Gladwin County MI Archives Obituaries.....MCKIBBIN, ROBERT IRVINE November 15, 1895
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Gladwin County Record dated 11-22/1895 Column - 3 Page - 8
Our esteemed friend and neighbor R. S. McKibbon died on the 15th inst. The 
remains were interred in the Tobacco cemetery. A large number of relatives and 
friends attended the funeral services conducted by Rev. E. H. Bradfield, of 
Gladwin. The late R. S. McKibbon was a man of cultivated intellect and good 
judgement. He came to this place about 12 years ago, bought a piece of wild 
land and hewed out a comfortable home which could only be accomplished by 
perserverance and hard toil.
   He was a soldier of the war of the rebellion and it was the hardships, 
fatigues and exposures of this terrible campaign that sowed the seeds of the 
disease which slowly but surely undermined his constitution and ended in an 
attack of total paralysis and caused his death in a few hours. It was not till 
he was so broke down by ill health that most of the time he was unable to work 
he applied for a pension and that was 28 years after the war and which it was 
granted. The remains were conveyed to their last resting place under old 
glory, the flag he fought to preserve, the usual honor paid to a soldier's 
funeral. All honor to his memory. 

Additional Comments:
{Note: Surname most used is: McKibbin. Also find McKibbon. The S. above is a 
typo!}.  


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