Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-19
DIED.

WALLA CE.-At the residence OF Mr.. Jno L..
Wallace, near Stuart's Draft, August 18th. Mrs.
'ns M gshf "a Enterprise, and the Tag
CARTS Valley News will please copy.
ROBERTS-At Elkton, Rockingham, August
9Th, Miss Lucy Roberts. Interment in Augusta
county.
HANGER-In staunton, Aug. 18th, Mrs. Eliza
beth Hanger, wife of Robert Hanger, aged 50
years. 1nterment at WaynesbolO
KEYS.-In Washington, D. c., Aug. 18th, j. Har-
per Keys, brother of Mrs. Jno. H. Snapp of
Stanton.
Mrs. Kate Gibson died at Saltvile, Washington
county, Virginia. August 9Th, 1892, in the sixteth
ta the r Of able wh
conquered the disease. but could not rally her
from the prostration following it. She was a wo-
man OF remarkable force of character, and her
death has grieved a wide circle of relatives and
friends in both the Viretnias. She was the only
daughter, who grew to womanhood, of the late
George Imboden, and was born on Christian s
Creek, about six miles South of Stanton, in
June, 1885, Her father removing to Lewis Co.,
early in the ffties. she returned to Staunton and
was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary
then under the charge of Rev. Rufus w. Bailey.
mother near Weston, and was married soon
afterwards to John Gibson of Lewis county. The
band volunteered in the Confederate army, leav-
ing her and her two small children boy and
r at her af6ess honss Her soIde eas5 81 1ssa
her brother, Gen. j. D. Imboden at the head OF
over $500 men made a raid into North West
Virginia, giving an opportunity to many adher-
ents of the South to escape from the prosecutions
of the UniOnists of that section. Among those
who fled to their friends in the Valley OF Virgin
la under protection of this raiding force was
George Imboden,tthen an old man. with his wife
and widowed daughter and her two little ones.
The weather and roads were so bad that all the
refugees suffered greatly from exposure and hard
ship. Mrs. GibSon's health was never robust
afterwards yet she reared her son and daughter
we'll and lived to see them married and prosper.
Gus at the head of their own young families and
| as devoted children to her as a mother ever had.
She not only met death calmly, but welcomed 1T
as the beginning of a happier existence. Retain
ing her faculties to the last moment she dictated
every detail of her burial and funeral as calmly
as one would in preparing for a long and pleas
ant journey where she would soon be reiOined
by those temporarily left behind. Her funeral
drew together a great number of sorrowing
| friends who reverently and lovingly followed her
remains on beautiful summers Sunday even
ing in o long procession through the inuompara-
bly, picturesque Saitvills Valley FOR two miles, to
the most romantic cemetery Of the mountains
of Virginia, located on the very spot where the
bloodiest fighting occurred in 1864 in the success
full defence of the salt works. and where now re-
pose many brave COnfederates, and early piOn-
GERS of the Southwest; at spot so lovely that it
even robs the grave of much of its dread gloom.
Her children and grand children and three of
her five surviving brothers were present with
the good people of every walk in life for miles
around, to see this sa1nted woman laid to rest.
by those amongst whom she lived SO much loved
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