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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:43:04 EDT

FULTON COUNTY OBITUARIES
Obituaries from The Fulton Democrat, McConnellsburg, PA
Collected by Carrie Hamill Cline

1- MRS. MARY BELL WIBLE
Mrs. Mary Bell Wible, widow of the late Harvey Wible passed to her eternal
reward on August 10,1947. Her death came suddenly of a heart condition while
she made her home with her only son, Russell at Knobsville, Penna.
The deceased was born on November 30,1874 and departed this life at the age
of 72 years, eight months and ten days.
Surviving is one son already mentioned and two brothers: John A. Hamil and
Daniel Hamil, both of Knobsville and seven grand children and five great grand
children.
Funeral services were held at the Knobsville Methodist Church on Tuesday
afternoon, August 12 with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Her husband
preceeded her in death eight months to the day, January 10,1947.

2- L.H. Wible, Local Attorney, Succumbs
Lewis Harrison Wible, widely known and highly respected attorney of
McConnellsburg, died of complications on Monday morning, April 2,1962, at the
Fulton County Medical Center following a weeks illness. Mr. Wible would have
been 95 years old on April 19.
During his long and varied career Mr. Wible became well known in education,
political and legal circles, and his services in these fields contributed in
many ways to the growth of this community.
He was born in 1867, the son of Benjamin F. and Matilda Heck Wible, in a log
cabin homestead in Todd township. He was the middle son in a family of nine
children, all of whom are now deceased. At the age of 15 years, he attended a
select school at Fort Littleton, taught by County Superintendent Joseph F.
Barton, and obtained a teacher's provisional certificate, after which he
opened his first school in 1883 at Pleasant Grove in Belfast township.
Hecontinued in the teaching profession for 21 years, the last 14 as a teacher
in the McConnellsburg School.
Mr. Wible retired from teaching after successfully being admitted to the bar
to pratice law in the year 1908. His preceptor in the study of law was the
late W. Scott Alexander.
The same year, he was appointed to a clerkship in the State Treasury
Department and was appointed in 1913 to organize the Bureau of Statistics in
the State Department of Agriculture. He continued as director of this
department until 1931, serving under Governors Edwin S. Stuart, John K. Tener,
M.G. Brumbaugh, William C. Sproul, Gifford Pinchot and John Fisher. It was
uring the seond term of Governor Pinchot that he retired from that position.
During his service in the State Treasury Department, Mr. Wible and his
family lived in Harrisburg and Camp Hill. He was the first president of the
Camp Hill National Bank which he helped organize. He was also influential in
the establishment of the First National Bank of McConnellsburg, and was named
president when that bank opened for business in April 1906, servering in this
capacity for three years prior to the years in Harrisburg.
Some other offices held bt Mr. Wible during his lifetime include justice of
the reace from 1892 to 1909. Secetary of the McConnellsburg School Board from
1905 to 1909, secetery of the McConnellsburg Lodge No. 774, IOOF, from 1890 to
1909, and commander of General John F. Hartranft Camp No.15 S of W,
Harrisburg, mustered in 1911. He was a member of West Shore Lodge, F&AM, Camp
Hill, and Harrisburg Consistory, AASR. A 32nd degree Mason, he later
transferred his membership tp Mount Zion Lodge No. 774, McConnellsburg. He
also served as a president of the Fulton County Bar Association.
Mr. Wible and his family returned to McConnellsburg in 1932, and he
continued practicing law until a few years before his death.
He was married to the late Mary R. Hockensmith in 1890. Two sons, J. Oram,
of Pittsburg, and Hollis M., of McConnellsburg survive.
Funeral services will be held on Friday at 2:00 P.M. from the Kelso Funeral
Home with the Revs. J. Carl Williams and T. P. Garland officiating. Burial
will be made in the famly plot in the Union Cemetery, south of McConnellsburg.

3- Mrs. Benjamin F. Wible
Mrs. Matilda Heck Wible, wife of Benjamin F Wible, died at Knobsville this
county, Monday morning, November 13, 1916, aged 83 years, 10 months and 4
days. The funeral, conducted by her pastor, Rev. Edward Jackson, of
McConnellsburg, took place yesterday morning, and her remains were laid to
rest in the family plot in the cemetery at Knobsville.
Mrs. Wible was born in Huntington County. On the 19th day of February,
1856, she was married at Three Springs to Benjamin F. Wible, who survives her,
together with the following children: Mrs W. Scott Brant, A. Lincoln, B.
Frank, Lewis H., David, Harvey and Olin, all of whom reside in this county,
except Lewis, who is the Statistician in the Department of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, Pa., and H. Olin, teaching in the Industrial Reformatory at
Huntington. There are thirty-four grand children, of which, twenty-nine are
living, and thirty-seven great grand children. With the passing away of Mrs.
Wible, the last member of her father's family has gone.
At the age of 12 years, Mrs. Wible identified herself with the Methodist
church, and for a period of more than three-score years and ten she was an
exemplary Christian - one of those good old-fashioned Methodists who are not
ashamed of Jesus.
On account of advancing age she and her husband disposed of the farm and
went to Knobsville, where they made their home with their son Frank. Last
Sunday Mrs. Wible in her usual health attended Class at the church near by and
greatly enjoyed the services. In the evening she, together with Frank's
family, started to go to the church to hear a sermon by their pastor, Rev.
Jackson. As she was descending the steps leading from from the porch at their
home, she fell, her head striking the concrete walk. She was picked up
unconscious, remaining in that condition until 5 o'clock next morning when she
passed away.

Wible
Again it becomes our sad duty to chronicle the death of one of Fulton
county's most estimable womem, in the demise of Mrs. Matilda Wible, wife of
Benjamin F. Wible, who passed away at her home at Knobsville, Monday morning
at five o'clock.
Mrs. Wible's maiden name was Heck, she was born in Trough Creek Valley,
Huntington county, Pa., and was aged 83 years, 10 months and 4 days.
Mrs. Wible became identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age
of twelve years and kept the faith. She attended Class Meeting Sunday morning
and on returning home reported a splendid meeting, When leaving the house the
same evening on her way to Prayer meeting, while descending the steps from the
porch to the sidewalk she fell, her head striking the concrete pavement with
such force as to cause injuries from which she never regained consciousness,
and death followed the following morning as above stated.
Mrs. Wible was a model wife, a mother most affectionately solicitious for
the spiritual as well as physical well being of her children, and was highly
esteemed in the community in which she lived.
She is survived by her husband and the following children:-Mrs. W.S.Brant,
Dane; Lincoln, McConnellsburg; Frank, at whose home she died; Lewis,
Harrisburg; David, Ayr township; Harvey, Todd township; and H. Olin,
Huntington.
Funeral services, conducted by her pastor, Rev. Edward Jackson, were held
yesterday morning at 9:00 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the M.E.
cemetery at Knobsville

4- Miss Sarah A. Wible
Miss Sarah A. Wible, or "Aunt Sallie" as she wa more familiarly know, died
at the home of Mr. And Mrs. W. Scott Brant, near Dane, last Sunday night aged
89 years, 6 months and 18 days. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Wible was a daughter of Adam and Jane Wible and was born on the old
Wible homestead near Dane almost a century ago. Her father died about 62 years
ago. After the death of her mother about 37 years ago, she and her brother
Lewis kept up the old home until his about 10 years ago, since which time she
has been living in the home of her niece, Mrs. Brant. Two years ago last
December she fell on the ice, and dislocated one of her hips since which time
she was almost helpless.

5- Russell H. Wible
Russell H. Wible, 74, of Knobsville, died unexpectedly at 12:40 Feb. 13th at
his home. Death was attributed to a heart attack.
Born on Dec. 13, 1890 at Knobsville he was a son of the late Harvey and
Mollie Hamil Wible and was a retired schoolteacher.
In addition to his wife, Mrs. Furner Helfrick Wible, he is survived by two
sons, Walter of Altoona, and Harvey W., of RD St. Thomas, four daughters Mrs.
Aline Shatzer, Greencastle, Mrs. Vita Wheeler of Peru, Ind., Mrs. Norman
Miller of McConnellsburg, & Miss June Wible at home, 8 grand children and two
great-grand children.
Funeral service was held at 2 P.M. Monday afternoon at the Kelso funeral
home, McConnellsburg with the Rev. Rodger Markey officiating.
Burial was made in Knobsville cemetery.

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6- FULTON COUNTIANS WHO HAVE DIED
News Column That Is Record of Many a Family's Mournful Loss and Saddened Home
LIFE'S SIMPLE STORY SIMPLY TOLD
A. Lincoln Wible
A. Lincoln Wible, aged 75 years, 3 months and 16 days, passed away at his
home in McConnellsburg, Saturday evening, February 29, 1936.
Mr. Wible was the oldest son of Benjamin F. and Matilda Heck Wible, and was
born November 13, 1860, just one week after Abraham Lincoln was elected
president, and for whom he was named, at the old Wible homestead in Todd
township, where his parents lived in the same house for more than sixty years.
He was married twice, the first being to Louisa Everts, of Todd township, at
the age of eighteen. There were no children, but during the life of his first
wife he reared two motherless children. The one was Elizabeth Fix, who grew
to womanhood and married William M. Greer , of this county. She and her
husband moved to California where she still lives. The other child brought up
was his nephew, Harry O. Hamil. Mr. Hamil is one of the good citizens of Todd
township and has been the efficient postmaster at Knobsville for twenty-two
years. He and Mrs. Hamil sang a beautiful and touching duet ata the funeral.
Mr. Wible lived at Knobsville for a number of years and during that time he
served as postmaster for seventeen years. He was a busy man and followed many
lines of endeavor. However he was most favorably and widely known as an
auctioneer, and his work covered Fulton and Huntingdon counties. His first
wife died in February, 1913.
He married Jennie Woodal, of Ayr township, May 16, 1916. One son was born to
this union, Finley J. Wible, who is a graduate of the McConnellsburg High
School and is now a first year student of the Shippensburg State Teachers'
College.
In 1918, Mr. Wible and family moved to Huntingdon where he remained for six
years as gardener for the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory. He told of
some interesting experiences with the boys of that institution while working
under his supervision.
He lived in McConnellsburg for some years before he went to Huntingdon. In
due time he came back to the old home town with his family, where he has since
conducted a successful restaurant business. At the time of his demise he was
the borough tax collector and had the reputation for being a very good one.
Mr. Wible is survived by his wife, Jennie Wible, and son Finley, one sister
and five brothers, as follows: Mrs. Jemima f. Brant, and Lewis H. Wible,
McConnellsburg; B. Frank, David H. and W. Harvey Wible, Knobsville, and Harry
Olin Wible, who has been a teacher in the Huntington Reformatory for more than
twenty years, all of whom were at the funeral.
Funeral services were held at the home in McConnellsburg, Tuesday afternoon,
March 3, in charge of Rev. A. A. Price, assisted by Rev. Donald F. Brake and
Dr. Frank D. Findley. The funeral was large and the floral tributes most
beautiful. Interment was made in Knobsville cemetery.

7- RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER DIES
Harry O. Wible, of RD 1, Huntingdon, for twenty-one years a school teacher at
the Penna. Industrial School passed away in the J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital
on Friday forenoon, January 6, 1950, at 9.55 o'clock. He had been in ill
health since April 1949.
Mr. Wible was born November 13, 1876 at Knobsville, Fulton county, a son of
Benjamin and Matilda (Heck) Wible, both deceased, and was united in marriage
to Miss Effie Mock of McConnellsburg.
He was a graduate of the Shippensburg State Teachers College, and followed
school teaching as a profession for many years. At one time he was principal
of the Borad Top City schiols. He retired in 1936.
Mr. Wible was affiliated with the Methodist church.
He is survived by his wife and the following children: Hazel, Mrs. George
Wagner of Camp Hill; Matilda, Mrs. Joseph Hess; Mrs. Gladys Feagley; Floyd
Wible and Oran Wible all of Huntingdon; and Harold Wible of McConnellstown.
He is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild, and one brother,
Lewis H. Wible, of McConnellsburg.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Green's funeral
home in Huntingdon conducted by the Rev. Reed Rogers of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance church. Interment was made in Riverview cemetery.
Those from here who attended the funeral were: L. H. Wible and Donald Hamil
and Harry O. Hamil and Orlando Wible of Knobsville.

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