American Seymour Genealogy

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====== Thaddeus Seymour ======

THADDEUS<sup>6</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[037.thomas|Thomas]]//<sup>5</sup>,
//[[014.matthew|Matthew]]//<sup>4</sup>,
//[[006.Matthew|Matthew]]//<sup>3</sup>, //[[002.Thomas|Thomas]]//<sup>2</sup>,
//[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>).

^ Child: ^^
| i. | RUFUS NASH<sup>7</sup>, b. about 1808. |

Abiah b. 21 April 1782 Ridgefield, CT, d. 13 Nov. 1862, dau. of Abraham Nash,
Jr. and Sarah (Olmstead) Nash.

**RUFUS NASH SEYMOUR**<sup>7</sup>\\
b. c.1808\\
d. 5 Sept. 1862 Ridgefield, CT.\\
m. 17 March 1841 to Harriett Olive Olmstead, her second marriage. She was b. 27
April 1818, dau. of Thomas and Tabitha (Morehouse) Olmstead.

Child of Rufus and Tabitha:

**SAMUEL OLMSTEAD SEYMOUR**<sup>8</sup>\\
b. 27 July 1846 Ridgefield, CT\\
d. 1 April 1907 Ridgefield, CT. No tombstone erected.\\
m. date unknown, Henrietta Elwood b. 9 March 1855 the dau. of Edward Bennett and
Sarah Janet (Goodsell) Elwood. Henrietta d. 11 July 1933.

Henrietta divorced Samuel in 1882 and in 1885 married George Walter Voorhees
from New Jersey. He legally adopted the child shown below and changed his name
from Seymour to Voorhees. Samuel moved to California, remarried and had more
children.

Child of Samuel and Henrietta:

**EDWARD SEYMOUR**<sup>9</sup> (VOORHEES by adoption)\\
b. 8 Jan 1877 Ridgefield, CT\\
d. 28 Jan. 1949 Bridgeprt, CT, buried in Norwalk, CT with Alyce.\\
m.(1) 24 Dec. 1901 Alyse Valina Lund, b. 23 Nov 1879 or 1882 Stamford, CT, d. 12
Aug. 1926, dau of Christian Christopherson and Inez-Ingor (Petersen) Lund, whose
parents came from Stavanger, Norway.\\
m.(2) Josephine  _____.\\
m.(3) Alma Bridgewater

^ Children of Edward and Alyce: ^^
| 1 | George Walter Voorhees<sup>10</sup> b. 12 April 1903. |
| 2 | Henrietta Geneveive Voorhees b. Feb. 1906. |
| 3 | Edward Alan Voorhees b. 20 Dec. 1908. |
| 4 | Lauren Sinclair Voorhees b. 24 Oct. 1911. |

1. **GEORGE WALTER VOORHEES**<sup>10</sup>\\
b. 12 April 1903 Southport, CT.\\
d. 15 April 1982 North Palm Beach, FL. Both buried Tequesta, FL.\\
m. 4 Sept. 1926 Grace Emily Lister,  b. 24 Dec. 1899 Worcester, MA, d. 13 Mar.
1995  Jupiter, FL, dau. of Joseph Henry and Leila (Hook) Lister.

2. **HENRIETTA (HATTIE) VOORHEES**<sup>10</sup> (or Hattie Genevive)\\
b. Feb. 1906.\\
d. 16 May 1990 Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Cremated, no burial.\\
m.(1) 16 Aug. 1931 Fred Oviatt Walls who d. 1982 in Riviera Beach, FL. m.(2) 23
Feb 1983 in North Palm Beach, FL, Kenneth A. Eddy, b. CT, d. 1992 Palm Beach
Gardens, FL.

Child of Fred and Henrietta:\\
Sandra A.<sup>11</sup> b. 2 Dec 1933 (per Riverside Cem Record, Norwalk, CT),
bur. 28 Feb, 1939?.

3. **EDWARD ALAN VOORHEES**<sup>10</sup>\\
b. 20 Dec. 1908 prob Springdale (Stamford), CT.\\
d. 7 July 1980 Doylestown, PA.\\
m. 23 Mar. 1932 Ruth Bradford Collins, b. 8 May 1910 in Schenectady, NY, d. 17
Oct. 1996 in Doylestown, PA. She was dau. of Charles Wilson and Jessie Lois
(Cawood) Collins, Jr.

4. **LAUREN SINCLAIR VOORHEES**<sup>10</sup>\\
b. 24 Oct 1911.\\
d. 25 August 2000, bur. Philadelphia, PA.\\
m. Eileen Duggan.