Colonel Emmet Seibels, whose death at his home in Montgomery was reported yesterday, was one of the few survivors of the old race of southern gentlemen. He was born in South Carolina seventy-eight years ago. Graduating from the University of South Carolina, he entered upon the practice of the law; but he gave up a lucrative practice to enter the service of the Confederate states. At the organization of the Seventh South Carolina regiment he was elected major, and by successive promotions became its colonel and commanding officer. He bore his part gallantly in many of the most desperate battles in which the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged. After the war closed Colonel Selbels went to reside in Montgomery, and there married a daughter of the late Senator George Goldthwaite, whose son, Robert Goldthwaite, is president of the Merchants' and Planters' National bank of Montgomery. Senator Goldthwaite's granddaughter, Mary Virginia, daughter of Robert Goldthwaite, was wedded some years ago to Milton Paul LeGrand the younger, elder son cf Dr. M. P. LeGrand, the most successful merchant Montgomery has ever had. Dr. LeGrand founded the famous Bank of Montgomery, of which the son is now president in succession to his father. Colonel Seibels was a right royal southern gentleman, and his death removes from Montgomery one of the most notable and mest honored citizens.
Colonel Seibels was a brave, strong, chivalric gentleman, who sprung from an age that is done. There is none left to take his place. One of Colonel Seibels's sons, George Seibels, was paymaster on the Petrel in Dewey's storming of Manila, and for many hours he dealt out the missiles of death to the Spaniards. A pathetic and somewhat romantic interest is aroused by Colonel Seibel's death, in that one of the brightest, most gifted, and most lovely of all the young women of Alabama is his daughter, the Miss Annie Laurie Seibels, one of the society heroines of a city famous for its beautiful women.
(Birmingham Post-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · Thursday, December 21, 1899)
Colonel Seibels was a brave, strong, chivalric gentleman, who sprung from an age that is done. There is none left to take his place. One of Colonel Seibels's sons, George Seibels, was paymaster on the Petrel in Dewey's storming of Manila, and for many hours he dealt out the missiles of death to the Spaniards. A pathetic and somewhat romantic interest is aroused by Colonel Seibel's death, in that one of the brightest, most gifted, and most lovely of all the young women of Alabama is his daughter, the Miss Annie Laurie Seibels, one of the society heroines of a city famous for its beautiful women.
(Birmingham Post-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · Thursday, December 21, 1899)
Colonel Emmet Seibels, whose death at his home in Montgomery was reported yesterday, was one of the few survivors of the old race of southern gentlemen. He was born in South Carolina seventy-eight years ago. Graduating from the University of South Carolina, he entered upon the practice of the law; but he gave up a lucrative practice to enter the service of the Confederate states. At the organization of the Seventh South Carolina regiment he was elected major, and by successive promotions became its colonel and commanding officer. He bore his part gallantly in many of the most desperate battles in which the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged. After the war closed Colonel Selbels went to reside in Montgomery, and there married a daughter of the late Senator George Goldthwaite, whose son, Robert Goldthwaite, is president of the Merchants' and Planters' National bank of Montgomery. Senator Goldthwaite's granddaughter, Mary Virginia, daughter of Robert Goldthwaite, was wedded some years ago to Milton Paul LeGrand the younger, elder son cf Dr. M. P. LeGrand, the most successful merchant Montgomery has ever had. Dr. LeGrand founded the famous Bank of Montgomery, of which the son is now president in succession to his father. Colonel Seibels was a right royal southern gentleman, and his death removes from Montgomery one of the most notable and mest honored citizens.
Colonel Seibels was a brave, strong, chivalric gentleman, who sprung from an age that is done. There is none left to take his place. One of Colonel Seibels's sons, George Seibels, was paymaster on the Petrel in Dewey's storming of Manila, and for many hours he dealt out the missiles of death to the Spaniards. A pathetic and somewhat romantic interest is aroused by Colonel Seibel's death, in that one of the brightest, most gifted, and most lovely of all the young women of Alabama is his daughter, the Miss Annie Laurie Seibels, one of the society heroines of a city famous for its beautiful women.
(Birmingham Post-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · Thursday, December 21, 1899)
Colonel Seibels was a brave, strong, chivalric gentleman, who sprung from an age that is done. There is none left to take his place. One of Colonel Seibels's sons, George Seibels, was paymaster on the Petrel in Dewey's storming of Manila, and for many hours he dealt out the missiles of death to the Spaniards. A pathetic and somewhat romantic interest is aroused by Colonel Seibel's death, in that one of the brightest, most gifted, and most lovely of all the young women of Alabama is his daughter, the Miss Annie Laurie Seibels, one of the society heroines of a city famous for its beautiful women.
(Birmingham Post-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · Thursday, December 21, 1899)
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