James I. Sibert

            JAMES I. SIBERT was born in Crawford county, Indiana, July 20, 1843, and is a son of Hiram J. and Harriet A. (Miller) Sibert; the former a native of Virginia, came to Indiana in an early day with his parents, and settled in Crawford county, near the Wyandotte Cave; the latter was born in Tennessee, but came to Indiana, with her father’s family, when quite small. James I., the subject, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools.

    At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Federal army, in Co. E, Eighty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and on the 13^th day of June, 1865, he was discharged at Camp Harker, Tenn., his term of service having expired. He participated in the following battles: Stone River, Chickamauga, Resacca and Kenesaw Mountain. He was wounded at Chickamauga and also at Kenesaw Mountain. After the war was over he returned to this plow, and in November following his discharge from the army he was married to Miss Laura McCullum, a daughter of James and Abigail (Sharpe) McCullum, natives of Tennessee.

    They removed to Kentucky, and later they came to Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Sibert have had seven children, as follows: Henry W., Willis I., Mary A., Joseph O., Charles H., Ida R. and William J. Mr. Sibert owns 117 acres of good land in Scott township, and is an enterprising farmer. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and votes the Republican ticket.

 Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana by John M. Gresham & Co., 1889. Part 2, page 184,185.