A Civil War Union Army dispatch rider from Arlington Heights whose memory was lost to history will finally get his due during the village's annual Memorial Day ceremony and parade. The story of John Sieburg was uncovered by his great-grandniece, who lives in Switzerland but will be in Arlington Heights on Monday to honor and remember him.
Years ago, Nadine Lussman now admits, she looked upon her family tree as little more than a collection of names and dates and places.
The key discoveries were 1860 census records and an 1861 map of Wheeling Township showing the Sieburg family farm just east of the town of Dunton -- what would later become Arlington Heights. This 1861 map shows the land owners of Wheeling Township, including the Sieburg family, who owned an 80-acre farm just east of the town of Dunton -- what would later become Arlington Heights.
Sieburg -- only the third Civil War veteran on the list of 59 servicemen memorialized in Arlington Heights -- will finally get his due during the village's annual Memorial Day ceremony and parade on Monday. Lussman, who grew up an Iowa farm girl but moved overseas for her job more than three decades ago, will be there to honor her great-granduncle.
Lussman hasn't been able to track down a photo of Sieburg, who died at age 20 and didn't have a wife or children. But to get an idea of what Sieburg looked like in the war, the veterans committee has secured the 8th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Cavalry -- a nonprofit re-enactor group -- to march in Monday's parade.
"Finding that mention was like, 'Oh my God, there it is.' This is the guy that my dad and other family had talked about being the 'unknown Sieburg,' and he's not so unknown. He was remembered and written about," Jeff Lussman said."Sometimes with ancestry, it's a little bit of luck and a little bit of persistence."
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