Herman Ziebarth was the sixth child born to Charles and Louisa Ziebarth and the third to survive past infancy. He was born in early fall, the third of September, 1858. Two or three years later, just as the United States was collapsing into civil war, he moved with his parents to Minnesota, where he was to live the remainder of his life.
Herman died a little shy of his 13th birthday, on September 12, 1870, from a lung related illness. All we know of him is a short recollection from his brother Fred, who remembered Herman carrying him on his shoulders as a child. (Fred was 7 years younger.) Fred also recalled his mother preparing Herman’s body for burial, which now rests at St. John’s Evangelical Cemetery in Minnesota (now abandoned and overgrown).