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Rachel Adaline <I>Reed</I> Seibert

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Rachel Adaline Reed Seibert

Birth
Jackson County, Indiana, USA
Death
27 Jul 1933 (aged 93)
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
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Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Block: IOOF Section: Lot: 00000
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In 1932, Rachel wrote about her own family, ‘We left Indiana in covered wagons the 15th of September, 1869 and went to Independence, Kan. We arrived there Oct. 26 and lived there until May 1, 1875 when we again went by wagon to Lucas County, Iowa. We lived there eight years and then came to Des Moines where I am still living at the age of ninety two.'
With her on the wagon trip to Kansas Territory were her husband and five children, ages 8-1/2 years to 9 months. Ten days into the journey, 2 year old Waley died in Sedalia, Mo., of 'intermittent fever.' While in Kansas Rachel fought off Indians and worked as a farm wife from a half-sod, half-log cabin, giving birth to three more children. After moving to Iowa she birthed four more, raising 11 to adulthood. She loved reading and poetry and could quote scores of poems from memory, and even after her eyesight failed late in life, would sew quilts with her daughters to place the pieces. Special thanks to her granddaughter Margaret Seibert for memories, great-great-grandson Mike Camp for sharing this family photo and Rachel's own accounts, to Clarence Cassler for gravestone photos, and to Rachel herself for being such an inspiration.
In 1932, Rachel wrote about her own family, ‘We left Indiana in covered wagons the 15th of September, 1869 and went to Independence, Kan. We arrived there Oct. 26 and lived there until May 1, 1875 when we again went by wagon to Lucas County, Iowa. We lived there eight years and then came to Des Moines where I am still living at the age of ninety two.'
With her on the wagon trip to Kansas Territory were her husband and five children, ages 8-1/2 years to 9 months. Ten days into the journey, 2 year old Waley died in Sedalia, Mo., of 'intermittent fever.' While in Kansas Rachel fought off Indians and worked as a farm wife from a half-sod, half-log cabin, giving birth to three more children. After moving to Iowa she birthed four more, raising 11 to adulthood. She loved reading and poetry and could quote scores of poems from memory, and even after her eyesight failed late in life, would sew quilts with her daughters to place the pieces. Special thanks to her granddaughter Margaret Seibert for memories, great-great-grandson Mike Camp for sharing this family photo and Rachel's own accounts, to Clarence Cassler for gravestone photos, and to Rachel herself for being such an inspiration.

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