Fayette County PA Archives History .....John Hibbs Family History 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/fayette/ ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com January 8, 2007, 7:24 pm Mr & Mrs Wm T. McClellan No 71 Union St, Uniontown, Pa, Jany 1, 1925. She is the daughter of Lacy Hibbs & was born Olive Hibbs May 28, 1869 at Searights, Pa in Menallen Tp, Fayette Co, Pa & was married by Rev L.W. Lewellen, Pres on Apr 17, 1895 to William Taylor McClellan born Mch 15, 1866 in Wharton Tp, Fayette Co, Pa son of Robert Price McClellan & his wife Margaret Matthews. No issue. Olive said that among the sons of her great grandfather, Lacy Hibbs, were: John Hibbs, her grandfather, mar Jane Finley Aaron Hibbs, who mar Eliza Whitehill Samuel C. Hibbs, father of Aaron J. & John David Hibbs, father of Jeff W. & George L. Aaron & Eliza Whitehill, his wife had issue: 1. Annie J? who late in life became the second wife of Oliver Miller, bro of Warwick & is still living & whose mind is active. She joined the 7th Day Adventists & went off to their community probably in Ohio. Says Mary Hibbs, dau of John on Lincoln St, could give her address. 2. Melissa Hibbs mar 1. Morgan Messmore who was clubbed & killed at Leith, Pa & thrown down the shaft & had by him one child, Georgia Messmore who she thinks is married. Mar 2. Benj. O. Brown, son of Rev Benj F. Brown & had two children by him. She lost her mind & is in a hospital in Pgh. 3. Lacy Stewart Hibbs, who married & died leaving a family 4. Mary Hibbs, married a Riley & lived in Pittsburgh, Pa Olive said her father had the big old bible of his father, but as she had no children, she gave it to her brother John Newton Hibbs who lives out the road to the right of Grace Church. John Newton Hibbs, Menallen Tp, Fayette Co, Pa (P.O. Upper Middletown, Pa RD1 Box 102) Jany 1, 1925 "Newt" says his great grandfather, Lacey [sic] Hibbs came to Fayette Co, Pa from Greene Co Pa & he & his wife who was Sarah Craft are buried just above Merrittstown, Pa on the Struble or Hautz farm to the right of the road & lays out in the field where there are many tombstones, it having been the location of the early church there, Baptist, they were told. They say the inscriptions on the old sandstones are very plain & are as follows: Lacey Hibbs died Dec 20, 1819 at the age of 51 yrs Sarah Craft Hibbs, wife of Lacey Hibbs died July 17, 1848 at the age of 82 yrs. They have brought out too, the old leather backed bible of "Newt's" grandparents, John Hibbs & his wife Jane Finley which is well preserved & was printed by Kimber & Sharpless, but is without date. I am copying the record entire: John Hibbs was born Jany 1, 1791 Jane Finley was born June 7, 1802 John Hibbs & Jane Finley were married Apr 12, 1821 John Hibbs died Jany 14, 1881 aged 90 yrs & 14 days Jane Finley died Aug 3, 1890 Their children: 1. Miranda Hibbs was born Mch 18, 1822 2. Sally Ann Hibbs was born Apr 26, 1824 3. Lacey Hibbs was born Nov 7, 1826 4. Finley Hibbs was born Nov 1, 1829 5. Elliott Hibbs was born Mch 12, 1832 6. John Craft Hibbs was born June 21, 1835 7. Elizabeth A. Hibbs was born Sept 28, 1838 8. Newton Hibbs was born Jany 28, 1841 Deaths E. Finley Hibbs died Oct 16, 1831 Newton Hibbs died Sept 4, 1849 Sally Ann Post died May 8, 1850, daughter Miranda Swan died Aug 5, 1854, daughter John Craft Hibbs died May 3, 1857 Elliott Hibbs died Nov 21, 1884 Marriages Miranda Hibbs to Presley Swan Jany 26, 1843 Sally Ann Hibbs to Jacob Post May 27, 1845 Lacy Hibbs to Mary Margaret Poundstone Sept 25, 1851 Lacy Hibbs to Harriet Ann Kerr Mch 8, 1866 Elliott Hibbs to Mary Ann Campbell Nov 6, 1856 Elizabeth Wilson Hibbs to Benjamin Franklin Beal Dec 14, 1865 "Newt" says he gave the bible with his father's record to his son Ernest Hibbs who lives in New Salem, but he has brought out their own big bible & from it & his memory, I am making a record of his father's children viz: 1. Eunice Violet Hibbs born Oct 10, 1852 2. John Newton Hibbs born July 9, 1859, children of first wife & both born in North Union Tp on Pgh Road on farm know as Jacob B. Gallagher farm, he having bought it of Lacey Hibbs. 3. Olive Jane Hibbs born May 28, 1869 child of 2d wife & born as above stated in Menallen Tp. Mary Margaret Hibbs, was the daughter of Philip Poundstone & his wife Eunice Harford & was born in German Tp, June 16, 1833 & died in North Union Tp, Dec 24, 1862 aged 29 yrs 6 mos & 8 days & is buried in Pres g.y. at New Salem, Pa. Harriet Ann Kerr, was the widow of Robert Kerr & daughter of Samuel Cochran & his wife Leah. She was born _______ & died ________ Lacey Hibbs died in Uniontwon, Pa Apr 3, 1902 & is buried in Oak Grove Cem at Uniontown, Pa John Newton Hibbs was married June 17, 1886 to Sarah Elizabeth Ball who was born Mch 27, 1865 in Dunbar Tp, at West Leisenring, Pa, the daughter of Joseph Longanecker Ball & his wife Clarissa Barricklow. They have had but one child born on the National Road just this side of Searights in Menallen Tp, viz: Lacey Ernest Hibbs born May 23, 1887. He was married June 20, 1907 to Mabel Maude Frost, born Aug 5, 1890 in Menallen Tp, dau of Benton Dearth Frost (youngest son of James Frost) & his wife Ella Hostetler (daughter of Jacob Philip Hostetler & wife Hester.) L. Ernest has had two children both born at Keisterville, Menallen Tp, A. Betty Jane Hibbs born Jany 1, 1917 & died Jany 4, 1917 B. Margaret Elizabeth Hibbs born Mch 8, 1920. L. Ernest Hibbs lives in New Salem & is sales agent for Coffman Motor Co, New Salem, Pa. Newt says J. Newt Chalfant lives on the pike in a little bungalow on the left hand side beyond the Richd Randolph house. Newt says there is a Miss Jennie Cunningham about my age living in Wooster, O at NO 429 N. Buckeye, St whose mother was a Finley & who is well informed & can give some Finley history. Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 6.3 Kb