SOURCE: Vinton County Newspaper December 1894 In Memoriam and Obituary "Amanda McKibben was born in Washinton County, Pennsylvania in September of 1820 and departed this life at the home of her daughter Mrs Thomas Salts in Richland Township, Vinton County, Ohio on December 6, 1894, aged seventy four years and three moths. At the early age of seventeen she confessed her faith in her savior in obedience to his command united with the Grant Street Baptist church in Pittsburgh and remained a faithful member until her death, and through her whole life pointed out the way of holiness by her righteous walk and Godly conversation. At the age of nineteen years she became the wife of Joseph McKibben of the above named city, of which union nine children wer born, three of whom, Emma, Nancy and Josephine in early childhood preceded thbier father to that " better land" whose death occured in 1855. Since then, in 1878, March 1, Mary J. the wife of George Salts, went to her reward. Three daughters Elizabeth J. wife of James Crosgrove; Henrietta W. wife of Thomas Salts; Margaret S. wife of Robert Cox and two sons, Levi S. and John B. are yet living, who with a large circle of friends and relative mourn the loss of life's most sacred jewel- Mother. But " we sorrow not as those having no hope" for we know that " if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him". Mrs McKibben possesssed a high sense of honor along with all her womanly virtues and was ready at all times to lend a helping hand and offer an encouraging word to any who sought the path that leads to honored manhood and womanhood. She was very congenial in company, great and small alike approaching her and sharing her confidence and good motherly advice, always seasoned with appropriate words from the sacred book that soothes and consoles where all else brings misery and dispair. Her pure and blameless life, devotedto every good work with a character spotless and untarnished, places her among the rare few enshrined in the hearts that knew her and whose influence for the right and aversion to the wrong will go right down through the ages telling not in deeds of marble and stone, but in the hearts to whom she has endeared herself by many traits of pure and sacred womanhood. After two short weeks of untold pain and anguish, she passed from earth, where there is suffering, sickness and death to heaven where all is joy, peace and love. Thus we record the history on one win whom our hearts took delight, whose goodness was felt by all who knew her and whose life in Christ was simply an exemplifitcation of that love which "believeth all things" and hopeth all things". On December 8 her body was taken to McArthur for burial, where Elder J.W. Dennen delivered a fitting tribute to her many virtues, after which the interment took place in the beautiful cemetery north of town, there to await the resurrection of the just."