Cass County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lybarker, Porter A. November 27, 1922
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The Edwardsburg Argus, 11/30/1922
MR. and MRS. PORTER LYBARKER DIE MONDAY.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Lybarker, for many years residents of Mason township, 
passed away at their home Monday afternoon. Mr. Lybarker had been ill with an 
attack of pleurisy and Mrs. Lybarker passed away a few hours later from an 
attack of heart failure brought on by the shock of the death of her husband. 
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Swamp 
church, Rev. F. N. Drake, of this village, officiating. Burial was in 
Adamsville cemetery.  Porter Lybarker was born in New York state Nov. 27th, 
1840, being 82 years old on the day of his death. He came to Mason township 
about the year 1850. He was a veteran of the Civil War in which he served for 
three years. During this time he was captured and was confined for three 
months in a southern prison. He was one of the few survivors of the troopship 
Sultana, when it was burned on the Mississippi river just above New Orleans.

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