The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-17
aTRULY A GOOD WOMAN
HAS PASSED FROM U.s."
Aunt Vinie kibler Reaches Four
Score and Ten.-Funerai Ser
mon by Pastor koon.

Score and Ten.-Funeral Ser
mon by Pastor Koon.
A tribute to the memory Of Mary
s Lavinia Kibler delivered at the fun
eral in the st. PauPs church near
Pomaria, May Is, 1919, by the Rev.
is. P. Koon, and published by her
sehildren, relatives and friends. Mary
tLayinia Kibler was born March Il,
1927, and died May Is, 1919. Aged
e2 years, / month and "a days.
Job. 5:26. "Thou shalt come to
thy grave at full age, like shock
of grain cometh in in his season"
Death has come among US again.
In this instance the Oldest member
Of the family is taken. Indeed, she
was the oldest member Of this church
and the oldest person in this entire
community 50 far as I know. Thus,
it is fitting that I select text suit
able to long life. have selected
these words from the book Of Job:
.sThou shall come to thy grave IN a
fun age, like shock of grain cometh
in in It's season"
It is appropriate that | speak
about the length of life. The Bible
represents life as being very short,
as only a .shandbreadth." Life is
very short compared with eternity.
Life is too short to waste, too short
to spend any part of it fooiishly.
However, tits long enough for much
long enough for many and great
things to take place.
The body Of "Aunt Whey" as she
was commonly called, rests before us
today. It is remarkable how many
things have taken place in this coun-
try since her birth. I estimate that
the white pepole have lived in this
place which we now know as New
berry county about ITS years. She
lived more than half Of that time.
The Constitution Of the United
States went in effect in 1883 and
that was just SO years before she
was born. She could have known
people who lived through the Revo-
lutionary war. Marquis de Lafayette,
at the age Of 90, fought in that war
Some years later he made q visit to
this country, and returned to France
ia 1895, which was just two years
before she was born. She was seven
wears old when Lafayette died.
Today we look upon the South
Carolina synod as an old organiza-
tion, and yet 1t came into existence
Just three years before she was born.
The year she was born the United
States did not extend to the Pacific
coast. At that tir, the western
boundary 81 the Louisiana purchase
was the western boundary Of the
United States. There was still q
vast territory lying between this and
the Pacific coast, The year she was
born there were no steam railways
ia the United States. The first sue:
cessful trip made by steam railway
was made between Charleston and
Hamburg and that took place in the
wear 1880. That was three years
s after she was born. She was born
while John Quincy Adams was presi.
dent Of the United States. She lived
under the administration Of all the
presidents except FIVE. She was {
years old when the second Seminole
Indian war broke out in Florida. Al
that time the Indian chief Oseola
made war on the white people. She
vas. 10 years old at the beginning OF
The Mexican war. If she had been .
! man she might have been in that war
She was "a years old at the begin
ming Of the Civil War. She was u
at the beginning Of the Spanish
American war. She also livee
through the last and greatest Of al
wars.
All the greatest and most valuable
inventions of modern times have tax
en- place. during her life. Indeed SC
far as material things are concerned
her life embraces the most fruitfu
period in the history of the world
Much can take place during a long
life ike this.
It should be noted that much car
take place during short life. Alex
ander, surnamed the Great, con
quered the world and died at the ags
/, SO. The name of Sir Philip Sidney