Libbey, Luther S. 1825 – 1892

LIBBEY

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Date: 1/7/2015 at 10:57:25

Iowa Plain Dealer January 7, 1892, P1 C4

Pilot Grove Correspondence.

DIED.

LIBBEY—At his home in Orleans twp. Winneshiek Co., Iowa, Sunday, January 3, 1892, Luther S. Libbey, in his 67th year.

The funeral was held at the home Wednesday, Jan. 6th, and the remains buried in the family burying ground. Rev. Fuller of the Cresco Baptist Church preaching the funeral discourse.

Luther S. Libbey was born in Sanford, Main, in 1825, and was united in marriage with Miss Roena Libbey in 1852.

October, 1857, he came with his family to Orleans township, where he resided up to the time of his death.

He leaves a widow and three children, one son and two daughters, besides numerous other relatives.

A pioneer settler and a frugal, industrious man has gone to rest.

Iowa Plain Dealer January 14, 1892. P3 C3

DIED.

LIBBEY.—In Orleans, Winneshiek Co. Iowa, January 3, 1892, Luther S. Libbey, aged 66 years 10 months and 5 days.

He had been gradually failing for a number of years, but kept around until the Sunday before his death. He has left a wife of nearly forty years, a son and two daughters, two brothers and five sisters to mourn, but not as those who have no hope. The sum of his and his brothers and sisters ages at the time of his death was 507 years 2 months and 12 days, he being the first one taken, except an infant, many years ago.

A kind and loving husband and father is gone and the bereaved have the sympathy of the community, but none but God can heal the wound which this dispensation of His providence has caused.

“A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacant in our home
That never can be filled. COM.

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