Name: Seibertz, Henry Joseph
Born: 01/20/1841
Where Born: Ockenfels, Linz Austria
Ordained: 12/21/1864
Where Ordained: Vincennes, Indiana
Served From-To: 1864-1898
Died: 01/22/1898
Where Died: Cincinnati, Ohio
Buried: St Andrew Cemetery Priests Plot – Richmond Indiana, 01/26/1898
The Evening Item, Richmond, IN, Saturday, January 22, 1898
DEATH COMES
TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERINGS OF FATHER HENRY SEIBERTZ
HE PASSED AWAY DURING THE EARLY HOURS OF MORNING IN THE BETTS STREET HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI–LOCATED HERE FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS
The Rev. Father Henry Seibertz, priest of St. Andrew’s Catholic church in this city for the past twenty-one years, died during the early hours of this morning, at the Betts Street Hospital in Cincinnati.
The end was not unexpected, for on Wednesday last he suffered a stoke of paralysis and the hospital physicians well knew that the end was near. It has been several months since Father Seibertz began to show signs of being in ill-health, although with his characteristic energy and interest in all things pertaining to the church, he kept at work. Some weeks ago he suffered a serious attack of nervous prostration, and for two days his life was despaired of. He rallied, seemed to be regaining strength and was able to be up. It was at the request of friends that he consented to drop his charge here for a time and go to Cincinnati for treatment in the Betts Street hospital, and last Monday he left. He was thought to be improving until the stroke of paralysis came.
Father Seibertz was born in Germany, in the Province of the Rhine, on Jan. 20, 1841, and was therefore 57 years of age on Thursday last. He was educated in the land of his nativity and came to America when a young man. His first charge was at St. Mataline, this state, where he remained several years. He was then transferred to Dover, Dearborn county and in 1877, at the resignation of Father Hundt, pastor of St. Andrew’s Catholic church here, he came to Richmond. His remarkable business qualifications were brought into play immediately. He found the church greatly in debt. It is said that this indebtedness was in the neighborhood of $40,000. This amount he fully paid off, besides building the new school, refitting the church and building the parsonage. The loss sustained by the congregation is very great, for in this Catholic diocese, there was no priest who took a greater interest in the work before him than did Father Seibertz.”