Elizabeth Harrison, the daughter of William Harrison and Sophia Dunn, was born 31 July 1789 in Fayette County, Kentucky. After the turn of the century Elizabeth moved north with he parents to the village of Washington in Fayette County, Ohio. On 16th February 1812 in Fayette County she became the bride of John Seaman. He was born 20 March 1786 in Ohio county, Virginia, the son of Jonah Seaman and Margaret Morgan. Elizabeth and John lived for a time in Fayette County, Ohio, then about 1818 moved to Sullivan county, Indiana, where John farmed, and where they were reported on the 1820 census. When Greene county was created from the east portion of Sullivan County in 1821 John became Greene county's first sheriff and justice of the peace. He served as sheriff until 1829, when he and his family moved a litle north to join the Harrisons at Williamsport in Warren county, Indiana. John once again served as sheriff in that county. Elizabeth died 22 August 1838 at Vincennes and was buried in the old Hillside graveyard in the northwest corner of Williamsport. A few years later, John move west to Lewis County, Missouri, hen later to Van Buren County, Iowa. John died 4 August 1873 at Keosauqua, Iowa.
