TIBBETS, William Everett 1874-1940

TIBBETS, SQUIRE, SKELTON

Posted By: jackie (email)
Date: 11/28/2010 at 20:09:09

Plan Rites Of Stroke Victim

William Tibbets, 64 to
Be Buried Sunday in
Cemetery at Rudd

RUDD, IOWA - Rites will be held Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. S. J. Baldwin officiating, for William Tibbets, 64, who died at his home three miles north and one mile west of Rudd following a stroke suffered a week ago at the George Squire farm. Mr. Tibbets was working on the Squire farm at the time he was stricken.

Wednesday he was moved to his home. He died there early Friday morning.

Surviving are his widow and 11 children.

Burial will be in Rudd cemetery.

(Newspaper clipping found in old family scrap book)
[Mason City Globe Gazette, Friday February 23, 1940]

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*William E. Tibbets was the son of George Tibbets and Charlotte A. Conner. He was born April 1874 in Mitchell County and died 1938.

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#2:
[The following information provided by D.M. Scott]

He must have died the Friday before, as the article (above) says, then his death date was February 17, 1940.
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World War I Draft Registration:
William Everett Tibbits 44 living in Nora Springs, Floyd, Iowa; born April 18, 1874; farmer, married.
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He was the son of George Tibbits (1841-1917) and Carlotte Conner (1848-1886) (both buried in Osage Cemetery). The spelling for them was also Tibbits.
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He married Ida M. Skelton born April 1872 Illinois.
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Social Security records for a couple of his sons show they used the spelling Tibbits also.