John Francis Seawright (1856 - 1940)

Born 3 Nov 1856 in Donalds, Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Susie Louise Tyndell — married 19 Nov 1885 in , , Texas, USA

Died 4 May 1940 at age 83 in Valley Mills, Bosque, Texas, United States

Biography

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He came from a wealthy family in South Carolina, planters and slave owners. He made his way from South Carolina to Texas sometime before 1880, as that year's census lists him as farming in Falls, Texas, at the age of 23, living with the family of T.L. Reed. He married Susie Louise Tyndell (1870-1906) in Tarrant Couny, Texas on November 19, 1885, and Susie and Frank had ten children:

1. John Wesley William "Connie" Seawright (1887-1937)
2. William Oscar Seawright (1889-1918)
3. Lucinda Seawright (1891-1894)
4. Homer Seawright (1893-1894)
5. Lena M. Seawright (1895-1925)
6. Clifford Duncan Seawright (1897-1950)
7. Clara Myrtis Seawright (1899-1981)
8. Charles Hugh Seawright (1902-1955)
9. Elinor Lou "Nannie" Seawright (1902-1924)
10. Frank Lloyd "Ted" Seawright (1905-1918)

Susie passed away in 1906, and Frank eventually went to live with his son, Charlie, in Justice Precinct 6 in Bosque County, Texas. He died in 1940 and is buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Park in Waco, Texas.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZTW-WYH : 18 March 2020), Jno Seawright in entry for Jno N Seawright, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8TS-MB5 : 19 March 2020), J F Seawright in entry for J W Seawright, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFNW-YBS : 15 July 2017), J F Seawright in household of T L Reed, Falls, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 43, sheet 275A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,302.

"Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4LG2-FR2M : 12 March 2020), Frank John Seawright in entry for Charlie Hugh Seawright, 1902.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2QW-79R : accessed 14 May 2020), Frank Seawright, Speegleville, McLennan, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 100, sheet 28B, family 374, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1576; FHL microfilm 1,375,589.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWNP-BHQ : 29 January 2020), J F Seawright in household of C H Seawright, Justice Precinct 6, Bosque, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-14, sheet 8B, line 76, family 147, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3988.
• "The Saga of the Seawrights" by Nell Seawright Reeves