Notes for Obby SIGSBEE

Notes for Obby SIGSBEE

Name: Obby Sigsbee
Death date: 04 Aug 1954
Death place: Navasota, Grimes, Texas
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): white
Age at death: 72 years 9 months 2 days
Estimated birth year:
Birthdate: 02 Nov 1881
Birthplace: Kansas
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name:
Father's name:
Father's birthplace:
Mother's name:
Mother's birthplace:
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Rural Precinct No. 1, Brazos, Texas
Cemetery name: Oakland
Burial place: Navasota, Texas
Burial date: 05 Aug 1954
Additional relatives:
Film number: 2114279
Digital GS number: 4165544
Image number: 90
Reference number: cn 39187
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Eva, Obby's mother, had another child about 4 years after the birth of Obby. She was married for a second time and apparently left Obby with her parents prior to this marriage. That would place Obby in the household with his grandparents at about 1883.

1880 census:
Census Place: Scandia, Republic, Kansas
Source: FHL Film 1254394 National Archives Film T9-0394 Page 108C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
John VALK Self M M W 28 HOLLAND
Occ: Carpenter Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Eva VALK Wife F M W 17 WI
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: OH
Marion VALK Son M S W 2M HOLLAND
Fa: WI Mo: NY

Source: 1900 census, Scandia, Republic Co. KS page 85
Sigsbee, Lucretia b. May 1838 age 62 widow 4 children, 2 living b.Ohio,Fa b. PA, Mo b. Ohio
Obby grandson b. Nov 1881 age 18 single b. KS, fa b. Holland, Mo b. WI

1910 Federal Census - Scandia, Republic Co., KS, ED 107, sheet 1B
Obbie Sigsbee, 29, b. KS, father b. Germany, mother b. WI, married one year
Louisa Sigsbee, 23, wife, b. KS, married one year
Mrs. L.J. Sigsbee, 72, grandmother, b. OH, 4 children, 2 living

Source: 1920 census, Okema, Okfaskees Co., Oklahoma
Sigsbee, Obby head MW age 38 b. KS. father b. Holland , mother b. WI
Jane wife age 27 b. TN, parents b. TN
Winefred son age 4 7/12 b. Oklahoma
Merritt son age 1 4/12 b. Oklahoma
Lucretia grandmother age 81 b. Ohio, parents b. Ohio