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3226 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSthose around him happy. He gave his family every advantage, and in 1879was accompanied by his wife and: five children in an extensive tour throughEurope. The fine old family homestead at the corner of Bay and Elbert'Streets in Augusta was a center for many notable homecomings of childrenand other relatives, and as long as he lived was the center* of the socialfestivities which marked such days.\ On July 25,1831, Josiah Sibley married Miss Sarah Ann Crapon, daughterof William and Hannah Crapon. Her father was a merchant at Providence,Rhode Island. The eleven children born to their marriage were: WilliamCrapon, born May 3,1832, died April 17, 1902; Henry Josiah, born November19, 1833, died July 25, 1864; Samuel Hale, mentioned in following paragraphs ; Sophia Matilda, born October 16, 1837, died in 1897; George Royal,born July 19, 1839, died July, 1887; Fannie Maria, born October 13, 1841,died December 20, 1842; Mary Lois, born September 3, 1843, died July, 1865;Robert Pendleton, born February 17, 1848; Amory Walter, born June 19,1852, died July 28, 1899; and Caroline Crapon, born February 21, 1850, anddied November 16, 1858, After the death of his first wife Josiah Sibley married Miss Emma Eve Longstreet, daughter of Gilbert Longstreet of RichmondCounty. They were married August 4, 1860, and the names of their fourchildren are John Adams, James Longstreet, Mary -Bones and Emma Josephine.Samuel Hale Sibley, who was the third son of Josiah Sibley, w^s born atAugusta, September 9, 1835. His education, begun in private schools, wasfinished at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1856, and in 1857 he went into hisfather's business under the firm name of Josiah Sibley & Son. Only a fewyears later he followed his older brothers into the service of the Confederacy.March 4, 1862, he enlisted in the Georgia Life Guards of Augusta, underCapt. Joshua K. Evans, known as Company C, Forty-eight Georgia Infantry.He fought at Malvern Hill, and with some others of his company was cut offfrom his command, subsisting for days upon roots and barks, and drinkingwater through his handkerchief from a wallow from which he had driven anold sow. Returning home in broken health, he put in a substitute in thearmy, but after learning that this substitute had been killed in the battle ofSharpsburg he bought a horse at Augusta and rode all the way to Richmond,where he joined Cobb's legion of cavalry in Hampton's division under Gen.Stonewall Jackson. He was at Chancellorsville and the seven days' fightingaround Richmond, including the battle of Seven Pines. One time he wentten days without taking off his boots. He was wounded in the side while inone of those battles, and was ill of wounds at home at the time of General Lee'ssurrender.The original association of Josiah Sibley with his sons was dissolved in1865 and the new firm J. Sibley & Sons constituted, comprising Josiah andhis sons Samuel H. and George R. They did a wholesale grocery businessand the cotton business, and the firm was rated as the wealthiest at that timein Augusta. Samuel H. Sibley -continued a forceful factor in Augusta business affairs until his death in December, 1883. He was a prominent memberof the Presbyterian Church, and gave much time and means to the promotionof civic improvements and practical charity.On November 15, 1865, Samuel Hale Sibley married Sarah Virginia Hart(Jennie Hart) the ceremony being performed by Rev. Joseph R. Wilson,pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.MRS. JENNIE HART SIBLEY. By her marriage to the late Samuel HaleSibley, and through her father, the late. James B. Hart, Mrs. Jennie HartSibley is closely related to two of the most cultured and distinguished familiesin the South. Her father, James B. Hart, who was born February 5, 1817,was in his time one of Augusta's foremost merchants, and equally distinguished