George B SEYMOUR & Louisa TAYLOR
Father: George B SEYMOUR, (son of George Barton SEYMOUR), b. 11 Sep 1838, Grainger County Tennessee
Corp. George Barton Seymour Jr. (1838-1910) was a member of one of the hardest fighting units in the Confederate Army, Co. B of Ashbys 2nd Tennessee Cavalry. He was captured in July 1863 at Winchester, Ky. while his unit was on a cavalry raid to procure horses and cattle for the Army and to act as decoys to draw the Union troops away from Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Corp. Seymour spent the rest of the war in prison camps, first at Louisville, Ky., then at Camp Chase, Ohio and finally at infamous Fort Delaware on an island in the Delaware River, the most dreaded of all Union prisons. He was paroled and released in February 1865, just before Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Corp. Seymour had two brothers, James L. Seymour and Alfred Seymour, and a half-brother, Prior L. Brock, who were also members of Company B, Ashbys 2nd Tennessee Cavalry. James was captured at Wilsons Gap but returned to Grainger County at wars end. Alfred did not survive the war, but that is an interesting story for another time. After the war, George B. Seymour Jr. farmed and ran a small store near Washburn in Grainger County. At the time of the 1880 Census, he and his wife, the former Louisa Taylor, domiciled nine children. Our subject, Henry Tilden Seymour, born on January 10, 1877, was child number seven.* Possibly Henry's older siblings were partially responsible for his early aptitude for school, particularly for mathematics.
Mother: Louisa TAYLOR, d. 15 May 1887
Child:
- Henry Tilden SEYMOUR, b. 10 Jan 1877