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6. JAMES KENNER SEATON, son of Kenner, was born in Virginia, March 6, 1783, and died September 2, 1826, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, where he had moved. He was married November 24, 1807, to Margaret Scott, who was born in Scotland, August 10, 1780, and died in Jefferson county, Kentucky, October 27, 1863. The fruit of this marriage was two sons and five daughters: Cynthia Ann; Levi W.; Richard Aliph; Mary; Sarah; Margaret; and Rachel.

7. SARAH SEATON, born October 23, 1787; died in 1836. She married Joseph Frederick, in April, 1806. She was left a widow, and later married Hezekiah Woodsmall.

8. RICHARD SEATON was born January 10, 1790, and died April 21, 1873. He was married to Eleanor (Nellie) Mundell, May 11, 1817, and moved to Illinois in 1835, settling at Camp Point, where he continued to reside to the day of his death.

Miss Mundell was born July 26, 1795, in the same county as her husband, where they were doubtless married "at the home of the bride's parents," with all the pomp and circumstance of such occasions. Richard and Eleanor Seaton were blessed with seven children: Margaret, Rebecca, Kenner, James, John, Richard 2d, and Sarah (Sallie).

THE children of RODHAM SEATON, as stated, were Thomas and Kenner; the latter of whom was born and died in Jefferson county, Kentucky. He married Mary Sliger. Their children were: Charles Allen and William Chesley. Mrs. Seaton was born in Bullitt county, Kentucky, where they were married about 1832, he having probably been born about 1796, and died in 1872 at the age of seventy-six, and she in 1871, aged sixty-five.

SARAH SEATON, daughter of Rodham and Elizabeth, married George Risinger. They had two children, a son, Kenner Risinger, and a daughter, Mariah Risinger. The former married a Miss Sliger, sister to his uncle Kenner Seaton's wife. Mariah Risinger was married to Ephraim Risinger, perhaps her cousin, and raised a large family, whose names have not been made known to us.

THE ONLY CHILD OF THOMAS WASHINGTON AND BARBY (ZINKS)

SEATON.

PETER SEATON, the only child of the above persons who has been reported to us, was born about eighteen miles north of Louisville, Kentucky, on May 12, 1812. He married Lucinda Seain, on September 24, 1835. They had children to the number of sixteen, as follows: 1. Jonas W. Seaton was born December 10, 1836, and died October 18, 1855. 2. Nancy Jane Seaton was born March 15, 1839, and is probably among the living, as no record of her demise appears among our papers. 3. Elizabeth A. Seaton was born August 5, 1841, and died November 1, 1901. 4. John W. Seaton was born October 22, 1843, and lost his life in the War of the Rebellion, on November 20, 1862. 5. Lucinda F. Seaton was born April 1, 1846, and died on the 7th of July, 1883. 6. Jacob N. Seaton was born on March 19, 1848, and died September 30, 1848. 7. Barby A. Seaton was born November 28, 1850. She was evidently named for her grandmother, Barby (Zinks) Seaton. The rest of her life story remains to be told. 8. James H. Seaton was born April 18, 1854. 9. Christopher C. Seaton was born November 30, 1855. 10. Peter Harry Seaton was born April 11, 1858. He lives at Rose Hill, Jasper county, Illinois. He is married, but to whom we cannot say, and has four children, as follows: Frederick, born October 8, 1881; John W., born May 25, 1884; Charles I., born October 12, 1885; and Sylvia C., who was born on the 22d day of August, 1892. 11. William T. Seaton, son of Peter and Lucinda, was born March 15, 1860. 12. Jonathan S. Seaton was born June 6, 1862. 13. Phoebe Seaton was born April 23, 1864. 14. Emanuel W. Seaton was born August 10, 1866. 15. Daniel E. Seaton was born January 19, 1869, and died January 1, 1872. 16. Rose E. Seaton was born June 8, 1874, and died June 6, 1880.

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES KENNER AND MARGARET (SCOTT) SEATON.

CYNTHIA ANN SEATON was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, August 25, 1808, and was married June 18, 1826, to William Rose, her cousin, by whom she had three children: Margaret Rose, who

married James Vaughn, and died in Neosho, Missouri, without issue; James Rose, died without children; and Alice Rose, married an Albright, and lives at Glen Cove, Texas. Cynthia Ann (Seaton) Rose died in Texas, May 3, 1896.

LEVI W. SEATON, born near Fisherville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, December 18, 1810; died unmarried, July 8, 1833, of smallpox.

RICHARD ALIPH SEATON, born at the Fisherville home, March 12, 1812, died in Dade county, Missouri, October 21, 1895. He was married to Eleanor Mitchell Bayne, who was born November 16, 1817. The children born to this marriage were: Hester A. Seaton, born January 26, 1834, and died February 4, 1840; Margaret Ann Seaton, born November 16, 1835, married Taylor Boswell January 26, 1855, and died July 1, 1860, leaving three sons: Clinton Boswell, now living in Louisville, Kentucky; Edward Boswell also lives in Louisville; and Everett Boswell, who died young.

MARY ELIZABETH SEATON, daughter of Richard Aliph, was born July 14, 1840, and died June 24, 1841. Her sister, Sarah E. Seaton, born July 30, 1842, married James W. French, October 27, 1859. They live at Veachdale, Kentucky, and have two children: William S. French, of Monte Vista, Colorado, who married Georgia Kellar and has two children, Nora and Louise French. Nellie French, a sister to William S., married Foster Connor, and lives at Veachdale, Kentucky, and has several children. CYNTHIA ISABEL SEATON, daughter of Richard Aliph, was born November 6, 1844, and died November 22, 1877, unmarried.

JAMES RICHARD SEATON, son of Richard Aliph, born April 18, 1847, at the family home at Fisherville, about fifteen miles from Louisville, married Mary Frances Bidwell (born March 3, 1847, in Kentucky), October 29, 1872, near Mansfield, Missouri. They lived in Jefferson county, Kentucky, until 1870, when they moved with his father to Dade county, Missouri, where they lived for twenty-five years, then moved to Springfield in the same State, where they now reside. James R. being engaged in the coal and wood business. He is a Democrat in politics, and belongs to the

Baptist Church. The family consists of Elmer Bidwell Seaton, born July 23, 1847; Anna Eleanor Seaton, born September 21, 1876; James Richard Seaton, Jr., born April 13, 1879; married Mary Grand June 17, 1903; Ida Pearl Seaton, born May 15, 1881; died August 3, 1901.

ELODIA ARTEMESIA SEATON, daughter of Richard Aliph, born October 14, 1849; died August 22, 1880. She married Virgil I. Long, April 1, 1869. Besides two children who died young, they have two daughters: Olive, who married a Malone, and lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and Virgie, who married a Duval, and lives in Louisville.

SAMUEL EUGENE SEATON, son of Richard Aliph, born near Fisherville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, July 8, 1852, married Jennie Watson in Greene county, Missouri, February 11, 1874. He moved from Kentucky to Greene county. Missouri, in 1871, where he lived until 1891, when he removed to Center, Saguache county, Colorado, where he now resides. Samuel E. is a Democrat in politics and a Baptist in religion. Of this family there were five children: Cortey Eugene, born October 18, 1875, and died February 21, 1877, at Springfield, Missouri; Dalton Estelle, born April 6, 1877, at Willard, Greene county, Missouri. He married Pearl Carlin, in Del Norte, Colorado, January 14, 1903, and now resides at Alamosa, Colorado. Maud Inez, born October 9, 1878, at Willard, Missouri, now lives at Center, Colorado; Eleanor Pauline, born April 13, 1880, at Cedarville, Missouri, married Struble Miles at Del Norte, Colorado, September 25, 1900, and lives at McPherson, Kansas; Grace Irene, born June 26, 1883.

WILLIAM FRANK SEATON, Son of Richard Aliph, born September 4, 1860, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, moved to Missouri in 1870 with his brothers, and settled in Dade county, where he married. Tempa Slinker, on October 3, 1883. They subsequently moved to Hooper, Colorado, where he died June 3, 1899. In the family there were three children: Leslie Everett, of Greeley, Colorado; Eula, who died in 1898 without issue; and Frank, of Mosca, Costilla county, Colorado.

CHAPTER XLII.

MARY SEATON, daughter of James Kenner, was born at the family home near Fisherville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, on October 14, 1814, and died March 7, 1892, at Dunksburg, Pettis county, Missouri. She married Milton William Tyler, March 14, 1833, and lived happily with him for fifty-nine years. They celebrated their golden wedding March 14, 1883, the family being all present for the first time in twenty-seven years.

Mr. Tyler was born near Fisherville February 28, 1812, and died at Dunksburg, Missouri, September 6, 1892. A full biography of each of the children in this family, including all of their descendants, would make a good-sized book of itself, but we will give a brief outline of such as appear on our files: The children born to Milton William and Mary (Seaton) Tyler were: James Kenner Tyler; Louisa Jane Tyler; Samuel Levi Tyler; Charles Thomas Tyler; Martha Josephine Tyler; Milton William Tyler 2d; and Richard Seaton Tyler.

Milton W. Tyler, Sr., removed from Jefferson county, Kentucky, to Johnson county, Indiana, in October, 1852. From that place. he moved to Johnson county, Missouri, in 1869, and to Dunksburg, Missouri, in 1890, where he lived until his death, in 1892.

James Kenner Tyler was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, on the 30th day of September, 1834. His father was Milton W. and his mother Mary (Seaton) Tyler, both natives of the same State. His paternal grandfather was Moses Tyler, of IrishEnglish extraction. James Kenner Tyler obtained his early education at the private schools of his neighborhood. When about twenty years of age he attended Franklin College, in Indiana, a Baptist institution. After attending this college one term he taught school, and then went home and spent a short time on the farm. In 1856 he emigrated to Missouri, first stopping at Knob Noster, where he secured a position as clerk in John A. Pigg &

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