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 ====== 232. Rev. Truman Seymour ====== ====== 232. Rev. Truman Seymour ======
  
-//This page is placeholder added on 28 Sep 2014 It will be filled in later when the relevant page(s) are scanned --jds//+232. REV. TRUMAN<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[132.truman|Truman]]//<sup>6</sup>, 
 +//[[066.timothy|Timothy]]//<sup>5</sup>, 
 +//[[021.timothy|Timothy]]//<sup>4</sup>, //[[008.John|John]]//<sup>3</sup>, 
 +//[[003.John|John]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>), 
 +born at Albany, N.Y., 25 Jan. 1799, died at Troy, N.Y., 15 Nov. 1874; married 15 
 +Nov. 1820, ANN ARMSTRONG, born at Enniskillen, Ireland, 26 Dec. 1799, died at 
 +Troy, 9 Dec. 1873, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Blair). 
 + 
 +He was carriagemaker by trade, established at Burlington, Vt., until 1829. He 
 +became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Troy Conference, from 1819; 
 +stationed at Charlotte, Vt., 1829-30; Monkton Circuit, Vt., 1830-31; Pittsburgh, 
 +N.Y., 1831-33; Keeseville, N.Y., 1833-35; Schenectady, 1835-36; Troy, 1836-38; 
 +Albany, 1838-40; Presiding Elder, Poultney District, 1840-44; Pittsburgh 
 +District, 1844-45; Jonesville, 1845-47; West Troy, 1847-49; Chatham, 1849-50; 
 +Amsterdam, 1850-52; Presiding Elder, Albany District, 1852-56, and of Saratoga 
 +District, 1856-60; Green Island, 1860-62; Castleton, 1862-64; and Williamstown, 
 +Mass., 1864-67.   Thereafter, he resided in Troy until his death. 
 + 
 +Rev. Mr. Seymour was called the Father of Methodism in the region he served. 
 +Converted at seventeen, and a local preacher at the age of twenty, for thirty- 
 +seven years he never lost two weeks for any cause from the immediate work of his 
 +holy calling. Of his wife, who survived to celebrate her Golden Wedding with 
 +him, it was written: "She was evidently designed by the Master for an itinerant 
 +Methodist minister's wife in the times that tried men's souls. She was never 
 +tired when others were weary. She was never despondent when others needed 
 +cheering. She was never ill when those she loved needed nursing. At the Golden 
 +Wedding in 1870 her face was as free from wrinkles and the marks of care as when 
 +fifty years before she blushed as a bride. Her hands performed some kindly 
 +office of affection for her companion only a few hours before they grew cold. 
 +Her stormy life came to such a triumphant, peaceful, and beautiful issue, that 
 +her son, General Truman Seymour, when requested to wear crape as an emblem of 
 +mourning, refused, saying that a rose would best represent his feelings and the 
 +occasion." 
 + 
 +^ Children: ^^^^ 
 +| | i. | ANN ELIZA<sup>8</sup>, b. at Burlington, Vt., 1 Dec. 1822; d. at West Troy, N.Y., 26 Feb. 1860; m. (1) 13 Jan. 1840, JACOB HOCHSTRASSER. b. at Albany, N.Y., 5 May 1802, d. there. 15 Apr. 1845, s. of Paul and Catherine (Snyder; m(2) 11 Nov. 1847, HARRY RAYMOND TAYLOR, b. at Ballston, N.Y., 16 Aug. 1799, d. at Apalachicola, Fla., 15 Jan. 1866, s. of Raymond and Sarah (Riggs).   Two children by first husband; one by second. || 
 +| 300. | ii. | [[300.truman|TRUMAN]], b. at Burlington, Vt, 25 Sept. 1824. || 
 +| | iii. | ROBERT, b. at Burlington, Vt., 1 Aug. 1827; a dentist, of Troy, N.Y.; m. 16 Feb. 1852, MARY ELMINA WATERBURY, b. at Nassau, N.Y., 13 Apr. 1833, dau. of Charles and Naomi (Hoag). Children: || 
 +| | | I. | Mary Louisa<sup>9</sup>, b. at Herkimer, N.Y., 17 May 1858. | 
 +| | | II. | Truman, b. at Troy, 19 Dec. 1860; d. 1 Sept. 1872. | 
 +| | iv. | JULIA ZIBIAH, b. at Plattsburgh, N.Y., 26 Sept. 1832; res. (1919) Montclair, N.J.; m. 29 Sept. 1852, GEORGE FRANKLIN GRAY, b. at Granville, N.Y., 12 June 1828, d. at Brooklyn, N.Y., 12 Apr. 1879, s. of Lyman.   Six children. || 
 +| | v. | MARY, b. at Keeseville, N.Y., 11 June 1835; d. at Albany, N.Y., 17 Aug. 1838. || 
 +| 301. | vi. | [[301.william_henry|WILLIAM HENRY]], b. at Albany, 10 Sept. 1838. || 
 +| | vii. | CHARLES AUGUSTUS, b. at West Poultney, Vt., 10 Aug. 1842; m. (1) 3 July 1863, MARY ELIZABETH GOODWIN, b. 25 Sept. 1847, dau. of Jesse and Eveline (Vosburg) ; m. (2) -- --.  He enlisted as a Private, 12 May 1861, in Co. H, 2d N.Y. Vols.; appointed Corporal, Oct. 1861, and Sergeant, 10 June 1862; on detached service with Gen. Truman Seymour until mustered out, 26 May 1863.   Children by first wife: || 
 +| | | I. | Fanny<sup>9</sup>, b. at Castleton, N.Y., 16 Aug. 1864. | 
 +| | | II. | George Gray, b. at Waterford, N.Y., 2 Aug. 1866. |
  
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