Person:James Seaver (15)

SOURCE: JMSeaver #336-iii

BIRTH:

DEATH: 23 Apr 1901 (JMS)

MARRIAGE: to (2) Sarah Work (JMS)

             (1) Lydia Bruce (2)

OCCUPATION: Farmer and livestock dealer, held many prominent town offices (JMS)

CENSUS:

In the 1860 US census, the James M. Seaver family resided in Williamstown, Orange County, VT. The household included James M. (age 26, farmer, born VT, $2,000 in real property, $395 in personal property), Lydia (age 20, born VT), and Charley M. (age 2/12, born VT). [1860 VT Census, LDS Microfilm 0,805,323, page 642, house #212].

In the 1870 US census, the James M. Seaver family resided in Williamstown, Orange County, VT. The household included James M. (age 36, farmer, $9,000 in real property, $7,000 in personal property, born VT), Lydia C. (age 30, keeping house, born VT) and Charles M. (age 10, at school, born VT). [1870 US census for Orange County, VT, LDS Microfilm 0,553,121, page 518, dwelling #193, family #200].

In the 1880 US census, the J.M. Seaver (age 46, born VT, drover, father and mother born VT) family resided in Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont. The household included wife S. Chastina (age 28, keeping house, father and mother born VT), son Charles M. (age 20, born VT, clerk in grocery) and his mother Hannah M. Seaver (age 69, born VT, father born CT, mother born VT). [LDS Microfilm 1,255,346, page 265B].

In the 1900 US Census, this family resided in Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont. The family included James M. Seaver (head of household, white, male, born Dec 1834, age 65, married 27 years, born VT, parents born VT, a cattle dealer, owns house free of mortgage), Sarah C. Seaver (wife, white, female, born Jul 1851, age 48, married 27 years, 0 children born, born VT, parents born VT) and Charlie M. Seaver (son, white, male, born Mar 1860, age 40, single, born VT, parents born VT) [National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 1692, Page 316, ED 155, Sheet 1, Line 63].