C.
W. GIEBNER, deceased, farmer, was born July 8, 1832, in the house where
his widow now resides. He was a son of William Giebner, who is
mentioned elsewhere. He was one of four children, two of whom grew up,
C. W. and Sarah J., who married Abram Farrah. The deceased was married
October 9, 1857, to Miss Amelia Vath. He enlisted in Company B, One
Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and a short time after
his return from the war he was returning from town in a wagon, when his
horse took fright and threw him out, breaking a leg, from the effects
of which he died April 28, 1865. He was the father of three children:
Georgie E., married E. W. Thompson; C. W., at home with his mother, and
John E., who married Nellie Robinson, and is a prosperous merchant of
Sandy Lake. Mr. Giebner believed in the doctrines of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, to which organization his widow is attached.
Dr.
J. P. Vath, the father of Mrs. Giebner, was born in Germany, where he
was educated. His father and brother Philip were prominent physicians
in that country. His sister Maria married George Albright, and
subsequently settled in Mercer County. She died leaving six children:
Barbara, Margaret, Amelia, Cassie, Mary and Susan. Dr. Vath left
Germany during a war, and practiced in New York City, and there was
married to Frances Webber, and subsequently removed to Buffalo,
practiced there and in Norwalk, Ohio, for some time, and then came to
what is now Sandy Lake, in 1838, and built a house on the site of A. P.
Rose's residence. Here he died July 19, 1854. His widow died about
twenty years later. Their children were: J. P., Amelia, Theressa,
married Alexander Lowrey; Louesa, Lewis P., Harriet, married James
Smith, and Joseph, who is dead. Dr. Vath formed a partnership with Dr.
Giebner a short time before his death. He and his wife were members of
the Catholic Church, and were buried in the graveyard of that
organization a short distance north of Mercer. Their daughter Louesa
married Samuel Bowers, by whom she has two children: Della, married
Newton Holland, of Youngstown, Ohio, and Lewis P., a printer, of the
same city.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 1056-1057
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