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From: "Cook, Nancy" <>
Subject: [WALES-GEN] Death of Levi GIBBONS, 19 Apr 1896, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:34:01 -0500


The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 20 Apr =
1896, Page # missing. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of =
this obituary, please send me your mailing address. =20

(Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am =
submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a =
more diverse group.)

"Levi Gibbons of 184 Stanton street, died at 2:15 o'clock yesterday in =
his 53d year. He was born in Dinas, near Abergwain, Penbrokeshire, and =
came to this country when he was 18 years old. He was married in 1868 =
to Margaret Parry, daughter of Joseph Parry of Audenried. They moved to =
this valley twenty-five years ago. He was a fire boss for ten years at =
the Murray shaft, and at the Stanton three years. He was one of the =
nine men burned in the Stanton seventeen years ago. There is now only =
one of the nine living and he is John Richards of Ashley.

"Deceased had thirteen children and ten are living at present. One of =
11 years died seven weeks ago. The children are Annie, Levi, Mamie, =
Maggie, Jennette, Deborah, Viola, Joseph, Thomas, Franklin. Funeral =
will take place on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. Deceased was a member of the =
Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Ivorites and Pocahontas Lodge."

Nancy Cook
Pasadena, MD, USA



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