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295. Ralph Cowles Seymour
295. RALPH COWLES8 SEYMOUR (Lot Norton7, Noah6, William5, John4, John3, John2, Richard1), born at Burlington, Conn., 26 Dec. 1812, died at sea of yellow fever en route to California, 11 July 1856; married first, at Granby, Conn., 29 Sept. 1833, SUSAN MINERVA DRAKE, born at Barkhamsted, Conn., 9 May 1813, died at New Hartford, Conn., 26 Aug. 1849, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Allen); married second, Jan. 1850, IRENE MARY DRAKE, born at Barkhamsted, 29 Sept. 1822, died at New Hartford, 13 Dec. 1850, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Allen).
Like his brother, Henry Albert, he had a long oval face, dark hair, and bushy eye-brows and a serious nature. He died rather tragically at sea, on board the steamer “Northern Light,” before the author was born. Reference was sometimes made to Uncle Ralph's death at sea and his trunk and papers. I have often wondered how he came to be named Ralph Cowles.
| Children by first wife, born at New Hartford: | |||
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| i. | Ann Eliza9, b. 16 Sept. –; m. John Vadakin, of Ludlow, Mass. | ||
| ii. | Carlton, b. 11 July 1838; d. at Hartford, Conn., 1 Nov. 1917; m. at New Hartford, 17 Sept. 1859, Clari Glasson, b. at New York, N.Y., 23 Aug. 1840, d. at Hartford, 1916, dau. of James and Sophia Frances (Jones), who were from London, Eng. Children, b. at New Hartford (except third child, b. at Fort Seldon, N.M.): | ||
| I. | Annie Belinda10, b. 10 June 1860; d. at New York, N.Y., 19 May 1864. | ||
| II. | Harriet Eliza, b. 6 Feb. 1862; d. –; m. (1) at New Hartford, 22 Jan. 1883, Alfred Moore, b. –, d. at Winsted, Conn., 15 July 1890, s. of Franklin and Maria (Roberts) Moore, and grandson of Sylvanus and Lucinda (Spencer) Moore, his grandmother being sister of his wife's grandmother, Belinda (Spencer) Seymour; m. (2) John B. Adams. Children by first husband, b. at Winsted: 1. Beatrice, b. 4 Nov. 1883. 2. Franklin Seymour, b. 3 July 1885. 3. Carlton, b. 22 Oct. 1887. 4. Alfred, b. 17 Sept. 1889. | ||
| III. | Amy Sophia Minerva, b. 6 Jan. 1867; m. at New Hartford, 13 Oct. 1886, Frederick Andrew Jewell, b. at Salisbury, Conn., 14 Sept. 1858, d. –, s. of Dea. Oliver and Mary Eleanor (Walton). He was admitted to the Conn. Bar in 1881, and practised in New Hartford, where he was Judge of Probate from 1884 until his death. She also studied law and was admitted to the Bar. Child: 1. Oliver Seymour, b. at New Hartford, 1 Jan. 1888. Educated at Yale, his health failed and he went to New Mexico, where he died; a strikingly handsome and promising youth. | ||
| IV. | Clari Louise, b. 4 Sept. 1868. | ||
| V. | Catharine, b. 28 Dec. 1870. | ||
| VI. | Ralph Richard, b. 22 Oct. 1872; res. Windsor, Conn.; a salesman and newsdealer; below medium height, dark in complexion, black-haired; m. at Windsor, 8 Apr. 1910. Mabel Ruth Green, b. at Ware, Mass., 24 Dec. 1880, dau. of John Burke and Mary Ella (Cushman). Child: | ||
| (1) | Ralph Green11, b. at Windsor, 20 May 1911: m. 18 Jan. 1936, Virginia McVeigh of Agawam, Mass., b. at Springfield, Mass., 31 Mar. 1914. They have a daughter, Elizabeth McVeigh12, b. at Springfield, Mass., 24 Dec. 1936, bapt. at Grace Episcopal Church. Windsor, Conn., 27 Mar. 1937. | ||
| iii. | Albert Allen, b. 26 June 1843; d. at Bristol, Conn., 14 Apr. 1903; m. at Bristol, 30 Nov. 1866, Lucy Lee, b. at Bristol, 16 Feb. 1845, d. at Waterbury, Conn., 14 July 1900, dau. of Lester Rodney and Lucinda (Norton), a descendant of John1 Lee of Farmington. Children, first b. at Riverton, others at Bristol, Conn.; | ||
| I. | Lillian Lee10, b. 9 Sept. 1867; d. at Waterbury, Conn., May 1909; m. William A. Wilcox. Child: 1. Doris Lillian, b. abt. 1905. | ||
| II. | Alberta Mary, b. 8 Feb. 1869. | ||
| III. | Carlton Henry, b. 15 Nov. 1871; d. at Waterbury, Conn., 27 July 1911. He was a brass roller in the employ of the Scoville Manufacturing Company. | ||
| IV. | Harry Lee, b. 9 Feb. 1875. | ||
| iv. | George Duane, b. Jan. 1849; d. 2 Oct. 1849. | ||
CARLTON9 SEYMOUR (1838–1917) entered military service 7 Aug. 1862, during the Civil War, in Co. F, 2d Regt, Conn. Vol. Heavy Artillery, and for a year was a Sergeant in the 19th Conn. Infantry. He was commissioned 2d Lieutenant in the 2d U.S. Colored Infantry, 17 Aug. 1863, and was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service, 5 Jan. 1866. He enlisted in the regular army, and was appointed 2d Lieutenant in the 125th U.S. Colored Infantry, 12 Apr. 1866. He was wounded, 6 Mar. 1865, at Natural Bridge, Fla. He took part in much fighting with the Indians in the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. His wife accompanied him to the frontier. Her father was a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and she of London, England.
He was a member of the Conn. House of Representatives from New Hartford in 1876. He was a member of Robert O. Tyler Post, G.A.R. He engaged in the shoe business on Asylum Street.
ALBERT ALLEN9 SEYMOUR (1843–1903) moved in July 1857 from New Hartford, Conn., to Bristol, Conn., where he lived until his enlistment in 1861. He enlisted, 25 Sept. 1861, as Private in Co. C, 8th Regt., Conn. Volunteers, and was discharged, 12 Dec. 1865, as 1st Lieutenant of Co. B, in the same regiment. Among the important engagements in which he participated were the capture of Roanoke Island, the Battle of Newburn, the siege of Fort Macon, South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, all in 1862, siege of Suffolk and capture of West Branch Battery, in 1863, Bermuda Landing, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fort Harrison, the surrender of Richmond, etc. After the war, he returned in 1865 to Bristol, where he afterwards resided except for two years (Jan. 1866 to Jan. 1868) in Riverton, Conn.
ALFRED MOORE, husband of HARRIET ELIZA10 SEYMOUR was a man of unique personality and exceptional ability. He was educated at the then celebrated “Gunnery School” at Washington, Conn. Inheriting a manufacturing business and a considerable fortune from his father, he displayed marked business ability and carried on the business successfully until his health failed. He had a genius for eccentricity. He was a ready and brilliant talker, a wit and a wag, and an incorrigible joker. Owning a fine pair of horses and a carriage, he stocked the carriage with teas and coffees and went about the countryside selling his goods for the fun of it. Attending a fair one day at Cherry Park, his fancy led him to make a balloon ascension. That form of sport fascinated him and for several years he gave the best of his time and attention to aeronautics. He had several balloons made for him and made repeated ascensions in the vicinity of Winsted and elsewhere. But the delights of ascension were finally overcome by the perils of descent, and after being dragged through tree tops one day at St. Louis and finally spilled out and hurt, he sold out his aerial furniture and quit the sport. He was the first, and perhaps the last, to engage in amateur ballooning simply as a form of sport, and surely there could be none requiring more nerve and daring if mountain climbing be barred. On one ascent he took with him a photographer, who made some of the first balloon pictures. He wrote up some of his adventures in an article which he sent to the Century Magazine on the bare chance of acceptance, and was astounded to receive almost by return of post a check for five hundred dollars for the article. He would readily have given the sum for the publication of the article if he had not been paid for it. His wit was inherited from his father, Franklin Moore, and the witty sayings and speeches of father and son are still current in Winsted. But his health failed, and after a long painful sickness, he succumbed. His death removed from Winsted one of its most generous and engaging figures. Had he lived, he would undoubtedly have become one of its foremost citizens, as indeed he was one of its most prominent and beloved at the time of his death.
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