Butts-Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....McKibben, John April 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of April 5, 1895
John McKibben Dead

On Monday morning Mr. J. F. McKibben received a telegram from McDonough that 
his father was growing rapidly worse.  He hurried to his bedside, and was there 
when the good old man died at 5 o’clock in the evening.

Mr. John McKibben was a citizen of Henry county, and was as instrumental in 
making old Tussahaw district famous as the banner rural district of the county, 
as any other living man.   Tussahaw, though not pretty in orthography, is full 
of poetry and sweet recollections to any one who ever lived among its 
hospitable and chivalrous people, and Mr. John McKibben was the “noblest Roman 
of them all”.  But he has fallen.   “What a fall was there, my countrymen”!  
The writer was a neighbor to him for years, and has many times been the 
recipient of his unsophisticated and known generosity.  He never had anything 
too good for a neighbor, and his very life seemed pledged to the security of 
the dependent ones in his settlement.  No man ever thought of buying a tool, 
either agricultural or mechanical, that Uncle Johnnie had, for he knew he could 
borrow it.  He leaves a wife and two noble sons, Si of McDonough, and Frank, of 
our town, and many other relatives and friends to mourn his loss.  We, in 
common with all our people, sympathize with the bereaved ones.



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