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SARAH W. SIBLEY Born 28 Jan 1782 died 22 Jan 1851 Aged 69 years DAR Emblem affixed to marker: SARAH SPROAT SIBLEY Daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier Erected by Louisa St. Clair Chapter D.A.R.
Sarah Whipple Sproat Sibley died in 1851 and is buried next to her husband, Judge Solomon Sibley in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery. Judge Sibley and his wife, Sarah, are the author’s 4th generation lineal grandparents.
- Colonel Ebenezer Sproat Sibley
- Catherine Whipple Sibley
- Henry Hastings Sibley
- Colonel Ebenezer Sproat
- Commodore Abraham Whipple
- Frederick Trowbridge Sibley
- Elsie Throop Sibley
Colonel Ebenezer Sproat Sibley, the oldest son of Judge Solomon and Sarah Whipple Sproat Sibley, continued the family’s influential line. He was born in Marietta, Ohio in 1805 and lived both in Detroit and Marietta. He entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York and graduated first in his class in 1827. Charlotte Hart Saxton was Ebene...
Catherine Whipple Sibley, born in 1809, was Solomon and Sarah’s oldest daughter, and at the young age of fifteen, became engaged to Charles Christopher Trowbridge who already had made a name for himself in Detroit’s financial circles. The couple were married in 1826 and lived their entire lives in the home they built on Jefferson Avenue. That home,...
Henry Hastings Sibley, the second oldest son of Solomon and Sarah Sibleywas born on February 20, 1811 in Detroit. Henry was elected the first Governor of Minnesota in 1858 when Minnesota was admitted to the union, but his start in life was certainly an auspicious one. During the War of 1812, mothers and children retreated inside Fort Detroit for sa...
Colonel Sproat was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts on February 9, 1752. He was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and served throughout the entire campaign of the war. He was also a founder of Marietta, Ohio in 1788, having received a land grant from the U.S. government as payment for his distinguished military s...
Commodore Abraham Whipple, Mrs. Solomon Sibley‘s grandfather, was a well-known and feisty naval hero of America’s war for independence. Born in Providence, Rhode Island on September 16, 1733, he has, very accurately, been referred to as “America’s Damnedest Naval War Hero.” His most notable escapade involved the burning of the British schooner, the...
Frederick Trowbridge Sibley was the oldest son of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat Sibleyand Charlotte Hart Saxton. He was born while his father was stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico on March 15, 1852. Sadly, his mother died when he was only five years old. After her death, Frederick and his younger brother, Henry, along with their father, returned to Det...
Elsie Throop Sibley was an extraordinary and accomplished woman. Born on January 20, 1878, she was the first of six Sibley sisters. Her parents, Frederick Trowbridge Sibley and Frances Eliza Campau, married in 1877, bringing together two of Detroit’s prominent and influential families. Elsie’s life took an anguishing turn when her father mysterious...
Sarah Whipple Sproat was the only child of Col. Ebenezer Sproat and Katherine Whipple Sproat. She was also the granddaughter of Commodore Abraham Whipple of Rhode Island, who is credited with burning the first British ship, the Gaspee, in 1772, evoking rage from King George III and further fanning the flames of what would become the American ...
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- January 28, 1782
- Solomon Sibley, Judge
- January 22, 1851
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When Major General Henry Hastings Sibley was born on 20 February 1811, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Solomon Sibley, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Whipple Sproat, was 29. He married Sarah Jane Steele on 2 May 1843, in Mendota, Dakota, Minnesota, United States.
