Roman Siepert

OLD RESIDENT AND PIONEER DIES SUDENLY, WAS TRUE LOYAL MAN AND CONSISTENT LATTER-DAY SAINT On Wednesday, October 4th, funeral services for Roman Siepert, old resident and pioneer, who died suddenly, last Sunday, were held in the Burton Ward meeting house. Services were opened with singing by the ward choir and prayer by Probate Judge, James A. Berry. The speakers were Elder Alma B. Larsen, who said he had known Roman Siepert from his earliest childhood, and said he had always found him a true, loyal man and a consistent Latter-day Saint. S. P. Oldham, County Auditor, also spoke of the many virtues of the deceased, particularly as a citizen, a friend and as a pioneer and builder. Said the deceased was always loyal to law and duty to his friends. That he had always labored for the up building of the community and state without counting the cost to himself. Also mentioned was his cheerful optimistic disposition. Elder F. E. Belnap spoke of the spiritual side of deceased’s character. Notwithstanding, he was an active worker in all material things he was deeply spiritual and religious. His religious convictions stood before any other consideration with him. Beautiful solos were given by Miss May Johnson and F. E. Belnap. Closing prayer was offered by Bishop Charles O. Thomason. The body was interred in the Rexburg Cemetery under the direction of James R. Young. For many years Mr. Siepert had been bailiff of the District Court here and in St. Anthony, and in this connection has become known to many people. His tact and energy in this work assisted him greatly in expediting court business. He also was a road builder. For years he has been employed at various times upon the county and state highways, and was conspicuously successful in this work. He had the happy faculty of getting along with other men which made him valuable as a supervisor foreman. Many of the splendid highways now in this county will long remain monuments to his skill and energy. The whole community, county, and state will feel deeply the loss of this good man. His unselfish devotion to whatever cause he undertook, and to the friends he shoes will long be an inspiration to those who knew him

Roman Siepert "Having experienced many changes in his eventful life and as a pioneer participating in the manifold hardships and privations which ever fall to the lot of the early settlers, yet meeting them all courageously and successfully, Roman Liepert, (Siepert), now an exemplary and progressive farmer of near Rexburg, is surely entitled to representation in any compilation prepared to commemorate the acts and deeds of the men who have been the active builders of the civilization of this productive section of the state of Idaho. Mr. Siepert was born in Mieringen, Germany, on May 31, 1854, a son of Conrad and Carolina (Hertkorn) Siepert, the father being a skilled workman in locksmithing, in which his son Roman early acquired proficiency. When he was sixteen years old, Roman, with his mother and two sisters, all of whom had espoused the doctrines of the Church of Latter Day Saints, crossed the Atlantic to America, thereafter continuing their journey westward and crossing the broad expanse of the western plains with an ox-team company of Mormon emigrants, being only saved from utter destruction by the band of hostile Indians who sacked the town of Salina, Kans, and murdered the people on the very day of the emigrants' arrival, by being on the opposite side of the river. In 1876, Mr. Liepert (Siepert) engaged in mining and in freighting operations to Nevada, being prosperously connected with them for some years. In 1884 he came to the Upper Valley of the Snake River of Idaho, where, on September 1, at Lyman, he located on a homestead of 160 acres, the relinquishment of which he sold one year later, thence moving to Rexburg, where he engaged in farming, but after four years he was compelled to leave the land which he was cultivating as it was a part of a school section. His next location was on the place he now occupies, five miles west of Rexburg, where his indefatigable energy and characteristic industry and thrift have brought a highly improved property out of the original parched and dusty desert conditions, and his farming and stockraising operations here conducted have attained great scope and importance, and in the pursuance of his work of development he had even connected with all of the irrigating systems of his vicinity, being the water director of the Rexburg Irrigation Canal Co. and the vice-president of the Consolidated Farmers’ Canal Co., heading on the north bank of the Snake River, and on the location of his present fertile estate, in the primitive days, before the settlers had ever traveled on the trail leading hither, the daring horse thieves and “rustlers,” operating in the Snake River Valley and Jackson Hole, had here established one of their stations and stampling grounds. Mr. Liepert (Siepert) has ever done his duty as a broad and liberal-minded citizen in all things tending to the betterment of the community and the county, being known as a prosperous and representative citizen of a high standing and character, enjoying the good will and sincere friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. As a Republican he was elected as a justice of the peace in 1896, serving four years with conceded ability having also served for twelve years as a school trustee to the evident benefit of the schools, and holding the office of road supervisor for six years and being now in this position. He has been conspicuously favored in the conferring of important ecclesiastical honors upon him by his superiors in church relations, being ordained deacon when nineteen years of age, later holding the office of teacher for six years, priest for two years and elder for six years. Then he was on of the Seventies, later a high priest and is now holding the responsible trust of counsellor to the bishop of Burton ward, all of the duties devolving upon him being conscientiously and efficaciously discharged. His marriage with Miss Maria E. Young was solemnized at Salt Lake City on June 27, 1878, her parents being Josiah and Elizabeth (Kennedy) (Canivet) Young, natives of the picturesque Island of Jersey in the British Channel, north of France, where the father was a cabinetmaker until emigrating in 1854, that he might be one of the number to build up the new Zion in the desert lands of Utah. They settled at Provo, where the parents’ lives were passed in useful activities for many years, the father dying in 1894, at seventy-six years of age, and the mother is now residing at Fairfield, Utah, having attained the venerable age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs Liepert (Siepert) have had eleven children born to their union: Caroline E. born March 12, 1879; Maria E., born December 7, 1880; Roman R.,, born October 9, 1882; Thomas H., born September 9, 1884; Frederick D., born September 9, 1886, died April 5, 1891; Iva M., born September 4, 1888; Lorenzo, born August 15, 1890; Sophia, born April 24, 1892; George W., born June 26, 1893; Irving M., born August 4, 1895; Violet E., born April 29, 1898.” (“Progressive men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida counties, Idaho” p. 643-644)

OLD RESIDENT AND PIONEER DIES SUDENLY, WAS TRUE LOYAL MAN AND CONSISTENT LATTER-DAY SAINT On Wednesday, October 4th, funeral services for Roman Siepert, old resident and pioneer, who died suddenly, last Sunday, were held in the Burton Ward meeting house. Services were opened with singing by the ward choir and prayer by Probate Judge, James A. Berry. The speakers were Elder Alma B. Larsen, who said he had known Roman Siepert from his earliest childhood, and said he had always found him a true, loyal man and a consistent Latter-day Saint. S. P. Oldham, County Auditor, also spoke of the many virtues of the deceased, particularly as a citizen, a friend and as a pioneer and builder. Said the deceased was always loyal to law and duty to his friends. That he had always labored for the up building of the community and state without counting the cost to himself. Also mentioned was his cheerful optimistic disposition. Elder F. E. Belnap spoke of the spiritual side of deceased’s character. Notwithstanding, he was an active worker in all material things he was deeply spiritual and religious. His religious convictions stood before any other consideration with him. Beautiful solos were given by Miss May Johnson and F. E. Belnap. Closing prayer was offered by Bishop Charles O. Thomason. The body was interred in the Rexburg Cemetery under the direction of James R. Young. For many years Mr. Siepert had been bailiff of the District Court here and in St. Anthony, and in this connection has become known to many people. His tact and energy in this work assisted him greatly in expediting court business. He also was a road builder. For years he has been employed at various times upon the county and state highways, and was conspicuously successful in this work. He had the happy faculty of getting along with other men which made him valuable as a supervisor foreman. Many of the splendid highways now in this county will long remain monuments to his skill and energy. The whole community, county, and state will feel deeply the loss of this good man. His unselfish devotion to whatever cause he undertook, and to the friends he shoes will long be an inspiration to those who knew him

Roman Siepert "Having experienced many changes in his eventful life and as a pioneer participating in the manifold hardships and privations which ever fall to the lot of the early settlers, yet meeting them all courageously and successfully, Roman Liepert, (Siepert), now an exemplary and progressive farmer of near Rexburg, is surely entitled to representation in any compilation prepared to commemorate the acts and deeds of the men who have been the active builders of the civilization of this productive section of the state of Idaho. Mr. Siepert was born in Mieringen, Germany, on May 31, 1854, a son of Conrad and Carolina (Hertkorn) Siepert, the father being a skilled workman in locksmithing, in which his son Roman early acquired proficiency. When he was 9 years old, Roman, with his mother and two sisters, all of whom had espoused the doctrines of the Church of Latter Day Saints, crossed the Atlantic to America, thereafter continuing their journey westward and crossing the broad expanse of the western plains with an ox-team company of Mormon emigrants, being only saved from utter destruction by the band of hostile Indians who sacked the town of Salina, Kansas, and murdered the people on the very day of the emigrants' arrival, by being on the opposite side of the river. In 1876, Mr. Liepert (Siepert) engaged in mining and in freighting operations to Nevada, being prosperously connected with them for some years. In 1884 he came to the Upper Valley of the Snake River of Idaho, where, on September 1, at Lyman, he located on a homestead of 160 acres, the relinquishment of which he sold one year later, thence moving to Rexburg, where he engaged in farming, but after four years he was compelled to leave the land which he was cultivating as it was a part of a school section. His next location was on the place he now occupies, five miles west of Rexburg, where his indefatigable energy and characteristic industry and thrift have brought a highly improved property out of the original parched and dusty desert conditions, and his farming and stockraising operations here conducted have attained great scope and importance, and in the pursuance of his work of development he had even connected with all of the irrigating systems of his vicinity, being the water director of the Rexburg Irrigation Canal Co. and the vice-president of the Consolidated Farmers’ Canal Co., heading on the north bank of the Snake River, and on the location of his present fertile estate, in the primitive days, before the settlers had ever traveled on the trail leading hither, the daring horse thieves and “rustlers,” operating in the Snake River Valley and Jackson Hole, had here established one of their stations and stamping grounds. Mr. Liepert (Siepert) has ever done his duty as a broad and liberal-minded citizen in all things tending to the betterment of the community and the county, being known as a prosperous and representative citizen of a high standing and character, enjoying the good will and sincere friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. As a Republican he was elected as a justice of the peace in 1896, serving four years with conceded ability having also served for twelve years as a school trustee to the evident benefit of the schools, and holding the office of road supervisor for six years and being now in this position. He has been conspicuously favored in the conferring of important ecclesiastical honors upon him by his superiors in church relations, being ordained deacon when nineteen years of age, later holding the office of teacher for six years, priest for two years and elder for six years. Then he was on of the Seventies, later a high priest and is now holding the responsible trust of counsellor to the bishop of Burton ward, all of the duties devolving upon him being conscientiously and efficaciously discharged. His marriage with Miss Maria E. Young was solemnized at Salt Lake City on June 27, 1878, her parents being Josiah and Elizabeth (Kennedy) (Canivet) Young, natives of the picturesque Island of Jersey in the British Channel, north of France, where the father was a cabinetmaker until emigrating in 1854, that he might be one of the number to build up the new Zion in the desert lands of Utah. They settled at Provo, where the parents’ lives were passed in useful activities for many years, the father dying in 1894, at seventy-six years of age, and the mother is now residing at Fairfield, Utah, having attained the venerable age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs Liepert (Siepert) have had eleven children born to their union: Caroline E. born March 12, 1879; Maria E., born December 7, 1880; Roman R.,, born October 9, 1882; Thomas H., born September 9, 1884; Frederick D., born September 9, 1886, died April 5, 1891; Iva M., born September 4, 1888; Lorenzo, born August 15, 1890; Sophia, born April 24, 1892, died April 24, 1892; George W., born June 26, 1893; Irving M., born August 4, 1895; Violet E., born April 29, 1898.” (“Progressive men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida counties, Idaho” p. 643-644)