"Reverend Andrew Jackson Kibler was born May 1, 1824, in Page County, Virginia, and died August 4, 1895, at Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in the Horseshoe Cemetery at Fisher Heights, Pennsylvania, in a private lot owned by the Fisher family.
Andrew Jackson Kibler entered the ministry about the year 1848, when twenty-four years of age. He continued to serve four or five congregations in the branch of the church to which he attached himself for a number of years, when becoming dissatisfied with its policy and doctrine in the year 1863, became attached to the Virginia Central Conference then in its fifteenth annual session with the church at East Liberty, Page County, Virginia. The war then raging had caused the two active ministers of the body to flee from their posts, leaving but two old worn-out veterans in the lower valley and they and the Timber Ridge church were cut off from the rest of the conference by opposing armies. So the church in the great valley of Virginia and the Page Valley were destitute of preachers. Reverend Kibler entered with zest upon the work. At the next session of the conference he was elected Secretary. He held this office for three sessions, afterward becoming President of the conference, acting in that capacity for six consecutive years. He continued to serve churches in the two valleys and on the other side of the Blue Ridge, as well as the Church in Hampshire County, up to the year 1875, when he removed to Pennsylvania, and assisted in the formation of the Monongahela Valley Conference of that State, of which he became President.
He was pastor of several churches in the Monongahela Valley and other parts of Western Pennsylvania, among them being the Church at Clarksville, one of the most flourishing in that part of the State. A year or two before his death he was provided with a home in the town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, by his two youngest sons."
Andrew Jackson Kibler entered the ministry about the year 1848, when twenty-four years of age. He continued to serve four or five congregations in the branch of the church to which he attached himself for a number of years, when becoming dissatisfied with its policy and doctrine in the year 1863, became attached to the Virginia Central Conference then in its fifteenth annual session with the church at East Liberty, Page County, Virginia. The war then raging had caused the two active ministers of the body to flee from their posts, leaving but two old worn-out veterans in the lower valley and they and the Timber Ridge church were cut off from the rest of the conference by opposing armies. So the church in the great valley of Virginia and the Page Valley were destitute of preachers. Reverend Kibler entered with zest upon the work. At the next session of the conference he was elected Secretary. He held this office for three sessions, afterward becoming President of the conference, acting in that capacity for six consecutive years. He continued to serve churches in the two valleys and on the other side of the Blue Ridge, as well as the Church in Hampshire County, up to the year 1875, when he removed to Pennsylvania, and assisted in the formation of the Monongahela Valley Conference of that State, of which he became President.
He was pastor of several churches in the Monongahela Valley and other parts of Western Pennsylvania, among them being the Church at Clarksville, one of the most flourishing in that part of the State. A year or two before his death he was provided with a home in the town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, by his two youngest sons."
"Reverend Andrew Jackson Kibler was born May 1, 1824, in Page County, Virginia, and died August 4, 1895, at Charleroi, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in the Horseshoe Cemetery at Fisher Heights, Pennsylvania, in a private lot owned by the Fisher family.
Andrew Jackson Kibler entered the ministry about the year 1848, when twenty-four years of age. He continued to serve four or five congregations in the branch of the church to which he attached himself for a number of years, when becoming dissatisfied with its policy and doctrine in the year 1863, became attached to the Virginia Central Conference then in its fifteenth annual session with the church at East Liberty, Page County, Virginia. The war then raging had caused the two active ministers of the body to flee from their posts, leaving but two old worn-out veterans in the lower valley and they and the Timber Ridge church were cut off from the rest of the conference by opposing armies. So the church in the great valley of Virginia and the Page Valley were destitute of preachers. Reverend Kibler entered with zest upon the work. At the next session of the conference he was elected Secretary. He held this office for three sessions, afterward becoming President of the conference, acting in that capacity for six consecutive years. He continued to serve churches in the two valleys and on the other side of the Blue Ridge, as well as the Church in Hampshire County, up to the year 1875, when he removed to Pennsylvania, and assisted in the formation of the Monongahela Valley Conference of that State, of which he became President.
He was pastor of several churches in the Monongahela Valley and other parts of Western Pennsylvania, among them being the Church at Clarksville, one of the most flourishing in that part of the State. A year or two before his death he was provided with a home in the town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, by his two youngest sons."
Andrew Jackson Kibler entered the ministry about the year 1848, when twenty-four years of age. He continued to serve four or five congregations in the branch of the church to which he attached himself for a number of years, when becoming dissatisfied with its policy and doctrine in the year 1863, became attached to the Virginia Central Conference then in its fifteenth annual session with the church at East Liberty, Page County, Virginia. The war then raging had caused the two active ministers of the body to flee from their posts, leaving but two old worn-out veterans in the lower valley and they and the Timber Ridge church were cut off from the rest of the conference by opposing armies. So the church in the great valley of Virginia and the Page Valley were destitute of preachers. Reverend Kibler entered with zest upon the work. At the next session of the conference he was elected Secretary. He held this office for three sessions, afterward becoming President of the conference, acting in that capacity for six consecutive years. He continued to serve churches in the two valleys and on the other side of the Blue Ridge, as well as the Church in Hampshire County, up to the year 1875, when he removed to Pennsylvania, and assisted in the formation of the Monongahela Valley Conference of that State, of which he became President.
He was pastor of several churches in the Monongahela Valley and other parts of Western Pennsylvania, among them being the Church at Clarksville, one of the most flourishing in that part of the State. A year or two before his death he was provided with a home in the town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, by his two youngest sons."
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