Attached are clippings from a book I have in my possession. The dates appear to be 1921-1922. All are Cass County related. Susan Norine Stice October 19, 2003 See copyright notice at bottom of file. ********************************************* Mrs. Kittie Gibson 1873-1920 “Some time, I cannot tell how soon, My Lord will say to me: ‘It is enough, thy task is done, Come thou from earth away.’” For those, who walk as Children of Light, this “some time” has no dread, no fear, no terror – this Light that cheers, guides, aids, strengthens – Light that draws its radiance from Him, who is the Light of the World. It is thus that we think and feel of our friend, Mrs. Kittie Gibson, who so recently passed from our midst, so consciously and so confidently that earthly finalities were planned to the last detail. A daughter of Archer and Sarah A. Bradley, Mrs. Gibson was born near Freeman, this county, on February 10, 1872, spending the years of her childhood and girlhood there. On November 30, Thanksgiving Day, 1893, she was married to Robert Lee Gibson, the same day and hour in which her elder sister, Mary Virginia, became the wife of Robert Lee’s elder Brother, Young F. Gibson, thus continuing the companionship of childhood and maidenhood into wifehood, the two couples locating on the old Gibson homestead, about five miles northeast of Harrisonville, there to reside in close proximity, until the death of the elder sister in June, 1904, leaving two small daughters, Constantia and Archer, to be cared for by the remaining three. Seven years later, Robert Lee, also answered the summons, during a temporary residence at Belton, this county, whither he and Mrs. Gibson had gone to give the little girls the advantage of the Belton public schools. “Bob” Gibson, as he was familiarly known, died at the age of 47 years, 5 months and 14 days. Mrs. Gibson, at the time of her death, Thursday, July 22, 1920, was 47 years, 5 months and 12 days of age, the coincidence of exact years, months, and almost days being somewhat unusual. Her death was caused by a septic infection of the heart. Of the immediate four, only one, Young F. Gibson, now survives. With him, still, are the two daughters, Constantia and Archer, now in the bloom of young womanhood. Besides these three, are Mrs. Gibson’s mother, one sister, one brother, other nieces and nephews, and friends limited in the number only as her acquaintances were numbered, for she made friends readily and never lost one. Funeral services were held at the Harrisonville Christian Church on Saturday morning, July 24, conducted by the Rev, King Stark of Richmond, Mo, who, for several years, held the pastorate of this church, he being assisted by the Rev. John T. Webb, the present pastor. Mrs. Gibson had been a member of the Christian Church, since early girlhood. When this last rite was ended, we bore Kittie away – Kittie, whom we had known so long, so favorably and so well, and loved accordingly – bore her away over smooth, winding roads, past teeming farms, fruitful fields, yielding meadows, all of which, in life, she loved so well, to lay her with the two who went before her in the cemetery at Lee’s Summit, Mo. Two, did we say? Yes, two. The two, who earlier in life were among her nearest and dearest. But these two lie among kindred of foregone generations, the monument of the paternal grandfather of the Gibson brothers, Young Fowler bearing the date of 1847, the oldest in the cemetery. As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting in Heaven, As a star, that is lost, where daylight is given; As a glad dream of slumber, which wakens in Bliss, She hath passed to the world of the holy from this. Mrs. S.B.L. ********************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb coordinator with proof of this consent.