Origen Sibley
SIBLEY, ORIGEN, merchant and lumberman, was born in 1840, in Baldwin County; son of Origen and Elizabeth (Barlow) Sibley, the former a native of Connecticut who located in Blakely in 1820 and engaged in the sawmilling business, the latter a native of Alabama, but of Kentucky parentage. At the outbreak of the war Mr. Sibley joined the "Baldwin Star rangers," a cavalry company commanded by Capt. Joseph Booth, jr. In August, 1861, he resigned his commission with this company and enlisted in the "Mobile Cadets," which was Co. A, 3rd Alabama infantry regiment, stationed at Norfolk, Va., and commanded by Col. Tennent Lomax. He served as a private until April, 1862, when he was elected first lieutenant of a Baldwin County cavalry company, ordered to do picket duty from the Perdido River to the mouth of Pearl River, Miss., his company becoming Co. C, 15th Confederate regiment, in 1864. With his regiment he participated in several skirmishes while serving in the vicinity of Mobile and Pensacola. He was paroled at Gainesville, and located in Mobile where be merchandised and carried on the lumber mill business established by his father. Married: in 1866, to Harriet Brainard, of Mobile. Children: 1. son; 2. Guy; 3. daughter, m. W. S. McNeill, Mobile. Last residence: Mobile