M. both served in the Federal Army during the Civil War, and in the Regular Army afterward. The Freelands reside at Sandwich, Illinois, and have lived there for nearly forty years, and they expect to continue to reside there, having a nice home that satisfies their moderate desires. At one time they had a home at Campton, Kane county, Illinois, where Daniel Seaton settled at an early date. Mr. Freeland was a soldier in the Union Army, having enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Volunteers, Company H, and served through the war. Mrs. Freeland's three youngest brothers were in the army as drummer-boys, and her uncle, Leonard Barna Seaton, was a Drum Major. Mr. Freeland has been Marshal, Constable and Deputy Sheriff in his home county, and is now Constable and Fish Warden. He is a Republican, and a member of the Congregational Church. The children of Harriet (Seaton) Freeland are as follows: 1. Hattie L. Freeland; died in 1860, in infancy.

2. Elizabeth B. Freeland was born in 1864. She was a bright, active girl, and in time graduated from the Sandwich High School. Then she went to Aurora, Illinois, and learned shorthand and typewriting, and secured a position there; but after about a year she went to Chicago and worked in an office, making her home with her aunt, Mary (Seaton) Miller. In 1897 she went home to spend the holiday-time, was taken sick, and, after three weeks of suffering, died. She was a beautiful young lady, and was to have been married in two months.

3. Daniel Freeland was born in July, 1867. He was a young giant in strength when he was grown. He married Jessie Everest in 1890. Their daughter, Grace Freeland, is eight years old, and her brother Robert is five at this writing. "Dannie" had never been sick except with childish ailments, until he was overcome by pneumonia, that carried him away after a day and a night's sickness, March 4, 1904. He worked in a manufactory in Sandwich, never having been away from home for any length of time.

4. Dwight A. Freeland, when through school, learned the printer's trade and the barber business, but he works at neither. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, and his home is in Chicago. He married Belle Whit

more in 1884, losing her by death in 1900. Their two little boys, Donald Edward, eight years old, and Henry Eugene, six years of age, live with their paternal grandparents. Donald is said to be a very bright scholar for an eight-year-old boy. He can repeat whole chapters from the Bible, and literally searches the Scrip

tures.

SAMANTHA SEATON, daughter of Daniel, was married on her eighteenth birthday to Edwin Miller, who was an engineer on the Northwestern Railroad, but he owned a farm near Campton, Illinois. They have three children: 1. Mary, now Mrs. Alfred Steffen, of Chicago, a bookkeeper in the Phoenix Insurance Company's office, who translates all their German correspondence. 2. Frederick Miller, who married Maud Stewart and has two children, Ida and George Frederick Miller. At the time of his death, in 1896, he was cashier for a gas company in Chicago. 3. Carrie Miller, now Mrs. Herbert Elliott of Chicago, completes the list of Samantha (Seaton) Miller's children. Four years after the death of Samantha, Mr. Miller married Mary Seaton, sister to his first wife. They had two children, Grace, who died in infancy, and Harvey, who is a bookkeeper for the Swift Packing Company. He married Jessie Parks, and has one little girl, the idol of her grandmother Freeland's heart.

LEONARD SEATON, son of Daniel, went through the Civil War as a Drum Major, then married Belle Drake, of Chicago, and lived there the most of the time till his death, in 1894. His two sons

are in the People's Gas Company, and in Chicago you could find very few, if any, better or steadier boys than Willard R. Cook, Henry Miller and Earl and Grant Seaton, not one of whom has a vicious habit.

ALBERT SEATON, Son of Daniel, is said to be a confirmed bachelor, a good, steady man, always to be relied upon. He lives at Aurora, Illinois.

IRA D. SEATON, the youngest son of Daniel and Aurilla, was born at Campton, Kane county, Illinois, February 15, 1850, and died at Sandwich, in the same State, at the home of his sister, Mrs.

Harriet Louise Freeland, January 31, 1895. Up to the time of the Civil War he lived on the farm where he was born. During the progress of the war he enlisted as a drummer-boy in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-first Illinois Infantry. After serving about a year he was honorably discharged, and returned home broken in health. Ira was a musical genius, and was an invalid for some years before he died. His funeral was held at his late residence, and the body was interred at Lawn Ridge Cemetery. He had no family, but was a man whom every one liked and respected.

CHAPTER XXII.

THE CHILDREN OF LEONARD AND POLLY (PENNELL) SEATON.

ANDREW PENNELL SEATON, the writer's father, and the eldest son of Leonard and Polly Seaton, was born at Belleville, Jefferson county, New York, on November 19, 1823. He was named for his maternal grandfather, Andrew Pennell, through whom he traces his descent to a certain John Pennell, who came to America in 1728. He was a Captain in the Cumberland Militia, and served his country from August 18, 1778, to July 24, 1782, in the War of the Revolution.

When the subject of our grateful remarks was old enough, he helped on his father's farm until he understood the business as then carried on in New York State. Like most young men who lived in the vicinity of the "Great Lakes," he followed sailing in one capacity and another. He also worked in a tannery with his father until he became a master mechanic in the business of tanning leather.

In 1846 he was married to Laura Ann Ferguson, daughter of John and Clara (Wilson) Ferguson, who lived near Burrville, or Burr's Mills, in Watertown township, Jefferson county, New York. Her father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and later a farmer. Her maternal grandfather served his country in the Revolutionary War.

The Fergusons trace their descent to a son of King Fergus of Scotland, who was, according to the custom of the time, called Fergus' son, and later, Ferguson. The name is frequently mentioned in the history and literature of Scotland.

Robert Burns, the most beloved Scottish poet, wrote of Ramsay and Ferguson as his models in poetry. Sir Samuel Ferguson was, perhaps, the most widely known poet in the family, though not the only one by any means. There were historians, soldiers