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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, February 7, 1951 April 17, 1863 ~ February 2, 1918 John Yaller Cat, 87, Finally Writes "30" A pioneer country editor who wrote Indian dialect years ago in the Colony community has written "30" to his career. Services were at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Pogue church northeast of Colony for Henry Phillips Gibbs, 87, former editor and publisher of the Colony Courier. Gibbs died Friday in Guthrie where he had made his home for the past 10 years. He wrote under the penname of John Yaller Cat. He was a native of Illinois and came to Oklahoma in 1892, homesteading near Colony. While he was editor of the Colony Courier he wrote his book, "Poems by John Yaller Cat," which were reprinted thruout Oklahoma. Before coming to Oklahoma he was in the newspaper business in O'Fallon, Ill. He is survived by two sons, Ed, Guthrie, and Lester, Tulsa; a sister, Mrs. Will Hoggebusch, Okawville, Ill.; three grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. |
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