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| Peter Dibean | 5th Mich. Inf. & 8th Mich. Cav. |
| Alexander Dibean | 5th Mich. Inf. |
Peter Dibean Circa 1817 - 14 January 1865
Peter Dibean was born about 1817 in Canada, probably in the Quebec Province.
There is evidence that he took part in what has become know as the "Papineau Uprising of 1837 - 1838" between the French and English.
On 5 December 1840 he married Mary Till DeDroit (Translates to Strait in English) in Burlington Vermont. Here he and Mary Till started their family having two sons, Peter and Alexander.
In the mid 1840's they started a journey west through New York to Michigan, having another son and one daughter that were born in New York and then on to Michigan where a third daughter was born in 1849.
In 1850 the Peter Dibean Family lived in Waterford Township of Oakland County where four more children were born, three sons and a daughter. His occupation was that of a farmer.
By 1860 the family had moved to West Bloomfield Township where Peter continued to work as a farmer. At some time during this period one son, Joseph, and a daughter, Mary, had died. The family now consisted of Peter; his wife, Mary Till; sons Peter, Alexander, Leonard, Frank, and John; and two daughters, Julia and Mary Adeline (Cecelia).
In 1861, 23 August 1861, Peter enlisted in Company "D" of the Michigan 5th Infantry in Oakland County, the same military unit that his son, Alexander, had joined. He mustered with the regiment on 28 August 1861 and departed for Virginia to join the Army of the Potomac on 11 September 1861. On 24 September 1862 Peter was received a discharge for medical disabilities after which he returned to Pontiac Michigan.
In November 1862 he then enlisted in the Michigan 8th Cavalry, serving in both Company "C" and "D". It was while serving in the Michigan 8th Cavalry in Georgia on the "Stoneman Raid", 3 August 1863, that he was taken prisoner and later confined to the infamous Andersonville Prison.
He remained a prisoner at Andersonville Prison until December 1864 when he was released, probably with a pardon. He returned to Pontiac Michigan about 1 January 1865.
When he was released from Andersonville he weighed only 68 pounds and was not able to walk and had to be carried home from the train station, as affidavits in his Civil War Pension File testify to. At the time of his release he was ill with various diseases that were prevalent at the time.
On 14 January 1865, Peter died at his home in Pontiac, Oakland County. He was buried on 16 January 1865 in the Mt Hope Catholic Cemetery in Pontiac. His Civil War Headstone has his name spelled Peter Dibion.
As a result of Peter's diseases being passed on to other family members, his wife, Mary Till, died on 4 February 1865 and a daughter, Julia, died on 13 March 1865.
The remainder of the family was then placed with other families or other family members.
Written by: Jack & Marianne Dibean
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Alexander Dibean 23 February 1941 - 3 August 1923
Alexander Dibean was born on 23 February 1941 in Addison County, Vermont, the son of Peter and Mary Till Dibean.
While a young boy his family moved from Vermont through New York to Michigan and settled in Southeast Michigan.
In 1850 his family lived on a farm in Waterford Township, Oakland County. Alexander was the second child in the family with an older brother, Peter, and two younger sisters, Julia and Mary.
In 1860 his family lived in West Bloomfield Township, Oakland County and the family had grown with the addition of three more sons, Leonard, Frank, and John; and another daughter, Mary Adeline (Cecelia), however the death of daughter Mary had occurred between 1850 and 1860.
At the start of the Civil War in1861 Alexander joined the 5th Michigan Infantry, Company D, on 9 August 1861 and mustered on 28 August 1861.
The 5th Michigan Infantry was assigned to serve in Virginia with the Army of the Potomac when the unit departed Michigan on 11 September 1861.
On 5 May 1862 he was wounded at Williamsburg Virginia with gunshot wounds to the right breast area and the right hip. After being treated at a hospital at G H Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and placed on furlough he returned to duty.
On 13 December 1862 he was wounded at Fredericksburg with a gunshot to the abdomen. He was admitted to the Wolf Street General Hospital on 19 December 1862 where he was treated for his wounds. He returned to duty on 2 July 1863 after being transferred to the Invalid Corps on 15 April 1863.
Later, probably in August 1863 he was transferred to Company A, 1st Regiment of the Veterans Reserve Corps. Alexander was discharged in December 1865.
After being discharged Alexander worked as a sailor for a few years before returning to Michigan where he married Mary S Malonso on 17 June 1868 in Franklin Michigan.
In early 1870 he resided in Meridian Township of Ingham County with his wife, Mary, and a daughter, Mary Jennie, who was one year old. Later in 1870 he and his family had moved to Bath Township of Clinton County.
In 1879 Alexander and his family; now consisting of his wife, Mary, daughter, Mary Jennie, and daughter, Lila, moved to Mecosta County where he purchased a farm in Millbrook Township on Two Mile Road.
In March 1882 while visiting family in the Lansing area twin sons were born, but died two days later.
In March of 1884 a son, Charles A, was born. Daughters, Mary Jennie and Lila, died but the date and place are unknown. (Information on death of daughters taken from Alexander's Civil War Pension File)
Alexander died 3 August 1923 at home in Mecosta County and is buried in the Decker Cemetery in Millbrook Township.
Charles A Dibean, son of Alexander, remained a bachelor and died on 5 September 1927.
Charles is buried in the Decker Cemetery with Alexander.
Mary S Dibean, wife of Alexander, died on 24 October 1940 in Birmingham at the home of her half-sister. Mary is buried in the Decker Cemetery with Alexander.
Written by: Jack & Marianne Dibean.
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