Wesley Leroy Kibler

1899 - 1927  (28 years)

• Name	Wesley Leroy Kibler
  Born	11 Jun 1899	Page County, Virginia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Jul 1927	Page County, Virginia   [1]
  Buried	Kibler (John) Cemetery (Kimball), Page County, Virginia
  Person ID	I40388	Virts
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	John Simon Kibler,   b. 3 Jun 1853, Page County, Virginia ,   d. 24 Apr 1926, Page County, Virginia  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Sarah Belle Hackley,   b. 6 Oct 1860, Rappahannock County, Virginia ,   d. 13 Apr 1932, Page County, Virginia  (Age 71 years)
  Married	21 Dec 1881	Rappahannock County, Virginia   [2]
  Family ID	F7659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elsie Marie Seal,   b. 7 Oct 1907, Virginia ,   d. 11 Jul 1980, Luray, Virginia  (Age 72 years)
  Married	1927	Hagerstown, Maryland
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F16057	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Page News and Courier, July 10, 1927 Shocking Death Near Springfield. Wesley Leroy Kibler aged 28, son of the late John S. Kibler, the school teacher, killed himself at the Kibler home of a mile West of Springfield, on Sunday afternoon. The deed was committed with a .38 calibre revolver. Death was instantaneous as the bullet entered the right temple and passed through his head. Kibler was alone at the time. His brother, Elmo and sister Miss Bessie Kibler, having left the home a short time before to go to the residence of their sister, Mrs. Maurice Corder, wife of the Kimball rural mail carrier. The act was committed in the unfortunate young man's bed room. There seems to be no doubt that Kibler was under the influence of liquor and was not himself when he took his own life. It also appears that he was brooding over some secret trouble the nature of which is not clearly apparent. On Saturday night by long distance telephone he asked his brother Amos, of Hagerstown to come to see him at once as he was in trouble. Amos replied he could not come until late in the week. This Wesley said would be too late, a statement his brother did not understand at the time. On Sunday morning Wesley Kibler and his cousin Will Chadduck went to Fristoe's store and then to S. N. Spitler at Kimball and later to Kibler's home. Kibler told Chadduck that he expected to commit suicide on account of his trouble. Kibler under the influence of liquor is said to have become quarrelsome after arriving at his home and to have ordered Chadduck away, although the latter had been invited to the place. There also seems to have been trouble between Kibler and his brother, Elmo. Somehow or other Wesley Kibler cut a deep gash in his forearm, it is said by striking a broken windshield. His brother and sister, left a noon for the Corder home. Some time afterwards there was a ring of the phone at Corder's. It was Wesley Kibler asking his mother to come at once as he was 'bleeding to death' from a wound. The Corder family which was at dinner at the time, rushed to their car and in a few minutes were at the Kibler home, where they found Wesley dead upstairs in his bedroom, the revolver lying beside his body. Coroner Dr. Virgil Hammer was at the Kibler home on Monday morning with Sheriff Lucas and a number of witnesses. After examining into the case the coroner gave a certificate of suicide. Under the law as it now is the coroner in person reaches a decision in such matters the jury being dispensed with. Wesley Kibler was employed in the cutting department of the Maryland Co. Manufacturers of overalls at Luray. Mr. Barrett the local manager gives him a good character and says his record as an employee was above reproach. He had $600 life insurance with him under the group plan they have adopted for the benefit of employees. This is payable to his mother. Last week the News and Coruier received through the mail a news item to the effect that Wesley Kibler and Miss Elsie Seal of this county were married in Hagerstown 3 weeks ago. This marriage was not known to the young man's family at the time. On Sunday night, Mrs. Wesley Kibler, who has been employed by a concern at Charles Town manufacturing women's garments arrived here and is now at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Carper in East Luray. The sisters are daughters of Lester Seal, of near Marksville this county. Mrs. Wesley Kibler as employed in the overall factory at Luray for a short time a number of months ago. Wesley is survived by his mother and the following brothers and sisters - C. A. of Hagerstown, W. T. of Charles Town, Elmo, Miss Bessie and Mrs. Corder of near Luray. He was employed by his brother, C. A. Kibler as clerk in a store in Duffields, WV. returning to his home 18 months ago and having been here continuously since. The funeral of Kibler took place yesterday afternoon, the body being buried in the family graveyard.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2098] Virginia Death Certificate No .1927016374. [S572] Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940.