Person:Francis Seaver (2)

JMSeaver #130-i-1ii

BIRTH: JMSeaver

DEATH:

MILITARY:

Francis Seaver, a resident of Halifax VT, enlisted as a Sergeant in the Union Army on 27 August 1861. He enlisted in Company I, 4th Infantry Regiment of Vermont on 21 September 1861. He was wounded and taken a Prisoner of War on 4 September 1862 and paroled. He received a disability discharge from his unit on 7 October 1862 ["Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers," Historical Data Systems, Provo UT, accessed at "American Civil War Soldiers" database on www.ancestry.com].

CENSUS:

In the 1870 US census, Francis Seaver (age 30, works in a tannery, born VT) and Maria (age 24, keeping house, born VT) resided in Whitingham, Windham County, VT. [1870 US census for Vermont, LDS Microfilm 0,553,126, page 195, dwelling #248, family #257].

In the 1900 US Census, this family resided at 101 Congress Street in Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts. The family included head Francis Seaver (white, male, born Nov 1829, age 70, married 28 years, born VT, father born MA, mother born VT, no occupation), wife Nellie M. Seaver (white, female, born Mar 1847, age 53, married 28 years, 1 child born, 1 living, born NH, father born NH, mother born MA), daughter Theresa M. Willard (white, female, born Dec 1880, age 19, married 1 year, 1 child born, 1 living, born MA, father born VT, mother born NH), son-in-law Leroy M. Willard (white, male, born Apr 1878, age 22, married 1 year, born MA, parents born MA) and granddaughter Evylen R. Willard (white, female, born Apr 1900, age 1 month, born MA, parents born MA) [National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 649, ED 493, Sheet 8, Line 60].

In the 1910 US census, Francis Seaver (age 70, second marriage, married 37 years, born VT, parents born VT, has own income) and his wife Nellie Seaver (age 63, first marriage, married 37 years, one child born, one living, born NH, father born NH, mother born MA) resided at 98 Putnam Street in Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts [NARA Microfilm T624, Roll 589, ED 515, Sheet 8A, page 186, dwelling #167, family #211].