Joshua Seale (1775 - 1864)

Born 26 Mar 1775 in Camden District, South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Ellender (Haseline) Seale — married 1797 in Anson County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 1864 at about age 88 in Jasper, Texas, United States

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Biography

JOSHUA SEALE was born 26 Mar 1775^[1] in Camden District, South Carolina.

Joshua married Ellender Hazeltine 1797 in Anson County, North Carolina.

Joshua Seale is listed as being a member of the Sions Lodge #6, in Fairfield County, South Carolina in 1799.

In 1811, he sold all of his possessions except for a few slaves, moving his family, wife and 6 children, to Tennessee. They remained there for one year "to make a crop." In 1812, they located in the Territory of Mississippi (which did not become a State until 1817) along with brother, Daniel and first cousin Thomas Seale, where he purchased a section of land situated on the North (west?) side of the Pearl River in Marion County, Mississippi.

About 1845, he and Ellender moved from Mississippi to Union Parish, Louisiana. There they joined the Antioch Baptist Church. This church also received Joshua's slave Richard "Dick" Seale into membership.^[2]

He then moved to Jasper County in about 1850 with their son Lewis Seale and a number of slaves. His plantation was located west of Jasper Texas in the Indian Creek community near Bevilport. Richard Seale and other slaves in the area would gather under the Beech trees to worship. In 1853 Joshua and Richard built the first known protestant church for people of color west of the Mississippi, the Dixie Baptist Church . Both were in their 80's upon this move. Both are buried in the Indian Creek Cemetery on the North Bank near Jasper, Texas. .^[3]

Joshua and Ellender Seale are listed on the 1860 Jasper County, Texas Census. He was listed with the occupation of Farmer. Joshua and Ellender Hazeltine-Seale are buried in Jasper County, Texas at the Indian Creek Comm. Cemetery north of Bevilport, Texas.

Death

Joshua died in 1864.

A marker next to Joshua's grave marker is inscribed: "To the memory of Rev. Richard Seale and his wife Phyllis, b. abt. 1810 d. abt 1890. "Uncle Dick & Aunt Phyllis" came to Texas with the Seale's and founded Dixie Church about 1/2 mile south of the cemetery. They remained with the Seale's and did church work as long as they lived." Richard and Phyllis Seale were negro slaves of Joshua and Ellender and remained with them after the Civil War.

All burials at Indian Creek Cemetery were removed to Jasper City Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper Co, TX when Lake Sam Rayburn was constructed. The headstones appear to be replacements, and cite US census for birth years.^[4]

Also:

Indian Creek Cemetery

Dixie Baptist Church. Founded about 1850 under beech trees at this site, by a Negro slave, Rev. Richard ("Uncle Dick") Seale (1798-1875), a respected, beloved leader of his people. Church built 1853 by his master, Joshua Seale, veteran of American Revolution, early settler. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966 #10440 ^[5]

Children of JOSHUA SEALE and ELLENDER HAZELTINE are:

Ellender Hazeltine married Joshua Seale in 1797 in Anson Co. NC..She died near Bevilport, Jasper co, TX in 1863, he died in 1864, they are buried in Indian Creek Cemetery, Jasper TX.

Their children were:

1. Lewis Perry Seale (1798-1878)
2. Lydia Seale (1800-1874)
3. Martha Jane (Seale) Harris (1803-1859)
4. Ellender Seale (1805-1845)
5. Daniel Boone Seale (1807-abt.1864)
6. James Monroe Seale (1809-1894)
7. Elizabeth Seale (1812-1898)
8. Thomas Jefferson Seale
9. Susannah Seale
10. Rev. Joseph Coulson Seale (1819-1877)
11. Mary Ann Seale

i. LEWIS PERRY SEALE, b. 29 December 1798, Cumberland County, North Carolina; d. 05 February 1878, Jasper County, Texas; m. (1) SUSANNAH PHILLIPS, 05 February 1818, Marion County, Mississippi (Source: Mississippi Marriages, Lists names/place of marriage. Listed is the date of 31 Jan.1818. Unsure which date is correct. Also lists his age as 19, hers as 18.); b. 13 September 1799, Marion County, Mississippi; d. 12 September 1840; m. (2) ELIZA BRENT, 31 January 1841, Hinds Co., Mississippi; b. 1812, Hinds Co., Mississippi; d. 17 July 1860, Bevilport, Jasper Co., Texas; m. (3) AMELIA PERRY, 03 February 1861, Burkeville, Newton County, Texas; d. Aft. 1903.

ii. LYDIA SEALE, b. 21 October 1800, Cumberland Co., North Carolina; d. 1874, Clarke County, Mississippi; m. JOSEPH THOMPSON PHILLIPS, 29 December 1817, Marion County, Mississippi (Source: Mississippi Marriages, Lists names/date/place of marriage. Lists his age as 22, hers as 17.); b. January 1795; d. 1835.

iii. MARTHA SEALE, b. 23 December 1803, North Carolina; d. 15 August 1849, Marion Co., Mississippi; m. (1) DANIEL REESE WARREN, 23 December 1820, Marion Co., Mississippi; b. Marion Co., Mississippi; d. 1841, Marion Co., Mississippi; m. (2) EPHRAIM HARRIS, 14 January 1846, Hinds Co., Mississippi.

iv. ALEXANDER SEALE, b. 23 January 1804, North Carolina. [Alexander is NOT listed in the Joshua Seale Bible Record]

v. ELLENDER SEALE, b. 13 February 1805, North Carolina; d. 13 September 1845, Jasper Co., Texas; m. HOSEA DAVIS, 09 May 1822, Marion Co., Mississippi; b. 09 September 1799; d. 20 March 1880.

vi. DANIEL BOONE SEALE, b. 14 July 1807, North Carolina; d. 1864, Rogers, Bastrop Co., Texas; m. SARAH PHILLIPS, 15 February 1831, Hinds, Mississippi; b. 1809, South Carolina; d. 1864, Rogers, Bastrop Co., Texas.

vii. JAMES MONROE SEALE, b. 14 November 1809, North Carolina; d. 04 December 1894, Rogers, Bell County, Texas; m. MARY ELLEN JOICE, 15 February 1831, Hinds County Mississippi; b. Abt 1812, Georgia; d. 1872, Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.

viii. ELIZABETH SEALE, b. 18 March 1813, Marion County, Mississippi; d. 24 March 1893, Naruna, Burnet County, Texas; m. Joshua Seale (1805-1867), 10 December 1828; b. 05 December 1805, South Carolina; d. 25 August 1867, Brazos County, Texas ^[6]

Timeline

1. 1800 and 1810 Anson county, North Carolina
   

ca. 1812, granted a "spirits license" in Marion county Mississippi

1. 1820 in Marion county, Mississippi
   
2. 1830 in Hinds county, Mississippi
   ^[7]
3. 1840 in Clarendon county, Mississippi
   
4. 1850 in Union parish, Louisiana
   
5. 1860 in Jasper county, Texas

Sources

1. ↑ Joshua Seale Bible Record. This has generally been considered a reasonable date, superseding the widely quoted, but non-sourced date of 1765
2. ↑ GRANDFATHER'S JOURNAL, the Record of the First Seale Family in Texas. It features Thomas Seale, Eli Seale, Joseph Arnold Seale, Thomas Jefferson Seale and Ruby Mae Seale. by C.J. Boyd [email address redacted per Wikitree policies]
3. ↑ GRANDFATHER'S JOURNAL, the Record of the First Seale Family in Texas. It features Thomas Seale, Eli Seale, Joseph Arnold Seale, Thomas Jefferson Seale and Ruby Mae Seale. by C.J. Boyd [email address redacted per Wikitree policies]
4. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Joshua Seale (26 Mar 1775–1864), Find A Grave: Memorial #7068404, citing Indian Creek Cemetery, Jasper (north of Bevilport), Jasper County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by LisaBee, Texas (contributor 46562919) .
5. ↑ http://openplaques.org/places/us/areas/jasper_tx
6. ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SEAL/2000-08/0966693863
7. ↑ “United States Census, 1830", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPZ-8C2 : Thu Oct 05 11:16:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Joshua Seale Sen, 1830.

See also:

• Much of the unsourced data on Joshua and his family arises from Seale, Ida Carrie, RN, "Seale and Allied Families" 3rd edition, self-published 1954, material provided by Albert Blount Seale, pp81-.

• Some of Joshua Seale's information was obtained from the "Citizens of the Republic of Texas" Pg. 502.

Acknowledgments

• Lisa BASS, Burnet Co., Texas