TIBBET, Ellen Jackson Wiley
ELLEN
JACKSON WILEY TIBBET
Source: Iva Lewis Obituary Scrapbook
In Parke County, Indiana, on March
15th., 1862, to Isaiah and Martha Jackson a daughter was born and given the
name of Ellen. In the family were two sisters, one brother and two half
brothers, All are now gone, she being the last. When this tiny babe was but two
weeks old, one of the greatest calamities that can fall on one came upon her.
She lost her mother, which event, no doubt, changed the whole course of her
life. She was reared by a mother’s sister, Aunt Jennie Hix, who perhaps tried
in every way to fill the place made vacant; a thing very hard to do, to love,
to teach, to train as can a Christian mother. Ellen grew up in this new home.
There were not many advantages in that day, but the years rolled by and one day
during her girlhood she heard that still small voice which said, “Come unto me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” She accepted
the invitation, was converted and united with the United Brethern Church near
her home which is now known as Fairview. Later in life she became a member of
The Zion Baptist Church at Lodi. August 18th, 1881, she was united in marriage
with Oliver J. Tibbet. The early years of their married life were spent in the
Tangier neighborhood, coming some thirty years ago to this vicinity where they
are well known as neighbors and friends. Mrs. Tibbet was given one of the
noblest callings, that of motherhood. Eight times she went down into the valley
of the shadow and brought forth a child. Five sons and three daughters, seven
of whom are living, a little girl, Annie, dying in her second year. Her loyalty
avid devotion as a mother could never be questioned. Our faults, mistakes and
wrong-doings, so quickly seen by others so criticized and magnified, -but
mother with her great heart of love closes both eyes and ears to our mistakes,
finds much of real good and worth in us and forgives us before we ask. In all
of this Mrs. Tibbet was no exception and her children will long remember the
sympathy, help and love that came from her. Physically, she was frail and for
many months her decline has been noticeable. Six weeks ago a stroke of
paralysis rendered her helpless and the days have been those of suffering.
While the family did everything possible fur her comfort and care she was
slipping away. While each child did all he could for her relief, Fern, her
youngest son, and the only child left in the home, with the tenderness of a
woman and the skill of a nurse, left her neither night nor day until in the
evening of July 21st, 1933, the Savior took her out of his arms, away from
…….., to Himself. She had lived seventy-one years, four months and six days.
She leaves besides the husband, five sons: Frank and John, of Kingman, Curtis,
of Silverwood, Oscar, of Veedersburg, and Fern, of the home; two daughters:
Mrs. Maude Curtis, of Silverwood, and Mrs. Lee Teegarden of Veedersburg;
seventeen grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren; nieces, nephews, other
relatives, and a community of friends. Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Zion Baptist Church at Lodi. Interment in the Miller Cemetery.
– jlr