Tragedy struck the Van Bebber family Thursday, Nov. 11, when Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Van Bebber and their daughter, Mrs. Bill Kruger were killed when the car they were riding in was struck by a Santa Fe train at Stratford.

Mr. Van Bebber was killed instantly, Mrs. Kruger, the former Vesta Van Bebber, lived for about 30 minutes, and Mrs. Van Bebber lived until the following morning when she died in an Ada hospital.

The other two occupants of the car Bill Kruger and Lillie Van Bebber were injured and were taken to an Ada hospital. They were brought to Lindsay this week, and both attended the funeral Monday.

The five had been in Ada visiting a son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Bebber, Eddie, and his family, and were returning to Lindsay when the accident occurred at 5:20 on the edge of Stratford where Highways 18 and 19 and the Santa Fe railroad intersect.

Apparently Kruger, who was driving, was blinded by the sun and failed to see the approaching train. The car was reported to have been going about 25 miles an hour. It was reported that the train was traveling 15 miles an hour.

It struck the car at about the middle. Mrs. Van Bebber was pinned between the car and the cowcatcher on the engine and it was some time before she could be extricated.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here Monday afternoon. The Revs. Leonard Payne and Walter Douglass conducted the service. Rev. Douglass is a former pastor of the local church and is now at Wilson. Rev. Payne is the pastor now.

Hundreds of friends of the Van Bebber family attended the funeral. Only a part of the large number attending the service could get into the church.

Burial was in the Green Hill cemetery under the direction of the Brown Funeral home.

All three of the deceased were member of the Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. Van Bebber joined at the same time. Mrs. Kruger joined four years ago.

The Van Bebbers had been residents of Lindsay for the past 25 years. For the past 18 months Mrs. Kruger had been in California working in a defense plant. It was only about a week before the accident that they returned to Lindsay, to make their home.

Six of the Van Bebber children survive. They are Eddie Van Bebber, Ada; Mrs. Ted Crotte, Marlow; Lillie, O. C., Beadie and Andy, all of Lindsay. Seven grandchildren survive.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Kruger of Richmond, Calif., parents of Bill Kruger, were unable to make the trip to Lindsay for the funeral.

Isaac Criss Van Bebber was born May 8, 1872, in Livingston county, Mo. He was nearing 72 years of age at the time of his death.

In 1893 he was married to Martha Jane Savage at Ardmore. He had moved to this section of the country when only a boy. For the past 25 years they had made their home in the Lindsay community.

Eleven children were born to this union. Four died in infancy. Six children survive, seven grandchildren, and one brother, Andy Van Bebber of Comanche.

Martha Jane Savage was born in Montague county on December 25, 1872. Besides her surviving children and grandchildren, she is survived by four brothers who are John Savage of Alma, Green and Tom Savage of Oklahoma City and Sam Savage of Lindsay.

Vesta Claraette Van Bebber was born December 18, 1911, in Jefferson county, Okla. She was a graduate of Hughes school, and received her AB degree from East Central at Ada. For 12 years she taught at Davis school, which is 10 miles south of Maysville.

In June, 1942, she went to California to work in the Kaiser shipyard at Richmond. On April 26, 1943 she was married to Bill Kruger. They lived until recently at Berkley, California, where they worked in the shipyards.

Following is a list of the out-of-town friends and relatives attending the Van Bebber, funeral here Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Van Bebber, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Van Bebber, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Van Bebber, Mrs. Mary Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Smith, all of Comanche.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Savage, Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Savage, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Savage, Mrs. Edith McKnab, Mrs. Jack Sharp, Green Savage, Raymond Savage, Lorraine Savage, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hanna, Abby Jean Van Bebber, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Carl Eatmon, Mrs. June Biffle, Mildred Horsley, Imogene Horsley, Imogene Seeatt and Geneva Kennedy, all of Oklahoma City.

Mrs. R. O. Blake, Mrs. Vivian Henson, Mrs. Horace Wood, Mrs. Chester Crotts, Mrs. Maude Harbour, Mrs. Augusta Shaub, Juanita Harbour, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Scott, Mrs. W. L. Scott, Roy Scott, Mrs. Clyde Lowe, Mrs. Jonny Johnston, Mrs. Arthur Medcalf, Mrs. Drew Crotts, Mr. and Mrs, Ike Crotts, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Crotts and family of Marlow.

Mr. and Mrs. Dock Carlton, of Lexington.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter Whitley of Paoli.

Mr. Gosnell, Mrs. Virgil Skaggs, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hamilton, Mrs. Barton Rankins, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wall, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Morgan, Dr. and Mrs. Earl Holman, Mr. and Mrs. Otho Russell, Elizabeth Bridges, Mrs. Jake Ponder, Mrs. Alva Russell, all of Pauls Valley.

Rev. and Mrs. Grover, Mr. Showen, A. L. Carlton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sheegog, Mrs. B. F. Henderson, Mrs. Charlie Ritcheson, Marie Vaughn, Alma Vaughn, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill McCaskill, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert, Sheegog, Ray Russell, all of Maysville.

Clyde F. Ross of Okemah.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Hevy Kennedy, Mrs. Alf Drennan, Laura Mae Lindsay and mother, Mrs. John A. Dillingham, Hazel Roller, all of Elmore City.

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Atkinson, Mrs. Homer Gosnell, Mrs. Bill Standridge, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Van Bebber and daughter, all of Ada.

Mrs. Scott Sparks and Clem Brooks both of Ardmore.

Mrs. Geneva Brooks of Stillwater.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cannon of Clemscott.

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Spud Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Dock Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wilson, all of Santa Fe.

Mr. and Mrs. John Savage and family of Alma.

Lovell McClure of Odessa, Texas.

Lt. Cecil Sheegog, Fort Sill.

Cpl. Bill Van Bebber of Langley Field, Va.

Pfc. Paul Van Bebber of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dr. D. M. Russell of Chickasha.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foley and Mrs. Lena Neill, all of Bradley.

Chauncey Gann of Pernell.

The Lindsay News -- Lindsay, Garvin County, Oklahoma -- November 1943

1. Myrtilloe E.2 Hart (Truman1) was born November 04, 1814 in Ontario Co., NY, and died January 13, 1852. He married Cassandra Jane Smith December 1837 in Mason Co., (W)VA, daughter of Joseph Smith and Elizabeth VanBibber. She was born May 16, 1819 in VA, and died December 24, 1865 in IA.

Dear Friends of Mrs. GOLDIE VAN BIBBER PUTNAM,

Mrs. Putnam asked me to conduct her funeral, using the Order for the Burial of the Dead of the Episcopal Church. It is a privilege for me to do so. I have brought with me several copies of my Church's Book of Common Prayer, and I ask that you use them for this service. The Order begins on page 324. Please leave the Books in the Church as you leave.

The Service in which we are about to participate is a service of the people of God commending to His infinite goodness and mercy our dear friend. At the Cemetery, we bury only the physical remains, the bodily shell of one who has gone on into the nearer presence of our God. At all times, we seek to comfort the members of Mrs. Putnam's family who remain with us in our present existence.

At appropriate places, I shall ask you to participate with me in the service; first, by reading the even verses of Psalm cxxi on page 327 in response to my reading of the odd verses; second, by saying The Lord's Prayer.

Goldie van Bibber was born February 28, 1885 in Montrose, Colorado, the daughter of Marshall and Hattie van Bibber. The family moved to eastern Oregon, and Miss van Bibber started teaching school there at the age of 18. After attending the University of Oregon, she became School Supervisor on the Oregon Coast.

Goldie van Bibber married Fred Putnam on November 16, 1916, and they lived in Monument, Oregon for several years. They came to the area of Inchelium in 1922. She died quietly in her home on December 4^th, 1965. Mrs. Putnam leaves several member of her family --

Her son Carl V. Putnam and his wife Florence.
Her three grandchildren - Jim, Fred and Julia.
Her step-daughter Josephine Bockler of Portland, Oregon.
Her sister Louise Clark of Spokane, Washington.
Two brothers, Clyde van Bibber of Chewelah, Washington and Rolfe van Bibber of LaGrande, Oregon.

"Thanks be to God who gives us the victory over death through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!"

Faithfully yours,
The Reverend Charles E. Wood,
St. John's Episcopal Church
Colville, Washington

James Alexis Shriver was born in 1872. A Baltimore resident during his early years, Shriver moved to near Joppa in Harford County after graduating from Cornell in the early 1890's. Born of a wealthy and well-known Maryland family, he invested money and assumed the Presidency of the Baltimore and Bel Air Telephone Company in the late 1890's. After selling the firm to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Shriver became involved with the Bel Air Electric Company and still later with the Baltimore and Bel Air Railroad Company. This last venture was essentially a streetcar line that connected Cockeysville, Timonium and Towson about 1910 to 1923. It apparently was not very successful, and folded in 1923 with public preference for a new bus service.

Just after the turn of the century, Shriver became very active in the Harford County Historical Society. He initiated an extensive membership drive to create interest and revenue for the organization, and was somewhat successful. His goal was to gather enough funds for a separate building, allowing the Society to leave the Bel Air Court House. From within the Society, Shriver launched an ambitious program to draw attention to what he felt historically important. He authored a compendious history of George Washington's 127 trips through Maryland, replete with trivia concerning taverns visited and roads traveled. In a similar fashion, Shriver wrote a work entitled Lafayette in Harford County which related accounts of the famous Frenchman's activities in the area named.

Shriver was not one to just write about his ideas concerning history; he wanted to make them highly visible by means of display and festivities. He caused a number of cast iron road markers to be raised along the highways and byways of the state. Most were concerning with Washington's well-documented journeys, and all were unveiled with as much ceremony as could be gotten from the situation. Going several steps further, Shriver evinced his penchant for organizing and administrating by means of heavy involvement with a number of state and local committees aimed at public celebration of historic events. He was heavily involved with the Lafayette Sesqui-Centennial of 1931, the George Washington Bicentennial of 1932, The Ark and The Dove Day festivities of 1933, and the Maryland Tercentennary of 1933-1934. Of this latter organization, Shriver was General Director for about four months before he resigned under pressure from the Executive Committee.

In his waning years, Shriver devoted his time mostly to placement of road markers and writing short articles for local papers. He died at his residence, Olney, at age 79 on February 6, 1951 survived by his wife, Harriet Van Bibber Shriver.

The following are five deaths from the California Death Records, between the years of 1940 and 1997, who have a Van Bibber connection.

Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   John VanBebber and Margaret Chrisman
      Isaac VanBebber and Mary Martin
         Isaac C. VanBebber and Sarah McWilliams
            Mary Anna VanBebber and Benjamin Hiram Wilson
               James Wesley Wilson and Myrtle McClanahan

Last Name: Wilson
First Name: James
Middle: W.
Birth Date: December 19, 1883
Mother Maiden: Vibber
Father Last:
Sex: M
Birth Place:
Death Place: Solano County
Death Date: October 21, 1966
Age: 82 years

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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   James VanBebber, Sr. and Hannah Hoover
      Isaac VanBebber and Hannah Long
         Elizabeth VanBebber and Alfred Snuffer
            Olive Snuffer and Jasper Ellis
               Rebecca Elizabeth Ellis and Thomas Abraham Covington

Last Name: Covington
First Name: Rebecca
Middle: E.
Birth Date: November 26, 1871
Mother Maiden: Snuffer
Father Last: Ellis
Sex: F
Birth Place: Missouri
Death Place: El Dorado County
Death Date: February 23, 1953
Age: 81 years

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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum, Sr.
      Isaac Yoakum and Mary Davis
         Marcellus Yoakum and Sarah Ann Cawood
            Sallie Ann Yoakum and Benjamin Bolinger
               Andrew Bolinger and Mary Catherine Ford
                  Egbert C. Bolinger

Last Name: Bolinger
First Name: Egbert
Middle: C.
Birth Date: October 9, 1903
Mother Maiden: Ford
Father Last:
Sex: M
Birth Place:
Death Place: Fresno County
Death Date: March 4, 1964
Age: 60 years

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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   Isaac VanBibber, Jr. and Elizabeth Hays
      Matilda VanBibber and James Estill
         Isaac VanBibber Estill and Francis Ann Hudnall
            Jesse McMahan Estill and Ruth Ellen Hulsey

Last Name: Estill
First Name: Ruth
Middle: Ellen
Birth Date: March 13, 1892
Mother Maiden: Jones
Father Last: Hulsey
Sex: F
Birth Place: California
Death Place: Siskiyou County
Death Date: August 20, 1949
Age: 57 years

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Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   Isaac VanBibber, Jr. and Elizabeth Hays
      Francis VanBibber and Cyrenius Cox
         James Estill Cox and Mary T. Harris
            Margaret Cox and William Ashton Dolman

Last Name: Dolman
First Name: Margaret
Middle: Cox* This is in error as her maiden name was Cox.
Birth Date: March 24, 1867
Mother Maiden: Harris
Father Last: Cox
Sex: F
Birth Place: Missouri
Death Place: Santa Clara County
Death Date: September 14, 1950
Age: 83 years

Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   Martha VanBebber and George Yoakum
      Matthias Yoakum and Elizabeth McHenry
         Thomas C. Yoakum and Brilla Hoag

YOAKUM---Died at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, July 19, 1915, at the family residence, east of Salisbury, Mrs. Brilla Yoakum, aged 71 years, wife of T. C. Yoakum.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at the home. Interment will be made in Salisbury cemetery.

The Illinois State Journal -- Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois -- July 20, 1915 -- Page #9

Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
   Matthias VanBibber and Margaret Robinson
      David Campbell Robinson VanBibber and Jane Ann Williams
         Moses Hill VanBibber and Joanna Pierson
            Margaret Jane VanBibber and Henry Langley Jones
               Clyde Charlie Jones and Clara Edith Robardey
                  Clura Carldeene Jones and Vaughnie Bee Langwell
                     Patricia Ann Langwell and Lynn Wayne Weaver
                        Andrew Donovan Weaver

Andrew Donovan Weaver, 36, of Plano, formerly of Amarillo, died Monday, Aug. 12, 2002.

Memorial services will be held at St. Stephen United Methodist Church in Amarillo at 2 p.m. Saturday under the direction of Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle. Cremation will follow.

Mr. Weaver was born March 3, 1966, in Rochester, Ind., to Lynn Wayne and Patricia Ann Langwell Weaver.

He graduated from high school in Hollis, Okla., and received a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Southwestern Oklahoma State University where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity.

His hobbies included motorcycle racing, dirt-biking, truck racing, boating, jet-skiing, scuba diving, rock climbing, sky-diving and flying ultra light airplanes. He was a talented artist, video producer and photographer.

He was preceded in death by his father, Lynn Weaver, who died Nov. 26, 1973, at age 36, paternal grandfather, Vaughnie Langwell, and aunt, Linda Langwell.

Survivors include his mother, Pat Langwell Weaver of Amarillo; a brother, Tyler Weaver of Garland, Texas; his fiancée, Sharon Burbank, her son, Christopher, and daughter, Brandi of Plano, Texas; paternal grandmother, Florence Weaver of Lamartine, Pa.; maternal grandmother, Carldeene Langwell of Amarillo; uncles and aunts, Doyl and Marcene Langwell of Amarillo; Linda & Riley Mills of Trophy Club; Marj and Skip Young of Knox, Pa.; cousins and numerous friends.

Memorial contributions may be made to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for Brain Tumor Research, c/o Dr. Karen L. Fink, P.O. Box 910888, Dallas TX 75391-0888.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Boxwell Brothers.

Amarillo Globe-News -- Amarillo, Potter County, Texas -- August 16, 2002

Peter VanBibber, Jr. and Marguery Bounds
   Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
      Mary C. Boone and Alfred Hosman
         Charles L. Hosman and Mary Jane Cowan 
            Charles William Hosman and Minnie Richardson
               Charles Leroy Hosman

Charles Leroy Hosman died on February 8, 2003 in Ash Grove, Greene County, Missouri. He leaves behind his wife, twelve children, twenty-eight grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and four nieces.

Isaac VanBibber and Sarah Davis
   Peter VanBebber and Ellinor VanBibber
      Jacob VanBebber and Catherine Ann Guthrie
         Calvin VanBebber and Barthena A. VanBebber
             William Franklin VanBebber and Eliza Ellen Ramsey
                Charles Elliott VanBebber and Nina Rennison Taylor
                   Dora Ellen VanBebber

A fourteen pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Bibber last Sunday.

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The above notice announcing the birth of Dora Ellen Van Bebber on January 24, 1909 was published in The Willits News, Willits, Mendocino County, California on January 28, 1909.

Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
   James VanBibber and Jane Irvine
     Joseph VanBibber and Susan Boone

--and--

Peter VanBibber and Marguery Bounds
   Olive VanBibber and Nathan Boone
      Susan Boone and Joseph VanBibber

--and--

Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan
   Nathan Boone and Olive VanBibber
      Susan Boone and Joseph VanBibber

State of Missouri

County of St. Charles

Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty seven, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by law, one of the justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid I joined in the Holy State of Matrimony according to law, Joseph Vanbibber and Susan Boone as man and wife. Given under my hand and Seal this 19^th day of March 1827.

T. D. Stephenson

Filed for Record 4^th April 1827 and recorded same day.

Wm Christy Jr.

Saint Charles County, Missouri Marriage Book 1807 - 1854, Page #7.

From the files of the late Earl Quintrell

The VanBibber/Parker family reunion will be held at Sunset Cabins Farms in Whittier, NC. July 13-20, 2003. This is the family of Elza Curtis VanBibber and Helen Luttrell. Any and all are welcome, come by have some lunch and meet some cousins!

Remains of James M. Van Bibber, who passed away Saturday during a visit in Covelo, were shipped to The Dalles, Oregon, by the L.P. Anker Mortuary this week.

A resident of The Dalles, Mr. VanBibber was confined to Howard Hospital when he became ill during his visit in the Round Valley area. He passed away after a one-day confinement.

He was a native of Lyle, Washington.

From The Willits News, Willits, Mendocino County, CA., Wednesday, March 9, 1955

Notes: Covelo is in northern Mendocino County, California. Covelo is the town in the Round Valley area.

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Information from the California Death Record
Name: Van Bibber, James M.
Birth date: February 9, 1883
Mother maiden name: Lyle
Father name: Van Bibber
Birthplace: Washington
Death: Mendocino County, CA
Death date: March 5, 1955

I do not know who this person is. Would appreciate any information.

Marriage Notices in The South-Carolina Gazette AND ITS SUCCESSORS. (1732-1801.)

Married: Last Thursday evening, Francis Kinloch, Esq., to the amiable and accomplished Miss Martha Rutledge, eldest daughter of the Honorable John Rutledge, Esq., of this city. On Saturday the 3d inst., Mr. William Smith, merchant, Coosawhatchie, to Mrs. Margaret Vanbebber, Pocotaligo, widow of the deceased Jacob Vanbebber, Esq. (Monday, December 12, 1785.)

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Humphrey John Hudgin, Executor, with Richard Billups and Sands Smith of the estate of Humphrey Hudgin, Sr., dec'd Nov 14 1796. Bond: $6,000. Justices: Armistead Smith, William Buckner, John Cary, James Van Bibber and Hunley Gayle.

"Mathews County VA Records," by Jane B. Goodsell.

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Mr. Isaac Van Bibber, was a gentleman of good sense and good education. He took an active part in defense of his country. Besides serving in the committee during its existence, there were other stations in which he served his country usefully. He lived a long time in Baltimore, but in the latter years of his life, he lived near Reisterstown, where he died in the year 1818.

Narrative of Events Which Occured in Baltimore - Chapter I, Page #32.