Carl Seib or Seyb (died 4/26/1768) & Catherina
wed and begat
Henry Seib (1734-9/24/1821) & Mary (1739-1810 or 20)
wed and begat
George Sipes or Seib (1759-8/21/1843) & Catherina Klein (1760 or 62-3/8/1865)
wed and begat
John Sipes aka Johan Seib (3/4/1798-1/13/1881) & Mary Barton (8/3/1798-3/11/1892)
wed 3/18/1818 and begat
Caroline Eleanor Sipes (3/8/1833-12/28/1913) & Willson Price (12/22/1825-7/21/1901)
wed 3/3/1857 and begat
Obed K. Price (11/29/1874-11/9/1959) & Mazie Winnett Price (7/1/1884-7/19/1978)
wed 9/25/1918 and begat
Ann Marshall Price (8/4/1920-5/26/2011) & Daniel Willard Cannon (9/3/1920-9/19/1998)
wed 9/30/1943 and begat
5 Children*
begat
8 Grandchildren
begat
2 Great Grandchildren
*Ann Cannon's sister Helen Eleanor Price & William B. Foster III begat one child also named William.
Locations
Carl Seib or Seyb may have come from Germany or Holland. He died in 1768 in Dover Township (York County), Pennsylvania.
Henry Seib was born in Dover Township (York County), Pennsylvania. He died in Belfast Township (Bedford County), Pennsylvania. A DAR specialist gave his date of death as 5/29/1821.
George Sipes or Seib or Seip died in 1843 at Licking Creek (Bedford County), Pennsylvania.
Catherina Klein was the daughter of Conrad Klein (Cline) who held patented land and was on the tax rolls of Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1785. He died in Belfast Township (Bedford County), Pennsylvania on August 5, 1798. His wife Anna was listed in his will on 12/23/1797. Their daughter Catherina Klein died in Bedford County as well in 1865.
John Sipes aka Johan Seib was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and married there in 1818. He died in 1881 in Lynn Township (Knox County). Illinois.
Mary Barton was born in 1798, the daughter of Noah Barton and Elizabeth "Sarah" McCrum (1766-3/17/1842) of Brush Creek Valley (Bedford County), Pennsylvania. Mary married in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1818 and died in Lynn Township (Knox County), Illinois in 1892. Elizabeth McCrum was the daughter of Henry McCrum of North Ireland who died after 1788 in Milford Township (Juniata County), Pennsyllvania. His wife was Mary Hanover. Noah Barton's parents were George Barton (1731-6/7/1812) of Wales and Rebecca Morehead, daughter of John Muirhead and Rebecca Bailey.
Caroline Eleanor Sipes was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and died in Brawley (Imperial County), California in 1913. She was married to Willson Price.
Shortly before Obed Price died in a Pittsburgh hospital in 1959, his daughter, Ann Marshall Price Cannon, asked him about his parents and he told her the following:
Willson Price worked in carpentry in Illinois where he had gone from his home in Hackettstown, New Jersey. In 1852, while back in NJ to take his parents, Samuel and Mary Willson Price, out to to Illinois there was an oxen accident. The 26 year old Willson attempted to hitch the oxen to a plow when the great hook on the chain between the animals slipped and buried itself in his thigh. The yoked animals moved ahead dragging him. His mother, Mary, ran out shaking a crock at the animals and yelling, "Stop, you filthy beasts, stop!" He was eventually unhooked.
In 1857, the bank panic became a depression that lasted to 1865 when Willson Price, who had worked in the coal mines to make ends meet, bought a farm of 48 acres at Galva, Illinois. He later added 20 more acres. In addition to farming, he did carpentry and built a blacksmith shop for a neighbor.
Obed's mother, Caroline Eleanor Sipes Price and Obed took a train to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania then boarded another train to a mountain town where they took a Conestoga Wagon stage coach to to McConnellsburg where they visited relatives at Licking Creek. Caroline's father, General Sipes of the state's militia, had a tavern and store there. General Sipes served three terms in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. He went broke when turnpike income dried up after the railroad came through the area.
Obed Price, who had been born in Drury Township (Rock Island County), Illinois, left Willson's farm at age 22 in 1896. After serving in the Spanish American War during which he nearly died from a mosquito borne disease, he worked at R.G. Dun in Davenport, Iowa. In 1901, he came home for the funeral of Willson Price who had suffered from Bright's Disease, a chronic inflammation of the kidneys.
In 1901, Obed moved to the Pittsburgh branch of Dun where he did credit ratings of businesses in all of Allegheny County, except Allegheny City and Pittsburgh, till 1903. He made $60 a month. Meantime he met Aunt Ann Marshall wife of one of the wealthy Marshall brothers (Michael and John, local elevator magnates). She had multiple homes including one California. She told Obed she wanted to buy 6313 Kentucky Avenue in Pittsburgh "if you would come live with me." In April 1903 he moved in, quit Dun with some $2,000 in the bank, started law school which meant he had to study English, math and Latin.
He soon developed eye trouble, a relapse related to the typhoid fever he had contracted as a Spanish American War soldier in Pennsylvania Company B in Florida during Teddy Roosevelt's Cuba Libre expedition. The following summer returned to R.G. Dun to rest.
His previous schooling had been at a country school and 3 months with his brother Arthur at a Hazel Dell School the Lutz girls ran a half mile east and north of the price home. Their father was a minister at the Methodist and Presbyterian Union Church in Buffalo Prairie and did not believe in public education. Obed's brother, John, worked for Lutz and married his daughter, Mattie. Lutz also hired Obed's other brother, Arthur, "Lutz had a great fondness for Artie." Teachers earned $35 in the winter and $25 in the spring and fall.
Three year's after the preliminary law examination, the final exam was necessary. Since Obed had dropped out of law school, he had to intensify his studies and repeat the first year. He hired an Irish math and Latin tutor named Francis Dolan. He was finally sworn in as a member of the bar on December 19, 1908 at age 34.
Eugene Uhr was leaving his job at Pittsburgh Coal and introduced "papa" (Obed) to the general counsel, Senator Wood from Geensburg who hired him in the summer of 1909 at $50. His job was to study legal questions asked by Wood. He eventually earned $100 and successfully pushed for a raise to $200 a month.
William Barton Sipes introduced Obed to Aunt Ann Marshall. Obed was an attorney for and shareholder in Sipes Paint Company which was acquired by Hanna Paint. She had property on Diamond Street near 5th Avenue in Pittsburgh. Obed successfully negotiated a $50,000 purchase by McCrory after he had negotiated a lease of nearby property upon which McCrory built a department store. Aunt Ann Marshall introduced him to Ella and Reed Marshall with whom he would often correspond. Aunt Ann sold him 6313 for $1. In 1915 he acquired 6315 and 6317 Kentucky Avenue which he managed to keep through the Great Depression. He also had a house on Lambert Street that he turned into apartments, renting at $25-$30. He eventually sold it for $12,000 to an earth moving company.
