Showing posts with label Libby Harriet. Show all posts
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Monday, December 1, 2014

52 Ancestors: #45 Harriett Elizabeth Seavey (1847?-1925)



Harriett Elizabeth Seavey, my great grand aunt, was born on this date around 1847 in Bridgton, Maine. Her father was Jonathan Seavey. The record of her birth, giving her birth year as 1846, states that her mother was Mary, meaning Mary G. Blake, Jonathan's first wife.




There's a problem with this record, however. Mary G. Blake died February 9, 1845, if her tombstone is to be believed.


1845 was an important year in Harriett's father life. He lost his first wife, Mary, and married a second time Harriet Cross Libby. The first child from this union appears to be Harriett Elizabeth.  Whether she was born in 1845 (as documented in the 1900 U.S. Census), in 1846 (as in the old birth record, but with the wrong mother), or in 1847 (as calculated from her tombstone and the 1850 U.S. Census) is open for debate.

If Harriett was the child of Jonathan Seavey and Harriet Cross Libby, she was the first of seven children, and their first daughter.

Harriett spent most of her single life as a housekeeper in the Bridgton home of Luther Billings. It wasn't until she was 40 years old, in 1886, that she became the second wife of a Sweden, Maine, man named Reuben Morrison.

Harriett and Reuben, who lived their whole lives in Bridgton, had one child, a son Harold, on April 13, 1887.

Reuben passed away in 1907. Harriett remained a widow another 18 years, until she died in 1925.

They are buried side by side in the Ingalls Hill Cemetery in Bridgton.





Sources:

1850; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M432_251; Page: 291A; Image: 279.

1860; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M653_437; Page: 52; Image: 741; Family History Library Film: 803437.

1870; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M593_539; Page: 16B; Image: 37; Family History Library Film: 552038.

1880; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 477; Family History Film: 1254477; Page: 44C; Enumeration District: 023; Image: 0338.

1900; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 589; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0035; FHL microfilm: 1240589.

1910; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: T624_538; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0041; FHL microfilm: 1374551.

1920; Census Place: Bridgton, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: T625_641; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 1090.

Ancestry.com. Maine, Birth Records, 1621-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Harriett E. Seavey tombstone,  Ingalls Hill Cemetery, Bridgton (Cumberland County), Maine; photographed by Pamela  Schaffner on 31 July 2013.

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This is the 45th in a series, “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks,” coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow at

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Monday, August 8, 2011

Mappy Monday–Mrs. Seavey’s Place in 1871


Mrs. Harriet Cross (Libby) Seavey (1814-1891), my second great-grandmother, had been widowed for 13 years in 1871. Born in nearby Harrison, Maine, she was 19 years younger than her second husband, Jonathan, and together they had 7 children.

This 1871 map of Bridgton, Pin Hook, and South Bridgton, Maine, a research print of which I obtained from Historic Map Works, in Portland:

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shows many residences and businesses, including that of “Mrs. Seavey.” on the left hand side of a road running along the southeast shore of Woods Pond.
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The history of Bridgton, Bridgton, Maine, 1768-1994: An Updated Bicentennial History, includes this hand-drawn map showing roughly the same area, along with this description:

"Just beyond the road divides near the old Alley-Seavey place. The Joseph Trumbull family lived here.* Today it is owned by Pioneer Camps, located on the shore of Woods Pond." -- p.349.




Google Maps shows the same road, off Rt. 117 in the Sandy Creek village of Bridgton, and the pinpoint shows where the house stood.

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By the time of the 1880 Census, Harriet C. Seavey was 66 years old, a widow, keeping house, living here in Sandy Creek with the Berry, Merrill, and Martin families as neighbors. Her 27 year old son, Clarence Howard Seavey, my great grandfather, still lived with her. He would marry Nettie Griswold 9 years later in 1889.

*The Joseph Trumbull family referred to here is undoubtedly descendants of the Joseph Stephen Trumbull who married Nettie after Clarence died.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday - Seavey-Richardson Families at Sandy Creek




Sandy Creek Cemetery, on a hill beside Willett Brook, is located on the present Pinook Road, facing the road to South Bridgton.  According to the published history of Bridgton,* "most of those living in this area when Sandy Creek was a thriving industrial village are buried here.  All the stones were removed at one time and the entire cemetery regraded and the stones replaced, presumably near to their original locations."  In 1843, Jonathan Seavey was one of the committee members tasked to "lot the grounds."  He and Harriet are my Great-Great Grandparents.


This cemetery has no sign or fence.  I only remembered where it was from exploring with Dad several years ago.  It was a beautiful October day when I ventured up Rt. 302 to take these pictures.   There are child graves from all 3 unions. 


A little time-line here:



  • 1824 Jonathan Seavey and Mary G. Blake wed.  They had 7-12 children, including a child born in Jefferson, NH and adopted (lists vary).

  • 1838 Eben Richardson and Harriet Cross Libby  wed.  They had 2 children.

  • 1844 Eben Richardson died at age 29.  He and Harriet were only married 6 years.

  • 1845 Mary Blake died at age 37, and Jonathan Seavey married Harriet C. Libby.  They had 7 children, and Jonathan adopted the two Richardson daughters.
                                                 


"The widow of Eben Richardson married a widower Jonathan Seavey, 19 years her senior, and outlived him 32 years." 

fr. Bridgton Families

compiled by Mr. Blynn Davis, Maine Historical Society





  Jonathan Seavey
    DIED
   Nov. 14, 1858
   AE, 63 yrs. 6 mos.

Farewell my wife and children all
From you a Father Christ doth call
Mourn not for me, it is in vain
To call me to your sight again
  
Mrs.
Mary G.
Wife of
Jonathan Seavy
died Feb 9
1845
AE 37 years, 2 mos
& 15 days

Sleep on thy lovely dust
I shall soon be summoned
To sleep with thee then our
Spirits will be reunited in
The peaceful realms of bliss
And happiness






Albion P.
Son of Mary G. &
J. Seavey
Died May 11, 1856
AE 12 yrs, 8ms
14 ds.


Mr.
Eben Richardson
DIED
Jan. 10, 1844
AE 29 yrs & 4 mo.


Sleep on dear brother
Take thy rest
God called thee home
He thought it best


Harriet C.
Wife of Jonathan Seavey
May 23, 1814
Mar 23, 1891


Yet love will dream and faith will trust
Since he who knows our needs is just
That somehow somewhere meet we must



Elizabeth B.
daught. of
Ebenezer & Harriet
C. Richardson, died
May 27, 1847
AE. 
3 yrs, 11 mo.
& 8 days

Thus fades the lovely blooming flower
Frail swelling solace of a home
soon our transient
(some words buried/unreadable) 





Eben G.
Son of Mary G. &
J. Seavy
Died May 11, 1856
AE 12 yrs. 8ms
14 ds.



Charles C.
son of Jonathan
& Harriet C. Seavey
DIED
Sept. 7, 1851
AE 2 years. & 2 mo.


Cora May
DAU. OF
J. & H.C. Seavey
DIED
Sept. 21, 1865


* History of Bridgton, Maine, 1768-1994, 2d ed., Bridgton Historical Society, 1993. P.463.
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