XENIA DAILY GAZETTE
WEDNESDAY EVENING - JUNE 13, 1888
XENIA, OHIO
GREENE COUNTY
Mrs. John W. Gibney Dead
She Passes Over The Dark River of Death This Morning
It is seldom that the news of a death falls with such crushing effect upon the
friends of one taken, as were this case when it was learned that Mrs. Nettie
Walker Gibney, wife of Mr. John Gibney, had died at half past eleven this
morning.
Last Saturday night, Mr. and Mrs. Gibney were presented with a fine large
healthy boy and since then the mother has been getting along admirably.
Last evening Her nurse noticed that
she was some what broken out on her body and hands, and she and different
persons who were in, thought it was merely the measles which are so prevalent at
this time. About two o'clock this morning the patient grew rather flighty and
her body being covered with the eruption, her physician was summoned, and he
pronounced it scarlet fever. She grew worse and worse until about 11:30 when she
breathed her last, all unconscious that death was so near.
Mrs. Gibney was a woman greatly beloved by all who knew her, and her death will
be a terrible shock to all her friends. She was aged about 27 years and had
lived in this city nearly all her life with her grandmother, Mrs. Bonner. During
her wedded life the aged lady has resided with her. She has one brother in
Kansas and a half-sister in Anderson, Indiana.
On the 16th day of September, 1886, she was united in marriage with John W.
Gibney of the firm of Hutchison and Gibney. Her sudden death is a terrible
bereavement to her devoted husband, who is utterly prostrated.
She was, and has been for many years
an earnest member of the 3rd U. P. Church and was one of its most earnest
Christian workers, and the grim monster, when he claimed her for his victim, did
not find her unprepared to meet her maker.
The funeral will be strictly private on account of the contagious nature of the
disease, and will be held tomorrow evening.
2 Apr 2000
transcribed by Deb (I have no connection with this family)