Re: Seiber feud--
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In reply to:
Seiber feud--
Judy Womack 7/13/02
Judy--In regard to Mark Seiber, all the information that I have on him is:Parents:John Seiber and Malinda Lively;Marriage,Tennessee, Anderson County , Marriage Record, Volume 3, January 1859-December 1872, page 1-2, marries Elizabeth Taylor by Levi Seiber M.G.
Census:1850 Tennessee,Anderson County, Mark age 10 with parents John and Malinda.
1860 Tennessee,Anderson County, Mark Seiber age 20, Elizabeth age 20, James 8 months.
The Seiber Feud--Taken from "A HISTORY OF ANDERSON COUNTY TENNESSEE" by R. Clifford Seeber. Written as a thesis for masters degree, University of TN, August 10, 1928. Oak Ridge Public Library - typed thesis belonging to Clinch-Powell Regional Library in the Clinton Public Library, 118 S. Hicks St. Clinton, TN 37716. (I was there in Sept.,1984.
excerpt--A typical family quarrel of the kind was the Seiber-Duncan feud. Phillip Seiber, a prosperous slave owner of Frost Bottom, a small valley community in the mountain section of the county, was supposed to have sent to the Confederate authorities a Clinton a list of the Union sympathisers from the Frost Bottom vicinity. At any rate, Confederate troops were sent to Frost Bottom. They arrested several men in that vicinity and took them to Knoxville as prisoners of war. The prisoners secured their release, however, by enlisting in the Confederate Army, but upon the first opportunity they deserted and fled into the mountains near their home. Others remained in the mountains near the homes, joininggorilla bands in that vicinity. Phillip Seiber was murdered in the door of his cabin. Some of the members of the Duncan family who had been arrested by the Confederate soldiers were accused of the deed. A little later Wilson Duncan, A Union Scout, who had been guiding bands of Union men throughout the mountains into Kentucky was killed from ambush. The feud was on. ---
Hope this helps -Thelma