Seibert Family Homestead
Martha Seibert's eighth grade grammar notebook
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The Seibert Family immigrated from Russian owned Poland in 1874. They moved to Kansas with a group of people and later moved to Michigan. The family consisted of Abraham and Eva and their seven children: Jacob, Tobias, John, Helena, Mary, Martha, and Nicodemus. Abraham was a Mennonite minister like his father, and the family left Russia after Czar Peter took power because the rights and privileges that had been granted to Mennonites by Catherine the Great were taken away. The families brought their gold in a toy box carried by Tobias Seibert in the hopes that Russian soldiers wouldn't steal it.
You can visit the family's Petoskey homestead by following the nature trails at North Central Michigan College. Tobias' toy box is displayed in the Student and Community Resource Center at NCMC.
You can visit the family's Petoskey homestead by following the nature trails at North Central Michigan College. Tobias' toy box is displayed in the Student and Community Resource Center at NCMC.