Catherine "Katie" (Starner) Guiberson (1907)

BEVINGTON, GUIBERSON, MCCARTY, SHANNON

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 4/8/2007 at 13:32:58

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
July 4, 1907
Page 1

LIVED NEARLY A CENTURY

Aunt Katie Guiberson One of the First Settlers of Winterset and the Oldest Person in the County Dies, Aged Ninety-Eight Years

Aunt Katie Guiberson, the oldest person in Madison county and one of the pioneer settlers of Winterset, passed away at her home in the southeast part of the city early Saturday morning. It might be said that she had no illness. Her death was without pain and without suffering, the delicate machinery on which life depends wore out and the thread of life parted.

The deceased, whose maiden name was Catharine Starner, was born in Pennsylvania, March 8, 1809, thus making her exact age 98 years, 3 months and 21 days. She moved to Holmes county, Ohio at an early age and there married E. R. Guiberson. In 1849 Mr. and Mrs. Guiberson moved to this county. Her husband was prominent in the early history of Madison county and was active in public affairs in Ohio prior to their removal here. In 1850 he was elected the first representative from Madison county, the state capitol then being Iowa City. Was again elected to the same office in 1857 and in 1859 to the office of county judge.

As one journeys from the central part of the city to the cemetery, an old stone house may be seen to the left of the street. This was the early home of Judge and Mrs. Guiberson. It was built in 1856 and for 51 years was the home of the aged pioneer whom we so tenderly laid away on last Sabbath afternoon after the close of a life long since passed the age usually allotted to mankind. The old stone house, now commonplace enough, was in its day a mansion – one of the best in Winterset and among the younger generation who enjoyed the hospitality of that home, but few are left. Judge Guiberson has been dead for 43 years. During the past few years it has been the custom of Aunt Katie’s old time friends to gather at her home on her birthday. These were occasions filled with pleasure and they betokened in some measure, the honor and reverence due the dear old mother, who was once the head of one of the first homes in Winterset.

The Judge and Mrs. Guiberson were born ten children. Of this number there survives one son, three daughters, twelve grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. The children are S. S. Guiberson, Mrs. J. R. Shannon and Miss Lucinda Guiberson of this place and Mrs. H. S. Mc Carty of Casper, Wyoming.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, July 5, 1907
Page 1, Column 4

MRS. GUIBERSON DIES

Reaches Remarkable Age of Ninety-Eight Years. Came in 1849

Catherine Guiberson died at her home in this city Saturday, having reached the remarkable age of ninety-eight years and three months. Mrs. Guiberson came to Madison county in 1849 and has lived in Winterset all that time.

Mrs. Guiberson was born in Pennsylvania, and was married in Holmes county, Ohio, to Edwin Guiberson who died in the city in 1864. She was the mother of five children and is survived by four of them, Samuel Guiberson, Mrs. Joseph Shannon, Lucinda Guiberson and Mrs. Hannah McCarty. Another daughter, Jemima was married to Dr. Bevington, and was the mother of Squire Bevington, of Kansas City. She died in 1862.

The funeral occurred at the residence in the south part of the city Sunday afternoon, Rev. ReQua preaching the funeral sermon.

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