Kilby Pollard Ivers
1875-1954

Kilby was born on November 18, 1875 at Jacktown, Ohio and died on December 31, 1954 at Mt. Carmel, Ill. Kilby always said he was born in jail. At the time of his birth his parents were the jailkeepers so the house was probably attached to the jail. Kibb, as everyone called him, loved to tell stories, a trait he passed to his son Keith, and he had lots of them to tell.

Kibb worked for the Prudential Insurance Company riding his bicycle to collect the weekly premiums in person. His first policy was sold to George and Mary Ivers in 1899 and when Kibb traveled to the corporate office in New York, took the policy to show them. It was the oldest anyone had ever seen.