CHAPTER LVI.

SCOTCH-IRISH SEATONS.

JEREMIAH SEATON and his two brothers, William and Thomas, lived in Ireland, possibly at Castlederg, where some of the family made their home for a great many years, and where there is a castle and family burying-ground, with a vault and many tablets.

William Seaton is said to have come to America, made a fortune, returned to Ireland, bought a farm near Stanolar, County Donegal, and died there without issue.

Although the early Seatons are said to have been Catholics, Jeremiah and William were Presbyterians, and so far as we know, all of their descendants have been Protestants.

Jeremiah Seaton married Nancy Neal, in Ireland, where both were born. They had six sons and two daughters. Five of the sons came to America, probably encouraged by the experience of their uncle William, and it is said that two of William's brothers also come over the sea, in 1818.

The children of Jeremiah and Nancy Seaton, as we have the names, were: John, Thomas, Robert, William, and Samuel.

JOHN SEATON, son of Jeremiah, went to Washington county, Iowa, where some of his descendants still live. Thomas made his home at Lawrence, Kansas. He died there about 1888. located in Carroll county, Ohio, and died there in 1882.

William

ROBERT SEATON, son of Jeremiah, was born near Antrim, County Tyrone. Ireland, in October, 1800. His wife was a native-born American, having first discovered America in Cecil county, Maryland, in 1803. They were married at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1826. Robert died at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1879, and was buried there.

ROBERT LESLIE SEATON, son of Robert, was born at Amsterdam,

Jefferson county, Ohio, June 2, 1843. He lives at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and has two sons and one daughter, all of whom are at home with their loving parents.

Robert Leslie Seaton married Martha Jane Bell, at Zanesville, Wells county, Indiana, March 13, 1873. Her parents were Evan and Eliza (Johnston) Bell. Robert has been with the Fort Wayne. Traction Company for the last fourteen years, having lived on a farm in Carroll county, Ohio, until 1866, when he went with his father to a farm in Allen county, where they remained till in 1874. when they settled at Ossian, Wells county, Indiana, from which community they removed to Fort Wayne, December 1, 1887.

Robert Leslie Seaton did not enter the army during the Civil War, but remained at home to attend to affairs there while his brother John, and brother-in-law, Stine, enlisted in 1862, and served until the close of the war in the Army of the Cumberland.

JOHN SEATON, Son of Robert, was severely wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and was never afterward well, and he died in August, 1894.

Robert Leslie Seaton was postmaster for two years, then resigned. He is a Democrat, and an Old School Presbyterian.

The children born of Robert Leslie and Martha Seaton were: William Deloss, born at Ossian, Indiana, May 11, 1874; John Edgar, born February 28, 1877; Mary Bell, born April 2, 1880; and Rolla Floyd Seaton, born April 24, 1884,-all of them having been born in the same town. The home address of the family is 201 East Butler street, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

SAMUEL SEATON, son of Jeremiah, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1803; came to America in 1835. He resided in Carroll county, Ohio, where he died May 11, 1851. He married Nancy Jackson, who lived in Jefferson county, Ohio, and he built the "Seaton House," in the county above named, in 1848. It is a fine, large brick structure, built after the ancient Irish fashion, and still remains with "Samuel Seeton" cut in the stone lintel.

The children of Samuel and Nancy Seaton were: Margaret A., Thomas, Elizabeth, and probably others.

MARGARET A. SEATON, daughter of Samuel, was born and has

lived all of her days in Carroll county, Ohio, except four years that she spent in Kansas. She was born September 27, 1844, and was married to Robert Kellar December 4, 1872. They reside at Wellsville, Ohio, where they have made their home for two years. They left Kansas and returned to Ohio in the "grasshopper year," having endured four years of Kansas experience. The Kellars are Presbyterians and Democrats.

Their children are: Mary P. Kellar, born September 4, 1873, at Olathe, Kansas; Samuel Edmund Kellar, born July 14, 1876; Leray Kellar, born October 3, 1879; Charles Kellar, born November 29, 1882; Joseph Kellar, born July 1, 1885; and John Kellar, born July 20, 1888.

Mary P. Kellar was married to H. L. Miller. They live in Lytton, Iowa. Samuel Edmund Kellar is in Colorado, on a railway bridge crew. The other Kellar children work in a rollingmill with their father at Wellsville, Ohio.

THOMAS SEATON, son of Samuel and Nancy, is a carpenter, and lives with his wife at Olathe, Kansas, in a two-story double house, their son and his family occupying a part of the dwelling. Mrs. Seaton was born October 15, 1833. She is supposed to be a third. cousin of Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second President of these United States. Her grandmother's maiden name was Nancy Neal, who was from County Londonderry, or County Antrim, Ireland. She married Mrs. Seaton's grandfather, Alexander Liggett, in the old country. This Nancy (Neal) Liggett had a brother and a sister, who married a man by the name of Trainer, and whose descendants are living in Steubenville, Ohio. Nancy came to America with her husband and her brother, about 1795. They settled on a farm near Harper's Ferry, Maryland. The brother located in Baltimore, where he "kept store." Nancy had six daughters. Two of them married Seatons,-Robert and William. Jane Liggett married Thomas McComb, a manufacturer of cotton goods at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "Uncle Neal," the Baltimore merchant, had a daughter, Anna Neal; also a daughter Elizabeth, who died before reaching womanhood. It is believed. there was a son Thomas. Looking into Grover Cleveland's biog

raphy, we find that his mother was Anna Neal, daughter of a Baltimore merchant, or merchant and bookseller, and book-publisher, of Irish birth; and the fact that Grover had a sister Elizabeth may point to a maternal sister of that name.

The son of Jeremiah Seaton, who remained in Ireland, was Joseph. He left a family of two sons, Samuel and Thomas, and three daughters. One of the daughters never married, but Jane Seaton married Mr. Rule. They live at Indianapolis, Indiana, I believe. Mary Seaton married a Patterson. They have descendants in Ireland and in this country.

SAMUEL SEATON, son of Joseph, is a press agent in his locality in Ireland, and he writes interesting stories for several different periodicals.

ELIZABETH SEATON, daughter of Samuel, married her cousin, and lives at Lawrence, Kansas..

The founder of this branch of the family in Ireland originally went from Scotland, whence he fled when Mary Queen of Scots was overthrown, and settled at Castlederg, in County Tyrone.

Several grandsons of Samuel Seaton have been located, but their parents' names and life-stories have eluded us so far in the search.

EDWARD SEATON, a grandson of Samuel, was crushed to death. in a mine accident at Farmington, West Virginia, on September 24, 1903.

There is also a grandson, possibly a son of Elizabeth, who lives at Osawatomie, Kansas.

Another grandson of Samuel is named Robert Liggett Seaton. He resides at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He says that W. D. Seaton, of Indianapolis, Indiana, told him that Robert and one of W. D.'s brothers looked enough alike to have been twins.

OLIVER SEATON, of What Cheer, Iowa, is another grandson of Samuel.

SAMUEL T. SEATON, Son of Thomas and grandson of Samuel, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, November 14, 1861. He has lived in Olathe, Kansas, since 1873. He was educated mostly in

private schools and at the Kansas State University; was admitted to practice law in 1885, and followed that business exclusively until 1898, when he went into the newspaper business. He is the local attorney of the Frisco and Santa Fe railroads, and has such ability as a lawyer that the companies allow him to try cases alone and prepare the briefs in them when they go to the Supreme Court. He was editor and publisher of the Olathe Register, a Democratic newspaper, the only one of that persuasion in Johnson county, until November 27, 1905, when he sold out the business for $4,000, having in seven years brought the subscription list from eighty to 1463, and the value of the plant from $375 to the amount for which it was sold.

Samuel T. wields a trenchant pen, which is dipped in gall when he is assailed by political enemies. He is a wideawake, well-read man, an indefatigable worker in whatever occupies his time, and has dug up a long array of items for this book (many of which he has neglected to turn over), having an intuitive scent for facts pertaining to the subject under consideration, whether it is law, news items, or family history.

His library is more extensive and varied than any other in the