Person:Silas Seaver (3)

MILITARY RECORDS:

Silas H. Seaver of Manchester, Vermont served in the Union Army in the Civil War. He enlisted as a Private on 28 August 1862 in Company C, 14th Infantry Regiment of Vermont. He received a disability discharge on 31 January 1863. He died 20 July 1889 in Moretown, Vermont ("Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers," compiled by Historical Data Systems, online database viewed at www.ancestry.com).

CENSUS:

In the 1860 US census, the Silas H. Seaver family resided in Moretown, Washington County, VT. The household included Silas H. Seaver (age 33, farm laborer, born VT, $200 in real property, $0 in personal property), Mary A. Seaver (age 33, born VT), Louisa Seaver (age 7, born VT) and Willis Seaver (age 2, born VT). [1860 VT Census, LDS Microfilm 0,805,324, page 811, house #2733].

In the 1870 US census, this family resided in Moretown, Washington County, VT. The household included Silas H. Seaver (age 44, male, white, farm laborer, born VT), Mary A. Seaver (age 41, female, white, keeping house, born VT), Louisa M. Seaver (age 16, female, white, born VT), Charles S. Seaver (age 9, male, white, born VT), Anna L. Seaver (age 6, female, white, born VT), Ida M. Seaver (age 2, female, white, born VT) and Jeremiah O'Brien (age 80, male, white, born Ireland) [National Archives Microfilm Series M593, Roll 1626, Page 192-3, Lines 39-40, 1-5].

In the 1880 US census, the Hubbel Seaver (self, married, male, white, age 57, born VT, farm laborer, father and mother born VT) family resided in Moretown, Washington County, Vermont. The household included Mary Ann Seaver (wife, married, female, white, age 52, born VT, keeping house, father and mother born VT), Annie Seaver (daughter, single, female, white, age 16, born VT, at school), Ida M. Seaver (daughter, single, female, white, age 11, born VT, at school) and Charles Seaver (son, single, male, white, age 19, born VT, farm laborer). [LDS Microfilm 1,255,348, page 168A].

In the 1900 US Census, the remnant of this family resided in Duxbury, Washington County, Vermont. The household included Charles Seaver (indexed by HQO as Seaman, head of household, white, male, born Oct 1860, age 39, single, born VT, parents born VT, a farmer, owns farm free of mortgage) and Mary Ann Seaver (mother, white, female, born Jan 1831, age 69, widowed, 5 children born, 3 living, born VT, parents born VT) [National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 1695, Page 50, ED 223, Sheet 1, Line 97-98].

In the 1910 US census, the remnant of this family resided in Duxbury township, Washington County, Vermont. The household included head Chalres S. Seaver (white, age 48, single, born VT, parents born VT, farmer, on a general farm) and his mother Mary A. Seaver (white, age 82, widowed, born VT, parents born VT, 5 children born, 3 living) [NARA Microfilm T624, Roll 1617, ED 220, Sheet 5B, page 223, dwelling #73, family #73].