married to George Myers at Wallace, November 20, 1902. They have one girl, Frances Myers. The family resides in Lincoln county, Nebraska, where they are farmers and stock-raisers, devoting especial attention to raising hogs.

KITTIE ISABELLE SEATON was born at Floyd, Iowa, on October 9, 1881, and died at Griswold, in the same State, July 29, 1882.

PERRY ALBERT SEATON was born September 20, 1883. He died at Wallace, Nebraska, on June 28, 1886.

JAMES HENRY SEATON 2d, named for his father, was born June 20, 1885. He attended the Wallace, Nebraska, schools while the family made that village their home, and moved with the others to Wauneta, in that State. He married Clara Fairbanks at Wauneta in October, 1904. They have one son, Clifford Clair Seaton, born 26th September, 1905. They live near Wallace on their farm, devoting their time to stock-raising.

MERTON ROBERT SEATON was born at Wallace, Nebraska, Lincoln county, March 28, 1887. He has been getting an education, and is in charge of the home farm of two hundred and ten acres on the Frenchman river.

CASSIE MAY SEATON was born at Wallace, Nebraska, April 21, 1889, and died at the same village in July of that year.

THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE F. AND CLARA F. SEATON.

MAUD ETHEL SEATON, the child that first made glad the hearts of her parents, was born December 6, 1878, at Floyd, Iowa. She spent her youth in getting an education and in learning housekeeping and home-making by assisting her mother. She was married to Charles Bird Kennard July 4, 1894, and has one girl, Blanch Ethel Kennard, born September 12, 1895. The Kennards make their home near Floyd, Iowa, and devote their energies to farming and stock-raising.

FRED BULKLEY SEATON, the son that made the wish of all parents complete, a daughter and a son, was born at Floyd, Iowa, on

the tenth of April, 1881. He has grown to be a stockily built man, and has devoted some time to learning the carpenter trade, but is now engaged in farming.

ANDREW PENNELL SEATON 2d was given his grandfather's name. complete. He was born at Floyd, Iowa, on February 15, 1885. He seems inclined to follow the honorable and independent business of farming for a livelihood. He was married February 22, 1905, at Floyd, to Laura Belle Reeser, and they are living on the farm where "Andy" was born.

CLARA BULKLEY SEATON, the baby-girl of the family, was born September 18, 1892, and is of course the pet of the household, and is helping her mamma and gaining knowledge.

THE CHILDREN OF PETER N. C. AND ELLA GENEVIEVE SEATON.

ZUA OLGA SEATON, the first child, was born at Charles City, Iowa, on July 8, 1873. She married Fred. J. Olerich at Orange City, Iowa, on March 16, 1893, the Reverend J. A. De Spelder performing the most interesting ceremony. Here ends the information we are allowed to know concerning these people, whose life history would doubtless rival the most thrilling romances were we permitted to know and tell the particulars of their lives.

JENNIE CORNELIA and JESSIE ANGELIA were twins. They were born at Algona, Iowa, on Independence Day, in the year 1879. The former died at Winona, Missouri, on the 22d of March, 1897. Jessie Angelia was married to Ode B. Odens on August 11, 1901, by the Reverend David J. Parrin, at Springfield, South Dakota.

FAY CUSHMAN SEATON was born at Algona, Iowa, on the 28th day of July, 1883. He must be his own man by this time, unless he has been married, and have an interesting life story if it could be told as it should be told.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

JAMES, JOHN AND ANDREW SEATON.

JAMES SEATON, of Scotland and Ireland. From Hayward's Hancock, New Hampshire," Seccomb's History of Amherst, New Hampshire," the "History of Washington, New Hampshire," and several other sources, we have gleaned the following: Three brothers emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, and thence braved the dangers of an ocean voyage to make a home in the wilderness of America. James Seaton came in 1727. His name with those of his two brothers and some younger members of the family are found on the tax lists of the new town of Amherst in 1760.

In "New Hampshire State Papers," volume XXVII, pages 67-70, is a quitclaim to certain lots in Amherst, dated December, 1759. Among others are mentioned John Seatown, Samuel Seatown, Andrew Seatown, and James Seatown, all of Souhegan. We have no mention of James having moved away from Souhegan or Amherst, so we suppose he died there at a later date, which has not appeared in our correspondence.

John Seaton, of Scotland and Ireland, a brother to the subject of the above sketch, was the next member of the family, so far as we know, to cross the stormy Atlantic to make a home in the New World. He came from Ireland, where he had taken refuge after some disastrous conflict of the supporters of the Stuarts with their enemies, in the year 1729.

After leaving Scotland in something of a hurry, probably, as he seems to have taken very little property with him, he was compelled to begin again to build a fortune for his old age and for his children, so he went to Newry, County Down, Ireland, and learned the tailor's trade.

John Seaton married Jane Edwards in Scotland, and more than likely some of his children may have been born there, for as nearly as we can learn, he lived in Ireland for only about fifteen years.

After their seven children were born, John Seaton, with his family, emigrated to what has come to be the United States of America, settling at Boxford, adjoining Andover, in Essex county, Massachusetts, bordering on the Atlantic ocean. His name ap

pears on the records at Andover in the years 1737 and 1738, 1759 and 1760. He subsequently removed his belongings to Souhegan or Amherst, Hampshire county, New Hampshire, which county was also the home of another family of immigrants from Scotland, which is very closely related by marriage with some of the Seatons, -the Ferguson family, who first settled at Pelham, Hampshire county, of that State.

A "History of the Clan Ferguson," a book of considerable size and pretensions, was written many years ago in Scotland, and a continuation of the American branch of the family history, it being compiled by the writer's cousin, Miss Alta M. Ralph, of Watertown, New York. The names of the Fergusons first coming. to America appear in C. O. Parmenter's "History of Pelham, Massachusetts," where they took an active part in the early settlement of that town.

John Seaton frequently wrote to his relatives in Ireland of the advantages of the new country over the old, until finally his brother Andrew came over in 1740. An account of his coming will follow. John Seaton sold his Amherst home to his son, John 2d. He it was who brought from Scotland the copy of the coat of arms.

The children of John and Jane Edwards) Seaton were: 1. Mary; 2. James; 3. Martha; 4. John 2d; 5. Samuel; 6. Elizabeth; and 7. Jane,-all of whom will appear further along in this book.

ANDREW SEATON.

At the frequent solicitation of his brother John, who preceded him, Andrew Seaton came to America with his family in the year 1740. He was born in Scotland, where he finally married Jane Blake, a daughter of one of the first families of that country. They lived at Tellehoague, Ireland, after his active and aggressive support of the house of Stuart had made him so interesting to the English that they declared his property confiscated and had decided to take his life upon the first opportunity.

Andrew kept a public-house at Tellehoague, County Tyrone, and was very wealthy before he left there, so much so that he said when he left Ireland he could have given each of his children their weight in gold as their portion So we conclude that he must have saved a considerable sum from the wreck of his fortune in Scotland. It is probable that he left Scotland about 1715 as an exile, but in 1740 he set sail with his family from Ireland for this country, in one of the richest loaded ships that had ever crossed the ocean at that time.

We cannot help wondering whether Jane (Blake) Seaton ever asked her husband in the words of Arnold: "Wilt thou go forth into the friendless waste, that hast this Paradise of pleasure here?" Not she. Wherever Andrew thought it best to go, Jane was ready to accompany him. What a strange enchantment is love, to cause a woman to give up home and friends and comforts and native land to go with the one man of her heart across a tumultuous ocean, into a strange land, a wilderness, among savages, where none of the comforts and conveniences to which she had been accustomed from her birth, were to be had for love or money! Great is love, and too often greatly unappreciated!

Andrew Seaton shipped a valuable stock of merchandise from Ireland, intending to begin business in Boston, but the vessel in which they came was cast away one morning at about the break of day, on the Isle of Sable, then an uninhabited island, and he again lost his property. His family was providentially saved, but many of the other passengers on the ship at the time of the disaster lost their lives. The youngest daughter of the Seaton family was thought for some time to have been drowned, but was finally found washed ashore and partially buried in the sand, about two miles from where the wreck occurred, and resuscitated.

Andrew had the further misfortune of having his lower jaw broken at the time they were cast away, and his wife died a few days later, from fatigue and suffering.

The survivors from the wreck stayed nine days on the Isle of Sable without food, except a gill of dough and a thimbleful of butter to each individual per day, that being everything in the way of food saved from the sharks and fishes. At the end of the