Rev. John Warner Guiberson (1880)

GUIBERSON

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Winterset Madisonian - August 26, 1880
Winterset, Iowa
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DEATH BY A RATTLESNAKE BITE OF ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF MADISON COUNTY

Tuesday evening the following dispatch was received from Santa Paula, California, and will be read with regret by many of the citizens of Madison county, who were well acquainted with the gentleman who lost his life in the sad manner telegraphed below.

Rev. J. W. Guiberson was one of the pioneer citizens of Madison county, coming here many years ago from Ohio. For a number of years he occupied the pulpit in the M.E. Church in this city, leaving this place for the Pacific Coast, where he has since lived. The dispatch says:

Santa Paula, Ventura, Co., Cal. Aug. 16--Rev. J. W. Guiberson, who has held many offices of trust in this State, and who was a pioneer of this county, was bitten by a rattlesnake yesterday at 9:30 a.m., from the effects of which he died at 6 o'clock last night.
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The Beacon Light, Winterset, Iowa

September 10, 1880

REV. J. W. GUIBERSON, California

Mr. J. R. Shannon, of this city, received a dispatch from the State of California, announcing the sudden death of a much esteemed uncle, the Rev. J. W. Guiberson, of Santa Pauia, Ventura county, Cal.

The dispatch states that he was bitten by a rattle snake, near his house at 9:30 a.m., and that he died from the effects of the bite at 6 o'clock p.m.on the same day, Aug. 16, 1880. Thus has passed from earth with but little warning one of nature's truest' noblemen and a real Christian gentleman. Full of his labors of love, he has literally died in the harness. He was born and reared in the State of Ohio, but removed to Madison county, Iowa, in the year 1852, and for many years was the boldest, truest and most honor of the pioneers of the county and did as much, both by word and work, to fix its character for good and promote its prosperity as any man who ever lived in it.

He removed from this county to the State of California about the year 1860, and there again in the “far west” gave exhibition of his true usefulness and worth of character as a pioneer minister and preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church.

He was a brother of the late Israel Guiberson of this county, and leaves sorrowing him two brothers, the Rev. Samuel Guiberson, also of California, and our esteemed fellow-citizen, N.W . Guiberson, and a host of other relatives and friends in this county to mourn his loss.

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