewalk, not far from where Cawlfield fell, conversing with some friends, when the shot was fired and he saw Cawlfield fall immediately afterward. He also saw Van Pelt as he recovered the gun after his first shot and saw him send the other load into Cawlfield's prostate body and then depart through an alley near by. L.H. Musgrove and J.O. Waddell, two other citizens, testified to about the same facts.
The first shot took effect in the back of Cawlfield's neck and was instantly fatal, as it virtually severed the spinal cord.
The sympathy of the community is largely with Van Pelt, and it is thought he will have little difficulty in making out a case of self defense or justifiable homicide. There is rather a feeling of relief that Cawlfield's dangerous presence in the usually peaceful town will no longer create uneasiness as it has done for a long time now.
Late in the morning Van Pelt, accompanied by relatives and friends, came to Springfield and, after a hearing before Judge J.J. Gideon, of the criminal court, he was admitted to bail in the sum of $2,000 to answer to the next term of that court which indicates that the evidence is regarded by the judge as strongly exculpatory.
Springfield Daily Republican, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, March 2, 1894.
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Cawlfield's Slayer Admitted to Bail Without Examination
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Steps Now Taking to Sift the Tragedy to the Bottom---
What Attorney Robertson Says About it.
John Cawlfield, brother of the murdered ex-constable of Boone township, W.O. Cawlfield, was in the city yesterday, accompanied by the widow. They consulted J.H. Duncan, prosecuting attorney, to ascertain if they could have A.F. Van Pelt re-arrested on the charge of murder so as not to have him held under the insignificant bond of $2,500. It is learned that the prosecuting attorney advised them to let the matter rest until the preliminary examination set for the 23 inst. At that time Mr. Duncan will be in Ash Grove and if the evidence shall be as he is informed it is, he will insist on defendant not being admitted to bail any longer.
W.G. Robertson, who has been retained by relatives of Cawlfield, to assist in the prosecution said to be a Republican reporter last night:
"There are some strange features involved in the case. To think that a man can coolly and deliberately assassinate one of his fellow men and then be admitted to bail without any evidence being heard is very peculiar to say the least."
The trouble originated between the men while W.O. Cawlfield was constable of Boone township in 1891 or thereabouts. A warrant was placed in the hands of Cawlfield for the arrest of A.F. Van Pelt on a charge of mayhem, he having jumped on a decrepit man and kicked a lot of his teeth out. After the prisoner was arrested on this grave charge -- a penitentiary offense -- the generous officer prevailed upon the prosecuting attorney to let him plead guilty to simple assault and pay a nominal fine. Then it became Cawlfield's duty to collect the costs. While the constable was discharging his official duty Van Pelt became offended at him."
"Afterwards Cawlfield again arrested Van Pelt on the charge of waylaying and assaulting a preacher named Hinkle with a rock. From this time Van Pelt's enmity became more bitter and increased toward Cawlfield because of the previous arrests, and at different times he made threatening remarks about what he was going to do to Cawlfield until it finally terminated in a shooting affray at Ash Grove last summer. As a result Van Pelt was wounded in the abdomen and for a time it was thought he would die."
"The wounded man recovered and Cawlfield was indicted for felonious assault and placed under $2,000 bond to appear at the March term of the criminal court. Cawlfield then returned home to his family at Ash Grove and since that time has been working in the lead mines near town. He has never spoken to Van Pelt since; but at all times tried to avoid meeting him. He has never been known to carry a weapon since the trouble, except a common pocket knife."
"On the morning of his death he was en rout to his work and was crossing the street east of Crane's harness ship when Van Pelt stepped out at the back door with a double barreled shot gun loaded with No. 1 buckshot and, without warning, while deceased was walking with his back to him, fired, the first shot striking the back of Cawlfield's neck and head, killing him instantly. One shot passed entirely through the head, coming out just above the left eye. After Cawlfield fell his slayer advanced two or three steps toward him, firing the other load of buckshot into his abdomen and hip. About twenty-two shots entered the body and head."
It is rumored in Ash Grove that Van Pelt had been watching in the back part of Crane's harness shop for Cawlfield to pass the way for more than a week prepared with his loaded gun.
From all that can be learned about the killing so far, it appears to be one of the most dastardly, cold blooded, assassinations that has stained the soil of Greene County since Sarah E. Graham was brutally murdered and the body thrown into an abandoned well on the Molloy farm, four miles west of Springfield, which so enraged the people that one night a mob called at the jail, overpowered the guard and the lifeless body of George E. Graham was found a short time afterward hanging to a tree as a terrible warning.
The fact that Mr. Robertson will assist in the prosecution is a guarantee that no stone will be left unturned.
Springfield Daily Republican, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, March 11, 1894.
Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
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Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
Mahala Boone and Robert Coats Punty
Little has been recorded about Mahala, daughter of Nathan Boone. Discovery of fragments of the tombstone a couple of years ago, which was apparently never placed on her grave, added more data about her short life. The ancestry and career of her husband are found in the old History of Greene County, Missouri. St. Louis, Western Historical Company, 1883, Page 689:
ROBERT COATS PUNTY, M.D. Dr. Punty was the son of Thomas and Sarah (Rives) Punty, and was born in Warren county, Kentucky, July 7, 1820. His grandfather, Robert Punty, was born in Franklin county, Virginia, and emigrated to Kentucky in 1806. His grandfather, upon his mother's side, Burwell Rives was also of Franklin county, Virginia, and came to Kentucky about the same year. Robert Coats Prunty lived in that State until he was nineteen years of age, receiving his education at Bowling Green. In 1839 his parents moved to Greene county, Missouri, and purchased the place upon which the doctor is now living. His father died September 10, 1860, upon the homestead, and his mother died in McLean county, Illinois, March 18, 1864. Robert read medicine under Drs. Shackleford and Gerham., and began the practice in 1845 at Ash Grove. His health failing he went to Virginia, and on his return stopped in Warren county, Kentucky, and practiced four years in the vicinity of his birthplace. While making his home in Kentucky, he attended the medical department of the Missouri State University, at St. Louis, that department of the University being then in that city, and graduated in 1847. He was married January 18, 1848, in this county, to Miss Mahala S., daughter of Col Nathan Boone, who was the eighth child of Daniel Boone. She died November 2, 1849, leaving one child, now Mrs. Belle Boone Bowden of Springfield. The doctor was married the second time to Miss Olevia Shipp, of this county, in January 1854. She died in 1859, and he married Mrs. Mary F. McGown, on the 22nd of March, 1863. Their union has been blest with four children, viz: Burwell R., Matilda P., Amanda J., and Mary F. In 1863, Dr. Prunty went to McLean county, Illinois, and sold goods at Leroy for some time. He then sold out and practiced medicine at Down's Station until his return to this county in 1868. He practiced two years at Ash Grove, and then moved back upon the old homestead, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock trading."
Boone Pioneer Echoes, Volume 13, Number 2, April 1971, Page 11.
Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
Note: Mrs. Mary F. McGown was "Mary Francis Hosman" who was first married to Luther A. McGowan. Mary was the daughter of Alfred Hosman and Mary C. Boone. Mary Boone was the daughter of Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber. (GRH)
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Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
Matthias VanBibber and Margaret Robinson
David Campbell Robinson VanBibber and Jane Ann Williams
John Campbell Robinson VanBibber and Catherine Malinda Taylor
Ira VanBibber and Eliza Jackson
Alexander VanBibber
Some say Alex VanBibber is the toughest trapper in the whole Yukon. At nearly 80 years of age, he's been trapping here since he was a kid. Now, he's doing his bit to fend off the anti-trapping groups by teaching Yukoners how to use more humane trapping methods. And after being a member of the Yukon Fish and Game Association for 50 years (he signed up in 1946), VanBibber has won the Clay Pugh Memorial Award for sportsman of the year.
"For the past 16 years, people have called for the betterment of trapping," says the stalky, fit resident of Champagne. "The industry had been getting pressure from the animal-rights groups, so the government formed the Fur Institute of Canada and chipped in money to use for more humane traps, quick-killing traps. "It was just to get the anti-trapping people off our backs but you can tell the difference with the quality of the fur now. "The hides are cared for better and the animals are taken more humanely." Yukon trappers must also now check their traps within five days of setting them. In other parts of Canada, it's two or three days.
VanBibber's family originally came from the United States. His father arrived in Skagway from West Virginia in 1898, when the Klondike Gold Rush was in full swing. He worked as a packer on the White Pass and was there when the great slide of April, 1898, killed dozens of people. When he finally reached Dawson City, he found there wasn't enough gold to go around. "He took off into the bush with his brother, who eventually went to Nome, (Alaska)," says VanBibber. "My dad came out to Fort Selkirk and eventually married a native woman, and that's where we come from."
VanBibber went to school in Dawson City and then started working for a gold-dredging company in 1934. But he always returned to Pelly Crossing to trap in the winter. In 1942, he headed to the Whitehorse area to get work during the building of the Alaska Highway. He ended up working on the Canol pipeline project, surveying for a railroad that was supposed to run from Prince George, B.C., to Fairbanks. Eventually, he got on the pipeline survey team. "The army bought seven horses from Johnny Johns in Carcross and we had to walk the horses to Johnson's Crossing and cross the river on the ferry. "We met the survey party there and headed for Quiet Lake and eventually Norman Wells," he says. "It was well over a 500-mile trek. Late that fall, it was slow on the South Canol. "We were going ahead with the horses and the survey party was behind us, clearing survey lines with Cats. There were no axes or chainsaws, they just came through with Cats. "Right behind them, they were building and finishing the roads. You could go back a little ways and drive all the way back to Whitehorse." VanBibber also worked on the refinery in Whitehorse and received a small vial of the first crude oil to arrive in the city from Norman Wells. He has since donated it to the Yukon Transportation Museum.
He started outfitting in 1943, spending 20 years guiding near the Kusawa Lake area. He now lives in Champagne. "I was trapping all along, too -- off and on. In fact, I still trap and I still guide and I'll be 80 on the fourth of April." He says his secret to staying young is spending as much time as possible in the great outdoors. "I guess it's all the fresh air outdoors. It's a great life. I'm drinking good water, getting lots of exercise and I sleep well at night and eat well, too."
VanBibber is teaching his trade to students at many Yukon schools, he says. He also teaches sessions at the Fish and Game Association's camps. "I just like to tell them what the fur industry is all about, that there is no great fear. "It's being managed by the government and there is no depletion of any one species. "It's all being monitored. If the animals were just left to roam, they would multiply so much that they would suffer a worse death by starvation and disease." The kids learn mountain climbing, canoeing, rifle and bow and arrow shooting and first aid. VanBibber teaches them horsemanship and wilderness camping survival as well as trapping. "Living in the North country, it's always handy to know the outdoors and the ways of the bush. "These kids will probably never use it but it's good for them to know. It keeps them out of trouble, too."
And VanBibber is one of the best to teach bush skills. He's been the expert called in for some great adventures. He's climbed with Senator Robert Kennedy, when Mount Kennedy was named to honor his brother, and former president, in 1965. He was also involved in a search for a couple who survived in the bush outside Watson Lake on nothing but snow for 48 days after their plane crashed. He was also part of a team that brought elk back to the Yukon, trucking them here from Elk Island National Park near Edmonton in the early 1950s. But he hasn't been hungry himself. During a "starvation trip," where VanBibber had to take 25 soldiers out into the bush with only shotguns, he outsmarted the group. "I had a .22 so I just walked ahead of them all and started filling up my pack with rabbits and grouse," he says. "The last group at the back there was living pretty slim. They missed a few meals."
VanBibber has received the Order of Canada. He mentions it as an afterthought but admits he can't remember whether it was in 1983 or 1993. He seems more proud of the sportsman of the year award. "I was surprised they picked me. I just enjoy working with young people."
By Andrea Buckley
Yukon News Reporter
Yukon News, Friday, February 2, 1996
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Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
Jacob VanBibber and Sarah Miller
Nancy VanBibber and Moses Haney
David Haney and Martha Ann Henry
LuElla Haney and Alfred Boyer
ALFRED BOYER is the present incumbent in the post office at Kootenai, where he has served with acceptability and faith fullness since the office was established. He is a man of intelligence and stability and has won many friends in all parts where he is acquainted.
Alfred Boyer was born in Scioto County, Ohio, on April 1, 1854, being the son of Wesley and Elizabeth (McNalley) Boyer, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. They were married in Scioto County, and there the father conducted a charcoal business until 1880, then followed farming until his death in 1899. The mother died in January 1902. They were the parents of nine children: David, deceased; Alfred, the subject of this article; Calfernia, wife of John Dressler, in Ohio; Addie B.; wife of Jeff Haney, in Portsmouth, Ohio; Ida, deceased; John, in Kootenai County; Frank, in Lawrence County, Ohio; Alex, living in Scioto County, Ohio. Our subject attended school in the winter and labored with his father until he was twenty-three year sold. Then starting for himself he engaged with a farmer for three years, after which he spent eight years in railroading. It was 1889 that he made his way into the Sandpoint region, being a pioneer here. He worked a year at tie making and shingle manufacture and in 1892 took
his present homestead. He has a good orchard and a portion of the farm under cultivation. In 1895 the post office was established and Mr. Boyer was selected as postmaster, which he has filled in a becoming
manner since.
On November 25, 1881, Mr. Boyer married Miss Ella, daughter of David and Martha Haney, natives of Ohio. The father conducted a boiler shop there until his death in 1881. The mother still lives in Ironton,
Ohio, being seventy years of age and healthy and hearty. Mr. Boyer and his estimable wife are the parents of eight children, six of whom are living, as follows: Grace V., Roberta, Charles A., George W.,
Charlotte I., and Lester. Mr. Boyer is a charter member of the Sandpoint Lodge, No.59, of the I. 0.0. F. His wife is a member of the Rebekahs. They both are devout members of the Baptist Church and are
exemplary and upright people, being held in high respect and esteem by all.
The 1903 History of Northern Idaho
Submitted by Lori Hogan -- Lori.Hogan@infores.com
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
James VanBebber, Sr. and Hannah Hoover
Isaac VanBebber and Hannah Long
George VanBeber and Mary Elizabeth Tinsley
James VanBever and Mary A. Robbins
John Calvin VanBever and Mariah Jane Hall
From the files of Annette Gray Brown
Front row: (L-R) Sarah, Frank, "held by
mother "Mariah," James and John Calvin.
Back row: (L-R) Mary, Amanda and Cora.
Picture taken about 1911.
Children of John VanBever and Mariah Hall are:
- Grace11
VanBever, born May 08, 1891 in KY; died January 26, 1975. She married Taylor
Jefferson McCreary September 26, 1908 in Jellico, Campbell Co., TN; born
January 22, 1887 in KY; died October 26, 1981 in Corbin, Knox Co., KY. Both
are buried in Warfield Cemetery, Knox Co., KY
- Cora "Toot" Mae VanBever, born December 1893 in
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY; died December 13, 1961 in Barbourville, Knox Co.,
KY. Never married. Buried in Golden Cemetery, Barbourville, Knox Co., KY.
- Lila VanBever, born Abt. 1895; died Bef. 1900 in
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY. Buried in Golden Cemetery, in an unmarked grave,
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY.
- Amanda Lee VanBever, born January 25, 1897 in Knox
Co., KY; died October 17, 1981. Never married. Buried in Warfield Cemetery,
Knox Co., KY.
- Caroline VanBever, born Abt. 1899; died Abt. 1899 in
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY. Buried in Golden Cemetery, in an unmarked grave,
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY.
- Mary Elizabeth VanBever, born September 12, 1901 in
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY; died September 11, 1963 in Barbourville, Knox Co.,
KY. She married Albert Lincoln Saunders December 23, 1923 in Barbourville,
Knox Co., KY; born November 10, 1901 in Barbourville, Knox Co., KY; died
November 10, 1986 in Big Stone Gap, Wise Co., VA. Both are buried in Warfield
Cemetery, Knox Co., KY.
- James VanBever, born September 17, 1906 in Knox Co.,
KY; died December 12, 1920 in Knox Co., KY. Buried in Golden Cemetery,
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY.
- Sarah "Bea" Belle VanBever, born November 10, 1907 in
Barbourville, Knox, KY; died September 25, 1993 in Barbourville, Knox, KY. She
married (1) Clyde Payne April 09, 1927 in Barbourville, Knox Co., KY; born
1904 in Knox Co., KY. She married (2) Edgar Perkins December 31, 1929 in Knox,
Co., KY; born February 14, 1911 in Barbourville, Knox, KY; died November 22,
1934. Buried in Golden Cemetery, Barbourville, Knox Co., KY. She married (3)
Curtis Helton Perkins; born August 31, 1909 in Barbourville, Knox, KY; died
December 21, 1983 in Gray, Knox, KY. Curtis and Sarah are both buried in
Warfield Cemetery, Knox Co., KY.
- Frank Taylor VanBever, born May 30, 1910 in
Barbourville, Knox Co., KY; died February 1979 in Beaver Dam, Dodge, WI. He
married (1) Eva Phipps September 16, 1929 in Knox Co., KY; born 1910 in Knox
Co., KY. He married (2) Myrtle Wiese March 15, 1948 in Bell Co., KY; born 1923
in Oakfield, WI.
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This isn't just another extracurricular activity. Brandon Van Bibber will soon have a say in how more than half a billion dollars is spent, where schools should be built and who Anne Arundel County's next superintendent will be.
Van Bibber, 17, is about to be a senior at Glen Burnie High School. Instead of living it up as one of the big men on campus, he will spend much of his free time this year in a windowless room with a select group of grown-ups -- all more than twice his age -- making decisions that affect 75,000 students, 4,700 teachers -- an entire community.
They'll call him the SMOB (student member of the board), the only student on a Maryland school board with the same full voting privileges as his fellow board members and one of just a handful in the nation.
The governor made it official last week, appointing Van Bibber in time for his first meeting, which will be Wednesday. He will replace Alicia Pettit, A Severna Park High School student, who completed her one-year term.
Van Bibber had never thought of pursuing the job, didn't know it existed and had never been to a school board meeting. Then he was approached by one of his teachers during the winter.
"My principal said to me, "I don't think Glen Burnie's ever had a SMOB. What do we have out there? … We've got to have someone," recalled Christine O'Neill, the student government adviser at Glen Burnie High.
She found Van Bibber. He dazzled his classmates and won the school's nomination, earning the post after a tight runoff in front of the Chesapeake Regional Association of Student Councils.
"He likes to sit back and listen,' said Alexander V. Herrera, last year's president of Glen Burnie's student government. "He's very open-minded."
When the school held a candidates' question-and-answer session, "every time he'd have his answer, he'd think about it first. "That really impressed us," Herrera said.
Since 1975, the Anne Arundel County school board has had a student serve alongside the adults, an unusual position that is starting -- slowly -- to catch on elsewhere. Although other Maryland counties have students on the board, they are excluded from some of the decision-making.
"We don't just talk the talk in this county," said Sue Barnes Hannahs, the countywide student government adviser. "They're utilized for so much more than photo ops. They definitely are consulted. (School board members) have someone up there who can tell them what it is like in the trenches."
Van Bibber lives in Severn with his parents -- Gene, a police officer at the U.S. Supreme Court, and Penny, who works in sales -- and siblings Justin, about to be a freshman at Glen Burnie, and Sara, who attends Corkran Middle.
He's a top student -- O'Neill sought out only scholars because she knows how much class time the SMOB misses. Van Bibber is a member of the National Honor Society, the cross country and track teams and a French tutor for elementary pupils. This summer, he is working for the county's Health Department, visiting county camps to teach a program called Smoking Stinks, and is putting in his time at his regular job, stocking shelves and running a cash register at Wal-Mart.
Though she's proud of her son, Penny Van Bibber tried to talk him out of taking on the responsibility.
"We did a lot of talking about it," she said last week. "We went over the pro and cons of it. He's going to have to forgo some of the other things because of time constraints.
"It's a lot of stress and responsibility on a 17-year-old. They want to see a 35-year-old- brain in a child. We went round and round about why he shouldn't do it."
Because he is serving, Brandon won't be able to take the Anne Arundel Community College courses he planned for a jump start on his future studies. (He thinks he'd like to be a veterinarian, but he's not sure where he wants to go to college.) He'll drop track, and he might have to cut back on cross country.
The sacrifices, though, are worth it, he said.
"There were things that were happening that I wanted to help maybe change, maybe make a difference," he said. "This was the best way to do that."
His biggest concern is safety inside the schools -- the fighting, the threats, not so much the realities of weapons in the classroom. Some kids -- and parents -- have begun to worry about what might happen in what was once considered the safest place to be.
"I don't know if we need more rules, but we need to enforce some of the rules that we have," Van Bibber said.
He wants to find a way to improve relationships between students and teachers, and to improve schools that are not performing as well as others.
On the hottest issue from spring -- replacing one period of middle school arts electives with extra reading time -- he said he would have voted against the majority of the school board. He would have liked to see, perhaps, only pupils who struggle with reading be required to take the new class, allowing other pupils more time for singing, painting and cooking.
"Our reading scores are bad, but we don't need to cut the electives," he said. "We should have some happy medium."
Maybe time could be shaved off each period to create an extra class period, he said. Told that that is an expensive proposition, he said, "It's a really hard decision. I know how the board members feel. I see all these viewpoints, but we need electives, we need the arts."
The decisions from here on are all his. He won't be able to discuss privileged information he'll be given -- especially regarding collective bargaining, hiring, firing and lawsuits -- even with his parents.
This election was a big deal not for only Van Bibber but for Glen Burnie High, capping off a year in which the student government won the state's top prize, and Anthony J. Berard, one of Van Bibber's favorite teachers, was named the county's Teacher of the Year.
"A lot of the power is in the sought of the county," Herrera said. "It's good that we have someone from the north actually stepping up."
Despite Van Bibber's new status, some things won't change.
"He just wants to run the house," his mother said. But "he still has to clean his room and bathroom, and he still needs to walk the dog and mow the lawn."
By Stephanie Desmon -- Sunstaff
The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, July 8, 2001.
Submitted by Charles Van Bibber -- Cvanbibber@aol.com
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
Nancy VanBebber and William Renfro
DATED APRIL 30, 1835
Son William:
Nothing very interesting transpired since you left us. We have had a long cold winter since Febry commenced, say till 20th inst, more so than common. But we have weathered through so far as yet.
No deaths among the friends as yet occurred. Myself has bad cold and cough ever since first of December with but little intermission so that I almost despired of seeing grasse rise. But through the tender mercies of kind and benevolent Providence (whose goodmess and mercy has followed me all the days of my life) I am yet on pleading ground and last week was able to ride to Old Town Creek to a very comfortable meeting at that place. Nearly all the people in the vicinity are serious and apparently for the better. Many have joined the church, among whom are your Aunt Jerusha Lee, Thos. Norville with many others. Uncle Tommy and Gibson are expected to follow. Sister Jerusha, Walter and Polly Moss I think are among the seekers. It would do my poor heart good and make it rejoice if I could hear the good news of all my children embracing the religion of Jesus and submit to the mild septer of King Immanuel. My son, pray don't neglect the one thing needful, tis of the utmost importance--good in time, good in eternity, good to live on, good to die on. This world with all its allurements is not to be put in comparison with a saving interest in the Redeemer's righteousness and I assure my propensities and desires after worldy possessions has very much abated by considersing their uncertain and unsatisfying nature and do pray that my last days may be my best days and that I may pass through earth with my heart and hopes fixed on Heaven. I do most heartily covet and try to pray you and all yours may so improve the precious seed time, that so Eternity may yield a joyful harvest to you and your little ones. But tis hope against hope. When I consider your dear little children will take their first impressions of their infantile minds and are sure to get a set and bias (which you may observe in nearly all families the case from the mother that tis almost impossible to eradicate or remove.) But I hope your philisophical mind will spare the pains to cultivate sound and good principles clear of affectation and duplicity for I do expect your children are as near to you as mine are to me, which are like the apple of the eye--and which I have been uncommonly blessed with and whom I attribute took their set from the mother and but small assistance from me.
It makes me feel grateful to hear it often remarked that such a family of daughters was scarcely known to be raised by one mother, and my sons no complaint only that they were not business men as their sisters are. My dear little Sallie Ann is a very promising daughter and you may be sure its mother spares no pains to install in the tender mind principles of virtue and domestic habits.
We live comfortable and happy as can be. No jars or contradictions is allowed and my dear little Dorcas is so kind, affectionate and attentive that if she thought one of her eyes would add anything to my comfort it would not be withheld. So that our enjoyments are sweet and contentment is ever our guest so far as earthly things concern us. This day preparing for a four day meeting at Barbourville which commences this day. A number of preaching brethren is expected. I must be off shortly or be too date for first day.
Son James is gone at this time to catch fish at B. Herndon's, mouth of Laurel. Ben has got his saw and grist mill at work, promises himself great incomes. Has a town laid out and lots are to be sold in the town of (?). Two steamboats are to navigate shortly. Sam Hogan has been to look out a country to move to since Feby last. Took with him 3 or 4 negroes to sell. Has sold his farm but Charity is still living in it yet. All well. This trip I expect will finish Hogan's building castle. We look for him middle of next month or last. Bob Gibson doing right well. Got near a hundred steers. Many of them will be for sale next fall. Sue Ruth Snaugger for saying he stole one of her yearlings. John Wallen, the same or worse,
drinking all he can get. He, I am told, is sure of the recovery of John Hardy's place. Two better titles than Hardy's. He orders his wife off every few days when drinking. I don't know but she will have to leave him for she at times in danger of her life and is the only support of him and James Wallen. Uncle Daniel much the same. Moss, they tell me, is likely to get through his difficulties, don't drink any hardly of the accursed poison. I hope my son, you have seen the evil and abandoned it. L. Johnson and James still doing small business at their place. Olivia has another son. John Word about the same. I don't know how Burch is doing, still a little I believe. Your son Milton crops with Geo. Fletcher I am told. John
Hendrickson bought old Feltcher's place. John Miller lives on it this summer. Your sister Jane keeps about as usual. Rides to meetings and where she pleases, is right good manager.
Should like to hear your prospects and how well you like MO. I feel very much interested in your welfare, not only in time but Eternity and hope you may be pleased with the country and a settlement advantageous for yourself and family was my particular reason for being willing for your moving so far
from us while I was living whom I very much doubt will you hardly ever see me more in time for I fail and get weaker very year and my change must shortly come.
I want you continue your good name. Never give way to intoxicating drink. I am fraidest of any temporal calamity. How many it has ruined and never fails to destroy when made to free with. Not a drop enters my lips. Keep clear of debt which is hard for you to do except a firm and determined
resolution. You have so large and expensive family proud with all and but little help to you soon as they get of size to do you any service they must depart. I was always averse to being in debt. I was surprised when James came home and told me the money you had to bear your expenses in moving and posted him off next morning with what we could raise for you for I had thought you surely had four or five hundred dollars to take with you and truly out of humor to think to your buying so many horses which I thought
bad policy. When I moved to Tennessee, one wagon and four horses was all I was able to get and had more to move with than I expect you had to carry, but I hope if you don't manage pretty well the plantation you sold Word will slip through your fingers and you will hardly know how or what became of it. Your corn I am told did not measure as well as was expected. James got none. Burch got none and I don't know how Skeltoin came out. I can hardly write inteligible, but remain
Your loving father,
James Renfro
NOTES: James Renfro died just three months after writing this letter July 29, 1835. Someone brought him a rock containing a nugget of silver which had been found somewhere on his land. He mounted his horse, took a young black boy with him and set off during a thunderstorm to search for Swift's silver mine. The family legend is that he, the boy, and the horse were all killed by a falling branch of a tree but it seems most likely that lightning struck the tree and/or James, the boy and the horse. All three were killed. James was buried in the family plot where his house stood at Cumberland Ford, later the site of the Gibson house. A small park is now at that site with a marker for the site of Cumberland Ford. James, Charity and Mary (Polly), their daughter, all had tombstones at that site. They were later removed to the Pineville Cemetery by Ray B. Moss, where they stand today, with the addition of modern markers with the same information as the old markers. In the small park at Cumberland Ford, there are numerous sandstone markers which are for the slaves, none of which have any inscriptions. The park was donated to the city of Pineville by Valerie Saunders, a descendant of the Gibsons.
William Renfro was born 4/9/1788 and married on 11/20/1806 to Nancy VanBibber. Jerucia Renfro was daughter of James and Charity (Huff) Renfro. She married John Wallen. The other Jerusha, referred to in letter as Aunt Jerusha Lee was a Huff--related to Charity Huff. The Dorcas referred to was wife #2.
Submitted by Rebecca Parsley -- rparsley@kc.rr.com -- 2nd great granddaughter of William Renfro and Nancy Van Bebber.
Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
Greene County recognizes history built within walls
ASH GROVE -- It's already recognized on the state and national registers of historical places, but Thursday the Nathan Boone home near Ash Grove received an honor a little bit closer to home.
The home built in 1837 by the youngest son of pioneer Daniel Boone, was the recipient of a historical marker given by the Greene County Historical Sites Board.
"There's a lot of meaty history here," said Kitty Lipscomb, sites board chairwomen. "We consider it one of the major ones in the county and one of the most important ones."
The log cabin, about two miles north of Ash Grove, is now owned by the Gayer Dixon family of Ash Grove. It served as home for the Nathan Boone family until his death in 1856. The Dixon family maintains the home while financing is sought to preserve and restore it.
"However, Lipscomb said, much of the history behind the home involves the man and his activities before he settled in Greene County.
"It's not only the age of the site but the fact that Nathan Boone was important in the early development of not only Greene County but of southeast Missouri," Lipscomb said. "He actually made a lot of contributions to the development of the entire West."
Boone was born in Kentucky in 1781. When he was 18, he married a girl from what is not St. Charles.
Although generally overshadowed by his famous father, Daniel, in the story books, Nathan was also a genuine hero and pioneer, Lipscomb said.
Along with a brother, he established the Boone's Lick salt works in central Missouri, which is now a state park. He was one of the original surveyors of Iowa, and one Iowa town is names for him.
Boone was also a member of the military, Lipscomb said. He retired as a U.S. lieutenant colonel after leading the U.S. mounted rangers in the Blackhawk War, assisting in the capture of Santa Fe, and serving as the military governor of New Mexico and Texas.
Boone also was an explorer. He helped determine the boundary between the Creek and Cherokee Indian nations. In 1808, he guided William Clark to what is now Independence, where the two helped establish Fort Osage. The fort, now restored, was a frontier outpost, of great importance.
Boone apparently selected the Ozarks as his final home because he was struck by its beauty.
The 149 year-old home is now open only once a year, during the fall Nathan Boone Rendezvous. At the festival, begun only last year, relatives of Boone from across the country gathered in Ash Grove for three days of historical celebrations.
This year's festival is scheduled for Sept. 20-22.
By Patricia Fennewald
The Daily News
Note: This article was from a previous year. This year's rendezvous will be held September 14th, 15th and 16th. For additional information see the "Notices" section of this newsletter.
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1. Rodelle Henrietta Van Bibber m. Frederick William Hase, July 12, 1876, Linn Co., MO.
2. Benjamin Franklin Van Bibber m. Sarah Harriett Lash, February 16, 1888, Clay Co.,
MO.
3. Ruth J. Van Bibber m. Francis A. Kelley, December 6, 1883, Emporia, Lyon Co., KS.
4. William Lee Van Bibber m. Sarah Jane Currens, March 30, 1886, Alma, KS.
5. Verlina A. Van Bibber m. Eugene J. Smith, August 7, 1884, Emporia, Lyon Co., KS.
Verlina had 7 children by Eugene.
2nd m. Verlina A. Van Bibber m. Tim Donovan, July 3, 1908, Emporia, Lyon Co., KS.
Verlina had 1 known child by Tim, it is said that she had 10 children total.
3rd m. Verlina A. Van Bibber m. William W. James, Date and Location unk.
6. Omsby Mitchell Van Bibber m. Frances Ann Lash, December 30, 1889, Liberty,
Clay Co., MO.
Submitted by Forrest E. Jolly, Jr. -- Jolly@ruralnet2.com -- Great grandson of Frederick Hase and Rodella Van Bibber.
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OBITUARIES:
Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
Nancy VanBebber and William Renfro
Marcellus Renfro and Elizabeth Gibson
Marcellus Renfro, an old resident, dies suddenly Tuesday night, December 18. The scythe of time is laying a heavy hand on the pioneer residents of Mercer Co. during the last few years. The last one to answer the final call was our good old neighbor and friend Marcellus Renfro, who passed to that bourn from whence no traveler ever returns Tuesday night the 18th instant, 79 years 2 months and 26 days.
Mr. Renfro was born in Tennessee, September 22, 1821, and moved to Missouri in his early youth, locating in Grundy Co. On the 4th day of May 1843 he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Gibson in that county. He entered several farms in Mercer county and located on a farm two miles southwest of Modena in the early forties. He lived on that farm for upwards of forty years. He sold the old homestead in the fall of 1891 and in the spring of 1892 again located in Grundy Co., but it was not like the old homestead and after a trial of two or three years he again moved back to Mercer Co. locating with his son-in-law, Charles Brush, within less than one quarter of a mile from the old homestead. Here he lived fairly well contented until the death of his beloved wife, who died on the 14th of April, 1900, since which time life appeared to loose its greatest pleasure.
Mr. Renfro was the father of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, one died in her infancy and one, Mrs. Sallie Pratt, a couple of years ago. Two sons, the oldest and youngest, live in California, the other children all live in this and Grundy Counties, and all were present at the funeral Thursday. In addition to the children above mentioned, he left 36 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Mr. Renfro united with the Free Will Baptists Church in 1870, and his life was that of an exemplary Christian. He visited his daughters December 14 and 15, and while he came to consult a physician, not one of his friends or relatives had the remotest thought of his early dissolution. He done chores about the farm on Tuesday, ate his supper and retired to bed apparently in his usual health. A pain in his left arm caused him to get up and while his son-in-law went to get something to ease his pain and while sitting up by the side of his daughter, he said" I am gone" and fell over into his daughter's arms, death ending his sufferings. It was not over fifteen minutes from the time he got up until it was all over.
His life was not a failure, his example was always a good criterion to follow, he was a devoted husband, an indulgent father, a kind neighbor and a noble citizen.
Funeral services were held at the Wild Chapel, 5 miles southwest of Modena, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. I.R.M. Beeson preached the funeral discourse from Proverbs 14-32, several appropriate songs were sung, including "Nearer My God to Thee", "We Shall Know Each Other There" and "Meet Me There". The remains were interred by the side of the departed wife.
Submitted by Bev Tout -- bevtout@bendcable.com -- Great granddaughter of Marcellus Renfro and Elizabeth Gibson.
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum, Sr.
Jesse Yoakum, Sr. and Anna Berry
Isaac Yoakum and Emily Bruce
George Washington Yoakum and Rebecca Ann Johnston
Anne Jeanette Yoakum and Thomas Alexis Mack
George Thomas Mack and Kathyrn Lanett Holland
SERVICES SET TUESDAY FOR GEORGE MACK
George T. Mack, 87, president of Merced County Title Company and longtime chairman of the board of the Merced Irrigation District, died Saturday at a Merced hospital.
Services for Mack will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Mission Chapel of Ivers and Alcorn Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Hoffmeister, Merced Community Medical Center chaplain and Merced Elks Lodge 1240 in charge of the services. Burial will be private.
Mr. Mack, a native and lifetime resident of Merced, helped survey the Dry Creek Reservoir, later abandoned in favor of Exchequer for the Crocker-Huffman Land and Water Company. He worked on highway projects, as chief of party, between 1914 and 1924 from Shasta to Orange counties. After serving in the 18th Engineers in France for two years during World War I, he worked as a unit superintendent for the California Packing Corp., for 10 years. Then he went to work for the Simonsen Harrell Abstract Co., and with R.M. King, bought the abstract company. He reorganized it as the Merced County Title Company and served as the company's president for 47 years.
Serving six terms on the Merced Irrigation District Board of Directors, he was president of the MID when it was enlarged to accommodate the district's expanding needs.
Mack, founder-president of Merced College Foundation, organization and has a scholarship fund created in his name. He was active in Boy Scouts of America and has a Scout camping area named after him.
Memberships include 44 years in the Merced Rotary Club, serving three terms on the board of directors, the Merced Elks Lodge 1240, the Merced Golf and Country Club and former member of the Common-wealth Club of San Francisco. He also was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Merced Rotary Club.
He is survived by his wife, Kathryn Mack of Merced; a nephew and two nieces, all of Arizona.
Merced Sun Star, Merced, CA. March 29, 1982, page 13
Submitted by Alma -- Sto4us@aol.com
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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum, Sr.
Jesse Yoakum, Sr. and Anna Berry
Isaac Yoakum and Emily Bruce
George Washington Yoakum and Rebecca Ann Johnston
Anne Jeanette Yoakum and Thomas Alexis Mack
George Thomas Mack and Kathyrn Lanett Holland
KATHYRN MACK
Mrs. Mack, a retired teacher, died Saturday in a Merced hospital.
She was born Dec 3, 1899 in Tulare and lived in Merced 56 years where she was a teacher at John Muir School. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association of California and the Merced Golf and Country Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband George Mack, March 6.
Survivors include a nephew, Bill Mack; and two nieces, Mary Ellen Brooks and Virgina Barker, all of Arizona.
Merced Sun Star, Merced, CA., March 29, 1982. Page 13, Obituaries
Submitted by Alma -- Sto4us@aol.com
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RECENT DEATHS:
James VanBibber and Margaret Jane Webb
Abeline VanBibber and William Hollis
Wilma J. Hollis and William Ingersoll
KALKASKA - Wilma J. Ingersoll, 77, of Kalkaska, died Monday (November 27, 2000) at the Kalkaska Memorial Health Center Long Term Care.
Mrs. Ingersoll had been a lifelong resident of Kalkaska and was a 1942 graduate of Kalkaska High School. She formerly worked in the Kroger Store, and was a member of the Kalkaska Church of Christ. She enjoyed her church and her family.
Born in Kalkaska on Nov. 9, 1923, she was the daughter of William and Lina (VanBibber) Hollis. On Nov. 28, 1942, in South Boardman, she married William Ingersoll, who preceded her in death on April 12, 1998.
Surviving are two sons, Richard and Van Ingersoll - both of Kalkaska; a daughter, Sandra Mitchell of Kalkaska; a brother, Bernard Hollis of San Antonio, Texas; ten grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. An infant son; two brothers, Leonard and Willard; and a sister, Pauline, preceded her in death.
Friends may call from 3 to 9 p.m. today at the Wolfe Funeral Home in Kalkaska. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with E. Dan Johnson officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Kalkaska.
Traverse City Record Eagle -- Northwest Lower Michigan's newspaper -- November 29, 2000.
Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
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RECENT BIRTHS:
Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
Gabriel VanBebber and Barbara Carlock
Alexander VanBebber and Louisa Lee
Sarah Jane VanBebber and Joseph Lucas
Walter Scott Lucas and Nelle Beatrice Scott
La Reine Gwendolyn Lucas and Clyde A. Walker
Richard Scott Walker and Peggy Ann Riggs
Ronald Craig Walker and Erin Mahoney
Ryley Fern Walker
Dick Walker would like to announce the birth of his first grandchild, "Ryley Fern Walker" who was born on May 21, 2001 at 5:44 p.m. She was born at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Northern Sacramento, California. Ryley weighed in at 6 pounds and 12 ounces, at a length of 19.25 inches. Mother and daughter (5th great granddaughter of Gabriel and Barbara Van Bebber) are doing fine.
Submitted by Richard "Dick" Walker -- chloride@presys.com
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REUNIONS:
PINEVILLE, KY
Call 1-800-325-1712 to reserve a room.
Saturday night has to be catered to have the banquet room. They gave me some slack on Friday night for everyone to walk in and get their name tags and register for the event, (no caterer). The banquet Saturday night will cost 18.00 per adult, ages 5-12 11.00. The amount for Kids under 5 eat free. This cost includes meal, tip and taxes.
Here are my plans so far:
Friday night Aug. 31 = 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Laurel Room(Register and Meet)
Saturday Sept. 1, 2001 = Golf Tournament (If interested contact me)
= Picnic (Follow Signs in Park)
" " = 6:00 C.V. Whitney Convention Room (Banquet)
" " = 7:00 - until Pictures, talk, etc....
Please send the banquet money to myself.
Cindy Robinson -- ctrofnc@hotmail.com
4931 Satterwhite Point Road
Henderson, NC 27536
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Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
Jacob VanBibber and Sarah Miller
Nancy VanBibber and Moses Haney
Descendants of Moses Haney and Nancy Van Bibber
to hold their first family reunion.
On Saturday, September 8, 2001, at 4:00 p.m., the descendants of Moses Haney and Nancy Van Bibber will hold their first family reunion at the Lacy Keosauqua State Park, Keosauqua, Iowa. We will gather until people feel the need to leave. A lot of us will be staying in the area through the weekend. For those staying overnight, we can gather around the campfire, roast marshmallows and share family stories.
Please bring your own table service and a couple food dishes for the potluck. If you are travelling from a long distance and bringing food is an inconvenience, don't worry as there will be plenty to go around. Also, bring any pictures and family information for others to view.
This reunion is a first of what we hope will be many more in the future. For additional information please contact me.
Thank you,
Submitted by Valorie Richards -- kaptkirk@interlinklc.net -- 3rd great granddaughter of Moses Haney and Nancy Van Bibber.
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NOTICES:
The 18th Annual Nathan Boone Homestead Days will be September 14, 15 and 16, 2001, held in Ash Grove, Missouri. The festival is held at the Ash Grove City Park with various craft booths, games and food vendors. The Nathan Boone House, built in the 1830's is being restored by the State of Missouri and has only been open to the public in the past during this time. From the City Park, a shuttle bus runs to the homestead so visitors can tour the site. Also on the homestead property is the family cemetery where Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber Boone are buried.
Submitted by Diana Jones -- DKJonesy@aol.com -- 4th great granddaughter of Nathan Boone and Olive Van Bibber.
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Birthday Notice:
Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
Isaac VanBibber, Jr. and Elizabeth Hays
Matilda VanBibber and James Estill
Cornelia Catherine Estill and Samuel Jasper Tunnell
James Estill Tunnell and Laura Jane Smith
William Edgar Tunnell and Ida Bell Todd
Opal Irene Tunnell and Willard Reese Barbee
A birthday celebration was held in Santa Barbara, California for Opal Tunnell Barbee who turned 91 years old on August 22, 2001. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Maltilda Van Bibber, through the James Estill Tunnell line. Fifty people attended her celebration, including 101 year old Robert Laghter, paperboy to the Wright Brothers, & distant cousin, 90 year old Curtis Tunnell of Santa Maria, CA. Mrs. Barbee suffers from Parkinson's Disease, but is assisting genealogist with the family history and archives.
Submitted by Kent Barbee -- BarbeeTrust@aol.com
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Death Notice:
SAN SABA, TX – Jennifer Renee Watson VanBibber, 24, died Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001. Service will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with burial in San Saba City Cemetery. Arrangements are by Howell-Doran Funeral Home
Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
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UNIDENTIFIED VAN BIBBERS:
Do you have an unidentified Van Bibber in your files? Submit the information and see if another subscriber can identify them for you.
- Rosa Van Bibber died 1938, buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Plainfield, Indiana. Submitted by Gary R. Hawpe --
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QUERIES:
Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
Jacob VanBibber and Sarah Miller
Nancy VanBibber and Moses Haney
David Haney and Martha Ann Henry
Laura Haney and William Wilburn
I'm trying to trace Laura Haney, daughter of David Haney and Martha Henry. I have found her in the 1870 Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio census married to a William Wilburn. Does anybody know what happened to them after 1870?
Submitted by Lori Hogan -- Lori.Hogan@infores.com
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Isaac VanBibber and Hester Op den Graeff
Jacob Isaacs VanBibber and Christina ____________
Isaac Jacobs VanBibber and Frances Schumacher
Peter VanBibber and Anna ___________
Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
James VanBebber, Sr. and Hanna Hoover
Who knows anything about Hannah Hoover? I have been searching for years concerning her ancestry. James Van Bebber was born in Halifax Co., VA about 1768. He died in Claiborne Co., TN before December 19, 1834. The first census record that tells me anything about her is 1850, and she claims to have been born in NC. I have my doubts about this as the boundaries changed so often along the Virginia line that people didn't know from where they came.
Recently I have received information stating that Hannah's father and mother were Henry Hoover, born 1754 and wife Mary Barbara Whisenhunt, married 1787 Washington Co., VA. She and all her siblings were listed with Hannah being shown married to James VanBebber. Is anyone aware of the above name or even have a hint? Will answer any and all e-mails. Thanks.
Barbara Sprague Drew -- lbdrew@silcon.com
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I am still against a brick wall on my Van Bibber relative. (Mary) Ann Van Bibber wife of Dudley Bonds. They were married in 1815 in Newberry Co. SC. His father is Dudley Bonds, wife Francis Meredith. On the 1850 Census Dudley and Ann are in Gwinnett Co. GA. The place of birth for both shows South Carolina. I have a Jacob Van Bibber/Bebber on Jury list (1777-1778) and as lesee in Beaufort Co., Prince William Parish, South Carolina, dates 1770-1801. I find Jacob Van Bibber on a Revolutionary War Pension list and a Mrs. Margaret Van Bibber received indents from Revolutionary War Pension both under South Carolina. Is she Margaret Bounds? Could she be Jacob Van Bibber's wife? Could they be the parents of Mary Ann Van Bibber?
The Bonds/Bond family name joins the Van Bibber in 1768. Sarah Bond married Benjamin Chew, daughter Ann Chew married an Isaac Van Bibber on November 27, 1768 in Maryland. I have a file over an inch thick on Van Bibbers and one nearly as thick on Bond/Bonds. Could someone help identify the Jacob and Margaret of Beaufort Co. South Carolina? If I know which line he belongs to and maybe I can eliminate him from the running. I will have no lead on my Van Bibber, but that is better than a wrong lead.
Submitted by Alice Schurman -- ASCHUR@parknet.pmh.org
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SOUND OFF:
From: lbdrew@silcon.com (Barbara Drew)
To: GRH9999@aol.com (Gary Hawpe)
Gary:
I was in the Computer club class yesterday and the president told us all to update our anti-virus to 2001. Mine was an old one and we went out today and got 2001.
He also said not to accept any attachments and I raised my hand and told him I had just printed out 26 pages of a monthly newsletter. Are you sure your computer is virus free?
Cordially,
Barbara Drew
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Barbara,
I take all precautions possible in trying not to acquire a virus. I never open an attachment unless it is from someone I know, and then I still run my Norton anti-virus before I download it. When I send out the newsletter as an attachment, one of the final things I will do is run the anti-virus on it. I would not want to send information to my fellow cousins and researchers which contained something that could really mess up their computer or files. I feel if you take the necessary precautions, there should be no problem in downloading attachments, to include the VB newsletter.
I just ran my anti-virus program on my computer. To answer your question, yes, my computer is virus free.
From: Mjnjh@al.com (Marc Herron)
To: GRH9999@aol.com (Gary Hawpe)
Hi Gary,
Thanks for all your research. My wife loves it and has been reading, studying, and filing everything.
Marc Herron
From: falconflite@earthlink.net (Shelia Wright)
To: GRH9999@aol.com (Gary Hawpe)
Gary, I want to thank you for finding me last month. Until you contacted me I didn't know this wonderful conglomeration of information existed. I can hardly wait for the next issue. Everyone involved in putting out this newsletter is to be commended. Thanks for all your hard work. Your cousin-online. Shelia
From: linames@home.com (Linda Ames)
To: GRH9999@aol.com (Gary Hawpe)
Gary,
Thanks for your work! Linda Ames
From: Rotag21246@aol.com (Dee Benson)
To: GRH9999@aol.com (Gary Hawpe)
Gary,
Just have to add my praises to the others you receive for the VanBibber newsletter. You do a great job! And I think the other subscribers value it just as much as I do. I now pass it on to my daughter and grandson, and they are enjoying it also. Thank you very much for all your hard work. Dee
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Editor of the Van Bibber Pioneers Electronic Newsletter:
Gary R. Hawpe -- GRH9999@aol.com
(Owner of the Van Bibber FTM database - 39,762 names)