The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama

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I-E-1. DAVID R. SIBERT (1849 – 1896), son of Jasper Sibert³ (David², John David¹)

David R. Sibert was born on 23 September 1849 and died in 1896. [1] He married Mary Hicks. Mary was born in November 1853 in Arkansas. She is probably the Mary E. Hicks, aged seven and born in Arkansas, who lived with her inferred parents J.C. and Margaret Hicks in Powell, Craighead County, Arkansas on 11 June 1860. [2]

According to the census, on 23 June 1880, David R., aged 31 and born in Alabama, and Mary E., aged 26 and born in Arkansas, lived in Powell with their children: Sarah E., aged six and born in Arkansas; Louisa, aged three and born in Arkansas; and Mary E., aged three and born in Arkansas. David was an illiterate farmer. Mary E. could not write. [2]

According to the census, in June 1900, Marry L., a widow born in November 1853, lived in Shady Grove, Green County, Arkansas with her son, Will J., born in August 1882 in Arkansas, and her daughter Miney, born in October 1885 in Arkansas. She was illiterate, but ran a farm. Her son was a farmer. On 3 May 1910, Mollie lived with her daughter Mary's family in Shady Grove. She was a 57-year-old widow. [2]

Children of David R. Sibert and Mary Hicks:

I-E-1-a. Sarah E. Sibert was born about 1873 in Arkansas. There is no apparent further record.

I-E-1-b. Louisa Sibert (twin?) was born about 1876 in Arkansas. She probably died by 16 March 1881.

I-E-1-c. Mary E. Sibert (twin?) was born about 1876 in Arkansas. She died on 18 May 1972 and is buried in the Trinity Cemetery in Bono, Craighead County. [3] She married Henry O'Connor. [1][3]

According to the census, on 3 May 1910, Henry, aged 48, and Merry, aged 36, lived in Shady Grove—next to the families of Mary's brother William and sister Lou—with their children: Atie, aged 17; Ivie, aged [illegible]; Willie, aged 11; Carrie, aged five; and Lovine, aged two. Mary's mother also lived with them. Henry and Mary had been married six years. Mary had had five children. Henry was a railroad worker. In February 1920 Henry, aged 58, and Mary, aged 44, lived in Shady Grove with their children Cary, aged 15; Lille, aged eight; and Lucile, aged five. Henry was a farmer. [2]

Children of Mary E. Sibert and Henry O'Connor:

i. Atie O'Connor was born about 1892 in Arkansas.

ii. Ivie O'Connor was born say 1895 in Arkansas.

iii. Willie O'Connor 1898 in Arkansas.

iv. Carrie O'Connor was born about 1904 in Arkansas.

v. Lovine O'Connor was born about 1907 in Arkansas.

vi. Lillie Mae O'Connor was born on 8 May 1911 in Arkansas. [3] She married Andy Buchanan on 2 October 1926 in Lawrence County. [3][4][5] She died on 30 June 1943. [3] She is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

Children of Lillie O'Connor and Andy Buchanan:

Louise Buchanan was born on 13 July 1933. [4] She died of tuberculosis on 30 November 1951 at the University Hospital in Little Rock. [4]
Carrie Lee Buchanan was born on 14 July 1937 and died on 5 May 2005. [3] She is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. She married Billie Ray Oldham. [3] Billie Ray, the son of Truman and Lola (Parker) Oldham, was born on 4 Apr 1936 and died on 31 August 2015. [3] He is buried in the Old Lebanon Cemetery in Imboden, Lawrence County. [3]

Children of Billie Ray Oldham and Carrie Lee Buchanan:
- Donna Kay Oldham was born on 17 December 1957 and died on 1 March 2010. [3] She is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

vii. Lucille O'Connor was born about 1914 in Arkansas. She married James Edward Graves on 18 December 1940 in Craighead County. [6]

I-E-1-d. Lou Sibert was born on 16 March 1881. [4] She died of apoplexy on 16 March 1952, aged 71, in Shady Grove. [4] She married Laurence O'Connor on 25 December 1896, aged 15. [3] Laurence, the son of Laurence and Elinore O'Connor, was born on 13 June 1872 in Obion, Tennessee and died on 14 December 1938, aged 66. Lou and Laurence are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

Lou's death certificate says she was the daughter of Dave Sibert and Molly Hicks. She was a widow, and she had lived in Shady Grove for 40 years. The informant was her daughter, Mrs. Till Sutton. [4]

According to the census, on 3 May 1910, Lawrence, aged 37, and Lou, aged 36, lived in Shady Grove with their children: Jessie, aged nine; Bob, aged seven; Till, aged five[!]; Roy, aged three; and Sadie [Trudie?], aged one. They were all born in Arkansas. Lawrence was a farmer; he and Lou had been married 14 years; Lou had had six children and five were living. [2]

Children of Lou Sibert and Laurence O'Connor: (order uncertain)

i. Tilda E. "Till" O'Connor was born on 13 February 1900 and died on 27 June 1980. [3] Till of Bono married Clyde Sutton of Bono on 22 December 1918. [5] Clyde was born on 21 July 1888 and died on 28 November 1974. [3] Till and Clyde are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

A blotched birth certificate records the birth of a child (probably Mansfield) of Till O'Connor and [blotched] Sutton of Truman. [7]

Children of Till O'Connor and Clyde Sutton:

Pauline Sutton was born on 26 December 1920 and died on 7 February 2010, aged 86. [3] She married Marlie A. Tate. [3] Marlie was born on 25 March 1923 and died on 10 July 1989. [3] Pauline and Marlie are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]
- Ron Tate was born on 17 September 1944 and did on 21 January 2014, aged 69, in Lake City Craighead County. [3]
- Robert Lavone Tate was born on 7 October 1948 and died on 15 February 2013, aged 64. He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery.
  
  Robert was served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam. [3]
Mansfield Ivan Sutton was born on 9 October 1922 and died on 29 May 2002, aged 79. He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. He married [first?] Doris Elaine Field on 12 January 1946 in Sedgwick, Lawrence County. She was born on 13 February 1930 and was buried in the Estates of Serenity in Marion, Grant County, Indiana. [3] She married second Clyde Vernon Spears on 22 December 1968 in Swayzee, Grant County. [3]

ii. Jessie O'Connor was born about 1900[!] in Arkansas.

iii. William Robert O'Connor was born on 11 November 1904[!]. [3] He died on 24 May 1970, aged 65. [3] He married Virginia Ann Phillips. [3] Virginia, the daughter of Edward and Mary Phillips, was born on 22 February 1902 and she died on 14 March 1996, aged 94. [3] William and Virginia are buried in the Old Military Cemetery in Sedgwick, Lawrence County, Arkansas. [3]

Children of William Robert O'Connor and Virginia Ann Phillips:

Lawrence Edward O'Connor was born on 21 December 1923 in Bono. [3][4] He died on 14 June 1964. He married Maggie Maxine Truckler. [3] She was born on 4 October 1924 in Lawrence County and died on 14 June 1964. [3][4] Lawrence and Maggie are buried in the Old Military Cemetery. [3]

Lawrence, Maggie, and their daughter Jill Nanabeth died on 14 June 1964 when the boat they were riding in sank in Spring River near Black Rock in Lawrence County. [4]

According to Lawrence's death certificate, he was a carpenter. [4]

Children of Lawrence Edward O'Connor and Maggie Maxine Truckler:
- Virginia Jane O'Connor was born on 10 March 1942 and died on 12 August 1978, aged 36. [3] She married Solomon Owen Patterson. [3] He was born on 16 September 1942 and died on 7 Apr 1988. [3] Virginia and Solomon are buried in the Old Military Cemetery. [3] Children:
  - Deanna Kaye Patterson was born on 12 November 1965 and died on 18 April 2010 in Hernando, Mississippi.
- Lawrence Edward O'Connor was born on 14 May 1944. [3] He married Diane Marie ___. [3] Lawrence and Diane are buried in the Old Military Cemetery. [3]
- Sandra Joan O'Connor was born on 1 November 1946 and died on 10 May 2011. [3] She married Larry Dulaney. [3] Larry was born on 26 February 1946. [3] Sandra and Larry are buried in the Old Military Cemetery. [3]
- Jill Nanabeth O'Connor was born on 7 July 1955 in Sedgwick. [4] She died on 14 June 1964, age 11. [3][4] She is buried in the Old Military Cemetery. [3]

iv. Roy David O'Connor was born on 9 February 1905[!]. [3] He died on 10 November 1976, aged 71. [3] He married Hazel Healy. [3] Hazel was born on was born on 10 August 1910 and she died on 11 November 2000. [3] Roy and Hazel are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

v. Trudie Eva O'Connor was born in 1908. [3] She died on 11 October 2002. [3] She married Charlie Reeves. [3] Charlie was born in 1902 and he died in 1965. [3] Trudie and Charlie are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

Eldon E. Reeves was born on 23 July 1930 and died on 16 October 2008, aged 78. [3] He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]
Rachel Charline Reeves was born on 9 February 1932 and died on 16 September 1944, aged 12. [3] She is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]
Eddie Gerald Reeves was born on 2 December 1942 and died on 2 March 2003, aged 60. [3] He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

vi. John Otis O'Connor was born on 8 May 1910 in Bono. [3][7] He died on 10 December 1976, aged 66. [3] He married Julia M. Simmons. [3] Julia was born on 18 April 1929 and she died on 2 August 2022, aged 93. [3] John and Julia are buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

John's birth certificate says he was the son of Lawrence O'Connor and Lou Sibert. The informant was their brother-in-law Clyde Sutton. [3]

Children of John O'Connor and Julia M. Simmons:

Johnny L. O'Connor was born on 18 August 1952 and died on 29 May 1977, aged 24. [3] He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]
Connie D. O'Connor was born on 1 September 1954 and died on 28 April 2001, aged 46. [3] She is buried in the Trinity Cemetery. [3]

I-E-1-e. William Jasper Sibert was born on 28 August 1881 in Jonesboro, Craighead County. He died on 1 July 1952 in St. Louis. He married Rachel Annie West.

I-E-1-f. Minnie Lee Sibert was born on 5 October 1885 in Green County, Arkansas. [7][8] She died on 16 February 1962 in the Poplar Bluff Hospital in Butler County, Missouri. [8] he married William Tennyson (spelled various ways in the records). They presumably divorced by 1920. Minnie Lee was buried in the Shain Memorial Cemetery in Ash Hill, Butler County. [8]

According to her death certificate, Minnie Lee Tennyson of Fisk, Butler County, the daughter of David Seibert and Mollie Hicks, died of complications of hernia surgery. She was divorced. The informant was Flossie Overall of Fisk. [8]

According to the census, on 26 January 1920, Minnie, aged 36 and born in Arkansas, was living with her brother William and her presumed daughter Flossie Tennyson, aged 11 and born in Arkansas, in Truman. [2]

Children of Minnie Lee Sibert and William Tennyson:

i. Flossie Retta Tennyson was born on 28 July 1908 in Craighead County. [3] She died on 25 August 1980. [3] She married Edmond H. Overall on or shortly after 23 September 23 September 1926 (date of marriage license) in Craighead County. [3][6] Edmond was born on 15 April 1909 and died on 30 October 1976. [3] Flossie and Edmond are buried in the Shain Memorial Cemetery. [3]

According to Flossie's (delayed) birth certificate, she was the daughter of William and Minnie Lee (Sibert) Tennyson. Her married name was Overall. [7]

Endnotes:

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

2. "U.S. Federal Census Collection," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/usfedcen) >

1860 > AR > Craighead > Powell , image 8, lines 6–10, entry for Mary E. Hicks
1880 > AR > Craighead > Powell > 049, image 22, lines 44–48, entry for David R. Sibirt
1900 > AR > Greene > Shady Grove > District 0036, image 6, lines 73–5, entry for Marry L. Sibor
1910 > AR > Greene > Shady Grove > District 0036, image 4, lines, 54–51, entry for Merry O Conor
1910 > AR > Greene > Shady Grove > District 0036, image 4, lines, 51–53, entry for Lou O'Conor
1920 > AR > Greene > Shady Grove > District 0105, image 6, lines 76–80, enry for Mary Oconner

3. "Find a Grave," database with images, FindaGrave (accessed 11 May 2024), memorial pages for

Mary E. O'Connor (1877–18 May 1972), Memorial ID 8383189, Lue O'Connor (12 Sep 1881–16 Jun 1952), Memorial ID 7136741, Roy David O'Connor (9 Feb 1905–10 Nov 1976), Memorial ID 7136740, Hazel Healy O'Connor (10 Aug 1910–11 Nov 2000), Memorial ID 8383194, Charlie Reeves (1902–1965), Memorial ID 7136710, John O. O'Connor (8 May 1910–10 Dec 1976), Memorial ID 7136742, Rachel Charline Reeves (9 Feb 1932–16 Sep 1944), Memorial ID 7136708, Johnny L. O'Connor (18 Aug 1952–29 May 1977), Memorial ID 7030199, Connie D. O'Connor (1 Sep 1954–28 Apr 2001), Memorial ID 7030197, Lillie May Buchanan (8 May 1911–30 Jun 1943), Memorial ID 7136692, citing Trinity Cemetery, Bono, Craighead County, AR; Maintained by Kim Inboden (contributor 46557839).

Lawrence O'Connor (13 Jun 1872–14 Dec 1938), Memorial ID 7136704, citing Trinity Cemetery, Bono; Maintained by RCW (contributor 47184970).

Trudie Eva O'Connor Reeves (1908–11 Oct 2002), Memorial ID 8318183, Eldon E. Reeves (23 Jul 1930–16 Oct 2008), Memorial ID 30639198, Eddie Gerald Reeves (2 Dec 1942–2 Mar 2003), Memorial ID 8295043, Pauline Sutton Tate (26 Dec 1920–7 Feb 2010), Memorial ID 47801047, Robert Lavone “Bobby” Tate (7 Oct 1948–15 May 2013), Memorial ID 110646857, Carrie Lee Buchanan Oldham (14 Jul 1937–5 May 2005), Memorial ID 10956457, Donna Kay Miles (27 Dec 1957–1 Mar 2010), Memorial ID 49012405, citing Trinity Cemetery, Bono; Maintained by Michael (contributor 49749450).

Julia M Simmons O'Connor (18 Apr 1929–2 Aug 2022), Memorial ID 242285939, citing Trinity Cemetery, Bono; Maintained by Norma (contributor 48221938).

Tilda E. O'Connor Sutton (13 Feb 1900–27 Jun 1980), Memorial ID 8306164, Clyde I. Sutton (21 Jul 1888–28 Nov 1974), Memorial ID 8306163, Marlie A. Tate (25 Mar 1923–10 Jul 1989), Memorial ID 7101954, Mansfield Ivan “Bud” Sutton (9 Oct 1922–29 May 2002), Memorial ID 8306166, citing Trinity Cemetery, Bono; Maintained by Bill Inboden (contributor 46559109).

William Robert O'Connor (11 Nov 1904–24 May 1970), Memorial ID 69465895, Virginia Ann “Jennie” Phillips O'Connor (22 Feb 1902–14 Mar 1996), Memorial ID 69465870, Lawrence Edward “Ed” O'Connor Sr. (21 Dec 1923–14 Jun 1964), Memorial ID 69465855, Maggie Maxine Truxler O'Connor (4 Oct 1924–14 Jun 1964), Memorial ID 69465838, Virginia Jane “Jenny” O'Connor Patterson (10 Mar 1942–12 Aug 1978), Memorial ID 69465925, Solomon Owen Patterson Jr. (16 Sep 1942–7 Apr 1988), Memorial ID 69465935, Jill Nanabeth O'Connor (7 Jul 1955–14 Jun 1964), Memorial ID 69465827, citing Old Military Cemetery, Sedgwick, Lawrence County, AR; Maintained by RCW.

Lawrence Edward “Buddie” O'Connor Jr. (14 May 1944–unknown), Memorial ID 70406610, Larry Dulaney (26 Feb 1946–unknown), Memorial ID 70407547, citing Old Military Cemetery, Sedgwick; Maintained by JKHCCD (contributor 47565933).

Diane Marie O'Connor (29 Nov 1953–31 May 1998), Memorial ID 69465813, citing Old Military Cemetery, Sedgwick; Maintained by SP (contributor 48324886).

Sandra Joan “Sandy” O'Connor Dulaney (1 Nov 1946–10 May 2011), Memorial ID 69657351, citing Old Military Cemetery, Sedgwick; Maintained by Sandra (contributor 46915147).

Deanna Kaye Patterson Grant (12 Nov 1965–18 Apr 2010), Memorial ID 131624202; Cremated, Ashes scattered; Maintained by RCW.

Flossie R Overall (28 Jul 1908–25 Aug 1980), Memorial ID 71914553, Edmond H Overall (15 Apr 1909–30 Oct 1976), Memorial ID 71914481, citing Shain Memorial Cemetery, Ash Hill, Butler County, MO; Maintained by Kati Wylie Ray (contributor 47690036).

Ron Tate (17 Sep 1944–21 Jan 2014), Memorial ID 123852680; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Slimbeaux † (contributor 47627724).

Doris Elaine Field Spears (13 Feb 1930–unknown), Memorial ID 232108719, citing Estates of Serenity, Marion, Grant County, IN; Maintained by Bruce & Peggy (contributor 46941589).

Billy Ray Oldham (4 Apr 1936–31 Aug 2015), Memorial ID 151580930, citing Old Lebanon Cemetery, Eaton, Lawrence County, AR; Maintained by Sandra).

4. "Arkansas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1914–1969," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61777), entries for Lou O'Conner, Lawrence Edward O'Conner (and the two following), Louise Smith.

5. "Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837–1957," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2548), entries for Lilie Conor, Till Oconnor.

6. "Arkansas, Marriage Certificates, 1917–1972," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61775), entry for Flossie Tenneson.

7. "Arkansas, Birth Certificates, 1914–1922," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61774), entries for Flossie Retta Tennyson, Till Sutton, John Otis O'Conner.

8. "Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910–1969," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60382), entry for Minnie Lee Tennison.

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