Anne Goldthwaite

Anne Goldthwaite

• Father: George Thomas Goldthwaite b. 10 December 1809, d. 16 March 1879
• Mother: Olivia Price Wallach b. 19 February 1810, d. 13 July 1878

• Anne Goldthwaite was born on 21 October 1837 in Montgomery, Alabama.
• George Thomas Goldthwaite and Olivia Price Wallach appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery, Alabama, the latter three children of his deceased brother Robert Henry Goldthwaite. Also in the household was Ellen Wallach, probably the unmarried sister of Olivia.. Other members of the household included Anne Goldthwaite, George Goldthwaite, Richard Wallach Goldthwaite, Mary Robbins Goldthwaite, Henry Goldthwaite, Robert Wallach Goldthwaite, Sarah Goldthwaite, George Goldthwaite and Charles Goldthwaite.
• George Thomas Goldthwaite and Olivia Price Wallach appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Anne Goldthwaite, George Goldthwaite, Richard Wallach Goldthwaite, Mary Robbins Goldthwaite, Henry Goldthwaite and Robert Wallach Goldthwaite.
• She married Emmet Seibels, son of John Temple Seibels, on 4 February 1868.
• Emmet Seibels and Anne Goldthwaite appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Annie Laura Seibels. Also in the household were two female domestic servants.
• Emmet Seibels and Anne Goldthwaite appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Montgomery, Alabama, enumerated not far from the household of Robert's future wife Fannie Lockett Marks.. Other members of the household included Annie Laura Seibels, George Goldthwaite Seibels, William Temple Seibels, Robert Emmet Seibels and Henry Goldthwaite Seibels.
• Anne Goldthwaite became a widow at the 19 December 1899 death of her husband Emmet Seibels.
• Anne Goldthwaite appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 711 Perry Street. Other members of the household included Annie Laura Seibels, George Goldthwaite Seibels, William Temple Seibels, Robert Emmet Seibels and Henry Goldthwaite Seibels.
• Anne Goldthwaite appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 711 South Perry Street. Other members of the household included Annie Laura Seibels, Emmet Seibels and Robert Emmet Seibels.
• Anne Goldthwaite died on 16 June 1919 at age 81 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 117 South Perry Street at her residence.
• She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
• The following appeared on 17 June 1919 in The Montgomery Advertiser: When Mrs. Anne Goldthwaite Seibels passed away Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the family residence, 117 South Perry Street, Montgomery lost probably its oldest native resident and the community a Southern gentlewoman of the old regime actively identified throughout a long life in all phases of woman's usefulness. [:CR;]      Had Mrs. Seibels lived to October 21st of this year she would have reached her eighty-second milestone, for she was born in Montgomery on October 21, 1837. She was the daughter of Judge George Goldthwaite and a niece of John Goldthwaite, one of the men who in 1818 incorporated the city of Montgomery. Other distinguished uncles of Mrs. Seibels were Judge John A. Campbell, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and also assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy, and Judge Henry Goldthwaite of the Supreme Court of Alabama. [:CR;]      Mrs. Seibels as Miss Anne Goldthwaite was one of the most popular young ladies of Alabama's ante-bellum society. Her picture appears in that rare work: "Beles, Beaux and Brains of the Sixties" in which that gifted Mobilian T. C. DeLeon so vividly depicted the graces of a social order that is now only a memory. [:CR;]      On February 4, 1868, she was married to Major Emmett Seibels, who had fought with distinction in a South Carolina regiment during the war between the States and who afterwards identified himself with Montgomery as one of its leading lawyers and planters. Major Seibels died in 1899. [:CR;]      Mrs. Seibels was the last of her family. However, she leaves five sons and daughters, Miss Annie Laurie Seibels, of Montgomery; Capt. George Seibels of the United States Navy; William T. Seibels , solicitor of Montgomery county; R. E. Seibels, vice-president of the Fourth National Bank of Montgomery, and Henry G. Seibels, prominently identified with the real estate and insurance business of Birmingham. There are six grandchildren of Mrs. Seibels, three being the children of Captain George Seibels, two of R. E. Seibels and one of Henry G. Seibels. [:CR;]      Besides being a lifelong member of St. John's Episcopal church and actively interested in the work of the parish, Mrs. Seibels was a member and at one time president of the Ladies' Memorial Association. Mrs. Seibels for many years religiously placed a wreath every Memorial Day on that historic monument and on the Memorial Day of 1919 performed that duty of tribute to the heroes of the Lost Cause. She was a member of Sophie Bibb Chapter, Daughtes of the Confederacy. MRs. Seibels was taken seriously ill only last Friday. By a peculiar coincidence her son Captain Seibels had but recently obtained a brief leave of absence from his duties with the navy and was home on a visit when his mother's last illness came. Mr. Henry G. Seibels of Birmingham, is also in the city and the remains of Mrs. Seibels will go to their final resting place accompanied by her daughter and four sons. [:CR;]      Funeral services will be held at St. John's church at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, Dr. Richard Wilkinson, rector of St. John's officiating.
• The following appeared on 18 June 1919 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Funeral services for Mrs. Emmett Seibels were held from St. Johns Episcopal Church Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, Rev. Richard Wilkinson officiating. The pallbearers were: Herbert Goldthwaite, Richard S. Goldthwaite, Robert G. Arrington, Richard H. Arrington, Archie H. Arrington and Samuel L. Arrington. Interment was in Oakwood cemetery.
• The following was published in Thomas McAdory Owen's 1921 History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography:
       SEIBELS, ANNIE (GOLDTHWAITE), patriotic worker, daughter of Judge George Goldthwaite (q. v.) She was one of the pioneer workers in the Ladies Confederate memorial association of Montgomery. Married: Maj. Emmet Seibels (q.v.) Last residence: Montgomery.

• Last Edited: 25 Nov 2015