Alethia SEELEY

1807 - 1880  (73 years)

• Name	Alethia SEELEY
  Born	2 Oct 1807	Near St. Louis, Mo.   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Nov 1880	Palmyra, Mo.   [1]
  Person ID	I1289	Josh E. Taylor Jr. Tree
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Jacob SEELEY,   d. Louisiana, Mo.
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary UNKNOWN,   d. Abt 1817, Near St. Louis, Mo.
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William CARSON,   b. 14 May 1795, Frederick County, Virginia at 11:00 p.m. ,   d. 13 Nov 1873, Palmyra, Mo.  (Age 78 years)
  Married	2 Oct 1823	St Louis, Mo.   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Simon CARSON,   b. 1825  [natural]   2. Martha Jane CARSON  [natural]   3. Mary Ann CARSON,   b. 18 Jan 1839  [natural]   4. Melisea Ellenora CARSON,   b. 7 Jun 1843,   d. 22 Sep 1896  (Age 53 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F500	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "While living in New London and teaching school, William [Carson] had met Jacob and Mary Seeley, and their daughter Alethia, who was in William's class. Alethia's great grandfather was French and her great grandmother English. They fled to this country from England because of religious persecution, having espoused the Protestant faith. They settled in Pennsylvania, and her great grandfather had a mercantile business in Philadelphia. "His son, John Seely, Alethia's grandfather, came to Missouri and entered a large tract of land near St. Louis, which was during those times under the French, then Spanish government. He was a physician, but unfortunately addicted to drink. "His son, Jacob, the father of Alethia, married and settled on a farm of his own, a few miles from his father's. Here Alethia was born; and here, when she was ten years old, she lost her mother and all the family except her father with milk sickness. Her father then moved to Ralls County and engaged in the grocery business, buying and shipping produce to St. Louis. He died on one of these trips and was buried at Louisiana, Missouri. "Alethia was married at the age of 16 to William Carson. They had five children." -- Bond, Marian Saunders. Some Ancestors, pp 23-24

  
  

• Sources

  [S132] Some ancestors, Bond, Marian Saunders, p. 27. [S65] Information from Mrs Clarendon Smith, August 1975, Hale, Laura Virginia. [S132] Some ancestors, Bond, Marian Saunders, p. 27. "M 03 October, 1823"