HIBBS, Hannah (Burgett) Griffith
Date of death: 1 Dec 1889 – Nineveh Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 27, 1889,
Volume XXX Number 27, page 4 columns 1&2
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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With premeditated sorrow we announce the death of Grandma Hibbs who bid adieu to this world of sorrow and tribulation on the first of Dec. 1889. Hannah (Burgett) Hibbs was born in Brown county, Ohio, Jan. 25, 1802, and came to Indiana in the year of 1826. She was married twice, her first husband, Thomas Griffith, died soon after coming to this country. She was married some few years after to Jeremiah Hibbs who died two score years ago. She was a faithful mother of ten children, four by 1st husband and six, two sons and four daughters, by her last, all but four survive her. She joined the Christian church under the first series of meetings conducted by Elder Ellmore several years ago at this place, and has ever since been a faithful and consistent member. In her loss the community has lost one of her oldest and faithful pioneers, the children, grand and great grandchildren, one whom they loved and cherished dearly. The children will miss her wise and judicious council, the grandchildren will hunger for the interesting stories told them by her of her early and trying life, and will have to appease their hunger with the consoling thought, she has gone where sorrow and anxieties cease. After an eloquent address by Elder J. C. Miller upon her favorite text, “She has done what she could.” Her remains were interred in Nineveh cemetery on the second of December, 1889.
Link to Hannah (Burgett) Hibbs’ grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 94, referencing Book H-15, page 29, records that Hannah Hibbs, an eighty-eight-year-old white female, died 1 Dec 1889 in Nineveh Township.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry