A short history of Peter Adam Seibert, patriarch
- 1820 Peter was born Jan 28th in Ransweiler, county of Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Germany to Johann and Marie Margarethe Haas Seibert.
- 1842 After his father's death in Germany, Peter and his mother came to America and settled in Holmes County.
- 1843 Peter married Magdalena Elizabeth Rausch on March 29th. Peter and his family lived in the Winesburg area of Holmes County for a few years.
- 1847 The family moved to Killbuck Township in Holmes County and bought a forty acre farm there.
- 1860 They moved to Tuscarawas County. In the Ragersville section of the county Peter bought a farm. That area today is still called Seibert's Hill.
- 1865 Magdalena died
- 1866 Peter married Margaret Hochstetler Bixler, widow of Christian Bixler and mother of two. They had 6 children.
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