American Seymour Genealogy

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====== 198. Gurdon Isaac Seymour ======

198. GURDON ISAAC<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR
(//[[109.Isaac|Isaac]]//<sup>6</sup>, //[[058.Isaac|Isaac]]//<sup>5</sup>,
//[[020.John|John]]//<sup>4</sup>, //[[008.John|John]]//<sup>3</sup>,
//[[003.John|John]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
born at Hartford, Conn., 8 July 1775 (or 1773), died at Savannah, Ga., 18 Sept.
1814; married CATHERINE COSTIGAN, born about 1781, died at New Haven, Conn., 12
Apr. 1833 aged 52.

A tombstone in Savannah bears the following inscription:
|  Entombed Beneath This Stone\\ are the remains of\\ GURDON ISAAC SEYMOUR\\ Native of Hartford, Conn.\\ Born on the 8 of July 1775((1773? This interesting stone was copied by my friend, the late William Scranton Pardee of New Haven.))\\ Died on the 18th. of September 1814\\ After a Residence in this City of\\ 20 years with undiminished reputation\\ Age 41 years 2 months and 10 days\\ Also of\\ GURDON SEYMOUR\\ the infant son of Gurdon & Catherine Seymour\\ Who died on the 28 of May 1808\\ Age 13 months and 11 days  |

^ Children: ^^
| i. | GURDON<sup>8</sup>, b. 17 Apr. 1807; d. 28 May 1808. |
| ii. | ISAAC GURDON, killed near Richmond, Va., 3 July 1862; m. CAROLINE WHITLOCK, who d. in 1860. He was graduated from Yale College, 1825, and for a time was president of a bank at Macon, Ga., afterwards removing to New Orleans. He was Colonel of a Confederate Regiment in the Civil War. A daughter died in 1858, and a son was a prisoner at Fort Jackson during the Civil War. |
| iii. | CATHERINE FRANCES, b. at Savannah, Ga., 6 Jan. 1813; d. at Buffalo, N.Y., 6 July 1866; m. at New Haven, Conn., 14 Sept. 1836, REV. EDWARD INGERSOLL, D.D., b. at New Haven, Conn., 26 Nov. 1810, d. at Buffalo, N.Y., 6 Feb. 1883, s. of Judge Jonathan and Grace (Isaacs).  Nine children.  See below. |

**REV. EDWARD INGERSOLL** (1810-1883), husband of CATHERINE FRANCES SEYMOUR
(1813-1866), was a native of New Haven, Conn. His father, Hon. Jonathan
Ingersoll (1747-1823), B.A. (Yale, 1766), LL.D. (1816), son of Rev. Jonathan
Ingersoll (1713-1778), of Ridgefield, Conn., and nephew of Jared Ingersoll, Esq.
(1722-1781), the noted New Haven attorney, himself became a lawyer and had a
distinguished career, as a member of both Houses of the Connecticut General
Assembly, Judge of the Superior Court, and Lieut.-Governor of Connecticut. His
mother, Grace Isaacs, was daughter of the wealthy merchant, Ralph Isaacs, Esq.
He was brother of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789-1872), B.A. (Yale, 1808), Member
of Congress (1825-33), State's Attorney for Connecticut, and Minister to Russia,
and uncle of Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1822-1903), B.A. (Yale, 1846), LL.D.
(1874), Governor of Connecticut (1873-77).

Mr. Ingersoll was graduated from Yale in 1831, and received the degree of D.D.
from Hobart in 1856; Priest in Protestant Episcopal Church, Rector of Trinity
Church, Buffalo, 1844-74; of St. Peter's, Niagara Falls, 1874-78; and Chaplain
of the Church Home, Buffalo, which made him rector emeritus, from 1878 until his
death.

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