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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM J. SIBERT, was born October 17, 1833, in St. Clair County. Ala., and
is a son of David and Elizabeth (Cook) Sibert, natives of Abbeyville District,
S. C. The senior Mr. Sibert was a planter. He moved to St. Clair County in 1819,
and thence to DeKalb County in 1833, where he purchased land from the Indians,
eighty acres of which, according to their tradition, had been in cultivation
over one hundred years. The old gentleman spent the rest of his life in DeKalb
County. He was the father of eleven children, eight of whom grew to adult
estate, to-wit: John W., farmer died in Arkansas; Henry, farmer, DeKalb County;
Martha, widow of William Waddell, of Arkansas; Geo. W., deceased; Jasper, a
minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, now of Arkansas: Julia (Mrs.
Arthur A. Parr), both she and her husband are dead; Hulda, deceased; Mary (Mrs.
W. B. Beeson, of DeKalb County). John W. and Henry were both soldiers in the
Southern Army during the late war. David Sibert's father came to America as a
soldier in the British Army, served his term of enlistment, and at once joined
the Colonial Army under General Marion, and adopted this country as his home. He
married a Miss Wilmore, of Virginia, reared three sons and three daughters, and
died in South Carolina, where he had been a farmer, and a preacher in the
Lutheran Church. The Cook family, from which the subject of this sketch is
descended through the maternal line, were probably of mixed German and English
extraction.

  William J. Sibert was reared on a farm, received a common-school education,
and was thirty-five years of age when he enlisted in Company I, Tenth Alabama,
as a second lieutenant. He served a few months, when ill-health forced him to
resign. In the spring of 1862, he joined Company G, Forty-eighth Alabama, and
with that regiment participated in the battles of second Manassas, the
Wilderness, Petersburg, etc. He was wounded at Manassas, and at Petersburg was
forced from its effects to retire from field duty. He then accepted a position
in the quartermaster's department and remained to the close of the war.

  After farming two years, he, in 1867, came to Gadsden, engaged in hotel
business, until 1879, then in mercantile business, to which he has since given
his attention. His first partner was named Barrett, firm of Barrett & Sibert.
Mr. Barrett retired in 1882, and the firm has since been Sibert & Ward. He is
also the senior member of the firm of Sibert & Blair, wholesale and retail
dealers in hardware. In addition to mercantile business, he has been and is now
interested in agriculture. He was married September 20, 1856, to Miss Mary E.
Ward. Of the ten children born to them, six are living: Charlcie (Mrs. A. J.
Blair); William L., graduate of the West Point Class 1884, also in corps of
engineers at Willett's Point, N. Y., class of 1887, and a lieutenant in the
United States Engineers Corps; Samuel H., Martin D., Fannie B., Olin W. The
family is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and  Mr. Sibert
is a Freemason.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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