American Seymour Genealogy

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====== 295. Ralph Cowles Seymour ======

295. RALPH COWLES<sup>8</sup> SEYMOUR
(//[[215.lot_norton|Lot Norton]]//<sup>7</sup>,
//[[116.noah|Noah]]//<sup>6</sup>, //[[060.william|William]]//<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 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: ^^^^
| i. | Ann Eliza<sup>9</sup>, 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 Belinda<sup>10</sup>, 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 Green<sup>11</sup>, 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 McVeigh<sup>12</sup>, 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 Lee<sup>10</sup>, 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. |||

**CARLTON<sup>9</sup> 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 ALLEN<sup>9</sup> 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 ELIZA<sup>10</sup> 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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