Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....McKibben , M. V. 1898
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Jackson Argus - Week of April 25, 1898
M. V. McKibben – Memoriam

St. John’s Lodge – No. 45, F. & A.M.

To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brothers:

In the mysterious dispensation of God’s providences, a brother has been 
summoned to the veiled beyond.

Brother M. V. McKibben has gone, no more will we clasp his hand here, no more 
see his smiling face or feel the warm, generous, impulses of his noble heart 
when in touch with him as in the past.  This thought makes us sad because in 
the daily walks of life we miss him, inside the tiled doors we feel his loss.

It is truthfully said of him so sweetly remembered that he was an ardent 
zealous and jealous lover of Masonry.  He was constant in his attendance and no 
one of us but recall the tears which ever flowed when he addressed himself to 
the principles of the order in speech or song.  He, after all, was but human, 
and his few faults we bury with the past and love his memory as the Masons and 
noble man he was.  In his early manhood and middle life he was devoted to his 
church and every good and charitable work a nod even to his last days of 
consciousness on earth he held such in due veneration.   As a soldier, lawyer 
and citizen he claimed the admiration and above of all.  With the courage of 
his convictions, generous to a fault he passed through this life. Let us hope 
that his work ended here, he has received the “White Stone with a New Name.”

Resolved that the above expresses the sentiments of this lodge and that the 
lodge has sustained such a loss as causes it to grieve in silence.

Resolved further that these resolutions be published and spread upon the 
minutes of this lodge and a blank page therein be inscribed to his memory and 
that a copy be furnished the family of the brother.

Y. A. Wright, Chm’n, J. H. McCallum, H. C. Thaxton, Comm.



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