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-==== Willard Franklin Seymour Obituary ====
+Please see: [[william_franklin_obituary|William Franklin Seymour Obituary]]
-[[willard_franklin|Wm. Franklin Seymour]], was born in Oneida county, New York,
-February 16, 1836, and died July 20, 1902, aged 66 years, 5 months, and 4 days.
-Mr. Seymour at an early age was placed in Hanover Academy where he obtained a
-liberal education, and about the time he reached his majority he came to
-Minnesota territory and visited his cousin, Mrs. O.P. Whitcomb, and after
-viewing some of the plains of Minnesota, in 1856 he bought a homestead in Orion
-township, Olmstead county, with a shanty on it and eight acres broke, for which
-he gave a gold watch.
-In 1858 he went to Illinois and married [[:ryan:sarah_mary|Miss Sarah Ryan]] who
-brought happiness and aid to his domestic life.  He brought his bride from
-Winona to his claim on a lumber wagon freighted with a few households and
-provisions.
-The first settlers of our state were stalwart men and women.  They lived and
-worked in sun shine and rain, summer and winter to make themselves and children
-comfortable.  I don’t think the pioneer life in Minnesota will ever fade from my
-vision.
-Forty-six years the coming October((This would seem to refer to October of
-)), I stopped with my family for my first night in Olmstead county, where
-this young man, Seymour, was stopping with three other young men who were
-holding claims. They are now all gone.  Mr. Seymour was a marvel of a husband,
-an affectionate, loving father, a model citizen, prompt in his business, always
-keeping his word good and thereby secured the confidence of his neighbors.  God
-was good to him here, and now has taken him to the mansion prepared for the
-redeemed.  What a heaven of bliss awaits the obedient and faithful.  Mr. Seymour
-leaves a wife and seven children.  We will miss the father, husband, and
-brother, but will meet again in the morning, where our joy shall be unbroken.
-God will clear away the mist.
-J.W. Fulkerson
-Predmore, Minn.