The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama

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I-B-4. REVEREND DAVID ERASTUS SIBERT (1853 – 1890), son of Henry Sibert³ (David², John David¹)

David Erastus Sibert was born on 1 October 1853. [1][2] He died on 2 December 1890, age 37, and is buried in the Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery in Geraldine, DeKalb county, Alabama. [1][2] He married Josephine ("Josie") Elrod on 25 August 1887 in DeKalb County. [1][3] Josephine, the daughter of Doctor William Addison and Hester Jane (Wilbanks) Elrod, was born on 12 March 1864 in DeKalb county. [1][2][4] She died on 4 December 1947, age 83, in Nashville, Tennessee. [2][4] She is buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. [2]

David left an estate of 150 dollars. Josie was granted guardianship of her two children David and Burmah. [5]

According to the census, in 1900, Josie, a widow born in March 1864 in Alabama, lived in Johnson, DeKalb County. Her household included her children, David E., born in July 1888 in Alabama, and Burmah E., born in February 1890 in Alabama, and her brothers and sister, William A. Elrod, aged 25, John F. Elrod, aged 19, and Eva Elrod, aged 13. Josie had had two children. She was a farmer and William and John were farm laborers. [6]

Josie's obituary says that she died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis G. Moses. She was a graduate of Meridian Woman's College in Meridian, Mississippi and had taught school in Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama. Her husband, Dr. D.E. Sibert had died about 50 years earlier. [7]

Children of David Erastus Sibert and Josephine Elrod:

I-B-4-a. David Erastus Sibert was born on 3 July 1888 in Alabama. He died on 10 June 1974. He married Mary Virginia Holland. He married second Mary Elizabeth Conley.

I-B-4-b. Burmah Elizabeth Sibert was born on 13 February 1890 in Alabama. [2] She died on 29 July 1973, age 83. [2] She married Lewis Griveaud Moses on 24 June 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama. Lewis was born on 4 July 1882 in Missouri. [2][4] He died of heart failure on 11 March 1966, age 83, in Nashville. [2] Burmah and Lewis are buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery. [2]

At the time of his death, Lewis was a retired manager of an insurance company, living in Nashville. [4]

Burmah, the widow of L.G. Moses, died on 29 July 1973, probably in Nashville. She was suvived by her brother David E. Sibert, Sr., and several nieces and nephews. [8]

Endnotes:

1. J. Luther Beeson, The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama (n.p.: the author, 1928).

2. "Find a Grave," database and images, FindaGrave (24 April 2024), memorial pages for

3. "Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816–1942," " database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60000), entry for David E. Sibert and Josie Elrod.

4. "Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908–1965," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2376) > Death Certificates > Davidson > 1947, image 3895; 1966, image 1878.

5. "Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1753–1999," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8799) > DeKalb > Probate Court Records > Box 10, Folders 12–16, Sears, J.M. – Swader, Francis, 1836–1916, images 245–60.

6. "U.S. Federal Census Collection," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/usfedcen) > 1900 > AL > DeKalb > Johnson > District 0080, image 15, lines 13–18, entry for Josie Sibert.

7. "Mrs. Josephine Sibert," The Tennessean (Nashville), 5 December 1947, p. 6.

8. Notice, The Tennessean, 1 August 1973, p. 32.

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