Person:Jemima Bennett (1)

The obituary for Jemima (Moore) Seaver appeared in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper on Monday, 13 March 1905. It reads:

"PROFICIENT IN THE INDIAN LANGUAGE"

"Death of Mrs. J.W. Seaver, formerly of Byron, Occurred at Bath.

"Bath, March 12 - The death of Mrs. Jay Seaver Moore, widow of J.W. Seaver, of Byron, N.Y. occurred at 6 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, the wife of Rev. H.C. Woods, pastor of the Bath Methodist Church. Death followed a longi llness of general debility. Mrs. Seaver was a native of Avon, Livingston County, N.Y., and was 93 years of age. Her early life was passed in Avon, and at that time many Indians were residents of that section, in which language Mrs. Seaver was highly proficient. Her father was a prominent merchant of Avon, settling there in the early part of the last century from Connecticut.

"After her marriage to Mr. Seaver she resided in Byron, where Mr. Seaver was engaged in the mercantile business. Mrs. Seaver was the last of a family of eleven children, Mrs. H.C. Woods and Mrs. Jane Moore, both of Bath, are the daughters surviving. Mrs. Seaver united in early life with the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a devout member."