Person:Thomas Seaver (5)

MILITARY:

Thomas Orville Seaver, a resident of Pomfret VT, enlisted as a Captain in the Union Army on 24 May 1861, accepting a Commission in Company F, 3rd Infantry Regiment of Vermont. His birth date was listed as 23 December 1833, and his death date as 11 July 1912 in Woodstock VT. He transferred on 13 August 1861 from Company F to Company S. He was promoted to Full Major on 13 August 1861, and to Full Lieutenant Colonel on 27 September 1862. He was promoted to Full Colonel on 15 January 1863, effective 2 February 1863. He was mustered out of the unit on 27 July 1864 ["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, the Thomas Seaver family resided in Cavendish, Windsor county, VT. The household included Thomas (age 36, lawyer, $1,500 in real property, $2,000 in personal property, born VT), Nancy (age 30, keeping house, born VT), Ethel L. (age 7, born VT) and Gertrude E. (age 5, born VT). [National Archives Microfilm Series M593, Roll 1628, page 297, line 14].

In the 1880 US census, the Thomas O. Seaver (age 45, born VT, lawyer) family resided in Woodstock, Windsor County, VT. The family included his wife Nancy W. (age 39, born VT, keeping house, father and mother born VT), daughter Ethel D. (age 17, born VT, at school), daughter Gertrude D. (age 14, born VT, at school) and son Kenneth S. (age 3, born VT). [1880 US Census on CD-ROM, the full census record can be found on LDS FHL Microfilm 1,255,350, page 380C].

In the 1900 US Census, this family resided in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont. The family included Thomas O. Seaver (head of household, white, male, born Dec 1833, age 66, married 38 years, born VT, parents born VT, Judge of Probate Court, owns house free of mortgage), Nancy J. Seaver (wife, white, female, born Apr 1840, age 60, married 38 years, 4 children born, 1 living, born VT, parents born VT) and Roland Ely (grandson, white, male, born Oct 1893, age 6, single, born VT, parents born VT, at school) [National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 1693, Page 131, ED 166, Sheet 9, Line 12].

In the 1910 US Census, the Thomas O. Seaver family resided in Woodstock township, Windsor County, Vermont. The household included head Thomas O. Seaver (male, white, age 76, first marriage, married 49 years, born VT, parents born VT), wife Nancy J. Seaver (female, white, age 70, first marriage, married 49 years, born VT, parents born VT, 4 children born, 1 living) and grandson Roland L. ____ (unreadable surname, male, white, age 10, single, born VT, parents born VT) [National Archives Microfilm T624, Roll 1618, ED 294, sheet 11A, page 325, dwelling #27, family #27].

BURIAL:

Thomas Orville Seaver is buried in River Street Cemetery in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont record added 13 Jul 2001 by Russ Dodge.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Thomas O. Seaver.

1.   Thomas O. Seaver, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.