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CHARLES A. SIBECK
A well-known citizen of the Thornton
District of San Joaquin County, who is also a native son of California, is
Charles A. Sibeck, the owner of a fifty-acre orchard three-quarter of a mile
north of Thornton. He was born at
Placerville, August 6, 1882, a son of Charles and Caroline E. (Weiss) Sibeck.
The parents were natives of New York and Germany, respectively, born on May 22,
1833, and June 22, 1842. The father came
to California during the gold rush of 1849, and began mining near Placerville,
where he remained for about five years.
Then he went to logging at Bijou, California, and followed this
occupation for some fifteen years, after which he returned to Placerville,
where he owned and operated a mill. He
ran this mill for about ten years, and then bought a ranch at Elk Grove,
Sacramento County, consisting of one section of grain land located three miles
northeast of old Elk Grove on the Stockton Road. During the time he was logging at Bijou, he
acquired 1,400 acres of timber and grazing land, which he disposed of previous
to his death. There were four children
in the family: Caroline, deceased; Mrs.
Alice Edwards, residing in San Francisco; Charles A., of this sketch, and
Josephine, Mrs. Henry Allen, of Stockton.
The father passed away on the Sacramento County ranch in December, 1913,
at the age of eighty, and the mother died in 1911, sixty-nine years old.
Charles A. Sibeck attended the
Jackson district school, in Sacramento County, and remained on the home place
until his father’s death. When the
property was divided, he received 120 acres as his share, and his sisters
inherited a like amount. Mr. Sibeck
continued to improve his property until 1915, when he sold out and removed to
his present fifty-acre ranch, which he purchased at the time, and were he now
resides.
On February 26, 1906, in Sacramento,
Mr. Sibeck was married to Miss Ethel Doty, a native daughter of California,
born at Sheldon, Sacramento County, a daughter of Jonathan C. and Lillian Jane
(Traganza) Doty, the former of a native of Iowa,
while the latter was born in Sacramento County.
Grandfather Thomas Traganza was a native of
England who came to California in the early fifties. Jonathan C. Doty came to Sacramento County
about 1870, and engaged in farming. In
1912 he purchased a fifty-acre ranch, which is now the home place of Mr. and
Mrs. Sibeck; and here, two years later, he passed away at the age of sixty-one years. The mother now resides at Elk Grove,
California. There were eight children in
the family: Arthur; Elmer; Mabel, Mrs.
N. E. Baker, of San Francisco; Ethel, Mrs. Sibeck; Frank; Robert G.; Raymond;
and Harvey, who is now deceased.
Robert G. Doty, a brother of Mrs.
Sibeck, was born at Sheldon, California, September 16, 1893, and when old
enough learned the barber’s trade, which he followed for three years at
Woodland, California. He joined the
state militia and entered Company F, Second California Infantry, and served
five months under Captain Caldwell and Colonel Waukowski
on the Mexican border at Nogales, Arizona.
He then returned to Sacramento and was discharged, and on July 6, 1917,
re-enlisted at Fort Mason in the same company and same regiment. He was transferred to the 160th
Regiment, Fortieth Division, and was in training for five months at Fort Mason,
after which he was sent to Camp Kearney and trained there for ten months. His own regiment was sent to France, but he
was retained at Camp Kearney, training raw recruits. During August, 1918, he
left for France via Camp Mills, New York.
He sailed for Liverpool, England, and thence across the Channel to La
Havre, France; but his company was held in reserve and did not get to the
front. In March, 1919, he returned to
the United States and was discharged at the Presidio, San Francisco, with the
rank of corporal. On August 10, 1920, at
Sacramento, he was married to Miss Flaudie Mary Brakebill, a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Henry
and Etta (Couch) Brakebill. Her father was a farmer who came to Tulare
County, California, when she was a young girl, and there she received her
education.
Mr. and Mrs. Sibeck are the parents
of two children, Vernon and Audrey.
Fraternally Mr. Sibeck is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Elk Grove,
of which he is a past grand, and is also a member of the Encampment and Canton
at Elk Grove, while Mrs. Sibeck is a member and past noble grand of the Rebekah
Lodge of Elk Grove. Mr. Sibeck is also a
member of the Galt Parlor, N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1635-1636. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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