This Web site is no longer being updated. To go to the
updated site for the new Sigler Web Site home page click on the link below.
http://williesigler.com/
Welcome to the Sigler Web Site
Visitors
We are Willie (Dad), Jeanne (Mom), Tim, Jeff, and Dan. Dad hangs out at a place that
makes fuel for nuclear power plants. Mom, Tim, Jeff, and Dan are actively
pursuing their own lives. We also have a guard rabbit (instead of a guard dog), Leia Doe Sigler.
Click on our names to see our names in foreign languages. Willie Joe
Jeanne Louise
Timothy Joe
Jeffrey Michael
Daniel Adam
As with all good web sites, our site is constantly under
construction. We add information and improve the site structure as time permits.
We have acquired FrontPage 2000 and have converted our site to its format. The
current active sections are Dad's Page, Tim's Page, Leia's Page,
Mind Work, Mom's Genealogy, Dad's Genealogy, Old Bethel, and Chalybeate Springs.
Dad's
Page looks at Dad as a scholar, soldier, and craftsman. It has numerous links
to some interesting places and organizations. If you are having a slow day or are
having problems sleeping, you might want to check it out. There are five buttons at
the top of the page. They are expanded versions of the material on the
main
page. They are Scholar, Craftsman, Soldier, Traveler, and Eagles and Arrows.
The Eagles and Arrows page might be of interest to modern day boy scouts who would like to
read about what the organization was like in the 1960's. The Traveler page is
rather long. It prints out as six pages. The entire group of pages prints out
as twenty pages. Feel free to read as much or as little as interests you. No
personal names are mentioned on any of the pages.
Tim's page gives a little bit information about him and about
one of his interests for the last ten years....comic collecting.
Leia's
Page has a message which she keypunched into the
computer and a little bit of information about her.
Mind Work has a few things in it to exercise your mind.
The answers are simple, but "attention to detail" is the watchword. I have
a cyberspace literacy quiz in this section. If you like the quiz, you might want to
get a copy of and read Where Wizards Stay Up Late...The origins of the Internet by
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon.
From Dust Thou Art to Dust Returneth
Gone But Not Forgotten
Dad's Genealogy contains tree
charts, families, a photo album,
and cemeteries. The tree charts show family relationships while families contain
general biographical data. The photo album information identifies the
probable amount of Cherokee Indian ancestry of each of
dad's ancestors. The photos speak for themselves. The information was collected over two or three decades
by my mom and dad and was inherited by me when he died. Some of the data goes as far
back as the early 1700's and includes the surnames ADAMS, BUR(NETT),
CLEMENTS, COLLINS, DODGE, DUNCAN, FLETCHER, GAINES,
GLENN, GRIFFIN, HARDIN, HEARIN, HERNDON, HOWARD,
HUME, IRVIN, JOHNSON, JONES, MARTIN, PITTMAN,
ROBERTS, ROBY, SCOTT, SIGLER, SMITH, TAYLOR,
URTON, VAUGHN, WALES, WALLACE, WOOLEY, and YOUNG.
The cemeteries page includes burials in the following states and counties:
INDIANA (Gibson), KENTUCKY (Caldwell, Garrard, Graves, Jefferson, McCracken,
Union, Shelby, and Webster), NORTH CAROLINA (Iredell), OHIO (Warren), TENNESSEE
(Robertson and Wilson), and VIRGINIA (Fairfax, Orange, and Spotsylvania). If
you are interested in family history research, you might want to check it out. For
the privacy of the living and the security of the deceased, only general information
is published on this site. If you have a reason to know more details, I will be
glad to send them to you by email. If you fax me, please include your email address.
The subject of the origin of the Siglers of Western Kentucky and numerous people
who are descendents of the Siglers of Western Kentucky and other descendents of
Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina origin is addressed on the page
JACOB AND MARGARET. The BURIAL
SITES page listing the death
and burial locations of some of the descendents of Jacob and Margaret has
been created. The states and counties listed extend from North Carolina in
the east to California and Oregon in the West. The HEARTLANDS
page is in narrative
form and traces the movement through time and location of
the descendents of Jacob Sigler and Margaret. The story moves from heartland to heartland and follows the dispersion
of the descendents. The heartlands currently on the page include Western
North Carolina, Western Kentucky - Southern Illinois, East Tennessee, Central
Illinois, Central Indiana, Northeast Texas, Northwest Oregon, South Central
Missouri, Southwest Missouri, East Central Arkansas, East Central Kansas, East
Central Oklahoma, South Central Kansas, North Central Colorado, Southwest
Michigan, West Central Missouri, Southwest
California, South Arizona, South Central Nebraska, North Missouri, New Mexico, Southeast Texas,
East Central Missouri, North California, East Central Texas and California. Others will be
added when I receive additional information.
Mom's Genealogy is set up similar to Dad's Genealogy.
However, the amount of information is extremely limited. Any further information
would be welcomed. It includes the surnames BLACK, DAVIS, GORDON, GREEN, MAGNUS,
NICHOLS, PARK (S), RITTER, WILLIAMS, AND YOPP.
Union County, Kentucky, Heritage
Three of my grandparents came from the Old Bethel Baptist Community and one of my
grandparents came from the Chalybeate Springs Methodist Community. Both communities
were a part of the original Union County, Kentucky, before Webster County was
formed in 1860 and both are a part of Union County history. They seem to
be opposites in politics, social concerns, origin, and religion.
I am constructing Descendants pages which list the descendents of those
buried in the Old Bethel Cemetery and the Old
Chalybeate Springs Cemetery. According to Kentucky law, the
descendants of people buried in a cemetery have the right to go to that
cemetery. If one of your ancestors is listed on one of the descendants
pages, you have the right to go to that cemetery and visit the graves of your
ancestors.
It is my intent not to list the names of living people on the descendants
pages unless they request that I do so. If you are a descendant of someone
buried in Old Bethel Cemetery or Old Chalybeate Springs Cemetery and you
want your name included on those pages, email me with your request. If you
see the name of a person listed on one of those pages which you know to be
living, please email me.
People whose names are in bold type are known to be buried at
Old Chalybeate Springs Methodist Cemetery.
Chalybeate Springs web page
has been developed to bring attention to a cemetery which has been left to the
forces of nature for the last fifteen or twenty years and resembles a woodlot
today. Until the 1980's, people were taking care of it. Some of the
descendents of those buried in the cemetery are trying to restore it, but they
need a lot of help. The community flourished during the early and mid
1800's and started to decline after the Civil War. There is a possibility
that the community may have been an Underground Railroad Station surrounded by
Southern sympathizers. Research is currently being done on the subject by
the Underground Railroad Initiative for Indiana. The page contains a
history of the community, the general characteristics of the population of the
cemetery, and a list of the known names of the people buried there. The
information is presented by family names and additional information concerning
the families is provided. A photo of what we have been told is the spring
is included. Family names include Baker, Brown, Cobb (Sigler), Curtsinger,
Davis, Duncan (Holeman), French, Garner (Carner), Garret(t), Gibson
(Hearin, Sigler), Hall (Hale) (Sigler), Hanes, Harris, Hearin
(Duncan, Gibson, Sigler), Herrell, Hill, Holeman,
Householder, Jenkins, Kennedy, Liggett, Lively (Sigler), Locke, Lynn, McClendon
(Sigler), Mason (Holeman), Melton, Morehead (Duncan, Holeman,
Parrick, Sigler), Mulchay (Sigler), Oldham (Sigler), Payne, Powell, Ramsey,
Riggs, Russell (Duncan, Sigler, Whitledge),
Shelton (Sigler), Sights, Sigler (Calvert, Johnson,
Lively, McClendon, Roberts, Shelton, Wallace, Young), Stone,
Taylor (Sigler), Turner, Virgie (Virgil), Virgin, and Whitledge.
So much for the introduction. The hyperlinks are at the top of the
screen. Come on in and surf awhile.
Maps of Kentucky counties and cemeteries within them are
available at the following web site http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/traffic%5Fcenter/mapsonlineon.htm
Meet my brother:
Robert Thomas Sigler
Meet a couple of my nephews:
Marc Yarbrough
Robert Mills Sigler
Meet a distant cousin:
James (Jim) Sigler
We have common great, great, great grandparents, Jacob Sigler and Malinda
Roberts, as shown in the chart above.
My Computer Nostalgia
My username is really simple but you have to
know the family to keep it straight. Willie, Jeanne, Tim, Jeff, and Dan from
oldest to youngest.
We started out in 1996 with one computer for the whole family and this was developed as
our username so that everyone could identify with it. After a year it was
standing room only and we bought our second one. My youngest son has built a
couple for himself over the years. Over the years we have developed a
local area network with a DSL connection and have five desktops connected to it.
Sometimes a laptop is connected to it also. Now I am the only one that uses
wjtjd. CAT 5 is all over the house. I decided not to put it in the walls. We
keep moving the stations around too much. Besides, I did not want to take a
chance on interference from the 120.
The year was 1972. I was a graduate student at Murray
State University in a program that granted the highest degree at the university.
The normal requirement for a graduate degree was either statistics or language
proficiency. I already had math through calculus and a proficiency in Russian. I
thought that maybe that would get me out of that requirement. My committee
(three people with doctorates) decided not to let me off of the hook on that one
and told me that there was something new and that would be my requirement
instead of statistics or language.
The new research tool was something called computer programming. I became
familiar with computer literacy and sat through the lower level language class
called IBM PL1. I wrote research programs in that language all year long with
the prize being a program for the Koppen Climate Classification System.
I had a friend working on the same degree in the physics discipline and I think
that he may have taught some courses at Paducah Community College at one time.
He taught me all about the computers of the late 60's and early 70's and how
they operated and functioned. This, of course included language hierarchies
(machine, assembly, etc.) and their roles in making a computer operate.
I left the university in 1973 and vowed that I would have a computer at home
some day. I always wanted one but could not justify the expense until the mid
90's when the kids were in school. Then everything started to pick up speed at
the house. That is how I am where I am as far as computers is concerned. The
military also had a role in my computer literacy development but .........
IBM PL1 is a lot like modern day Basic and I thought that it was a dead
language. However, after recent discussions with some programmers I have come to
believe that it is used in all computers to convert user software programs into
assembly language that converts information into machine language (binary code).
If it were not for that hierarchy you would not be able to read this. It is all
inside your little computer next to you. The ones in the early 70's that could
only do a minute fraction of what your desktop (no matter how old) does would
have taken up an entire room of your house. We also had to use those infamous
"punch cards". One typing mistake and you made an entirely new card.
The computer that I used was on the ground floor of the business building.
I talked dad into buying a Commodore 64 in
1983 after mom died. I think that he paid somewhere around $1000 for it. The
monitor was a TV set. It had an external 5.25 inch floppy disk reader and some
kind of printer that used the old computer paper with holes on the sides. He did
not use it much but it gave him something to do. The user had to program
everything in Basic. Software was hard to find in those days.
While a student at the university I was told
that IBM PL1 (International Business Machines Program Language 1) was a
combination of FORTRAN (Formula Translation) and COBOL (Common Business Oriented
Language). It was supposed to have the computational capability of FORTRAN and
the word processing capability of COBOL. It did not use numbered lines. Basic
was developed later. I always thought that it was the next generation after IBM
PL1.
I was told that all I had to do was to teach the machine how to do its task. I
did and it worked. It did the work that would have taken a few hours by hand in
only a few seconds. That is when my love affair with computers began. I had done
a lot of pencil and paper work with that climatic data and knew how long it took
by hand.
We had to use punch cards to get into classes in college also. Of course, a lot
of our bills came in the mail on punch cards also. As I remember, printed on the
card were the words "Do not staple, fold, spindle, or mutilate" or
something very similar.
The first explanation that I was given for
computer memory was the analogy of a screen door. I was told to think in terms
of DC current flowing in the wires of the screen and a ring at each of the
intersections to sense the direction of flow of the current in the wires. One
combination would be a 1 and another combination would be a 0.
Of course, the first computer was a group of relays mounted on a plywood board.
A university near Philadelphia comes to mind as the location for the research
and development project. I
think that it had something to do with artillery firing tables.
Site Map
Dad's Page - Introduction My Biographical
Information
Scholar
Soldier
Craftsman
Traveler
Eagle's and Arrows
Tim's Page - Outdated Personal Information
Leia's Page - Pet Rabbit's Photo and
Information
Mind Work
IQ Test
Sunday Quiz
Internet Quiz
Dad's Genealogy - Introduction and
Ahnentafel
Families -
Information on Families in My Direct Line
Tree Charts -
Genealogical Charts of My Direct Line
Photo Album - Photos
of Several Generations of My Direct Line and a Chart Showing My Probable Native
American Ancestry According to Oral Family History
Cemeteries - List of
Cemeteries in Which My Direct Line is Buried in Indiana, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia
Chester and Nora
- A Page Devoted to My Mother's Parents, Chester Collins and Nora Urton
Jacob and Margaret -
Introductory Page for a Group of Pages Presenting the History of the Descendants
of Jacob Sigler and Margaret who moved from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Rowan/Iredell
County, North Carolina, in the Late 1700's.
Sigler Book - A Resource Page Designed to Enhance the Use of and an
Understanding of the 2002 Edition of the Sigler Book, a Book by Gregory Watson,
of Information about the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of
Virginia
Heartlands - The Story of the Dispersion of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and
Margaret Over the Last Two Hundred Years
Communities - A Page Listing the Heartlands
Burial Sites - List of Cemeteries Where Some of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler
and Margaret Are Buried
Charts - Charts Showing the Family Relationships of the Descendants of Jacob
Sigler and Margaret Buried in the Cemeteries Listed on the Burial Sites Page
Reunion - Resource Information Concerning the 2000, 2002, and Future Sigler
Family Reunions
The
Reunion page now contains charts (tables) of the
first five generations of the descendants and spouses of Jacob Sigler and
Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina. Two primary index charts exist on
the page. One is for their children and grandchildren who settled in the
Tradewater Basin of Western Kentucky and the other is for Phillip, (buried in
eastern Tennessee), Mary ( buried in south central Indiana), Catherine (buried
in central Illinois), and Laurance (last known to be in North Carolina). Other
charts are linked from the cells on the primary charts to additional charts with
the children and grandchildren and their spouses of some of the people in those
cells. If you know the names of your parents, grandparents, and
great-grandparents you may find those name somewhere in these charts.
These charts are an electronic index for what I call the 2002 Edition of the
Sigler Book. The Sigler Book is a book which has been published by Gregory
L. Watson and also has the titles Descendants of Jacob Sigler 1736-1817
and Caldwell County, Kentucky Ancestors - Some Descendants of Jacob Sigler
1726-1817 - 17,529 Person Index. My charts contain over 2000 of those
names and are nothing more than an electronic index for the first five
generations of the book. The book contains extensive information on
various people in the book including stories, copies of courthouse documents,
and locations of other courthouse documents. The book contains some names
in the eleventh generation. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of
the book, email me for Greg's mailing address.
The Tradewater charts contain the first,
second, third and fourth generations of the seven descendants of Jacob Sigler
and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina who went to the Tradewater River
Basin of Kentucky to live during the first two decades of the 1800's.
Their spouses and dates of marriage are included in the charts. Many of
the descendants of those Kentucky Pioneers still live in Western Kentucky and
Southern Illinois. Others have migrated across the United States over the
centuries and some of the living descendants probably live in every state in the
United States by now.
Due to the amount of information and the use of
charts (tables) the load time may be as much as four or five minutes with a 28.8
modem. DSL, on the other hand loads the page in about twelve seconds.
Cable probably has about the same download time as DSL. It
may take a while, but if you are interested in genealogy regarding the
descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret of Virginia and North Carolina the wait
will be well worth your time.
Mom's Genealogy - Blank Page Reserved for
My Wife, Jeanne Louise Parks Sigler to Use If She Decides to Use It
Charts - Genealogical
Charts of Jeanne Louise Parks Sigler
Chalybeate Springs - A Page Detailing the
History and Development of the Old Chaylbeate Springs Community and Cemetery on
the Union County and Webster County Line in Western Kentucky
Descendants - A List
of the Descendants of the People Buried in Old Chalybeate Springs Cemetery
Old Bethel - A Page Detailing the History
and Development of the Old Bethel Community and Cemetery in Union County West
of Sturgis in Western Kentucky
Descendants - A List
of the Descendants of the People Buried in Old Bethel Cemetery
Sigler Chronology - A Year By Year List of
Events in the Lives of the Descendants of Jacob Sigler and Margaret During the
Last 300 Years
This page was last updated on 01/15/05.
