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- 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. -- Bond, Marian Saunders. Some Ancestors, pp 23-24
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